Full Description
This collection of articles constitutes a major contribution to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies, offering different perspectives on the rich and complex phenomena in the social, political, and cultural development of Jewish communities in the area. The essays span across a wide range of subjects, from comparisons between Jewish communities from different countries and with different levels of assimilation, the effects of globalization and transnationalism on the field, the interactions between Jews and non-Jews in the area, all the way to literary criticism. Based on an international conference organized by the University of Sao Paulo, the Dahan Center of Bar Ilan University, and the Academic College in Ashkelon, this volume offers a new approach to Latin American Jewish studies: it contributes to demystifying stereotypes and raising awareness of the importance of Latin America in a global context, and it highlights the relevance of the different Jewish communities across the globe in their special relationship to the state of Israel.
Contents
Introduction
The Jewish Communities of Latin America Margalit Bejarano, Yaron Harel, and Marta Topel
PART 1: GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND LATIN AMERICAN JUDAISM AND JEWISHNESS
Chapter 1: Expansion and Interconnectedness of Jewish Life in Times (and Spaces) of Transnationalism: New Realities, New Analytical Perspectives Judit Bokser Liwerant
Chapter 2: Changing Identities in a Transnational Diaspora: Latin American Jews in Miami Margalit Bejarano
Chapter 3: Globalization, Education, and Jewish Community Life: Latin American Transnational Jewish Educators—Toward a New Paradigm? Yossi J. Goldstein
Chapter 4: Informal Jewish Education: Argentina's Hebraica Society Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
Chapter 5: The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on the Affordability of Jewish Lifestyle in Latin America Eli Goldstein and Osnat Israeli
PART 2: THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW JEWISH RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES, AND THE CREATION OF SINGULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS
Chapter 6: Jerusalem, the Diaspora, and the Jewish Home: The Transfer of the Axis Mundi in Contemporary Judaism—The Case of São Paulo Marta F. Topel
Chapter 7: Blacks, Jews, and the Paradoxes of the Struggle against Racial Prejudice in Contemporary Brazil Monica Grin
Chapter 8: The Circulation of Jewish Agents and Jewish Symbolic Goods inside the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God Carlos Andrade Rivas Gutierrez
Chapter 9: Identities, Migrations and Religious Practices: The Jews and Argentineans of Syrian and Moroccan Origin (from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century to the Early Twenty-First Century) Susana Brauner
Chapter 10: Brazilian Virtual Orthodox Jewish Education in the Twenty-First Century Daniela Susana Segre Guertzenstein
PART 3: ZIONISM—MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS: HISTORY, DIPLOMACY, POLITICS, AND EDUCATION
Chapter 11: The Beginnings of Brazilian Zionism: Historical Formation and Political Developments Michel Gherman
Chapter 12: The Creation of the Relations between Israel and Brazil from a Pioneering Perspective: Between Diplomacy and Kibbutz Meir Chazan
Chapter 13: The World Jewish Congress, the Jews of Argentina, and the Military Junta, 1976-83 Itzhak Mualem
Chapter 14: Educational Excellence Program in South America—Case Study Margalit Yosifon
Chapter 15: The Local Role of the Mordechai Anielewicz Movement in Uruguay during and after the Six-Day War Graciela Ben Dror and Victor Ben-Dror
PART 4: FROM JEWISH WRITERS IN LATIN AMERICA TO LATIN AMERICA IN ISRAELI CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Chapter 16: But at Night, at Night, I Still Dream in Spanish—The Map of Imagination of Israeli Literature: South America Yigal Schwartz
Chapter 17: From Batiste Linen to the Empire at Palatnik Villa—Centennial Records of Economic Life in Natal's First Jewish Community Nancy Rozenchan
Chapter 18: Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Stefan Zweig in Brazil Luis S. Krausz
Chapter 19: Representation of the Shoah in Brazilian Literature Berta Waldman
Chapter 20: Samuel Rawet and the Representation of the Holocaust Saul Kirschbaum
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