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

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Between 1905 and 1930, a couple of 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 whilst 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 creator examines quite a lot 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, in addition to relationships between Jews and non-Jews. She makes a speciality of the daily lives of abnormal Jews in Buenos Aires. Most Jews were working class, though some did rise to transform middleclass professionals. Some belonged to organizations that served the Jewish community, whilst others were more informally linked to their ethnic group through their friends and family. 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 more than one identities, in addition to how those identities formed and overlapped.

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