Böcker av Raanan Rein

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.

Argentina's populist government, led by Juan Peron, challenged the traditional model of the melting pot and granted legitimacy to hybrid identities. Peronism as a Big Tent examines Peronism's efforts to garner the support of Argentines of Middle Eastern origins, be they Jewish, Maronite, Orthodox Catholic, Druze, or Muslim.

A groundbreaking interpretation of Juan Peron's regime that challenges assumptions of fascism and antisemitism.

"A shorter, popularized version of this work was published in Spanish ... under the title Los bohemios de Villa Crespo: judios y futbol en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2012)."

This book analyses the reasons for the failure of all efforts to establish diplomatic relations between Israel and Francoist Spain from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s.