The invention of the Jewish gaucho Villa Clara and the construction of Argentine identity /

Main Author: Freidenberg, Judith.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Jewish history, life, and culture
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10351555
Table of Contents:
  • Social memory as part of Villa Clara's history
  • Entre Rβios, 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.