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For him, writing fiction is "fantastically
liberating. In fiction, you can bring up
what you know, not only what you can
prove." He saves any messages he might
want to deliver for the Op-Ed pages.
One way in which his journalistic
background has enriched his fiction writ-
ing is through the opportunities he's had
to meet and spend time with artists he's
been interested in, particularly two writ-
ers he most admires, Isaac Bashevis
Singer and Graham Greene.
In both Greene and Singer, Lebrecht
appreciates the seamlessness of their nar-
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emerges organically from the characters
and situation, without being forced.
"The writer remains unobtrusive,"
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One thing that *emerges in talking to
Lebrecht, that's not obvious from his
Web site or reviews of the book, is that
he is observant, a word he prefers to
Orthodox. He lives in St. John's Wood
and attends synagogue clay before work.
As is the case with many American Jews,
his children are more observant than he
is.
While he makes no secret of his reli-
gious commitment in his journalistic
career, occasionally writing about reli-
gious issues in the Evening Standard, he
doesn't make a statement about it. "I
don't fly a flag," he said.
Lebrecht's background is fervently
Orthodox, although strictly non-
Chasidic. His family moved from
Germany to England in the 1890s, and
he grew up in an intellectual tradition. In
the 1930s, his parents were active in
refugee efforts. Lebrecht's mother died
when he was a young boy, and he was
raised largely by his older sisters who had
lived through the Blitz.
He explained that through them,
he absorbed the atmosphere of displace-
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"It was under my fingernails," he said,
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about Jews is' set in Eastern Europe or
America, but atmospherically, British
Jewish life is very different from Jewish
life anywhere else.
"This is a world almost unknown to
American Jewish readers. Further than
that, there's nothing in fiction about
Orthodox Jewish life in England, so I
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