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'Indecent' on Broadway: Lessons of an obscenity trial by Chris Jones

How did a Yiddish playwright born the youngest of 10 children in Kutno, Poland, the child of Hasidic Jews who frowned on secular education, come to write a lesbian love scene so thrillingly passionate that it would scandalize Broadway in 1923? How did this man write of womanly love and sex with...

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 08:00PM on April 18, 2017

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