Memoria e identidad en la literatura sefardí y mizrahi en Latinoamérica

Abstract

This is the first article that attempts to trace a panoramic view of Sephardi/Mizrahi literature in Latin America. It starts by giving basic information about the migration of these Jewish groups at the end of the 19^th and beginning of the 20^th century. Later, it identifies more than twenty writers, and establishes two ways to approach Sephardi/- Mizrahi identity: 1) Reflection and study of the splendor of the «Golden Age» of Medieval Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula; and 2) representations of contemporary Sephardim and Mizrahim. Finally, the article proposes Isaac Chocrón's novel, Rómpase en caso de incendio, as the foundational text for contemporary Sephardi/- Mizrahi literature in Latin America.