14. Educational Excellence Program in South America—Case Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: The Jewish Communities of Latin America viii
4. PART ONE. Globalization, Transnationalism, and Latin American Judaism and Jewishness
5. 1. Expansion and Interconnectedness of Jewish Life in Times (and Spaces) of Transnationalism: New Realities, New Analytical Perspectives 1
6. 2. Changing Identities in a Transnational Diaspora: Latin American Jews in Miami 35
7. 3. Globalization, Education, and Jewish Community Life: Latin American Transnational Jewish Educators—Toward a New Paradigm? 52
8. 4. Informal Jewish Education: Argentina’s Hebraica Society 73
9. 5. The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on the Affordability of Jewish Lifestyle in Latin America 91
10. PART TWO. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Emergence Of New Jewish Religious Identities, and The Creation of Singular Interactions Between Jews and Non-Jews
11. 6. Jerusalem, the Diaspora, and the Jewish Home: The Transfer of the Axis Mundi in Contemporary Judaism—The Case of São Paulo 101
12. 7. Blacks, Jews, and the Paradoxes of the Struggle against Racial Prejudice in Contemporary Brazil 123
13. 8. The Circulation of Jewish Agents and Jewish Symbolic Goods inside the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God 136
14. 9. Identities, Migrations and Religious Practices: The Jews and Argentineans of Syrian and Moroccan Origin (from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century to the Early Twenty-First Century) 155
15. 10. Brazilian Virtual Orthodox Jewish Education in the Twenty-First Century 173
16. PART THREE. Zionism—Multiple Dimensions: History, Diplomacy, Politics, and Education
17. 11. The Beginnings of Brazilian Zionism: Historical Formation and Political Developments 190
18. 12. The Creation of the Relations between Israel and Brazil from a Pioneering Perspective: Between Diplomacy and Kibbutz 208
19. 13. The World Jewish Congress, the Jews of Argentina, and the Military Junta, 1976–83 232
20. 14. Educational Excellence Program in South America—Case Study 252
21. 15. The Local Role of the Mordechai Anielewicz Movement in Uruguay during and after the Six-Day War 295
22. PART FOUR. From Jewish Writers In Latin America To Latin America In Israeli Contemporary Literature
23. 16. But at Night, at Night, I Still Dream in Spanish—The Map of Imagination of Israeli Literature: South America 326
24. 17. From Batiste Linen to the Empire at Palatnik Villa—Centennial Records of Economic Life in Natal’s First Jewish Community 348
25. 18. Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Stefan Zweig in Brazil 366
26. 19. Representation of the Shoah in Brazilian Literature 376
27. 20. Samuel Rawet and the Representation of the Holocaust 390
28. Index 402