By Jennifer Lipman, December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after a long battle with cancer.
The writer and commentator, who was a sworn atheist, was told that he was of Jewish descent when he was 38. His maternal grandmother had been Jewish and came from Kempen, now Kempno, in Upper Silesia, a discovery that Mr Hitchens described as thrilling.
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