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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ignacio Klich; Jeff Lesser |
ISBN: | 0714648736 9780714648736 0714644501 9780714644509 |
OCLC Number: | 37806090 |
Notes: | "This group of studies first appeared in a special issue ... of Immigrants and minorities, vol. 16, nos. 1 & 2, March/July 1997"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xiv, 263 pages ; 23 cm |
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 / Darío 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser. |
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"The articles bring important and interesting information about the insertion of Arabs and Jews in countries where it was (and still is) expected that all ethnic groups conform to the official construction of a national identity." - Sonia Bloomfield, University of Brasilia - Retired; Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 30, No. 3 'With this collection, Latin American Jewish and Arab studies, as well as immigration studies, enter a challenging new phase.' - Choice'This original publication heightens our awareness of many of the issues surrounding ethnicity and immigration in the region.' - British Bulletin Publications Read more...

