OLLI101252 - Jews of Latin America

Course Description

JEWS OF LATIN AMERICA
Natan Szapiro

4 week class March 9 - March 30
Tuesdays, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Jewish Latin America is usually relegated to the margins in discussions of both Latin America and the Jewish world. It is true that, with fewer than one million Jews, Latin America’s Jewish communities comprise a small proportion of the world’s Jews, and an even smaller portion of Latin America’s population. But the story of Jews in Latin America helps illuminate broader aspects of Jewish history and of the history of the Latin American countries in which they settled.

Class limit: 150

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