Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Mois-Ville, the -Jerusalem of South America,- and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.When Argentine journalist Javier Sinay discovers an article from 1947 by his great-grandfather detailing twenty-two murders that had occurred in Mois-Ville at the end of the nineteenth century, he launches into his own investigation that soon turns into something deeper: an exploration of the history of Mois-Ville, one of the first Jewish agricultural communities in Argentina, and Sinay-s own connection to this historically thriving Jewish epicenter.
Seeking refuge from the pogroms of Czarist Russia, a group of Jewish immigrants founded Mois-Ville in the late 1880s. Like their town-s prophetic namesake, these immigrants fled one form of persecution only to encounter a different set of hardships: exploi
