[PDF] The Jewish Presence In Latin America eBook

Author : Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1000034917

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Originally published in 1987, this collection of essays is a major contribution toward developing a realistic picture of the Latin American Jewish communities in the late 20th Century. The book will be of interest to students of comparative studies, Jewish studies and Latin American studies and responds to the need to learn more about the Jewish communities of Latin America, both as a fragment of the Jewish diaspora and as an element in the economic and social life of the continent.

Author : Judith L. Elkin
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780367293352

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First published in 1987, the pioneering studies of Latin American Jewry presented in this volume have been selected from among papers presented at the Research Conference on the Jewish Experience in Latin America, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 12-14, 1984. Featuring the work of twenty-seven scholars from the United States, Israel, Argentina, Mexico.

Author : David Sheinin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317945328

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A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies from the United States, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina. These specialists in history, politics, anthropology, and literature present 19 essays, 15 of which are original, three reprinted, and one translated here for the first time from Spanish.The book will be of use to specialists in Latin American literature, immigration history, international relations, and Latin American politics, as well as those interested in Jewish history, literature, and society outside Latin America.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0822987155

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Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.

Author : Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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This book makes visible the little-known Jewish communities of South and Central America. in doing so. The book challenges the notion that Latin America societies are entirely Hispanic and Catholic. through the life histories of Jews who.

Author : Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1836242239

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Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and celebrates what it means to have and live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and reveals the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Author : Ignacio Klich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113525690X

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This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.

Author : Frank, Ben G.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1455613304

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A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and South America is a tremendous work encompassing history, culture, and modern travel to some of the most important sites in these places. This is a practical, anecdotal, and adventurous journey including kosher restaurants, cafes, synagogues, and museums, plus cultural and heritage sites. Though many understand American Jewish history as beginning with the East European mass immigration of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jews in the Americas planted roots as early as 1654, when twenty-three Jews fleeing the Inquisition arrived in New Amsterdam. While the European roots of American Jews are often explored, less discussed are the still-vibrant Jewish communities throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Explored here are the oldest surviving synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, Mikve Israel in Curaçao; the largest Jewish community in the Caribbean, in Puerto Rico; the three synagogues in Havana, Cuba; the Israeli cafe in Cuzco, Peru, near the historic Inca site, Machu Picchu; and other Jewish sites from Buenos Aires to Mexico City. Also included are general travel information and tips.

Author : Yaron Harel
Publisher : Jewish Latin American Studies
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644690321

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This book is an excellent tool both for scholars and students interested in the wide range of Jewish expressions found in Latin America, which are hardly known in other regions.