Victoria Gucovsky (22 February 1890 – 18 October 1969) was an Argentine teacher, writer and socialist activist. Gucovsky founded the Adult Literacy League (), and was a member of the .
Early life and education Gucovsky was born on 22 February 1890 in Genoa to socialist Odesan-Jewish parents. 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. Following her father's death in 1894, Gucovsky and her mother returned to Odessa. The same year Gucovsky and her mother initially settled in Switzerland before emigrating to Argentina in 1895.
In Argentina, Gucovsky settled in Colonia Santa Clara in Entre Ríos Province, an agricultural settlement founded by the Jewish Colonisation Association. Gucovsky and mother later settled in Buenos Aires, where her mother married the physician and Socialist Party of Argentina politician Nicolás Repetto. Educated at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas, Gucovsky later studied to be a biology teacher at the Instituto de Profesorado Secundario.
Career For 32 years, Gucovsky taught biology at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas and other secondary school in Buenos Aires. A regular contributor to the literary supplement for La Nación, between 1918 and 1923 Gucovsky edited the Vida Femenina supplement for La Vanguardia. Gucovsky also contributed articles on music and art for the Socialist Yearbook (). A member of the Socialist Women's Center, Gucovsky founded the Adult Literacy League ().
Between 1915 and 1919, Gucovsky contracted either pleurisy or tuberculosis and settled in Tío Pujio, Córdoba Province with her mother. During this period developed her future works Tierra Adentro (1921) and El Llanto de la Higuera (1930).
Personal life In 1917, Gucovsky married the politician Antonio de Tomaso but later divorced in 1921. Gucovsky later married Boris Fikh, and lived in the Parque Chacabuco neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.
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 , a socialist politician and dentist.
On 18 October 1969, Gucovsky died in Buenos Aires aged 79.
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