Jewish South America

Mon 14 Dec to Sun 27 Dec. 233 Park Avenue South, New York, 10003. Jacob Shoshan, 212-879-4588, info@travelwithjacob.com. $6595. Travel With Jacob - [events]

Just to our south, a whole continent awaits discovery. It’s full of grand cities, extraordinary scenery and a pulse of life that will have your toes tapping and hips gyrating from the moment you arrive. It’s also home to hundreds of thousands of Jews, most of whose ancestors arrived from Eastern Europe at the same time yours reached America. We begin in Argentina and its gorgeous capital Buenos Aires, often called the Paris of South America…You’ll meet Jewish Argentineans and you’ll journey out into the Pampas where Jewish pioneers created a “Promised Land” in the late 19th century. Next, amazing Iguassu Falls. Then journey to northern Brazil, where Jews have lived for almost as long as Europeans have lived in the Western Hemisphere. Learn of their life a