Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans (Dialogos) (Dialogos Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826344011 ISBN 13: 9780826344014

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2008

Synopsis

This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that segregates Jews as inhabitants in Latin America republics rather than as citizens of Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily from Argentina and Brazil, the two South American countries with the largest Jewish populations, and span from the late nineteenth century into the 1990s.By giving primacy to the national identity of Jewish-Latin Americans, the essays included here emphasize human actors and accounts of lived experiences. Lesser and Rein's thought-provoking introduction outlines seven new formulations of the relationship between Jews, the nation-state, and their Diasporic experience. Individual contributors then pursue new perspectives of the Jewish experience, including those of the working class, labor organizing and anarchist activities, women, and the reconceptualization of racism and anti-Semitism.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lesser is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of the Humanities and director of Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, most recently A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980. Raanan Rein is professor of Latin American and Spanish history and vice rector of Tel Aviv University. Rein's many publications include In the Shadow of Peron: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina's Populist Movement.

From the Back Cover

These 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826344011
• ISBN 13: 9780826344014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Lesser Jeffrey, Rein Raanan