Identities in an era of globalization and multiculturalism : Latin America in the Jewish world / / edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Jewish identities in a changing world, v. 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Bokser de Liwerant, Judit.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities.

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.