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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
Grajewski's religious or ethnic background is fully irrelevant
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Diary 1954
Why Polish-Jewish? First of all Tyrmand came from a highly assimilated Jewish family, and was himself a Catholic, as he states in his Diaries. Second, why don't we call Norman Mailer for instance an "American-Jewish" writer? Tyrmand had, indeed, Jewish origins, but there is virtually no mention of them in any significant way in his writing.
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