Tuesday, September 27, 2011

News at Eleven: [Naftali Herts] Kon, his Polish-born

wife Lisa and daughter Vita left well before that, emigrating to Israel in 1964. He died there seven years later, never having recovered from the loss of his writings.

Today, Lancman--who defected to the U.S. in 1966--says she is "disillusioned and indignant" as she and her sister hit a wall trying to regain their father's works.

"The return of these documents would be a modicum of justice, of the justice that was never granted to my father," Lancman, 69, said.

from Associated Press: Stalemate in Poland over work of a Yiddish author

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