Creator Bio
Lázaro Liacho
1906–1969
Lázaro Liacho was born in 1906 in Buenos Aires; his father was Jacob Simón Liachovitzky, one of the founders of the local Yiddish press and Zionist Federation. While Liacho followed in his father’s footsteps, writing as a journalist, Zionist, and essayist, he is primarily recognized as a poet and short-story writer. He considered Argentina to be the new Zion and Jewishness to be primarily a spiritual condition that was not bound to any territory.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Blood
On the nights before Passover, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, my mother would send me to the butcher with some birds to be slaughtered according to ritual so the meat would be kosher—that is, clean…
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On the Cutting Edge of Life
The men, women, and children who arrived, physically destroyed, at the death camp, had only one fixed idea: to survive. The average person, living in a bustling metropolis and enjoying freedom to a…