The Invention Of The Jewish Gaucho

Author : Judith Noemí Freidenberg
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292781870

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The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho by Judith Noemí Freidenberg Pdf

By the mid-twentieth century, Eastern European Jews had become one of Argentina's largest minorities. Some represented a wave of immigration begun two generations before; many settled in the province of Entre Ríos and founded an agricultural colony. Taking its title from the resulting hybrid of acculturation, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho examines the lives of these settlers, who represented a merger between native cowboy identities and homeland memories. The arrival of these immigrants in what would be the village of Villa Clara coincided with the nation's new sense of liberated nationhood. In a meticulous rendition of Villa Clara's social history, Judith Freidenberg interweaves ethnographic and historical information to understand the saga of European immigrants drawn by Argentine open-door policies in the nineteenth century and its impact on the current transformation of immigration into multicultural discourses in the twenty-first century. Using Villa Clara as a case study, Freidenberg demonstrates the broad power of political processes in the construction of ethnic, class, and national identities. The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho draws on life histories, archives, material culture, and performances of heritage to enhance our understanding of a singular population—and to transform our approach to social memory itself.

Author : Alberto Gerchunoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005706408

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The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas by Alberto Gerchunoff Pdf

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.

Author : Alberto Gerchunoff,Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056429783

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Parricide on the Pampa? by Alberto Gerchunoff,Edna Aizenberg Pdf

Author : Amy K. Kaminsky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438483306

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The Other/Argentina by Amy K. Kaminsky Pdf

The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of Argentine self-representation. A multiethnic yet deeply Roman Catholic country, Argentina has worked mightily to fashion itself as a modern nation. In so doing, it has grappled with the paradox of Jewishness, emblematic both of modernity and of the lingering traces of the premodern. By the same token, Jewishness is woven into, but also other to, Argentineity. Consequently, books, movies, and art that reflect on Jewishness play a significant role in shaping Argentina's cultural landscape. In the process they necessarily inscribe, and sometimes confound, norms of gender and sexuality. Just as Jewishness seeps into Argentina, Argentina's history, politics, and culture mark Jewishness and alter its meaning. The feminized body of the Jewish male, for example, is deeply rooted in Western tradition; but the stigmatized body of the Jewish prostitute and the lacerated body of the Jewish torture victim acquire particular significance in Argentina. Furthermore, Argentina's iconic Jewish figures include not only the peddler and the scholar, but also the Jewish gaucho and the urban mobster, troubling conventional readings of Jewish masculinity. As it searches for threads of Jewishness, richly imbued with the complexities of gender and sexuality, The Other/Argentina explores the patterns those threads weave, however overtly or subtly, into the fabric of Argentine national meaning, especially at such critical moments in Argentine history as the period of massive state-sponsored immigration, the rise of labor and anarchist movements, the Perón era, and the 1976–83 dictatorship. In arguing that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation, the book shifts the focus in Latin American Jewish studies from Jewish identity to the meaning of Jewishness for the nation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1711.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220538

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The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat. The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho — unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire — might concern a stalwart rat police detective investigating terrible rodent crimes, or an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly Argentine lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the familye state on the Pampas, now gone to wrack and ruin. These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.

Author : Malena Chinski,Alan Astro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004373815

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Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America by Malena Chinski,Alan Astro Pdf

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America explores the history and legacy of the language and its speakers from the late 19th century onward, in a region where Yiddish culture has been neglected by mainstream scholarship.

Author : Raanan Rein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804793049

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Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina by Raanan Rein Pdf

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Raanan Rein offers an absorbing social history of Jews in Latin America. Since the Second World War, there has been a conspicuous Jewish presence among the fans, administrators and presidents of the Atlanta soccer club. For the first immigrant generation, belonging to this club was a way of becoming Argentines. For the next generation, it was a way of maintaining ethnic Jewish identity. Now, it is nothing less than family tradition for third generation Jewish Argentines to support Atlanta. The soccer club has also constituted one of the few spaces where both Jews and non-Jews, affiliated Jews and non-affiliated Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, have interacted. The result has been an active shaping of the local culture by Jewish Latin Americans to their own purposes. Offering a rare window into the rich culture of everyday life in the city of Buenos Aires created by Jewish immigrants and their descendants, Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina represents a pioneering study of the intersection between soccer, ethnicity, and identity in Latin America and makes a major contribution to Jewish History, Latin American History, and Sports History.

Author : Matthias B. Lehmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503632288

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The Baron by Matthias B. Lehmann Pdf

A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's life provides a singular entry point for understanding Jewish philanthropy and politics in the late nineteenth century, a period when, as now, private benefactors played an outsize role in shaping the collective fate of Jewish communities. Hirsch's vast fortune derived from his role in creating the first rail line linking Western Europe with the Ottoman Empire, what came to be known as the Orient Express. Socializing with the likes of the Austrian crown prince Rudolph and "Bertie," Prince of Wales, Hirsch rose to the pinnacle of European aristocratic society, but also found himself the frequent target of vicious antisemitism. This was an era when what it meant to be Jewish—and what it meant to be European—were undergoing dramatic changes. Baron Hirsch was at the center of these historic shifts. While in his time Baron Hirsch was the subject of widespread praise, enraged political commentary, and conspiracy theories alike, his legacy is often overlooked. Responding to the crisis wrought by the mass departure of Jews from the Russian Empire at the turn of the century, Hirsch established the Jewish Colonization Association, with the goal of creating a refuge for the Jews in Argentina. When Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, advertised his plan to create a Jewish state (not without inspiration from Hirsch), he still wondered whether to do so in Palestine or in Argentina—and left the question open. In The Baron, Matthias Lehmann tells the story of this remarkable figure whose life and legacy provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped modern Jewish history.

Author : Javier Sinay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1632062984

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The Murders of Moisés Ville by Javier Sinay Pdf

Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the "Jerusalem of South America," and his personal connection to a little-known period of Jewish history in Argentina. In 2009, journalist Javier Sinay discovered an article from 1947, written by his great-grandfather Mijl Hacohen Sinay, detailing twenty-two murders that had occurred in Moisés Ville at the end of the nineteenth century. What starts out as an investigation into these murders turns into a deeper exploration of the history of Moisés Ville, one of the first Jewish agricultural communities in Argentina, and Sinay's own connection to this historically thriving Jewish epicenter. Seeking refuge from the pogroms of Czarist Russia, a group of Jewish immigrants founded Moisés Ville in the late 1880s. Like their town's prophetic namesake, these immigrants fled one form of persecution only to encounter a different set of hardships: exploitative land prices, starvation, illness, language barriers, and a series of murders perpetrated by roving gauchos who preyed upon their vulnerability. Sinay, though a descendant of these immigrants, is unfamiliar with this turbulent history, and his research into the spate of violence plunges him into his family's past and their link to Moisés Ville. He combs through libraries and archives in search of documents about the murders and hires a book detective to track down issues ofDer Viderkol, the first Yiddish newspaper in Argentina started by his great-grandfather. He even enrolls in Yiddish classes so he can read the newspaper and other contemporaneous records for himself. Through interviews with his family members, current residents of Moisés Ville, historians, and archivists, Sinay compiles moving portraits of the victims of these heinous murders and reveals the fascinating and complex history of the town once known as the "Jerusalem of South America."

Author : Adriana M. Brodsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253023193

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Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine by Adriana M. Brodsky Pdf

“A much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and . . . an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall” (Choice). At the turn of the twentieth century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos (“Turks”). Seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, Sephardi Jews weren’t even identified as Jews. Yet the story of Sephardi Jewish identity has been deeply impactful on Jewish history across the world. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations, founded synagogues and cemeteries, and built strong ties with coreligionists around the country. Brodsky demonstrates how fragmentation based on areas of origin gave way to the gradual construction of a single Sephardi identity. This unifying identity is predicated both on Zionist identification (with the State of Israel) and “national” feelings (for Argentina), and that Sephardi Jews assumed leadership roles in national Jewish organizations once they integrated into the much larger Askenazi community. Rather than assume that Sephardi identity was fixed and unchanging, Brodsky highlights the strategic nature of this identity, constructed both from within the various Sephardi groups and from the outside, and reveals that Jewish identity must be understood as part of the process of becoming Argentine.

Author : Eduardo Gutierrez
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781624661389

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The Gaucho Juan Moreira by Eduardo Gutierrez Pdf

Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble outlaw whose life and name became legendary in the Río de la Plata during the late 19th century. John Chasteen's fast-moving, streamlined translation--the first ever into English--captures all of the sweeping romance and knife-wielding excitement of the original. William Acree's introduction and notes situate Juan Moreira in its literary and historical contexts. Numerous illustrations, a map of Moreira’s travels, a glossary of terms, and a select bibliography are all included.

Author : Hizky Shoham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004343870

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Israel Celebrates by Hizky Shoham Pdf

Israel Celebrates employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to demonstrate how a new strand of Judaism developed in Israel from the grassroots.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004548695

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Promised Lands North and South by Anonim Pdf

This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on literature, poetry, theatre, or sport; others on immigration, antisemitism, or health. Taken together, the essays in Promised Lands North and South offer sparkling insight and new depth on the modern Jewish global experience.

Author : Mollie Lewis Nouwen
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826353511

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Oy, My Buenos Aires by Mollie Lewis Nouwen Pdf

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.

Author : Lillian R. Krell Swerdlow
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781463423889

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The Little Jewish Gaucho by Lillian R. Krell Swerdlow Pdf

This book was written in loving memory of her beloved father Adolfo Krell, whose story tells of true life experiences of his early childhood. He was a 1st 'generation child' born in the Pampas of Argentina in 1898 to immigrant parents. The family survived the Pogroms of Eastern Europe in the middle late 1800's. Historical records indicate that the Krell family migrated to Argentina to settle in the new land as farmers. The Jewish Settlement on the Pampas was a brave and heroic endevor of the Krell family's legacy.