DANIELA GLEIZER: Unwelcome Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Abstract

Daniela Gleizer’s Unwelcome Exiles will interest many Latin Americanists
and immigration scholars not only because it provides a detailed history of the
Jewish diaspora in Mexico, but also because it does so from a renewed perspective.
In 2011, Gleizer’s original manuscript was published under the title, El exilio
incómodo: México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945 (El Colegio de México:
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa). El exilio incómodo challenged
the collective memory of Mexico as a haven for exiles even as it detailed
the welcoming of refugees from the Spanish Civil War.