Tales of Kleinville

Samuel Pecar was born in the JCA agricultural colony of Colonia López, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He lived there until 1930 when his family moved to the Buenos Aires suburb of San Fernando. Between 1951 and his move to Israel in 1962, he contributed to Nueva Sión, published by the Zionist Socialist party in Argentina, and from 1957 to 1958, for the Jewish daily Amanecer. A recognized writer of Jewish life, Pecar’s earlier works gently poked fun at Jewish communities in Argentina, while his later works, following his move to Israel, delved into more existential questions. In Israel, he specialized in farm cooperatives, working for the Latin American Department of the Histadrut, and in 1985 he founded and directed the Association of Israeli Writers in Spanish.