Esther Polinska (Yiddish: אסתר פאלינסקא) came from a Ukrainian Jewish family that emigrated to Argentina in the mid-1900s, fleeing their home city of Odesa, which was a target of the pogroms in the Russian Empire.
The family landed in Argentina after being denied entry to the United States because one member was ill.[1] Because she emigrated as a child, aged about four or five, the youngest of four sisters, she retained little of her native language or culture as an adult.
He was also a major player during the series of strikes and social conflicts that took place in Santa Cruz between 1920 and 1921, commonly known as the Patagonia Rebelde, which was repressed by the Argentine army, which killed roughly 1,500 rural workers.
In turn, these attitudes and her anarchist ideas led to enmity between her partner and the interim governor Edelmiro Correa Falcón [es], who at the same time was secretary of the Río Gallegos Rural Society.
[4] This, together with the fact that Viñas soon began to investigate acts of corruption involving some livestock companies and members of the territory's rural societies, led to a notorious institutional conflict between the governor's office and the court.