Nuestra América

Lomnitz, Claudio

In Nuestra América, the anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz recounts the exile of his grandparents, from Eastern Europe to South America, and how, established in Lima in 1924, they became intensely involved in the Peruvian left-wing intellectual environment and strove to link the indigenous past with an emancipatory internationalism that included Jewish culture and thought. They were friends with José Carlos Mariátegui, arguably the most prominent radical thinker in Latin America, and corresponded with Freud and Nobel laureates Rómulo Gallegos and Gabriela Mistral. Your grandparents always fought for intellectual commitment, even when they work desperately to survive. "This is my family's story, which is also mine," Lomnitz says. Taking the figure of his grandparents as a reference, Lomnitz builds with personal memories, historical analysis and family sagas memories in which he reveals a dynamic variety of perspectives: from the Romanian ghettos and the Holocaust throughout Europe, the years in South America, the kibbutz and life in Israel and the United States, to his own childhood in Chile, California and Mexico City. A fascinating study of intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture.

Author
Lomnitz, Claudio
Subject
History > Contemporary history 20th-21st centuries
EAN
9788419392459
ISBN
978-84-19392-45-9
Edition
1
Publisher
Galaxia Gutenberg
Pages
376 
High
21.0 cm
Weight
14.0 cm
Release date
01-03-2023
Language
Spanish 
Series
Ensayo 
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Lomnitz, Claudio (aut.)

  • Lomnitz, Claudio
    Claudio Lomnitz (Santiago de Chile, 1957) es un escritor, antropólogo social y profesor chileno-mexicano, catedrático de la Universidad de Columbia.   Read more