Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Elias Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former Vice President of Tel Aviv University. He is the Head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. Rein is the author and editor of more than forty books and well over a hundred articles in academic journals and book chapters.David M.K. Sheinin, Ph.D. (1989), University of Connecticut, is professor of History at Trent University (Canada) and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (2021), co-edited with Benjamin Bryce.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: A Curious Mix of Jews and WeaponsDavid M.K. Sheinin and Raanan Rein2 “If I Can See One … I Can Build Them”: David Lopez Jr. and Weapons Manufacturing during the American Civil WarBarry L. Stiefel3 American Jewish GangstersLarry D. Gragg4 “Our Fight Is Not Yet Over”: Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil WarMichael Petrou5 Mika, mi Guerra de España: Ideology and CommitmentGabriela Jonas Aharoni6 The Spirit of 1776 in 1948: American Machalnikim and Israel’s War of IndependenceAmy Weiss7 “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 StreetDavid M.K. Sheinin8 “We Had Our Own Problems and So We Had Our Own Bitachon”: Jewish Self-Defense in Uruguay, 1960–1987Raanan Rein9 From Zionist Movements to Guerrilla Groups: David Armando Laniado, Raúl Milberg, and Political Radicalization in ArgentinaAdrián Krupnik10 Revolutionary Eschatology: The Argentine Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo and the Secularization of Religious TraditionsLukas Böckmann11 The Montoneros and the Jewish Question in Argentine FictionStephanie M. PridgeonIndex

Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Elias Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former Vice President of Tel Aviv University. He is the Head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. Rein is the author and editor of more than forty books and well over a hundred articles in academic journals and book chapters.David M.K. Sheinin, Ph.D. (1989), University of Connecticut, is professor of History at Trent University (Canada) and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (2021), co-edited with Benjamin Bryce.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: A Curious Mix of Jews and WeaponsDavid M.K. Sheinin and Raanan Rein2 “If I Can See One … I Can Build Them”: David Lopez Jr. and Weapons Manufacturing during the American Civil WarBarry L. Stiefel3 American Jewish GangstersLarry D. Gragg4 “Our Fight Is Not Yet Over”: Jewish-Canadians in the Spanish Civil WarMichael Petrou5 Mika, mi Guerra de España: Ideology and CommitmentGabriela Jonas Aharoni6 The Spirit of 1776 in 1948: American Machalnikim and Israel’s War of IndependenceAmy Weiss7 “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 StreetDavid M.K. Sheinin8 “We Had Our Own Problems and So We Had Our Own Bitachon”: Jewish Self-Defense in Uruguay, 1960–1987Raanan Rein9 From Zionist Movements to Guerrilla Groups: David Armando Laniado, Raúl Milberg, and Political Radicalization in ArgentinaAdrián Krupnik10 Revolutionary Eschatology: The Argentine Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo and the Secularization of Religious TraditionsLukas Böckmann11 The Montoneros and the Jewish Question in Argentine FictionStephanie M. PridgeonIndex