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10/25/04

NOVELIST, EDITOR & CRITIC STAVANS TO GIVE SLU LECTURE

CANTON – Novelist, editor and critic Ilan Stavans will give the 2004 Rabbi Seymour 
Siegel Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University, on "The Scroll and the Cross: 
The Tortured Path of Latino-Jewish Relations," on Wednesday, November 10, at 7 p.m. 
in Herring-Cole. The event, followed by a reception, is open to the public, free 
of charge.
	Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture 
at Amherst College, is the author of The Hispanic Condition, The Riddle of 
Cantinflas, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language and The One-Handed Pianist and 
Other Stories, as well as the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories, The 
Oxford Book of Latin American Essays, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature and 
a dictionary of "Spanglish," among other volumes. He has been a National Book 
Critics Circle Award nominee and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 
Latino Literature Prize, among other honors. 
	A graduate of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico, Stavans holds 
a master's degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and an M.A., M. Phil. and 
Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was also the host of an interview series on 
public television, "Conversations with Ilan Stavans."
	Rabbi Siegel was a noted Conservative Jewish author and scholar. His 
family donated his papers to St. Lawrence University's Owen D. Young Library 
and created an endowment for an annual lecture on campus in his memory.

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