Jewish Leaders Participate in Ceremony Honoring San Martin, Liberator of Argentina

Jewish delegations from all parts of the country converged today on the “Mountain of Glory” in the province of Mendoza to participate in ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Gen. Jose de San Martin, Argentina’s national hero and South American liberator. Dr. Ricardo Dubrovsky, president of the DAIA, central representative body of Argentine Jewry, and Dr. Moses Slinin, president of the Ashkenasi community of Buenos Aires, spoke during the ceremonies.

Highlighting the ceremonies at the site where San Martin began his crossing of the Andes to liberate Chile and Peru from Spanish rule, was the unveiling of a bronze plaque on the Monument to the Army of the Andes. The plaque depicts two great liberators — Moses freeing the Jews from Egyptian bondage, and San Martin breaking the chains of Spanish oppression in South America — and is the work of the noted Jewish sculptor, Israel Hoffmann.