Borito Trumper, 35, returned to the vigorous life in the Pampas after years studying and working as a professional in Israel. "I went to Israel with the idea of staying there," he recounts. "I came back to Moises Ville simply because I didn't feel comfortable. My customs are from Moises Ville, country customs." Now Borito patrols his herds on horseback, traversing the same fields his family has worked for a century. He fluently intersperses discussion of his Jewish identity with a lesson in horseback riding and a lecture on the benefits of cross breeding cattle to produce superior beef. Borito represents the future of Moises Ville’s “gauchos judios.” As he says, "It would never occur to me to stop tending my fields and herds here again."

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