Format:
1 online resource (133 pages)
ISBN:
9780826353511
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter One Argentina: A Land of Immigrants -- Chapter Two From Colony to City: Jewish Immigrants, 1889-1930 -- Chapter Three "And from a gringo I was transformed into a criollo": Deploying Markers of National Identity -- Chapter Four Building the City, Forging the Nation: Ethnic and National Spaces -- Chapter Five From Stolen Textiles to Off-Track Betting: Urban Crime and Disorder -- Chapter Six Eating, Drinking, and Dancing: The Gendered and Generational Nature of Social Lives -- Chapter Seven Individual Lives: Helping Create the Porteño Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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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
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7: Individual Lives: Helping Create the Porteño IdentityConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826353504
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780826353504
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1319111
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