Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Local Histories through Global Lenses
This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.
Katalin Franciska Rac is the Jewish studies librarian at Emory University. A trained historian and archivist, she specializes in the modern history of Central European Jewry and their transnational connections.
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, associate director for program development in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840‒1920.