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Sandra McGee Deutsch

Sandra McGee Deutsch is professor of history at University of Texas-El Paso. She is the author of Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900–1932: The Argentine Patriotic League (1986), Las derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890–1930 (1999), Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955 (2010), and articles on gender and Latin American Jews. She is currently working on a book on Argentine antifascist women, 1920-1947.

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Argentina: Jewish Women

Argentina has the largest Jewish presence in Latin America and the third largest in the Western hemisphere. It features sizable numbers of Sephardim, North Africans, and Arabic speakers, aside from the Ashkenazic majority. Jewish women have been active in farming, education, the professions, and the arts, as well as participants in labor unions, leftist parties, and other movements.