In this volume on Jewish life in South America, Rabbi Cohen has performed an important service in relation to the whole of the American Jewish community, perhaps the more important and enduring because it was rendered as a phase in the task of identifying American Jewry with the Americas in their entirety and solidarity. In his book, which is an echo of personal and immediate impressions set down in precise diaries and accurate reports, Rabbi Cohen has brought the very mood and quality of the South American democracies to the Northern Democracy. The report on his recent visit to South America is particularly important in the light of the forthcoming Inter-American Jewish Conference at Montevideo, Uruguay, July, 1941.