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.
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.
... 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 aguileña ” ( 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 ...
... Jewish Argentine writers the emblematic figure of the Jewish gaucho is a recurrent theme . 19 The agricultural settlements established in Argentina , and later in Brazil , by the Jewish philanthro- pist Baron Maurice de Hirsch seemed to ...
... Jewish homeland by showing the advantage of a hybrid identity. There is a hint of this in the title: for many readers 'Jewish gaucho' is an oxymoron, a contradictory combination of the bookish Ashkenazi Jew and the outdoor adventurer ...