Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Creating Community and National Identity, 1880–1960 by Adriana M. Brodsky (review)
Adriana M. Brodsky’s work is a much-needed addition to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies. Focusing on the diverse Sephardi groups from the Middle East and North Africa that settled in Argentina (both Buenos Aires and the provinces), Brodsky provides an essential overview of a diverse and often-divided group that was a minority within the small Jewish population. She argues that since it was made up of disparate groups that had little contact in the Old World, Sephardi identity was always a choice in Argentina, made possible by the new proximity of the different groups.