Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Sinay, Javier, 1980- author.

Title:

The murders of Moisés Ville : the rise and fall of the Jerusalem of South America / Javier Sinay ; translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll.

Edition:

First Restless Books hardcover edition.

Publisher, Date:

Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2022.

Description:

xvii, 265 pages : map ; 24 cm

Summary:

Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the "Jerusalem of South America," and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.

Subjects:

Sinay, Javier, 1980-

Immigrants -- Argentina -- Moisés Ville -- History.

Murder -- Argentina -- Moisés Ville -- History -- 19th century.

Jews -- Crimes against -- Argentina -- Moisés Ville -- History -- 19th century.

Murder -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.

Moisés Ville (Argentina) -- History.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Other Author:

Croll, Robert, 1993- translator.

Other Title:

Crímenes de Moisés Ville. English

Notes:

Translation of: Los crímenes de Moisés Ville : una historia de guachos y judios.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-258).

First published under title: Los crímenes de Moisés Ville : una historia de gauchos y judíos. Buenos Aires : Tusquets Editores, 2013.

Text in English, translated from the Spanish.

Contents:

The journey -- An Argentine Jerusalem -- Definitely endangered -- Krisis Disco, Moisesvishe -- Memory and myth in the cemetary -- Rebellion in the colony -- The killing and the Waisman family (and remembrance as duty) -- Legacies and sentences -- A journalist's dream -- The enigma of Der Viderkol -- News of a murder in Die Volks Stimme -- Cops and colonists -- Alternative histories -- Final versions of an incomplete history.

LCCN:

2021948327

ISBN:

9781632062987

1632062984

Other Number:

1295103711

System Availability:

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Current Holds:

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1

Control Number:

965359

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Call Number:

364.1523 Sinay