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Armed Jews in the Americas / edited by Raanan Rein, David M.K. Sheinin

Rein, Raanan, 1960- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Sheinin, David, 1960- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Leiden ; Boston : Brill [2021], [2021] [© 2021]

XII, 251 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Armed jews in the americas. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021 (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Armed Jews in the Americas (Online-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-46253-3 (hbk)

978-90-04-46254-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021016916

OCoLC: 1260667658     

DS111.6

970.004/924     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

GND-Schlagwörter: Juden ; Feuerwaffe ; Handfeuerwaffe ; Waffenhandel ; USA

LOC-SH: Jews -- History, Military ; Jewish soldiers -- Western Hemisphere -- History ; Jews -- United States -- History ; Firearms -- Western Hemisphere -- History ; Firearms -- United States -- History ; Firearms industry and trade -- Western Hemisphere -- History ; Firearms industry and trade -- United States -- History ; Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States -- History

"A 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"--