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

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• MitwirkendeR: Bejarano, Margalit,; Ben Dror, Graciela,; Ben Dror, Victor,; Brauner, Susana,; Chazan, Meir,; Gherman, Michel,; Goldstein, Eli,; Goldstein, Yossi J.,; Grin, Monica,; Harel, Yaron,; Israeli, Osnat,; Kirschbaum, Saul,; Krausz, Luis S.,; Liwerant, Judit Bokser,; Mualem, Yitzhak,; Rivas Gutierrez, Carlos Andrade,; Rozenchan, Nancy,; Schenkolewski-Kroll, Silvia,; Schwartz, Yigal,; Segre Guertzenstein, Daniela Susana,; Topel, Marta F.,; Waldman, Berta,; Yosifon, Margalit,
• HerausgeberIn: Bejarano, Margalit,; Harel, Yaron,; Topel, Marta Francisca,; Yosifon, Margalit,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Latin American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Jewish Communities of Latin America -- 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 -- 2. Changing Identities in a Transnational Diaspora: Latin American Jews in Miami -- 3. Globalization, Education, and Jewish Community Life: Latin American Transnational Jewish Educators-Toward a New Paradigm? -- 4. Informal Jewish Education: Argentina's Hebraica Society -- 5. The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on the Affordability of Jewish Lifestyle in Latin America -- 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 -- 7. Blacks, Jews, and the Paradoxes of the Struggle against Racial Prejudice in Contemporary Brazil -- 8. The Circulation of Jewish Agents and Jewish Symbolic Goods inside the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God -- 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) -- 10. Brazilian Virtual Orthodox Jewish Education in the Twenty-First Century -- PART THREE. Zionism-Multiple Dimensions: History, Diplomacy, Politics, and Education -- 11. The Beginnings of Brazilian Zionism: Historical Formation and Political Developments -- 12. The Creation of the Relations between Israel and Brazil from a Pioneering Perspective: Between Diplomacy and Kibbutz -- 13. The World Jewish Congress, the Jews of Argentina, and the Military Junta, 1976-83 -- 14. Educational Excellence Program in South America-Case Study -- 15. The Local Role of the Mordechai Anielewicz Movement in Uruguay during and after the Six-Day War -- 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 -- 17. From Batiste Linen to the Empire at Palatnik Villa-Centennial Records of Economic Life in Natal's First Jewish Community -- 18. Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Stefan Zweig in Brazil -- 19. Representation of the Shoah in Brazilian Literature -- 20. Samuel Rawet and the Representation of the Holocaust -- Index