La heroína, la guerrillera, la guerra y la(s) madre(s): Las visitas de Jaika Grossman a la Argentina y los usos públicos de la memoria del Holocausto (1963, 1967 y 1985)

Abstract

Jaika Grossman was part of the Jewish youth that resisted the policy of persecution of Nazism. A member of the Zionist-socialist organization "Hahomer Hatzair", she joined the underground resistance in the Bialystock ghetto. A posteriori, as a survivor and emigrated to  Israel, she was one of the referents of the leftist party MAPAM. In her political career, Jaika Grossman visited Argentina three times: 1963, 1967 and 1985. On both occasions, her presence and her interventions would make use of the experience of resistance against Nazism to question various public and ethnic actors. community. This paper aims to reveal the ways in which the memory of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust circulated in the country in specific contexts: those of political radicalization and democratic recovery. This approach, in turn, will take into account the implications and changing meanings of the reception of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the local political agenda