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Jewish experiences across the Americas : local histories through global lenses /

"This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rac, Katalin Franciska (Editor ), Ureña Valerio, Lenny A., 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2022]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
  • Part I. Imperial Intersections
  • Muslims and Jewish Converts in the Early Modern Hispanic World / Tamar Herzog
  • Insert. Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia for the Ortega y Vilches family (Granada, 1725) / Neil Weijer
  • The Struggle for Jewish Naturalization from Jamaica to London, 1748-1753 / Dana Rabin
  • Part II. Network Empires
  • Gifts from the Center: Gifting and Religious Authority in Colonial Curaçao / Hilit Surowitz-Israel
  • Jews and New Christians in the Iberian Empires in a Global Context, 1492-1800 / José C. Moya
  • Part III. Perceptions of Migrants and Migration
  • Navigating Citizenship: Consular Practices and the Brazilian Jewish Community in Nineteenth-Century Morocco / Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes
  • A Yanqui's Gaze: Maurice Schwartz's South American Travelogues from 1930 / Zachary M. Baker
  • Going Where? The Trope of Migration in Yiddish Movies from 1939 / Elisa Kriza
  • Deforestation and Jewish Settlement in Quatro Irmos: A History of the Jewish Colonial Association's Activities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil / Isabel Rosa Gritti
  • Part IV. Global Struggles and Community Organizing
  • Antifascist Jewish Women in Argentina and Uruguay: Inclusion and Identities, 1941-1945 / Sandra McGee Deutsch
  • Out of the "Ghetto" and into the World: Argentine Sephardi Youth, 1940s-1950s / Adriana M. Brodsky
  • Defying Traditional Shtadlanut: Jewish Self-Defense in Argentina / Raanan Rein