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.

David Sheinin is Assistant Professor of History at Trent University. In addition to his many articles on inter-American relations, Professor Sheinin has recently published The Organization of American States. Lois Baer Barr lectures in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Northwestern University. Her contributions to the field of Latin American Jewish literature include Isaac Unbound: Patriarchal Traditions in the Latin American Jewish Novel.

PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, Postwar Latin American Jewry: An Agenda for the Study of the Last Five Decades, Theory in the Margin: Latin American Literature and the Jewish Subject, The Jonah Experience: The Jews of Brazil According to Scliar, Lenta biografia: Chejfec's Post-Holocaust, Postcolonial Had Gadya, Discovering Self in History: Aida Bortnik and Gerardo Mario Goloboff, Esther Seligson and Angelina Mufiiz-Huberman: Jewish Mexican Memory and the Exile to the Darkest Tunnels of the Past, Oral Histories and the Literature of Reminiscence: Writing up the Jewish Argentine Past, Outsiders and Insiders: Brazilian Jews and the Discourse of Alterity, Los Colados, Colonial Origins of Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Latin America, Colonial Survival and Foreign Relations in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: The Jewish Colonization Association Colony of Quatro Irmaos, 1904-1925, Anti-Semitism and the Chilean Movimiento Nacional Socialista, 1932-1941, Anticardenismo and Anti-Semitism in Mexico, 1934- 1940, German Nazism and the Origins of Argentine Anti-Semitism, Equidistance and Gradualism in Argentine Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Arab World, 1949-1955, Zionist Political Parties in Argentina from the Revolution of 1943 to the Establishment of the State of Israel, The Beirut Massacre and Jewish Identity in Brazil: A View from Porto Alegre, Jews under the Cuban Revolution: 1959-1995, NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, INDEX