Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans / edited by Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lesser, Jeff.

Rein, Raanan, 1960-

Series:

Colección Diálogos (Santa Fe, Argentina)

Diálogos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Latin America.

Jews.

Latin America.

Jews--Identity.

National characteristics, Latin American.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Summary:

This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship, which treats Jews as inhabitants in Latin American republics rather than as citizens of Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily from Argentina and Brazil, the two South American countries with the largest Jewish populations, and span from the late nineteenth century into the 1990s.

By giving primacy to the national identity of Jewish-Latin Americans, the essays included here emphasize human actors and accounts of lived experiences. Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein's thought-provoking introduction outlines new formulations of the relationship between Jews, the nation-state, and their Diasporic experience. Individual contributors then explore new perspectives on the Jewish experience, including those of the working class, labor organizing and anarchist activities, women, and the reconceptualization of racism and anti-Semitism.

Contents:

New approaches to ethnicity and diaspora in twentieth-century Latin America / Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein

How the Jews became Japanese and other stories of nation and ethnicity / Jeffrey Lesser

What's in a stereotype? the case of Jewish anarchists in Argentina / Jose C. Moya

Beyond the state and ideology : immigration of the Jewish community to Brazil, 1937-1945 / Roney Cytrynowicz

The scene of the transaction : "Jewishness," money, and prostitution in the Brazilian imaginary / Erin Graff Zivin

Protest from afar : the Jewish and Republican presence in Victoria Ocampo's Revista sur in the 1930s and 1940s / Rosalie Sitman

Changing the landscape : the study of Argentine-Jewish women and new historical vistas / Sandra McGee Deutsch

Women's organizations and Jewish orphanages in Buenos Aires, 1918-1955 / Donna J. Guy

Nation and holocaust narration : Uruguay's Memorial del Holocausto del Pueblo Judío / Edna Aizenberg

Singing for social change : nostalgic memory and the struggle for belonging in a Buenos Aires Yiddish chorus / Natasha Zaretsky

The ethnic dilemmas of Latin American Jewry / Judah M. Cohen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826344014

0826344011

OCLC:

213495368