Contemporary Sephardic identity in the Americas : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bejarano, Margalit.

Aizenberg, Edna.

Series:

Modern Jewish history.

Modern Jewish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--America.

Sephardim.

Jews--America.

Jews.

America--Ethnic relations.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers a wide overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.

Contents:

The Sephardic communities of Latin America: a puzzle of subethnic fragments, / Margalit Bejarano

Nuevos mundos halló colón, or, what's different about Sephardic literature in the Americas? / Edna Aizenberg

Sephardic and Syrian immigration to America: acculturation and communal preservation / Jane Gerber

Cultural Zionism as a contact zone: Sephardic and Askenazi Jews bridge the gap on the pages of the Argentine newspaper Israel / Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen

Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires: between religious revival and return to biblical sources, 1953-90 / Susana Brauner

Religious movements in Mexican Sephardism / Liz Hamui Halabe

Transnational identity and Miami Sephardim / Henry A. Green

From Turkey to the United States: the trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami / Margalit Bejarano

Ladino in Latin America: an old language in the new world / Monique R. Balbuena

A taste of sepharad from the Mexican suburbs: Rosa Nissán's stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca / Yael Halevi-Wise

The role of music in the Quebec Sephardic community / Judith R. Cohen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815651659

0815651651

OCLC:

808345633