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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

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

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Adriana M. Brodsky Ph.D (2004, Duke University) is Associate Professor of History at St. Marys 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)

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