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Rethinking Latin American Jewish Studies

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Judith Laikin Elkin
Judith Laikin Elkin*
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University of Michigan
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , 2010 , pp. 253 - 265
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Copyright © 2010 by the Latin American Studies Association

Footnotes

The author thanks Sandra McGee Deutsch for her critical reading of a draft of this essay

References

1. Judith Laikin Elkin, “The Jewish Communities in 1982/' Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record 2 (1982–1983): 163–172.

2. This research includes Judith Laikin Elkin and Gilbert W. Merkx, The Jewish Presence in Latin America (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987); Achim Schrader and Karl Heinrich Rengstorf, eds., Europaische Juden in Lateinamerika (Munster: Westfalische Wilhelmsuniversitate Munster, 1989); Ensayos sobre judaísmo latinoamericano (Buenos Aires: Editorial Mila, 1990); AMILAT, Judaica latinoamericana: Estudios historicos, sociales y literarios (Jerusalem: Editorial Universitaria Magnes, 1988–2005); David Sheinin and Lois Baer Barr, The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America: New Studies on History and Literature (New York: Garland, 1996); Judit Bokser Liwerant and Alicia Gojman de Backal, eds., Encuentro y alteridad: Vida y cultura judía en América Latina (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1999). An increasing number of freestanding volumes of collected essays have also appeared, including Kristin Ruggiero, ed., The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory (Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2005); Marjorie Agosín, ed., Memory, Oblivion and Jewish Culture in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

3. Judith Laikin Elkin, “Exploring the Jewish Archipelago in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 30, no. 3 (1995): 225.

4. Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser, eds., Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities (London: F. Cass, 1998).

5. Jeffrey Lesser, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999).

6. Edgardo Bilsky, El movimiento obrero judío en la Argentina. (Buenos Aires: Centro de Documentación e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino “Marc Turkow,” 1987).

7. I read Kaplan's manuscript and served with both Kaplan and Wells on the consultants' committee for an exhibit on Sosúa mounted in 2008 by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

8. Erin Graff Zivin, The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008); David William Foster, ed., Latin American Jewish Cultural Production (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009).