Alberto Gerchunoff
Alberto Gerchunoff (January 1, 1883 – March 2, 1950), was an
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
.
Biography
His family emigrated in 1889 to the Argentinian Jewish agricultural colony of Moïseville, now
Jews fleeing the pogroms of Europe. Later, he lived in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. Jorge Luis Borges
described him thus:
- He was an indisputable writer, but his reputation transcends that of a man of letters. Unintentionally and perhaps unwittingly, he embodied an older type of writer ... who saw the written word as a mere stand-in for the oral, not as a sacred object.
Although he worked primarily as a journalist for Argentina's leading newspaper ISBN 0-8263-1767-7), which was produced into a movie in 1975.
For most of his life Gerchunoff espoused
orgone box designed to preserve the core of Jewish cultural memories, many of which were collected by him as oral histories and published under the title Héroes de los Intersticios in 1948.[2]
Bibliography
- Los gauchos judíos. La Plata, 1910. [English translation: The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, Nueva York, 1955]
- Nuestro Señor don Quijote. Buenos Aires, 1913.
- El nuevo régimen. Buenos Aires, 1918.
- Cuentos de ayer. Buenos Aires, 1919.
- El cristianismo precristiano. Buenos Aires, 19[20?].
- La jofaina maravillosa; agenda cervantina. Buenos Aires, 1922.
- La asamblea de la boardilla. Buenos Aires, 1925.
- Historias y proezas de amor. Buenos Aires, 1926.
- El hombre que habló en la Sorbona. Buenos Aires, 1926.
- Pequeñas prosas. Buenos Aires, 1926.
- Enrique Heine, el poeta de nuestra intimidad. Buenos Aires, Madrid, 1927
- Las imágenes del país. Azul, 1931.
- Los amores de Baruj Spinoza. Buenos Aires, 1932
- El hombre importante, novela. Buenos Aires, Montevideo, 1934.
- La clínica del doctor Mefistófeles; moderna milagrería en diez jornadas. Santiago de Chile, 1937.
- El problema judío. Buenos Aires, 1945.
- Entre Ríos, mi país. Buenos Aires, 1950.
- Retorno a Don Quijote. Buenos Aires, 1951.
- Argentina, país de advenimiento. Buenos Aires, 1952.
- El Pino y La Palmera. Buenos Aires, 1952
- La Lechuza, n.d.
See also
- Jewish gauchos
- Jewish Colonization Association
References
- ^ "Alberto Gerchunoff".
- ISBN 1569249296.
Further reading
- Argentina's Jewish Short Story Writers, Rita M. Gardiol, 1986.
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