Jewish Latin America – serie
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19 produkter
Book of Memories
Av Ana Maria Shua, Dick Gerdes m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
621 kr
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Originally published in Spanish in 1994, this is a humorous yet moving exploration of a Jewish family's history, as seen through the eyes of three generations of women.
Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas
Inbunden, 2016
2348 kr
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Winner of the Jewish Music Special Interest Group Paper Prize of 2018Mazal 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 …
Returning to Babel
Jewish Latin American Experiences, Representations, and Identity
Av Amalia Ran, Jean Cahan
Inbunden, 2011
2439 kr
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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 …
New Jewish Argentina
Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone
Av Adriana Brodsky, Raanan Rein
Inbunden, 2012
3465 kr
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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 …
Harbinger of Modernity
Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina
Inbunden, 2013
1946 kr
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In Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina, Dalia Wassner presents an integrated analysis of the civic work and literary oeuvre of Marcos Aguinis, who served as Secretary of Culture during Argentina’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Situating his …
Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945
Inbunden, 2013
3052 kr
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Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the …
Landscapes of Memory and Impunity
The Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing in Jewish Argentina
Av Annette Levine, Natasha Zaretsky
Inbunden, 2015
2192 kr
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Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) 2017 Book Award competition for an outstanding book on a Latin American Jewish topic in the social sciences or humanities published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.Landscapes of Memory and Impunity chronicles …
New Ethnic Studies in Latin America
Av Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1318 kr
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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 …
Memories that Lie a Little
Jewish Experiences during the Argentine Dictatorship
Inbunden, 2018
2844 kr
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At first glance, this book might appear to be yet another study on anti-Semitism in Argentina, supplementing those portraying this Southern Cone country as a Nazi shelter and perpetrator of anti-Jewish acts. Accounts of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), which was responsible for the …
Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America
Av Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3117 kr
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Scholarship on ethnicity in modern Latin America has traditionally understood the region’s various societies as fusions of people of European, indigenous, and/or African descent. These are often deployed as stable categories, with European or “white” as a monolith against which studies of …
Armed Jews in the Americas
Av Raanan Rein, David M.K. Sheinin
Inbunden, 2021
2192 kr
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A Jewish weapons manufacturer during the American Civil War, a Jewish-Canadian chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Board, and Jewish-Argentine guerrilla fighters—these are some of the individuals discussed in this first-of-its-kind volume. It brings together some of the best new works on armed …
Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews
From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen
Inbunden, 2022
2518 kr
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This is the first book in English to discuss the changing attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jewish immigrants and the State of Israel from the 1930s onwards. Jewish Chileans have ascended rapidly from the status of undesirable immigrants to middle and upper-middle class, facing less obstacles …
Unbridled Calling
A Biography of Alberto Gerchunoff
Inbunden, 2024
1851 kr
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How can a child born in the Russian Pale at the end of the 19th century become one of the most celebrated journalists in Latin America and a writer admired by Jorge Luis Borges? In this biography, Mónica Szurmuk, delves into the different aspects of the life of writer, journalist, and politician …
Promised Lands North and South
Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation
Inbunden, 2024
2085 kr
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This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on …
Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945
Av Linda Erker
Inbunden, 2024
1909 kr
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Aside from the prominent perpetrators such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele or Klaus Barbie, there were numerous other cases of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers from Germany and Austria who ended up in Latin America after 1945. Their life trajectories, professional activities, and contacts to local …
Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism and Finance Sourcing in Argentina
Otherness and Industrial Entrepreneurship
Inbunden, 2025
1838 kr
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“The book represents an innovative and outstanding contribution to the economic, social, and business history of Argentina. It focuses on the factors that conditioned the emergence and development, between 1930 and the early 1960s, of large industrial enterprises founded by Jewish immigrants, with …
Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans
The Pragmatics of Diaspora
Inbunden, 2025
1886 kr
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Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans is a linguistic ethnography of Shami and Halebi Jews in contemporary Mexico City. Through a focus on language in everyday life – including narrative, humor, and Arabic and Hebrew “heritage words” - the book explores how young adults negotiate oft-stigmatized, …
Working-Class Jews and Left-Wing Political Cultures in the Americas
Inbunden, 2026
1469 kr
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This book examines the formation of the Jewish working class in the Americas. Focusing on popular experiences in urban areas, the chapters illuminate the pivotal role of Jewish immigrants in developing left-wing parties and labor unions across the continent. This volume offers a comparative …
