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Jewish Self-Defense in South America - Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand (Hardcover)
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Jewish Self-Defense in South America - Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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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 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.
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