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David Quixano
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He immigrated to America after surviving the 1903 Kishinev pogrom which killed his mother and sister.
He composes The Crucible, an "American Symphony" that expresses his hope for a world free of ethnic divisions and hatred. The play popularized the term and concept of America as a "melting pot" of different ethnicities.
