Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo write by Misha Klein. This book was released on 2012-04-15. Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo write by Misha Klein. This book was released on 2012. Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the lens of Jewish experience in Brazil, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork, 'Kosher Feijoada' takes an oblique look at racial, ethnic, and national identities, and considers the meaning of belonging for a group defined as diasporic, intertwining ethnic, national, and transnational practices in the construction of their identity.
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in Sao Paulo
Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in Sao Paulo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in Sao Paulo write by Misha Klein. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in Sao Paulo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The special strength of this book, aside from its lyrical writing, is that the author effortlessly blends the meaning of being Jewish in Brazil with that country's much noted racial and cultural tolerance and shows how Jewish identity is impacted by Brazilian concepts of race and ethnicity. It is a delight to read."--Maxine Margolis, University of Florida "A fascinating ethnography of contemporary life among middle- and upper-middle class Jews in São Paulo, Brazil, one of the world's largest cities. Although representing a tiny fraction of Brazil's multicultural population, the Jewish community consciously creates and carefully maintains a tightly organized, lively haven in a chaotic urban center, while also embracing much of Brazil's national culture."--Robin Sheriff, University of New Hampshire 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.
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures write by Nadia Valman. This book was released on 2017-07-14. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.
Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil
Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil write by Bettina Schmidt. This book was released on 2016-09-19. Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil provides an unprecedented overview of Brazil’s religious landscape. It offers a full, balanced and contextualized portrait of contemporary religions in Brazil, bringing together leading scholars from both Brazil and abroad, drawing on both fieldwork and detailed reviews of the literatures. For the first time a single volume offers overviews by leading scholars of the full range of Brazilian religions, alongside more theoretically oriented discussions of relevant religious and culture themes. This Handbook’s three sections present specific religions and groups of traditions, Brazilian religions in the diaspora, and issues in Brazilian religions (e.g., women, possession, politics, race and material culture).
