On Thursday, Nov. 6, Mikhail Iampolski will present “The Invention of Franz Kafka: Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt’s Response to Anti-Semitism†at 7 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 6.
The lecture is the second in a yearlong series on anti-Semitism sponsored by the Bronfman Advisory Committee-Wiener Lecture Fund, the Gaudino Fund, and the Jewish Studies Program.
Iampolski is an associate professor of comparative literature at New York University. He specializes in Russian and Slavic studies, with an emphasis on the theory of visual representation.
His most recent publication, “The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film,†examines films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein and Luis Bunuel. His other works include “Visible World†(1993), “Daemon and Labyrinth†(1996), and “Amnesia as a Source†(1997).
He received his B.A. in 1971 from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, and then went on to earn his Ph.D. in 1977 from the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
The next speaker in the series, William G. Dever, will present a lecture, “The Age of Solomon: Biblical Revisionism, Archaeology, and Anti-Semitism†on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in Biology 112. Dever’s talk will play off his years of experience as an archaeologist in Israel and Jordan, where he did fieldwork at Gezer, Beth-shan Valley, and sites on the West Bank.
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Friday Front Porch Feature: A Lenox Farmhouse
By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
LENOX, Mass. — Are you looking for a single family New England farmhouse? Then this is the house for you.
Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing 500 Walker St.
This three-bedroom and two-bath home was built in 1910 and is 1,720 square feet on less than an acre.
The house features brick and wide-board pine floors, an updated kitchen with all major appliances, a first-floor office/bedroom with three-quarter bath, three bedrooms and full bath upstairs, and a bluestone patio and retaining wall installed in 2022.
It has natural gas heat and hot water, and includes a detached garage.
The house is on the market for $449,000 and is listed by Matt Carlino with MACCARO Real Estate.
You can find out more about this house on its listing here.
*Front Porch Feature brings you an exclusive to some of the houses listed on our real estate page every week. Here we take a bit of a deeper dive into a certain house for sale and ask questions so you don't have to.
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