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Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine : creating community and national identity, 1880-1960 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brodsky, Adriana Mariel, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Series:Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
Subjects:
Jews > Argentina > History > 19th century.
Jews > Argentina > History > 20th century.
Mizrahim > Argentina > History > 19th century.
Mizrahim > Argentina > History > 20th century.
Mizrahim > Argentina > Social life and customs.
Mizrahim > Cultural assimilation > Argentina.
Sephardim > Argentina > History.
Argentina > Ethnic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Burying the dead: cemeteries, walls, and Jewish identity in early twentieth-century Argentina
  • Helping the living: philanthropy and the boundaries of Sephardi communities in Argentina
  • The limits of community: unsuccessful attempts at creating single Sephardi organizations
  • Working for the homeland: Zionism and the creation of an "Argentine" Sephardi community after 1920
  • Becoming Argentine, becoming Jewish, becoming and remaining Sephardi: Jewish women and identity in twentieth-century Argentina
  • Marriages and schools: living within multiple borders.