Jazz Articles about Guillermo Nojechowicz

Guillermo Nojechowicz's El Eco: Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933

by Troy Dostert
April 15, 2018

In 1933, Europeans were only beginning to understand the horrors that the Nazi regime would bring to the continent. But already at that early stage, Jewish communities reacted with alarm to Hitler's rise to power--and many consequently made the decision to emigrate. One of the most common destinations in the Western Hemisphere was Argentina, which had served as a haven for Jews escaping European persecution since the sixteenth century. It is against this historical backdrop that Argentinian drummer Guillermo Nojechowicz ...