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I have in mind Babel, Yevgeniya Ginsburg and her half-Jewish son Aksyonov, the poets Osip Mandelshtam and Joseph Brodsky, and in my opinion the best novelist of World War II, Vasily Grossman.
I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.
Felsenthal and Katharine both report that Phil assumed Agnes' role as bully and emotional abuser, but only the biographer writes that as Phil lost his mind, he taunted his half-Jewish wife with anti-Semitic slurs.
Two related ones are the Half-Sample Mode (HSM) and Half-Range Mode (HRM) [ 2 ] . The HSM uses shortest half samples, in an iterative fashion, to estimate the mode.
"Our fathers were Jews, we've become half-Jews, and our children are ...