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    The Kindness of Strangers

    Jan 03, 2019 1 minute
    —Farran Smith Nehme

    By Salka Viertel

    NYRB Classics, $17.95

    For decades now, Salka Viertel’s long-out-of-print has survived through secondhand booksellers and word of mouth. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in, , and ; Salka even had a bit part in .

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