The Cross

Enrique Espinoza was the pen name of Samuel Glusberg, a Ukrainian-born writer and editor who became a major figure on the Argentine literary scene. He edited the monthly literary review Babel, which appeared between 1921 and 1951; helped found the Argentine Writers’ Association; and published many works by major Argentine writers. Although well integrated into Latin American society, he wrote frequently on the difficulties of creating a national identity from the various collective groups that made up the population of multiethnic states like Argentina. His 1953 essay on Heinrich Heine, “El ángel y el león,” discussed the predicament of Jewish writers who lived on the margins of two cultural worlds.