Jewish Self-Defense in South America: Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand

ISBN-13: 9780367724887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Raanan Rein

Opis

Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s.

Spis treści

0. Introduction, 1. Israel and the Safety of Diaspora Jews, 2. Eichmann’s Capture and the Birth of the Irgún, 3. From Spontaneous Activities to an Organized and Institutionalized Self-Defense, 4. Beating for Zionism, 5. Troubled Waters: The Uruguayan Version of Self-Defense, 6. Nazi War Criminals and Arab Propagandists in Uruguay, 7. Epilogue