Resumen

SCHENQUER, Laura. Private Narratives and Collective Problems: Jewish Religion and Dictatorship. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.47, pp.31-45. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2447-002-2016.

This paper analyzes the affiliation to the liberal religious branch (non-orthodox) called Conservative Judaism of a significant number of Jewish-Argentine institutions during the dictatorial period (1976-1983). Unlike researches focused on the branch itself, here it is investigated the receivers -the members of Jewish institutions- seeking to know the reasons that approached them to the rituals and other proposals of Conservative Judaism. Therefore, it is studied -mainly but not uniquely- a series of letters that such receivers sent to Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, promoter of this religious branch. This documentation, peculiar and unusual, enables inquire the experiences repeated in various institutions and simultaneously allows recognizing the epochal tracks.

Palabras llave : Argentina dictatorship; religion; politics; Conservative Judaism; adaptation; opposition; social fragmentation; Jews.