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Of his non-Yiddish-contemporaries , he was strongly influenced by the writings of Knut Hamsun , many of whose works he later translated , while he had a more critical attitude towards Thomas Mann , whose approach to writing he considered opposed to his own .
 person: Knut Hamsun; person: Thomas Mann
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 person: Knut Hamsun; person: Thomas Mann