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Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation / Claudio Lomnitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio, author.
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio--Family.
- Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio.
- Jews--South America--History.
- Jews.
- Jews, German--South America--Biography.
- Jews, German.
- Jews--Migrations.
- Jewish diaspora.
- History.
- South America--Social conditions--20th century.
- South America.
- Social conditions.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Other Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A riveting exploration of the intersecting lines of Jewish and indigenous Latin American thought and culture, by way of a family memoir. In Our America, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents' exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in 1920s. Lomnitz's grandparents, who were both trained to defy ghetto life with the pioneering spirit of the early Zionist movement, became intensely involved in the Peruvian leftist intellectual milieu and its practice of connecting Peru's indigenous past to an emancipatory internationalism that included Jewish culture and thought. After being thrown into prison supposedly for their socialist leanings, Lomnitz's grandparents were exiled to Colombia, where they were subject to its scandals, its class system, its political life. Through this lens, Lomnitz explores the almost negligible attention and esteem that South America holds in US public opinion. The story then continues to Chile during World War II, Israel in the 1950s, and finally to Claudio's youth, living with his parents in Berkeley, California, and Mexico City. Writing in a vivid, engaging style, Lomnitz creates an intellectual space that transcends the family memoir genre, where the exploration of one past, origin, and culture is placed in a dialectical relationship with the background of a renowned anthropologist specializing in Latin American history and culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Family history, for what?
- Just plain Kartoffel
- Comme c'est curieux
- Wo wohnt der Morder?
- Panglossia
- Alingualism
- America
- ONE. CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
- 1. Unstable Affiliations
- Provincial cosmopolitanism?
- Borderlanders
- Diglossia
- The Pale of Jewish Settlement
- Social conditions in Bessarabia
- Nova Sulitza
- Romanian annexation
- 2. Why Misha Left
- Romanian anti-Semitism
- Body matters
- 3. Emancipation and Emigration
- Education
- Zionism, immigration
- 4. Their First America
- How they arrived
- Beginnings
- San Marcos
- The klapper and national consciousness
- 5. Lisa Noemi Milstein
- Shura
- Czernowitz
- Also Lima
- 6. The Amauta
- Blinding lights
- Architecture of experience
- A bohemian undertow
- Friendship and tradition
- The Amauta
- Revista Amauta
- 7. Jewish Americanism
- Tradition and transformation
- Friendship
- The Repertorio Hebreo
- Networks
- Misha
- 8. Expulsion
- Prison
- The Jewish-communist plot
- Of nationalities and passports
- The death of Mariategui
- The fall of Leguia
- Expulsion
- TWO. THE DEBACLE
- 9. Adulthood
- Marriage
- Paris
- 10. Genocide
- Transnistria
- 11. The National Disease
- The banality of evil?
- Rhinoceroses
- Iphigenia in Bucharest
- Coda: Shura
- THREE. COLOMBIAN REFUGE
- 12. Family Life
- Tulua
- Family life
- Tania
- Diglossia in America
- 13. The Need for a New World
- Nuevo Mundo
- Agustin Tisoy Jacanamijoy
- The second issue
- 14. The Limits of Adaptation
- Colombian-Soviet friendship
- Birobidzhan
- Reasons
- Agustin Tisoy II
- The final period
- Grancolombia
- Bogotazo
- Why emigrate?
- 15. The Limits of Translation
- Boris's associates
- Violence in Tulua
- Boris's two deaths
- 16. Dialectic of Silence
- Column
- Silence
- Concerns
- FOUR. NATIONAL LIBERATION
- Israel
- Larissa and Cinna
- Return to Colombia
- How the marginalized survive
- My nationality
- FIVE. CHILDHOOD AS A COLLECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT
- God's face
- Geology of Machu Picchu
- Sina and Cinna
- Sina Aronsfrau
- What's in a name?
- The Aronsfrau murder
- Envy
- Poor Cinna
- The author of my days
- Bigger but smaller
- Mesohippus
- Rainbow scarab
- Final (bar mitzvah).
- Notes:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio. Nuestra América
- ISBN:
- 9781635420708
- 1635420709
- OCLC:
- 1191455949
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