The Jewish Presence In Latin America

Author : Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000034917
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Jewish Presence in Latin America written by Judith Laikin Elkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987155
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Seventh Heaven written by Ilan Stavans and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 L. Elkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367293352
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Jewish Presence in Latin America written by Judith L. Elkin and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317945328
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America written by David Sheinin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ignacio Klich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113525690X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America written by Ignacio Klich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 : 9781607852315
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Jews of Latin America written by Judith Laikin Elkin and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 emigrated to Latin America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author demonstrates that these societies are increasingly pluralistic in reality, if not in ideology.

Author : Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Jews of Latin America written by Judith Laikin Elkin and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harry O. Sandberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Jews of Latin America written by Harry O. Sandberg and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katalin Franciska Rac
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683403975
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Jewish Experiences across the Americas written by Katalin Franciska Rac and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies. Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America. Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio | Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Frank, Ben G.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1455613304
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and South America, A written by Frank, Ben G. and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. . This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.