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population has its origin dating from
the Inquisition and the expulsion
from Spain in 1492. In the late 1800s,
Ashkenazic Jews began fleeing the
pogroms of Eastern Europe and
arrived in large numbers in both
North and South America.
According to Stavans, half a million
Jews live in Latin America, the 230,000
living in Argentina and 170,000 in
Brazil being the largest concentrations.
"They are communities that are
thriving economically and socially,"
Stavans said, "that have never quite
assimilated [to the surrounding popu-
lation]."
"But, until recently," Asbury said,
people were not open about their
Jewishness.
- Prior to the publication of author
Marjorie Agosin's work A Cross and a
Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile,
many prolific Latin American writers

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had never confronted Jewish identity
in their work.
Agosin also is a college professor in
Massachusetts, and it was the release
of her book by UNM Press that
attracted Stavans to the Albuquerque
publisher and led to the birth of the
Jewish Latin America series.
In an earlier book, Tropical
Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish Latin
American Writers, Stavans also confront-
ed Jewish identity in Latin America.
Asbury said the books in this series
are intended for the casual reader, but,
she said, "we know there are a lot of
classes out there that will use them.

John Tanasychuk Detroit Free Press
January 8th. 1999

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• In The Jews of Latin America, published in 1998 by
Holmes and Meier, Judith Laikin Elkin expands the bounds
of Latin American and Jewish history by making visible the
little-known Jewish communities of South and Central
America. In doing so, the book challenges the notion that
Latin American societies are entirely Hispanic and Catholic.
Through the life histories of Jews who immigrated to
Latin America in the late 19th- and early-20th centuries, the author, a histo-
rian associated with the Frankel Center for Jewish Studies at the University
of Michigan, demonstrates that these societies are increasingly pluralistic in
reality, if not in ideology

• In Flora's Suitcase (HarperCollins; $23), author Dalia
Rabinovich, in her fiction debut, weaves a tapestry threaded
with magical realism and heartfelt poignancy. Flora's Suitcase
is the story of Flora Grossenberg, a young Jewish woman
from Cincinnati who marries David, a Russian Jew, and set-
tles with him in Medillin, Colombia, during the 1930s. As
the Grossenbergs' chronicle unfolds, the traditions of the
past blend with the exotic notions of their exotic country.
Rabinovich was born in Colombia, moved to the United
States when she was 4, and moved back to Colombia when she was 8. She
attended school in Bogota and did graduate work at UCLA. She currently
teaches English composition at colleges in New York.

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• Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
(Farrar Straus and Giroux; $24) is author Ariel Dorfman's
fascinating memoir, in which he explores the many exiles of
a life torn, from age 2, between the United States and Latin
America, between revolution and repression. Interwoven
with the remarkable story of how he switched languages and
cultures — not once but three times — is the day-by-day
account of his multiple escapes from death during a military
takeover in Chile.
The real theme of the book, however, is Dorfman's own search for a per-
manent home, a politic 3l cause and, above all, a cultural identity The
author, who lives with his family in Durham, N.C., and teaches at Duke
University, is the author of Konfidenz, Mascara, Death and the Maiden and
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