Jews of the Amazon
self-exile in earthly paradise
by Ariel Segal Freilich
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"Jews of the Amazon, a fascinating look at a unique community in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, contributes more thought to the ongoing debate of "who is a Jew?" The author, a Jewish historian and writer born in Venezuela, spent four months living in one of the most isolated cities in history, Iquitos, Peru. There he studied "Jewish mestizos," the descendants of native Amazonian women and Jewish fortune-seekers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
"Segal documents the community's beliefs, practices, and culture, and how the assimilation of Catholic missionary and local Amazonian culture has affected the very notion of Jewish identity for these people."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jews of the Amazon: self-exile in earthly paradise
1999, Jewish Publication Society, Jewish Publication Society of America
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0827606699 9780827606692
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-330) and index.
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