Taking root : narratives of Jewish women in Latin America / edited by Marjorie Agosín.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agosín, Marjorie.

Series:

Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 38.

Ohio University Center for International Studies research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women--Latin America--Biography.

Jewish women.

Jews, Latin American--United States--Biography.

Jews, Latin American.

Immigrants--Latin America.

Immigrants.

Latin America--Emigration and immigration.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jewish immigrant families searched for a new home and identity in predominantly Catholic societies. The essays included here examine the religious, economic, social, and political choices these families have made and continue to make as they forge Jewish identities in the New World. Marjorie Agosín has gathered narr

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Latin American Jewishness: A Game with Shifting Identities; Chapter 2: A Sephardi Air; Chapter 3: What! No Yiddish?: Growing up Sephardi in Peru; Chapter 4: My Past Is Present: The Complex Identity of a German-Jewish- Venezuelan-American; Chapter 5: El Azar-Fate Put the Novel Cláper in My Hands; Chapter 6: Memories of Comings and Goings; Chapter 7: My Cuban Story; Chapter 8: Crossing Creative and Cultural Barriers; Chapter 9: Growing up Jewish in Colombia; Chapter 10: Found in Translation: On Becoming a Cuban Jewish Writer

Chapter 11: Mosiacs: The Story of Her LifeChapter 12: Shared Memories; Chapter 13: Judaism: An Essential Tool; Chapter 14: A Passion to Remember; Chapter 15: Poetry in the Clouds: A Costa Rican Journey; Chapter 16: From Toledo to the New World: A Story of Secrets; Chapter 17: Uruguay: A Story in Episodes; Chapter 18: Of Spices and Spells: From Morrocco to Buenos Aires; Chapter 19: Saint Anthony's Intervention and Other Accounts of Growing up Jewish in Mexico; Chapter 20: With All That I Am; Chapter 21: A Tale of Courage and Fortitude; Chapter 22: Too Many Names; Contributor Biographies

Notes:

Some essays were translated from Spanish.

ISBN:

0-89680-425-9

OCLC:

884016822