Brodsky, Adriana.
The New Jewish Argentina : Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (413 pages) - Jewish Latin America Ser. . - Jewish Latin America Ser. .
Intro -- 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, 1960-1967 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter Fifteen The Other Becomes Mainstream: Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema -- Index.
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.
9789004237285
Argentina -- Ethnic relations.
Jews -- Argentina -- History.
Jews -- Argentina -- Identity.
Jews -- Argentina -- Intellectual life.
Jews -- Argentina -- Social life and customs.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Argentina.
Electronic books.
F3021.J5N49 2012
982/.0004924
The New Jewish Argentina : Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (413 pages) - Jewish Latin America Ser. . - Jewish Latin America Ser. .
Intro -- 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, 1960-1967 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter Fifteen The Other Becomes Mainstream: Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema -- Index.
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.
9789004237285
Argentina -- Ethnic relations.
Jews -- Argentina -- History.
Jews -- Argentina -- Identity.
Jews -- Argentina -- Intellectual life.
Jews -- Argentina -- Social life and customs.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Argentina.
Electronic books.
F3021.J5N49 2012
982/.0004924