"Ilan Stavans has emerged as Latin America s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast," states the "Washington Post." And the "New York Times" described him as "the czar of Latino literature in the United States." But his influential oeuvre doesn t address Hispanic culture exclusively. It has also opened fresh new vistas into Jewish life globally, which has prompted the Forward to portray Stavans as "a maverick intellectual whose canonical work has already produced a whole array of marvels that are redefining Jewishness."
Neal Sokol devoted almost a decade to...