JEWISH BUENOS AIRES TOURS

We offer both a 4-hout Tour and an Extended 6-hour Tour of Jewish Buenos Aires!

The following is the Itinerary that includes the sites visited and the topics covered in both tours:

1. We begin the tour in Plaza de Mayo, creating the framework for the geographical and the historical understanding that will allow us to explore both Buenos Aires and Jewish BA in a most meaningful way.
2. We learn about the two foundations of the city and about the history of crypto-Jews in the Colonial times who were protected by a Catholic order from the persecution of the Inquisition and who were essential for the growth of Buenos Aires in the early part of the 17^thcentury.
3. We will see the only Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust inside of a cathedral in the world –in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires, the Church of Pope Francis, the Argentine Pope!
4. In front of the famous Balcony from where Perón and Evita spoke to the Argentine people in the 1940’s and 50`s, we will learn all about them as political figures, as well as about their relationship on the one hand to the Nazis who escaped the trials of Europe coming to Argentina, and on the other hand to the Jewish community and the State of Israel.
5. In Plaza de Mayo we also explore the last military dictatorship of Argentina (1976-1983), which took the lives of thousands of people (known as the “desaparecidos”), 20% of whom were Jewish. We learn about their mothers, the “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo”.
6. From Plaza de Mayo, we head to the oldest synagogue of Buenos Aires, the Libertad Street Synagogue, founded in 1862, and to the Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires, where we will learn about Jewish immigration to Argentina and the story of the famous “Jewish Gauchos” of the Pampas! We also learn about both the Sephardic and the Ashkenazic communities, so that we can gain a good understanding of the diversity of the Argentine Jewish community.
7. From there we go to the Jewish neighborhood of Once –the Buenos Aires version of the Lower East Side in New York– where besides walking its streets with Jewish stores, Kosher butchers, restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets, we will see the site of the AMIA, which was the target of the terrorist attack in 1994 that claimed the lives of eighty-five people.
8. The 4-hour Tour ends in Once. 
9. In the Extended 6-hour Tour, we will continue to have lunch at a Kosher “parrilla” restaurant to enjoy a good Kosher bar-b-cue (vegetarian options are available too!).
10. We will finally visit  the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, where we learn about the coming of the Nazis to Argentina after Second World War and about the intricate story of the capture of Adolph Eichmann on “Garibaldi street” in Buenos Aires by the Israeli Mossad and how he was taken in an El Al airplane to stand trial in Israel in 1961.
11. The Extended 6-hour Tour brings you back to your place or hotel at the end of the tour.

Please NOTE:

On Sundays and Holidays, the Libertad Street Synagogue and the Jewish Museum are closed. We still visit the site to see them from outside and learn there about Jewish immigrations and the Jewish Gauchos.

On Sundays, the Holocaust Museum opens at 2 PM.

On Fridays and Holidays, the Holocaust Museum is closed. Instead, we then visit the site where Peron and Evita lived and learn there about the Nazis coming to Argentina and the capture of Eichmann in Buenos Aires