Armed Jews in the Americas

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Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: A Curious Mix of Jews and Weapons Chapter 2 “If I Can See One … I Can Build Them”: David Lopez Jr. and Weapons Manufacturing during the American Civil War Chapter 3 American Jewish Gangsters Chapter 4 “Our Fight Is Not Yet Over”: Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil War Chapter 5 Mika, mi Guerra de España: Ideology and Commitment Chapter 6 The Spirit of 1776 in 1948: American Machalnikim and Israel’s War of Independence Chapter 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 Chapter 8 “We Had Our Own Problems and So We Had Our Own Bitachon”: Jewish Self-Defense in Uruguay, 1960–1987 Chapter 9 From Zionist Movements to Guerrilla Groups: David Armando Laniado, Raúl Milberg, and Political Radicalization in Argentina Chapter 10 Revolutionary Eschatology: The Argentine Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo and the Secularization of Religious Traditions Chapter 11 The Montoneros and the Jewish Question in Argentine Fiction Index