Cartography of Jewish left-wing periodicals in Argentina, 1900-1953

Abstract

The strong political and cultural investment in the printed word that took place within the Argentine Jewish cultural world throughout the twentieth century was particularly intense and rich in the arc of the ideological left. Thus, based on a lengthy work of record and systematization of Jewish periodicals printed in Buenos Aires along the twentieth century, the article focuses on the analysis of the left-wing periodicals published between 1900 and 1953. In this regard, it proposes a mapping of the diversity of enterprises, and from it a first outline of periodization from which it is possible to reach the general features of the emergency and the socio-historical transformations of a specific area of Jewish left-wing publications. In this sense, the text describes the contours of a dense universe of production, circulation and consumption of symbolic goods structured on two languages and consisting of a diverse set of cultural and political actors located in the country and abroad. The objectification of this space through a cartographic approximation like the one propposed here opens an area of research problems and hypothesis not yet explored.