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.
Keywords:
Idcntity, Ethnic group, Judaism, Jewishness, Latín America
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
