| Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt: Between the New World and the Third World Contributor(s): Gurwitz, Beatrice D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004329617 ISBN-13: 9789004329614 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $143.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Rituals & Practice - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 2016030304 |
| Series: Jewish Latin America |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Per n, 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. |