A new volume has been published in Professor Raanan Rein’s book series, Jewish Latin America: Issues and Method (Brill). Evelyn María Dean-Olmsted’s Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans is a linguistic ethnography of Shami and Halebi Jewish communities in contemporary Mexico City. Focusing on language in everyday life, the book examines how young adults negotiate often stigmatized diasporic identities amid national shifts toward neoliberalism and the transnational expansion of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy.
