Taking root : narratives of Jewish women in Latin America /

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In Taking Root, 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 Guadalupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jewish immigrant families searched for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Agosín, Marjorie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2002.
Colección:Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 38.
Temas:
Lateinamerika
Jewish women > Latin America > Biography.
Jews, Latin American > United States > Biography.
Immigrants > Latin America.
Juives > Amérique latine > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Jewish women
Jews, Latin American
Jüdin
Einwanderung
Latin America > Emigration and immigration.
Amérique latine > Émigration et immigration.
Latin America
United States
USA
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Taking Root, 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 Guadalupe. 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 families have made and continue to make as they forge Jewish identities in the New World. Marjorie Agosín has gathered narr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxix, 299 pages)
ISBN:9780896804258
0896804259

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