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Questioning Jewish Caribbean Identity (Paperback)
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Questioning Jewish Caribbean Identity (Paperback)
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This book lends a fresh, psychological approach to identity and
Jewishness in the Caribbean. It explores the ways in which
individuals in the islands have maintained their connections to
Judaism as lineage, as a religion and as a culture. Transported
overseas from Spain and Portugal in the 1500s while fleeing the
Inquisition, and later during the second wave of exodus from Europe
under threat of World War II, the Caribbean provided safe harbours
for a number of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. There is no doubt
that their presence in the Caribbean and Latin America over the
last 500 years has had a tremendous impact on the growth and
development of industry, modern commerce and culture. Their
contribution to their new island homelands has been a lasting one.
From the technology for the cultivation of sugar and the
development of trade and commerce across the Atlantic, to the arts
and education, Jewish life within the region has left and continues
to leave an indelible mark. For the author, there have been many
stops along the way in completing this book. She has travelled and
interacted with Jews across the globe, and these encounters were
the genesis of the questions she asked herself about Jews of all
descriptions. Indeed, many of the questions and their answers arise
from an existential need to rationalise her own thoughts about her
personal identity. This is a pattern that the author has noted
among a number of the theorists included in this work. From
Erickson with his Danish-Jewish background and the subsequent
elaboration of his psychosocial theory; to Stuart Halls cultural
theory, born out of his own mixed heritage and later inter-ethnic
marriage; and Nathan Blumenthal, who changes his rather Jewish name
to Nathaniel Branden as he becomes known for his psychology of
self-esteem. Of course, it is impossible to speak of identity
without acknowledging the seminal contribution of Freuds
psychoanalytic theory as a way of making meaning for ourselves in
the world. Common to these theorist and many others, readers will
encounter their own struggle with national, personal and ethnic
identities while exploring the pages of this book. Claiming an
identity suggests an autonomous act of loyalty to chosen identity,
and for some this can mean the abandonment of previous ways of
seeing themselves. This is the central threat of acts of identity;
it signals, I am with them and equally, I have no allegiance to
you. These are the sentiments over which battles are waged, causing
people who appear indistinguishable from each other to obliterate
neighbouring nations. This book is a story of the survival of a
people, practice, culture, and religion.
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