Paula Ansaldo’s book brings about a long-awaited return of Yiddish and the IFT to their rightful place in Argentine theater history and Jewish theater history.
Ivo Pelay's 1926 plays Judío and Judía, “Jew” and “Jewess,” thematize anxiety not only about the Argentineity of Jews, but also about the Jewishness of Argentina: the promise of assimilation and the threat of subversion.