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| Author | : Ilan Stavans |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0822987155 |
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.
| Author | : Katalin Franciska Rac |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2023-08-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1683403975 |
Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies. Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America. Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio | Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
| Author | : Judith L Elkin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2019-09-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000302768 |
First published in 1987, The pioneering studies of Latin American Jewry presented in this volume have been selected from among papers presented at the Research Conference on the Jewish Experience in Latin America, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 12-14, 1984. Featuring the work of twenty-seven scholars from the United States, Israel, Argentina, Mexico.
| Author | : Judith Laikin Elkin |
| Publisher | : New York ; London : Holmes & Meier |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Jews |
| ISBN | : 9780841913691 |
This book makes visible the little-known Jewish communities of South and Central America. in doing so. The book challenges the notion that Latin America societies are entirely Hispanic and Catholic. through the life histories of Jews who.
| Author | : Darrell B. Lockhart |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 647 |
| Release | : 2013-08-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134754205 |
Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.
| Author | : Yaron Harel |
| Publisher | : Jewish Latin American Studies |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2019-02-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781644690321 |
This book is an excellent tool both for scholars and students interested in the wide range of Jewish expressions found in Latin America, which are hardly known in other regions.
| Author | : David Sheinin |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780815322832 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Estelle Tarica |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2022-04-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1438487967 |
This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and political activists facing state repression have seen themselves reflected in Holocaust histories and have used Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries. In so doing, they have developed a unique, controversial approach to the memory of the Holocaust that is little known outside the region. Estelle Tarica deepens our understanding of Holocaust awareness in a global context by examining diverse Jewish and non-Jewish voices, focusing on Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala. What happens, she asks, when we find the Holocaust invoked in unexpected places and in relation to other events, such as the Argentine "Dirty War" or the Mayan genocide in Guatemala? The book draws on meticulous research in two areas that have rarely been brought into contact—Holocaust Studies and Latin American Studies—and aims to illuminate the topic for readers who may be new to the fields.
| Author | : Jeff Lesser |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Jews |
| ISBN | : 0826344011 |
These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.
| Author | : Mariusz Kalczewiak |
| Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2019-12-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0817320393 |
Winner of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Book Award 2020 An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews seeking safety, civil rights, and better economic prospects. In the period between 1918 and 1939, sixty thousand Polish Jews established new homes in Argentina. They formed a strong ethnic community that quickly embraced Argentine culture while still maintaining their unique Jewish-Polish character. This mass migration caused the transformation of cultural, social, and political milieus in both Poland and Argentina, forever shaping the cultural landscape of both lands. In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture, Mariusz Kałczewiak has constructed a multifaceted and in-depth narrative that sheds light on marginalized aspects of Jewish migration and enriches the dialogue between Latin American Jewish studies and Polish Jewish Studies. Based on archival research, Yiddish travelogues on Argentina, and the Yiddish and Spanish-language press, this study recreates a mosaic of entanglements that Jewish migration wove between Poland and Argentina. Most studies on mass migration fail to acknowledge the role of the country of origin, but this innovative work approaches Jewish migration to Argentina as a continuous process that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. Taken as a whole, Polacos in Argentina enlightens the heterogeneous and complex issue of immigrant commitments, belongings, and expectations. Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina serves as a case study of how ethnicity evolves among migrants and their children, and the dynamics that emerge between putting down roots in a new country and maintaining commitments to the country of origin.
