Armed Jews in the Americas A Jewish weapons manufacturer during the American Civil War a Jewish Canadian chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Board and Jewish Argentine guerrilla fighters these are some of the individuals discussed in this first of its kind volume. It brings together some of the best new works on armed Jews in the Americas. Links between Jews and their ties to weapons are addressed through multiple cultural political social and ideological contexts thus breaking down longstanding stilted myths in many societies about Jews and weaponry. Anti Semitism and Jewish self defense Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and in the 1948 Arab Israeli war and Jewish American gangsters as ethnic heroes form part of the little researched topic of Jews and arms in the Americas