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translation rights for Polish refreshed with Fundacja Pogranicze
Grigori Kanovich‘s novel A KID FOR TWO PENNIES has lost none of its relevance even after 30 years. It was written in 1989 and describes the coexistence of Jews in the multi-ethnic border area between the German Empire at Nemunas (Memel), Lithuania and the Russian state. Or rather the coexistence or even better the friction and resentment on all sides.
As Kanovich says at the end: „The world cannot simply be divided into good and evil, into truth and untruth: everything in the world is intertwined… in every Jew there is also a Russian, in every Russian a Jew, in every Lithuanian a Polish, in every Polish a German.“