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was sent to live with distant relatives in Italy whom she didn’t know and whose languages she didn’t speak

and after the Second World War

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Yiddish for Pirates - Gary Barwin humour was sent to live withShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the (Canadian) Governor General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500 year old Jewish parrot. Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew,