The Latin American Left, Israel, and the Jews (1947–1975)
Please join the CSA and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 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.
This event is co-presented by the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS): https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/clacs.html