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This essay reviews the following works:Migrations: Poem, 1976–2020. By Gloria Gervitz. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer. New York: New York Review Books, 2021. Pp. 304. $20.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781681375700.Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture. By Mariusz Kałczewiak. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 320. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780817320393.The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation. By Amy K. Kaminsky. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. Pp. xviii + 262. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781438483290.Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933–1965. By Robert Kelz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 372. $25.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501739866.Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation. By Claudio Lomnitz. New York: Other Press, 2021. Pp. 464. $27.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781635420708.Nuestra América: Utopía y persistencia de una familia judía. By Claudio Lomnitz. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018. Pp. 336. $14.00 paperback. ISBN: 9786071660084.Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film. By Stephanie M. Pridgeon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 208. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781487508142.Armed Jews in the Americas. Edited by Raanan Rein and David M. K. Sheinin. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2021. Pp. 264. $142.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9789004462533.Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century. By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Pp. vi + 336. $28.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780374185428.La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff. By Mónica Szurmuk. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana Editorial, 2018. Pp. 431. $23.54 paperback. ISBN: 9789500761482.Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Rethinking Argentinidad. By Mirna Vohnsen. Suffolk: Tamesis Books, 2019. Pp. 205. $99.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781855663374.

The Jews is an anti-historical thriller in the form of a Talmudic tragicomedy, taking place sometime during the Second World War. Stalin and his Minister of Security Beria are worried about the political developments in Germany, where Martin Heidegger has replaced Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Third Reich. Suspecting that the Frankfurt School, headed by Vice-Chancellor Walter Benjamin, has masterminded this takeover, he dispatches two Jewish actors, Salomon Maimon and Natalia Goncharova, to investigate the situation in the hope of uncovering the extent of the Jewish conspiracy. Upon arrival in Berlin, Maimon and Goncharova are received by Benjamin, who introduces them to Heidegger. The latter has stopped speaking to anyone except his mother since his rise to power, and Benjamin holds long speeches on the history of theater, the law, God, the royal gods and the old goddesses. Eventually, prodded by his mother, Heidegger marries Goncharova, surrounded by a merry audience. The novel ends on a plain somewhere between Moscow and Berlin, where the final battle for Jerusalem is being waged. In front of the entrance of a camp, Maimon and Benjamin are joined by a group of old Jews arriving by train, bringing the news of Stalin's death by circumcision. They reenact scenes from the Old Testament while Jerusalem is burning. Did the world to come finally arrive?

This book examines the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. It charts the relations and political struggle between Ashkenazi-Zionists and the Mizrahim in Israel from post-war relocation through to the present day.

A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path of the Jews is traced through countless expulsions and migrations, the great tragedy of the Holocaust, and the joy of founding a homeland in Israel. Putting the struggle of a persecuted people into perspective, Max Dimont asks whether the tragic sufferings of the Jews have actually been the key to their survival, as other nations and races vanished into obscu