Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans

The Pragmatics of Diaspora
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73577-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Jewish Latin America

Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans is a linguistic ethnography of Shami and Halebi Jews in contemporary Mexico City. Through a focus on language in everyday life – including narrative, humor, and Arabic and Hebrew “heritage words” - the book explores how young adults negotiate oft-stigmatized, diasporic identities amid national shifts toward neoliberalism and the transnational expansion of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy. Accessible yet richly theorized, the book introduces linguistic anthropological concepts and guides readers through their application to audiovisual data. This innovative approach promotes empathetic understanding of a lesser-known Jewish Latin American context and opens new lines of inquiry into the phenomenon of diaspora in a rapidly changing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean-Olmsted, Evelyn María

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Evelyn María Dean-Olmsted is a linguistic anthropologist whose academic work explores the interplay of language, social identity, and broader structural factors. She is also an applied, mixed-methods researcher with experience in Jewish communal and healthcare settings.