Latin American Jewish Cultural Production

260 Pages·2009·9.525 MB·English

by  David William Foster

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Latin American
Jewish Cultural Production

HISPANIC ISSUES • VOLUME 36
Latin American
Jewish Cultural Production
David William Foster
EDITOR
Vanderbilt University Press
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
2009
© 2009 Vanderbilt University Press
All rights reserved
First Edition 2009
This book is printed on acid-free paper
made from 30% post-consumer recycled paper.
Manufactured in the United States of America
The editors gratefully acknowledge assistance
from the College of Liberal Arts and the
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
at the University of Minnesota.
The complete list of volumes in the
Hispanic Issues series begins on page 237.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Latin American Jewish cultural production / David
William Foster, editor. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Flispanic issues ; v. 36)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8265-1623-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8265-1624-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Jews—Latin America—Identity. 2. Jews—Latin
America—Intellectual life. 3. Latin American literature—
Jewish authors—History and criticism. 4. Jewish
literature—Latin America—History and criticism.
5. Jewish artists—Latin America—History. 6. Jewish
photographers—Latin America—History. I. Foster, David
William.
F1419.J4L37 2009
305.892’408—dc22
2008021318
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HISPANIC ISSUES
Nicholas Spadaccini
Editor-in-Chief
Antonio Ramos-Gascon and Jenaro Talens
General Editors
Nelsy Echavez-Solano and Luis Martfn-Estudillo
Associate Editors
Eric Dickey and Kelly McDonough
Assistant Editors
*Advisory Board/Editorial Board
Rolena Adorno (Yale University)
Roman de la Campa (Unversity of Pennsylvania)
David Castillo (University at Buffalo)
Jaime Concha (University of California, San Diego)
Tom Conley (Harvard University)
William Eggington (Johns Hopkins University)
Brad Epps (Harvard University)
Eduardo Forastieri-Braschi (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)
*Ana Forcinito (University of Minnesota)
David W. Foster (Arizona State University)
Edward Friedman (Vanderbilt University)
Wlad Godzich (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Antonio Gomez-Moriana (Universite de Montreal)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
*Carol A. Klee (University of Minnesota)
Eukene Lacarra Lanz (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Tom Lewis (University of Iowa)
Jorge Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)
*Louise Mirrer (The New-York Historical Society)
Mabel Morana (Washington University in St. Louis)
Alberto Moreiras (University of Aberdeen)
Bradley Nelson (Concordia University)
Michael Nerlich (Universite Blaise Pascal)
*Francisco Ocampo (University of Minnesota)
Miguel Tamen (Universidade de Lisboa)
Teresa Vilaros (University of Aberdeen)
Iris M. Zavala (UNESCO, Barcelona)
Santos Zunzunegui (Universidad del Pafs Vasco)
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Contents
Introduction:
Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
David William Foster
PART I
Latin American Jewish Identity
1 Notes Concerning Jewish Identity in Brazil:
From Word to Image
Berta Waldman
2 “Israel”: An Abstract Concept or Concrete Reality
in Recent Judeo-Argentinean Narrative?
Amalia Ran
3 Beyond Exotic: Jewish Mysticism and the Supernatural
in the Works of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ariana Huberman
PART II
The Literary Record
4 Writing on the Shoah in Brazil
Marcio Seligmann-Silva
5 Judaic Traces in the Narrative of Clarice Lispector:
Identity Politics and Evidence
Naomi Lindstrom
6 Argentina’s Wandering Jews: Judaism, Loyalty, Text,
and Homeland in Marcelo Birmajer’s Tres mosqueteros
Sarah Giffney
viii CONTENTS
PART III
The Plastic Arts
7 Spectacle and Spirituality: The Cacophony of Objects,
Nelson Leirner (b. 1932)
Laura Felleman Fattal 119
8 Text and the City: Design(at)ing Post-Dictatorship
Memorial Sites in Buenos Aires
Janis Breckenridge 135
PART IV
Film and Photography
9 Mexican Women, Jewish Women: Novia que te vea
from Book to Screen and Back Again
Ilene S. Goldman 157
10 Catastrophe and Periphery: July 18, 1994,
and September 11, 2001, on Film
Hernan Feldman 178
11 Madalena Schwartz: A Jewish Brazilian Photographer
David William Foster 198
Afterword:
Identifying Jewishness
Edward H. Friedman 213
Contributors 227
Index
231