Before All The World

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I do not believe that all the world is darkness.In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled to hear his native tongue spoken by this beautiful Black man from the Seventh Ward with whom he will fall in love.Leyb is haunted by memories of life before he came to America. Life back in his home village of Zatelsk, where every last person - except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl, and Leyb himself - was taken to the forest by the Red Army and killed. Flowing and churning and seething with a glorious surge of language, carried along by questions of survival and hope and the possibility of a better world, Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?