The New Jewish Argentina
Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone
Edited by Adriana Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
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Biographical note
Adriana M. Brodsky Ph.D (2004, Duke University) is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary´s College of Maryland. Her work focuses on the construction of the Argentine Jewish community from the perspective of its Sephardi minority, and is currently working on a project on Sephardi Youth in the Zionist movement.
Raanan Rein, Phd.(1991) Tel Aviv University is Professor of Latin America and Spanish History at TAU. He has published more than 20 books and many articles on Argentine History, Spanish History and Jewish experiences in the Spanish speaking world, including Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora, (Brill 2010)
Raanan Rein, Phd.(1991) Tel Aviv University is Professor of Latin America and Spanish History at TAU. He has published more than 20 books and many articles on Argentine History, Spanish History and Jewish experiences in the Spanish speaking world, including Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora, (Brill 2010)
Readership
Insititutes, academic and public libreries, undergraduate and graduate students, educated layman, historians, latin-americanists, scholars of Jewish studies, sociologists.
Table of contents
Introduction Raanan Rein and Adriana M. Brodsky
Chapter 1: The Jewish Experience in Argentina in a Diasporic Comparative Perspective José C. Moya
Chapter 2: From Textile Thieves to ¨Supposed Seamstresses¨: Jews, Crime, and Urban Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905-1930 Mollie Lewis Nouwen
Chapter 3: Uprooting the Seeds of Evil: Jewish Marriage Regulation, Morality Certificates, and Degenerate Prostitute Mothers in 1930s Buenos Aires Mir Yarfitz
Chapter 4: Print Culture and Urban Geography: Jewish Bookstores, Libraries, and Printers in Buenos Aires, 1910-1960 Alejandro Dujovne
Chapter 5: "Don Jacobo en la Argentina" Battles the Nacionalistas: Crítica, the Funny Pages, and Jews as a Liberal Discourse (1929-1932) Ariel Svarch
Chapter 6: The “Other” Gerchunoff and the Visual Representation of the Shoah Edna Aizenberg
Chapter 7: An Argentine Experience? Borges, Judaism, and the Holocaust Federico Finchelstein
Chapter 8: Electing ‘Miss Sefaradí’, and ‘Queen Esther’: Sephardim, Zionism, and ethnic and national identities in Argentina, 1933-1971 Adriana M. Brodsky
Chapter 9: Politically Incorrect: César Tiempo and the Editorial Staff of the Cultural Supplement of La Prensa Raanan Rein
Chapter 10: Generation and Innovation in the Rise of an Argentine-Jewish Community, 1960- 1967 Beatrice D. Gurwitz
Chapter 11: Reading Kissinger’s Avatars: Cold War Pragmatism in Argentina’s Middle East Policy David M. K. Sheinin
Chapter 12: “Memories that lie a little.” New approaches to the research into the Jewish experience during the last military dictatorship in Argentina Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan
Chapter 13: Child Survivors of the Shoa: Testimony, Citizenship, and Survival in Jewish Buenos Aires Natasha Zaretsky
Chapter 14: Body and Soul: Therapeutic Dimensions of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Neoliberal Argentina Shari Jacobson
Chapter 15: The Other Becomes Mainstream: Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema Tzvi Tal
Chapter 1: The Jewish Experience in Argentina in a Diasporic Comparative Perspective José C. Moya
Chapter 2: From Textile Thieves to ¨Supposed Seamstresses¨: Jews, Crime, and Urban Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905-1930 Mollie Lewis Nouwen
Chapter 3: Uprooting the Seeds of Evil: Jewish Marriage Regulation, Morality Certificates, and Degenerate Prostitute Mothers in 1930s Buenos Aires Mir Yarfitz
Chapter 4: Print Culture and Urban Geography: Jewish Bookstores, Libraries, and Printers in Buenos Aires, 1910-1960 Alejandro Dujovne
Chapter 5: "Don Jacobo en la Argentina" Battles the Nacionalistas: Crítica, the Funny Pages, and Jews as a Liberal Discourse (1929-1932) Ariel Svarch
Chapter 6: The “Other” Gerchunoff and the Visual Representation of the Shoah Edna Aizenberg
Chapter 7: An Argentine Experience? Borges, Judaism, and the Holocaust Federico Finchelstein
Chapter 8: Electing ‘Miss Sefaradí’, and ‘Queen Esther’: Sephardim, Zionism, and ethnic and national identities in Argentina, 1933-1971 Adriana M. Brodsky
Chapter 9: Politically Incorrect: César Tiempo and the Editorial Staff of the Cultural Supplement of La Prensa Raanan Rein
Chapter 10: Generation and Innovation in the Rise of an Argentine-Jewish Community, 1960- 1967 Beatrice D. Gurwitz
Chapter 11: Reading Kissinger’s Avatars: Cold War Pragmatism in Argentina’s Middle East Policy David M. K. Sheinin
Chapter 12: “Memories that lie a little.” New approaches to the research into the Jewish experience during the last military dictatorship in Argentina Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan
Chapter 13: Child Survivors of the Shoa: Testimony, Citizenship, and Survival in Jewish Buenos Aires Natasha Zaretsky
Chapter 14: Body and Soul: Therapeutic Dimensions of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Neoliberal Argentina Shari Jacobson
Chapter 15: The Other Becomes Mainstream: Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema Tzvi Tal
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This edited volume explores multiple representations by and of Jewish Latin Americans, thus revisiting the canon of Judeo-Latin American culture. It expands the horizon of what is traditionally considered “Jewish” or “Latinoamericano.”
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