The Latin American Left, Israel, and the Jews (1947–1975)
Please join the CSA for a lecture by one of our spring Visiting Scholars on this crucial topic for understanding the current state of left-wing attitudes toward Jews and Israel across Latin America.
Dr. Gustavo Guzmán is a historian specializing in antisemitism and Jewish history in Latin
America. He is currently a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate) at the Institute for
Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin. He holds a PhD in History from Tel Aviv
University (2021), where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Raanan Rein.
His first book, Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to
Respected Businessmen (Brill, 2022), examines how diverse right-wing actors in Chile related to
Jews throughout the twentieth century, challenging the tendency to focus exclusively on the far
right. His forthcoming monograph, Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews (Routledge, 2026), explores the
place of Jews in the political imaginaries of Chile’s rival Cold War regimes.
Dr. Guzmán’s research has been recognized with the Robert Wistrich Prize for Postgraduate
Research in Antisemitism from the Vidal Sassoon International Center (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem), as well as awards from the Stephen Roth Institute and the Kantor Center for the Study
of Contemporary European Jewry (Tel Aviv University). His current project investigates
antisemitism and philosemitism across twentieth-century Latin America.