Noe Yarcho, Physician to the Jewish Gauchos

Pablo Schvartzman was born in General Campos, a small community in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, to Ukrainian immigrants. He was an avid reader and largely self-taught. In the 1950s, he produced Haor, a Jewish newspaper and publishing house in Concepción del Uruguay, a city in Entre Ríos province. Primarily a poet, he also wrote short stories as well as Judíos en América, a rather romantic history, given the antisemitism of the 1960s, of Jewish settlement in Latin America since 1492. Schvartzman’s poetry ranges from the personal, such as poems dedicated to his children, to poems celebrating the founding of the State of Israel. The poems in Los mismos, published in 1963, condemned the rise of antisemitism in Argentina.