Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina
Abbreviation | AMIA |
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Formation | 1894 |
Founded at | Buenos Aires |
Location | |
Coordinates | 34°36′06.5″S 58°23′58″W / 34.601806°S 58.39944°W |
President | Ariel Eichbaum |
Affiliations | Judaism |
Website | www |
Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; transl. "Argentine Israelite Mutual Association") is a Jewish Community Centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Established as Jevrá Kedushá in 1894, its mission was conceived to promote the well-being and development of Jewish life in Argentina and to secure the continuity and values of the Jewish community. The association established one of Buenos Aires' first Jewish cemeteries, and later founded the Tsedaká Foundation for charity. Serving the largest Jewish community in Latin America by the 1920s, AMIA inaugurated a new headquarters in Balvanera, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, in 1945; AMIA also became the headquarters of the Federation of Jewish Argentine Communities. It grew to provide and sponsor a variety of formal and informal educational, recreational, and cultural activities, as well as a healthcare cooperative. It became a centre for participation and involvement for people of all ages in Jewish life, and in the community at large.
It has an employment agency service that provides connections between employers with potential employees as well as providing training and resources directed to both Jewish and non-Jewish people, with more than 500,000 applicants in its database.[1]
The AMIA also maintains the largest Jewish cemetery in Latin America, La Tablada Israelite Cemetery, established in 1936.[2]
1994 AMIA bombing
On 18 July 1994 (10th of
Alternative names
Other English-language names for the organization are: Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society,[6] Argentine Israelite Mutual Aid Association (or Argentine Israelite Mutual Association),[7][8] Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association,[9] and Jewish Mutual Association of Argentina.[10]
References
- ^ (in Spanish) AMIA: Importante reconocimiento al Servicio de Empleo
- ^ "Cementerio de Tablada: un lugar único, una responsabilidad de todos". amia.org.ar (in Spanish). 24 May 2012. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016.
- ^ "Hallan muerto a Alberto Nisman, el fiscal que denunció a la presidenta de Argentina". BBC Mundo (in Spanish). BBC. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Filkins, Dexter. "Death of a Prosecutor". Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ^ "Inauguran nueva sede de la AMIA". clarin.com (in Spanish). Clarin. 22 May 1999. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ISBN 9780826344014 – via Google Books.
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- ^ The American Jewish Committee. American Jewish Year Book: The Annual Record of Jewish Civilization. 2003 ed. Retrieved January 22, 2015 – via Google Books.
- ^ Faulk, Karen (2013). In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. xv, 14. Retrieved January 22, 2015 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ben-Dror, Graciela (2008). The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina, 1933–1945. University of Nebraska Press. p. 11. Retrieved January 22, 2015 – via Google Books.