Two new books on Latin American Jewry co-edited by Dr. Raanan Rein, TAU Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
Edited by Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein UNM Press This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that segregates Jews as inhabitants in Latin America republics rather than as citizens of Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily from Argentina and Brazil, the two South American countries with the largest Jewish populations, and span from the late nineteenth century into the 1990s. By giving primacy to the national identity of Jewish-Latin Americans, the essays included here emphasize human actors and accounts of lived experiences. Lesser and Rein's thought-provoking introduction outlines seven new formulations of the relationship between Jews, the nation-state, and their Diasporic experience. Individual contributors then pursue new perspectives of the Jewish experience, including those of the working class, labor organizing and anarchist activities, women, and the reconceptualization of racism and anti-Semitism. Contributors: Edna Aizenberg, Marymount Manhattan College of New York; Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University; Roney Cytrynowicz, the Arquivo Hist?*rico Judaico Brasileiro, Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas at El Paso; Donna J. Gu, Ohio State University Jos?* C. Moya, UCLA and Barnard College at Columbia University; Rosalie Sitman, Tel Aviv University; Natasha Zaretsky, Princeton University; Erin Graff Zivin, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffrey Lesser is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of the Humanities and director of Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, most recently,A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980. Raanan Rein is professor of Latin American and Spanish history and vice rector of Tel Aviv University. Rein's many publications include: In the Shadow of Per?*n: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina???s Populist Movement. Di?*logos 6 x 9 304 pages 10 halftones $27.95 ( paperback ) 978-0-8263-4401-4 Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism Latin America in the Jewish World Edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yossi Gorny, and Raanan Rein Publication year: 2008 Boston, Mass.: Brill Series: Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 8 ISBN-13: 978 90 04 15442 1 ISBN-10: 90 04 15442 6 Cover: Hardback Number of pages: xiv, 446 pp. (English) List price: 130.00 / US$ 193.00 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. Raanan Rein Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University Director,S. Daniel Abraham Center for International & Regional Studies Professor of Latin American and Spanish History E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 972-3-6407174, 972-3-6406660 Tel.: 972-3-6408280, 972-3-6406667/8 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
