Unbridled Calling - (Jewish Latin America) by Mónica Szurmuk (Hardcover)

About the Book

This biography introduces English-speaking readers to Alberto Gerchunoff a Jewish-Argentine journalist, writer and diplomat, author of foundational literary works, and the person who single-handedly obtained key Latin American votes for the creation of the State of Israel.

Book Synopsis

How can a child born in the Russian Pale at the end of the 19th century become one of the most celebrated journalists in Latin America and a writer admired by Jorge Luis Borges? In this biography, Mónica Szurmuk, delves into the different aspects of the life of writer, journalist, and politician Alberto Gerchuinoff. Thoroughly researched in four different continents, this book is as much an account of the life of Alberto Gerchunoff, as an investigation into the Jewish world of the first half of the twentieth century, and the different spaces where Jewish and Latin American cultural and political life intersect.

About the Author

Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She is the editor of the series Latin American Literature in Transition for Cambridge University Press, and co-editor of A History of Argentine Literature.