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Kate Bosse-Griffiths: Dy bobl di fydd fy mhobl i / Thy people shall be my people

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Angermion, Volume: 5, Issue: 1

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DOI (Published version): 10.1515/anger-2012-0008

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‘Thy people shall be mypeople’: these were the words of Ruth, the Moabitess, of the Old Testament, the ‘model émigré’ who pledged fidelity to another nation. These, too, were the words used by J.Gwyn Griffiths to describe the experience of his Jewish-German wife, Kate Bosse-Griffiths, who was exiled...

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Published in: Angermion
ISSN: 1438-2091 1868-9426
Published: London Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co 2012
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