Can I?

Alberto Dines

1972

I just can’t. Should I? I feel like going in, but I just can’t; I remain stationary. The church door opens and closes, continually, and I open and close with it, split asunder. Warmth escapes from inside there, but Judas has prevented me from entering. Once again in my life, I notice that I am cold. I suspect that the people inside are packed very…

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Alberto Dines

1932–2018

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Alberto Dines worked as a journalist beginning in 1952. He founded numerous periodicals in Portugal and Brazil, served as a professor of journalism, wrote fifteen books, and in 1996 founded a website for media analysis. At the Jewish school Dines attended as a boy, he learned Yiddish, enabling a facility with German, and at the age of eight he was greatly impressed by a school visit from Stefan Zweig. Dines later wrote a biography of Zweig and became president of the Casa Stefan Zweig, a cultural organization celebrating Zweig’s years in Brazil. In 2007 Dines received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for his work remembering the Holocaust.

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