Jews in the Promised Land

Mario Szichman

1971

On the first day they sailed, the Pechofs saw the film called Argentina, the Promised Land. The screen had been divided into four parts like a coat of arms, and they saw wheat fields, cows in profile, boats filmed from below so that their prows were dizzying, and a family composed of mother, father, son, daughter, and frisky dog, all looking at a…

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Mario Szichman

1945–2018
An Argentine writer, journalist, and literary critic, Mario Szichman lived in New York, where he worked for United Press International and the Cadena Capriles media company of Caracas. Szichman wrote about assimilation, identity, tradition, immigration, and antisemitism. In 1980, he received the first literary prize from Ediciones del Norte.

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