Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina

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If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you are going to likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. It is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been regarded as a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Raanan Rein offers an absorbing social history of Jews in Latin The united states. Since the Second World War, there was a conspicuous Jewish presence a number of the fans, administrators and presidents of the Atlanta soccer club. For the first immigrant generation, belonging to this club was once a way of becoming Argentines. For the next generation, it was once a way of maintaining ethnic Jewish identity. Now, it is nothing less than family tradition for third generation Jewish Argentines to give a boost to Atlanta. The soccer club has also constituted probably the most few spaces where both Jews and non-Jews, affiliated Jews and non-affiliated Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, have interacted. The result has been an active shaping of the local culture by Jewish Latin Americans to their own purposes. Offering a rare window into the rich culture of on a regular basis life in the city of Buenos Aires created by Jewish immigrants and their descendants, Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina represents a pioneering study of the intersection between soccer, ethnicity, and identity in Latin The united states and makes a major contribution to Jewish History, Latin American History, and Sports History.

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