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UNINA9910824252703321 |
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East Bob |
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472 days captive of the Abu Sayyaf : the survival of Australian Warren Rodwell / / by Bob East |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Abu Sayyaf (Organization) |
Hostages - Philippines |
Terrorism - Philippines |
Victims of terrorism - Philippines |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; EPIGRAPH; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR ; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CONCLUSION; ADDENDUM; INDEX |
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In December 2011, the Australian world traveller, ex-member of the Australian Regular Army and university teacher Warren Richard Rodwell was kidnapped for ransom in the Mindanao region of the southern Philippines by a group of criminals claiming to be members of the notorious terrorist/insurgent organisation the Abu Sayyaf Group. This particular group had loose ties with other insurgent groups that were indulging in similar criminal activity in the greater Sulu Archipelago area including the ... |
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UNINA9910811263203321 |
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Taking root : narratives of Jewish women in Latin America / / edited by Marjorie Agosín |
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Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2002 |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Ohio University Center for International Studies research in international studies. Latin America series ; ; no. 38 |
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Jewish women - Latin America |
Jews, Latin American - United States |
Immigrants - Latin America |
Latin America Emigration and immigration |
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Some essays were translated from Spanish. |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Latin American Jewishness: A Game with Shifting Identities; Chapter 2: A Sephardi Air; Chapter 3: What! No Yiddish?: Growing up Sephardi in Peru; Chapter 4: My Past Is Present: The Complex Identity of a German-Jewish- Venezuelan-American; Chapter 5: El Azar-Fate Put the Novel Cláper in My Hands; Chapter 6: Memories of Comings and Goings; Chapter 7: My Cuban Story; Chapter 8: Crossing Creative and Cultural Barriers; Chapter 9: Growing up Jewish in Colombia; Chapter 10: Found in Translation: On Becoming a Cuban Jewish Writer |
Chapter 11: Mosiacs: The Story of Her LifeChapter 12: Shared Memories; Chapter 13: Judaism: An Essential Tool; Chapter 14: A Passion to Remember; Chapter 15: Poetry in the Clouds: A Costa Rican Journey; Chapter 16: From Toledo to the New World: A Story of Secrets; Chapter 17: Uruguay: A Story in Episodes; Chapter 18: Of Spices and Spells: From Morrocco to Buenos Aires; Chapter 19: Saint Anthony's Intervention and Other Accounts of Growing up Jewish in Mexico; Chapter 20: With All That I Am; Chapter 21: A Tale of Courage and Fortitude; Chapter 22: Too Many Names; Contributor Biographies |
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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 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 |
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