Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From gringos to criollos: the city and the jews.

2. The creadle of tango and football: Villa Crespo and the essence of Buenos Aires.

3. "The wandering Jew": Atlanta in search of a playing field.

4. Villa Crespo: the promised land.

5. In the shadow of peronism.

6. The rise and falla of a neighborthood caudillo.

7. Victories, fan, and fight songs.

Epilogue.

Notes.

Bigliography.

Index.