Promised Lands North and South

David S. Koffman is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, an Associate Professor of History at York University, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes. His most recent book is No Better Home? Jews, Canada and the Sense of Belonging (University of Toronto Press, 2021). David M. K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina (Routledge, 2023), co-edited with Benjamin Bryce.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Common Origins, Distinctive Paths: What’s to Be Gained by Putting Argentine Jewry and Canadian Jewry into ConversationDavid S. Koffman and David M. K. SheininPART 1: Making People1 Jewish Migrations to and from Argentina and Canada: Tides, Waves, and StreamsRobert Brym and Ezequiel Erdei2 Jewish Alterity and the Myth of the Jewish GauchoAmy Kaminsky3 Argentina and Canada: Promised Lands for Moroccan Jews?Adriana Brodsky and Yolande CohenPART 2: Creating Community4 Jewish Support for Nationalist Movements in the Americas: a Comparative Re-AppraisalSimon-Pierre Lacasse and Raanan Rein5 Jewish Archives in Countries of Immigration: Argentina and CanadaAmir Lavie and Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll6 Charity, Health, and Community: the Hospital Israelita of Buenos Aires in Comparative ContextBenjamin Bryce7 Mid-Century Modern: Simón Bronenberg, Sammy Luftspring, and the Coming of Age of Jewish BoxingDavid M. K. SheininPART 3: Penning Culture8 Rewriting Lorca in the Argentinian and Canadian Jewish ImaginariesCynthia Gabbay and Emily Robins Sharpe9 Plowing Argentine and Canadian Soil: Jewish Colonization in the Writing of MemoiristsMariusz Kalczewiak10 Writing Settler Relations: Jewish Literary Engagements with Indigenous Themes in Argentina and CanadaDavid S. Koffman and Stephanie Pridgeon11 Representing Jewish Experience: the Novels of Adele Wiseman and Ana María ShuaRuth Panofsky and Claire Solomon12 Yiddish Theater in Montréal and Buenos Aires: Common Origins, Distinctive PathsZachary M. BakerPART 4: Dealing with Difficulties13 What We Can Learn from a Comparison of Antisemitisms in Argentina and CanadaMarisa Braylan and Ira Robinson14 The Deafening Silence: a Reappraisal of the Early Canadian Jewish Response to the HolocaustHernan Tesler-Mabé15 Under Suspicion: Argentina’s Jews in the Optic of Conspiracy TheoriesLuis Roniger16 “A Rescued Jewish Young Lady Comes”: Malka Owsiany’s Reception and Testimony in Buenos Aires (1945–46)Malena Chinski17 Reimagining Testimony: Holocaust Memory and the Public Sphere in Contemporary ArgentinaNatasha Zaretsky18 Jews in a Counterfactual British ArgentinaYosef Dov RobinsonIndex