Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Jewish identities in a changing world, 1570-7997 ; v. 8 |
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Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 8.
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Contents |
Section 1. Klal Yisrael in the contemporary era -- section 2. The Jews in Latin America -- section 3. Latin American Jewish culture -- section 4. Jews, society, and statehood : comparative perspectives |
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Between center and centrality: the Zionist perception of Klal Yisrael / Yosef Gorny -- Contemporary threats to Klal Yisrael / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Jewish autonomy and dependency: Latin America in global perspective / Sergio DellaPergola -- Latin American Jewish identities: past and present challenges. The Mexican case in a comparative perspective / Judit Bokser Liwerant -- Waning essentialism: Latin American Jewish studies in Israel / Raanan Rein -- Klal Yisrael at the frontiers: the transitional Jewish experience in Argentina / Leonardo Senkman -- Brazilian non-anti-Semite sociability and Jewish identity / Bernardo Sorj -- Jews, blacks, and the ambiguities of multiculturalism in Brazil / Monica Grin -- Jewish communal life in Argentina and Brazil at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st: a sociological perspective / Yossi Goldstein -- Revolution, ethnicity, and religions in Cuba: similarities, differences, and dichotomies in the case of the Jews / Maritza Corrales Capestany -- Crypto-Judaism in Mexico: past and present / Alicia Gojman de Backal -- The literary construction of Jewish identity in Chile: a cartography of recent memories / Gilda Waldman -- In the name of the father: identity and family memory in Andres Rivera and Mauricio Rosencof / Florinda F. Goldberg -- A mosaic of fragmented identities: the Sephardim in Latin America / Margalit Bejarano -- The Sephardic diaspora revisited: Dr. Angel Pulido Fernandez (1852-1932) and his campaign / Alisa Meyuhas Ginio -- Latin American Israelis: the collective identity of an invisible community / Luis Roniger and Deby Babis -- The cultural pluralism perspective of North American Jewry During the Holocaust / Ofer Shiff -- North American Jews in the new millennium / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Jewish identity and anti-Semitism / Michel Wieviorka -- Jews, nationality, and Judaism: the case of Ha-rishon le-Zion, Rabbi Meir Ben Zion Hair Uziel / Shalom Ratzabi -- Different concepts of a Jewish democratic state / Benyamin Newberger |
Summary |
This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajector |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and indexes |
Notes |
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Subject |
Jews -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century
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Jews -- Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
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Jews -- Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Judíos -- Situación social -- América Latina
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Judíos -- América Latina -- Historia
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Judíos -- América Latina -- Identidad cultural
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Relaciones étnicas -- América Latina
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Ethnic relations.
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Jews.
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Jews -- Intellectual life.
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Identität
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Ethnic relations
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Latin America.
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Lateinamerika
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Juden.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bokser de Liwerant, Judit
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LC no. |
2008005712 |
ISBN |
9789047428053 |
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9047428056 |
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