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On this day in 1889, 130 families consisting of 824 Russian Jews arrived in Buenos Aires. They were not the first Jews to arrive in Argentina (that distinction probably goes to those who came during the Inquisition in the 15th century), but they were the first to establish a Jewish agricultural colony in South America. After discovering that the lands they had intended to buy in Buenos Aires were unavailable,...