The ghosts of the dictatorship and the human rights agenda among the actors of the Argentine Jewish community during the democratic transition (1979-1984)

The restoration of democracy in Argentina, towards the end of 1983, mobilized various sectors of public opinion. The revision of what happened during the dictatorial regime, as well as the debate about the problems the political opening should address, constituted a horizon of interpellation among diverse actors. In particular, those who identified with the heterogeneous spectrum of institutions and organizations linked to the Jewish produced a series of narratives and experiences that allow us to recognize the unique role assigned to the agenda of the human rights in the context of a climate of democratic reconstruction. This paper is an attempt to recompose the positions around the way an early representation was constituted on the anti-Semitic character of the dictatorial regime and how that image identified the various actors of the Jewish community with victims- or not- of said dictatorial regime and, therefore, endowed with legitimacy to operate on the democratic transition.