Description
Book SynopsisInvestigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.
Trade Review"Recommended."— Choice
"Yarfitz has approached the delicate subject deftly and with sophistication."— H-Net
“A fascinating account of Jewish participation in sexual commerce in Buenos Aires…
Impure Migration deepens our knowledge of the relation between prostitution and migration.”— Cristiana Schettini, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) / University of San Martín, Argentina
“A tour de force. It transcends conventional accounts of victimized prostitutes and malevolent pimps with an intellectually bold exploration of sexual and racialized public anxieties. An important contribution to the history of international mobility, immigrant sociability, gendered labor, and multi-ethnic cities.”— José Moya, professor of history, Barnard College
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Impure Migration presents a fascinating chapter in the history of Jewish immigration to the Americas... it is important that this story be made available.”— Adriana M. Brodsky, professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland
"Wyklęta Varsovia. Sutenerski szlak "Napoleona" ze Smoczej," by Wojtek Rodak— Weekend Gazeta
"If you want to read just one of the very many books on Jewish white slavery, this is the one you should choose. Both specialists and the general public will find this volume engaging and insightful."— Raanan Rein, vice president, Tel Aviv University
"This book provides us with exciting ways in which the perspectives of the subaltern can be narrated into a transnational history of elites who dominated the talk about them.
Impure Migration is a brilliant piece of history writing which will speak loudly and inspirationally to global and transnational historians. Its findings will equally be of immense help to activists and academics engaged in debates on contemporary sex work and trafficking."— Connections
Table of ContentsContents
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires
1 White Slaves and Dark Masters
2 Jewish Traffic in Women
3 Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy
4 Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps
5 The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires
Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
