National and Transnational Paths of Latin American Jews : Modernity, Community, Society, and the State /

National and Transnational Paths of Latin American Jews : Modernity, Community, Society, and the State /

The book studies Jewish life in Latin America through a dynamic past-present timeline. It combines the national, regional, and transnational dimensions by analyzing central crossing axes: the national within the diasporic, the transnational dialectically traversing both, and the national and regiona...

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Main Author: Liwerant, Judit Bokser (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 36.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Subjects:

Jews > Religious life > Latin America.
Jews > Latin America > History.
Jews > Latin America > Social conditions.

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Call Number: F1419.J4

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Copyright Page /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Part 1
  • Chapter 1 Dilemmas of Jews and Judaism in Modernity: Snapshots of an Effervescent Period of Challenges and Responses /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Chapter 2 From Modernity to Multiple Modernities: Latin America in the Americas /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Chapter 3 Modernity's Historical and Conceptual Paths: Globalization, Secularization and Collective Identities /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Part 2
  • Chapter 4 A Dilemmatic Binary: Being National/Being Transnational /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Chapter 5 The Jews of Latin America: Changing Constellations /
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  • Chapter 6 Diasporas and Transnationalism: New Inquiries on Latin American Jews /
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  • Part 3
  • Chapter 7 The Thirties as Crucial Years: Jewish Immigration and Antisemitism /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Chapter 8 Otherness in History and Memory: The Jewish Refugees /
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  • Chapter 9 Collective Identities in the Public Sphere /
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  • Part 4
  • Chapter 10 The Genesis of Zionism in Mexico /
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  • Chapter 11 New Patterns of Action in the Public Sphere: Convergences and Divergences between National and Transnational Scales /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Chapter 12 The Impact of the Six-Day War on Jewish Communal Life /
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  • Chapter 13 Reconfiguration of the Regional and Global Scenarios: Zionism = Racism at a Critical Juncture /
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  • Chapter 14 The Changing Status of Zionism and Israel in Latin American Jewry /
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  • Part 5
  • Chapter 15 Latin America Revisited Facing New Realities and Conceptual Challenges /
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  • Chapter 16 Into a Globalized World: Latin American Jews in the United States-Between Being and Belonging /
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  • Chapter 17 Latin American Jews in the United States: Cultural Encounters: Similarities and Dissimilarities /
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  • Chapter 18 Expanding Frontiers and Affirming Belonging: Youth Travel to Israel /
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  • Part 6
  • Chapter 19 The Holocaust-Memory, Victims, and Morality: On Zygmunt Bauman and Beyond /
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  • Chapter 20 Conceptual and Methodological Clues for Approaching the Connections between Mexico and the Holocaust: Separate or Interconnected Histories? /
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  • Chapter 21 Sinopia and Pentimenti: Conceptual Approaches and Changing Paths: Antisemitism in Latin America /
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  • Chapter 22 Jews in The Americas. A Continental Gaze /
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  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography /
  • Judit Bokser Liwerant.