Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans » (New Edition)

Jeffrey Lesser is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of the Humanities and director of Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, most recently A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980.

Raanan Rein is professor of Latin American and Spanish history and vice rector of Tel Aviv University. Rein's many publications include In the Shadow of Perà n: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina's Populist Movement.

Lyman L. Johnson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the general editor for UNM Press's Diálogos series.

These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.

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Acknowledgments     x
Introduction   Jeffrey Lesser   Raanan Rein     1
New Approaches to Ethnicity and Diaspora in Twentieth-Century Latin America   Jeffrey Lesser   Raanan Rein     23
How the Jews Became Japanese and Other Stories of Nation and Ethnicity   Jeffrey Lesser     41
What's in a Stereotype? The Case of Jewish Anarchists in Argentina   Jose C. Moya     55
Beyond the State and Ideology: Immigration of the Jewish Community to Brazil, 1937-1945   Roney Cytrynowicz     89
The Scene of the Transaction: "Jewishness," Money, and Prostitution in the Brazilian Imaginary   Erin Graff Zivin     106
Protest from Afar: The Jewish and Republican Presence in Victoria Ocampo's Revista SUR in the 1930s and 1940s   Rosalie Sitman     132
Changing the Landscape: The Study of Argentine-Jewish Women and New Historical Vistas   Sandra McGee Deutsch     161
Women's Organizations and Jewish Orphanages in Buenos Aires, 1918-1955   Donna J. Guy     187
Nation and Holocaust Narration: Uruguay's Memorial del Holocausto del Pueblo Judio   Edna Aizenberg     207
Singing for Social Change: Nostalgic Memory and the Struggle for Belonging in a Buenos Aires YiddishChorus   Natasha Zaretsky     231
The Ethnic Dilemmas of Latin American Jewry   Judah M. Cohen     266
Editors and Contributors     285
Index     288