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

Gerchunoff, Alberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826317677 ISBN 13: 9780826317674

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1998

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Publisher:

Jewish Latin America series

From the Back Cover:

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0826317677
• ISBN 13: 9780826317674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 179