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Coverage: Buenos Aires Coverage: Buenos Aires (Argentina) Coverage: Buenos Aires (Argentina) Language: eng Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: Ethnic relations Subject: Ethnic relations Subject: Jews--History Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection-
Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1939: in search of an identity
Victor Mirelman, in his study of the greatest concentration of Latin American Jewry, examines the changing facade of the Argentinean Jewish community from the beginning of mass Jewish immigration in 1890 to its decline in 1930. During this period, Jews arrived from Russia, Poland, Romania, Syria, Turkey and Morocco Each group founded its own synagogues. mutual help organizations. hospitals. cultural associations. and newspapers of particular vitality was the Yiddish press and the Yiddish theatre…