La infancia judía en Colombia: sus miradas y experiencias en la comunidad del Centro de Estudios Beit Hilel de Bogotá

Abstract

This work characterizes the childhood that the children of the Community Beit Hilel build and live through the story of their experiences. From three axes present in the Jewish culture as they are; Practices, speeches and relationships, where a series of workshops were established that allowed the experiences of childhood to be told. The research was conducted with three girls and a child from the Jewish community Beit Hilel, using as a methodology to obtain data and analysis information; The Etnometodology method, which, by means of observation and the narrative, allowed us to know how they give meaning and meaning to the daily reality in general. The findings result in three processes that go through the childhood present in the community and are: the traditional look that expresses the influence of the customs present in the Jewish culture, the alternative look that responds to a version attached to the Rights and free development of children and the contemporary view of a globalized and commodified cultural context. Therefore, we can conclude that Jewish childhood is a different, complex and problematic childhood, which are built between the meanings of a usual daily life and a community cultural practice that opens up the possibility of future reflections on a Little-known childhood in the country.