Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
Ed. David William Foster
This collection of essays explores the significant contributions to cultural production and the arts, as well as the considerable presence in academic and intellectual circles of Jews in Latin America.
Latin American Jewish Cultural Production, available from Vanderbilt University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction
Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
David William Foster
Part 1. Latin American Jewish Identity
Chapter 1
Notes Concerning Jewish Identity in Brazil: From Word to Image
Berta Waldman
Chapter 2
"Israel": An Abstract Concept or Concrete Reality in Recent Judeo-Argentinean Narrative?
Amalia Ran
Chapter 3
Beyond Exotic: Jewish Mysticism and the Supernatural in the Wordks ofAlejandro Jodorowsky
Ariana Huberman
Part II. The Literary Record
Chapter 4
Writing on the Shoah in Brazil
Márcio Seligmann-Silva
Chapter 5
Judaic Traces in the Narrative of Clarice Lispector: Identity Politics and Evidence
Naomi Lindstrom
Chapter 6
Argentina's Wandering Jews: Judaism, Loyalty, Text, and Homeland in Marcelo Birmajer's Tres mosqueteros
Sarah Giffney
Part III. The Plastic Arts
Chapter 7
Spectacle and Spirituality: The Cacophony of Object, Nelson Leirner (b. 1932)
Laura Felleman Fattal
Chapter 8
Text and the City: Design(at)ing Post-Dictatorship Memorial Sites in Buenos Aires
Janis Breckenridge
Part IV. Film and Photography
Chapter 9
Mexican Women, Jewish Women: Novia que te vea from Book to Screen and Back Again
Ilene S. Goldman
Chapter 10
Catastrophe and Periphery: July 18, 1994, and September 11, 2001, on Film
Hernán Feldman
Chapter 11
Madelena Schwartz: A Jewish Brazilian Photographer
David William Foster
Afterword
Identifying Jewishness
Edward H. Friedman