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Author : Robert M. Freedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Professional
ISBN 13 : 9781569013649
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (136 download)
Download or read book A Black, a Mexican, and a Jew written by Robert M. Freedman and published by Bloomsbury Professional. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071506
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Black Jews in Africa and the Americas written by Tudor Parfitt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.
Author : Eyal Press
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312426576
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Absolute Convictions written by Eyal Press and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, one of only two doctors in Buffalo, New York, who performed abortions was shot dead by a radical antiabortion activist. The son of the surviving doctor now presents a gripping account of a family and a city caught in the crossfire of moral fervor and individual rights in the fierce battle over abortion.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465032575
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book El Iluminado written by Ilan Stavans and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the desert Southwest, a graphic novel that is equal parts mystery and history
Author : Stanley M. Hordes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503180
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book To the End of the Earth written by Stanley M. Hordes and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes concluded that there was, in New Mexico and the Southwest, a Sephardic legacy derived from the converso community of Spanish Jews. In To the End of the Earth, Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their Jewish origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape persecution by migrating to the New World and settling in the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier. Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a richly detailed account of the economic, social and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846. While the American government offered more religious freedom than had the Spanish colonial rulers, cultural assimilation into Anglo-American society weakened many elements of the crypto-Jewish tradition. Hordes concludes with a discussion of the reemergence of crypto-Jewish culture and the reclamation of Jewish ancestry within the Hispano community in the late twentieth century. He examines the publicity surrounding the rediscovery of the crypto-Jewish community and explores the challenges inherent in a study that attempts to reconstruct the history of a people who tried to leave no documentary record.
Author : Misha Klein
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813043549
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo written by Misha Klein and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Jewish in Brazil--the world's largest Catholic country--is fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and to the Hebraica, the world’s largest Jewish athletic and social club. Jewish identity is rooted in layered experiences of historical and contemporary dispersal and border crossings. Brazil is famously tolerant of difference but less understanding of longings for elsewhere. Celebrating both Carnival and the High Holidays is but one example of how Jews in São Paulo hold themselves together as a community in the face of the forces of assimilation. Misha Klein’s fascinating ethnography reveals the complex intertwining of Jewish and Brazilian life and identity.
Author : Rodolfo Acuña
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840313
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Anything But Mexican written by Rodolfo Acuña and published by Verso. This book was released on 1996-04-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anything But Mexican challenges neo-liberal interpretations of the history of Los Angeles which blame Mexicans and other immigrants of color for the decline of the city. Acuna's provocative work confronts these historical myths, signaling that Latinos will not be dismissed.
Author : Marie-Theresa Hernández
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081357417X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos written by Marie-Theresa Hernández and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence on the Catholic Church in the New World. The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of judaizantes after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it is unlikely that a secret Jew in sixteenth-century Spain would have documented his allegiance to the Law of Moses, thereby providing evidence for the Inquisition. On a Da Vinci Code – style quest, Hernández persisted in hunting for a trove of forgotten manuscripts at the New York Public Library. These documents, once unearthed, describe the Jewish/Christian religious beliefs of an early nineteenth-century Catholic priest in Mexico City, focusing on the relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Judaism. With this discovery in hand, the author traces the cult of Guadalupe backwards to its fourteenth-century Spanish origins. The trail from that point forward can then be followed to its interface with early modern conversos and their descendants at the highest levels of the Church and the monarchy in Spain and Colonial Mexico. She describes key players who were somehow immune to the dangers of the Inquisition and who were allowed the freedom to display, albeit in a camouflaged manner, vestiges of their family's Jewish identity. By exploring the narratives produced by these individuals, Hernández reveals the existence of those conversos and judaizantes who did not return to the “covenantal bond of rabbinic law,” who did not publicly identify themselves as Jews, and who continued to exhibit in their influential writings a covert allegiance and longing for a Jewish past. This is a spellbinding and controversial story that offers a fresh perspective on the origins and history of conversos.
Author : Daniela Gleizer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004262105
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 written by Daniela Gleizer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.
Author : Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219272
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Colors of Jews written by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India. Kaye/Kantrowitz delves into the largely uncharted territory of Jews of color and argues that Jews are an increasingly multiracial people. From publisher description.
Author : Ana M. Gómez-Bravo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442647205
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain written by Ana M. Gómez-Bravo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.
Author : Blanche Knott
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345329201
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Truly Tasteless Jokes written by Blanche Knott and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1985-05-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original is back. TRULY TASTELESS JOKES took America by storm and made it laugh at itself. It's all in here, disgusting, repulsive, cruel, and just plain tasteless jokes and stories that will make you smile, laugh, or groan--and love every minute of it.
Author : Arnold Kontiel
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595326420
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book America--Wake Up! written by Arnold Kontiel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Twenty First Century dawns, America is shaken by the worst economic depression since 1929. Terrorism, unemployment, political, racial and social unrest pushes the nation to the brink of political collapse. Free trade, multiculturalism, uncontrolled immigration, moral decline and cultural decadence have divided the nation and undermined confidence in the two-party system, while the special interest groups that control the establishment exploit the nation for their own advancement. Onto the national stage steps George Burton; a young, charismatic, self-made billionaire and war hero, who uses his fortune to build a political movement designed to challenge the powerful political interest groups that control the establishment. Burton's National Association for a Populist America is quickly transformed into the most powerful nationalist movement in American history. Millions of people join the NAPA and help Burton to ignite a Nationalist Revolution. Burton's Americanism becomes a message of hope for a better future, the restoration of the American Dream, and the rebirth of the American Nation to millions, especially the Andersons, a typical American family living in Ohio, who must struggle to survive in the economic, social and moral displacement that has disrupted the lives of millions of Americans like them.
Author : Harriet Rochlin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618001965
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Jews written by Harriet Rochlin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Author : Cynthia M. Baker
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813563046
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Jew written by Cynthia M. Baker and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has Jew been reclaimed as a term of self-identification and pride. With these insights as a point of departure, this book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word Jew—a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience, but indeed at the core of Western civilization. Examining scholarly debates about the origins and early meanings of Jew, Cynthia M. Baker interrogates categories like “ethnicity,” “race,” and “religion” that inevitably feature in attempts to define the word. Tracing the term’s evolution, she also illuminates its many contradictions, revealing how Jew has served as a marker of materialism and intellectualism, socialism and capitalism, worldly cosmopolitanism and clannish parochialism, chosen status, and accursed stigma. Baker proceeds to explore the complex challenges that attend the modern appropriation of Jew as a term of self-identification, with forays into Yiddish language and culture, as well as meditations on Jew-as-identity by contemporary public intellectuals. Finally, by tracing the phrase new Jews through a range of contexts—including the early Zionist movement, current debates about Muslim immigration to Europe, and recent sociological studies in the United States—the book provides a glimpse of what the word Jew is coming to mean in an era of Internet cultures, genetic sequencing, precarious nationalisms, and proliferating identities.
Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025311022X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book We Jews and Blacks written by Willis Barnstone and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels -- names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, We Jews and Blacks wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic, whimsical, and literary work that also contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which offer a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking, both sorrowful and joyful. The book includes a dialogue with Yusef Komunyakaa and a small selection of his poems.
Author : Norine Dresser
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 : 1461710464
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Come As You Aren't! written by Norine Dresser and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a new member of a multiracial/interfaith family, the father of a same-sex bride, or the mother of an adopted daughter from China, Norine Dresser offers suggestions for mixed families in avoiding social pitfalls at holidays and rituals for birth, coming of age, marriage, death, and other significant life events.
