RETHINKING LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES

A review essay on books by (1) Graciela Ben-Dror, The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina, 1933-1945 (Lincoln: U Nebraska Press, 2008); (2) Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yossi Gorny, & Raanan Rein [Eds], Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism: Latin American in the Jewish World (Leiden: Brill, 2008); (3) Ricardo Feierstein, Vida cotidiana de los judios argentinos: Del gueto al country ([The Everyday Life of Argentinean Jews: From the Ghetto to the Country] Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2007); (4) Marion A. Kaplan, Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945 (New York: Museum Jewish Heritage, 2008); (5) Jeffrey Lesser & Raanan Rein [Eds], Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans (Albuquerque: U New Mexico Press, 2008); & (6) Allen Wells, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua (Durham, NC: Duke U Press, 2009); & (6) Allen Wells, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua (Durham, NC: Duke U Press, 2009).