Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa, Allen Wells (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), xxxi + 447 pp., hardcover 99.95, pbk. 27.95
Allen Wells's book recounts the relocation of European Jews to the Dominican Republic during the Holocaust. In the 1940s US and Dominican authorities facilitated the settlement of about eight hundred Jewish refugees in Sosúa, on the northern coast of the country. What makes Wells's study o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 488-491 |
| Review of: | Tropical Zion (Durham [u.a.] : Duke Univ. Press, 2009) (Espinoza, G. Antonio)
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| Summary: | Allen Wells's book recounts the relocation of European Jews to the Dominican Republic during the Holocaust. In the 1940s US and Dominican authorities facilitated the settlement of about eight hundred Jewish refugees in Sosúa, on the northern coast of the country. What makes Wells's study original is its placement of the story within the contexts of American Jewish response to the Final Solution, US policy toward Latin America, and Dominican politics. A Latin-Americanist at Bowdoin and the son of a settler himself, Wells not only read documents in US and Dominican archives, but also interviewed several of the colonists., In the first part, Wells analyzes the circumstances preceding relocation. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq051 |