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Title The new Jewish Argentina : facets of Jewish experiences in the Southern cone / edited by Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Jewish Latin America ; 2
Contents List of Tables, Maps, and Figures; Acknowledgment; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One The Jewish Experience in Argentina in a Diasporic Comparative Perspective; Chapter Two From Textile Thieves to "Supposed Seamstreses": Jews, Crime, and Urban Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905-1930; Chapter Three Uprooting the Seeds of Evil: Ezras Noschim and Jewish Marriage Regulation, Morality Certificates, and Degenerate Prostitute Mothers in 1930s Buenos Aires; Chapter Four Print Culture and Urban Geography: Jewish Bookstores, Libraries and Printers in Buenos Aires, 1910-1960
Chapter Five "Don Jacobo en la Argentina" Battles the Nacionalistas: Crítica, the Funny Pages, and Jews as a Liberal Discourse (1929-1932)Chapter Six The "Other" Gerchunoff and the Visual Representation of the Shoah; Chapter Seven An Argentine Experience? Borges, Judaism, and the Holocaust; Chapter Eight Electing 'Miss Sefaradi', and 'Queen Esther': Sephardim, Zionism, and Ethnic and National Identities in Argentina, 1933-1971; Chapter Nine Politically Incorrect: César Tiempo and the Editorial Staff of the Cultural Supplement of La Prensa
Chapter Ten Generation and Innovation in the Rise of an Argentine-Jewish Community, 1960-1967Chapter Eleven Reading Kissinger's Avatars: Cold War Pragmatism in Argentina's Middle East Policy; Chapter Twelve "Memories that lie a little." New Approaches to the Research into the Jewish Experience during the Last Military Dictatorship in Argentina; Chapter Thirteen Child Survivors of the Shoah: Testimony, Citizenship, and Survival in Jewish Buenos Aires; Chapter Fourteen Body and Soul: Therapeutic Dimensions of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Neoliberal Argentina
Summary The New Jewish Argentina aims at filling in important lacunae in the existing historiography of Jewish Argentines. Moving away from the political history of the organized community, most articles are devoted to social and cultural history
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jews -- Argentina -- History
Jews -- Argentina -- Identity
Jews -- Argentina -- Intellectual life
Jews -- Argentina -- Social life and customs
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Argentina
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews -- Cultural assimilation
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Intellectual life
Jews -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Argentina -- Ethnic relations
Subject Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brodsky, Adriana Mariel, 1967-
Rein, Raanan, 1960-
ISBN 9004237283
9789004237285
9781283638197
1283638193