From his birth in the politically fragile Mexico of the 60s and his pious Zionism of the 70s to the political agitation of the early 80s and his present career as an American cultural critic and fiction writer, Stavans explores the ways in which each period has been colored by the tongue it inhabited: Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English.
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From his birth in the politically fragile Mexico of the 60s and his pious Zionism of the 70s to the political agitation of the early 80s and his present career as an American cultural critic and fiction writer, Stavans explores the ways in which each period has been colored by the tongue it inhabited: Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English.
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