| Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora Contributor(s): Rein, Raanan (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004189998 ISBN-13: 9789004189997 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $79.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Dewey: 982 |
| Series: Jewish Identities in a Changing World |
| Physical Information: 312 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays gathered here challenge essentialist concepts and overemphasis on Jewish particularity, as well as the common discourse of Jewish victimology. At the same time, they reveal how the Jews, like other ethnic groups, are not monolithic but fragmented by place of origin, social class, political ideologies, and gender. The topics discussed include the non-political Zionism espoused by Sephardic Jews during the first half of the 20th century, Argentine neutrality during World War II, the entry of Nazi war criminals to Argentina, the regime of Juan Per n and its attitudes towards Jewish-Argentines and the state of Israel, the reactions of Jews to the anti-Semitic wave in Argentina following the kidnapping of Adolf Eichman by Mossad agents, the Latin American community in Israel, and protests by Argentine exiles in Israel against the 1978 world-cup soccer games, played in Argentina during a brutal military regime. |