Michael Handelzalts (born 1950) ( he, מיכאל הנדלזלץ) is an Israeli theater critic.

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Michael Handelzalts was born in Poland. His grandfather, Elyahu Handelzalc, was a teacher and writer from Warsaw, Poland who fled the city in 1939. He is believed to have been murdered by German troops in

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, along with 70 Jewish intellectuals who were rounded up and taken to an unknown destination. Michael Handelzalts is a theater critic for

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newspaper. He was the founder and first editor of the paper's Book Review Magazine. He writes a weekly column for Haaretz, "Pen Ultimate."Wordplay: The (ethnic) devil is in the details
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