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Latin America's Jews: A Review of Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Judith Laikin Elkin
Judith Laikin Elkin*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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For the period since independence, Jews do not appear in Latin American history as it is written today. That there are Jews in Latin America we know. But what role have they played in their nations' histories? How have they balanced their inherited tradition with the cultures of the Luso-Hispanic world? What has been the quality of their lives as Jews and as immigrants, nonconformists in societies that exact conformity as the price of acceptance? Most important from the perspective of Latin Americanists, how have Jews been perceived by the majority societies, and what do these perceptions reveal about the nature of these societies?

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , 1985 , pp. 124 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. LAJSA publications may be obtained from the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, 2104 Georgetown Blvd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105.

2. YIVO is the Yiddish acronym for Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institute, which functions in New York as the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. A sister institute in Buenos Aires adopted the spelling IWO.

3. The directory of scholars was updated in the summer of 1982 and is available from the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati.

4. These sources are reviewed by Peter Johnson in LARR 18, number 1 (1983):254–62.