Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s.

Raanan Rein is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former vice president of Tel Aviv University.

0. Introduction, 1. Israel and the Safety of Diaspora Jews, 2. Eichmann's Capture and the Birth of the Irgún, 3. From Spontaneous Activities to an Organized and Institutionalized Self-Defense, 4. Beating for Zionism, 5. Troubled Waters: The Uruguayan Version of Self-Defense, 6. Nazi War Criminals and Arab Propagandists in Uruguay, 7. Epilogue