A TV Drama about a Notorious Terrorist Obscures the Truth about Iran, the PLO, and Lebanon
Ghosts of Beirut.
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Two Anti-Semitic Tyrants and One Jewish Family
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad.
“So there came in the West a booted ruler with a little mustache, and in the East a booted ruler with a big mustache, and both of them together kicked the wise man to the ground and he sank into the mud.” Thus the novelist Chaim Grade has one of his characters describe the fate of Central European Jewry in the 1930s and 40s. These words aptly describe the story told in Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad, the British journalist and Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein’s telling of his family’s experiences in the 20th century. Robert Philpot recounts what befell some of its key characters:
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