Latin American Jewish Documentaries by Women: An Emerging Genre
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Nora Glickman
Abstract
In this article, I look at the documentary films of four Latin American Jewish directors whose filmography has rapidly expanded over the past two decades: Guita Schyfter from Mexico, Sandra Kogut from Brazil, Jeanine Meerapfeel from Argentina and Germany, and Gabriela Bohm from Argentina and the United States. In the course of interviews conducted in their films, the directors-descendants of Holocaust survivors-juxtapose the testimonies of people who emigrated from Europe to Latin America with stories of their own journeys from America to Europe. It explores how they react to their interviewees and how they integrate music and metaphors into their films. By observing their reactions to the interviewees and exploring how the directors integrate music, metaphors, and helpful tools into their films, this article throws light on the ways they develop a deeper awareness of their own conflicted identities.
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Articles in the same Issue
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- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Jewish Latin American Women Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
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- Latin American Jewish Documentaries by Women: An Emerging Genre
- Diana Raznovich and the Performance of Performance: Gender, Jewishness, and the Conundrum of Identity
- Jenny Asse Chayo: Gender Fluidity, Visionary Discourse, and Biblical Narrative
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- Remembering Anne Frank: Marjorie Agosín’s Multidirectional Feminist Postmemory
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Donà Lauterbach, Chiara. 2023. Materialidad insumisa. Lo fragmentario, lo nimio y lo abyecto en la obra de Margo Glantz
- Guzmán, Gustavo E. 2022. Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen
- Rein, Raanan, and David M. K. Sheinin, eds. 2021. Armed Jews in the Americas
- Visacovsky, Nerina, ed. 2022. Cultura judeo-progresista en las Américas
- Yalonetzky, Romina. 2021. Gente como uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima
- Contributors
Articles in the same Issue
- Title
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Jewish Latin American Women Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
- ARTICLES
- Latin American Jewish Documentaries by Women: An Emerging Genre
- Diana Raznovich and the Performance of Performance: Gender, Jewishness, and the Conundrum of Identity
- Jenny Asse Chayo: Gender Fluidity, Visionary Discourse, and Biblical Narrative
- From Monastir to Mexico: The Weight of Tradition in Vicky Nizri’s Vida propia (2000)
- Jewish Women in Argentine Cinema: The Transgressive Bride in Damián Szifrón’s Relatos salvajes (2014)
- Remembering Anne Frank: Marjorie Agosín’s Multidirectional Feminist Postmemory
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Donà Lauterbach, Chiara. 2023. Materialidad insumisa. Lo fragmentario, lo nimio y lo abyecto en la obra de Margo Glantz
- Guzmán, Gustavo E. 2022. Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen
- Rein, Raanan, and David M. K. Sheinin, eds. 2021. Armed Jews in the Americas
- Visacovsky, Nerina, ed. 2022. Cultura judeo-progresista en las Américas
- Yalonetzky, Romina. 2021. Gente como uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima
- Contributors
