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12pt;">Friends,<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<b> Middlebury College</b> will be bringing their January Term
Class to the Yiddish Book Center on Thursday, January 17. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
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;"><i>This is an opportunity for meeting
students from another small, New England liberal arts
college.</i><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"><b>We're
meeting at 1pm in saga</b>. (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
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href="mailto:rsSA@hampshire.edu">rsSA@hampshire.edu</a>
know if you’re able to join us. <b>Please rsvp asap so we can
put you on our list!</b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<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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style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;page-break-after:avoid"><font
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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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.</span></font>
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Rabbi Rachel D'vash Schoenfeld, Coordinator for Religious
Identities and Political Intersections, Spiritual Life,
Hampshire College, 413-559-5282</div>
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