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"Have You Ever Seen a Tennis Match?": Teenage Jozef Hen's First Editorial Critique from Igor Newerly
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Jozef Hen, Polish Jewish writer, describes his first conversation with Igor Newerly (Jerzy Abramow). Teenage Jozef Hen submitted his short story about tennis to a contest in a children's newspaper called "Maly Przeglad [The Little Review]".
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Józef Hen.
This excerpt is in Polish.
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"Have You Ever Seen a Tennis Match?": Teenage Jozef Hen's First Editorial Critique from Igor Newerly
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"I Should Have Gone with Them": Igor Newerly and His Maly Przeglad Colleagues in Majdanek
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