The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho draws on life histories, archives, material culture, and performances of heritage to enhance our understanding of a singular population—and to transform our approach to social memory itself.

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.

This book was written in loving memory of her beloved father Adolfo Krell, whose story tells of true life experiences of his early childhood.

This collection of stories about the early twentieth-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern European Jews on the pampa has been both praised and damned -praised as Argentine Jewry's citizenship papers and damned as a ...

The book shows how the intent to define and translate terms from the national glossary the gaucho, his lifestyle and habitat and from 'foreign' cultures, ultimately questions these terms' capacity to represent a specific culture.

As a whole, these challenging essays ask what Jewish identity is in Latin America and how it changes throughout history.

"The editors explain the renewed interest in—or 'revival' of—Yiddish in Latin America from the 1980s on as part of a broader global phenomenon. This volume sheds light on that phenomenon, while also being a part of it.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience.