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Author Freidenberg, Judith.

Title The invention of the Jewish gaucho : Villa Clara and the construction of Argentine identity / Judith Noemí Freidenberg ; foreword by June Nash
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 184 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Jewish history, life, and culture
Jewish history, life, and culture.
Contents Social memory as part of Villa Clara's history -- Entre Ríos, mi pais : immigrants becoming Argentine in a province -- Colonia Clara and the emergence of the "Jewish gauchos" (1892-1902) -- From Jewish gauchos to gaucho Jews : regional economic development and intercultural relations at the end of the nineteenth century -- The rise and demise of Jewish Villa Clara (1902-1930s) -- Rural depopulation and the emergence of a multiethnic and socially stratified landscape in Villa Clara (1940s-1990s) -- The present as politicized past : legitimizing social structure through heritage (1990s-2000s) -- Epilogue: The Jewish gaucho revisited
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Jews -- Argentina -- Clara -- History
Gauchos -- Argentina -- Clara -- History
Oral history -- Argentina -- Clara
Jews -- Argentina -- Clara -- Identity
National characteristics, Argentine -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Gauchos
Jews
Jews -- Identity
National characteristics, Argentine
Oral history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Argentina -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Entre Ríos (Argentina) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Clara (Argentina) -- Ethnic relations
Clara (Argentina) -- Social conditions
Subject Argentina
Argentina -- Clara
Argentina -- Entre Ríos
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292795150
0292795157