Latin American Jewish Culture

Catalog description

Focuses on forms of cultural production in Latin America marked by or under the aegis of Jewish diasporic identity from the late nineteenth century to the present. While Jewish immigrants and Latin Americans of Jewish descent may be found in all Latin American societies, cultural production is found concentrated in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Investigates essentially cultural versions of a sociohistorical consciousness, and ranges across a broad spectrum of Latin American Jewish texts in an investigation of what forms of production have emerged to represent this important immigrant component of Latin American national societies. Examines novels and other literary works, along with photography and films, and looks at theme, motifs, characters that can be identified with what might be called a Jewish consciousness or Jewish sensitivity.