@book{publication-5441,
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {University Press of Florida},
  isbn = {9781683402565},
  url = {https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402565\#},
  address = {Gainesville},
  title = {Jewish Experiences in the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses},
  editor = {Katalin Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio},
  abstract = {This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.
The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies.
Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America.

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Part I. Imperial Intersections 
1. Muslims and Jewish Converts in the Early Modern Hispanic World 
Tamar Herzog 
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía for the Ortega y Vilches family (Granada, 1725) 
Neil Weijer 
2. The Struggle for Jewish Naturalization from Jamaica to London, 1748–1753 
Dana Rabin
Part II. Network Empires 
3. Gifts from the Center: Gifting and Religious Authority in Colonial Curaçao 
Hilit Surowitz-Israel 
4. Jews and New Christians in the Iberian Empires in a Global Context, 1492–1800 
José C. Moya
Part III. Perceptions of Migrants and Migration 
5. Navigating Citizenship: Consular Practices and the Brazilian Jewish Community in Nineteenth-Century Morocco 
Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes 
6. A Yanqui’s Gaze: Maurice Schwartz’s South American Travelogues from 1930 
Zachary M. Baker 
7. Going Where? The Trope of Migration in Yiddish Movies from the Year 1939 
Elisa Kriza 
8. Deforestation and Jewish Settlement in Fazenda Quatro Irmãos: A History of the Jewish Colonization Association’s Activities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 
Isabel Rosa Gritti
Part IV. Global Struggles and Community Organizing 
9. Antifascist Jewish Women in Argentina and Uruguay: Inclusion and Identities, 1941–1945 
Sandra McGee Deutsch 
10. Out of the “Ghetto” and into the World: Argentine Sephardi Youth, 1940s–1950s 
Adriana M. Brodsky 
11. Defying Traditional Shtadlanut: Jewish Self-Defense in Argentina 
Raanan Rein 
List of Contributors  
Index},
  keywords = {Judentum,Amerika,Neuzeit,Moderne,Zeitgeschichte,Kulturwissenschaft,Film,Migration,Minderheiten,Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft,Portugiesisch,Spanisch,ladino},
}
