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Fernando Penalosa, born in 1925 in Berkeley, California, is Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach. He has carried out research in California, Hawaii, Mexico, Guatemala, Israel, and Macedonia, and has written and published books in a number of fields. He established Yax Te' Press and the Yax Te' Foundation for the publication of books by and about the contemporary Maya of Guatemala, and Quaking Aspen Books for books about the natural and cultural history of Yosemite National Park and the Island of Kauai. His present imprint, Tsiterboym Books deals with Yiddish theatre. Tsiterboym, of course, is what the Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) is called in Yiddish. He is the author of The Dybbuk: Text, Subtext, and Context (2012) and the translator of Parodies of An-sky's The Dybbuk. (2012). A convert to Judaism in 1965, he is self-taught in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish studies. He has published translations from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Akatek Mayan, and from and to Spanish. A more remote connection to Judaism is documented in the frequent appearance of the surname Penalosa in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition. His family is descended from a Converso who came to Mexico with Hernan Cortes and the other Spanish invaders in 1520.

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