The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1836242239

Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and celebrates what it means to have and live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and reveals the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Seventh Heaven

The Seventh Heaven
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.

The Jewish Presence In Latin America

The Jewish Presence In Latin America
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.

Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America

Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America
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.

Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America

Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America
Author: Ignacio Klich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113525690X

This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone
Author: Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739172980

The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.

New Jews

New Jews
Author: Caryn S. Aviv
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814705146

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled. In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.

Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism

Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism
Author: Judit Bokser Liwerant
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2008-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047428056

This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities.

The Jews of Latin America

The Jews of Latin America
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.

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
Author: Alberto Gerchunoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.