Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America /

Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America / / ed. by Marjorie Agosín.

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Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Agosín, Marjorie,
Anhalt, Diana,
Baumgarten, Murray,
Behar, Ruth,
Brailovsky, David,
Cimet, Adina,
Coll-Tellechea, Reyes,
Dahl Buchanan, Rhonda,
Deutsch, Sandra Mcgee,
Foster, David William,
Lindstrom, Naomi,
Lockhart, Darrell B.,
Mount, Graeme S.,
Muñiz Huberman, Angelina,
Rein, Raanan,
Sadow, Stephen A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Agosín, Marjorie,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section I Sephardim in Our Memory
  • Remembering Sepharad
  • The Sephardic Legacy
  • Section II Journeys
  • Tuesday Is a Good Day
  • My Panama
  • A Journey through My Life and Latin American Jewish Studies
  • Section III The Paradox of Communities
  • Chile and the Nazis
  • ‘‘Are You Sure They’re Really Jewish?’’ a selective history of Mexico city’s Beth Israel community center
  • Dancing around the Political Divide between the ‘‘legal’’ and the ‘‘regal’’ in the Mexican Jewish community
  • Section IV A Literature of Transformation
  • The Heterogeneous Jewish Wit of Margo Glantz
  • Preserving the Family Album in Letargo by Perla Suez
  • Section V Culture, History, and Representation
  • Lamentations for the AMIA: literary responses to communal trauma
  • Nationalism, Education, and Identity Argentine Jews and catholic religious instruction, 1943–1 955
  • From Gauchos judíos to Idishe mames posmodernas popular Jewish culture in Buenos Aires
  • Gabriel Valansi: neoliberal nights in Buenos Aires
  • While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba afterthoughts about adio kerida
  • La menora de la alegría para Josefina Agosín
  • Index

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