Yo, Judío

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Yo, Judío
Created1934
Author(s)Jorge Luis Borges
Media typeEssay
SubjectAntisemitism

Yo, Judío (Me, a Jew) is a 1934 essay about antisemitism by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

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In 1934, Argentine

ancient Jewish descent, from a millennium ago.[1]

In the essay, Borges details his own efforts, strenuous but ultimately futile, to document possible Jewish ancestors in his own family's genealogy:

Two-hundred years and I can’t find the Israelite; 200 years and my ancestor still eludes me. I am grateful for the stimulus provided by Crisol, but hope is dimming that I will ever be able to discover my link to the Table of the Breads and the Sea of Bronze; to Heine, Gleizer [es], and the ten Sefirot; to Ecclesiastes and Chaplin.

Charlie Chaplin was not Jewish, despite being named as Jewish in the essay. Sarah Rinder, writing to

Mosaic Magazine, suggests that Borges expresses a "liking especially for those Jews who have transcended, or even shed, their Jewish identities."[2]

The editor mentioned in the essay, Manuel Gleizer, was a librarian, publisher and editor whose bookshop was a meeting point for authors, including Borges.[3]

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References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-8143-2888-1
  2. Mosaic Magazine
    . Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  3. ISBN 0-7156-2154-8
    .

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