Re-Making Kinship. From Community to Family: A Sephardic Experience in France
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The Sephardic Jews living in France, who use Judeo-Spanish as their heritage language, are an assimilated diasporic group that has witnessed war, assimilation and marginalization. With the increase in genealogical research in Western Society, many Sephardim have experienced a process of revitalization of memory through kin relations with people of similar descent. This complex revitalization takes form within the structure of a community cultural centre which acts as a place for re-making kinship thanks to the emotional experience of sharing a specific musical heritage. This phenomenon forces us to examine the tension between « traditional » kinship systems — embodied in the matrilineal bloodline in the case of halakhic Jewish identity — and symbolic kinship anchored in the idea of a « chosen family », to rethink kinship as a mixture between biology and culture, as well as to reconsider current anthropological debates on religion thought beyond the strict religious practices.
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Age and Generational Issues Family and Household Sephardi Jews Ladino and Haketia Jewish Revival Main Topic: Other Anthropology
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24(2)
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97-120
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Link to article including link to pdf, Re-Making Kinship. From Community to Family: A Sephardic Experience in France
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Re-Making Kinship. From Community to Family: A Sephardic Experience in France. 2016: 97-120. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.7202/1050503ar
