A new volume of the Frankel Institute Annual is now available online! I had the great honor of participating in the last Frankel Fellowship cohort, which focused on Jewish, Trans, and Queer Studies. Thanks to the amazing colleagues I worked with that year, I wrote a paper that will soon be published, as well as a short essay that was included in the annual. My essay “The Shady Ones. Constructing Boundaries Between Good and Bad Jews in Argentina” speaks to the influence of nationalist conservative ideology on the persecution of Jewish people and other marginalized communities in Argentina in the 20th century.
The essay provides an overview of historical events in which society tightens the margins of morality, producing exclusions, violence, and repression against people labeled as “shady” (tenebrosos in Spanish). The essay analyzes the paradigmatic case of Zwi Migdal, a group of Polish migrants who were accused of being pimps. It also discusses other moments throughout the twentieth century when poor, racialized, transgender, and queer individuals were accused of provoking chaos and horror against “good citizens.”
The entire volume is available in this link: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/fulcrum.np193d63n
Marce J. Butierrez 
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