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12pt;">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 bringing their
January Term Class to the Yiddish Book Center on Thursday,
January 17. <o:p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;">We’ve invited them to lunch and
hope you will join us for an opportunity to meet and eat
with this group of 28 students and 2 instructors.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">This is an opportunity for
meeting students from another small, New England liberal
arts college.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a casual, non-academic
lunch!</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We're
meeting at 1pm in saga. (And your lunch is on us).<br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Please let Rachel at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rsSA@hampshire.edu">rsSA@hampshire.edu</a> know if you’re able to join us.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Their class is:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Jews and the Russian Empire in
Crisis<o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><u><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Course Description<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">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, <i>The Dybbuk</i>, 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, <i>The
Pioneers</i>), 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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