Judith Freidenberg’s book, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity (University of Texas Press, 2009), has been translated into Spanish and published by Prometeo Editorial, 2013. In a rendition of Villa Clara’s social history, the book interweaves ethnographic and historical information to understand the saga of European immigrants drawn by Argentina’s open-door policy in the nineteenth century and its impact on the current transformation of immigration into multicultural discourses in the twenty-first century.

Judith Freidenberg is faculty with the Department of Anthropology.

The book will be discussed by a panel of UMD faculty:

Laura Demaría, Spanish and Portuguese

Patricio Korzeniewicz, Sociology

Marsha Rozenblit, History

Lunch will be served.