The Jewish gauchos of the pampas
By: Alberto Gerchunoff ; translated by Prudencio de Pereda ; foreword by Ilan Stavans.
Contributors: Pereda, Prudencio de.
Series: Jewish Latin America
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Jews -- Argentina -- Fiction.; Gauchos -- Fiction.; Entre Ríos (Argentina) -- Fiction.
Description: "Reprint, with minor changes, of the 1955 translation of Gerchunoff's 1910 classic volume about Jewish immigrants in rural Argentina. Twenty-six vignettes, with some inter-related characters, tell stories of customs, love, death, religion, prejudice, and assimilation. Skillful translation captures bilingual (Spanish-Yiddish) flavor of original. Stavans' essay provides useful historical and literary background"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.