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  • 'Poisson Polonais 1,' 2013.
    'Poisson Polonais 1,' 2013.
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    A Cruel and Elusive Family History

    Agata Tuszyńska’s ‘Family History of Fear’ and Ivan Jablonka’s ‘A History of the Grandparents I Never Had’ open old wounds

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Ivan Jablonka(Emmanuelle Marchadour)
    Ivan Jablonka(Emmanuelle Marchadour)
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    Imagining the Grandparents He Never Met

    Ivan Jablonka pieces together the history of ancestors who perished before he met them

    byAdam Chandler
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Smithsonian/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Smithsonian/Flickr)
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    A History of the Grandparents I Never Had

    A newly translated excerpt unearths the lives—from the shtetl to Auschwitz—of ancestors who died before the author was born

    byIvan Jablonka
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