ABSTRACT

What is remarkable is that public accusations against Jewish delinquents made by Argentine Jews di d not have a par allel among other immigrant groups, as those groups did not discriminate against their “own” pimps and prostitutes. This, in fact, in Bernardo Kordon’s estimation, may be regarded as a tribute, as i t “testifies to the strong moral zeal that characterized Jews in Argentina and in the rest of the world.”2