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Ida Fink
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “polish jewish author who writes about the holocaust”. Today it says “polish -born israeli author who wrote about the holocaust in polish”.
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Ida Fink ( Hebrew : אידה פינק ; 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish -born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish . Winner of the Israel Prize for Fiction in 2008.
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polish jewish author who writes about the holocaust
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polish -born israeli author who wrote about the holocaust in polish
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