The New Jewish Argentina: Facets of Jewish Experiences in by Adriana Brodsky, Raanan Rein

By Adriana Brodsky, Raanan Rein

The recent Jewish Argentina goals at filling in vital lacunae within the present historiography of Jewish Argentines. relocating clear of the political background of the prepared neighborhood, such a lot articles are dedicated to social and cultural historical past.

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23 Yet the comparison is deceiving. The economic success of Jews in the United States and Western Europe by the early twentieth century was not a myth. But membership in the upper and better-off middle classes then was basically limited to the Sephardim, who had been there for a few centuries, German-speaking groups, who had been there for a few generations, and, in smaller number, Jews from the western—and most developed—edges of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Silesia, and Pomerania, who began arriving in the 1860s, a generation or two before the Eastern European wave.

Each day, the police provided a list of the people they wanted to arrest as well as lists of the objects and amounts of money people had lost in thefts or con games. The lists of lost and stolen goods, for example, help add depth to the information in the police news. For example, some victims lost IOUs for money they had loaned or checks made out to them and reported it to the police. Although there is not enough data to generalize, the names identified as being the beneficiaries of the loans and payments demonstrate that Jews did business both with other Jews as well as with non-Jews.

8 Samuel Baily, Immigrants in the Land of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914 (Ithaca, New York, 1999); José Moya, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930 (Berkeley, 1998); Arnd Schneider, Futures Lost: Nostalgia and Identity among Italian Immigrants in Argentina. (Oxford, 2000); Adriana Brodsky, “The Countours of Identity: Sephardic Jews and the Construction of Jewish Communities in Argentina, 1880 to the Present,” Doctoral Dissertation, Duke University, May 2004.

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