Everything That Is Forgotten in an Instant

A bilingual documentary essay about the construction and illusions of American identity from an intimate biographical and anecdotal perspective I was born in New York City a Jew from Queens raised in the 1970s and 80s the child of another New York Jew born in 1919 the child of immigrants from the Ukraine When I became a father myself I was gripped by the need to share this inheritance of identity with my daughters But my daughters were born in Buenos Aires where I have been living since 2002 Richard Shpuntoff