Arab-Jewish coexistence in the first half of 1900s' Argentina: Overcoming self-imposed Amnesia

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 busines...

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Published in:Immigrants & minorities 1997-03, Vol.16 (1-2), p.1-37
Main Author: Klich, Ignacio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
1900-1950
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabs
Argentina
Coexistence
Comparison Arabs
Cultural relations
Immigrant adaptation
Immigrants
Immigration
Jews
Latin America
Migrants
Minorities
Social networks
Social relations
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Summary: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 and the other side to the Arab-Zionist conflict, at least until the United Nations' adoption of the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states and its military sequels began to be felt. 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, as well as sets the record in a way that is more sensitive to their history.
ISSN:0261-9288
1744-0521
DOI:10.1080/02619288.1997.9974901