Armed Jews in the Americas

Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Elias Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former Vice President of Tel Aviv University. He is the Head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. Rein is the author and editor of more than forty books and well over a hundred articles in academic journals and book chapters. David M.K. Sheinin, Ph.D. (1989), University of Connecticut, is professor of History at Trent University (Canada) and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (2021), co-edited with Benjamin Bryce.

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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



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