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Roald Dahl photographed in 1989.
Roald Dahl’s family apologizes for the anti-Semitism that the author expressed during his lifetime.
The family’s apology has been posted on the author’s official website, writes The Guardian.
The British author and Norwegian kitten died in 1990 and is known for books such as “Kalle and the Chocolate Factory” and “The Fantastic Fox”. However, in the shadow of his writings, he repeatedly expressed anti-Semitic views.
The Guardian refers, among other things, to what Dahl said in a 1983 interview with the British magazine New Statesman: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that provokes hostility, perhaps it is a kind of lack of generosity towards non Jews”.
“These biased statements are incomprehensible to us and are in stark contrast to the man we met and the values at the heart of the Roald Dahl stories, which have left a positive mark on generations of young people,” write the family and Roald Dahl Store Company.
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