This examination of Jewish Argentine literature centers on the analysis of eight selected works whose publication dates range from 1910 to 1977.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience.

This book explores how these Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi immigrants helped to create a new urban strain of the Argentine national identity.

Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era

... 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 ...

Stories depicting working-class life in Buenos Aires are reminiscent of the work of New York writers like Abraham Cahan (founder of Jewish Daily Forward) or Henry Roth (author of Call It Sleep).

This edited volume explores multiple representations by and of Jewish Latin Americans, thus revisiting the canon of Judeo-Latin American culture.