‘‘Are You Sure They’re Really Jewish?’’ a selective history of Mexico city’s Beth Israel community center

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Section I Sephardim in Our Memory
6. Remembering Sepharad 3
7. The Sephardic Legacy 15
8. Section II Journeys
9. Tuesday Is a Good Day 33
10. My Panama 47
11. A Journey through My Life and Latin American Jewish Studies 61
12. Section III The Paradox of Communities
13. Chile and the Nazis 77
14. ‘‘Are You Sure They’re Really Jewish?’’ a selective history of Mexico city’s Beth Israel community center 91
15. Dancing around the Political Divide between the ‘‘legal’’ and the ‘‘regal’’ in the Mexican Jewish community 101
16. Section IV A Literature of Transformation
17. The Heterogeneous Jewish Wit of Margo Glantz 115
18. Preserving the Family Album in Letargo by Perla Suez 131
19. Section V Culture, History, and Representation
20. Lamentations for the AMIA: literary responses to communal trauma 149
21. Nationalism, Education, and Identity Argentine Jews and catholic religious instruction, 1943–1 955 163
22. From Gauchos judíos to Idishe mames posmodernas popular Jewish culture in Buenos Aires 177
23. Gabriel Valansi: neoliberal nights in Buenos Aires 207
24. While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba afterthoughts about adio kerida 221
25. La menora de la alegría para Josefina Agosín 235
26. Index 239