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Oy, my Buenos Aires : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity
- Title
- Oy, my Buenos Aires : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity / Mollie Lewis Nouwen.
- Author
- Nouwen, Mollie Lewis.
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 157 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- My Buenos Aires
- Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-152) and index.
- Contents
- Argentina : a land of immigrants -- From colony to city : Jewish immigrants, 1889-1930 -- "And from a gringo I was transformed into a criollo" : deploying markers of national identity -- Building the city, forging the nation : ethnic and national spaces -- From stolen textiles to off-track betting : urban crime and disorder -- Eating, drinking, and dancing : the gendered and generational nature of social lives -- Individual lives : helping create the Porteño identity.
- Call Number
- *PXX 13-1462
- ISBN
- 9780826353504 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0826353509 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780826353511 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- 0826353517 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013008670
- 40022724010
- OCLC
- 836261278
- Author
- Nouwen, Mollie Lewis.
- Title
- Oy, my Buenos Aires : Jewish immigrants and the creation of Argentine national identity / Mollie Lewis Nouwen.
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-152) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022724010
- Research Call Number
- *PXX 13-1462