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The Antecedents Of Comic Novelist Howard Jacobson According To A Memoir Reviewed In March, Originally Come From Where?

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aa11_- | 21:17 Tue 03rd Jan 2023 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Was it Poland, Russia or Ukraine
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"Certainly, his account of growing up in the Manchester suburbs of Cheetham Hill, Hightown and Prestwich – “Bialystok on Irwell”, as he thinks of his great-grandparents’ neighbourhood . . . "

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/09/mothers-boy-by-howard-jacobson-review-melodramatic-memoir

Białystok is in Poland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok
How far back do you go?

Jacobson was born in Manchester to parents of Russian-Jewish heritage (his father's parents came from Kamianets-Podilskyi in what is now Ukraine, his mother's family from Lithuania).
^^^ .... and he went to my old Grammar School! ;))
how far indeed, Captain, you might as well say "Africa".

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