A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges\'s fascination with Jewish culture.
In periods when anti-Semitism in Argentina was on.
Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and stories dealing with various aspects of Jewish history and culture--from the Holocaust to Kabbalah and from Franz Kafka to the creation of the State of Israel.
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges\'s fascination with Jewish culture