The Circumcision
György Dalos
1990
All the Jewish children’s homes and live-in kindergartens that Robi Singer had been attending since the age of four had something in common. Besides a birth certificate and vaccination papers, they all required a document to prove that on the eighth day after his birth, Robi Singer had been duly circumcised. On these occasions, Robi’s grandmother…
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