Oy, my Buenos Aires : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity / Mollie Lewis Nouwen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nouwen, Mollie Lewis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Argentina--History--20th century.

Jews.

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

Jews--Argentina--Social life and customs.

Jews--Argentina--Identity.

Argentina--Ethnic relations.

Argentina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

My Buenos Aires

Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826353511

0826353517

OCLC:

854585552