Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? : essays on ethnicity, identity, and diaspora / / by Raanan Rein.

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, politica...

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Superior document:Jewish identities in a changing world, v. 12
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.