236 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the attitudes of Chilean President Salvador Allende and General Augusto Pinochet toward Jews and the State of Israel.
Throughout his political career, Allende expressed solidarity with European Jews in the 1930s, supported the establishment of a Jewish state in the 1940s, and opposed left-wing criticism of Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. As president, he interceded on behalf... Read more
Introduction
Part 1: President Allende and the Jews
1. The Jewish Allendistas
2. A Long-Standing Friend of Jews
3. The Anti-Allende Jews
Part 2: General Pinochet and the Jews
4. "National Reconstruction"
5. An Ally in the Middle East
6. Golden Years
7. Hectic Years
Epilogue: London, 1998
Biography
Gustavo Guzmán is Research Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Free University of Berlin. He is the author of Attitudes of the Chilean Right Toward Jews (2022), Latin American Strongmen and the Jews (forthcoming 2027), and numerous articles on Jewish history and antisemitism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
