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Title Identities in an era of globalization and multiculturalism : Latin America in the Jewish world / edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant [and others]
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations
Series Jewish identities in a changing world, 1570-7997 ; v. 8
Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 8.
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
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
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Subject Jews -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century
Jews -- Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
Jews -- Latin America -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Judíos -- Situación social -- América Latina
Judíos -- América Latina -- Historia
Judíos -- América Latina -- Identidad cultural
Relaciones étnicas -- América Latina
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Jews -- Intellectual life.
Identität
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
SUBJECT Latin America -- Ethnic relations
Subject Latin America.
Lateinamerika
Juden.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Bokser de Liwerant, Judit
LC no. 2008005712
ISBN 9789047428053
9047428056