Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity
by
Mollie Lewis Nouwen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Between 1905 and 1930, more than one hundred thousand Jews left Central and Eastern Europe to settle permanently in Argentina. This book explores how these Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi immigrants helped to create a new urban strain of the Argentine national identity. Like other immigrants, Jews embraced...