The invention of the Jewish gaucho [electronic resource] : Villa Clara and the construction of Argentine identity / Judith Noem�i Freidenberg ; foreword by June Nash.
Series: Jewish history, life, and culturePublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 184 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780292719958 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0292719957 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Jews -- Argentina -- Clara -- History
- Gauchos -- Argentina -- Clara -- History
- Oral history -- Argentina -- Clara
- Jews -- Argentina -- Clara -- Identity
- National characteristics, Argentine -- History
- Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Argentina -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Entre R�ios (Argentina) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Clara (Argentina) -- Ethnic relations
- Clara (Argentina) -- Social conditions
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- F3011.C57 F739 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Social memory as part of Villa Clara's history -- Entre R�ios, 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.