Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewJews and Jewish Identities in Latin America: Historical, Cultural, and Literary Perspectives raises some fundamental questions concerning new modes of Jewish belonging, its cultural and religious interactions. These considerations seem to be more and more necessary, for we must have a clearer understanding of the singularity of contemporary Judaism and Jewishness in Latin America, by taking into account both the benefits and the perils of an increasingly dynamic and paradoxical global configuration. -- Maurício G. Righi * International Journal of Latin American Religions *
“This volume, with all of its interesting, intriguing, and challenging essays is, after all, a formidable sample of the diversity and extent of the Jewish communities in South and Central America, and in parts of the United States. Its scope presents a variety of subjects, including political ideologies, historical affinities, educational directions, and literary trends. Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America surely will turn into a reference book for all interested in the Jewish presence in Latin America.” —Regina Igel, University of Maryland, Sephardic Horizons Vol. 9 No. 1 & 2 -- Regina Igel * Sephardic Horizons *
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Jewish Communities of Latin America Margalit Bejarano, Yaron Harel, and Marta Topel
- PART 1: GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND LATIN AMERICAN JUDAISM AND JEWISHNESS
- Chapter 1: Expansion and Interconnectedness of Jewish Life in Times (and Spaces) of Transnationalism: New Realities, New Analytical Perspectives Judit Bokser Liwerant
- Chapter 2: Changing Identities in a Transnational Diaspora: Latin American Jews in Miami Margalit Bejarano
- Chapter 3: Globalization, Education, and Jewish Community Life: Latin American Transnational Jewish Educators—Toward a New Paradigm? Yossi J. Goldstein
- Chapter 4: Informal Jewish Education: Argentina’s Hebraica Society Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
- Chapter 5: The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on the Affordability of Jewish Lifestyle in Latin America Eli Goldstein and Osnat Israeli
- PART 2: THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW JEWISH RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES, AND THE CREATION OF SINGULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS
- Chapter 6: Jerusalem, the Diaspora, and the Jewish Home: The Transfer of the Axis Mundi in Contemporary Judaism—The Case of São Paulo Marta F. Topel
- Chapter 7: Blacks, Jews, and the Paradoxes of the Struggle against Racial Prejudice in Contemporary Brazil Monica Grin
- Chapter 8: The Circulation of Jewish Agents and Jewish Symbolic Goods inside the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God Carlos Andrade Rivas Gutierrez
- Chapter 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) Susana Brauner
- Chapter 10: Brazilian Virtual Orthodox Jewish Education in the Twenty-First Century Daniela Susana Segre Guertzenstein
- PART 3: ZIONISM—MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS: HISTORY, DIPLOMACY, POLITICS, AND EDUCATION
- Chapter 11: The Beginnings of Brazilian Zionism: Historical Formation and Political Developments Michel Gherman
- Chapter 12: The Creation of the Relations between Israel and Brazil from a Pioneering Perspective: Between Diplomacy and Kibbutz Meir Chazan
- Chapter 13: The World Jewish Congress, the Jews of Argentina, and the Military Junta, 1976–83 Itzhak Mualem
- Chapter 14: Educational Excellence Program in South America—Case Study Margalit Yosifon
- Chapter 15: The Local Role of the Mordechai Anielewicz Movement in Uruguay during and after the Six-Day War Graciela Ben Dror and Victor Ben-Dror
- PART 4: FROM JEWISH WRITERS IN LATIN AMERICA TO LATIN AMERICA IN ISRAELI CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
- Chapter 16: But at Night, at Night, I Still Dream in Spanish—The Map of Imagination of Israeli Literature: South America Yigal Schwartz
- Chapter 17: From Batiste Linen to the Empire at Palatnik Villa—Centennial Records of Economic Life in Natal’s First Jewish Community Nancy Rozenchan
- Chapter 18: Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Stefan Zweig in Brazil Luis S. Krausz
- Chapter 19: Representation of the Shoah in Brazilian Literature Berta Waldman
- Chapter 20: Samuel Rawet and the Representation of the Holocaust Saul Kirschbaum
- Index
