UC Irvine

This is the first article that attempts to trace a panoramic view of Sephardi/Mizrahi literature in Latin America. It starts by giving basic information about the migration of these Jewish groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Later, it identifies more than twenty writers, and establishes two ways to approach Sephardi/Mizrahi identity: 1) Reflection and study of the splendor of the "Golden Age" of medieval Jewish culture in the Iberian peninsula; and 2) representations of contemporary Sephardim and Mizrahim. Finally, the article proposes Isaac Chocron's novel, "Rompase en caso de incendio", as the foundational text for contemporary Sephardi/Mizrahi literature in Latin America.