Los crímenes de Moisés Ville
Javier Sinay

NON FICTION | 2017 | 318 pages

In June of 2009, Javier Sinay found a copy of a 1947 article titled Las primeras víctimas judías en Moisés Ville [The First Jewish Victims in Moisés Ville] online. It was signed by his great grandfather Mijl Hacohen Sinay, a journalist like him, and it wound up being a harrowing story: it spoke of a series of twenty-two murders committed between 1889 and the start of the 20th century by Creole gauchos against Jewish immigrants that had arrived in that particular zone in the province of Santa Fe from Ukraine, fleeing from the pogroms of the Czarist Empire. Sinay began to reconstruct his great grandfather’s story and that of the small Santa Fe town until he stumbled upon a brutal and little-known side of the relationship between gauchos and Jewish people throughout those years. During that investigation, both charming and dark, he learned Yiddish to decipher ancient documents, hired a detective to trace the copies of Der Viderkol (the first Jewish newspaper in Argentina), and traveled multiple times to Moisés Ville, a place where Jewish culture left its mark with its four synagogues and streets with names in Hebrew.

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