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Self-exiled in the earthly paradise: One hundred years of solitude for the "Jewish Mestizos" of Iquitos, 1890s-1990s
This ethno-historical study of a unique group of Jews in a remote region of Peru who consider the... more This ethno-historical study of a unique group of Jews in a remote region of Peru who consider themselves Jewish despite isolation from--and even neglect by--mainstream Jews in Peru and Brazil, raises crucial questions about the identity of what I argue are Marrano communities living on a borderline between Judaism and other religious and cultural systems.The Mestizo Jews of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, are descendants of Sephardic Jews, who immigrated there during the nineteenth-century rubber boom, and fathered children with native Amazonian woman. My inquiry, the first scholarly study of this community, traces the ways this group has forged a syncretic religious and cultural identity by combining elements from Judaism, Christianity, and Amazonian beliefs. My study raises crucial questions about the identity of what I argue are Marrano communities living on a borderline between Judaism and other religious and cultural systems. Underlying this case, is the question of what is ma...
Agenda Internacional, Dec 6, 2012
Self-exiled in the earthly paradise: One hundred years of solitude for the "Jewish Mestizos" of Iquitos, 1890s-1990s
This ethno-historical study of a unique group of Jews in a remote region of Peru who consider the... more This ethno-historical study of a unique group of Jews in a remote region of Peru who consider themselves Jewish despite isolation from--and even neglect by--mainstream Jews in Peru and Brazil, raises crucial questions about the identity of what I argue are Marrano communities living on a borderline between Judaism and other religious and cultural systems.The Mestizo Jews of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, are descendants of Sephardic Jews, who immigrated there during the nineteenth-century rubber boom, and fathered children with native Amazonian woman. My inquiry, the first scholarly study of this community, traces the ways this group has forged a syncretic religious and cultural identity by combining elements from Judaism, Christianity, and Amazonian beliefs. My study raises crucial questions about the identity of what I argue are Marrano communities living on a borderline between Judaism and other religious and cultural systems. Underlying this case, is the question of what is ma...
Agenda Internacional, Dec 6, 2012