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Anna's Shtetl by Lawrence A. Coben Yiddish Learning Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsedAnna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Annas father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna