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<u><b>This Shabba</b><b>t</b><br>
</u>Join us on Friday for Jewish meditation at 5:30, followed by a
yummy homemade Shabbat dinner. In the Merrill living room. Take a
break from life's craziness with meditation and good food. All are
welcome!<br>
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<b><u>Jewish Queer Conference</u></b><br>
ALIZ is organizing a Hampshire delegation to go to the Neharim
(Jewish/Queer) Conference on <b>March 1st</b>, at Boston
University. Please e-mail me or ALIZ asap for more info!<br>
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<b>You're Invited to Lunch</b></u><br>
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Michael Katz, C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East
Eur. Studies, and Rabbi Ira Schiffer, Associate Chaplain/Rabbi at
Middlebury College will be<br>
bringing their January Term Class to the Yiddish Book Center on <b>Thursday,
January 17, at 1pm</b>.
We’ve invited them to lunch in SAGA and hope you will join us for
an opportunity <br>
to meet and eat with this group of 28 students and 2 instructors.
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The students are from diverse religious, ethnic and national
backgrounds, and are majoring in departments ranging from
economics, political science, history, literature, and
international studies, to neuroscience.
This is an opportunity for meeting students from another small,
New England liberal arts college.
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This is a casual, non-academic lunch!
Please let me know if you’re able to join me.<br>
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Their class is:
Jews and the Russian Empire in Crisis
Course Description
S. An-sky (1863-1920) was a Russian-Jewish writer, ethnographer,
and social activist. A prolific author, he wrote in two languages
in every imaginable genre: articles, novels, plays, and songs. His
best known work, The Dybbuk, immortalizes the legendary figure of
a dead soul that takes possession of a living body to right an
injustice suffered during its lifetime. We will study An-sky’s
collected “works”: his memoirs, fiction (short stories and novel,
The Pioneers), play, photographs, artifacts, and folk music. Our
goal is a greater understanding of the cultural borderland between
the two worlds, Russian and Jewish, which An-sky inhabited and
portrayed at a time of crisis.
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Rabbi Rachel D'vash Schoenfeld, Coordinator for Religious
Identities and Political Intersections, Spiritual Life, Hampshire
College, 413-559-5282
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