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The Man Behind ‘The Dybbuk’: Rokhl’s Golden City: S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition
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Click Here to Read: The Man Behind ‘The Dybbuk’: Rokhl’s Golden City: S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition by Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet website on June 10, 2020.
A photograph of w:The Dybbuk’s Hebrew Premiere: w:Habima Theatre (then operating in Sekretaryova Theater, Nizhny Kislovskaya 6, close to w:Bolshoy Kislovsky Lane, w:Moscow), 31 January 1922. On the stage: w:Hanna Rovina as Leah, the possessed bride; Nahum Zemach as the Tzaddik. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

POETRY MONDAY: JUNE 1, 2020
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JIM HABA            

Good morning, everyone.  A bit cooler today, in our new two-seasons-only weather here in the northeastern U.S.  I hope you’re still well.
Full disclosure: Our poet today is one we’ve featured before  (back in 2010, actually), and also my co-editor for an anthology just released by IPBooks: What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration.  But there’s a bigger reason for my re-introducing you to Jim Haba today.  When you see the book you’ll note that the striking cover is from a painting by Erica Barton Haba, Jim’s wife and longtime artistic partner, a dear person lost to all of us just a few months ago.

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