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Alan Polak
About Me
Born Liverpool 1950
BA in PPE (Oxford 1971)
MA in 20th Century Literary Studies (Liverpool 1999)
PhD in Cultural Representation of the Holocaust (Sheffield 2004)

Evertonian, Luxemburgist, Hellenist, Burmese cat lover

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