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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurwitz, Beatrice D., author.

Series:

Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 8.

Jewish Latin America : issues and methods ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Argentina--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Argentina--Identity.

Jews--Argentina--Politics and government.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Argentina.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Politics and government.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

History.

Argentina--Ethnic relations.

Argentina.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 231 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

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 Peron, 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 to 1983. 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.

Contents:

The new world: the fall of Peron and the triumph of liberal Argentina, 1955-1960

Nationalism, populism and the demise of the liberal nation, 1961-1966

Youth, identity, and the making of the Latin American Jew

The challenge of the new left: anti-Zionism and a captivated youth, 1967-1973

Third-world Zionism: national liberation and the revolutionary vanguard, 1967-1973

Jewish radicalism revised: guerillas, terrorism and dictatorship, 1973-1977

October 1983 and the politics of forgetting.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gurwitz, Beatrice D., author. Between the New World and the Third World

ISBN:

9789004329614

9004329617

OCLC:

952700975