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The Jewish gauchos of the pampas

Name: The Jewish gauchos of the pampas
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ISBN: 9780826317674

Alberto Gerchunoff, Prudencio de Pereda

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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

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Year:

1998

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0826317677

ISBN 13:

9780826317674