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Article: JEWISH GAUCHOS GONE, YET CULTURE SHLEPS ON.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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There are four synagogues in this remote farming town of 2,000 residents. The bakery sells Sabbath bread and cookies. Many buildings have Hebrew lettering and the Star of David on their facades. And children playing in the street use Yiddish words like ``shlep'' and ``shlock.''
But there are only about 300 Jewish residents left in Moises Ville, an agricultural community founded by European Jews who came to Argentina a century ago, fleeing pogroms and other persecution in their homeland.
While Jews once accounted for 90 percent of the population of Moises Ville, they now represent 15 percent and are rapidly declining, as most left the pampas decades ago ...