The invention of the Jewish gaucho
Subtitle: Villa Clara and the construction of Argentine identity
By: Judith Noemi Freidenberg ; foreword by June Nash.
Series: Jewish history, life, and culture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780292719958
Subjects: Jews -- Argentina -- Clara -- History; Gauchos -- Argentina -- Clara -- History; Oral history -- Argentina -- Clara; Jews -- Argentina -- Clara -- Ethnic identity; National characteristics, Argentine -- History; Europe, Eastern -- Emmigration and immigration -- History; Argentina -- Emmigration and immigration -- History; Entre Ríos (Argentina) -- Emmigration and immigration -- History; Clara (Argentina) -- Ethnic relations; Clara (Argentina) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social memory as part of Villa Clara's history; title: Entre Ríos, mi pais : immigrants becoming Argentine in a province; title: Colonia Clara and the emergence of the "Jewish gauchos" (1892-1902); title: From Jewish gauchos to gaucho Jews : regional economic development and intercultural relations at the end of the nineteenth century; title: The rise and demise of Jewish Villa Clara (1902-1930s); title: Rural depopulation and the emergence of a multiethnic and socially stratified landscape in Villa Clara (1940s-1990s); title: The present as politicized past : legitimizing social structure through heritage (1990s-2000s); title: Epilogue: The Jewish gaucho revisited.