Jewish Experiences Across the Americas: Local Histories Through Global Lenses - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1683402561 ISBN 13 : 9781683402565

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2022

Synopsis

Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume

This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.

The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies.

Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas' Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America.

Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Elisa Kriza Raanan Rein Adriana M. Brodsky Lucas de Mattos Moura
Fernandes Katalin Franciska Rac Zachary M Baker Neil Weijer Hilit
Surowitz-Israel Isabel Rosa Gritti Tamar Herzog Jose C Moya Sandra
McGee Deutsch Dana Rabin

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Katalin Franciska Rac is the Jewish studies librarian at Emory University. A trained historian and archivist, she specializes in the modern history of Central European Jewry and their transnational connections.

Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, associate director for
program development in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the
University of New Mexico, is the author of Colonial Fantasies, Imperial
Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the
German Empire, 1840‒1920.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1683402561
• ISBN 13: 9781683402565
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 358
• Éditeur: Rac Katalin Franciska, Valerio Lenny A. Ureña
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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