Teresa Porzecanski | |
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| Born | Teresa Porzecanski Cohen May 5, 1945 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Nationality |  Uruguay |
| Alma mater | Universidad de la República |
| Occupation(s) | anthropologist, writer, professor |
| Awards | Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo Premio Morosolli Premio Alas |
Teresa Porzecanski Cohen (born 5 de May 1945) [1] is an Uruguayan anthropologist, writer and academic.
Porzecanski Cohen was born and raised in Montevideo to a Jewish family. [2] [3] Her father was and 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).
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