Raanan Rein

La historia del Club Atlético Atlanta, su relación con el barrio de Villa Crespo y la comunidad judía. Raanan Rein se concentra en los orígenes de Atlanta, de sus hinchas y de Villa Crespo como una forma de explorar la integración social de inmigrantes semitas y de sus descendientes en la vida urbana porteña. Para la primera generación de estos inmigrantes, la pertenencia al club fue una forma de convertirse en argentinos. Para la siguiente, ya nacida en el país y dispuesta a agregar un fuerte componente nacional al mosaico de su identidad, se trató, además, de una forma de mantener una etnicidad judía; mientras que para la tercera generación esta pertenencia se transformó en tradición familiar. Lo que prueba, entre otras cosas, que el fútbol ha ofrecido y sigue ofreciendo un escenario privilegiado en el cual distintos grupos sociales pueden, a la vez, afirmarse en sus diferencias pero también integrarse a un colectivo mayor, en este caso, la Nación.

Judíos y fútbol en la Argentina

Los bohemios de Villa Crespo

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 Herberts Cukurs in Montevideo in 1965, provoked violent attacks by right-wing nationalist organizations against Jewish lives and property. Thousands of Jews decided to teach the anti-Semitic bullies a lesson and make it very clear that shedding Jewish blood would not go unpunished, that Jews were no longer passive victims. The central role that the State of Israel and its envoys played in organizing, instructing, and training self-defense activists highlights the special ties between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Based on more than 120 interviews with former activists of self-defense, ex-Mossad officers and veteran Israeli diplomats, as well as on archival research, this is a pioneering study on ethnicity and diaspora in a time of growing political violence in South America. This book is a valuable study for scholars and students researching Jewish history and Latin American history.

Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand

Jewish Self-Defense in South America

Stefan Rinke

David M.K. Sheinin

This volume focuses on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their “new” homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.

Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America

This volume is devoted to Jewish Argentines in the twentieth century, and deliberately avoids restrictive or prescriptive definitions of Jews and Judaism. Instead, it focuses on people whose identities include a Jewish component, irrespective of social class and gender, and regardless of whether they are religious or secular, Ashkenazi or Sephardic, or affiliated with the organized Jewish community.

Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora

Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?

Claudio Panella

el suplemento cultural de La prensa cegetista (1951-1955)

Cultura para todos

Nadia Zysman

Situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries, this volume challenges commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular.

The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America

This is an analysis of the reasons for the failure of all efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Israel and Francoist Spain from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. It uncovers the political discussions and the diplomatic moves of each country.

Israel's Relations with Francoist Spain

In the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Inquisition

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Raanan Rein offers an absorbing social history of Jews in Latin America. Since the Second World War, there has been a conspicuous Jewish presence among the fans, administrators and presidents of the Atlanta soccer club. For the first immigrant generation, belonging to this club was a way of becoming Argentines. For the next generation, it was a way of maintaining ethnic Jewish identity. Now, it is nothing less than family tradition for third generation Jewish Argentines to support Atlanta. The soccer club has also constituted one of the few spaces where both Jews and non-Jews, affiliated Jews and non-affiliated Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, have interacted. The result has been an active shaping of the local culture by Jewish Latin Americans to their own purposes. Offering a rare window into the rich culture of everyday life in the city of Buenos Aires created by Jewish immigrants and their descendants, Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina represents a pioneering study of the intersection between soccer, ethnicity, and identity in Latin America and makes a major contribution to Jewish History, Latin American History, and Sports History.

Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina

Judit Bokser Liwerant

Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Yosef Gorny

This volume offers a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. Stretching from political science to sociology, from art to cultural studies, it provides systematic tools for understanding different aspects of the Jewish experience.

Latin America in the Jewish World

Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism

This study focuses on Spain's shift of emphasis from Latin America to the Mediterranean basin after the loss of its last colonies in the New World in 1898. The contributors analyse the Mediterranean policies of Spain's different regimes.

Spain and the Mediterranean Since 1898

Populism has been one of the most important phenomena in the political and social history of Latin America. In the Shadow of Perón challenges several commonly held assumptions about the nature of populism and the relations between the charismatic leader and the popular masses. Devoted to the second line of Peronist leadership in Argentina from the 1940s onwards, it focuses on the figure of Juan Atilio Bramuglia, who tried to offer an alternative path for the movement. The volume stresses the heterogeneous nature of Peronism and traces the various ideological sources of its doctrine. It also analyzes Perón's machinations in order to maintain his leadership and eliminate any opposition within the movement.

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