Abstract
On the basis of biographical accounts and interviews, this article examines the processes of identity construction in the private lives of Uruguay's immigrant Jews. It is argued that the integration of the Jewish immigrants into Uruguayan society did not take the form of automatic dissolution in a social and cultural ‘melting pot.’ Instead, the Jews recreated their identity on the basis of the autonomy that they were able to exercise in their private sphere. In the process, they came to occupy a distinctive place of their own as a minority within the national society.
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