Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? : essays on ethnicity, identity, and diaspora /

This volume is devoted to Jewish Argentines in the twentieth century, and deliberately avoids restrictive or prescriptive definitions of Jews and Judaism. Instead, it focuses on people whose identities include a Jewish component, irrespective of social class and gender, and regardless of whether the...

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Main Author: Rein, Raanan, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789047441489
9047441486
1282950894
9781282950894
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnicity and diaspora in twentieth-century Latin America: the Jewish case
  • Searching for home abroad: Jews in Argentina and Argentines in Israel
  • Complementary identities: Sephardim, Zionists, and Argentines in the interwar period
  • Argentina, World War II, and the entry of Nazi war criminals
  • Nationalism, education, and identity: Argentine Jews and Catholic religious instruction
  • Diplomats and journalists: the image of Peronism in the Hebrew press
  • A pact of oblivion: the de-Peronization of the Jewish community
  • Argentine Jews and the accusation of 'dual loyalty'
  • Peron's return to power as reflected in the Israeli press
  • Soccer as a double-edged weapon: Argentine exiles in Israel protest against the 1978 World Cup.