Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Rethinking Jewish Identity in Latin America -- Part One Jewish Latin American Experiences, Past and Present -- Chapter One Jewish Latin American Historiography: The Challenges Ahead -- Chapter Two Educating Argentine Jews: Sephardim and Their Schools, 1920s-1960s -- Chapter Three The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition: The Case of Sergio Chejfec -- Part Two Jewishness as Literary Representation -- Chapter Four Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter Five Hacer la América: The Diasporic Imagination in Saed's Triple crónica de un nombre -- Chapter Six Judaism, Sexuality, and the Nation in Francisco Goldman's The Divine Husband -- Part Three Jewish and Lo Latinoamericano in the Arts -- Chapter Seven Borges and the Kabbalah: Pre-Texts to a Text -- Chapter Eight Music of the Underdog: Sociological and Musical Similarities between Muzika Mizrahit and Salsa -- Chapter Nine Jewish Puberty in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Constructing Judeo-Latinidad -- Part Four The Notion of Otherness and the Question of Integration -- Chapter Ten "The books that should not be missing in any Jewish home": Translation as a Cultural Policy in Argentina, 1919-1938 -- Chapter Eleven Beyond Identity: Clarice Lispector and the Ethical Transcendence of Being for the Other -- Chapter Twelve Plausible Alternatives in the Jewish Argentinean Integration Game -- Chapter Thirteen Otherness in El árbol de la Gitana -- Bibliography -- Index.