The Eichmann Kidnapping

Its Effects on Argentine-Israeli Relations and the Local Jewish Community

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2763866
AutoresRaanan Rein (0000-0002-0249-6084, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas101-130
Fecha de publicación2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJewish Social Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jss.2001.0016
OpenAlexW4238746090
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas9

The election of Arturo Frondizi as president of Argentina in February 1958 was welcome news to both the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and the leaders of the local Jewish community. And he had not lived in the presidential palace for long before their expectations appeared to have been justified. The Jews of Argentina felt a growing sense of security and well-being, and relations between Jerusalem and Buenos Aires grew closer. 1 The kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in May 1960, however, interrupted this idyll, precipitating a crisis that nearly severed the ties between the two countries and threatened Argentine Jews' sense of personal security. The Argentine Jewish community, which was then just marking the hundredth anniversary of its existence, became the target of a wave of antisemitic terror and nationalist attacks that sought to cast doubt on Jewish citizens' loyalty to the Argentine republic

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