Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa

by Allen Wells

Book Overview

Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sos a in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America's most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sos a settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those fortunate pioneers who founded a successful employee-owned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344076
• ISBN13: 9780822344070
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"