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Argentina has the largest Jewish population in Latin America and south of the Tropic of Cancer, [22] with about 300,000 people. The community numbered about 400,000 after World War II, but the appeal of Israel , and economic and cultural pressures at home led many to leave for Israel, Europe or the United States; recent instability in Israel ...
Argentina is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic, racial, religious, denomination, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. [19] [20] [21] As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to ...
Argentina's Jewish population is, by far, the largest in all of Latin America and is the fifth largest in the world. Buenos Aires itself is said to have over 100,000 practicing Jews, making it one of the largest Jewish urban centers in the world (see also History of the Jews in Argentina).
The history of Argentina can be divided into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time or early history (up to the sixteenth century), the colonial period (1536–1809), the period of nation-building (1810–1880), and the history of modern Argentina (from around 1880).
The extensive explorations, research and writing by Juan Bautista Ambrosetti and other ethnographers during the 20th century, which followed earlier pioneer studies by anthropologists such as Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, [18] encouraged wider interest in indigenous people in Argentina, and their contributions to the nation's culture were further ...
Argentina, [a] officially the Argentine Republic, [b] is a country in the southern half of South America.Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km 2 (1,073,500 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
The culture of Argentina is as varied as the country geography and is composed of a mix of ethnic groups.Modern Argentine culture has been influenced largely by the Spanish colonial period and the 19th/20th century European immigration (mainly Italian and Spanish), and also by Amerindian culture, particularly in the fields of music and art.
Ideas and practices of nationality and citizenship in the Republic of Argentina (and before that, in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and the Inca Empire) have changed with distinct periods of its history, including but not limited to periods of indigenous, colonial, republican, and military rule.