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Zangwill, Israel

Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee. He grew up in London’s East End where he attended the Jew’s Free School. His talents soon came to the attention of his teachers, and when he was fourteen he began to teach younger pupils. When he was eighteen, after he had won a best comic story competition in a magazine, he go...

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Kek Huuygens

Gender: Male

During the Second World War, he fought in the resistance movement in the Netherlands, but now the broad-shouldered man is, according to author Robert L. Fish, the world’s foremost smuggler. Kek Huuygens – born Polish, but with a genuine American passport and an acquired Dutch name – is dark and handsome with cold, grey eyes, and a bachelor since his former wife betrayed him for another man and a l...

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