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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136594503321

Autore

Gurwitz Beatrice D.

Titolo

Argentine Jews in the age of revolt : between the New World and the Third World / / by Beatrice D. Gurwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-32962-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Jewish Latin America, , 2211-0968 ; ; Volume 8

Disciplina

305.892/408209045

Soggetti

Jews - Argentina - History - 20th century

Jews - Argentina - Identity

Jews - Argentina - Politics and government

Jews - Cultural assimilation - Argentina

Argentina Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The New World: The Fall of Perón and the Triumph of Liberal Argentina, 1955–1960 -- 2 Nationalism, Populism, and the Demise of the Liberal Nation, 1961–1966 -- 3 Youth, Identity, and the Making of the Latin American Jew -- 4 The Challenge of the New Left: Anti-Zionism and a Captivated Youth, 1967–1973 -- 5 Third-World Zionism: National Liberation and the Revolutionary Vanguard, 1967–1973 -- 6 Jewish Radicalism Revised: Guerillas, Terrorism, and Dictatorship, 1973–1977 -- Epilogue: October 1983 and the Politics of Forgetting -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt traces the ongoing efforts among Argentine Jews to rethink the Argentine nation, Jewish membership in it, and the nature of Jewishness itself from 1955 to 1983. Beginning with the celebrations around the supposed triumph of the “liberal nation” after the overthrow of Juan Perón, this study examines Jewish activists’ discourse through years of rapid transitions between civil and military rule, massive social protest, escalating violence, and finally the brutal military dictatorship of 1976 to1983. It argues that these were crucial years in which Jewish activists forcefully discarded previous



understandings of the nation and pioneered novel definitions of Jewishness and Zionism designed to resonate in a Latin America upended by revolutionary ferment.