La dictadura militar argentina de las décadas de 1970 y 1980 promovió la persecución de la comunidad judía. Desde 1983, nuevamente en democracia, muchos judíos argentinos participaron activamente en política y en debatesculturales e intelectuales públicos. Las voces más notorias, que son analizadas en este artículo, fueron las de Ricardo Forster, Alejandro Horowicz y Horacio Verbitsky.

Borges is unquestionably the most photographed Argentine author. As someone who assumed something of an international celebrity status before he was widely accepted in his native country, the photographic images of Borges, which outside Argentina quickly went from newsprint to book jackets to gallery walls, were less the consequence in Argentina of any canonical role in national letters than they were the attention of local artists to their acquaintances and associates in rather closed circles.