New Jewish Argentina

Adriana M. Brodsky Ph.D (2004, Duke University) is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary´s College of Maryland. Her work focuses on the construction of the Argentine Jewish community from the perspective of its Sephardi minority, and is currently working on a project on Sephardi Youth in the Zionist movement.Raanan Rein, Phd.(1991) Tel Aviv University is Professor of Latin America and Spanish History at TAU. He has published more than 20 books and many articles on Argentine History, Spanish History and Jewish experiences in the Spanish speaking world, including Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora, (Brill 2010)

• Introduction Raanan Rein and Adriana M. BrodskyChapter 1: The Jewish Experience in Argentina in a Diasporic Comparative Perspective José C. MoyaChapter 2: From Textile Thieves to ¨Supposed Seamstresses¨: Jews, Crime, and Urban Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905-1930 Mollie Lewis NouwenChapter 3: Uprooting the Seeds of Evil: Jewish Marriage Regulation, Morality Certificates, and Degenerate Prostitute Mothers in 1930s Buenos Aires Mir YarfitzChapter 4: Print Culture and Urban Geography: Jewish Bookstores, Libraries, and Printers in Buenos Aires, 1910-1960 Alejandro DujovneChapter 5: "Don Jacobo en la Argentina" Battles the Nacionalistas: Crítica, the Funny Pages, and Jews as a Liberal Discourse (1929-1932) Ariel SvarchChapter 6: The “Other” Gerchunoff and the Visual Representation of the Shoah Edna AizenbergChapter 7: An Argentine Experience? Borges, Judaism, and the Holocaust Federico FinchelsteinChapter 8: Electing ‘Miss Sefaradí’, and ‘Queen Esther’: Sephardim, Zionism, and ethnic and national identities in Argentina, 1933-1971 Adriana M. BrodskyChapter 9: Politically Incorrect: César Tiempo and the Editorial Staff of the Cultural Supplement of La Prensa Raanan ReinChapter 10: Generation and Innovation in the Rise of an Argentine-Jewish Community, 1960- 1967 Beatrice D. GurwitzChapter 11: Reading Kissinger’s Avatars: Cold War Pragmatism in Argentina’s Middle East Policy David M. K. SheininChapter 12: “Memories that lie a little.” New approaches to the research into the Jewish experience during the last military dictatorship in Argentina Emmanuel Nicolás KahanChapter 13: Child Survivors of the Shoa: Testimony, Citizenship, and Survival in Jewish Buenos Aires Natasha ZaretskyChapter 14: Body and Soul: Therapeutic Dimensions of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Neoliberal Argentina Shari JacobsonChapter 15: The Other Becomes Mainstream: Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema Tzvi Tal

"This volume offers a revision of older studies of Jewish Argentina that concentrated on political history and Jewish institutions and emphasized the uniqueness of the Jewish experience. As stated in the introduction, The New Jewish Argentina focuses on social and cultural history, emphasizes similarities between Jews and other ethnic groups, and deals with subjects that were ignored by previous scholars, such as popular culture, Jewish leisure, unaffiliated Jews, and gender and Sephardim." -Margalit Bejarano, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, American Jewish History, Volume 100.2 (April 2016)"The volume advances the study of non-affiliated and affiliated Jews in Argentina, thereby weakening attempts at a clear–cut Jewish or Argentine identity. Whether one agrees or not with the book’s general assertion about Jewish exceptionalism, one will benefit from reading the result of a truly interdisciplinary project, containing brilliant pieces of remarkable historical and contemporary reach." Alicia Borinsky, Boston University, Bulletin of Latin American Research