Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina

by Mir Yarfitz

Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081359815X
• ISBN13: 9780813598154
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher