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.
Introduction
Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
David William Foster
Part I. Latin American Jewish Identity
- Notes Concerning Jewish Identity in Brazil: From Word to Image
Berta Waldman - “Israel”: An Abstract Concept or Concrete Reality in Recent Judeo-Argentinean Narrative?
Amalia Ran - Beyond Exotic: Jewish Mysticism and the Supernatural in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ariana Huberman
Part II. The Literary Record
- Writing on the Shoah in Brazil
Márcio Seligmann-Silva - Judaic Traces in the Narrative of Clarice Lispector: Identity Politics and Evidence
Naomi Lindstrom - Argentina’s Wandering Jews: Judaism, Loyalty, Text, and Homeland in Marcelo Birmajer’s Tres mosqueteros
Sarah Giffney
Part III. The Plastic Arts
- Spectacle and Spirituality: The Cacophony of Objects, Nelson Leirner (b. 1932)
Laura Felleman Fattal - Text and the City: Design(at)ing Post-Dictatorship Memorial Sites in Buenos Aires
Janis Breckenridge
Part IV. Film and Photography
- Mexican Women, Jewish Women: Novia que te vea from Book to Screen and Back Again
Ilene S. Goldman - Catastrophe and Periphery: July 18, 1994, and September 11, 2001, on Film
Hernán Feldman - Madalena Schwartz: A Jewish Brazilian Photographer
David William Foster
Afterword
Identifying Jewishness
Edward H. Friedman
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