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• HENTOFF, NAT — (1925– ), U.S. music critic, journalist, novelist, author. The roots of Hentoff s dazzlingly variegated career are to be found in his boyhood in Depression era Boston. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he grew up in the predominately Catholic …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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