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          Ilan Stavans (born Ilán Stavchansky, ) is a Mexican-born Jewish-American writer and academic..

          Examples of these are everywhere in his oeuvre, starting with A Universal History of Infamy.

        1. Examples of these are everywhere in his oeuvre, starting with A Universal History of Infamy.
        2. Born Ilan Stavchansky Slomiansky, April 7, , in Mexico City, Mexico; immigrated to the United States, ; naturalized US citizen,
        3. Ilan Stavans (born Ilán Stavchansky, ) is a Mexican-born Jewish-American writer and academic.
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        5. Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico in to an Eastern European Jewish family.

          6. Ilan Stavans

          American writer and academic

          Ilan Stavans (born Ilán Stavchansky, 1961) is a Mexican-born Jewish-American writer and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures.

          He is the author of Quixote (2015) and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010). He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans, which ran from 2001 to 2006.

          His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic's Journey.

          Early life and education

          Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico in 1961 to a middle-classJewish family; his father's ancestors had immigrated from the Russian Pale of Settlement. His parents were born in Mexico City.

          His father, Abraham Stavans, was a Mexican telenovela actor.[1] His mother, Ofelia Stavans, taught theater.[1]

          After living in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, Stavans immigrated to the United States in 1985, and became a naturalized U.S.

          citizen in 1994.[2] He earned a master's degree from the Jewish Theolog