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Doron Rabinovici

1997

Jakob Fandler took uneasy note of the changes in his son. It was as if a stranger he had known for a long time and then banned from his life, had suddenly shown up and moved in with him. He had already noticed Arieh’s disgust and his obsessive washing weeks ago. Then it was his restlessness and after that the electronic devices he dragged around…

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Doron Rabinovici

b. 1961

Historian, novelist, short story writer, and essayist Doron Rabinovici was born in Tel Aviv, and moved to Austria in 1964. He has written novels, a collection of stories, numerous essays, and a historical book examining the role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust. In 1999 he became a leading organizer of the Demokratische Offensive (Democratic Offensive), a movement protesting the nationalist policies of Jörg Haider’s extreme right-wing party. Among other awards, Rabinovici has received the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize, the Jean Améry Prize, and the Clemens Brentano Prize.

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