About Alberto Gerchunoff: Argentine Writer (1883 – 1950)
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Alberto Gchunov (January 1, 1883 – March 2, 1950), Argentine writer, born in Proskurif, Russian Empire, now Ukrainian Khmelnitsky.
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His family moved to the Jewish agricultural colony of Moiseville, Argentina, now Moisesville, in 1889. His father, Rab Gershon ben Abraham Gerchunoff, was murdered by the Gauchos on February 12, 1891. A few months later, the family moved to La Gil, founded by philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch as a safe haven for Jews fleeing the Holocaust in Europe. Later, he lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jorge Luis Borges described him this way:
He is an undisputed writer, but his reputation goes beyond that of the literati. Inadvertently, perhaps unintentionally, he embodies an older type of writer…who sees the written word as a mere surrogate for the spoken word, not a sacred object.
Although he mainly works as a reporter for major Argentine newspapers national newspaperhe also wrote many important novels and books on Jewish life in Latin America, including Jewish Gauchos in Pampas (ISBN 0-8263-1767-7), which was later made into a film.
Grochunov supported Argentine Jewish assimilationism for most of his life, although he changed his stance with the rise of Hitler, eventually advocating for a state of Israel before the United Nations in 1947.He is said to have collaborated with Wilhelm Reich on a version of his orgone box designed to preserve the core of Jewish cultural memory, many of which he collected as oral histories and published under the title Interlude hero 1948.
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