Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Antisemitism in Chile and Latin America -- 2 The Chilean Right -- 3 The Jews of Chile -- 4 Questions and Hypothesis -- 5 Methodology and Timespan -- 6 Book Structure -- 7 Archives and Sources -- Part 1: Acceptable Undesirables (1932–40) -- 1 The Actors -- 1 Right-Wingers -- 2 Immigrants -- 3 Jews -- 2 The Attitudes -- 1 Indifference and Hostility: The Right-Wing Establishment’s Negative Attitudes toward Jews -- 2 Humanitarianism and Pragmatism: The Right-Wing Establishment’s Positive Attitudes toward Jews -- 3 Other Actors, Similar Attitudes? Views of Less Established Right-Wingers on the “Jewish Question” -- 4 Silence, Suspicion, and Acceptance: Attitudes of Right-Wing Priests, Military Officers, and Intellectuals toward Jews -- 5 Conclusion of Part 1: How Unique Were Chilean Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews? -- Part 2: Respected Businessmen (1958–78) -- 3 Right-Wingers and Jews in Jorge Alessandri’s Chile (1958–64) -- 1 The Old Is Dying, and the New Cannot Be Born -- 2 Professionals, Zionists, and New Immigrants -- 3 The Rauff Affair -- 4 Years of Reform (1964–73) -- 1 The New Is Born -- 2 Leftists, Right-Wingers, and Zionists -- 3 Another Test of Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews -- 5 A Community Working for Progress (1973–78) -- 1 Military and Civilian Right-Wingers -- 2 Jews under Military Rule -- 3 Military and Civilians on Jews and Israel -- 4 Conclusion of Part 2: Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews on Both Sides of the Andes—a Comparison with Argentina -- Epilogue: The Plebiscite, the Nazi, and the Jewish Aides (1988) -- 1 Changes -- 2 Continuities -- 3 Allosemitism in the Andes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A pioneering discussion of the changing attitudes of the Chilean right toward Jewish immigrants and Israel, with a particular emphasis on the 1930s, the failed struggle to extradite war criminal Walter Rauff and the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

This is the first book in English to discuss the changing attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jewish immigrants and the State of Israel from the 1930s onwards. Jewish Chileans have ascended rapidly from the status of undesirable immigrants to middle and upper-middle class, facing less obstacles than their Argentine coreligionists. Particular emphasis is given to the failed struggle to extradite war criminal Walther Rauff and to the years of the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. By the 1970s, Israel seemed a strong pro-Western barrier to the expansion of communism and Islamic fundamentalism.

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