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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 politics, economy, and social stratification of countries that have not embraced cultural pluralism as an ideal.

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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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"A formidable undertaking . . . Judith Elkin, however, has managed it all with grace, insight, and really astonishing erudition." -- Commentary

"No satisfactory scholarly study of Latin American Jews existed until Judith Laikin Elkin published this book. . . . A major contribution to Latin American immigrant and social history." -- American Historical Review

Praise for the first edition, JEWS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS "The first comprehensive review of its subject, this book provides far more information concerning Latin American Jewish life than ever before available between two covers." -- Choice

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  • PublisherHolmes & Meier Pub
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0841913692
  • ISBN 13 9780841913691
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages350

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