On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
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Publisher: Viking Books
Publication year: 2001
ISBN: 0670877638
Description:

In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico, through his years as a student activist, a young Zionist in Israel, a student of theology in New York to his career now as a noted academic and writer.".