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--and that will be in
this auditorium 11 weeks

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from tonight.

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February 4th.

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We will have a new schedule of
readings for the new semester.

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If you're not on our mailing
list and would like to be,

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please see me at the reception
following tonight's reading.

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And that reception will
be at the Terrace Lounge

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in the Student Union.

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If you haven't been
over there, it's

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the most inaccessible
room in the Union.

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It's on the second floor
as far as you can go.

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It's always a
great pleasure when

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University departments
and community groups

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can work together, and
I'm happy to announce

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that tonight's
reading is sponsored

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not only by the Poetry Center,
but by Hebrew Studies, B'nai

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B'rith Hillel Foundation,
the Tucson Jewish Community

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Council, and I would like to
introduce to you Rabbi Morton

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Levine of Hillel Foundation.

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Thank you, Lois.

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The B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation,

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along with our affiliated
group, the Students Concern

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for Israel, is very happy
to co-sponsor the appearance

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of Yehuda Amichai this evening.

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We do this as part
of our attempts

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at providing programming
and activities

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that present both Jewish and
Israeli culture to the campus

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community.

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Yehuda Amichai, who's
our guest this evening,

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was born in Germany.

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He moved to Palestine-- what
was then Palestine-- in 1936.

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He lives in Jerusalem, where in
addition to his writing poetry

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or as he says he writes
poetry in addition

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to his other
activities, he teaches

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literature and creative writing
at the Hebrew University.

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He has published nine
collections of poetry

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that have been translated
in English, some of which

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are available in the lobby.

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His most recent are the
books, Amen and Time.

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I'd like to present for you this
evening, Mr. Yehuda Amichai.

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