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I Wanted to Get Rid of My Jewishness

Tina Grimberg remembers the pain of growing up in the deeply anti-Semitic culture of Soviet Ukraine.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "I Wanted to Get Rid of My Jewishness." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/i-wanted-to-get-rid-of-my-jewishness>.