Resources for Latin American Jewish Studies
Author: Latin American Jewish Studies Association. Research Conference
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13:
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The Jews of Latin America
Author: Judith Laikin Elkin
Publisher: New York ; London : Holmes & Meier
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780841913691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
Author: Jeff Lesser
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0826344011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.
The Jewish Presence In Latin America
Author: Judith L Elkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1000302768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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.
The Penguin History Of Latin America
Author: Edwin Williamson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0141937440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have made Latin America a source of fascination for the world. 'A first-rate work of history ... His cool, scholarly gaze and synthesizing intelligence demystify a part of the world peculiarly prone to myth-making ... This book covers an enormous amount of ground, geographically and culturally' Tony Gould, Independent on Sunday
Handbook of Latin American Studies
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Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
A Companion to US Latino Literatures
Author: Carlota Caulfield
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781855661394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA panorama of literature by Latinos, whether born or resident in the United States.
The Seventh Heaven
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0822987155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternationally 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.
Polacos in Argentina
Author: Mariusz Kalczewiak
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0817320393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Book Award 2020 An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews seeking safety, civil rights, and better economic prospects. In the period between 1918 and 1939, sixty thousand Polish Jews established new homes in Argentina. They formed a strong ethnic community that quickly embraced Argentine culture while still maintaining their unique Jewish-Polish character. This mass migration caused the transformation of cultural, social, and political milieus in both Poland and Argentina, forever shaping the cultural landscape of both lands. In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture, Mariusz Kałczewiak has constructed a multifaceted and in-depth narrative that sheds light on marginalized aspects of Jewish migration and enriches the dialogue between Latin American Jewish studies and Polish Jewish Studies. Based on archival research, Yiddish travelogues on Argentina, and the Yiddish and Spanish-language press, this study recreates a mosaic of entanglements that Jewish migration wove between Poland and Argentina. Most studies on mass migration fail to acknowledge the role of the country of origin, but this innovative work approaches Jewish migration to Argentina as a continuous process that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. Taken as a whole, Polacos in Argentina enlightens the heterogeneous and complex issue of immigrant commitments, belongings, and expectations. Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina serves as a case study of how ethnicity evolves among migrants and their children, and the dynamics that emerge between putting down roots in a new country and maintaining commitments to the country of origin.
Resources for Reform
Author: Elana Shever
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012-06-27
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0804783209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reform explores how people's lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and concentrated oil industry through a close look at Argentina's experiment with privatizing its national oil company in the name of neoliberal reform. Examining Argentina's conversion from a state-controlled to a private oil market, Elana Shever reveals interconnections between large-scale transformations in society and small-scale shifts in everyday practice, intimate relationships, and identity. This engaging ethnography offers a window into the experiences of middle-class oil workers and their families, impoverished residents of shanty settlements bordering refineries, and affluent employees of transnational corporations as they struggle with rapid changes in the global economy, their country, and their lives. It reverberates far beyond the Argentine oil fields and offers a fresh approach to the critical study of neoliberalism, kinship, citizenship, and corporations.
