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Polacos in Argentina : Polish Jews, interwar migration, and the emergence of transatlantic Jewish culture / Mariusz Kalczewiak.
- 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--History--Argentina--20th century.
- Jews, Polish.
- Jews, Polish--Argentina--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Jews, Polish--Argentina--Social conditions--20th century.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Jews--Migrations.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- Yiddish language--Social aspects--Argentina.
- Yiddish language.
- Argentina--Ethnic relations.
- Argentina.
- Argentina--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Poland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Poland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Winner of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Book Award 2020 An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern European Ashkenazi.
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9269-6
- OCLC:
- 1128093695
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