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descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis

and joy in singing together

and the conflicting impulses that are part of the human condition

Judeo-Spanish is a living remnant of the Spanish spoken by the Spanish Jews at the end of the 15th century

David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity by Harriet Murav sync error descended from a long andDavid Bergelson (18841952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur Lige and his work was at the center of the Yiddish speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after effects of the past and the clumsiness of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their familiar worlds crumbled around them. In this contemporary