Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (1995) 109-143
Keywords:
Jews History 20th century
;
Sephardim History 20th century
;
Arabs History 20th century
;
Syriac Christians History 20th century
;
Lebanese History
;
Judaism Relations 20th century
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
A similar cultural background and jointly shared interests in Argentina prompted the country's largely Christian immigrants from Lebanon and Syria, as well as their Jewish counterparts from the Arab and Muslim worlds, a minority among the predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish influx, to foster business, political and social links. These successfully overrode internal and external pressures to get both groups closely aligned with one or the other side to the Arab‐Zionist conflict, at least until the United Nations’ adoption of the partition of Palestine. Unexceptionally, the Arab‐Israeli conflict resulted in a self‐imposed de‐emphasis or mere omission of such Arab‐Jewish ties of yore (especially, though not only, in Argentina), the survival of aspects of these relationships notwithstanding. A documented insight into the main institutions created by immigrants from the Middle East in Argentina's capital and a number of the country's provinces helps to reconstruct such links, and to set the record straight in a way that is more sensitive to their history.
Note:
Appeared also in "Árabes y judíos en América Latina" (2006) 31-76. Appeared in English as "Arab-Jewish coexistence in the first half of 1900's:Argentina; overcoming self-imposed amnesia" in "Immigrants & Minorities" 16 (1997) 1-37.
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