3 May 89 JUDAIC STUDIES #14 29 Nisan 49 BS"D Connecting geographically & otherwise disparate groups with a common interest in the study of Judaica. Edited by Y. Greenbaum CONTENTS 1) Events 2) Qumran 3) Hebrew Teaching 4) Typography 5) Opportunity 1) Events Israel Association for Canadian Students Annual Conference (in part) Beit Meiersdorf (hotel on Mount Scopus) 7 May 11:30-12:30 Anti-Semitism in Canada:Myth and Reality Cyril Levitt 14:00-15:30 "Status Indian" Income in Northwest British Columbia Boaz Tsair Development and Communication in Israel: A Conceptual Framework Dov Shiner 16:00-17:30 Some Experiments in Labor Dispute Settlement in the Public Sector in Canada Arthur Kruger Labor Disputes in the Public Sector in Israel: Their Causes and Settlements Avraham Friedman 17:30-18:00 Reading of Irving Leyton's Poetry New York University The Annual Skirball Conference sponsered by the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in cooperation with the Jewish Publication Society The JPS Torah Commentary: "Each Generation and Its Interpreters" 7 May 14:00 John Ben Snow Room, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library 70 Washington Square South, New York City Opening Remarks Robert Chazan, Chairman of Dept Greetings C. Duncan Rice, Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sci on behalf of NYU Jerome J. Shestack, Chairman, JPS Torah Commentary Project on behalf of the JPS I. The Evolution of the JPS Torah Commentary Nahum M. Sarna Dora Golding Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies, Brandeis U General Editor, JPS Torah Commentary "The JPS Torah Commentary: The Continuity of Tradition" Chaim Potok Chairman, JPS Publishing Committee; Literary Editor, JPS Torah Commentary "Quandaries and Quagmires: Editing a Post-Modern Torah Commentary" II Absorbing Themes in Torah Literature Jacob Milgrom Professor of Hebrew and Bible, Department of Near Eastern Studies, U of California at Berkeley "Aliens in Your Midst: The Biblical *ger*" Jeffrey H. Tigay Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Lits, Department of Oriental studies, U of Pennsylvania "Structure and Reality: Challenges of Interpreting Deuteronomy" Baruch A. Levine Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU "The Peaceful Possession of the Land of Israel: A Priestly Vision" RSVP: (212) 998-8980 The RSVP number is a little late now, but the fact that this event came to my attention at all was a direct result of my being in NY and meeting with Prof. Larry Schiffman. 11 May 14:00-19:00 The Institute for Advanced Studies Givat Ram Room 130 Bible and Commentary: Day in Memory of Ephraim Talmadge Opening Remarks: Prof. Moshe Greenberg What Must Biblical Commentary Provide, and to Whom? Prof. Michael Fishbein Were the Matter Not Written Prof. Moshe Idel Black Fire Upon White Fire: Between Medrash and Kabalah Intermission: Light Refreshments Prof. Isaac Twersky The Influence of R' Abraham Ibn Ezra on Maimonides Prof. Uriel Simone Supercommentaries on Ibn Ezra's Commentary: The Commentator who Became the Subject of Commentaries Prof. Mark Saperstein Typological Commentary After Nahmanides 11 May 20:00 Van Leer Institute 43 Jabotinsky Zalman Shazar Center Historian's Group Samuel Ettinger Guest Lecture Western Jews, Eastern Jews: European Jewry and the Emergence of a Jewish Eastern Question in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century Prof. Aron Rodrigue Chair: Prof. Michael Graetz 2) Qumran Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 17:31:02 CDT From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Qumran scrolls online? Have any of the Qumran Scrolls been put into machine-readable form? I am thinking specifically of the Great Isaiah Scroll. 3) Hebrew Teaching For Immediate Release Re: MILIM, Hebrew Vocabulary Drill From: University of Minnesota, Professor Tzvee Zahavy, Project Director Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies 178 Klaeber Court, Minneapolis, MN 55455 MILIM ("words" in Hebrew) is a user-friendly Hebrew language drill program based on newly developed and tested advanced concepts in language acquisition education. With MILIM the teacher easily prepares and transfers specified drills to a student's disk. The MILIM drill then tests the student on the words the teacher has selected, keeping track of results and recording every word that the student tries along with the student's spelling and response time. The teacher can use MILIM to retrieve results from student exercises and to print full reports of progress with data about each drill, or in summary form with less detail. The teacher also can generate a drill summary for all students in a class to show the totals for each of the drills. The program includes a drill manager that allows the teacher to modify parameters of a student's drill (e.g. time allowed, number of repititions), to add, edit, or delete words in the master vocabulary list, or to create and delete student drills. The setup-install module allows the teacher control over many aspects of the program including the option to change colors throughout the program, to insert positive and negative feedback for the students, to make new keyboard layouts and key assignments, or the directions of the language (right-left, left-right) and language names. With this module MILIM can be modified for use according to the needs of different teachers and even can be adapted for teaching other foreign languages (e.g. Aramaic, French, Russian). The program can make use of any character set designed with the Duke Language Toolkit. MILIM is accordingly a M_ulti I_nternational L_anguage I_nstruction M_odule. MILIM comes packaged with a master vocabulary list of over 1500 entries based on standard expectations for first and second year college Hebrew language courses. MILIM runs on any IBM PC, AT, or PS/2 equipped with an EGA adaptor and EGA monitor, or VGA monitor. MILIM reports may be printed on an IBM Proprinter. A CGA version of the program is planned. MILIM ($75.00) may be ordered from Gamma Productions, 710 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401. Also available now is MILIM-Windows, a Microsoft Windows (w/mouse) version of the program ($75.00), which may be ordered from Wisc-Ware at the University of Wisconsin, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706. 4) Typography Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 22:10:04 pdt From: well!ari@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ari Davidow) Also, your readers may be interested in the current exhibit at the JP Morgan Library in New York--an outstanding selection from the Valmadonna collection of Hebrew manuscripts. The catalog is available from the Morgan for $15.95 + $3 shipping, and will be of much interest to anyone interested in Hebrew typography. It contains a brief, albeit thorough, history of Hebrew typography--focusing, of course, on the 15th and 16th centuries, and dozens of exquisite plates, including information on the manuscripts, where they were produced, historic relevance, etc. There are also several useful appendices and a thorough bibliography. The address for the Pierpoint Morgan Library is: 29 E. 36th St., New York, NY 10016 5) Opportunity Date: Tue, 2 May 89 15:21 EST From: Ron Kiener EMPLOYMENT The Department of Religion, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA, is seeking to appoint a visiting scholar in Judaic Studies, preferably a scholar (junior or senior) in Modern Jewish Studies or Rabbinics, for the Spring 1990 semester (approximately January 15, 1990-June 1, 1990), as a sabbatical replacement. Course load is 2-3 undergraduate courses. Approximate salary is $16,000. We would welcome applications from Israeli scholars. Hartford is located 2 hours by car from Boston and New York. Please contact Prof. Ron Kiener Trinity College Department of Religion 70 Vernon Street Hartford, CT 06106 or BITNET RKIENER@TRINCC