Part 5: Jews in the Postwar Americas (1946-Present) Takeaways
The Holocaust meant for the first time in world history, the largest population of Jews was in the Americas.
American Jews adapted to this new world role in three chronological (but sometimes overlapping) stages:
refuge
renewal, and
intersectionality.
The military dictatorships of the 1970s meant Latin American Jews struggled with more political repression, and as a result experienced some aspects of Jewish renewal and de-assimilation later than Jews to the North.
While a source of strength and hope for many American Jews, the state of Israel also led to conflicts with American Jewish communities.
Power spread across a wider, more diverse segment of the American Jewish population.
