This is the first book in English to discussthe changing attitudes of the Chilean Righttoward Jewish immigrants and the State of Israel. Jewish Chileans rapidly ascended from the status of undesirable immigrants to middle and upper-middle class, facing less obstacles than their Argentine and Uruguayan coreligionists. Particular emphasis is given to the Jewish immigration of the 1930s, the struggle to extradite Nazi war criminal Walther Rauff, and the years of the dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet.
Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen
invites us to re-think right-wing anti-semitism in 20th-century Latin America.