Teresa Porzecanski

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Teresa Porzecanski
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Teresa Porzecanski Cohen

(1945-05-05) May 5, 1945 (age 80)
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityFlag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
Alma mater Universidad de la República
Occupation(s)anthropologist, writer, professor
Awards Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo
Premio Morosolli
Premio Alas

Teresa Porzecanski Cohen (born May 5th 1945) [1] is a Uruguayan anthropologist, writer and academic.

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Biography

Porzecanski Cohen was born and raised in Montevideo to a Jewish family. [2] [3] Her father was an Ashkenazi from Liepāja, Latvia and her mother, a Sephardic from Syria. [1] She graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in social work. [4]

Her works have included a focus on the Jewish communities of Uruguay, afrodescendant minorities, as well as prejudice and ethnic issues. [5] She has been is a professor and academic at the Catholic University of Uruguay, the Latin American Center for Human Economy and the University of the Republic. From 1978-1981, she collected oral histories of Jewish immigrants which was published as Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay in its first edition in Spanish in 1986. [6] In a review for the American Jewish Archives, Alejandro Lilienthal called it a good introduction to the subject, outside of the transcriptions of the oral histories. [7]

Her fiction is part of a tradition of works exploring identities and migration maladjustments, prejudice against minorities, and women interior worlds. [8]

In 1992, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, [9] during which she studied the Sephardim and rabbinic lore. [1] She has also received a Fulbright scholarship. [2] as well as a Rockefeller Residency Grant in Bellagio, Italy, to write her fiction. She received five awards by the Ministry of Education of Uruguay, two awards by the Municipality of Montevideo, the Critics Award Bartolomé Hidalgo (1995) and the Morosoli Award for Literature (2004).

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Lockhart, Darrell B. (2013-08-21). Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. pp. 483–. ISBN   9781134754274 . Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 Florinda F. Goldberg. "Porzecanski, Teresa". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jewish Virtual Library / The Gale Group. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Rosa, Debora Cordeiro (2012-04-19). Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone. Lexington Books. ISBN   9780739172988 . Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  4. ↑ ""El ensayo es una forma de ficción"". EL PAIS. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  5. ↑ Young, Richard; Cisneros, Odile (2010-12-18). Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater . Scarecrow Press. pp.  702–. ISBN   9780810874985 . Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Agosín, Marjorie (1999). Passion, Memory, and Identity. UNM Press. pp. 33–. ISBN   9780826320490 . Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  7. ↑ Alejandro Lilienthal. "Those who did not make it to Ellis Island: Jewish Life South of the Rio Grande" (PDF). American Jewish Archives (1989).
  8. ↑ Valverde, Estela (2004). "'Mujeres de mucha monta': Women expressing their erotic desires". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 10 (1): 23–42. doi:10.1080/13260219.2004.10429979. ISSN   1326-0219. S2CID   143671863.
  9. ↑ "1992 Fellowships". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
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