Michael Handelzalts

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מיכאל הנדלזלץ

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Michael Handelzalts ({{langx|he|מיכאל הנדלזלץ}}; born 1950) is an Israeli theater critic.[http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/Home/GPNISSUES/Issue9Winter2012/tabid/165/ctl/DisplayArticle/mid/990/aid/477/Default.aspx?skinsrc=%5BG%5D/Skins/GPN/printskin Naming the Unnameable]

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Michael Handelzalts was born in Poland.[http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/.premium-1.531947 Polish actors reenact the shtetl better than any Jew] His grandfather, Elyahu Handelzalc, was a teacher and writer from Warsaw, Poland who fled the city in 1939. He is believed to have been murdered by German troops in

Novogrudok, along with 70 Jewish intellectuals who were rounded up and taken to an unknown destination.

Michael Handelzalts is a theater critic for Haaretz newspaper. He was the founder and first editor of the paper's Book Review Magazine.[http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/Home/GPNISSUES/Issue9Winter2012/tabid/165/ctl/DisplayArticle/mid/990/aid/477/Default.aspx?skinsrc=%5BG%5D/Skins/GPN/printskin Naming the Unnameable] He writes a weekly column for Haaretz, "Pen Ultimate."[http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/pen-ultimate Wordplay: The (ethnic) devil is in the details]

Michael Handelzalts

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