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.

Introduction
Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
David William Foster

Part I. Latin American Jewish Identity

1. Notes Concerning Jewish Identity in Brazil: From Word to Image
   Berta Waldman
2. “Israel”: An Abstract Concept or Concrete Reality in Recent Judeo-Argentinean Narrative?
   Amalia Ran
3. Beyond Exotic: Jewish Mysticism and the Supernatural in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky
   Ariana Huberman

Part II. The Literary Record

1. Writing on the Shoah in Brazil
   Márcio Seligmann-Silva
2. Judaic Traces in the Narrative of Clarice Lispector: Identity Politics and Evidence
   Naomi Lindstrom
3. Argentina’s Wandering Jews: Judaism, Loyalty, Text, and Homeland in Marcelo Birmajer’s Tres mosqueteros
   Sarah Giffney

Part III. The Plastic Arts

1. Spectacle and Spirituality: The Cacophony of Objects, Nelson Leirner (b. 1932)
   Laura Felleman Fattal
2. Text and the City: Design(at)ing Post-Dictatorship Memorial Sites in Buenos Aires
   Janis Breckenridge

Part IV. Film and Photography

1. Mexican Women, Jewish Women: Novia que te vea from Book to Screen and Back Again
   Ilene S. Goldman
2. Catastrophe and Periphery: July 18, 1994, and September 11, 2001, on Film
   Hernán Feldman
3. Madalena Schwartz: A Jewish Brazilian Photographer
   David William Foster

Afterword
Identifying Jewishness
Edward H. Friedman