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Male Eating Disorders: A Real Thing
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Religion at the End of The Big C
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Explore the breadth of modern Yiddish literature from European classics to American masterpieces with Samuel Spinner, the Ross Visiting Professor of Yiddish at UCLA. Discussion will be based on English translations of works by Chaim Grade, I.B. Singer, Sholem Asch, Lamed Shapiro, I.L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem. Details at www.cjs.ucla.edu. Free.
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