Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in Sao Paulo (New World Diasporas) - Hardcover

Klein, Misha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813039878 ISBN 13: 9780813039879

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2012

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""A fascinating ethnography of contemporary life among middle- and upper-middle class Jews in Sao 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 organised, lively haven in a chaotic urban centre, while also embracing much of Brazil's national culture.""--Robin Sheriff, University of New Hampshire

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Being Jewish in Brazil--the world's largest Catholic country--is fraught with paradoxes, and living in Sao 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 Sao 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.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0813039878
• ISBN 13: 9780813039879
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270