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Populism and Ethnicity - Peronism and the Jews of Argentina (Hardcover)
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Populism and Ethnicity - Peronism and the Jews of Argentina (Hardcover)
Series: McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series
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Juan Peron's decade-long regime, from 1946 to 1955, is often
presented as Nazi-fascist and antisemitic - claims that are
strongly rooted in Argentina's collective unconscious and popular
culture. Challenging this widely held view, Raanan Rein asserts
that there was greater Jewish support for Peron than previously
believed, and that fewer antisemitic incidents took place in
Argentina during Peron's rule than during any other period in the
twentieth century. Recovering the silenced voices of Jewish
Argentines who supported Peronism from the beginning, Populism and
Ethnicity is a historical, sociological, and political analysis
that describes the many positive changes experienced by the Jewish
community as a direct result of Peron's presidencies. Peron and his
wife Eva gave numerous speeches denouncing antisemitism, and
Peron's Argentina was the first Latin American country to open an
embassy in the newly established State of Israel. Arguing that no
president before Peron so unambiguously rejected discrimination
against Jews, Rein shows that many Jews secured more important
posts in government in the 1940s and 1950s than in previous years,
among them members of the Argentine Jewish Organization, which
became a section of the ruling Peronist party. Deconstructing the
myth of antisemitism during Peron's regime, Populism and Ethnicity
looks deep into the heart of international memory for the truth
behind Jewish-Argentine relations.
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