Alberto Gerchunoff

Alberto Gerchunoff

Alberto Gerchunoff (January 1 1883–March 2 1949), was an Argentine writer born in Russia. His family emigrated in 1889 to the agricultural colony of Rajil, founded by philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch as a haven for Jews fleeing the pogroms of Europe. Later, he lived in 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 "La Nacion", he also wrote many important novels and books on Jewish life in Latin America, including "The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas" (ISBN 0-8263-1767-7), which was later produced into a movie.

ee also

* Jewish gauchos
* Jewish Colonization Association


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