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  31. Cf. S. N. Eisenstadt,op. cit., chapter 1.

  32. Cf. Gino Germani, “Antisemitismo Ideológico y Antisemitismo Traditional”,Comentarios, 1962, no. 34.

  33. Among Argentine writers, the most important are Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Jorge Luis Borges, José Luis Romero, Carlos Alberto Erro, Eduardo Mallea, and RaÚl Scalabrini Ortiz.

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Germani, G. Mass immigration and modernization in Argentina. St Comp Int Dev 2, 165–182 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02800543

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