Taking Root : Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Research in International Studies, Latin America Series ; v.38 .
- Research in International Studies, Latin America Series .
Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Latin American Jewishness: A Game with Shifting Identities -- 2 A Sephardi Air -- 3 What! No Yiddish?: Growing up Sephardi in Peru -- 4 My Past Is Present: The Complex Identity of a German-Jewish-Venezuelan-American -- 5 El Azar-Fate Put the Novel Cláper in My Hands -- 6 Memories of Comings and Goings -- 7 My Cuban Story -- 8 Crossing Creative and Cultural Barriers -- 9 Growing up Jewish in Columbia -- 10 Found in Translation: On Becoming a Cuban Jewish Writer -- 11 Mosaics: The Story of Her Life -- 12 Shared Memories -- 13 Judaism: An Essential Tool -- 14 A Passion to Remember -- 15 Poetry in the Clouds: A Costa Rican Journey -- 16 From Toledo to the New World: A Story of Secrets -- 17 Uruguay: A Story in Episodes -- 18 Of Spices and Spells: From Morrocco to Buenos Aires -- 19 Saint Anthony's Intervention and Other Accounts of Growing up Jewish in Mexico -- 20 With All That I Am -- 21 A Tale of Courage and Fortitude -- 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.
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Jewish women-Latin America-Biography. Jews, Latin American-United States-Biography. Immigrants-Latin America. Latin America-Emigration and immigration.