Polacos in Argentina : Polish Jews, interwar migration, and the emergence of transatlantic Jewish culture / Mariusz Kałczewiak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalczewiak, Mariusz, 1987- author.

Series:

Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Jews and Judaism : history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews, Polish.

Jews, Polish--Argentina--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews, Polish--Argentina--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews--Migrations.

Jews.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Yiddish language--Social aspects--Argentina.

Yiddish language.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Yiddish language--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

Manners and customs.

Argentina--Ethnic relations.

Argentina.

Ethnic relations.

Argentina--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Poland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Poland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

Contents:

Jewish elites, gentile opinions, and the Argentine dream

Between hope and fear : the imageries of Argentina in Poland's Yiddish channels

Argentine branch : extending the Yiddishland to Latin America

Meeting the gaucho and searching for Indians : the trajectories of exoticization

Israelita Argentino or Argentiner Yid? Cultural choices, national belonging, and the weight of European baggage

Being a "good Polish Jew" in Buenos Aires : landsmanshaftn and Jewish-Polish ethnicity

Aktsyes, protest-aktn, and helping the old home : Argentine children of Jewish Poland respond to a changing Europe

All immigrant Jews live with their soul in Poland? Debating the tension between new and old home.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817320393

0817320393

OCLC:

1099540514