Blood

Lázaro Liacho

1943

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 and proper to eat at a Jewish table.

We lived near the gates of Palermo, and the butcher was located in the ghetto at Junín and Lavalle. We would make…

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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.

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