In this article are described the concepts of ethnic group and identity. Identity as a distinctness unit of certain group and their identifiers as features wich delimit the frontÍers
between "Them" and "Us". Identity as a construction that contains essential features, where
their contents evolves and adapts as times goes by. The Jewish collectivity is considered
within the catcgory of ethnic group, because is a group that has achieved permanency in
spite of the internal and external changes. Five general Jewish features are pointed out:
rcligion, traditions, Jewish peoplehood, Israel and Holocaust. These identity elements are
beíng briefly described as well as how they are manifested and exhibit within the Latin
American Jewish group.
Roitman, D. (2019). Jewish identifiers and their manifestation in Latin American Judaism. Cuadernos Judaicos, 351–389. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.0.52324
