Dr. Rannan Rein
"Argentina, Israel and the Jews: From Peron to Eichmann"

Monday, January 27, 2003 7:30 P.M.
Geosciences Room 206, Emory Campus

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Since the 1940s there were a number of historical conjunctions during which the interests of Israel and those of the traditionally Zionist Argentine Jewish community, were not necessarily complimentary. This lecture will focus on two moments of particular tension, the first during the regime of the populist president Juan Peron (1946-1955) and the second following the kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann from Argentina by agents of the Mossad in May 1960.

Dr. Rannan Rein is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latin American History and Culture at Tel Aviv University. He is also Editor of Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, a journal publishing articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese. His most recent book is Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Peron, the Eichmann Capture and After (University Press of Maryland, 2002).

Sponsored by:

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Institute for Jewish Studies
Institute for the Study of Modern Israel
Vernacular Modernities Program
Hightower Lecture Fund

The event is free and open to the public.

For additional information, contact:

Juana Clem McGhee, BBA, MDiv
Special Programs Coordinator
Institute for Comparative & International Studies
Emory University
1385 Oxford Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Phone: 404-727-6959
Fax: 404-727-6724
Email: jmcghee@emory.edu

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