Promised Lands North and South : : Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation.

• Superior document: Jewish Latin America Series ; v.15
• Author: S. Koffman, David.
• TeilnehmendeR: M.K. Sheinin, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Latin America Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)

This exciting new collection of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary scholarship brings together analyses of two dynamic and longstanding Jewish communities. From historical, sociological, literary, and other perspectives, contributing authors offer rich new understandings of Argentine and Canadian Jewish life.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Common Origins, Distinctive Paths: What's to Be Gained by Putting -- Part 1: Making People -- 01 Jewish Migrations to and from Argentina and Canada: Tides, Waves, -- 1.1 The Hydraulics of Mass Jewish Migration -- 1.2 Population Size and Mass Migrations -- 1.3 Four Tides -- 1.3.1 From Eastern Europe to Argentina and Canada, 1880s-1920s -- 1.3.2 From the USSR/FSU to Canada, 1980s-2019 -- 1.3.3 From Eastern Europe to Canada, 1947-55 -- 1.3.4 From Morocco to Canada, 1957-69 -- 1.3.5 Five Waves: Argentinian Emigration Post-1960 -- 1.4 Three Streams -- 1.5 Theoretical and Methodological Implications -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 02 Jewish Alterity and the Myth of the -- 03 Argentina and Canada: Promised Lands for -- 3.1 Moroccan Jewish Migration to Argentina: Economic Opportunities and Freedom of Religion -- 3.2 Post-Colonial Migration to Canada: Circulations and Settlement -- 3.3 Naming Hybrid Identities -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part 2: Creating Community -- 04 Jewish Support for Nationalist Movements in the Americas: A Comparative -- 4.1 Peronism, Populism, and Politics -- 4.2 Jewish Peronistas -- 4.3 Québec's Quiet Revolution -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 05 Jewish Archives in Countries of Immigration: Argentina -- 5.1 Canada -- 5.2 Argentina -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 06 Charity, Health, and Community: The Hospital Israelita of Buenos Aires -- 6.1 Filling Holes in the System -- 6.2 Patients, Members, and Fundraisers -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 07 Mid-century Modern: Simón Bronenberg, Sammy Luftspring, and the Coming of Age -- 7.1 Clues from Film and Literature -- 7.2 Luftspring -- 7.3 Bronenberg -- 7.4 Postscript: the Fading of Two Greats -- Part 3: Penning Culture -- 08 Rewriting Lorca in the Argentinian and Canadian Jewish -- 8.1 Argentina.

8.2 Canada -- 8.3 Conclusion -- 09 Plowing Argentine and Canadian Soil: Jewish Colonization in the Writing -- 9.1 History of Jewish Colonization in Argentina and Canada -- 9.2 Conquering Nature and the Colonists' Civilizing Mission -- 9.3 Overcoming Economic Misery -- 9.4 Becoming Local -- 9.5 Jewishness Adjusted -- 9.6 Conclusion -- 10 Writing Settler Relations: Jewish Literary Engagements with Indigenous Themes in Argentina -- 10.1 Explicitly Colonial, Explicitly Settler, Eliding Indigenous People -- 10.2 Ambiguous Machinations on Identification -- 10.3 Confrontation, Contextualization, Caution -- 11 Representing Jewish Experience: The Novels of Adele Wiseman -- 11.1 Adele Wiseman -- 11.2 Ana María Shua -- 11.3 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Yiddish Theater in Montréal and Buenos Aires: Common Origins -- 12.1 Montréal: One Unforgettable Season at the Monument National -- 12.2 Buenos Aires in the 1920s: Stars and Scandals -- 12.3 Conclusion -- Part 4: Dealing with Difficulties -- 13 What We Can Learn from a Comparison of Antisemitisms in Argentina -- 13.1 Brief Historical Perspectives -- 13.1.1 Argentina -- 13.1.2 Canada -- 13.2 The Contemporary State of Antisemitism in Argentina and Canada -- 13.2.1 Argentina -- 13.2.2 Canada -- 13.3 Toward a Conclusion: What Have We Learned from Our Comparison of Antisemitism in Argentina and Canada? -- 14 The Deafening Silence: A Reappraisal of the Early Canadian Jewish Response -- 14.1 Wartime Commemoration of the Holocaust -- 14.2 Postwar Commemoration of the Holocaust -- 14.3 The Cost of Symbolic Holocaust Commemoration -- 14.4 The Voices Restored: the Eichmann Trial and the Unmuted Voices of the Past -- 14.5 Conclusion -- 15 Under Suspicion: Argentina's Jews in the Optic -- 15.1 The "Russian" Scare: Shaping the Image of Jews as Dangerous and Deceitful.

15.2 The Jews: Allegedly Part of a Conspiring International Network -- 15.3 Slipping into Violence -- 15.4 Radical Polarization -- 15.5 Zionism and the Fabled Andinia Plan -- 15.6 Conclusion: Jewish Argentines under Suspicion and Their Revindication of Full Citizenship -- 16 "A Rescued Jewish Young Lady Comes": Malka Owsiany's Reception and Testimony -- 16.1 Malka Owsiany's Arrival and Reception in Buenos Aires -- 16.2 Malka Owsiany Recounts, Marc Turkow Writes: the Origin of Dos poylishe yidntum -- 16.3 Malka Owsiany's Arrival and Reception in Buenos Aires, in Retrospect -- 16.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 17 Reimagining Testimony: Holocaust Memory and the Public Sphere -- 17.1 Legacies of Violence and Belonging -- 17.2 Testimony, Truth and Survival -- 17.3 Reimagining Testimony and Belonging -- 17.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 18 Jews in a Counterfactual -- 18.1 Counterfactual British Argentina in General -- 18.2 Jews in Counterfactual British Argentina-History -- 18.3 The Jews in Counterfactual British Argentina Today -- 18.4 Jewish Communities in Counterfactual Argentina -- 18.4.1 Buenos Aires -- 18.4.2 Other Cities and Regions -- 18.5 Looking Forward -- References -- Index.