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An account of the life of the Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico in this century highlights the intersection of cultural and political international problems, shedding light on the contemporary condition of minorities the world over.
In a century full of social dreams and abhorrent calamities, the survival of a small cultural ethnic group is no small story. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews arrived in Mexico in the early years of this century. The vast majority of these 40,000 Jews live in Mexico City and have done so for most of the eighty years of this communal experiment. Arriving with few resources, the Ashkenazi created a network of organizations to sustain their cultural survival in a country that had its own complex cultural context. This community chose its own survival path; while successful in confronting some issues, it faced problems of identity and social cohesion that mirror contemporary dilemmas everywhere. The author examines the particular exchanges that took place between minority and majority, and reflects on the challenges for multicultural living shaped by pluralism, democracy, and socio-political tolerance.
In a century full of social dreams and abhorrent calamities, the survival of a small cultural ethnic group is no small story. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews arrived in Mexico in the early years of this century. The vast majority of these 40,000 Jews live in Mexico City and have done so for most of the eighty years of this communal experiment. Arriving with few resources, the Ashkenazi created a network of organizations to sustain their cultural survival in a country that had its own complex cultural context. This community chose its own survival path; while successful in confronting some issues, it faced problems of identity and social cohesion that mirror contemporary dilemmas everywhere. The author examines the particular exchanges that took place between minority and majority, and reflects on the challenges for multicultural living shaped by pluralism, democracy, and socio-political tolerance.
Adina Cimet is affiliated with the YIVO Institute at Columbia University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1
Chapter 1 The Reestablishing of an Acquaintanceship
Chapter 2 The Development of the Communal Structure
The Building of a Structure
Expansion and Culmination of the Structuring Efforts: The Kehillah
Part 2
Chapter 3 Profiles of Thought: The People behind the Ideologies
The First Ideological Conflict: Journalist and Critic Salomon Kahan and Poet Jacobo Glantz
A Politician amidst Vanished Politics: Bundist Tuvie Maizel
Still Praising What Was Lost: Communist Boris Rosen
Conflict turned Consensus: Shimshon Feldman, Politician Par Excellence
Within the Winning Ideology, the Inescapable Diaspora Questions: Zionist Avner Aliphas
The Ideology of the Outsider: Ideologue, Writer, and Pedagogue Abraham Golomb
Part 3
Chapter 4 Confrontations That Produced Structural Changes: Five Case Studies
The Process of Consolidation (The First Experiment): The Creation of the Central Committee
The Ideological Delimitation of Political Control:Communists, Bundists, and Zionists
Content Legitimation and Control: Education and the Growth of the School Network
The Control of Form: The Language Conflict
Incomplete Allowance: The Politics of Interrelation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Part 1
Chapter 1 The Reestablishing of an Acquaintanceship
Chapter 2 The Development of the Communal Structure
The Building of a Structure
Expansion and Culmination of the Structuring Efforts: The Kehillah
Part 2
Chapter 3 Profiles of Thought: The People behind the Ideologies
The First Ideological Conflict: Journalist and Critic Salomon Kahan and Poet Jacobo Glantz
A Politician amidst Vanished Politics: Bundist Tuvie Maizel
Still Praising What Was Lost: Communist Boris Rosen
Conflict turned Consensus: Shimshon Feldman, Politician Par Excellence
Within the Winning Ideology, the Inescapable Diaspora Questions: Zionist Avner Aliphas
The Ideology of the Outsider: Ideologue, Writer, and Pedagogue Abraham Golomb
Part 3
Chapter 4 Confrontations That Produced Structural Changes: Five Case Studies
The Process of Consolidation (The First Experiment): The Creation of the Central Committee
The Ideological Delimitation of Political Control:Communists, Bundists, and Zionists
Content Legitimation and Control: Education and the Growth of the School Network
The Control of Form: The Language Conflict
Incomplete Allowance: The Politics of Interrelation
Notes
Bibliography
Index