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. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically divers...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University of Florida Press,
[2022]
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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 / Jose 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