Identificadores Judíos y su manifestación en el Judaísmo Latinoamericano

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: religion, 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.