{"product_id":"armed-jews-in-the-americas-9789004462533","title":"Armed Jews in the Americas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Jewish weapons manufacturer during the American Civil War, a Jewish-Canadian chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Board, and Jewish-Argentine guerrilla fighters—these are some of the individuals discussed in this first-of-its-kind volume. It brings together some of the best new works on armed Jews in the Americas. Links between Jews and their ties to weapons are addressed through multiple cultural, political, social, and ideological contexts, thus breaking down longstanding, stilted myths in many societies about Jews and weaponry. Anti-Semitism and Jewish self-defense, Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and Jewish-American gangsters as ethnic heroes form part of the little-researched topic of Jews and arms in the Americas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgements  Notes on Contributors    1 Introduction: A Curious Mix of Jews and Weapons   David M.K. Sheinin and Raanan Rein    2 “If I Can See One … I Can Build Them”: David Lopez Jr. and Weapons Manufacturing during the American Civil War   Barry L. Stiefel    3 American Jewish Gangsters   Larry D. Gragg    4 “Our Fight Is Not Yet Over”: Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish  Civil War   Michael Petrou    5 Mika, mi Guerra de España: Ideology and Commitment   Gabriela Jonas Aharoni    6 The Spirit of 1776 in 1948: American Machalnikim and Israel’s  War of Independence   Amy Weiss    7 “To Get a Conviction a Morality Officer Has to Practically Crawl  into Bed with a Hooker”: Phil Givens, the Police, and the Battle  for Toronto’s Yonge Street   David M.K. Sheinin    8 “We Had Our Own Problems and So We Had Our Own Bitachon”:  Jewish Self-Defense in Uruguay, 1960–1987   Raanan Rein    9 From Zionist Movements to Guerrilla Groups: David Armando Laniado, Raúl Milberg, and Political Radicalization in Argentina   Adrián Krupnik    10 Revolutionary Eschatology: The Argentine Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo and the Secularization of Religious Traditions   Lukas Böckmann    11 The Montoneros and the Jewish Question in Argentine Fiction   Stephanie M. Pridgeon    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210822082903,"sku":"9789004462533","price":120.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/armed-jews-in-the-americas-9789004462533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}