Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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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 ...