Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans

By: Jeffrey Lesser (Editor), Raanan Rein (Editor), Edna Aizenberg (Contribution by), Judah M. Cohen (Contribution by), Roney Cytrynowicz (Contribution by)

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This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that segregates Jews as inhabitants "in" Latin America republics rather than as citizens "of" Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily from Argentina and Brazil, the two South American countries with the largest Jewish populations, and span from the late nineteenth century into the 1990s.

By giving primacy to the national identity of Jewish-Latin Americans, the essays included here emphasize human actors and accounts of lived experiences. Lesser and Rein's thought-provoking introduction outlines seven new formulations of the relationship between Jews, the nation-state, and their Diasporic experience. Individual contributors then pursue new perspectives of the Jewish experience, including those of the working class, labor organizing and anarchist activities, women, and the reconceptualization of racism and anti-Semitism.

"Contributors: "
Edna Aizenberg, Marymount Manhattan College of New York
Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University
Roney Cytrynowicz, the Arquivo HistA3rico Judaico Brasileiro
Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas at El Paso
Donna J. Gu, Ohio State University
JosA(c) C. Moya, UCLA and Barnard College at Columbia University
Rosalie Sitman, Tel Aviv University
Natasha Zaretsky, Princeton University
Erin Graff Zivin, University of Pittsburgh

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
New Approaches to Ethnicity and Diaspora in Twentieth-Century Latin America	p. 23
How the Jews Became Japanese and Other Stories of Nation and Ethnicity	p. 41
What's in a Stereotype? The Case of Jewish Anarchists in Argentina	p. 55
Beyond the State and Ideology: Immigration of the Jewish Community to Brazil, 1937-1945	p. 89
The Scene of the Transaction: "Jewishness," Money, and Prostitution in the Brazilian Imaginary	p. 106
Protest from Afar: The Jewish and Republican Presence in Victoria Ocampo's Revista SUR in the 1930s and 1940s	p. 132
Changing the Landscape: The Study of Argentine-Jewish Women and New Historical Vistas	p. 161
Women's Organizations and Jewish Orphanages in Buenos Aires, 1918-1955	p. 187
Nation and Holocaust Narration: Uruguay's Memorial del Holocausto del Pueblo Judio	p. 207
Singing for Social Change: Nostalgic Memory and the Struggle for Belonging in a Buenos Aires Yiddish Chorus	p. 231
The Ethnic Dilemmas of Latin American Jewry	p. 266
Editors and Contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 288
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