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Mark Glanville
Ghosts of Hooligans Past
"When a classmate told me to 'stop being Jewish with the ball,' I spat in his face."
Confirmed as Drowned
Haunting verses from the only living male survivor of the Jewish community of Crete.
Heart Work
As a successful young novelist, my father had literary friends who now included Angus Wilson, Frederic Raphael, John Wain, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. All came to tea in my nursery. Stanley Moss, my godfather, went on to make a fortune from art dealing.
Bread and Vodka
Mendel Osherowitch's 1933 book about life in Ukraine not only bore rare eyewitness testimony to one of the worst atrocities in a barbarous century; it did so from the vantage point of a brother of two of the perpetrators.