“Progressive Jews” between the return of peronism and the last military dictatorship in Argentina through the press (1973-1976)

Abstract

As a corollary of the Six Days War and its repercussions in the Argentinean political debate, the Federación de Instituciones Culturales Judías de la República Argentina, the ICUF, launched a new publication from which its members would express their position with regard to conflicts of diverse nature: the Middle-East situation, Jewish cultural life in the USSR, conflicts among local communal organizations, and the political, economical and cultural situation in Argentina. Since then and until 1987, when the Icufist periodical stopped being published, Tiempo’s pages would provide testimony of the transformations and the continuities about the political conflict within the community’s spaces and, simultaneously, about the tense relationships and meaning configurations established with the Argentinean national political stage.

This paper will examine the diverse positions and narratives wielded by the wordsmiths of Tiempo during a peculiar period of Argentinean political history: from Héctor Cámpora´s presidential inauguration (1973) to the beginning of the last military dictatorship (1976).