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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Octavo. x, 231, (1)pp. Index and 15 page bibliography. Colored pictorial boards with white lettering on a black spine, and brown wraparound band at foot. A fine, as new copy. Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt' traces the ongoing efforts among Argentine Jews to rethink the Argentine nation, Jewish membership in it, and the nature of Jewishness itself from 1955 to 1983. Beginning with the celebrations around the supposed triumph of the "liberal nation" after the overthrow of Juan Peron, this study examines Jewish activists' discourse through years of rapid transitions between civil and military rule, massive social protest, escalating violence, and finally the brutal military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. It argues that these were crucial years in which Jewish activists forcefully discarded previous understandings of the nation and pioneered novel definitions of Jewishness and Zionism designed to resonate in a Latin America upended by revolutionary ferment. Contents: The new world: the fall of Peron and the triumph of liberal Argentina, 1955-1960 -- Nationalism, populism and the demise of the liberal nation, 1961-1966 -- Youth, identity, and the making of the Latin American Jew -- The challenge of the new left: anti-Zionism and a captivated youth, 1967-1973 -- Third-world Zionism: national liberation and the revolutionary vanguard, 1967-1973 -- Jewish radicalism revised: guerillas, terrorism and dictatorship, 1973-1977 -- October 1983 and the politics of forgetting. Volume 8 of the Brill series, "Jewish Latin America; Issues and Methods.".…

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