Born to immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Jesse Rojo grew up in Washington Heights, a historically German-Jewish neighborhood of Manhattan that is now also a Dominican enclave. In conversation with Robert Nicholson, Rojo moves from his own story to the broader scope of Jewish-Latin American history—from conversos who came to Brazil and Curaçao to escape persecution, to the Dominican Republic’s decision to open its doors to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. He also discusses the role of evangelical Christianity in the Spanish-speaking parts of the Western Hemisphere and his own efforts to educate Hispanics about Jews, Israel, and the Middle East. (Audio, 63 minutes.)
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