'Nuestra América': A history of the Jewish Diaspora in South America
Eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America
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Eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America
Eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America
In his generations-spanning new book, the anthropologist tracks the story of Jewish life in Latin America through the travails of one family.
Claudio Lomnitz’s “Nuestra América: A Jewish Latin American Odyssey” February 26, 2021 Kate Wolf talks with Claudio Lomnitz, author of Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation, which traces his family's history in the Jewish diaspora from the Eastern European region of Bessarabia to South America and on to Mexico. Claudio tells tales of his relatives — in particular, his maternal grandfather Misha Adler, a scholar and publisher involved in a number of revolutionary movements in the mid-20th century. He also relates his family's experiences to the struggles of margin...