Author: Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1836242239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and celebrates what it means to have and live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and reveals the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1836242239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and celebrates what it means to have and live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and reveals the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1836242239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and celebrates what it means to have and live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and reveals the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Seventh Heaven
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America
Author: David Sheinin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815322832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815322832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Jewish Presence In Latin America
Author: Judith L Elkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000302768
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
First published in 1987, The pioneering studies of Latin American Jewry presented in this volume have been selected from among papers presented at the Research Conference on the Jewish Experience in Latin America, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 12-14, 1984. Featuring the work of twenty-seven scholars from the United States, Israel, Argentina, Mexico.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000302768
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
First published in 1987, The pioneering studies of Latin American Jewry presented in this volume have been selected from among papers presented at the Research Conference on the Jewish Experience in Latin America, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 12-14, 1984. Featuring the work of twenty-seven scholars from the United States, Israel, Argentina, Mexico.
Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America
Author: Ignacio Klich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113525690X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113525690X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.
Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America
Author: Yaron Harel
Publisher: Jewish Latin American Studies
ISBN: 9781644690321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This book is an excellent tool both for scholars and students interested in the wide range of Jewish expressions found in Latin America, which are hardly known in other regions.
Publisher: Jewish Latin American Studies
ISBN: 9781644690321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This book is an excellent tool both for scholars and students interested in the wide range of Jewish expressions found in Latin America, which are hardly known in other regions.
Sephardic Jews in America
Author: Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814725198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814725198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
Author: Alberto Gerchunoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America
Author: David Sheinin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317945328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies from the United States, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina. These specialists in history, politics, anthropology, and literature present 19 essays, 15 of which are original, three reprinted, and one translated here for the first time from Spanish.The book will be of use to specialists in Latin American literature, immigration history, international relations, and Latin American politics, as well as those interested in Jewish history, literature, and society outside Latin America.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317945328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies from the United States, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina. These specialists in history, politics, anthropology, and literature present 19 essays, 15 of which are original, three reprinted, and one translated here for the first time from Spanish.The book will be of use to specialists in Latin American literature, immigration history, international relations, and Latin American politics, as well as those interested in Jewish history, literature, and society outside Latin America.
The Jews of Latin America
Author: Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN: 9781607852315
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book makes visible the little-known Jewish communities of South and Central America. In doing so, the book challenges the notion that Latin America societies are entirely Hispanic and Catholic, through the life histories of Jews who emigrated to Latin America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author demonstrates that these societies are increasingly pluralistic in reality, if not in ideology.
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN: 9781607852315
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book makes visible the little-known Jewish communities of South and Central America. In doing so, the book challenges the notion that Latin America societies are entirely Hispanic and Catholic, through the life histories of Jews who emigrated to Latin America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author demonstrates that these societies are increasingly pluralistic in reality, if not in ideology.