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Querido país de mi infancia

Autor: Hélène Goldsztajn Gutkowski

Número de Páginas: 591

Este libro, que se origina en el seno del grupo denominado Francia… ¿dulce Francia de nuestra infancia?, da cuenta, a través del recorrido de sus miembros, de las múltiples formas que cobró la persecución contra los judíos en la Francia ocupada por los nazis. Niños “fichados”, niños “marcados”, niños escondidos, adolescentes enrolados en la resistencia, jóvenes salvadores de niños, jóvenes deportados, tenían entre 0 y 18 años cuando empezó la guerra. Las cartas, los documentos y las fotos que conservaron preciosamente son valiosos testimonios de las separaciones, las deportaciones, la orfandad, pero también de la solidaridad. Aquí honran el coraje de sus padres y la memoria de los franceses que los salvaron. Hélène Gutkowski, ella misma niña escondida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, puso en acción sus talentos de escucha y escritura para evocar el cálido crisol de las reuniones del grupo, donde los recuerdos fragmentados se confrontaron y se unieron para delinear aquella Francia que no fue la “dulce Francia” de la canción de Charles Trenet. Asimismo, la autora se tomó el cuidado de narrar la historia de los judíos en Argentina en una...

Historia de las religiones en la Argentina

Autor: Susana Bianchi

Número de Páginas: 345

Este libro intenta construir una síntesis que permita alcanzar una visión más amplia del panorama religioso argentino, que incluya las minorías. En la Argentina, la identificación entre catolicismo y nacionalidad, que comenzó a gestarse desde las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y que culminó en el «mito de la nación católica», ha excedido los discursos militantes para alcanzar el sentido común: ser argentino es ser católico. Este libro trata precisamente sobre los «otros»: protestantes, judíos, musulmanes, ortodoxos. Esos «otros» constituyen un sujeto fragmentado, un conglomerado muy diverso de creencias y cosmovisiones. ¿Qué los unifica? Los unifica, básicamente, la mirada que aspiró «y aspira» a la construcción hegemónica del catolicismo como fundamento de la sociedad. Los «otros» son los que, desde esas ilusiones y desde esas miradas, parecen no tener cabida. Sin embargo, ellos están y son parte constitutiva del cuerpo social. Son, sin duda, minoritarios pero su presencia, que aportó una notable diversificación, fue decisiva para la construcción de un campo religioso autónomo en un camino que es posible identificar con el de la secularización y ...

Diaspora and Law

Autor: Liliana Ruth Feierstein , Daniel Weidner

Número de Páginas: 226

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an international level, in complex transnational contexts such as the European Union or human rights law, but also in the context of cultural diversity or conflicts between religious norms and civil institutions, between minorities and the power of the state. On the other hand, the neutrality of law is also under growing pressure, be it from different global transnational players, or from within nation states where calls are made to adapt law to the will of "the people." The heated European debate on the "refugee crisis" has made it manifest that law is more necessary than ever and yet fundamentally contested, perhaps even caught in contradictions and self-limitations. At the same time, the current perspective on legal problems allows us to address issues of diversity and the role of Europe in the globalized world more clearly. The articles of this book take these recent developments and debates as a starting point to discuss from the perspective of different disciplines the pressing question of how to live together in the new millennium and how to ...

El odio a los judíos

Autor: Miguel Bronfman

Número de Páginas: 99

La mañana del 7 de octubre de 2023, el sur de Israel fue el escenario de una cacería humana despiadada. El movimiento fundamentalista islámico Hamás, que desde 2007 gobierna de facto la Franja de Gaza, invadió el territorio israelí con un operativo coordinado por tierra, aire y mar. Su objetivo era claro: matar a la mayor cantidad de gente posible, pero también mutilar cuerpos, torturar, violar a mujeres y niñas, tomar rehenes y llevarlos cautivos a Gaza. En unas pocas horas, más de 1.200 muertos, cientos de heridos, 240 rehenes y una nación entera sumida en el terror atestiguaban la dimensión de la barbarie. El gobierno de Israel declaró formalmente el estado de guerra. Emprendió una incursión militar con el objeto de recuperar a los secuestrados y destruir la capacidad armamentista y operativa del movimiento terrorista, que se esconde entre los civiles gazatíes. Pero ¿cuál fue la reacción de amplios sectores de la población mundial? ¿Qué hay detrás de la escasa solidaridad y la poca empatía recibidas por el pueblo de Israel —y los judíos en general— luego de la masacre? ¿Por qué el mundo acepta con naturalidad que haya organizaciones terroristas e...

Vida cotidiana de los judíos argentinos

Autor: Ricardo Feierstein

Número de Páginas: 492

La segregación negada

Autor: Mario Margulis , Marcelo Urresti

Número de Páginas: 338

Populism and Ethnicity

Autor: Raanan Rein

Número de Páginas: 331

Juan Perón's decade-long regime, from 1946 to 1955, is often presented as Nazi-fascist and antisemitic – claims that are strongly rooted in Argentina's collective unconscious and popular culture. Challenging this widely held view, Raanan Rein asserts that there was greater Jewish support for Perón than previously believed, and that fewer antisemitic incidents took place in Argentina during Perón's rule than during any other period in the twentieth century. Recovering the silenced voices of Jewish Argentines who supported Peronism from the beginning, Populism and Ethnicity is a historical, sociological, and political analysis that describes the many positive changes experienced by the Jewish community as a direct result of Perón's presidencies. Perón and his wife Eva gave numerous speeches denouncing antisemitism, and Perón's Argentina was the first Latin American country to open an embassy in the newly established State of Israel. Arguing that no president before Perón so unambiguously rejected discrimination against Jews, Rein shows that many Jews secured more important posts in government in the 1940s and 1950s than in previous years, among them members of the Argentine ...

Cachiporras contra Tacuara

Autor: Raanan Rein

Número de Páginas: 379

Primera investigación rigurosa que aborda el tema tabú de la conformación de grupos de autodefensa judíos en la Argentina entre el secuestro de Eichmann y el comienzo de la dictadura militar y de cómo influyó en la modelación de la identidad judía y sionista de los jóvenes que participaron de ellos. La ola antisemita que azotó a la Argentina tras la captura por parte de agentes del Mossad del criminal de guerra nazi Adolf Eichmann en Buenos Aires en mayo de 1960 determinó a jóvenes judíos a desafiar el liderazgo del establishment comunitario en un sentido particular: organizar grupos de autodefensa orientados a la vigilancia en instituciones judías y sinagogas, y a la consecución de iniciativas contra activistas de la derecha nacionalista y organizaciones antisemitas. Raanan Rein presenta en este libro la primera investigación exhaustiva sobre esos grupos que tuvieron vida entre los años sesenta y el golpe de Estado de 1976, y demuestra que su importancia no radicó tanto en la efectiva protección frente el peligro de reyertas y pogromos como en la modelación de la identidad judía y sionista de los jóvenes que participaron de ellos. En ese sentido, además de...

Memoria latente

Autor: Maxine Lowy

Número de Páginas: 283

Un lejano y largo país llamado Chile fue el destino para una generación de inmigrantes y refugiados judíos que anhelaban encontrar un mundo mejor. Muchos llevaban consigo una historia de marginalización y persecución arraigada en el interior de su ser. A partir de septiembre de 1973, cuando algunos de esos mismos refugiados, sus hijos o nietos, fueron víctimas del terrorismo de Estado, la institucionalidad judía enfrentó una encrucijada moral. Memoria latente releva los nexos entre la identidad judía y la memoria histórica, en el marco de los desafíos enfrentados por la colectividad ante los atropellos a los derechos fundamentales cometidos en Chile durante la dictadura cívico-militar de Augusto Pinochet. Da cuenta también de procesos de reconocimiento y reencuentro comunitario, al retomar rutas de memoria y justicia trazadas desde la experiencia judía hacia todo lugar que emerge desde situaciones límites.

The New Jewish Argentina

Autor: Adriana Brodsky , Raanan Rein

Número de Páginas: 413

Congratulations to Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein whose edited volume has been chosen as the winner of the 2013 Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Prize! The New Jewish Argentina aims at filling in important lacunae in the existing historiography of Jewish Argentines. Moving away from the political history of the organized community, most articles are devoted to social and cultural history, including unaffiliated Jews, women and gender, criminals, printing presses and book stores. These essays, written by scholars from various countries, consider the tensions between the national and the trans-national and offer a mosaic of identities which is relevant to all interested in Jewish history, Argentine history and students of ethnicity and diaspora. This collection problematizes the existing image of Jewish-Argentines and looks at Jews not just as persecuted ethnics, idealized agricultural workers, or as political actors in Zionist politics. "This book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in immigration to Latin America, Ethnic History, and Jewish Studies, but its readership could extend to anybody who is interested in this chapter of social and cultural...

Bibliografía sobre Judaísmo argentino

Número de Páginas: 312

Impure Migration

Autor: Mir Yarfitz

Número de Páginas: 225

Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.

Literatura, ideología y sociedad en La gesta del marrano de Marcos Aguinis

Autor: Fabián Mossello

Número de Páginas: 212

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Juifs d'Argentine

Autor: Sébastien Tank-storper

Número de Páginas: 284

Le 18 juillet 1994, un attentat meurtrier frappe l’Amia, la principale institution juive d’Argentine. Commence alors un combat sans fin pour la vérité, la mémoire et la justice. À la lumière de l’attentat le plus sanglant du pays, Sébastien Tank-Storper retrace l’histoire de ces juifs argentins qui, avec plus de 250 000 personnes, constituent la première communauté d’Amérique latine et la sixième dans le monde. Des vagues d’immigration européennes à l’élection de Javier Milei, on découvre comment le pogrom de la Semaine tragique, le péronisme, la dictature et l’attentat de 1994 ont façonné la présence juive dans la société argentine. Cet attentat a durablement marqué la ville de Buenos Aires, à travers les monuments du souvenir, les dispositifs de sécurité et les manifestations qu’il a suscité. Très vite, l’attaque terroriste s’est en effet muée en affaire d’État pleine de rebondissements, entre dissimulations et espionnage, accusations portées contre l’Iran, mise en cause du président Menem et mort mystérieuse du procureur chargé de l’affaire. L’attentat est ainsi devenu le lieu où se mêlent mémoire juive et...

New Worlds

Autor: John Lynch

Número de Páginas: 582

This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the centuries passed. As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period, Lynch also explores the extent to which Indian religion and ancestral ways survived within the new Christian culture.The book follows the development of religious culture over time by focusing on peak periods of change: the response of religion to the Enlightenment, the emergence of the Church from the wars of independence, the Romanization of Latin American religion as the papacy overtook the Spanish crown in effective control of the Church, the growing challenge of liberalism and the secular state, and in the twentieth century, military dictators' assaults on human rights. Throughout the narrative, Lynch develops a number of special themes and topics. Among these are the Spanish struggle for justice for Indians, the Church's position on slavery, the...

Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America

Autor: Marjorie Agosín

Número de Páginas: 273

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 as Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile—though members of these communities have at times experienced the pain of being "the other," ostracized by Christian society and even tortured by military governments. While commonalities of religion and culture link these communities across time and national boundaries, the Jewish experience in Latin America is irreducible to a single perspective. Only a multitude of voices can express it. This anthology gathers fifteen essays by historians, creative writers, artists, literary scholars, anthropologists, and social scientists who collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America. Some of the pieces are personal tales of exile and survival; some explore Jewish humor and its role in amalgamating histories of past and present; and others look at serious episodes of political persecution and military dictatorship. As a whole, these...

Returning to Babel

Autor: Amalia Ran , Jean Cahan

Número de Páginas: 260

This volume offers a re-examination of some of the prevalent paradigms in Latin American Jewish Studies and an instigation to further explorations in this area. It sets out from an interdisciplinary standpoint, comprising literature, culture, history, cinematography, music and visual arts. This collection of articles seeks a wider range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives concerning Latin American Jewish experiences, and thereby offers a framework for innovative as well as traditional modes of analysis. It elaborates on themes of Jewish identity as represented in the history, cultures and societies of Latin America in the current era of hybridism and transnationalism.

Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt

Autor: Beatrice D. Gurwitz

Número de Páginas: 241

Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt traces the ongoing efforts among Argentine Jews to rethink the Argentine nation, Jewish membership in it, and the nature of Jewishness itself from 1955 to 1983. Beginning with the celebrations around the supposed triumph of the “liberal nation” after the overthrow of Juan Perón, this study examines Jewish activists’ discourse through years of rapid transitions between civil and military rule, massive social protest, escalating violence, and finally the brutal military dictatorship of 1976 to1983. It argues that these were crucial years in which Jewish activists forcefully discarded previous understandings of the nation and pioneered novel definitions of Jewishness and Zionism designed to resonate in a Latin America upended by revolutionary ferment.

Gauchos and Foreigners

Autor: Ariana Huberman

Número de Páginas: 158

In Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside Ariana Huberman discusses the relationship between the gaucho figure and the 'foreigner' in Argentine rural literature. The narratives of William Henry Hudson, Benito Lynch and Alberto Gerchunoff present English scientists and travelers, as well as Jewish and Italian immigrants, in direct contact with the gaucho in the Argentine and Uruguayan countryside. The book shows how the intent to define and translate terms from the national glossary the gaucho, his lifestyle and habitat and from 'foreign' cultures, ultimately questions these terms' capacity to represent a specific culture. It traces a series of writing practices that challenge the concepts of 'native' and 'foreign' as stable categories of representation by conveying identity and culture across multiple linguistic, social and cultural registers. The reading of these unique practices of translation hopes to offer a fresh approach to the multicultural scope of Argentine literature.

Making Citizens in Argentina

Autor: Benjamin Bryce , David M. K. Sheinin

Número de Páginas: 363

Making Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dictatorship, the contributors analyze the power of the Argentine state and other social actors to set the boundaries of citizenship. They also address how Argentines contested the meanings of citizenship over time, and demonstrate how citizenship came to represent a great deal more than nationality or voting rights. In Argentina, it defined a person's relationships with, and expectations of, the state. Citizenship conditioned the rights and duties of Argentines and foreign nationals living in the country. Through the language of citizenship, Argentines explained to one another who belonged and who did not. In the cultural, moral, and social requirements of citizenship, groups with power often marginalized populations whose societal status was more tenuous. Making Citizens in Argentina also demonstrates how workers, politicians, elites, indigenous peoples, and others staked their own claims to citizenship.

The Seventh Heaven

Autor: Ilan Stavans

Número de Páginas: 418

Internationally 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.

Indésirables

Autor: Diane Afoumado

Número de Páginas: 305

Au cours des années 30, le durcissement constant de l’Allemagne hitlérienne envers ses concitoyens juifs contraint bientôt ces derniers à l’émigration. En juillet 1938, à l’initiative du président américain Franklin D. Roosevelt, se tient à Évian, en France, une conférence internationale destinée à trouver un refuge à des dizaines de milliers d’exilés, juifs pour la plupart. Sous l’égide de la SDN et de l’Office Nansen, elle réunit une trentaine d’États, essentiellement européens et sud-américains. L’auteur décrit l’évolution de la crise des réfugiés après la Première Guerre mondiale et les tentatives pour répondre à ce phénomène nouveau à l’échelle internationale, notamment à travers le travail de la SDN et de l’Office Nansen. Quelles solutions proposer ? Quel refuge offrir à ces exilés ? Les États sont-ils prêts à les accueillir, quitte à braver une partie de l’opinion publique ? Dans un contexte marqué par le nationalisme et un climat grandissant de méfiance, quel effort peut-on demander aux démocraties occidentales ? Et comment concilier un discours d’ouverture et d’accueil alors que, à partir de l’été...

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies

Autor: Tina Frühauf

Número de Páginas: 753

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Jewish music published to date. The chapters form a first truly global look at Jewish music, including studies from Central and East Asia, Europe, Australia, the Americas, and the Arab world. The Handbook provides a resource that researchers, scholars, and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within music and Jewish studies.

Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina

Autor: Raanan Rein

Número de Páginas: 241

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Raanan Rein offers an absorbing social history of Jews in Latin America. Since the Second World War, there has been a conspicuous Jewish presence among the fans, administrators and presidents of the Atlanta soccer club. For the first immigrant generation, belonging to this club was a way of becoming Argentines. For the next generation, it was a way of maintaining ethnic Jewish identity. Now, it is nothing less than family tradition for third generation Jewish Argentines to support Atlanta. The soccer club has also constituted one of the few spaces where both Jews and non-Jews, affiliated Jews and non-affiliated Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, have interacted. The result has been an active shaping of the local culture by Jewish Latin Americans to their own purposes. Offering a rare...

OJI

Número de Páginas: 328

El burgués maldito

Autor: María Seoane

Número de Páginas: 319

Biografía de José Ber Gelbard, último ministro de economía de Perón y el representante más fuerte del sector económico identificado con la industria nacional. Maria Seoane, autora de «La noche de los lápices», cuenta la historia secreta de José Ver Gelbard, último ministro de economía de Perón y el principal lobbista político de la Argentina en los años setenta. Gelbard, un inmigrante judío-polaco que no había terminado la escuela primaria, que había sido vendedor ambulante de corbatas, hojas de afeitar y preservativos en los olvidados pueblos del Norte, llego a ser el caudillo de los empresarios nacionales en una época en la que todavía había un gran proyecto del país. A través de la fascinante vida de este personaje excepcional, Seoane se internó en los recovecos de la historia de la Argentina para contar de manera decapada cómo se movían el poder económico y el poder político en años clave que determinarían el destino de los argentinos: los ambiciosos proyectos nacionales de los sesenta y el cruento fracaso de los setenta. Y al revelar los secretos de la historia hasta ahora silenciada por un hombre fundamental, desnuda el mundo de los negocios de ...

Jewish Writers of Latin America

Autor: Darrell B. Lockhart

Número de Páginas: 647

Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.

The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America

Autor: Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke , Nadia Zysman

Número de Páginas: 216

The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals. Community institutions are not at center stage, conflicts and tensions are brought to the fore, and a multitude of voices pushes aside images of homogeneity. Authors in this tome look at Jews’ multiple homelands: their country of birth, their country of residence, and their imagined homeland of Zion. "This volume brings together an important series of chapters that pushes ethnic studies to greater complexity; therefore, this work is critical in laying the foundation for what Jeffrey Lesser has called the new architecture of ethnic studies in Latin America." - Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University, ...

Polacos in Argentina

Autor: Mariusz Kalczewiak

Número de Páginas: 318

Winner 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...

Historicizing Anti-Semitism—Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11th New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism Maison des Science de l’Home (MSH) Paris, June 29-30, 2007

Autor: Mohammad H. Tamdgidi , Lewis R. Gordon , Ramón Grosfoguel , Eric Mielants

Número de Páginas: 186

The articles collected in this Spring 2009 (VII, 2) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled “Historicizing Anti-Semitism” were part of an international conference entitled, “The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism,” organized by Lewis Gordon and Ramón Grosfoguel at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris on June 29–30, 2007. Part of a series inaugurated by a discussion on Islamophobia, they brought a majority Jewish group of scholars together in the hope of bringing to the forum a critical exchange and conversation among the participants. The articles gathered here do not represent a unified voice but those often unheard in discussions of anti-Semitism. The focus on anti-Semitism in this collection raises the question of how ancient and Medieval versions of anti-Jewish practices should be interpreted, especially since even the term “Semite” came about as an effort in eighteenth-century French and German scholarship to organize Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew under a single linguistic nomenclature, which was crystallized in the nineteenth century ...

Performing Commemoration

Autor: Annegret Fauser , Michael A. Figueroa

Número de Páginas: 309

Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the #sayhername protests. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity, particularly music without words. The three sections of this collection look at different facets of musical commemorations and reenactments, focusing on how music can mediate, but also intensify responses to social injustice; how reenactments and their use of music are shifting (and not always toward greater social effectiveness); and how claims for musical authenticity are politicized in various ways. By engaging with critical theory around memory studies and performance studies, the contributors to this volume explore social justice, in, and through music.

Evolving Images

Autor: Nora Glickman , Ariana Huberman

Número de Páginas: 265

Jews have always played an important role in the generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relatively small numbers in the overall population. In the early days of cinema, they served as directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, and broadcasters. As Latin American societies became more religiously open in the later twentieth century, Jewish characters and themes began appearing in Latin American films and eventually achieved full inclusion. Landmark films by Jewish directors in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, which are home to the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Latin America, have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim. Evolving Images is the first volume devoted to Jewish Latin American cinema, with fifteen critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel. The contributors address transnational and transcultural issues of Jewish life in Latin America, such as assimilation, integration, identity, and other aspects of life in the Diaspora. Their discussions of films with Jewish themes and characters show the rich diversity of Jewish cultures in Latin America, as well as how Jews, both real and...

Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas

Autor: Amalia Ran , Moshe Morad

Número de Páginas: 269

Winner of the Jewish Music Special Interest Group Paper Prize of 2018 Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas seeks to explore the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas. It offers a wide-ranging review of new and old trends from an interdisciplinary standpoint, including history, musicology, ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and even Queer studies. The contribution of Jews to the development of the music industry in the United States, Argentina, or Brazil cannot be measured on a single scale. Hence, these essays seek to explore the sphere of Jews and popular music in the Americas and their multiple significances, celebrating the contribution of Jewish musicians and Jewishness to the development of new musical genres and ideas.

Encuentro

Autor: Ricardo Feierstein

Número de Páginas: 466

CD consists of recordings by various performers in Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish and Ladino.

Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

Autor: Dario Miccoli

Número de Páginas: 290

In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews. However, few of these studies abandoned the Diaspora/Israel dichotomy and analysed the Jews who moved to Israel and those that settled elsewhere as part of a new, diverse and interconnected diaspora. Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature argues that the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s and afterwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena, in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on novelists, poets, professional and amateur writers – from the Israeli poets Erez Biton and Shva Salhoov to Francophone authors such as Chochana Boukhobza, Ami Bouganim and Serge Moati – the book explains that these Sephardic and Mizrahi authors are part of a global literary diaspora at the crossroads of past Arab legacies, new national identities and...

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone

Autor: Debora Cordeiro Rosa

Número de Páginas: 204

The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.

Latent Memory

Autor: Maxine Lowy

Número de Páginas: 320

Generations of marginalized Jewish immigrants and refugees migrated to Chile during the first half of the twentieth century, only to live through persecution during Pinochet's military coup. Maxine Lowy asks how individuals and institutions may overcome fear, indifference, and convenience to take a stand even under intense political duress.