Contemporary Sephardic identity in the Americas
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach
By: edited by Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg
Series: Modern Jewish history
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815632726
Subjects: Sephardim; Jews; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Sephardic communities of Latin America: a puzzle of subethnic fragments, / Margalit Bejarano; title: Nuevos mundos halló colón, or, what's different about Sephardic literature in the Americas? / Edna Aizenberg; title: Sephardic and Syrian immigration to America: acculturation and communal preservation / Jane Gerber; title: Cultural Zionism as a contact zone: Sephardic and Askenazi Jews bridge the gap on the pages of the Argentine newspaper Israel / Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen; title: Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires: between religious revival and return to biblical sources, 1953-90 / Susana Brauner; title: Religious movements in Mexican Sephardism / Liz Hamui Halabe; title: Transnational identity and Miami Sephardim / Henry A. Green; title: From Turkey to the United States: the trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami / Margalit Bejarano; title: Ladino in Latin America: an old language in the new world / Monique R. Balbuena; title: A taste of sepharad from the Mexican suburbs: Rosa Nissán's stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca / Yael Halevi-Wise; title: The role of music in the Quebec Sephardic community / Judith R. Cohen.