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Problems and Possibilities in the Analysis of Jewish Argentine Literary Works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Naomi Lindstrom
Naomi Lindstrom*
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University of Texas at Austin
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In recent years, considerable scholarly and popular attention has been extended to the Jewish populations of regions beyond those traditionally discussed—the United States, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Particular attempts have been made to record and analyze the experience of Jews residing in Latin America. The dramatic deterioration in the situation of the Argentine Jewish community over the past five years has given special visibility to this group, both because of widespread concern over the human rights issues involved and because of the appearance of Jewish-Argentine exiles in the United States and other areas heavily covered by the media. The difficulties experienced by Jewish citizens of Latin American countries certainly are deserving of attention, but one would hope that the interest aroused by these circumstances would lead to a more general curiosity about the many aspects of Jewish culture in this region.

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Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1983 , pp. 118 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. While this paper limits itself to the study of imaginative literature, considerable essayistic and historical work also exists. See for example, Robert Weisbrot, The Jews of Argentina from the Inquisition to Perón (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979). Martin H. Sable, Latin American Jewry: A Research Guide (Cincinnati-Hebrew Union College Press, 1978) lists works including Mario Diament and Máximo Yaguspsky, Conversaciones con un judío (Buenos Aires: Timerman, 1977); Alberto Klein Cinco sighs de historia: una crónica de la vida judía en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Cuadernos de Estudios Judíos, Comité Judío Americano, Oficina Sudamericana, 1976); Boleslao Lewin, La colectividad judía en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Alzamor Editores; 1974); Cómo fue la inmigración judía a la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Plus Ultra, 1971); El judío en la época colonial (Buenos Aires: Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores, 1939); Tuba Teresa Ropp, Un colono judío en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Biblioteca de Memorias del Instituto Científico Judio, 1971); and Lázaro Schallman, Historia de los “Pampistas” (Buenos Aires: Congreso Judío Latinoamericano, Biblioteca Popular Judía, 1971).

2. Kessel Schwartz, “The Jew in Argentine Literature,” The American Hispanist 3 (19):9-12; and Germán García, “Los judíos,” in his El inmigrante en la literatura argentina (Buenos Aires: Hachette, 1970), pp. 62–64.

3. Juan José Sebreli, La cuestión judía en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Tiempo Contemporáneo, 1968).

4. Noé Jitrik, La revolución del 90 (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor, 1970), pp. 112–13.

5. Beatriz de Nobile, Análisis de La bolsa (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor, 1968), pp. 29–30; and Carmelo M. Bonet, introduction to Martel's La bolsa (Buenos Aires: W. M. Jackson, 1944), pp. xv–xvi.

6. See Gladys Onega, La inmigración en la literatura argentina 1880–1910 (Buenos Aires-Galerna, 1969), pp. 109–23; and Germán García, “El chauvinismo racista,” in his El inmigrante en la literatura argentina, pp. 93–99.

7. Saúl Sosnowski, “Contemporary Jewish-Argentine Writers: Tradition and Politics ” Latin American Literary Review 6 (12):1–14.

8. Notable is the tremendous vogue for cabbalistic influence found especially in the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Xul Solar (Alejandro Schultz Solari, 1887–1963). The most complete study of the avant-garde cabbalistic trend is Saúl Sosnowski, Borges y la cábala (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Hispamérica, 1976). On Xul Solar see Osvaldo Svanascini, Xul Solar (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1962). Also Naomi Lindstrom, “Xul Solar, Star-Spangler of Languages,” Review of the Center for Inter-American Relations 25–26 (1980): 117–21; “La síntesis de Xul Solar,” Américas (June-July 1979): 21–24; “Xul Solar: los principios organizadores de su proyecto totalizador,” Hispamérica 25–26 (1981): 160–64.

9. For realistic criticism see, for instance, Julio Noé's commentary in Historia de la literatura argentina, edited by Rafael Alberto Arrieta (Buenos Aires: Peuser, 1959), pp. 122–23.

10. This reissue was published by Rescate in Buenos Aires in 1977.

11. An example of this issue-centered commentary is Nestor Tirri's Realismo y teatro argentina (Buenos Aires Ediciones: La Bastilla, 1971), pp. 117–21.

12. Saúl Sosnowski, “Contemporary Jewish-Argentine Writers,” and “Germán Rozenmacher: tradiciones, rupturas y desencuentros,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 6 (1977): 93–110.