# Buenos Aires <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Buenos Aires (Spanish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>34°36′S 58°23′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina and one of the great port cities of South America, sits on the western shore of the Río de la Plata. It became the largest center of Jewish life in Latin America: East European Jewish immigration surged from the 1880s, much of it channeled through the agricultural colonies of Baron de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association before families gravitated to the capital, where communities took root in neighborhoods such as Once and Villa Crespo. The city hosts a large, institutionally developed Jewish community—the biggest in Latin America and among the largest in the world—making it a common destination for relatives of East European Jewish families who emigrated to the Americas. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Buenos Aires; Jewish Virtual Library — Argentina; YIVO Encyclopedia — Argentina.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[David Bernardo Rozenberg (b.1924)]] | Born 09/28/1924, Died 11/11/2003 | | [[Samuel Kuna (b.1928)]] | Born 09/03/1928 | | [[Israel Libster (b.1935)]] | Born 02/21/1935 | | [[Angel Goldfischer (b.1937)]] | Born 1937 | | [[Tzipporah Schickler (b.1953)]] | Born 04/12/1953 | | [[Blima Hinda Edelsztajn (b.1899)]] | Died 09/29/1965 | | [[Abram Kuna (b.1900)]] | Died 1968 | | [[David Moshe Goldfischer (b.1903)]] | Died 05/28/1973 | | [[Moti Litwak (b.1914)]] | Died 04/02/1997 | | [[Sara Edelsztajn (b.1911)]] | Died |