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Argentine Jews Celebrate 60th Anniversary of Founding of First Colony

October 27, 1949
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The sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Noises Ville, the first Jewish agricultural colony in Argentina, was celebrated this week by Argentine Jewry.

The town was settled on Aug. 28, 1889, by 95 Jewish families from Russia on land leased in the Province of Santa Fe. Its present population of 5,500 is 90 percent Jewish Moises Ville is the birthplace of many of Argentina’s important Jewish personages, including the son of one of its founders, Dr. Moises Goldman, former president of the DAIA, central Jewish representative body in Argentina.

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