1st Edition
Jewish Self-Defense in South America Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand
By Raanan Rein
Copyright 2023
288 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
The kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and his trial and execution in Israel in 1962, as well as the assassination of the Latvian war criminal... Read more
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
Biography
Raanan Rein is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former vice president of Tel Aviv University.
