But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, … — Tobias Wolff

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

Tobias WolffWriter · American · b. 1945

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