Jewish German Immigrant Booksellers in Twentieth-Century Ecuador

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  • Irene Munster Universities at Shady Grove

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/517

Keywords:

Ecuador – German Jews, Jewish bookdealers, German Jewish Bookdealers – Ecuador

Abstract

When German Jews looked for a country to receive them in the late 1930s Ecuador had its doors open for immigration. This paper traces the story of four German Jewish refugees who landed in Ecuador and established bookstores and libraries in a country that knew little of either. Rescuing their lives from oblivion is a way to highlight their cultural contribution to their host country.

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Author Biography

Irene Munster, Universities at Shady Grove

Irene Munster is the Director of the Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove/University of Maryland Libraries. Her research area is on German Jewish presence in South America.

A JCR bookplate in Sefer ha-ḥinukh by Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona (Frankfurt an der Oder: Pinḥas Eliyahu ben Ḥayim Naḥman, 1783). Baltimore Hebrew Institute special collections [see Elaine Mael's article]

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Published

2022-12-31

How to Cite

Munster, Irene. 2022. “Jewish German Immigrant Booksellers in Twentieth-Century Ecuador”. Judaica Librarianship 22 (December):57–72. https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/517.

Issue

Vol. 22 (2022)

Section

Essays and Research

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