León Dujovne

León Dujovne
León Dujovne in 1971.
Born	15 November 1898 Kurilovich, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
Died	16 January 1984(1984-01-16) (aged 85) Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

Spinoza. Su vida, su época, su obra, su influencia, in 4 volumes. Buenos Aires: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1941-1945.

El judaísmo como cultura. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Presencia, 1980.

Translation of Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed (as Guía de los perplejos), in 3 volumes, based in the French version of Salomon Munk. Buenos Aires, 1955. Revised edition with an introduction and notes by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Mexico City: Conaculta, 2001.

References

^ León Dujovne: La filosofía de la Historia de Sarmiento^{[permanent dead link]}, publicación póstuma, en homenaje al 20^o 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.