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“It speaks to me in a way that others cannot understand,” the artist Louis Bourgeois had written of her years at the school. She’d written another phrase too, one that had stayed with me always. “If your need is to refuse to abandon the past, you must recreate it.”

“You see, over the centuries Russian Jews picked up some of the characteristics of the Slavic soul including a taste for changing their first names and, of course, the refusal to give up on love.”