The Jewish Diaspora In Latin America And The Caribbean
Subtitle: Fragments Of Memory
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781845190613
Subjects: Jewish Studies; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Caribbean Sea; Latin America - South America; 20th century; Caribbean Area; History; Intellectual life; Jews; Latin America
Description: "Since the 1970s, the Latin American Jewish Diaspora has been recognized as a unique phenomenon in diasporic studies, due to the development of new ways of thinking about internationalism and globalization. Important works of the 1980s and 1990s established the critical role of Jews in Latin America. This collection moves the field forward by providing an interdisciplinary and comparative view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. The contributors have been impacted and shaped by their own or their families' memories of the Holocaust and the lived horrors of anti-Semitism in Latin America.

The goal of the collection, each chapter in its own medium, is to explore and celebrate what it means to have and live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and to uncover and recover the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean."--Jacket.