Armed Jews in the Americas

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