Traces of Jewish women in Santa Fe. Moisés Ville (1889-1930)

Abstract

The Santa Fe province was characterized, from the half of the 19th century, to be a settlement of populations that migrated from different European countries. Women who lived there were from different origins: Italian, Spanish, Swiss, Lithuanian and Bielorussian. All of them had something in common, they were migrants and were subordinate to the commandments of men. The purpose of this article is historicizing the life experiences of immigrants women in the first Jewish colonies at Santa Fe northwest territory, organized by the Jewish Colonization Association and analyze how they had the ability to adapt to this space, transform it, how resisted and transgressed its tradition.Our interest focusses on the lives of women who worked in the domestic environment, which developed its multiple activities for home and their families since 1890 until 1930. Therefore they constitute a group often relegated by historiography. The object of this study is formed by the women of Moisés Ville -a settlement that came from Czarist Russia at the end of the 19th century-, that work at their homes, where they had active roles in the symbolic and material production of the social order.