Identities in an era of globalization and multiculturalism : Latin America in the Jewish world /
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 approach...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008
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| Series: | Jewish identities in a changing world ;
v. 8. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.
