Word: channon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alex Tamkin stayed close to the theme of Ansky's tragedy for his English libretto, produced what the brothers call "a story of Romeo and Juliet set forth in ... cabalistic symbolism." An impoverished young Talmudic scholar named Channon wants to marry Leah, the daughter of a practical bourgeois type who thinks his daughter can do a lot better. Torn with love and bitterness, Channon studies mystic books, tampers with the supernatural, and is struck dead. But he returns as a dybbuk, to inhabit the body of Leah herself, just as she is presented with her wedding veil...