Armed Jews in the Americas / / edited by Raanan Rein, David M. K. Sheinin.

• Superior document: Jewish Latin America ; Volume 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Rein, Raanan,; Sheinin, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Latin America ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)

"A Jewish weapons manufacturer during the American Civil War, a Jewish-Canadian chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Board, and Jewish-Argentine guerrilla fighters-these are some of the individuals discussed in this first-of-its-kind volume. It brings together some of the best new works on...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction: A Curious Mix of Jews and Weapons
• Chapter 2 "If I Can See One ... I Can Build Them": David Lopez Jr. and Weapons Manufacturing during the American Civil War
• Chapter 3 American Jewish Gangsters
• Chapter 4 "Our Fight Is Not Yet Over": Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
• Chapter 5 Mika, mi Guerra de España: Ideology and Commitment
• Chapter 6 The Spirit of 1776 in 1948: American Machalnikim and Israel's War of Independence
• Chapter 7 "To Get a Conviction a Morality Officer Has to Practically Crawl into Bed with a Hooker": Phil Givens, the Police, and the Battle for Toronto's Yonge Street
• Chapter 8 "We Had Our Own Problems and So We Had Our Own Bitachon": Jewish Self-Defense in Uruguay, 1960-1987
• Chapter 9 From Zionist Movements to Guerrilla Groups: David Armando Laniado, Raúl Milberg, and Political Radicalization in Argentina
• Chapter 10 Revolutionary Eschatology: The Argentine Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo and the Secularization of Religious Traditions
• Chapter 11 The Montoneros and the Jewish Question in Argentine Fiction
• Index.