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Ilan Sta­vans

Ilan Sta­vans is the pub­lish­er of Rest­less Books and a pas­sion­ate lover of dic­tio­nar­ies, with a col­lec­tion of over three hun­dred now housed in his per­son­al col­lec­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia. He has pub­lished an assort­ment of books about lan­guage, includ­ing Spang­lish: The Mak­ing of a New Amer­i­can Lan­guage (2003), Dic­tio­nary Days: A Defin­ing Pas­sion (2005), Res­ur­rect­ing Hebrew (2008), and How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yid­dish (2020). He serves as a con­sul­tant to the Oxford Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary and lives in Amherst, Mass.

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Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Very Short Introduction
Ilan Sta­vans
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How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yiddish
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Josh Lam­bert
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Chil­dren’s
Daniel and Ismail 
Juan Pablo Iglesias (auth.), Alex Peris (illus.), Ilan Stavans (trans.)
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The Sev­enth Heav­en: Trav­els Through Jew­ish Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
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The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
Ilan Sta­vans
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Borges, the Jew
Ilan Sta­vans
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Once@9:53am: Ter­ror in Buenos Aires
Ilan Sta­vans
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Oy, Caram­ba!: An Anthol­o­gy of Jew­ish Sto­ries from Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
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Chil­dren’s
Golemi­to
Ilan Sta­vans
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El Ilu­mi­na­do: A Graph­ic Novel
Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin
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Singer’s Type­writer and Mine: Reflec­tions on Jew­ish Culture
Ilan Sta­vans
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With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible
Ilan Stavans with Mordecai Drache
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A Crit­ic’s Journey
Ilan Sta­vans
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Res­ur­rect­ing Hebrew
Ilan Sta­vans
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The Dis­ap­pear­ance
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Interview—From the Journal

The Endurance of Yid­dish: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ilan Sta­vans and Josh Lambert

Ilan Sta­vans, Josh Lam­bert
January 13, 2020
From the Journal

A Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Map of Latin America

Ilan Sta­vans
September 13, 2019
Essay

A Jew­ish-Pales­tin­ian Children’s Book: How Daniel and Ismail Came to Be

Ilan Sta­vans
August 12, 2019
Essay

Turn­ing the Ter­ror­ist Attack in Buenos Aires into Pop­u­lar Art

Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Ilan Sta­vans
November 3, 2016
Essay

Borges’s Phi­lo-Semi­tism

Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Ilan Sta­vans
November 1, 2016
Essay

What Is Jew­ish in Mod­ern Latin Amer­i­can Literature?

Author Ilan Sta­vans has three new books out this year, and will be intro­duc­ing each one to Jew­ish Book Coun­cil read­ers as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
Ilan Sta­vans
October 31, 2016
Essay

Your Graph­ic Nov­el and Mine

Ear­li­er this week, Ilan Sta­vans wrote about the prob­lem with aca­d­e­m­ic writ­ing and asked: Is there a Jew­ish lit­er­ary renais­sance? He has been blog­ging here…
Ilan Sta­vans
December 28, 2012
Essay

Aca­d­e­m­ic Free­dom Is Wast­ed on Academics

Ear­li­er this week, Ilan Sta­vans asked: Is there a Jew­ish lit­er­ary renais­sance? He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Ilan Sta­vans
December 26, 2012
Essay

Is There a Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Renaissance?

Ilan Sta­vans is Lewis-Sebring Pro­fes­sor in Latin Amer­i­can and Lati­no Cul­ture at Amherst Col­lege. His most recent books are the col­lec­tion of essays Singer’s Type­writer…
Ilan Sta­vans
December 24, 2012
Interview—From the Journal

The Endurance of Yid­dish: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ilan Sta­vans and Josh Lambert

Ilan Sta­vans, Josh Lam­bert
January 13, 2020
Interview

Fate Knock­ing at the Door: An Inter­view with Ilan Stavans

by Philip K. JasonPhilip K. Jason: What binds your inter­est in com­ic strips and graph­ic nov­els on the one hand and more tra­di­tion­al crit­i­cal explo­rations on the…
Philip K. Jason
December 19, 2012

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