Female voices in Chile: views on being Hebrew

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the books of four female Chilean-Jewish writers, in which very different views on what it means to be Hebrew are observed: Para siempre en mi memoria (Sonia Guralnik); Sagrada memoria: Reminiscencias de una niña judía en Chile y Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of my Jewish Chilean Father (Marjorie Agosín); Poste Restante (Cynthia Rimsky); and Escenario de guerra (Andrea Jeftanovic). These texts have been written from the following spaces: the ghetto, the genealogical tree and the wandering Jew, the circular journey between Hebrew and Chilean origins and the family and world tragedies associated with the war conflicts of the twentieth century.