 Cover to a 2003 edition of the novel | |
| Author | Alberto Gerchunoff |
|---|---|
| Original title | Los Gauchos Judíos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | La Nación (first, serial, edition in original Spanish) |
Publication date | 1910 |
| Publication place | Argentina |
Published in English | 1959 |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9872074801 |
| OCLC | 654629860 |
| A863.01 | |
The Jewish Gauchos, (Los Gauchos Judíos in Spanish, and published in English as The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas) is a novel of Ukrainian-born Argentine writer and journalist Alberto Gerchunoff, who is regarded as the founder of Jewish literature in Latin America.[1] Gerchunoff published the work in 1910, during the celebrations of Argentina's May Revolution centennial. The Encyclopaedia Judaica states that The Jewish Gauchos is the first Latin American literary piece depicting Jewish immigration to the New World, and the first literary work written in Spanish by a Jewish author in modern times.[2] The novel ranks 35th in the "Jewish Cannon", which lists the best 100 books of modern Jewish Literature.[3]
- ^ Hussar, James A. (2008). "Cycling through the pampas: fictionalized accounts of Jewish agricultural colonization in Argentina and Brazil", University of Notre Dame, pag. 8.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Tomo 7, pp. 434-435
- ^ "El canon judío La lista de las 100 mayores obras de la moderna literatura judía Egon Friedler" (in Spanish). 2009-02-04. Archived from the original on 2009-02-04. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
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