From Gerchunoff to Kosher Waters: how the Jews were legitimized in Argentina (1910-2010)

Authors

  • Ivan Cherjowsky Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

Abstract

This article reviews five strategies developed by different actors of the Argentine Jewish community between the centenary and the bicentennial of the country, in order to obtain social legitimization. In this way, the hypothesis proposed sugest that legitimacy is the result of a complex process which involves the elaboration of specific policies on the part of intellectuals, artists and community leaders.

Keywords:

egitimation, memory, argentinian Jewish community