Dear All,
The link i sent yesterday is no longer active.=20
Please use: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/poland-returns-yiddish-writer-s-works-confiscated-by-communists-to-daughters-1.507553
With apologies,
Ina
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ina lancman <ina.lancman_at_gmail.com>
> Date: March 19, 2013, 12:46:07 PM EDT
> To: "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Subject: We made history!
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> Dear Czernowitzers,
> On March 5, my sister and I finally took possession of our father's papers=
, arrested in Poland for over 50 years. It was an incredibly emotional mome=
nt for us...
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> More info:
>=20
> http:// .timesonline.com/news/world/europe/poland-returns-yiddish-writer-s=
-works-to-daughters/article_7c07e9ba-9b9d-50a3-a68d-c6ff41e31ddb.html
> (The article erroniously states that we got "copies". Our fight was for th=
e originals, and that's what we got.)
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> Our case has set an important precedent in Poland. On March 14 th, the mag=
azine supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza, the major Polish daily, ran a huge arti=
cle about our dad and our battle for his papers, with photos and beautiful P=
olish translations of few of his poems by Henryk Grynberg, a preeminent Poli=
sh Jewish writer, who lives in the US. Just to give you an idea of the bread=
th of the article here is a link to it: =20
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> http://wyborcza.pl/duzyformat/1,131925,13549489,Gdy_kaci_graja_na_skrzypca=
ch.html
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> The article's title is the first line of one of my dad's poems: When tort=
urers play fiddles. ( in Polish: Gdy kaci graj=C4=85 na skrzypcach)=20
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> Ina
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