Polacos in Argentina : Polish Jews, interwar migration, and the emergence of transatlantic Jewish culture /

Kalczewiak, Mariusz, 1987-

Polacos in Argentina : Polish Jews, interwar migration, and the emergence of transatlantic Jewish culture / Mariusz Kalczewiak. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Jews and Judaism : history and culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Jewish elites, gentile opinions, and the Argentine dream -- Between hope and fear : the imageries of Argentina in Poland's Yiddish channels -- Argentine branch : extending the Yiddishland to Latin America -- Meeting the gaucho and searching for Indians : the trajectories of exoticization -- Israelita Argentino or Argentiner Yid? Cultural choices, national belonging, and the weight of European baggage -- Being a "good Polish Jew" in Buenos Aires : landsmanshaftn and Jewish-Polish ethnicity -- Aktsyes, protest-aktn, and helping the old home : Argentine children of Jewish Poland respond to a changing Europe -- All immigrant Jews live with their soul in Poland? Debating the tension between new and old home.



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Jews, Polish--History--Argentina--20th century.
Jews, Polish--Social life and customs--Argentina--20th century.
Jews, Polish--Social conditions--Argentina--20th century.
Jews--Migrations.
Jews--Identity.
Jews--Cultural assimilation.
Yiddish language--Social aspects--Argentina.


Electronic Books.

F3021 / .P653 2019