Word: greatgrandson
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...family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls, "I lost the sense of Jewish...
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