Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation, David S. Koffman and David M. K. Sheinin (eds.). Leiden: Brill Press, 2024
Introduction:
Common Origins, Distinctive Paths: What’s to Be Gained by Putting Argentine Jewry and Canadian Jewry into Conversation. David S. Koffman and David M. K. Sheinin
PART 1: Making People
Chapter 1 Jewish Migrations to and from Argentina and Canada: Tides, Waves, and Streams. Robert Brym and Ezequiel Erdei
Chapter 2 Jewish Alterity and the Myth of the Jewish Gaucho. Amy Kaminsky
Chapter 3 Argentina and Canada: Promised Lands for Moroccan Jews? Adriana Brodsky and Yolande Cohen
PART 2: Creating Community
Chapter 4 Jewish Support for Nationalist Movements in the Americas: a Comparative Re-Appraisal. Simon-Pierre Lacasse and Raanan Rein
Chapter 5 Jewish Archives in Countries of Immigration: Argentina and Canada. Amir Lavie and Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
Chapter 6 Charity, Health, and Community: the Hospital Israelita of Buenos Aires in Comparative Context. Benjamin Bryce
Chapter 7 Mid-Century Modern: Simón Bronenberg, Sammy Luftspring, and the Coming of Age of Jewish Boxing. David M. K. Sheinin
PART 3: Penning Culture
Chapter 8 Rewriting Lorca in the Argentinian and Canadian Jewish Imaginaries. Cynthia Gabbay and Emily Robins Sharpe
Chapter 9 Plowing Argentine and Canadian Soil: Jewish Colonization in the Writing of Memoirists. Marius Kałczewiak
Chapter 10 Writing Settler Relations: Jewish Literary Engagements with Indigenous Themes in Argentina and Canada. David S. Koffman and Stephanie Pridgeon
Chapter 11 Representing Jewish Experience: the Novels of Adele Wiseman and Ana María Shua. Ruth Panofsky and Claire Solomon
Chapter 12 Yiddish Theater in Montréal and Buenos Aires: Common Origins, Distinctive Paths. Zachary M. Baker
PART 4: Dealing with Difficulties
Chapter 13 What We Can Learn from a Comparison of Antisemitisms in Argentina and Canada. Marisa Braylan and Ira Robinson
Chapter 14 The Deafening Silence: a Reappraisal of the Early Canadian Jewish Response to the Holocaust. Hernan Tesler-Mabé
Chapter 15 Under Suspicion: Argentina’s Jews in the Optic of Conspiracy Theories. Luis Roniger
Chapter 16 “A Rescued Jewish Young Lady Comes”: Malka Owsiany’s Reception and Testimony in Buenos Aires (1945–46). Malena Chinksi
Chapter 17 Reimagining Testimony: Holocaust Memory and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Argentina. Natasha Zaretsky
Chapter 18 Jews in a Counterfactual British Argentina. Yosef Dov Robinson