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Borges, the Jew by Ilan Stavans Discount social outcastsExplores Borges's infatuation with Jewish history and culture. In this volume, award winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual llan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture. 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