Parricide on the Pampa? :$bA New Study and Translation of Alberto Gerchunoff’s Los Gauchos Judíos /$cEdna Aizenberg.

Parricide on the Pampa? presents a radical rereading of Alberto Gerchunoff's classic immigrant saga, Los gauchos judíos (1910; The Jewish Gauchos). This collection of stories about the early twentieth-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern European Jews on the pampa has been both praised and damned –praised as Argentine Jewry's citizenship papers and damned as a sellout to Argentine xenophobia. In this new study and translation, Aizenberg reassesses the linguistic and ideological importance of Gerchunoff's book. Using the insights of genetic criticism and current translation theory, she grounds her rethinking in her discovery of significant variations between Gerchunoff's original 1910 text and his 1936 revised edition –the one on which subsequent editions and evaluations are based. Reading between versions, Aizenberg unearths a much more complex, agonistic, multilingual und ethnically-aware Gerchunoff. Her study is a major contribution to the contemporary pluralization of Latin American literary scholarship

Jewish Writings from the Hellenistic-Roman Period is a collection of apocrypha and Old Testament pseudoepigrapha along with other ancient Jewish writings of importance for the understanding of the cultural realities in the epoch of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The texts are made accessible in academically precise translations with brief introductions and comments. The series is intended for teachers and students of Bible studies, Jewish studies, Ancient Near Eastern studies (and related disciplines), Egyptology, the History of Religion and Culture, and for the general reader interested in cultural and religious history.

Index On the Fifteenth Anniversary of Parricide On The Pampa? Introduction to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Bibliography Foreword Genesis The Furrow Fresh Milk Rain Siesta New Immigrants Threshing The Destroyed Orchard Song of Songs Lamentations The Story of Miriam The Herdsman Hie Death of Rabí Abraham The Owl Camacho's Wedding Feast The Visit Witches Divorce Tale of a Stolen Horse The Poet Revolution The Sad Woman of Rachil The Old Colonist The Anthem Appendix: Two Stories (1936) The Miraculous Doctor The Silver Candelabra Names and Terms