Jewish Experiences Across the Americas : Local Histories Through Global Lenses / edited by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rac, Katalin Franciska, editor.

Ureña Valerio, Lenny A., 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History.

Jews.

Judaism--United States--History.

Judaism.

United States--Civilization--Jewish influences.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based Yiddish movie makers.Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas' Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America"-- Provided by publisher.

"This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio

Part I. Imperial Intersections

Muslims and Jewish Converts in the Early Modern Hispanic World / Tamar Herzog

Insert. Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia for the Ortega y Vilches family (Granada, 1725) / Neil Weijer

The Struggle for Jewish Naturalization from Jamaica to London, 1748-1753 / Dana Rabin

Part II. Network Empires

Gifts from the Center: Gifting and Religious Authority in Colonial Curaçao / Hilit Surowitz-Israel

Jews and New Christians in the Iberian Empires in a Global Context, 1492-1800 / Jose C. Moya

Part III. Perceptions of Migrants and Migration

Navigating Citizenship: Consular Practices and the Brazilian Jewish Community in Nineteenth-Century Morocco / Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes

A Yanqui's Gaze: Maurice Schwartz's South American Travelogues from 1930 / Zachary M. Baker

Going Where? The Trope of Migration in Yiddish Movies from 1939 / Elisa Kriza

Deforestation and Jewish Settlement in Quatro Irmos: A History of the Jewish Colonial Association's Activities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil / Isabel Rosa Gritti

Part IV. Global Struggles and Community Organizing

Antifascist Jewish Women in Argentina and Uruguay: Inclusion and Identities, 1941-1945 / Sandra McGee Deutsch

Out of the "Ghetto" and into the World: Argentine Sephardi Youth, 1940s-1950s / Adriana M. Brodsky

Defying Traditional Shtadlanut: Jewish Self-Defense in Argentina / Raanan Rein

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68340-307-X

OCLC:

1257315108