Gustavo Guzmán

Gustavo is a historian of Latin America with a research focus on antisemitism. He holds a PhD in History from Tel Aviv University (2021), where he wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Raanan Rein, a leading scholar in the field of Jewish Latin American studies. His doctoral research focused on the attitudes of the Chilean right toward Jews throughout the twentieth century — not merely the extreme right, but a broad range of conservative actors. This approach, which challenged prevailing historiographical assumptions, was recognized by the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which awarded me the Robert Wistrich Prize for Postgraduate Research in Antisemitism in 2017. In 2018, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University also supported his work with a scholarship award

Gustavo’s scholarship seeks to historicize antisemitism in its political, social, and transnational contexts. Through his first monograph, Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen (Brill, 2022), and his ongoing research on Holocaust survivors who returned to West Germany after years of exile in Chile, he aims to understand how antisemitic ideologies and discourses adapt to changing historical circumstances. His forthcoming second monograph—Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews (Routledge, 2026)—continues this line of inquiry by expDr. Gustavo Guzmán is a historian in antisemitism and Jewish history in Latin America.

He is currently a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate) at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

He holds a PhD in History from Tel Aviv University (2021), where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Raanan Rein. His first book, Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen (Brill, 2022), examines how diverse right-wing actors in Chile related to Jews across the twentieth century, challenging the tendency to focus exclusively on the far right. His forthcoming monograph, Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews (Routledge, 2026), explores the place of Jews in the political imaginaries of Chile’s rival Cold War regimes.

Dr. Guzmán’s research has been recognized with the Robert Wistrich Prize for Postgraduate Research in Antisemitism from the Vidal Sassoon International Center (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and scholarship awards from the Stephen Roth Institute and the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry (Tel Aviv University). His current work examines the postwar return migration of Holocaust survivors from Latin America to West Germany.loring the place of Jews in the ideological and political imaginaries of two opposing regimes in Cold War Chile. At a time when anti-Jewish sentiment is once again proliferating globally—including in Latin America—scholarship on the historical foundations and local dynamics of antisemitism in the region becomes ever more urgent. His work contributes to current efforts to better understand and confront not only antisemitism but also forms of anti-Israel sentiment that often echo or blur into antisemitic narratives.