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Taking Root : Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Research in International Studies, Latin America SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (307 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780896804258
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taking RootDDC classification:
  • 305.48/892408/0922 B
LOC classification:
  • F1419.J4 T36 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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