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Jewish Experiences across the Americas

Name: Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Author: Katalin Franciska Rac
ISBN: 9781683403845

Local Histories through Global Lenses

Edited by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio

Published by: University of Florida Press

This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.

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Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume

This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.

The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies.

Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America.

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Katalin Franciska Rac is the Jewish studies librarian at Emory University. A trained historian and archivist, she specializes in the modern history of Central European Jewry and their transnational connections. Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, associate director for program development in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840‒1920.

“Opens new avenues of discovery and inquiry into the Jewish experience. Spanning both the centuries and the diverse geography of the Jewish presence in the Americas, this volume provides the reader with a greater appreciation for the historical, political, and cultural forces that helped to shape societies on global and local levels.”—Darrell B. Lockhart, editor of Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary
“Brilliantly presents the richness of global links that Jews formed within the Americas and across the Atlantic. Uncovering barely known case studies, this book shows how Jews made the Americas their home while maintaining the conversation with other parts of the world.”—Mariusz Kałczewiak, author of Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio

Part 1. Imperial Intersections

Chapter 1. Muslims and Jewish Converts in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Tamar Herzog

Insert: Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía for the Ortega y Vilches Family (Granada, 1725)
Neil Weijer

Chapter 2. The Struggle for Jewish Naturalization from Jamaica to London, 1748–1753
Dana Rabin

Part 2. Network Empires

Chapter 3. Gifts from the Center: Gifting and Religious Authority in Colonial Curaçao
Hilit Surowitz-Israel

Chapter 4. Jews and New Christians in the Iberian Empires in a Global Context, 1492–1800
José C. Moya

Part 3. Perceptions of Migrants and Migration

Chapter 5. Navigating Citizenship: Consular Practices and the Brazilian Jewish Community in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes

Chapter 6. A Yanqui’s Gaze: Maurice Schwartz’s South American Travelogues from 1930
Zachary M. Baker

Chapter 7. Going Where? The Trope of Migration in Yiddish Movies from the Year 1939
Elisa Kriza

Chapter 8. Deforestation and Jewish Settlement in Fazenda Quatro Irmãos: A History of the Jewish Colonization Association’s Activities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Isabel Rosa Gritti

Part 4. Global Struggles and Community Organizing

Chapter 9. Antifascist Jewish Women in Argentina and Uruguay: Inclusion and Identities, 1941–1945
Sandra McGee Deutsch

Chapter 10. Out of the “Ghetto” and into the World: Argentine Sephardi Youth, 1940s–1950s
Adriana M. Brodsky

Chapter 11. Defying Traditional Shtadlanut: Jewish Self-Defense in Argentina
Raanan Rein

List of Contributors

Index