Abstract
This article analyses the approaches of Argentinian
communist psychiatry to the problem of soviet anti-
Semitism during the decades of 1950 and 1960. The
focus is on the writings of José Bleger and José
Itzigsohn, both relevant authors in local psychiatry
and psychology. The aim of this writing is to locate
this authors in the Jewish segment of the Argentinian
Communist Party, and how they took part in a dis-
cussion within the Argentinian left-wing Jewish com-
munity about Zionism, assimilation and soviet anti-
Semitism. This discussion is reconstructed from the
journals Nueva Sion y Tribuna, which represented
opposite stances on the mentioned issues. From this
debate, linking points between different factions of
the left-wing Judaism and of psychiatry and psycho-
logy fields are shown. Also, it is considered the poli-
tical importance of anti-Semitism discussion in the
Argentinian Communist Party.
Keywords: Judaism; communism; psychiatry.