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 Buenos Aires and
Argentina while keeping ethnic identities--they spoke and produced
new literary works in their native Yiddish and continued Jewish
cultural traditions brought from Europe, from foodways to holidays.
The author examines a variety of sources including Yiddish poems
and songs, police records, and advertisements to focus on the
intersection and shifting boundaries of ethnic and national
identities.
In addition to the interplay of national and ethnic identities,
Nouwen illuminates the importance of gender roles, generation, and
class, as well as relationships between Jews and non-Jews. She
focuses on the daily lives of ordinary Jews in Buenos Aires. Most
Jews were working class, though some did rise to become middleclass
professionals. Some belonged to organizations that served the
Jewish community, while others were more informally linked to their
ethnic group through their family and friends. Jews were involved
in leftist politics from anarchism to unionism, and also started
Zionist organizations. By exploring the diversity of Jewish
experiences in Buenos Aires, Nouwen shows how individuals
articulated their multiple identities, as well as how those
identities formed and overlapped.
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