2 Here We Are to Build a Nation: Jewish Immigrants to Early Twentieth-Century Latin America

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-86
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

The Changing Fortunes of Syncretism

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-54
Author(s):  
Ross Kane
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Over Time

Syncretism’s varying connotations have become sedimented within the word over time. To unearth the perceived challenges around syncretism, the chapter studies the word’s history up to the early twentieth century—its use, how it has been deployed, about whom, and for what ends. The word “syncretism” has been used to reconcile opposing factions, neutrally describe religious mixture, and disparage religious mixture. In Christian circles, the term’s pejorative turn came only recently, in the early twentieth century. This shift relates to wider fears among Christians during this period as Christianity spread in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These fears relate to two key themes, revelation and race.

Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America.

1999 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 1361
Author(s):  
Gerald Sorin ◽  
Robert A. Rockaway ◽  
Nancy L. Green
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
Twentieth Century America

Barefoot Boston Boy Becomes Movie Man

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Initial Work ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This chapter details Levine’s early life, from his birth to his initial work as a film exhibitor, distributor, and promoter. Levine grew up in the horrible poverty of Boston’s West End, and the details of his early life are placed into the historical context of early twentieth-century Boston. As the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Levine not only experienced poverty but also anti-Semitism, and these experiences helped to shape the man he would become. Levine’s numerous early business ventures are also explored, as are his early days as a movie exhibitor and promoter and the importance of his marriage to Rosalie.

The ‘Yidishe Paganini’: Sholem Aleichem's Stempenyu, the Music of Yiddish Theatre and the Character of the Shtetl Fiddler

2014 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S. Walden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Character Type ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

ABSTRACTThis article explores the music of Yiddish theatre in early twentieth-century New York by considering multiple adaptations of Russian Jewish author Sholem Aleichem's 1888 novel Stempenyu, about a klezmer violinist, which was transformed into two theatrical productions in 1907 and 1929, and finally inspired a three-movement recital work for accompanied violin by Joseph Achron. The multiple versions of Stempenyu present the eponymous musician as an allegory for the ambivalent role of the shtetl – the predominantly Jewish small town of Eastern Europe – in defining diasporic Jewish life in Europe and America, and as a medium for the sonic representation of shtetl culture as it was reformulated in the memories of the first generations of Jewish immigrants. The variations in the evocations of Eastern European klezmer in these renderings of Stempenyu indicate complex changes in the ways Jewish immigrants and their children conceived of their connection to Eastern Europe over four decades. The paper concludes by viewing changes in the symbolic character type of the shtetl fiddler in its most famous and recent manifestation, in the stage and screen musical Fiddler on the Roof.

scholarly journals Italians Abroad: Verdi's La traviata and the 1906 Milan Exposition

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 237-272
Author(s):  
Ditlev Rindom
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Global Space ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
International Importance ◽  
La Traviata ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between Milan's 1906 Exposition and a celebrated revival of Verdi's La traviata (1853). An event of national and international importance, the Exposition was notable for its focus on Italy's global presence, and in particular Italy's relationship with Latin America. The Traviata production, meanwhile, comprised the first Italian staging of Verdi's opera in period costume, performed at La Scala by a quintessentially modern, celebrity ensemble to mark the Exposition's opening. This article explores the parallels between the Exposition and the production, to investigate the complex, shifting position of Milan (and Italy) within the transatlantic cultural and operatic networks of the time; and more broadly, to examine the role of operatic staging in shaping understandings of global space within the mobile operatic canon of the early twentieth century.

The garden city in early twentieth-century Latin America

Urban History ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTURO ALMANDOZ
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Garden City ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World

As it happened in other parts of the world, the ‘Garden City’ was used more as an image than as a model in early twentieth-century Latin America. While attempting to set the regional diffusion of the model in international perspective, the review intends to explore the analogous use of the concept by Latin American historiography, following the two senses according to which it has been simplified: namely for its bucolic resonance, and to denote the suburban layouts that were different from traditional models.

Creating Knowledge Networks: Spanish Multinational Publishers in Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Fernández-Moya
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World

Unlike the majority of Spanish multinationals, which have developed only recently, firms in the publishing industry became international in the early twentieth century and have managed to hold on to much of their business, despite the instability of their own institutional systems and those of their principal host economies. Today, the Spanish publishing industry ranks fourth in the world, and its foreign markets continue to grow in North America, Europe, Latin America, and, most critically, in Mexico. The internationalization of Spanish publishing firms was fueled initially by a search for new markets and by linguistic and cultural advantages. With the passage of time, the process came to be built on accumulated knowledge and on the personal and social networks created by Spanish publishers, both inside and outside Spain.

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