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- catalog abstract ""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." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11428512.
- catalog coverage "Iquitos (Peru) Ethnic relations.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The Amazon and Iquitos: Center or Periphery? -- 2. Leon Pinelo's Realms: Jews in Lima and Iquitos -- 3. The Religion of the "Jewish Mestizos" -- 4. Jewishness in Lima and Iquitos -- 5. The "Jewish Mestizos": A "Marranic" Remnant of Israel -- 6. When Lima Met Iquitos -- 7. Inter- and Intra-Views -- 8. The Researcher as Protagonist -- 9. Conclusions: Retracing the Steps.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-330) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 341 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0827606699".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,".
- catalog spatial "Iquitos (Peru) Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Peru Iquitos".
- catalog spatial "Peru Iquitos.".
- catalog spatial "Peru".
- catalog subject "305.892/408544 21".
- catalog subject "F3619.M47 S45 1999".
- catalog subject "Jewish Christians Peru Iquitos.".
- catalog subject "Jews Identity.".
- catalog subject "Jews Peru History.".
- catalog subject "Mestizos Peru Iquitos Religion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Amazon and Iquitos: Center or Periphery? -- 2. Leon Pinelo's Realms: Jews in Lima and Iquitos -- 3. The Religion of the "Jewish Mestizos" -- 4. Jewishness in Lima and Iquitos -- 5. The "Jewish Mestizos": A "Marranic" Remnant of Israel -- 6. When Lima Met Iquitos -- 7. Inter- and Intra-Views -- 8. The Researcher as Protagonist -- 9. Conclusions: Retracing the Steps.".
- catalog title "Jews of the Amazon : self-exile in earthly paradise / by Ariel Segal.".
- catalog type "text".