Árpád Göncz Nat Turner", John Ball's "In the Heat of the Night", Colleen McCullough's "The Thorn Birds", Yasunari Kawabata's "The Lake", John Updike's "Rabbit Redux" and "Rabbit is Rich", and "The Inheritors", "Pincher Martin", "The Spire" and "The Pyramid" and "Rites of Passage" by William Golding. His own works include both novels and dramas; "Men of God" (1974), "Sarusok" (1974), "Magyar Médeia" (1976), "Rácsok" (1979), "Találkozások" (1980) are among the most notable. He is also the author of "Encounters" (essays, 1980), "Homecoming and Shavings" (short stories, 1991), "Hungarian Medea" (play, 1979), "Iron Bars" (play, 1979), "Balance" (play, 1990). Göncz worked incredibly hard
History of the Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean Judaism was recognized as a legal religion. The government granted the Jews land for a cemetery. Many Jews who came during the 18th and 19th centuries achieved prominent positions in Colombian society. Some married local women and felt they had to abandon or diminish their Jewish identity. These included author Jorge Isaacs of English Jewish ancestry, the industrialist James Martin Eder (who adopted the more Christian name of Santiago Eder when he translated his name to Spanish) born into the Latvian Jewish community, as well as the De Lima, Salazar, Espinoza, Arias, Ramirez, Perez and Lobo families of Antillean Sephardim.