Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

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May 19, 202109:19Religion & Spirituality

This week, Marcela takes a step back from the literature itself to look at the language of the words we use. The idea of the podcast, Israel in Translation, is that the works discussed were written originally in a langua...

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