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

Klein, Misha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081306211X ISBN 13: 9780813062112

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2016

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"Shines a light on one of S o Paulo's large and important minority communities, and it does so with grace and respect. Klein treats her human subjects with sensitivity."--Ethnohistory "Klein's personal accounts are very entertaining and informative, as she has a sharp and ethnographic eye and writes with an easy sense of humor about all of the difficulties and concessions of being Jewish in S o Paulo. . . . Klein underscores quite rightly that one of the most outstanding characteristics of Brazilian Jews is their Brazilianness."--Chasqui "An important starting point for a new sensitivity to identities that may reorganize the field of Jewish studies in Brazil with new questions, new themes, new sources, and new problems."--H-Net "Kosher Feijoada--which touches, among very many other topics, on the ways Jewish Brazilians have incorporated and adapted elements of Brazilian food--is a welcome addition to the historiography."--Latin American Research Review "Treat[s] the themes here included with anthropological rigor and balanced humor . . . a stimulating study."--Shofar "A universal proof of how ethnic and national identities may be intrinsically linked."--Ethnic and Racial Studies

Reseña del editor

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: 2016
• ISBN 10: 081306211X
• ISBN 13: 9780813062112
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274