Jewish Experiences Across the Americas

Local Histories Through Global Lenses
Explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, the book explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.
This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.

The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies.

Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America.

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio Elisa Kriza Raanan Rein Adriana M. Brodsky Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes Katalin Franciska Rac Zachary M Baker Neil Weijer Hilit Surowitz-Israel Isabel Rosa Gritti Tamar Herzog Jose C Moya Sandra McGee Deutsch Dana Rabin

Contributor: Katalin Franciska Rac (Edited by), Lenny A. Ureña Valerio (Edited by)

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