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Mark Klempner is a folklorist, historian, and social commentator. The son of an immigrant who barely escaped the Holocaust, Klempner spent nearly a decade talking with and getting to know the Dutch rescuers in order to write The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage. Klempner grew up in New York, and attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1997, and winning a J. William Fulbright Fellowship. In 2000, he received an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Klempner’s articles have appeared internationally in professional publications such as the Oral History Reader, as well as in the Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, and other mainstream newspapers and period...more


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There is a great dramatic irony present when reading this book now. Originally written in the 1950s, it is simply excruciatingly sad to become intimate with these simple villagers of Southern Iraq knowing that what suffering is going to come their wa...more
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I read the unexpurgated full version. I found the first part "Southern Night" stronger than the second part. The first part was all that was available for many years. It is a powerful, hardhitting autobiography of a black growing up in the South in t...more
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