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Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism and Finance Sourcing in Argentina
Otherness and Industrial Entrepreneurship
Series: - Jewish Latin America, Volume: 18
Author:
“The book represents an innovative and outstanding contribution to the economic, social, and business history of Argentina. It focuses on the factors that conditioned the emergence and development, between 1930 and the early 1960s, of large industrial enterprises founded by Jewish immigrants, with emphasis on the absence of community financial institutions to support their creation and expansion. lt is characterized both by the relevance of the issues it addresses and by the author's ability to conduct original and solid research based on a non-dogmatic conceptual framework, on the analysis of a wide variety of unexplored sources, and the virtuous combination of different scales of observation.” Professor Dr. María Inés Barbero, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Igal Aisenberg, Ph.D, Tel Aviv University, is a former CEO of a multinational enterprise and an independent scholar in the fields of business history and contemporary Jewish economics. His last publications include articles in
Investigaciones y Ensayos (1923),
Latin America Jewish Studies (2024), and
Temas de Historia Argentina y Americana (2025).
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Argentine Antisemitism and Jewish Businesses: Peaceful Coexistence
2 The Asymmetric Development of Jewish Businesses and Banks
3 New and Recent Historiographical Contributions
4 Sources
5 Methodology
6 Structure
1 Jewish Immigrants in Argentina: Capitalists or Proletarians?
1 Introduction
1.1 International Migration Push-Pull and Network Theories
1.2 Economic Distress and Antisemitism as Drivers of Russian–Polish Jewish Immigration
1.3 The Profile and Occupational Structure of Jewish Migrants in the Russian Empire
1.4 Interwar Poland: Occupational Structural Change or Merely New Passports
1.5 The Decline and Collapse of Jewish Entrepreneurs in Russia and Poland
1.6 Ottoman Jews: Protected by the Millet and Favored by the Tanzimat
2 Conclusion: Strong Push Drivers and a Feeble Network Left Behind
2 Jewish Industrialists in a Willing-Reluctant Immigration Host Country
1 Introduction
1.1 Centennial Nationalism, Rusos and Turcos
1.2 From Centennial Cultural Nationalism to Philo-Fascist Antisemitism
1.3 Industrialization, 1930s–40s: Jewish Immigrant Occupations and Finance
1.4 The RCCII: an Official Jewish Business Chronicle
1.5 Industrialization and Successful Jewish Industrialists, 1943–55
1.6 Relativizing the Ethnic Racism Discourse: Before and after the BCIA and Perón
2 Conclusion: Toxic Atmosphere, Unfulfilled Threats, and Gradual Integration
3 Jewish Argentine Financial Institutions: East European Offspring
1 Introduction
1.1 A Pale Reflection of Past Grandeur
1.2 Ethnic Banks and the Power of the Network: BIRP and BERP
1.3 Jewish Immigrants after WWI: Financing Peddlers, Small Shops, and Craftsmen
1.4 Jewish Financial Power in Argentina: Real or Imagined?
1.5 From Jewish Credit Funds to Banks: Too Many and Too Small
1.6 Jewish Banks: Modus Operandi and Governing Standards
1.7 Enough and to Spare: Two “Big Banks” and a Plethora of Credit Cooperatives
1.8 The Predicted End of BIRD
1.9 Only in Argentina? the Fall of Jewish East European Banks in the United States
2 Conclusion: Too Many Jewish Banks, Too Few Bankers, No Rothschilds
4 Argentina’s Jewish Immigrants as Leading Industrial Entrepreneurs
1 Introduction
1.1 Family Owned, Controlled, and Managed: the Oldest Type of Business Organization
1.2 Jewish Industrialists as Schumpeterian Capitalist-Entrepreneurs
1.3 Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Achievements: Immigrants as Self-Made Men
1.4 Case Study #1: The Rags to Riches Story of Aleppo’s Teubal
1.5 Case Study #2: La Bernalesa & Hilanderías Gaby Salomón: Salonica’s Different Other
1.6 Case Study #3: The (Almost) Unknown Story of Levin Hnos
2 Conclusion: Outstanding Uphill Buildout, Lackluster Ending
5 Not Only Textiles: Jewish Manufacturers of Machines, Steel Tubing and Forestry Products
1 Introduction
1.1 Case Study #4: Muzykansky’s Famatex: Mastery, Timing, Boldness, and Luck
1.2 Case Study #5: Silbert: Blacksmith Apprentice in Kyiv, Steel Industrialist in Buenos Aires
1.3 Case Study #6: Weisburd and the Agro-Export Model: Not Only Livestock Raising and Farming
1.4 Fritz Mandl and Oskar Kon: the Relevance of Two Irrelevant Cases
2 Conclusion: Skills Transferability and Bold Pioneering, Not Brazen Opportunism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Argentine Antisemitism and Jewish Businesses: Peaceful Coexistence
2 The Asymmetric Development of Jewish Businesses and Banks
3 New and Recent Historiographical Contributions
4 Sources
5 Methodology
6 Structure
1 Jewish Immigrants in Argentina: Capitalists or Proletarians?
1 Introduction
1.1 International Migration Push-Pull and Network Theories
1.2 Economic Distress and Antisemitism as Drivers of Russian–Polish Jewish Immigration
1.3 The Profile and Occupational Structure of Jewish Migrants in the Russian Empire
1.4 Interwar Poland: Occupational Structural Change or Merely New Passports
1.5 The Decline and Collapse of Jewish Entrepreneurs in Russia and Poland
1.6 Ottoman Jews: Protected by the Millet and Favored by the Tanzimat
2 Conclusion: Strong Push Drivers and a Feeble Network Left Behind
2 Jewish Industrialists in a Willing-Reluctant Immigration Host Country
1 Introduction
1.1 Centennial Nationalism, Rusos and Turcos
1.2 From Centennial Cultural Nationalism to Philo-Fascist Antisemitism
1.3 Industrialization, 1930s–40s: Jewish Immigrant Occupations and Finance
1.4 The RCCII: an Official Jewish Business Chronicle
1.5 Industrialization and Successful Jewish Industrialists, 1943–55
1.6 Relativizing the Ethnic Racism Discourse: Before and after the BCIA and Perón
2 Conclusion: Toxic Atmosphere, Unfulfilled Threats, and Gradual Integration
3 Jewish Argentine Financial Institutions: East European Offspring
1 Introduction
1.1 A Pale Reflection of Past Grandeur
1.2 Ethnic Banks and the Power of the Network: BIRP and BERP
1.3 Jewish Immigrants after WWI: Financing Peddlers, Small Shops, and Craftsmen
1.4 Jewish Financial Power in Argentina: Real or Imagined?
1.5 From Jewish Credit Funds to Banks: Too Many and Too Small
1.6 Jewish Banks: Modus Operandi and Governing Standards
1.7 Enough and to Spare: Two “Big Banks” and a Plethora of Credit Cooperatives
1.8 The Predicted End of BIRD
1.9 Only in Argentina? the Fall of Jewish East European Banks in the United States
2 Conclusion: Too Many Jewish Banks, Too Few Bankers, No Rothschilds
4 Argentina’s Jewish Immigrants as Leading Industrial Entrepreneurs
1 Introduction
1.1 Family Owned, Controlled, and Managed: the Oldest Type of Business Organization
1.2 Jewish Industrialists as Schumpeterian Capitalist-Entrepreneurs
1.3 Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Achievements: Immigrants as Self-Made Men
1.4 Case Study #1: The Rags to Riches Story of Aleppo’s Teubal
1.5 Case Study #2: La Bernalesa & Hilanderías Gaby Salomón: Salonica’s Different Other
1.6 Case Study #3: The (Almost) Unknown Story of Levin Hnos
2 Conclusion: Outstanding Uphill Buildout, Lackluster Ending
5 Not Only Textiles: Jewish Manufacturers of Machines, Steel Tubing and Forestry Products
1 Introduction
1.1 Case Study #4: Muzykansky’s Famatex: Mastery, Timing, Boldness, and Luck
1.2 Case Study #5: Silbert: Blacksmith Apprentice in Kyiv, Steel Industrialist in Buenos Aires
1.3 Case Study #6: Weisburd and the Agro-Export Model: Not Only Livestock Raising and Farming
1.4 Fritz Mandl and Oskar Kon: the Relevance of Two Irrelevant Cases
2 Conclusion: Skills Transferability and Bold Pioneering, Not Brazen Opportunism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
The book covers multiple subjects: migration, Argentine nationalism and industrialization, Jewish banking, and large Jewish industries. It would be of immediate interest to Argentine, Jewish, and business historians, academic institutes, libraries, and students.