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May 2023 · Blog
Martin Goodman This was the 21st century, and Helen Bamber was in her eighties. We met in the London offices of her Foundation, where they cared for trafficked women, and when Helen spoke she…
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The Cellist of Dachau takes music and the Holocaust as its theme. In 1938, Otto Schalmik, a 19-year-old musician from a Jewish family in Vienna, is arrested by Nazi police. Transported to Dachau, he…
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Telling a friend about my upcoming novel J SS Bach, he suggested I read Daniel Barenboim and Edward W.Said’s Parallels and Paradoxes: Exploration in Music and Society. These are deep, intelligent conversations. I’m learning about…
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