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Parents’ wartime letters inspired playwright

Parents’ wartime letters inspired playwright

BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished June 7, 2022

Ken Ludwig has no idea why his mother destroyed the letters that she and his father exchanged during World War II. “Maybe they were too intimate” for anyone else to read, mused the playwright, a man whose many credits include the sparkling musical...

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