ABSTRACT
This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |37 pages
Arab-Jewish Coexistence in the First Half of 1900s' Argentina
Overcoming Self-Imposed Amnesia
chapter |31 pages
The Arab-Jewish Economic Presence in San Pedro Sula, the Industrial Capital of Honduras
Formative Years, 1880s–1930s
chapter |21 pages
Re-creating Community
Christians from Lebanon and Jews from Syria in Mexico, 1900–1938
chapter |15 pages
The Question of ‘Argentinidaď
The Self-Image of Arab and Jewish Ancestry in Recent Argentine Literature
chapter |22 pages
The Historiography of Arab Immigration to Argentina
The Intersection of the Imaginary and the Real Country
