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Alcina Lubitch Domecq

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Alcina Lubitch Domecq
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Guatemala
OccupationShort story writer

Alcina Lubitch Domecq (born 1953) is an Israeli short story writer. She was born in Guatemala to an Auschwitz survivor father, and an Iberian-Guatemalan mother. After her parents' divorced, she moved to Mexico in the sixties and left in the early 1970s. After a stay in Europe, she made aliyah to Israel where she now works as a janitor in a Haifa hospital. Her works include The Mirror's Mirror: or, The Noble Smile of the Dog (1983) and Intoxicada (1984); she has had short stories, focusing mainly on the Jewish condition, published in many anthologies.

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  • Ilan Stavans (2003). The Scroll and the Cross: a thousand years of Jewish-Hispanic literature. Routledge (UK). ISBN 0-415-92931-8.