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This is just so profoundly excellent. So powerful it made the roots of my hair tingle. What an honor to publish it. Kol hakavod, Margaritas and Howard!

My convert husband is from Moscow and he remembers this slur well.

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Thank you :)

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Thank you for this moving essay. Antisemitism lurks even in the most advanced countries as we can see. My city, Santa Monica, CA USA, had an antisemitic uprising, There is still bother about being Jewish that affects everything from doing laundry to earning a living. I remember physical fight with other students from elementary school My newest collection of poems, This Sacred Earth, in search of a publisher takes up this issue. Keep on writing. Nancy Shiffrin

https://www.NancyShiffrin.net

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Thank you :)

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I love this so much and am so incredibly honored and privileged to have won Margarita’s gorgeous painting in the Artists Against Antisemitism auction this fall! This essay is just as beautiful as the painting!

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!!!!! Lucky lucky you! ❤️

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I really am!! Thank you!!

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Thank you! I was thrilled to know that the painting would have a wonderful home with you! 💕

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We are so enjoying it and are so honored!!

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Thanks for this well-wrought essay. It provides a powerful perspective we will need to understand as we move into a new dark age for American Jews, many of whom as writers, educators, journalists, and independently minded public intellectuals, represent a threat to the fascist order of the Trump regime.

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Thank you :)

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This really got to me. Thank you for sharing part of your journey.

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Thank you :)

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