Meir Blinken
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Meir Blinken was a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

-born author who published works in Yiddish after immigrating to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. One grandson, Alan Blinken
Alan Blinken
Alan John Blinken was the 2002 Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Idaho. He was defeated by the Republican incumbent, Larry Craig. Previously, as a resident of New York City in 1990, Blinken ran for the New York State Assembly in Manhattan, but lost to Republican John Ravitz.Blinken...

, served as US ambassador to Belgium.

Stories by Meir Blinkin ; translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld ; with an introduction by Ruth R. Wisse.
Pub. Info Albany : State University of New York Press, 1984. Review http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E6DD1239F93BA25750C0A962948260
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