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From Cuba to Chile, a Journey through Jewish Latin America

By Alan Grabinsky

A review of Ilan Stavans' new book exploring Latin America's diverse Jewish community.

This article is adapted from AQ's latest issue on the politics of water in Latin America

Taken together, Latin America is home to the third largest Jewish diaspora group in the world, behind the United States and France. But as Mexican-born essayist and linguist Ilan Stavans notes in The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America, the story of Jews in the region can’t be told in one fell swoop. Every country has something different to say.

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