ESTATUTOS DE FONDO COMUNAL SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA LIMITADA
Villa Dominguez [Argentina]: No Publisher [The Fondo], 1945. Item #43493
First edition thus? Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 17 pages. In Spanish. Title translates as “Bylaws of the Communal Agricultural Cooperative Society Fund, Limited.”
From the end of the Holocaust period, bylaws of one of the oldest Jewish colonies in Argentina.
“Villa Domínguez is a municipality in the Bergara district of the Villaguay department in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. The municipality includes the town of the same name and a rural area. The Gobernador Domínguez railway station was opened on September 23, 1890.
From its beginnings, it was the main urban center of Colonia Clara, the principal Jewish colony in Entre Ríos, and was also home to one of the most important agricultural cooperatives in the country, ‘Fondo Comunal Sociedad Cooperativa Agrícola Limitada’ (Communal Agricultural Cooperative Fund Limited). A bank, a linseed oil factory, grain elevators, a library, and the first Jewish hospital in South America were also established there” (Villa Domínguez).
Colonia Clara was founded by the Jewish Colonization Association in 1891, primarily settling Eastern European Jews escaping Russian pogroms. Colonia Clara is historically tied to the late 19th-century "Jewish gaucho" pampas migration. For more, see Freidenberg, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity
We could not locate a copy in OCLC nor anywhere else using standard searches.
Institutional number and names and notes on cover, otherwise Very Good Condition. Important and exceedingly rare (PSB-1-17).
Price: $375.00