Taking Root

Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America

By: Marjorie Agosin

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Paperback | 30 September 2002

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In these essays, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadeloupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jewish immigrant families searched for a new home and identity in predominantly Catholic societies. The essays included here examine the religious, economic, social and political choices these immigrant families have made, and continue to make, as they forge Jewish identities in the New World. Marjorie Agosin has gathered narratives and testimonies that reveal the immense diversity of Latin-American Jewish experience. These essays, based on first- and second-generation immigrant experience, describe differing points of view and levels of involvement in Jewish tradition. In "Taking Root", Agosin presents us with a contemporary and vivid account of the Jewish experience in Latin America. This book documents the sadness of exile and loss, but also a fierce determination to maintain Jewish traditions. This is Jewish history, but it is also part of the untold history of Brazil, Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador, Chile, Peru and all of Latin America. The author is a winner of the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor, 2001.

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A very significant addition to the fields of Judaic Studies and Women's Studies...this book makes a unique contribution to literary scholars interested in the Jewish presence in Latin America and in the literature of displacement in general. * College of the Holy Cross *

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Latin American Jewishness: A Game with Shifting Identities	p. 1
A Sephardi Air	p. 12
What! No Yiddish?: Growing up Sephardi in Peru	p. 16
My Past Is Present: The Complex Identity of a German-Jewish-Venezuelan-American	p. 29
El Azar-Fate Put the Novel Claper in My Hands	p. 45
Memories of Comings and Goings	p. 58
My Cuban Story	p. 96
Crossing Creative and Cultural Barriers	p. 110
Growing up Jewish in Columbia	p. 128
Found in Translation: On Becoming a Cuban Jewish Writer	p. 134
Mosaics: The Story of Her Life	p. 148
Shared Memories	p. 162
Judaism: An Essential Tool	p. 172
A Passion to Remember	p. 183
Poetry in the Clouds: A Costa Rican Journey	p. 195
From Toledo to the New World: A Story of Secrets	p. 205
Uruguay: A Story in Episodes	p. 218
Of Spices and Spells: From Morrocco to Buenos Aires	p. 229
Saint Anthony's Intervention and Other Accounts of Growing up Jewish in Mexico	p. 239
With All That I Am	p. 251
A Tale of Courage and Fortitude	p. 264
Too Many Names	p. 272
Contributor Biographies	p. 291
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