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Oy, My Buenos Aires : Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nouwen, Mollie Lewis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.