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My Neighbor, My Kapo

JL;DR SUMMARY Professor Dan Porat from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on the little-known trials of former Jewish kapos in Israel between 1950-1972 in his book "Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators," a finalist for the 2019 National Jewish Book Award. 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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