Victoria Gucovsky

Victoria Gucovsky
Born(1890-02-22)22 February 1890
Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Died18 October 1969(1969-10-18) (aged 79)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
EducationInstituto de Profesorado Secundario
Spouses
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(m. 1917; div. 1921)​
  • Boris Fikh
MotherFenia Chertkoff
Relatives

Victoria Gucovsky (22 February 1890 – 18 October 1969) was an Argentine teacher, writer and socialist activist.[1] Gucovsky founded the Adult Literacy League (Spanish: Liga Pro Alfabetización de Adultos), and was a member of the Socialist Women's Center.[1][2]

Early life and education

Gucovsky was born on 22 February 1890 in Genoa to socialist Odesan-Jewish parents.[1][3] Her father, Gabriel Gukovsky (died 1894), was a poet, engineer and socialist, and her mother, Fenia Chertkoff, was an educator and later feminist activist, translator and sculptor.[1][3][2] Following her father's death in 1894, Gucovsky and her mother returned to Odessa.[1][3] The same year Gucovsky and her mother initially settled in Switzerland before emigrating to Argentina in 1895.[1][3][4]

In Argentina, Gucovsky settled in Colonia Santa Clara in Entre Ríos Province, an agricultural settlement founded by the Jewish Colonisation Association.[1][3][2][5][6] Gucovsky and mother later settled in Buenos Aires, where her mother married the physician and Socialist Party of Argentina politician Nicolás Repetto.[1] Educated at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas, Gucovsky later studied to be a biology teacher at the Instituto de Profesorado Secundario.[1][2]

Career

For 32[a] years, Gucovsky taught biology at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas and other secondary school in Buenos Aires.[1][2] A regular contributor to the literary supplement for La Nación, between 1918 and 1923 Gucovsky edited the Vida Femenina supplement for La Vanguardia.[1][2] Gucovsky also contributed articles on music and art for the Socialist Yearbook (Spanish: Anuario Socialista).[1] A member of the Socialist Women's Center, Gucovsky founded the Adult Literacy League (Spanish: Liga Pro Alfabetización de Adultos).[1][2]

Between 1915 and 1919,[b] Gucovsky contracted either pleurisy or tuberculosis and settled in Tío Pujio, Córdoba Province with her mother.[1][3] During this period developed her future works Tierra Adentro (1921) and El Llanto de la Higuera (1930).[1]

Personal life

In 1917, Gucovsky married the politician Antonio de Tomaso but later divorced in 1921.[1] Gucovsky later married Boris Fikh, and lived in the Parque Chacabuco neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.[1]

Through her aunts Mariana Chertkoff de Justo and Adela Chertkoff de Dickman, Gucovsky was the niece of Juan B. Justo, a physician, journalist, politician and writer, and Adolfo Dickman, a socialist politician and dentist.[3][4][7]

On 18 October 1969, Gucovsky died in Buenos Aires aged 79.[1][8][9]

Bibliography

  • Gucovsky, Victoria (1921). Tierra Adentro (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Agencia General de Librería y Publicaciones.
  • Gucovsky, Victoria (1925). Pasto enterrao (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ministry of Agriculture.
  • Gucovsky, Victoria (1926). Juanita (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Sociedad Luz. (Children's play)
  • Gucovsky, Victoria (1930). El Llanto de la Higuera (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Nosotros.
  • Gucovsky, Victoria (1931). Una lección interesante. Lo que pasa en China (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: La Vanguardia.
  • Gucovsky, Victoria (1933). La mejor diplomacia. La montaña maravillosa. La ofrenda (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Comisión Continental de las Asociaciones Cristianas Femeninas de la América del Sud.

Notes

  1. ↑ Also cited as 30.[2]
  2. ↑ Also cited as 1914 to 1919.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Tarcus, Horacio (2023). "Gucovsky, Victoria". El Diccionario Biográfico de las Izquierdas Latinoamericanas. Movimientos Sociales y Corrientes Políticas (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Deutsch, Sandra McGee (22 June 2010). "What Surrounds Us Dissatisfies Us". Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955. Duke University Press. pp. 148–171. ISBN 978-0-8223-9260-6. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tarcus, Horacio (2020). "Chertkoff, Fenia". El Diccionario Biográfico de las Izquierdas Latinoamericanas. Movimientos Sociales y Corrientes Políticas (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  4. 1 2 Rappaport, Helen (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. Volume 1. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 148–149. ISBN 978-1-57607-101-4. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Carlson, Marifran (1988). "Feminism and Socialism". ¡Feminismo!: The Woman's Movement in Argentina from Its Beginnings to Eva Perón. Chicago, Illinois: Academy Chicago Publishers. pp. 121–138. ISBN 0897331680. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Recorrido histórico por colonias judías del centro de Entre Ríos". El Día (in Spanish). 20 January 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  7. ↑ Carlson, Marifran (1988). "Feminism and the Free Through Movement, 1910–1919". ¡Feminismo!: The Woman's Movement in Argentina from Its Beginnings to Eva Perón. Chicago, Illinois: Academy Chicago Publishers. pp. 107–120. ISBN 0897331680. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  8. ↑ "Argentina: Jewish Women". Jewish Women's Archive. 23 June 2021.
  9. ↑ McGee Deutsch, Sandra (1997). "Women: The Forgotten Half of Argentine Jewish History". Shofar. 15 (3): 49–65. JSTOR 42942617.
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