Yo, Judío (Me, a Jew) is a 1934 essay about antisemitism by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
[1] In the essay, Borges declares he would be proud to be a Jew, and remarks that any pure Castilian is likely to come from ancient Jewish descent, from a millennium ago.
I am grateful for the stimulus provided by Crisol, but hope is dimming that I will ever be able to discover my link to the Table of the Breads and the Sea of Bronze; to Heine, Gleizer [es], and the ten Sefirot; to Ecclesiastes and Chaplin.Charlie Chaplin was not Jewish, despite being named as Jewish in the essay.
Sarah Rinder, writing to Mosaic Magazine, suggests that Borges expresses a "liking especially for those Jews who have transcended, or even shed, their Jewish identities.
[3] In 2024, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts purchased the holograph manuscript of Yo, Judío from a bookstore in Montevideo, Uruguay, shelfmark UPenn Misc Mss Box 25 Folder 38 .