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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817639903321

Titolo

Identities in an era of globalization and multiculturalism [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America in the Jewish world / / edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06035-3

9786613060358

90-474-2805-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Collana

Jewish identities in a changing world, , 1570-7997 ; ; v. 8

Altri autori (Persone)

Bokser de LiwerantJudit

Disciplina

305.892/40809045

Soggetti

Jews - Latin America - History - 21st century

Jews - Latin America - Intellectual life - 21st century

Jews - Latin America - Intellectual life - 20th century

Latin America Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-431) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Klal Yisrael in the contemporary era -- section 2. The Jews in Latin America -- section 3. Latin American Jewish culture -- section 4. Jews, society, and statehood : comparative perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic



belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities.