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Contents List of Tables vii List of Contributors ix Introduction: A Mosaic of Diverse Identities xiii Part 1 Sephardim in the Americas: Community and Culture 1. The Sephardic Communities of Latin America A Puzzle of Subethnic Fragments Margalit Bejarano 3 2. Nuevos mundos halló Colón, or, What’s Different about Sephardic Literature in the Americas? Edna Aizenberg 31 3. Sephardic and Syrian Immigration to America Acculturation and Communal Preservation Jane Gerber 38 Part 2 Ideological Divergence: Zionism, Religion, and Transnationalism 4. Cultural Zionism as a Contact Zone Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews Bridge the Gap on the Pages of the Argentine Newspaper Israel Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen 69 vi Contents 5. Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires Between Religious Revival and Return to Biblical Sources, 1953–90 Susana Brauner 88 6. Religious Movements in Mexican Sephardism Liz Hamui Halabe 105 7. Transnational Identity and Miami Sephardim Henry A. Green 124 8. From Turkey to the United States The Trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami Margalit Bejarano 141 Part 3 Culture in Transition: Language, Literature, and Music 9. Ladino in Latin America An Old Language in the New World Monique R. Balbuena 161 10. A Taste of Sepharad from the Mexican Suburbs Rosa Nissán’s Stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca Yael Halevi-Wise 184 11. The Role of Music in the Quebec Sephardic Community Judith R. Cohen 202 Works Cited 223 Index 247 ...