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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779710403321

Autore

Nouwen Mollie Lewis

Titolo

Oy, my Buenos Aires [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity / / Mollie Lewis Nouwen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8263-5351-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Disciplina

982/.004924

Soggetti

Jews - Argentina - History - 20th century

Jews - Argentina - Buenos Aires - History - 20th century

Jews - Argentina - Social life and customs

Jews - Argentina - Identity

Argentina Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on Translation and Transliteration""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Argentina: A Land of Immigrants""; ""2: From Colony to City: Jewish Immigrants, 1889�1930""; ""3: “And from a gringo I was transformed into a criollo:� Deploying Markers of National Identity""; ""4: Building the City, Forging the Nation: Ethnic and National Spaces""; ""5: From Stolen Textiles to Off-Track Betting: Urban Crime and Disorder""

""6: Eating, Drinking, and Dancing: The Gendered and Generational Nature of Social Lives""""7: Individual Lives: Helping Create the Porteño Identity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--Provided by publisher.