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Conversations with my friends about their lives:

Pianist Evgeny Kissin

Discussion under coronavirus lockdown, (2020)

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Evgeny Kissin on his favorite concert halls, musicians and conductors

Evgeny Kissin recites his Yiddish translation of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ speech

Evgeny Kissin on Israel, Soviet anti-Zionism and western intellectual complicity with communist crimes

Evgeny Kissin on Stalin’s murder of Yiddish writers, and Kissin’s own attempts to revive Yiddish

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