03682nam 2200625 a 450 991081126320332120230607223710.00-89680-425-9(CKB)2550000000036496(EBL)1743612(OCoLC)884016822(SSID)ssj0000541751(PQKBManifestationID)11355577(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541751(PQKBWorkID)10509141(PQKB)10170541(MiAaPQ)EBC1743612(OCoLC)656934767(MdBmJHUP)muse9507(Au-PeEL)EBL1743612(CaPaEBR)ebr10472437(EXLCZ)99255000000003649620020114d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTaking root narratives of Jewish women in Latin America /edited by Marjorie AgosínAthens, Ohio Ohio University Pressc20021 online resource (332 p.)Ohio University Center for International Studies research in international studies. Latin America series ;no. 38Some essays were translated from Spanish.0-89680-226-4 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 WriterChapter 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 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 narrResearch in international studies.Latin America series ;no. 38.Jewish womenLatin AmericaBiographyJews, Latin AmericanUnited StatesBiographyImmigrantsLatin AmericaLatin AmericaEmigration and immigrationJewish womenJews, Latin AmericanImmigrants305.48/892408/0922BAgosín Marjorie1603457MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811263203321Taking root3988353UNINA