The Jewish Left in Argentina

VISACOVSKY NERINA

Nueva York

Conferencia; Special Event; 2019

Workmen´s Circle, Jewish Voice for Peace and Jewish Currents

Based on a more extensive research about the Jewish left identity in Argentina, I analyze the process of rise and decline of the Idisher Cultur Farband (ICUF) between 1941 and 1968. During the twenties and thirties, its main activists were committed to the Communist Party and under the alliance atmosphere of the Popular Front, the Yiddish schools multiplied. However, when the native generation appeared on the scene in the 1960s, the continuity of the ?shules? and the teaching of the Yiddish began to lose meaning for their protagonists. This article explores several factors that explain that process. Although the party line for the Judeo-Argentine community occupied a place in this transformation, a more complex analysis also reveals the importance of other variables of social and political change in the country and the world.