Jewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in the new Jewish Latin America series. Praised for its depiction of how two entirely different cultures could coexist in a symbiotic relationship, Jewish Gauchos was written about a decade after Jewish immigration to Argentina began in earnest. The author, a major figure in Argentine literature, was a great influence on Borges. 
 "Alberto Gerchunoff was an indisputable writer. . . [He] handled with equal ease the oral and written languages; in his books one finds the fluidity of the good 'conversador,' and his conversation (I can still hear him) is marked by generous and infallible literary precision."--Jorge Luis Borges

The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America Series)

Literature & Fiction

Gerchunoff, Alberto

United States

University of New Mexico Press

This book presents a radical rereading of Alberto Gerchunoff's classic Argentinian immigrant saga, Los gauchos judíos (The Jewish Gauchos; 1910). This collection of stories about early twentieth-century agricultural colonial colonies founded by persecuted Eastern Europeans Jews on the pampa has been both praised as Argentine xenophobia. In this new study, Aizenberg reassesses the linguistic and ideological importance of Gerchunoff's book. She highlights the significant variations between Gerchunoff's original 1910 text and his 1936 revised edition and unearths a new, more ethnically and linguistically aware side to Gerchunoff.

Parricide on the Pampa?: A New Study and Translation of Alberto Gerchunoff's Los Gauchos Judios

Aizenberg, Edna

History & Criticism

Jam Educational Pubns

Escritor, periodista, autor de numerosos artículos, ensayos,narraciones, Gerchunoff es conocido sobre todo por su obra "Los gauchos judíos" relatos de la vida en las colonias judías de Entre Ríos, aparecidos en 1908 en el diario La Nación.Aquí se presentan textos de ese libro y otros tomados de Lajofaina maravillosa (1922), de La asamblea de la bohardilla (1925), de Pequeñas prosas (1926) y de El hombre importante (1934). Prólogo, selección y notas : Eliahu Toker.

Entre Gauchos Y Judios (Spanish Edition)

Biblos

A compilation of short stories about the life of jewish inmigrants in Argentina, founders of the first jewish colony in Entre Rios, Argentina. Their life, dreams and adaptation to the new territory becoming the " gauchos judios"

Los Gauchos Judios

Agebe

Los Gauchos Judios (Spanish Edition)

Arenal

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