The Jews of Latin America - Hardcover
Book by Elkin, Judith Laikin
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THE JEWS OF LATIN AMERICA expands the bounds of Jewish history by making visible the little-known communities of South and Central America. In doing so, the book challenges the notion that Latin American societies are entirely Hispanic and Catholic. Through the life histories of Jews who emigrated to Latin America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author demonstrates that these societies are increasingly pluralistic in reality, if not in ideology. Judith Laikin Elkin maintains a balanced view of this nonconforming minority adjusting to the politcs, economy, and social stratification of countries that have not embraced cultural pluralism as an ideal.
About the Author:
The earlier version of this book, JEWS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS, quickly became the basic work on the subject. But events of the 1980s and 1990s, and the emergence of new research, underscored the need for a substantially revised edition. In THE JEWS OF LATIN AMERICA, Elkin ensures that book's continued life as a classic.
Judith Laikin Elkin, a historian associated with the Frankel Center for Judiac Studies at the University of Michigan, is the author of numerous books and articles on the Jews of South and Central America and the Caribbean. She is the founding president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.
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- PublisherHolmes & Meier Pub
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0841913684
- ISBN 13 9780841913684
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages339
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