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Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism
Hotel Bolivia The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism Author:Leo Spitzer In the 1930s, thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. But by late 1938, Bolivia was one of the few places in the entire world that was still accepting Jewish refugees; more than twenty thousand Central Europeans soon remade their lives there. Leo Spitzer examines, with exemplary subtlety and detail, the t... more »ension between memory and history that shows in their story: their European culture, their Jewish identities, their sense of displacement, and their experience of Bolivia's politics and society.« less