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Specialists who study borders note that national identities are often forged at the edge of society.This project began as an inquiry into how a group doubly situated on the margins, as Jewish and female, helped build the larger imagined community of Argentina.However, I found that Argentine Jewish women were not always marginal.The tension between their centrality and marginality helped determine their fates along with the history of this nation. 1 As they journeyed toward the center, Jewish women played crucial roles in Argentina and its Jewish community, the largest in Latin America and the third largest in the hemisphere.They created institutions that tightened communal bonds and identities, and they helped establish farms, unions, the Communist Party, and the national cinema, activities critical to Argentine development.This study explores the contributions of immigrant and first-generation women to their communities and nation in the face of discrimination from both quarters.It addresses the following questions: How did Jewish women partake in the Argentine dreams of pluralism and upward mobility and negotiate cultural, political, class, and gender borders?Were these women insiders or outsiders?How did transnationalism influence their activities?Through what means did they claim spaces in the nation and engage with national projects?How does putting them at the center revise Argentine history?Studies of immigration to Latin America typically focus on the experiences of men.Concentrating on women instead reveals issues vital for Jews and other groups that have been ignored in the literature, such as sexual norms, teacher training, and sociability.Thus, this work provides a more rounded portrait of immigrants' lives.This is the first broad, book-length examination of the history of immigrant women of any background and their descendants in Latin America. 2 It is also the first such treatment of Jewish women in the region.Myriam Escliar's short book, Mujeres en la literatura, analyzes aspects of Argentine Jewish women's lives but does not focus exclusively on their history.
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