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Arnold Zable: ZOG NISHT KEYNMOL: TALES OF RESISTANCE

Acclaimed Australian-Jewish writer storyteller, Arnold Zable, draws on his novels, memoirs, stories, and on his travels, to weave tales that resonate with these challenging times of brutal invasion, mass displacement, and resistance. His stories voyage across many boundaries and honour many episodes of cultural and physical resistance — of Yiddish theatre, cabaret, and literary works, which were written and performed in the darkest of times, and of personal encounters with resistance fighters. At the root of Zable’s journey, is his Australian-Jewish childhood — a mother who once performed Yiddish songs, and a father, who wrote and performed Yiddish poetry in pre-war Bialystok — their rich and magical Yiddish heritage, passionate love of Yiddish language, and the ghosts and shadows that haunted them at the loss of their families.

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