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William Cutter

William Cutter has been Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion since 1965 and is currently Steinberg Emeritus Professor of Human Relations. He has published more than 150 articles and essays on literature, health and healing, and Jewish education. He has edited or served on the editorial committee for more than 40 books, most recently "Healing and the Jewish Imagination: Spiritual" and "Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health." He is editor of "Festschrift: History and Literature," essays in honor of Arnold Band, and the editor of "The Mourner's Handbook." He is academic chairman for the Association of Reform Zionists (ARZA).

Yehuda Amichai's Romance With Ecclesiastes

Text and Thought

This session will look at the words of the ancient wise man embedded in some of modern poetry's most brilliant work using some translations by Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch, and others by the presenter.

Poems of Healing Even in the Face of Death

Arts and Performance, Text and Thought

Some of our most interesting poems are written in the face of the deepest personal struggles. This session will include a few poems in English by Sharon Olds and John Updike, but most will be by poets of the modern Hebrew renaissance -- T. Carmi, Abba Kovner, Zelda and Yona Wolloch -- who faced their greatest struggles by drawing on their linguistic genius. The session will be conducted in English, and there will be translations by the presenter of the poets' original Hebrew texts.

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