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The Argentina Journal (review)

The Argentina Journal (review) intellectual debate. In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the literature on Jewish social and cultural transformation in the modern era. Its comparative dimension and its innovative approach give it a doubly important perspective that demands the attention of all students of modern Jewish history. Norman A. Stillman Department of History University of Oklahoma The Argentina Journal, by Peter Z. Malkin. New York: VWF Publishing, 2002. 142 pp. $90.00 as part of a two-volume set. In The Argentina Journal, Peter Z. Malkin combines words and images to record the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960. The complex circumstances of the capture, combined with Malkin's own family background, are reflected in the often intensely worked images. Malkin was born into a Jewish family as Zvi Malchin in British Palestine and grew up in Zolkiewka, in eastern Poland. In 1936 he returned with his parents and part of his family to Palestine, while his sister, her husband, and their children remained in Poland with many other family members, all of whom died in the Holocaust. In Palestine, aged 12, Malkin became involved with the Jewish underground movement, and, after independence, was invited to join the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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intellectual debate. In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the literature on Jewish social and cultural transformation in the modern era. Its comparative dimension and its innovative approach give it a doubly important perspective that demands the attention of all students of modern Jewish history. Norman A. Stillman Department of History University of Oklahoma The Argentina Journal, by Peter Z. Malkin. New York: VWF Publishing, 2002. 142 pp. $90.00 as part of a two-volume set. In The Argentina Journal, Peter Z. Malkin combines words and images to record the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960. The complex circumstances of the capture, combined with Malkin's own family background, are reflected in the often intensely worked images. Malkin was born into a Jewish family as Zvi Malchin in British Palestine and grew up in Zolkiewka, in eastern Poland. In 1936 he returned with his parents and part of his family to Palestine, while his sister, her husband, and their children remained in Poland with many other family members, all of whom died in the Holocaust. In Palestine, aged 12, Malkin became involved with the Jewish underground movement, and, after independence, was invited to join the

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