Word: levantineâ
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...born in Rumania, a fact he considers fortuitous. In 1914 it was "a corridor, a marginal place"?a palimpsest on which various neighbors and colonial powers (Russia, Hungary, Turkey) had left their traces. To this day, Steinberg confesses himself to be "culturally a born Levantine???my sort of country goes from the eastern outskirts of Milan all the way to Afghanistan...
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