L’Heavek: Wrestling with the Divine in Syrian Jewish Mexico City

L’Heavek: Wrestling with the Divine in Syrian Jewish Mexico City

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When:
January 24, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
2019-01-24T18:30:00-05:00
2019-01-24T20:00:00-05:00
Where:
JMC Library, 332 Case Hall
842 Chestnut Rd
East Lansing, MI 48825
USA
Cost:
Free
All Jewish Studies
L'Heavek: Wrestling with the Divine in Syrian Jewish Mexico City @ JMC Library, 332 Case Hall | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

Dr. Evelyn María Dean-Olmsted (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Pidras) will analyze how in the late 2000s, young Shami (Damascene) and Halebi (Aleppan) Jewish Mexicans were coming of age amidst a boom in ultra-Orthodox or Haredi outreach activity, and how they struggled to craft a religiosity that was both personally meaningful and intelligible to those in their social networks.