Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans - Paperback

by Jeffrey Lesser (Editor), Raanan Rein (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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.