said, “I think of you as the Jew who got away.” “And does that help?” “There’s some truth in it, isn’t there? You got away from Russia and the pogroms. You got away from the purges—and Babel didn’t. You got away from Palestine and the homeland. You got away from Brookline and the relatives. You got away from New York—” “And all of this is recorded where? Hedda Hopper?”
Lonoff the Jew who got away
escaped pogroms
escaped Palestine
