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One day, in my father's dacha ... I entered his room when he was speaking to someone on the telephone. Something was being reported to him and he was listening, Then, as a summary of the conversation he said, 'Well, it's an automobile accident.' I remember so well the way he said it ... He wasn't
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was lying dead beside him. It was announced that they had been killed in a traffic accident. Mikhoels's body lay in state for a day in the Jewish
National Theatre. He was praised in a
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Mikhoels was the company's leading actor and, as of 1928, its director. His memorable roles included Tevye in an adaptation of
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affair but released after Stalin's death in 1953, as was
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