Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires

Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires
Author: Edna Aizenberg
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

A courageous study of cultural resistance to xenophobia and terrorism through the prism of influential writings by Borges, Gerchunoff, and their successor Latin American Jewish writers.

Jewish Issues in Argentine Literature

Jewish Issues in Argentine Literature
Author: Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This examination of Jewish Argentine literature centers on the analysis of eight selected works whose publication dates range from 1910 to 1977. This study will examine poetry and a more abstract novel in addition to novels more overtly concerned with social history.

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas
Author: Alberto Gerchunoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.

Armed Jews in the Americas

Armed Jews in the Americas
Author: Raanan Rein
Publisher: Jewish Latin America
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004462533

"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 armed Jews in the Americas. Links between Jews and their ties to weapons are addressed through multiple cultural, political, social, and ideological contexts, thus breaking down longstanding, stilted myths in many societies about Jews and weaponry. Anti-Semitism and Jewish self-defense, Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and Jewish-American gangsters as ethnic heroes form part of the little-researched topic of Jews and arms in the Americas"--

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone

Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone
Author: Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739172980

The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores how trauma and memory influence the formation of Jewish identity for the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors born in the Southern Cone.

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Author: Jacobo Timerman
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299182441

An Argentine newspaper publisher who dared to criticize his government's policy of cruel repression, tells the story of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture.

Populism and Ethnicity

Populism and Ethnicity
Author: Raanan Rein
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0228003008

Juan Perón's decade-long regime, from 1946 to 1955, is often presented as Nazi-fascist and antisemitic – claims that are strongly rooted in Argentina's collective unconscious and popular culture. Challenging this widely held view, Raanan Rein asserts that there was greater Jewish support for Perón than previously believed, and that fewer antisemitic incidents took place in Argentina during Perón's rule than during any other period in the twentieth century. Recovering the silenced voices of Jewish Argentines who supported Peronism from the beginning, Populism and Ethnicity is a historical, sociological, and political analysis that describes the many positive changes experienced by the Jewish community as a direct result of Perón's presidencies. Perón and his wife Eva gave numerous speeches denouncing antisemitism, and Perón's Argentina was the first Latin American country to open an embassy in the newly established State of Israel. Arguing that no president before Perón so unambiguously rejected discrimination against Jews, Rein shows that many Jews secured more important posts in government in the 1940s and 1950s than in previous years, among them members of the Argentine Jewish Organization, which became a section of the ruling Peronist party. Deconstructing the myth of antisemitism during Perón's regime, Populism and Ethnicity looks deep into the heart of international memory for the truth behind Jewish-Argentine relations.

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America
Author: Malena Chinski
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004373810

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America presents Yiddish culture as it developed in an area seldom associated with the language. Yet several countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay—became centers for Yiddish literature, journalism, political activism, theater, and music. Chapters by historians, linguists, and literary critics explore the flourishing of Yiddish there in the early 20th century, its retraction in the 1960’s, and contemporary endeavors to rescue this marginalized legacy. Topics discussed in the volume include the literary figures of the “Jewish gaucho” and the peddler, the regional Yiddish press, the communal struggle against trafficking in women, cultural responses to the Holocaust, intra-Jewish conflict during the Cold War, debates on assimilation versus tradition, and emergent postvernacular Yiddish. "The editors explain the renewed interest in—or 'revival' of—Yiddish in Latin America from the 1980s on as part of a broader global phenomenon. This volume sheds light on that phenomenon, while also being a part of it." -Amy Kerner, Brown University, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina 30.1 (2019) "As a pioneering scholarly anthology in its field, Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America is to be warmly greeted." -Zachary M. Baker, Stanford University, Journal of Jewish Identities 13.1 (2020)

Harbinger of Modernity

Harbinger of Modernity
Author: Dalia Wassner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 900426132X

In Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina, Dalia Wassner presents an integrated analysis of the civic work and literary oeuvre of Marcos Aguinis, who served as Secretary of Culture during Argentina’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Situating his writings in their historical and intellectual context, Wassner explores Aguinis’s engagement with the dialectic of modernization as a Jewish public intellectual equally dedicated to fostering Argentine democracy and to inscribing himself in the annals of westernization. Encompassing intellectual history, literary criticism, Latin American history, and Jewish studies, Wassner’s work illuminates the intersecting roles of Jews and public intellectuals in bringing democracy to post-dictatorship Argentina.