The Murders Of Moises Ville The Rise And Fall Of The Jerusalem Of South America

Award-winning journalist javier sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of moisés ville, the jerusalem of south america, and his personal connection to a defining period of jewish history in argentina.When argentine journalist javier sinay discovers an article from 1947 by his great-grandfather detailing twenty-two murders that had occurred in moisés ville at the end of the nineteenth century, he launches into his own investigation that soon turns into something deeper: an exploration of the history of moisés ville, one of the first jewish agricultural communities in argentina, and sinay’s own connection to this historically thriving jewish epicenter. Seeking refuge from the pogroms of czarist russia, a group of jewish immigrants founded moisés ville in the late 1880s.Like their town’s prophetic namesake, these immigrants fled one form of persecution only to encounter a different set of hardships: exploitative land prices, starvation, illness, language barriers, and a series of murders perpetrated by roving gauchos who preyed upon their vulnerability.Sinay, though a descendant of these immigrants, is unfamiliar with this turbulent history, and his research into the spate of violence plunges him into his family’s past and their link to moisés ville.He combs through libraries and archives in search of documents about the murders and hires a book detective to track down issues of der viderkol, the first yi...

Award-winning journalist javier sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of moisés ville, the jerusalem of