Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America : Historical, Cultural, and Literary Perspectives / Margalit Bejarano, Yaron Harel, Marta Francisca Topel, Margalit Yosifon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bejarano, Margalit, Editor.

Harel, Yaron, Editor.

Topel, Marta Francisca, Editor.

Yosifon, Margalith, Editor.

Merkaz le-tarbut, ḥevrah ṿe-ḥinukh be-moreshet Yahadut Sefarad ʻa. sh. Aharon ṿe-Raḥel Dahan

Series:

Jewish Latin American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Latin America--History--20th century--Congresses.

Jews.

Jews--Latin America--History--21st century--Congresses.

Jews--Latin America--Identity--Congresses.

Latin America--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of articles constitutes a major contribution to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies, offering different perspectives on the rich and complex phenomena in the social, political, and cultural development of Jewish communities in the area. The essays span across a wide range of subjects, from comparisons between Jewish communities from different countries and with different levels of assimilation, the effects of globalization and transnationalism on the field, the interactions between Jews and non-Jews in the area, all the way to literary criticism. Based on an international conference organized by the University of Sao Paulo, the Dahan Center of Bar Ilan University, and the Academic College in Ashkelon, this volume offers a new approach to Latin American Jewish studies: it contributes to demystifying stereotypes and raising awareness of the importance of Latin America in a global context, and it highlights the relevance of the different Jewish communities across the globe in their special relationship to the state of Israel.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Jewish Communities of Latin America / Bejarano, Margalit / Harel, Yaron / Topel, Marta F.

PART ONE. Globalization, Transnationalism, and Latin American Judaism and Jewishness

1. Expansion and Interconnectedness of Jewish Life in Times (and Spaces) of Transnationalism: New Realities, New Analytical Perspectives / Liwerant, Judit Bokser

2. Changing Identities in a Transnational Diaspora: Latin American Jews in Miami / Bejarano, Margalit

3. Globalization, Education, and Jewish Community Life: Latin American Transnational Jewish Educators-Toward a New Paradigm? / Goldstein, Yossi J.

4. Informal Jewish Education: Argentina's Hebraica Society / Schenkolewski-Kroll, Silvia

5. The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on the Affordability of Jewish Lifestyle in Latin America / Goldstein, Eli / Israeli, Osnat

PART TWO. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Emergence Of New Jewish Religious Identities, and The Creation of Singular Interactions Between Jews and Non-Jews

6. Jerusalem, the Diaspora, and the Jewish Home: The Transfer of the Axis Mundi in Contemporary Judaism-The Case of São Paulo / Topel, Marta F.

7. Blacks, Jews, and the Paradoxes of the Struggle against Racial Prejudice in Contemporary Brazil / Grin, Monica

8. The Circulation of Jewish Agents and Jewish Symbolic Goods inside the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God / Rivas Gutierrez, Carlos Andrade

9. Identities, Migrations and Religious Practices: The Jews and Argentineans of Syrian and Moroccan Origin (from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century to the Early Twenty-First Century) / Brauner, Susana

10. Brazilian Virtual Orthodox Jewish Education in the Twenty-First Century / Segre Guertzenstein, Daniela Susana

PART THREE. Zionism-Multiple Dimensions: History, Diplomacy, Politics, and Education

11. The Beginnings of Brazilian Zionism: Historical Formation and Political Developments / Gherman, Michel

12. The Creation of the Relations between Israel and Brazil from a Pioneering Perspective: Between Diplomacy and Kibbutz / Chazan, Meir

13. The World Jewish Congress, the Jews of Argentina, and the Military Junta, 1976-83 / Mualem, Yitzhak

14. Educational Excellence Program in South America-Case Study / Yosifon, Margalit

15. The Local Role of the Mordechai Anielewicz Movement in Uruguay during and after the Six-Day War / Ben Dror, Graciela / Ben Dror, Victor

PART FOUR. From Jewish Writers In Latin America To Latin America In Israeli Contemporary Literature

16. But at Night, at Night, I Still Dream in Spanish-The Map of Imagination of Israeli Literature: South America / Schwartz, Yigal

17. From Batiste Linen to the Empire at Palatnik Villa-Centennial Records of Economic Life in Natal's First Jewish Community / Rozenchan, Nancy

18. Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Stefan Zweig in Brazil / Krausz, Luis S.

19. Representation of the Shoah in Brazilian Literature / Waldman, Berta

20. Samuel Rawet and the Representation of the Holocaust / Kirschbaum, Saul

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-649-5

OCLC:

994263364