Jewish Experiences in the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses (Sammelband)
Allgemeine Angaben
Herausgeber
Katalin Rac, Lenny A. Ureña Valerio- Verlag
- University Press of Florida
- Stadt
- Gainesville
- Publikationsdatum
- 2022
- Weiterführender Link
- https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402565#
- ISBN
- 9781683402565 ( im KVK suchen )
- Thematik nach Sprachen
- Portugiesisch, Spanisch, ladino
- Disziplin(en)
- Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- Moderne, Minderheiten, Film, Migration, Amerika, Kulturwissenschaft, Judentum, Zeitgeschichte, Neuzeit
Exposé
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.
Inhalt
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
Anmerkungen
keine
- Ersteller des Eintrags
- Elisa Kriza
- Erstellungsdatum
- Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2022, 09:13 Uhr
- Letzte Änderung
- Sonntag, 17. Juli 2022, 22:12 Uhr