Research Catalog

Title

The invention of the Jewish gaucho : Villa Clara and the construction of Argentine identity / Judith Noemí Freidenberg ; foreword by June Nash.

Author

Freidenberg, Judith.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

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Description

xx, 184 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish history, life, and culture

Uniform Title

• Jewish history, life, and culture.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Argentina > History
• Argentinien
• Clara (Argentina) > Ethnic relations
• Clara (Argentina) > Social conditions
• Entre Ríos (Argentina) > History
• Europe, Eastern > History
• Gauchos > Clara > History
• Identität
• Jews > Clara > History
• Jews > Clara > Identity
• Juden
• National characteristics, Argentine > History
• Oral history > Clara

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780292719958 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0292719957 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009004627

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library