Up north on the pampas of Santa Fe province, just over six hours´ drive from Buenos Aires, this town of around 3,000 was founded in 1889 by Jews fleeing pogroms and persecution in Russia and Eastern Europe, and became one of the earliest Jewish agricultural colonies in the Americas - and yes, there were Jewish gauchos! The Jewish population these days is only about ten percent, but their legacy remains in the form of three synagogues (including the Sinagoga Barón Hirsch (pictured here), the Kadima cultural center, with a theater hall and library, a hospital, a Hebrew school, Argentina´s first Jewish cemetery (1891), and a museum which showcases the town´s history and Jewish culture. It´s on UNESCO´s tentative list of World Heritage Sites.
Read more in my post 5 of Latin America´s Top Jewish Destinations.
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