Searching for Argentina’s Lost Yiddish Theater
In a young Argentine literary standout’s new novel, the country’s Jewish past and present collide.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on the 2024 U.S. presidential election and its impact on Latin America Writing about Argentina’s best-known Jewish community center, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), is a unique challenge. That’s thanks to the complex nature of the country’s accountability—or lack thereof—regarding the terrorist attack on the center in 1994. The bombing, which killed 85 people, was determined by a recent court decision to have been carried out by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. But three decades later, after countless...
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