The Sainete Porteño, 1890-1935: The Image of Jews in the Argentine Popular Theater.

The article observes the role of Argentina's popular theater in an attempt to create and maintain a definition of Athe rgentine nationality at a time when massive immigration was rapidly changing the nation. The theater played an important role in shaping national values. These stood against Jewish ethnicity, and the Argentine theater portrayed Jews as its antithesis. The authors of the time denounced Argentina's stance on the Jews and supported the ethnic character of the immigrants. The massive influx of immigrants, however, had a negative impact on the country's social structure. The same authors who once supported the immigrants now described them as white slavers, and Spanish or Italian thieves.