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Smile Upon Us, Lord review " a comic epic 'Waiting for Jehovah' by Claire Armitstead

Barbican, LondonThe history of eastern Europe weighs heavily in this period piece in which three old Jewish men rage against life and GodA stonecutter, a water carrier and a bankrupt grocer set off from their shtetl for the "Jerusalem of Lithuania" on a mission to save stonecutter Efraim's son from execution for a political murder. The catastrophic history of eastern European Jewry weighs heavily on their shoulders a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AM on March 1, 2018

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