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Jewish-Argentine Foodways

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Argentina holds the largest Jewish community in Latin America, Ashkenazi and Sephardi both, centred on Buenos Aires — Once and Villa Crespo — and with a distinctive rural chapter: the JEWISH AGRICULTURAL COLONIES of ENTRE RÍOS, Santa Fe and La Pampa founded from 1889 under Baron Hirsch, whose settlers became the "JEWISH GAUCHOS", combining a Yiddish kitchen with asado, mate and the pampas. Knishes, varenikes, pastrón, and Sephardi boyos and burekas. ⚠ Also the 1992 embassy and 1994 AMIA bombings, which are part of this community’s history.

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Communities and languages

  • Jewish Argentines community documented

Languages: Yiddish, Spanish

What is recorded

  • The Jewish agricultural colonies of Entre Ríos, Santa Fe and La Pampa are founded under Baron Hirsch, producing the "Jewish gauchos". documented

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