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How Should One Pray South of the Equator?
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Rosario, Argentina, June 16, 1914Your Eminence,Permit me to bother you in the name of the Jewish collective of Rosario, because of a divergence of opinion arising between us, about which we desire…

Contributor:

David Pisanté

Places:

Rosario, Argentina

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardic, Prayer, Assimilation, Exile

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
May Revolution (1810-1917)
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Israel, expressing the sentiments of the Jewish people living on these hospitable shores, in homage to this glorious, historic date, addresses to Argentina’s forefathers who acted that…

Contributor:

Samuel de A. Levy

Places:

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Prayer, Nationalism, Citizenship, Jewish identity, Migration

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
I am your God and Lord
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I am your God and Lord Who with infinite power Freed you from Egypt Where you lived in suffering And harsh despair. Do not revere Foreign gods before me, And make no trophies In the likeness of the…

Contributor:

Leonor de Carvajal

Places:

Spanish Empire (Mexico)

Date:

1589–1595

Subjects:

Prayer, Bible, Monotheism, Jewish identity, Inquisition

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
The Jewish Gauchos
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This collection of short vignettes about life in the Jewish agricultural colonies was published for Argentina’s independence centennial. It presents their experience as redemptive.

Contributor:

Alberto Gerchunoff

Places:

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Prayer, Community, Piety, Marriage

Categories:

Literature, Fiction