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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Dear
Colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">This upcoming
event looked like it might be of interest to local bibliophiles, so I
thought I'd pass along the announcement. Best wishes.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Lise
Sanders</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Hampshire
College</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>THIS THURSDAY!
The National Yiddish Book Center presents The Rosenbach
Company</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">National Yiddish
Book Center presents<br>
"The Rosenbach Company"<br>
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Amherst, MA - The National Yiddish Book Center, located on the campus
of Hampshire College, 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA, 01002, will
present the New England premiere performance of The Rosenbach Company
on Thursday, April 6, 2006, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $12 /$6 student
w/valid id. Reservations are suggested.<br>
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The Rosenbach Company is famed cartoonist Ben Katchor and musician
Mark Mulcahy's new pop-musical that chronicles the life and times of
the Rosenbach brothers, the world's preeminent rare-book dealers.
Their collection ranged from James Joyce's manuscript of Ulysses to
John Tenniel's original illustrations for Alice in Wonderland. Mixing
projected animated images with live actors, singers and musicians, the
show explores the obsessive nature of collecting, the relationship
between cultural and commercial pursuits and the brothers' historical
significance as owners of some of the world's greatest literary
treasures.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Variety called it
"thrilling, charming and altogether a knockout." Join us for
this evening of "haunting music," "witty power"
and "postmodern Yiddishkeit"!</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Featured musicians
are Brian Marchese, Henning Ohlenbusch and Dave Trenholm alongside
singers Mollie Weaver, Ryan Mercy and Mark Mulcahy. Mulcahy is a
Springfield based musician who was the front-man for the New Haven
band Miracle Legion.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">The National
Yiddish Book Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing
Yiddish and other modern Jewish literature and celebrating the culture
they contain. Programming at the National Yiddish Book Center is a
project of the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center for Jewish Culture. For
more information, call (413) 256-4900, email</font><font
face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#FF9900"><u>
yiddish@bikher.org</u></font><font face="Verdana" size="-1"
color="#000000">, or visit our website at</font><font face="Verdana"
size="-1" color="#FF9900"><u>
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org</u></font><font face="Verdana"
size="-1" color="#000000">.<br>
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Lise A. Shapiro Sanders, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies<br>
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies<br>
ASH 103 - Mail Code 'CS'<br>
Hampshire College<br>
893 West Street<br>
Amherst, MA 01002-3359<br>
tel: 413 559 5650<br>
fax: 413 559 5438<br>
email: lsanders@hampshire.edu</div>
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