Arab and Jewish immigrants in Latin America
Subtitle: images and realities
By: edited by Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser.
Contributors: Klich, Ignacio, 1949-; Lesser, Jeff.
Publisher: F. Cass
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Jews -- Latin America -- History; Arabs -- Latin America -- History; Latin America -- Ethnic relations
Description: "This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. It is a volume that is neither about the repercussions of the Arab-Israeli conflict outside the Middle East, nor one which ignores some of its Latin American ramifications."--BOOK JACKET. "Immigration's promoters - Latin American elites keen to change their countries' ethnic mix - felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews. Hence, identifying the similarities in local reaction to both immigrant groups' economic and other successes, as well as their retention of varying degrees of pre-migratory culture and other aspects of their experiences, can offer a crucial contribution to changing the ways immigration and ethnicity in Latin America are understood. On the other hand, any such change cannot ignore the differences in the experiences of Arab and Jewish immigrants."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue ... of Immigrants and minorities, vol. 16, nos. 1 & 2, March/July 1997"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Arab-Jewish coexistence in the first half of 1900s Argentina / Ignacio Klich; title: Jews are Turks who sell on credit : elite images of Arabs and Jews in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser; title: Arabs and Jews in the development of the Colombian Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Louise Fawcett and Eduardo Posada-Carbo; title: Between privilege and opprobrium : the Arabs and Jews in Haiti / Brenda Gayle Plummer; title: The Arab-Jewish economic presence in San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital of Honduras / Darío A. Euraque; title: Re-creating community : Christians from Lebanon and Jews from Syria in Mexico, 1900-1938 / Liz Hamui-Halabe; title: The economic and social conditions of Jewish and Arab immigrants in Bolivia, 1890-1980 / Marc J. Osterweil; title: Ethnic history, nationalism and transnationalism in Argentine Arab and Jewish cultures / Michael Humphrey; title: The question of "Argentinidad" : the self-image of Arab and Jewish ancestry in recent Argentine literature / Estela Valverde; title: The historiography of Jewish immigration to Argentina : problems and perspectives / Fabiana Sabina Tolcachier; title: The historiography of Arab immigration to Argentina / Theresa Alfaro Velcamp.