Contemporary Sephardic identity in the Americas : an interdisciplinary approach / / edited by Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg.

• Superior document: Modern Jewish history
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bejarano, Margalit.; Aizenberg, Edna.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Jewish history.
• Physical Description: xxii, 252 p.

Table of Contents

The Sephardic communities of Latin America: a puzzle of subethnic fragments, / Margalit Bejarano -- Nuevos mundos hallo colon, or, what's different about Sephardic literature in the Americas? / Edna Aizenberg -- Sephardic and Syrian immigration to America: acculturation and communal preservation / Jane Gerber -- Cultural Zionism as a contact zone: Sephardic and Askenazi Jews bridge the gap on the pages of the Argentine newspaper Israel / Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen -- Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires: between religious revival and return to biblical sources, 1953-90 / Susana Brauner -- Religious movements in Mexican Sephardism / Liz Hamui Halabe -- Transnational identity and Miami Sephardim / Henry A. Green -- From Turkey to the United States: the trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami / Margalit Bejarano -- Ladino in Latin America: an old language in the new world / Monique R. Balbuena -- A taste of sepharad from the Mexican suburbs: Rosa Nissan's stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca / Yael Halevi-Wise -- The role of music in the Quebec Sephardic community / Judith R. Cohen.