The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho : : Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity / / Judith Noemí Freidenberg.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (206 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface: The Story behind the Story
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. Social Memory as Part of Villa Clara’s History
  • Chapter Two. Entre Ríos, Mi País Immigrants Becoming Argentine in a Province
  • Chapter Three. Colonia Clara and the Emergence of the “Jewish Gauchos” (1892–1902)
  • Chapter Four From Jewish Gauchos to Gaucho Jews Regional Economic Development and Intercultural Relations at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter Five The Rise and Demise of Jewish Villa Clara (1902–1930s)
  • Chapter Six Rural Depopulation and the Emergence of a Multiethnic and Socially Stratified Landscape in Villa Clara (1940s–1990s)
  • Chapter Seven The Present as Politicized Past Legitimizing Social Structure through Heritage (1990s–2000s)
  • Epilogue: The Jewish Gaucho Revisited
  • Appendix I: Methodological Notes
  • Appendix II: Chronology of Relevant Events in Villa Clara
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index