David Evanier
By David Evanier
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Life A Holocaust Survivor Inspires The Ex-Incarcerated
Earlier this month, Hedy Pagremansky, a radiant 4’9” woman of 89, spoke on the 73rd anniversary of her late husband Erich’s liberation from Dachau. It was not the usual Holocaust memorial ceremony — but a gathering of some fifty formerly incarcerated men and women, who probably have a thousand years of prison time between them….
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News Strange Fruit
Triple Exposure: Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s By Dexter Jeffries Kensington Publishing, 451 pages, $23. * * *| On Dexter Jeffries’s first teaching day at Hunter College in 1990, his students confused him with fellow City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries, best known for his theories about Jews, melanin and ice…
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