WThe history of the Jews in Argentina goes back to the early sixteenth century, following the Jewish expulsion from Spain. Sephardi Jews fleeing persecution immigrated with explorers and colonists to settle in what is now Argentina. In addition, many of the Portuguese traders in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata were Jewish. An organized Jewish community, however, did not develop until after Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1816. By mid-century, Jews from France and other parts of Western Europe, fleeing the social and economic disruptions of revolutions, began to settle in Argentina.
WThe AMIA bombing was a suicide van bomb attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina building in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 18 July 1994, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. The bombing is Argentina's deadliest terrorist attack to date. Argentina is home to a Jewish community of 230,000, the largest in Latin America and sixth in the world outside Israel (see Demographics of Argentina).
WAsociación Mutual Israelita Argentina is a Jewish Community Center located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
WMoritz (Zvi) von Hirsch, commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry. He was the founder of the Jewish Colonization Association, which sponsored large-scale Jewish immigration to Argentina.
WThe attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a suicide bombing attack on the building of the Israeli embassy of Argentina, located in Buenos Aires, which was carried out on 17 March 1992. 29 civilians were killed in the attack and 242 additional civilians were injured.
WThe Jewish Social Democratic Labour Organization in Argentina (Avangard) was a Jewish socialist organization in Argentina. Avangard was founded on January 20, 1907, by a group of Jewish socialists inspired by the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. The organization had its office on Mexico 2070, Buenos Aires.
WRaquel Liberman was a Polish immigrant to Argentina, a victim of human trafficking. Her denouncement of her traffickers led to the breaking up of the Jewish human-trafficking network from Poland, Zwi Migdal, which in the early 20th century operated a large white-slavery ring.
WArgentina and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in 2013 for a joint investigation of the AMIA bombing. The full name was Memorandum of understanding between the Government of Argentina and the Government of Islamic Republic of Iran on the issues related to the terrorist attack against AMIA headquarter in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994. The memorandum was voided on December 2015, shortly after the inauguration of Argentine president Mauricio Macri.
WMoisés Ville is a small town (comuna) in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, founded on 23 October 1889 by Eastern European and Russian Jews escaping pogroms and persecution. The original name intended for the town was Kiryat Moshe honoring Baron Maurice Moshe Hirsch, but the land agent who registered the settlement translated it to the French-like Moïsesville which was later hispanized to the current Moisés Ville. The town is located about 177 km (110 mi) from the provincial capital, in the San Cristóbal Department and 616 km (383 mi) from Buenos Aires. It had 2,572 inhabitants at the 2001 census [INDEC].
WNaivelt was a Yiddish-language literary monthly magazine published in Argentina from 1927–1930. Politically, Naivelt was pro-communist but without open affiliation to the Communist Party. It was published by a group of leftist writers, also going by the name Naivelt. Hirsh Bloshtein was the editor of Naivelt. Bloshtein was deported in 1931 for communist activities.
WThe death of Alberto Nisman, an Argentine lawyer who specialized in international terrorism, became known in the early hours of Monday, January 19, 2015. He was found shot in the head in his apartment in the Torre del Parque building in the upscale Le Parc Puerto Madero development in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires.
WJulius Popper, also known in Spanish as Julio Popper, was an Ottoman-born Romanian-Argentine engineer, adventurer, explorer, and genocidaire. He was the designer of the modern outline of the city of Havana, Cuba.
WZwi Migdal was a Jewish organized-crime group, founded in Poland and based mainly in Argentina, that trafficked in Jewish women from Central Europe for sexual slavery and forced prostitution.