Mariusz Kalczewiak is assistant professor in the Slavic Studies Department at the University of Potsdam. His scholarship has appeared in American Jewish History, The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America, and Studia Judaica.

This is a pioneering and fascinating study of global Yiddish culture, beyond the borders of Eastern Europe, with special focus on its encounters with non-European cultures." - Raanan Rein, author of Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Peron, The Eichmann Capture and After and Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?"After the United States and Palestine, Argentina drew the third largest share of Eastern European immigrants in the interwar period. Yet, Jewish Studies scholarship in English has scarcely mined the richness of Jewish life, especially Yiddish culture, there. Drawing on a diverse and novel array of printed and archival sources in above all Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish, Kalczewiak makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the shaping of identity among 'Polish' Jews in Argentina and the image of Argentina among Jews in Poland in the first half of the twentieth century. He shows us that Jewish immigrants not only struck deep roots in their new country. They and their children also cultivated meaningful ties with Poland and constituted their (new) homeland as part of a global Yiddishland through a dynamic, multisided process that was continuously informed by and simultaneously informed Jewish identity in pre-Holocaust Poland." - Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Translation, Spelling, and TransliterationIntroduction1. Jewish Elites, Gentile Opinions, and the Argentine Dream2. Between Hope and Fear: The Imageries of Argentina in Poland's Yiddish Channels3. Argentine Branch: Extending the Yiddishland to Latin America4. Meeting the Gaucho and Searching for Indians: The Trajectories of Exoticization5. Israelita Argentino or Argentiner Yid? Cultural Choices, National Belonging and the Weight of European Baggage6. Being a 'Good Polish Jew' in Buenos Aires: Landsmanshaftn and Jewish-Polish Ethnicity7. Aktsyes, Protest-aktn, and Helping the Old Home: Argentine Children of Jewish Poland Respond to a Changing Europe8. All Immigrant Jews Live with Their Soul in Poland? Debating the Tension between New and Old HomeEpilogueGlossaryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Mariusz Kalczewiak is assistant professor in the Slavic Studies Department at the University of Potsdam. His scholarship has appeared in American Jewish History, The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America, and Studia Judaica.

This is a pioneering and fascinating study of global Yiddish culture, beyond the borders of Eastern Europe, with special focus on its encounters with non-European cultures." - Raanan Rein, author of Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Peron, The Eichmann Capture and After and Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?"After the United States and Palestine, Argentina drew the third largest share of Eastern European immigrants in the interwar period. Yet, Jewish Studies scholarship in English has scarcely mined the richness of Jewish life, especially Yiddish culture, there. Drawing on a diverse and novel array of printed and archival sources in above all Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish, Kalczewiak makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the shaping of identity among 'Polish' Jews in Argentina and the image of Argentina among Jews in Poland in the first half of the twentieth century. He shows us that Jewish immigrants not only struck deep roots in their new country. They and their children also cultivated meaningful ties with Poland and constituted their (new) homeland as part of a global Yiddishland through a dynamic, multisided process that was continuously informed by and simultaneously informed Jewish identity in pre-Holocaust Poland." - Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Translation, Spelling, and TransliterationIntroduction1. Jewish Elites, Gentile Opinions, and the Argentine Dream2. Between Hope and Fear: The Imageries of Argentina in Poland's Yiddish Channels3. Argentine Branch: Extending the Yiddishland to Latin America4. Meeting the Gaucho and Searching for Indians: The Trajectories of Exoticization5. Israelita Argentino or Argentiner Yid? Cultural Choices, National Belonging and the Weight of European Baggage6. Being a 'Good Polish Jew' in Buenos Aires: Landsmanshaftn and Jewish-Polish Ethnicity7. Aktsyes, Protest-aktn, and Helping the Old Home: Argentine Children of Jewish Poland Respond to a Changing Europe8. All Immigrant Jews Live with Their Soul in Poland? Debating the Tension between New and Old HomeEpilogueGlossaryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Mariusz Kalczewiak is assistant professor in the Slavic Studies Department at the University of Potsdam. His scholarship has appeared in American Jewish History, The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America, and Studia Judaica.

This is a pioneering and fascinating study of global Yiddish culture, beyond the borders of Eastern Europe, with special focus on its encounters with non-European cultures." - Raanan Rein, author of Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Peron, The Eichmann Capture and After and Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?"After the United States and Palestine, Argentina drew the third largest share of Eastern European immigrants in the interwar period. Yet, Jewish Studies scholarship in English has scarcely mined the richness of Jewish life, especially Yiddish culture, there. Drawing on a diverse and novel array of printed and archival sources in above all Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish, Kalczewiak makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the shaping of identity among 'Polish' Jews in Argentina and the image of Argentina among Jews in Poland in the first half of the twentieth century. He shows us that Jewish immigrants not only struck deep roots in their new country. They and their children also cultivated meaningful ties with Poland and constituted their (new) homeland as part of a global Yiddishland through a dynamic, multisided process that was continuously informed by and simultaneously informed Jewish identity in pre-Holocaust Poland." - Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Translation, Spelling, and TransliterationIntroduction1. Jewish Elites, Gentile Opinions, and the Argentine Dream2. Between Hope and Fear: The Imageries of Argentina in Poland's Yiddish Channels3. Argentine Branch: Extending the Yiddishland to Latin America4. Meeting the Gaucho and Searching for Indians: The Trajectories of Exoticization5. Israelita Argentino or Argentiner Yid? Cultural Choices, National Belonging and the Weight of European Baggage6. Being a 'Good Polish Jew' in Buenos Aires: Landsmanshaftn and Jewish-Polish Ethnicity7. Aktsyes, Protest-aktn, and Helping the Old Home: Argentine Children of Jewish Poland Respond to a Changing Europe8. All Immigrant Jews Live with Their Soul in Poland? Debating the Tension between New and Old HomeEpilogueGlossaryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex