Alberto Gerchunoff
Alberto Gerchunoff (born January 1, 1883 in Proskurow ( Russian Empire ), † March 2, 1950 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine journalist and writer of Russian origin.
Life
Gerchunoff came from a Jewish family who emigrated to Argentina in 1889 as a result of pogroms . She settled in Moisés Ville ( province of Santa Fe ), where his father Gerson ben Abraham was murdered by a gaucho on February 12, 1891 .
In the same year the family settled in Rajil ( Entre Ríos province ). This village was founded by the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) under the philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch to offer Jews (mostly from Europe) a place of refuge from persecution. With his novel Jewish Gauchos , Gerchunoff created a literary monument to this settlement project.
Gerchunoff later settled in Buenos Aires and worked there mainly as a journalist for the daily newspaper " La Nación ". In addition, a notable literary work emerged over the years.
Eight weeks after his 67th birthday, Alberto Gerchunoff died on March 2, 1950 in Buenos Aires, where he found his final resting place.
Works (selection)
- Los amores de Baruch Spinoza
- Enrique Heine . El poeta de nuestra intimidad
- Entre Ríos, mi país
- Los gauchos judíos
- El hombre importante
- El hombre que habló en la Sorbona
- Imágenes del país
- La jofaina maravillosa
- La Lechuza
- El Pino y La Palmera
Translations into German
- Alberto Gerchunoff: Jewish gauchos . With a conversation with Jorge Luis Borges . Ed .: Liliana Ruth Feierstein (= Jewish traces . No. 1 ). Hentrich & Hentrich , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-942271-08-0 (Spanish: Los gauchos judíos . Translated by Stefan Degenkolbe).
literature
- Edna Aizenberg: Parricide on the Pampa? A new study and translation of Alberto Gerchunoff's “Los gauchos judíos” . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-89354-121-7 .
- Jorge Luis Borges : Albert Gerchunoff: Return to Don Quijote, in: Personal Library, Forewords , Fischer TB 10594, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-596-10594-3 (= works in 20 volumes , Volume 18).
- Fernando Degiovanni: Alberto Gerchunoff y la tradición liberal argentina . In: Cuadernos hispanoamericanos , No. 604 (2000), pp. 73-84.
- Fernando Degiovanni: Inmigración, nacionalismo cultural, campo intelectual. El proyecto creador de Alberto Gerchunoff . In: Revista iberoamericana , No. 191 (2000), pp. 367-379.
- Ricardo Feierstein (Ed.): Alberto Gerchunoff, judío y argentino. Viaje temático desde “Los gauchos judíos” (1910) hasta sus últimos textos (1950) y visión crítica . Editorial Milá, Buenos Aires 2000, ISBN 950-9829-94-3 .
- Sara Jaroslavsky de Lowy: Alberto Gerchunoff. Vida y obra, bibliografía, antología . Hispanic Institute, New York 1957. (Autores modernos; 26).
- Ollie O. Oviedo: The reception of the "Faust" motif in Latin American literature. Archetypal transformations in works by Estanislao del Campo , Alberto Gerchunoff, João Guimarães Rosa , Carlos Fuentes and Jaime Torres Bodet . Dissertation, University of New York 1987.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alberto Gerchunoff in the catalog of the German National Library
swell
- ↑ Frank Wolff gives a comprehensive overview of this JCA project in his essay The promise of salvation of the arable soil. Spatial concepts and conflicts of interest in Jewish Argentina 1889–1939 , in: Jochen Oltmer (ed.): Migration regime on site and local negotiation of migration , Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-18944-0 , pp. 133– 164. The essay is available online (upon registration) at Academia.edu .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerchunoff, Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Proskurov ( Russian Empire ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1950 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |