Isaac Goldemberg
Isaac Goldemberg | |
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Born | 1945 Chepén, La Libertad, Peru |
Occupation | Poet and novelist |
Isaac Goldemberg (born 1945) is a Peruvian-American author, founder of the Latin American Writers Institute, Brújula/Compass, and "Hostos Review", and a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College.[1] Goldemberg was born in Peru, and immigrated to New York City, where he currently lives, in 1964. He is a fellow member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language.[2]
His novel The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner, was chosen by the National Yiddish Book Center as, "one of the 100 greatest Jewish Books of the last 150 years."[3] The book tells the story of the life of Jacobo Lerner, a Jewish merchant, who immigrates to Peru from Eastern Europe. Jacobo has an illegitimate son, Efraín, by a Christian woman who he later abandons and thus never knows his son. Jacobo ultimately fails to achieve his goal of creating a traditional Jewish family before he dies, having been rejected by the respectable Miriam Abramowitz. Thematically, the novel presents an examination of Jewish identity and anti-Semitism. The book is divided into chapters which consist of vignettes written in the voices of the characters and an omnipotent narrator, as well as "Crónicas", and excerpts from Alma Hebrea, a publication of the Jewish community in the novel, which features writings by the characters [4]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Tiempo de silencio (1970)
- De Chepén a La Habana (1973)
- "The Fragmented Life of Don jacobo Lerner* (1976)
- La vida a plazos de don Jacobo Lerner (1978)
- Hombre de paso/Just Passing Through" (1981)
- "Tiempo al tiempo" (1984)
- "Play by Play" (1986)
- "La vida al contado" (1992)
- "El gran libro de América judía" (1998)
- "Peruvian blues" (2001)
- El nombre de padre (2001)
- "Hotel AmériKKa" (2002)
- Los autorretratos y las máscaras/Self-Portraits and Masks (2002)
- Golpe de gracia (2003)
- "Il nome del padre" (2003)
- Los Cementerios Reales (2004)
- La vida son los ríos (2005)
- "La vie a credit de Don Jacobo Lerner" (2005)
- Tierra de nadie (2006)
- "Monos azules en Times Square" (2008)
- "Acuérdate del escorpión" (2010);
- "La vida breve" (2012)
- "Diálogos conmigo y mis otros" (2013)
- Chepén, madre de arena (2015
- "Remember the Scorpion" (2015)
- "Dialoghi con me e con e miei altri" (2015)
- "Tiempo al tiempo" (2016)
- "Dialogues with Myself and My Others" (2016)
- "Ricordati lo scorpione" (2016)
- "Philosophy and Other Fables" (2016)
- "Libro de reclamaciones" (2018)
- "Sueño del insomnio/Dream of Insomnia" (2021)
- "El gusano saltarín y otros poemas/The Leaping Worm and Other Poems" (2023)
- "Libro de las Raíces/Saphi Libro" (2023)
Further reading
[edit]- Viaña, Eduardo González (editor) "Identidad cultural y memoria colectiva en la obra de Isaac Goldemberg" (2001)
- Nouhaud, Dorita Isaac Goldemberg ou l'homme du Livre (2002)
- Carbonell, Juan Paredes (editor) Isaac Goldemberg ante la crítica: Una visión múltiple (2003)
- Dolan, Maureen (editor) Crossing Cultures in Isaac Goldemberg's Works (2003)
- Dolan, Maureen (editor) Isaac Goldemberg: A Bibliography and Six Critical Studies (2003)
- Nouhaud, Dorita "Isaac Goldemberg: El hombre del Libro" (2003).
- Sosnowski, Saul (editor) Isaac Goldemberg: The Esthetics Fragmentation (2003)
- Zapata, Miguel Angel Luces de la memoria: Conversaciones con Isaac Goldemberg (2003)
- Viaña, Eduardo González (editor) "Señas y contraseñas de identidad: La narrativa de Isaac Goldemberg" (2012)
- Zapata, Miguel Angel (editor) "El canto del shofar y de la quena: La poesía de Isaac Goldemberg" (2013).
References
[edit]- ^ Faculty Profile at Hostos Community College
- ^ Goldemberg, Isaac. "Academic Profile". North American Academy of the Spanish Language Official Website. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
- ^ List of works selected by the National Yiddish Book Center Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Goldemberg, Isaac The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner (University of New Mexico Press, 1999)
External links
[edit]- "Dos maneras latinoamericanas" by Guillermo Roz.
- El Dominical• Lima, domingo 27 de julio del 2014. La obra de Isaac Goldemberg tiene tres cauces centrales de expresión: la narrativa, el tea- tro y la poesía ...
Sources
[edit]- Wood, Jamie Martinez (2007-01-01). Latino Writers and Journalists. Infobase Publishing. pp. 99–. ISBN 9781438107851. Retrieved 10 March 2014.