The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho draws on life histories, archives, material culture, and performances of heritage to enhance our understanding of a singular population—and to transform our approach to social memory itself.
... . He made many new friends at the one-room schoolhouse he attended on the Pampas, but his greatest friend of all was his pony, Pinto. Violeta One day in early spring Adolfo followed Zaddie (grandfather) 17 The Little Jewish Gaucho.
... gaucho, as he declares in the preface to the poem (12). Born in Basavilbaso, Entre Ríos, he was a native son of the original Jewish agricultural settlements. He lived most of his life in the northern province of Chaco where he was a ...
... Jewish writers, filmmakers, and scholars, but a footnote in Argentine culture writ large. Although the Jewish gaucho has meaning, it is pri- marily a meaning for and about Jews. The gaucho story itself is not marked by any Jewish ...
... gauchos judíos also refers to the old Jewish immigrants as having “ anchas barbas y la nariz aguileńa ” ( 12 ) . This is why it is alarming for Gerchunoff to describe Favel Duglach , the model Jewish gaucho , as having a " garfiuda ...
... gauchos judíos suspends in time a unique moment in Jewish New World history . Favel Daglach , of the scholarly curls and bombachas ( wide gaucho riding pants ) , whether as a caricature or an unrealized , romanticized hope , will ...
... Jewish Gauchos”, Folio, 17(1987): 24–39 Barchilón, José, Gerchunoff, Bufano, San Juan, Argentina: Editorial ... Gaucho by Alberto Gerchunoff” in King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers, edited ...