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By Jo Ellen Green Kaiser

In Part I of this

series, author Ilan Stavans explored Borges' self-identification as a Jew. Part II

focused on Borges' infatuation with Kabbalah. In Part III, Stavans argued that

Borges carefully styled himself as a literary son of Jewish precursors.

Here, Stavans demonstrates that the so-called "apolitical" Borges was deeply engaged in fighting Nazism, and that this engagement developed Borges' belief in a universal "man"--the idea that all of us are "wandering ...