The Little Jewish Gaucho

By Lillian R. Krell Swerdlow

This book was written in loving memory of her beloved father Adolfo Krell, whose story tells of true life experiences of his early childhood. He was a 1st 'generation child' born in the Pampas of Argentina in 1898 to immigrant parents. The family survived the Pogroms of Eastern Europe in the middle late 1800's. Historical records indicate that the Krell family migrated to Argentina to settle in the new land as farmers. The Jewish Settlement on the Pampas was a brave and heroic endevor of the Krell family's legacy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781463423889

Lillian R. Krell Swerdlow

Lillian is an Active Young at Heart Senior Citizen, fast approaching the high end of her 80's, and calls herself a Perennial Student. As a L.I.F.E. class student (Learning is for EVER). She attends MiraCosta college in Vista , California and is by profession, a public health school nurse, having served 25 years caring for indigent children in need of health care services and in the community.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

By: Lillian R. Krell Swerdlow

This book is dedicated to:

Adam Lars

Alison Leah

Andrew Benjamin

Anna Lynn

      Benjamin Eli, and

Elana Zeva.

In memory of their beloved grandparents and great grandparents:

Esther and Al krell

Special recognition to my husband, Len Swerdlow, who’s encouragement gave me the support I needed to complete this book.

To our children, Barbara Sloan, Michael Swerdlow and Ellen Hummel. I thank them for their inspiration and love to document Tales of their Grandfather.

Special thanks to:

Blanca Zetlenok Bashaw, my cousin, for her assistance in Spanish translation.

Sarita Krell, in memory of my beloved cousin from Argentina, who took the time to accompany me to the Pampas to find my roots.

Libby Taylor, my friend and teacher, who helped with the English to Yiddish translation and for her devotion to the preservation of Yiddish as a lifetime commitment.

By: Lillian R. Krell Swerdlow

Introduction

This is a story about a pioneer Jewish family living on the Argentine Pampas in the late 1880’s.

Chapter I

The Migration

Our story begins in the far off land of South America on the Pampas of a country called Argentina. The Pampas is a vast, flat and fertile land similar to the grasslands of our great Prairie, very much like Kansas and Iowa in the United States.

The Jewish pioneers who settled there came from the countries of Lithuania, Poland and Russia in Eastern Europe. They left their homeland over one-hundred years ago to make a new life away from religious persecution (pogroms) and to raise their children in the New World, free to practice their Jewish Religion and farm the land.

The Folk Hero of the Jewish people during this era was a great philanthropist (a person who helps mankind, named Baron Maurice de Hirsch a wealthy, titled and generous man from Austria who’s heart cried out with pain at the suffering of his people. He offered the Czar of Russia a great deal of money to stop the Pogroms and allow Jewish families to leave countries where they were being persecuted. He also knew that he needed a place for these families to settle once they left their homeland in Eastern Europe. Of course, ships would have to be arranged for to carry