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Book Review | 1945 and Other Stories

JL;DR SUMMARY Susan Rubin Suleiman reviews "1945 and Other Stories" by Hungarian author Gábor T. Szántó, translated for an English audience and offering poignant, compact narratives exploring Jewish identity, Holocaust legacies, and postwar societal tensions. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureHolocaustJewish IdentityDiasporaTraumaShort StoriesTranslationHungarian LiteraturePostwar EuropeGábor T. Szántó

Places mentioned

Budapest, Hungary
"The title story of his first book, published in 1995...features a young man from Budapest who visits his parents birthplace."
San Francisco, California, United States
"He knows of an Orthodox community in San Francisco where the young rabbi-to-be will find a welcome."

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