Oy, my Buenos Aires : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity / Mollie Lewis Nouwen.
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 embrac...
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| Alternate Title: | Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity |
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013] |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.