The Ashkenazum was an organized crime group active in Argentina in the first half of the 20th century.
Ashkenazum was founded by Simon Rubinstein as a splinter group from the larger Zwi Migdal, an organized crime group that stretched across five continents and specialized in the sex trafficking of Eastern European Jewish girls.
[1] Simon Rubinstein arrived in Buenos Aires in 1900 from Odessa, and there he quickly acquired control of a condom factory.
He was a notorious silk smuggler and became affiliated with the Zwi Migdal.
[2] Like the larger Zwi Migdal, the Ashkenazum also had its own cemetery outside of Buenos Aires.