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Title:

Arab and Jewish immigrants in Latin America : images and realities / edited by Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser.

Publisher:

F. Cass,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xiv, 263 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Latin America--History.
Arabs--Latin America--History.
Latin America--Ethnic relations.

Other Authors:

Klich, Ignacio, 1949-
Lesser, Jeff

Notes:

"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. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Arab-Jewish coexistence in the first half of 1900s Argentina / Ignacio Klich -- Jews are Turks who sell on credit : elite images of Arabs and Jews in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser -- Arabs and Jews in the development of the Colombian Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Louise Fawcett and Eduardo Posada-Carbo -- Between privilege and opprobrium : the Arabs and Jews in Haiti / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- The Arab-Jewish economic presence in San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital of Honduras / Dar©Ưo A. Euraque -- Re-creating community : Christians from Lebanon and Jews from Syria in Mexico, 1900-1938 / Liz Hamui-Halabe -- The economic and social conditions of Jewish and Arab immigrants in Bolivia, 1890-1980 / Marc J. Osterweil -- Ethnic history, nationalism and transnationalism in Argentine Arab and Jewish cultures / Michael Humphrey -- The question of "Argentinidad" : the self-image of Arab and Jewish ancestry in recent Argentine literature / Estela Valverde -- The historiography of Jewish immigration to Argentina : problems and perspectives / Fabiana Sabina Tolcachier -- The historiography of Arab immigration to Argentina / Theresa Alfaro Velcamp.

ISBN:

9780714644509
0714644501 (paperback)
9780714648736
0714648736 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37806090

LCCN:

97038796

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)