Jewish Buenos Aires

 

Duration
• 4 hours. 

Included services
• Pick up and drop off at your hotel or cruise ship terminal.

• Transportation throughout the tour in a modern and comfortable vehicle.
• Professional driver.  
• Jewish English-speaking guide.

 

Price
• 1-2   people: US$ 200
• 3-12 people: US$ 240

(PRICES ARE PER TOUR, NOT PER PERSON)

 

Contributions
• Libertad synagogue: US$ 8 PER PERSON

• Yesod Hadat synagogue: US$ 5 PER PERSON

 

Payment conditions

• Cash payment after the tour (USD, EUR, ARG) - NO DOWN PAYMENT REQUIRED

Identification information 
Due to security reasons you will need to provide the following information in order to make an appointment at the synagogues we will visit:
• Name
• Passport number
• City
• Nationality

Some of the tour’s highlights
Jewish quarter (IFT theater - Yesod Hadat synagogue - AMIA building) - Israel Embassy Square - Monument to the Victims of the AMIA (Lavalle square) - Homage in the Metropolitan Cathedral - Libertad Temple (the oldest synagogue in BA) - Jewish Museum

Description
We begin this tour in Once, one of the neighborhoods where the community first settled upon arrival. Nowadays they are still the Jewish districts par excellence. We will see their shops, synagogues, schools and Jewish Community Centers. 

We go then to the AMIA´ s new building, which stands for Israelite Mutual Association of Argentina. Its original building was destroyed in 1994, in a terrorist attack where 85 people died. This is one of the most traditional institutions in Argentina. It is in charge of encouraging Jewish culture in the country, preserving its traditions and promoting the community´ s development. 

We continue our visit in the Israel Embassy Square, which suffered in 1992 a brutal terrorist attack. The square was built in the place where the embassy once stood. 

Then we will head towards the political center of Buenos Aires. We will stop first at Lavalle square, where it is placed the Palace of Justice. There we will see the monument to the victims of the AMIA, a traditional venue of the organization Memoria Activa, which every Monday meets to demand the clarification of the attack.

Once in May square we will enter the Metropolitan Cathedral. There we will see the homage that the Catholic church made to the Jewish community. It consists of two glass plates between which there are praying book pages rescued from the ruins of Treblinka and Auschwitz concentration camps and the Warsow ghetto. There is also a Kadish score and two book covers: one is a book of tales in Yiddish found under the rubbles of the AMIA´s building and the other one is the Book of Samuel found while looking for survivors, after the Israeli diplomatic building exploded.

To finish this tour we will visit the most traditional Ashkenazi synagogue, the Libertad Temple. This amazing Bizantine style temple was Buenos Aires’ first synagogue.