Impure Migration - Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina

List of contents

Contents

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires

1          White Slaves and Dark Masters                     

2          Jewish Traffic in Women                   

3          Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy       

4          Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps              

5          The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires        

Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

 

About the author

MIR YARFITZ is an assistant professor in the department of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Summary

Investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.

Product details

Authors	Mir Yarfitz
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	04.04.2019
EAN	9780813598154
ISBN	978-0-8135-9815-4
No. of pages	224
Series	Jewish Cultures of the World
Subject	Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Product details

• Authors: Mir Yarfitz
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2019
• EAN: 9780813598154
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9815-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Jewish Cultures of the World
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous