In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli author and film maker”. Today it says “scots -born israeli author”.
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Simon Louvish ( Hebrew : סיימון לוביש ; born 6 April 1947, Glasgow , Scotland) is a Scots -born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok , a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses. Louvish is a visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School . He has written books on W. DeMille , Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin . Louvish directed and produced such documentaries as End of the Dialogue, Apartheid in South Africa , Greece of Christian Greeks – the Colonels' Regime , and To Live in Freedom, the Conflict in Israel-Palestine .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
IMDB refimprove Simon Louvish (born 1947 in Scotland) is an Israeli author and film maker. He has written many books about Avram Blok , a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses. He has also written biographies of W. Fields , The Marx Brothers , Groucho Marx , Laurel and Hardy , and Mack Sennett .
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Simon Louvish (born April 6 1947, Glasgow , Scotland ) is a Scots -born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok , a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses. Louvish is a visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School .He has written books on W.DeMille , Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow , Scotland) is a Scots -born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok , a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses. Louvish is a visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School . He has written books on W. DeMille , Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli writer and filmmaker Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow , Scotland) is a Scots -born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok , a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses. Louvish is a visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School . He has written books on W. DeMille , Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin .
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israeli author and film maker
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scots -born israeli author
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