Oy, my Buenos Aires : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity / Mollie Lewis Nouwen.

Nouwen, Mollie Lewis.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013];©2013
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-152) and index.
  • 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 –Provided by publisher.
  • Argentina : a land of immigrants — From colony to city : Jewish immigrants, 1889-1930 — And from a gringo I was transformed into a criollo : deploying markers of national identity — Building the city, forging the nation : ethnic and national spaces — From stolen textiles to off-track betting : urban crime and disorder — Eating, drinking, and dancing : the gendered and generational nature of social lives — Individual lives : helping create the Porteño identity.

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