moving from Argentina to Brazil in the 1950s

[Molly B Staub staubmolly@yahoo.com]

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I have recently discovered a branch of my Harast/Jarast family in Buenos
Aires from the Russian Empire, arriving in the early 20th Century. I know
there were incentives for settling.

However, a number of them immigrated to Brazil in the 1950s. What occurred
causing them to choose a country that spoke a different language? I know
about the Dirty War and the "Disappeareds" of the 1970s, but this was
earlier.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Molly Arost Staub

Researching: AROST/HARAST/JARAST from Bessarabia/Moldova, Philadelphia, and
Argentina; STOFFMAN/SHTOFMAN from Bessarabia/Moldova, China, and
Philadelphia; BERENSON/BERENSOHN from Ukraine, Great Britain, and
Philadelphia; GRAFFMAN/GROFFMAN from Ukraine, Great Britain, and
Philadelphia.
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[Roger Lustig gersig.research@verizon.net]

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What did these folks do for a living? There's plenty of commerce between
the countries, and all manner of business opportunities may have popped
up. That certainly motivated some of my family over the years.

Or perhaps they discovered that they had family there! Where in Brazil
did they go?

Of course, the political situation in Argentina was unstable more often
than not. Just *before* the Dirty War, at the height of the kidnappings,
some of my family in Buenos Aires decamped to Uruguay for a while. The
end of the Peron regime was not pretty, and that happened in the 50s,
right after my dad had decided to move from Argentina to the US. (Mind
you, getting into a good grad program and being married to a US citizen
may have had something to do with it.)

I suspect that the family already spoke multiple languages, being the
children of immigrants themselves--and Jewish, which used to tack a
language or two onto one's repertoire. In earlier times, multilingualism
was a distinguishing trait of European Jews. So what's one more?

Roger Lustig

Princeton, NJ USA

On 8/23/2017 5:40 PM, Molly B Staub staub...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have recently discovered a branch of my Harast/Jarast family in Buenos
> Aires from the Russian Empire, arriving in the early 20th Century. I know
> there were incentives for settling.
>
> However, a number of them immigrated to Brazil in the 1950s. What occurred
> causing them to choose a country that spoke a different language? I know
> about the Dirty War and the "Disappeareds" of the 1970s, but this was
> earlier.