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Haunted by the Kindertransport and COVID-19, this 95-year-old Jewish writer chronicles a changing world — over lunch

JL;DR SUMMARY Lore Segal, a 95-year-old Jewish writer and one of the oldest active American authors, continues to explore themes of friendship and aging intertwined with the haunting backdrop of the Holocaust in her latest story collection, "Ladies Lunch and Other Stories." 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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AgingHolocaustFriendshipJewish AuthorsPandemicNew YorkKindertransportMemoryLore SegalMinimalist Writing

Places mentioned

United Kingdom
"Soon after arriving in England in 1938 on the Kindertransport from Nazi-occupied Vienna, the 10-year-old girl launched a letter-writing campaign to get her parents out too."
Vienna, Austria
"received a pet turtle as a gift, and Nazi storm troopers evicted her family from their Vienna apartment."
New York, United States
"a turtle hand puppet she bought for her own children years later, after she had resettled in New York."

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