Biography:León Dujovne
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 León Dujovne in 1971. | |
| Born | 15 November 1898 Kurilovich, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine ) |
| Died | 16 January 1984 (aged 85) |
León Dujovne (15 November 1898 – 16 January 1984) was an Argentine writer, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
Early life
Dujovne was born to Jewish parents in the village of Kurilovich, near the small town of Mohyliv-Podilskyi (Vinnytsia Oblast), on the border with Bessarabia (Moldova) in the Russian Empire. At the age of one, his parents emigrated to Argentina ; the family settled in Basavilbaso, Entre Ríos, one of the several Jewish colonies founded by Baron Maurice de Hirsch in the province.[1]
Notable works
- El judaísmo como cultura. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Presencia, 1980.
References
- ↑ León Dujovne: La filosofía de la Historia de Sarmiento[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}], publicación póstuma, en homenaje al 20o aniversario de su fallecimiento. Prólogo de Félix Gustavo Schuster y nota biográfica detallada de Celina A. Lértora Mendoza. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2005.
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