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The Uncivil Servant: The Success of a Failure
Mitchell Abidor
April 22, 2014
Our Contributing Writer Retires
by Mitchell Abidor “The journey towards idleness is the journey of a lifetime.” -Tom Hodgkinson, “How to be Idle”


Mitchell Abidor, a contributing writer to Jewish Currents, is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn. Among his books are a translation of Victor Serge’s Notebooks 1936-1947, May Made Me: An Oral History of My 1968 in France, and I’ll Forget it When I Die, a history of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Liberties, Dissent, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications.
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