Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires

Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires PDF Author: Edna Aizenberg
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
A courageous study of cultural resistance to xenophobia and terrorism through the prism of influential writings by Borges, Gerchunoff, and their successor Latin American Jewish writers.

Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires

Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires PDF Author: Edna Aizenberg
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
A courageous study of cultural resistance to xenophobia and terrorism through the prism of influential writings by Borges, Gerchunoff, and their successor Latin American Jewish writers.

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone PDF Author: Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739172980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.

Landscapes of Memory and Impunity

Landscapes of Memory and Impunity PDF Author: Annette Levine
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004297499
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Book Description
Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) 2017 Book Award competition for an outstanding book on a Latin American Jewish topic in the social sciences or humanities published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Landscapes of Memory and Impunity chronicles the aftermath of the most significant terrorist attack in Argentina’s history—the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed eighty-five people, wounded hundreds, and destroyed the primary Jewish mutual aid society. This volume, edited by Annette H. Levine and Natasha Zaretsky, presents the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary work about this decisive turning point in Jewish Argentine history—examining the ongoing impact of this violence and the impunity that followed. Chapters explore political protest movements, musical performance, literature, and acts of commemoration. They emphasize the intersecting themes of memory, narrative and representation, Jewish belonging, citizenship, and justice—critical fault lines that frame Jewish life after the AMIA attack, while also resonating with historical struggles for pluralism in Argentina.

Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America

Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America PDF Author: Marjorie Agosín
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292784430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Book Description
Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile—though members of these communities have at times experienced the pain of being "the other," ostracized by Christian society and even tortured by military governments. While commonalities of religion and culture link these communities across time and national boundaries, the Jewish experience in Latin America is irreducible to a single perspective. Only a multitude of voices can express it. This anthology gathers fifteen essays by historians, creative writers, artists, literary scholars, anthropologists, and social scientists who collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America. Some of the pieces are personal tales of exile and survival; some explore Jewish humor and its role in amalgamating histories of past and present; and others look at serious episodes of political persecution and military dictatorship. As a whole, these challenging essays ask what Jewish identity is in Latin America and how it changes throughout history. They leave us to ponder the tantalizing question: Does being Jewish in the Americas speak to a transitory history or a more permanent one?

Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas

Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas PDF Author: Margalit Bejarano
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815651651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures PDF Author: Anita Norich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472121677
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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Book Description
This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives.

Homeless Tongues

Homeless Tongues PDF Author: Monique Balbuena
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804797498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Book Description
This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature: Algerian Sadia Lévy, Israeli Margalit Matitiahu, and Argentine Juan Gelman. Each of them—Lévy in French and Hebrew, Matitiahu in Hebrew and Ladino, and Gelman in Spanish and Ladino—expresses a hybrid or composite Sephardic identity through a strategic choice of competing languages and intertexts. Monique R. Balbuena's close literary readings of their works, which are mostly unknown in the United States, are strongly grounded in their social and historical context. Her focus on contemporary rather than classic Ladino poetry and her argument for the inclusion of Sephardic production in the canon of Jewish literature make Homeless Tongues a timely and unusual intervention.

Returning to Babel

Returning to Babel PDF Author: Amalia Ran
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Book Description
This edited volume explores multiple representations by and of Jewish Latin Americans, thus revisiting the canon of Judeo-Latin American culture. It expands the horizon of what is traditionally considered “Jewish” or “Latinoamericano.”

On the Edge of the Holocaust

On the Edge of the Holocaust PDF Author: Edna Aizenberg
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688566
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Book Description
Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era

Harbinger of Modernity

Harbinger of Modernity PDF Author: Dalia Wassner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900426132X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
In Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina, Dalia Wassner presents an integrated analysis of the civic work and literary oeuvre of Marcos Aguinis, who served as Secretary of Culture during Argentina’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Situating his writings in their historical and intellectual context, Wassner explores Aguinis’s engagement with the dialectic of modernization as a Jewish public intellectual equally dedicated to fostering Argentine democracy and to inscribing himself in the annals of westernization. Encompassing intellectual history, literary criticism, Latin American history, and Jewish studies, Wassner’s work illuminates the intersecting roles of Jews and public intellectuals in bringing democracy to post-dictatorship Argentina.