Prof. Dr. Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv)
Contrary to the image portrayed in too many studies on anti-Semitism in Argentina, Jews have integrated very well into Argentine society, economy, and culture, often without rejecting the Jewish component of their individual or collective identity. A review of the country's 20th century should not focus only on the 1919 Tragic Week pogrom, the entry of Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II or the 1994 attack on the Jewish community of Buenos Aires. Theodor Herzl himself, in his 1896 Judenstaat, described the choice facing the Jewish masses in Eastern Europe as one between "Palestine or the Argentine." And indeed Argentina turned out to be a Promised Land for tens of thousands of them.
Die Veranstaltung wird unter den aktuellen Corona-bedingten Hygienemaßnahmen im Haus der Universität durchgeführt.