The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America: New Studies on History and Literature

by Sheinin,David; Sheinin,David

• ISBN13: 9780815322832
• ISBN10: 0815322836
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies from the United States, Canada, Israel, Mexico, and Argentina. These specialists in history, politics, anthropology, and literature present 19 essays, 15 of which are original, three reprinted, and one translated here for the first time from Spanish. The book will be of use to specialists in Latin American literature, immigration history, international relations, and Latin American politics, as well as those interested in Jewish history, literature, and society outside Latin America.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Postwar Latin American Jewry: An Agenda for the Study of the Last Five Decades	p. 3
Theory in the Margin: Latin American Literature and the Jewish Subject	p. 21
The Jonah Experience: The Jews of Brazil According to Scliar	p. 33
Lenta biografia: Chejfec's Post-Holocaust, Postcolonial Had Gadya	p. 53
Discovering Self in History: Aida Bortnik and Gerardo Mario Goloboff	p. 61
Esther Seligson and Angelina Muniz-Huberman: Jewish Mexican Memory and the Exile to the Darkest Tunnels of the Past	p. 75
Oral Histories and the Literature of Reminiscence: Writing up the Jewish Argentine Past	p. 89
Outsiders and Insiders: Brazilian Jews and the Discourse of Alterity	p. 101
Los Colados	p. 117
Colonial Origins of Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Latin America	p. 127
Colonial Survival and Foreign Relations in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: The Jewish Colonization Association Colony of Quatro Irmaos, 1904-1925	p. 143
Anti-Semitism and the Chilean Movimiento Nacional Socialista, 1932-1941	p. 161
Anticardenismo and Anti-Semitism in Mexico, 1934-1940	p. 183
German Nazism and the Origins of Argentine Anti-Semitism	p. 199
Equidistance and Gradualism in Argentine Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Arab World, 1949-1955	p. 219
Zionist Political Parties in Argentina from the Revolution of 1943 to the Establishment of the State of Israel	p. 239
The Beirut Massacre and Jewish Identity in Brazil: A View from Porto Alegre	p. 251
Jews under the Cuban Revolution: 1959-1995	p. 265
Notes on Contributors	p. 289
Index	p. 293
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