The commemorative book as a place of memory: publications on the Jewish colonization in Argentina (1939-2001)

Authors

  • Dr. Iván Cherjovsky Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Universidad Abierta Interamericana

Abstract

This article examines books commemorating Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. These important vehicles for collective memory offer representations of the past—text, images, data tables and symbols that can be read as negotiating competing claims of ethnicity and nationality in the Jewish community's encounter with the State and the wider society.

Keywords:

Memory, Jewish colonization, Commemorative book.