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08-12-2006
100 years young – and still translating
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California, USA (JJLA): Most afternoons, you can find Eva Zeitlin Dobkin working. Undaunted by the 100-year marker she passed last month, she pulls her wheelchair up to the hospital bed in the room she shares at the Jewish Home for the Aging -- her side is separated by a curtain -- and spreads her work out over the lavender bedspread. While her roommate rests or watches television with the volume turned high, Dobkin spends a couple of hours editing "Burning Earth" ("Brenendike Erd" ), a historical novel she has translated from Yiddish to English.
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