From ditomml@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Mon Jun 25 13:48:24 2001 Delivered-To: jewstudies@shamash.org Received: (qmail 3243 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2001 17:48:23 -0000 Received: from mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (130.113.64.66) by shamash.org with SMTP; 25 Jun 2001 17:48:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (ditomml@localhost) by mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca with ESMTP id NAA17230 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:46:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:46:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: "The Jewish Studies Newsletter" Subject: REVIEW: Stolberg on Kuchenbecker, _Zionismus ohne Zion_ Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: ditomml@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Sender: owner-jewstudies@shamash.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * BOOK * REVIEW Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Third Series, Number 009 for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Antje Kuchenbecker. _Zionismus ohne Zion. Birobidzan: Idee und Geschichte eines juedischen Staates in Sowjetisch-Fernost_. Dokumente - Texte - Materialien, herausgegeben vom Zentrum fuer Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universitaet Berlin, 32. Berlin: Metropol, 2000. 272 S. DM 38,00 (taschenbuch), ISBN 3-932482-20-4. Reviewed by Eva-Maria Stolberg , Seminar fuer Osteuropaeische Geschichte, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet Bonn [This review was previously published in H-Soz-u-Kult -- LDT] Die vorliegende Dissertation, erschienen in der renommierten Reihe des Berliner Zentrums fuer Antisemitismusforschung, widmet sich der in der deutschen Historiographie kaum bekannten Geschichte der Juedischen Autonomen Provinz (Evrejskaja avtonomnaja oblast' = EAO) im Russischen Fernen Osten, nahe der chinesischen Grenze. Im Unterschied zur anglo-amerikanischen Forschung fristet die oestliche Peripherie der ehemaligen Sowjetunion hierzulande ein kuemmerliches Schattendasein. Dabei hat sich das konflikttraechtige Verhaeltnis von Sowjetkultur und Autoemanzipation nationaler Einzelkulturen (wie z.B. der juedischen) gerade an der Peripherie entladen. Kuchenbecker knuepft an die Vorarbeiten von Chimen Abramsky und Robert Weinberg an. [1] Eingeflossen in die Studie sind Dokumente aus dem Staatsarchiv der Russlaendischen Foederation (GARF), des ehemaligen Parteiarchivs der KPdSU (RCChIDNI), des Regionalarchivs in Birobidzan sowie aus den Central Zionist Archives und Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (beide Jerusalem). Die Frage nach einer kulturellen Autonomie fuer Juden kam in Russland erstmals mit dem aufgeklaerten Absolutismus auf und verzeichnete eine wechselvolle Geschichte. Die Politik Katharinas II. zielte auf die "Nutzbarmachung" der Juden durch "Erziehung" und "Anpassung". Dieses Konzept entsprach weniger einer kulturellen Entfaltung des Judentums, sondern eher einer "Einhegung". Das Jahr 1791 sah die Geburt des "juedischen Ansiedlungsrayons". In diesem "Reservat", das sich vor allem ueber die Ukraine und Weissrussland erstreckte, lebte mehr als die Haelfte der Juden der Welt und 94% der russischen. Sie fristeten ihr Dasein oft in Armut als Luftmenschen - umherziehende Haendler und Handwerker. Diese einseitige wirtschaftliche Funktion und das Leben in einem Reservat gab schon frueh antisemitischen Klischees unter den Russen Auftrieb, so z.B. Juden wuerden harte Arbeit (wie in der Landwirtschaft) scheuen, seien faul und profitgierig. Das von dem Konvertiten Jakov Brafman 1869 veroeffentlichte "Buch von Kahal" unterstellte den Juden, sie wuerden einen "Staat im Staate" bilden. Es ist bezeichnend, dass Fiktionen von der "Nutzbarmachung" des Juden und Wahnvorstellungen von der juedischen Verschwoerung gegen den russischen Staat in der Sowjetzeit ueberlebten. Der Antisemitismus in der Zaren- wie Sowjetzeit richtete sich dabei sowohl gegen assimilierte als auch nichtassimilierte Juden. [2] Kapitel 1 und 2 behandeln allgemeine Aspekte der Einbindung juedischer Kultur in das Sowjetsystem nach der Oktoberrevolution. Nur in diesem Kontext werden die Siedlungsprojekte der zwanziger Jahre auf der Krim und in Birobidzan verstaendlich. Das Konzept einer "juedischen Nation" wurde erstmals in dem Jahrzehnt zwischen der Russischen Revolution von 1905 und dem Ersten Weltkrieg vom "Bund", einer juedischen Arbeitervereinigung und der mitgliederstaerksten Gruppierung der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei Russlands (SDAPR), artikuliert. Es war die Antwort auf den "buergerlichen Zionismus". Anstelle eines zionistischen Palaestina machten sich die Bundisten fuer eine sozialistische Heimstaette auf russischem Territorium stark. Von Anfang an stand der "Bund" Lenin und den Bol'seviki im Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in der Partei im Wege. Lenin lehnte das Foederalismusprinzip fuer die russische Sozialdemokratie ab. [3] Schon 1903 hatte Lenin gegen den Bund polemisiert: "Die wissenschaftlich voellig unhaltbare Idee eines besonderen juedischen Volkes ist ihrer Bedeutung nach reaktionaer. (...) Die Idee der juedischen Nation widerspricht den Interessen des juedischen Proletariats, da sie in ihm unmittelbar eine der Assimilation feindliche Stimmung, eine "Ghetto"-Stimmung erzeugt." [4] Lenin wie auch Stalin waren der Ansicht, dass sich eine Bevoelkerungsgruppe wie die Juden ohne eigenes Territorium unter den Bedingungen des Sozialismus schnell assimilieren wuerden. Dabei knuepften sie - wie Kuchenbecker nachweist - an Marx und Kautsky an, die ebenfalls vom "Verschwinden" des Judentums gesprochen hatten (S.41). Nach Marx war die juedische Nationalitaet "chimaerisch" (ebenda.). Das Judentum war keineswegs chimaerisch, wie die Bol'seviki nach der Oktoberrevolution einsehen mussten. Der Buergerkrieg (1918-1920) und die sozialistische Wirtschaftspolitik entzog gerade dem juedischen Unternehmer und Handwerker die Lebensgrundlage. Die sowjetische Regierung sah sich einem juedischen Massenelend gegenueber. Siebzig bis achtzig Prozent der Juden in den shtetln verfuegten ueber kein regelmaessiges Einkommen. [5] Fuer die Bol'seviki galt es also in erster Linie nicht ein nationales, sondern ein soziales Problem zu loesen. Da die Bol'seviki dem Aufbau einer proletarischen Industriegesellschaft verpflichtet waren, erscheint ihr "Produktivierungsprogramm", Juden in der Landwirtschaft zu beschaeftigen, als rueckwaertsorientiert (S.69). 1924/1925 wurden von der sowjetischen Regierung zwei Organisationen (KOMZET, OZET) zur Landansiedlung gegruendet. Kapitel 3 ist dem Siedlungsprojekt auf der Krim gewidmet. KOMZET plante in den Jahren 1926 und 1927 560.000 Menschen dort anzusiedeln. Aehnlich wie spaeter Birobidzan war das Krimprojekt am Reissbrett in Moskau entstanden - ohne Ruecksicht auf lokale Gegebenheiten und typisches Beispiel fuer sowjetischen Voluntarismus. Fuer die Etablierung einer jiddischen Kultur fehlte das sprachkundige Personal. Verwaltungssprache blieb das Russische. Letztendlich scheiterte das Krim-Projekt am Widerstand der Krimtataren und der ukrainischen Bauern, die in den Juden Eindringlinge sahen. Ein typischer Vorwurf lautete, "die 'verjudete' Sowjetregierung bevorzuge ihresgleichen und habe fuer die juedische Kolonisation das Sahnestueck, die Krim, ausgesucht; russische und ukrainische Bauern schicke sie dagegen in das unwirtliche Sibirien" (S.112.) Das war zugleich ein Seitenhieb der einheimischen Bevoelkerung gegen die unbeliebte Kollektivierung. Ukrainer und Tataren ueberfielen juedische Siedlungen und vernichteten die Ernte. Angesichts dieses Nationalitaetenkonfliktes verbannte die sowjetische Regierung nach einem Dekret vom 28. Maerz 1928 die Idee einer "juedischen Autonomie" in den Russischen Fernen Osten. Nationalitaetenkonflikte wurden im Stalinismus bekanntlich durch Umsiedlungen "geloest". Kapitel 4 und 5 behandeln schliesslich "Aufstieg und Fall" der Juedischen Autonomen Provinz Birobidzan. Nach Vorstellungen der sowjetischen Regierung sollte mitten in der Taiga die "Heimstaette der juedischen Proletarier aller Laender" entstehen. Von einer Alternative zu Palaestina konnte nie die Rede sein. [6] Im Gegensatz zur Krim waren keinerlei organisatorische Vorkehrungen getroffen worden. Kredite wurden versprochen, loesten sich vor Ort jedoch in Luft auf. Die Mehrheit der sowjetischen Juden erkannte, dass es sich bei Birobidzan um ein propagandistisches Luftschloss handelte. So wanderten zwischen 1928 und 1933 gerade einmal 19 675 Juden nach Birobidzan aus. Die Rueckkehrrate betrug 60 Prozent. Es blieben die Mittellosen - Kranke, Alte, Prostituierte - zurueck. Die OZET und KOMZET-Funktionaere berichteten nach Moskau, dass den Siedlern Pioniergeist und Durchhaltevermoegen fehle. Die anvisierte Industrialisierung im Zuge des Ersten Fuenfjahrplanes blieb Utopie. Man begann nun in grossem Massstab nichtjuedische Facharbeiter aus Russland und der Ukraine fuer das "Juedische Autonome Gebiet" anzuwerben. Auf diesem Wege wurde die Region russifiziert. 1934 berichtete die lokale Presse, in Birobidzan seien eine Moebel-, eine Kofferfabrik und mehrere Saegewerke entstanden. Wie Kuchenbecker nachweist, hatte Birobidzan eine aussenpolitische Propagandafunktion zu erfuellen. Die Sowjetunion wollte sich in der Weltoeffentlichkeit als Antipode des Dritten Reiches darstellen. In den USA mahnte 1936 die "Jewish Times", man solle Birobidzan nicht als "rote Propaganda" abtun, "sondern die grosse Chance sehen, die sich den osteuropaeischen und deutschen Juden biete" (S.165). Wie die juedische Oeffentlichkeit in den USA auf das Birobidzan-Projekt reagiert hat, darueber schweigt sich die Verfasserin leider aus. Hier haette amerikanisches Archivmaterial herangezogen werden muessen. Ebenso verfolgt Kuchenbecker eine weitere, durchaus interessante Linie nicht, die zur deutschen GEZERD (Gesellschaft zur Foerderung des juedischen Siedlungswerkes in der UdSSR) fuehrt. Mit Sicherheit war diese Organisation kommunistisch orientiert. Wie sie im Dritten Reich wirken konnte, waere eine Frage fuer weitere Forschungen. Ueberhaupt benutzte die sowjetische Regierung juedische Organisationen im Ausland, um fuer den Kommunismus zu werben. Nur wenige Juden aus Deutschland und Ostmitteleuropa wanderten nach Birobidzan aus. Zu unbekannt war die Region. Die meisten Juden zogen die USA, Grossbritannien, Frankreich und Argentinien vor. Zum Teil schreckte die sowjetische Propaganda auch Migranten ab, indem sie verkuendete, man wolle keine "ehemaligen Gutsherren (!) und Mitglieder bourgeoiser Parteien" aufnehmen (S.173). Das war der Auftakt zu dem, was in den naechsten Jahren kommen sollte. In den Jahren 1936-1938 erfassten die "Saeuberungen" auch Birobidzan. Repraesentanten des Juedischen Autonomen Gebietes wurden als "deutsch-japanische Spione" verhaftet. Auch nach Stalins Tod - waehrend Chrushevs "Tauwetter" - setzten sich die antisemitischen Tiraden fort. Die juedischen Funktionaere galten nun als "Agenten des amerikanischen Zionismus" (S.203). 1958 gab Chrushev in einem Interview mit "Le Figaro" offiziell das Scheitern Birobidzans zu: "Wir gaben den Juden Birobidzan. Das ist ein beachtenswertes Geschenk. (...) Die Juden zogen voll Enthusiasmus hin, aber nur sehr wenige sind geblieben (...) Warum sie zurueckgegangen sind? Sie sind Individualisten, ihnen liegen mehr die kuenstlerischen Berufe, Schneider, Glasblaeser (...), Haendler, Apotheker usw., man findet sie nicht in Massenberufen. (...) Sie moegen die Arbeit im Kollektiv nicht." [7] Der Antisemitismus war der soziale Kitt fuer die sowjetische Nachkriegsgesellschaft. Auch in den letzten Jahren der Sowjetunion erwies sich das Autonome Juedische Gebiet Birobidzan als ein "Fremdkoerper" im Russischen Fernen Osten. Nach der Aufloesung der Sowjetunion wurde in Birobidzan nicht mehr Jiddisch, sondern Hebraeisch unterrichtet, denn die meisten juedischen Birobidzaner wandern nach Israel aus. Kuchenbecker ist es in ueberzeugender Weise gelungen, den im Marxschen Sinne "chimaerischen" Charakter Birobidzans aufzuzeigen. Birobidzan war ein fuer den juedischen "Luftmenschen" gebautes "Luftschloss", das im uebrigen auch im heutigen postsowjetischen Russland existiert. Im wesentlichen hat die Autorin eine politisch-institutionelle Geschichte geliefert. Die Lebenswelt der juedischen Birobidzaner unter dem Aspekt moderner Migrationssoziologie wird dagegen nicht dargelegt. Die Interviews, die Kuchenbecker im Vorwort erwaehnt, sind in die Darstellung kaum eingeflossen. Anmerkungen [1]. Chimen Abramsky: The Biro-Bidzhan Project, 1927-1959, in: Lionel Kochan (Ed.): _The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917_, London 1972, S.62-72; Robert Weinberg: Stalin's Forgotten Israel: Birobidzhan experiences Jewish Cultural Renaissance, in: _East European Jewish Affairs_, no. 2, 1992, S.39-45; ders.: Purge and Politics in the Peripherie: Birobidzhan in 1937, in: Slavic Review, no. 1, 1993, S.13-27.; ders.: Jews into Peasants? Solving the Jewish Question in Birobidzhan, in: Yaacov Ro'I (Ed.): _Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union_, Ilford/Portland 1995, S.87-102. [2]. Zur Geschichte des Judentums im Zarenreich siehe Heinz-Dietrich Loewe: _Antisemitismus und reaktionaere Utopie. Russischer Konservatismus im Kampf gegen den Wandel von Staat und Gesellschaft 1870-1917_, Hamburg 1989; Manfred Hildermeier: Die rechtliche Lage der juedischen Bevoelkerung im Zarenreich und in Polen. Einige vergleichende Aspekte, in: Gotthold Rhode (Hrsg.): _Juden in Ostmitteleuropa. Von der Emanzipation bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg_, Marburg 1989, S.181-196. [3]. Klaus Heller: _Revolutionaerer Sozialismus und nationale Frage. Das Problem des Nationalismus bei russischen und juedischen Sozialdemokraten und Sozialrevolutionaeren im Russischen Reich bis zur Revolution von 1905-1907_, Frankfurt a.M. 1977, S. 32-56. [4] Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin: Die Stellung des "Bund" in der Partei, in: ders.: _Werke_, Band 7 Berlin (DDR) 1956, S.82-93. [5]. Matthias Vetter: _Antisemiten und Bolschewiki. Zum Verhaeltnis von Sowjetsystem und Judenfeindschaft 1917-1939_, Berlin 1995, S.25ff. [6]. Eva-Maria Stolberg: Birobidzan: Nesbyvsajasja meta ob evrejskoj rodine [Birobidzan: Der unverwirklichte Traum einer juedischen Heimat], in: _Diaspory_ [Diaspora], Nr. 1, 1999, S. 144-158. [7]. Francois Fejtoe: _Les Juifs et L'Antisemitisme dans les Pays Communistes_, Paris 1960, S.124f. ------------------------------------------------------------------- THE JEWISH STUDIES BOOK REVIEW Review Editor: Lorenzo DiTommaso (McMaster University, Canada) Reviews are copyright (c) by H-Net, all rights reserved. This review may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list. For other permission, please contact the book review editor. Previous book reviews may be found on the web at the H-JUDAIC home page: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~judaic/ Books for review should be sent to Lorenzo DiTommaso, H-Judaic Book Review Editor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1. 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Authors are strongly advised to check their diskettes for viruses before submitting them to the editors. ---------- From: roumani@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Subject: HOLOCAUST AND ITS IMPACT ON NORTH AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN JEWRY CALL FOR PAPERS The Holocaust is usually associated with European Jewry. The suffering of other Jewish communities, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa, at the hands of the Germans or their proxies was minimal compared to what occurred in Europe. Nevertheless, Germanys penetration into the Middle East and North Africa did not spare the Jewish communities with whom they came in contact. The fact that the success of the Germans was only partially realized was due to the turn of events at the battle of El-Alamein and the subsequent defeat of the German forces in North Africa. THE J.R. ELYACHAR CENTER FOR SEPHARDI STUDIES AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSTY OF THE NEGEV plans to hold an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on the HOLOCAUST AND ITS IMPACT ON NORTH AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN JEWRY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. The conference will be held in Beer-Sheva on Wednesday and Thursday, March 13 and 14, 2002. This is the first international conference to look into how these communities were affected by the Holocaust and to enable their stories to be told. The conference welcomes proposals on all communities where Jews were subjected to Nazi occupation, persecution, internment in camps and forced labor. Scholars are urged to present any documents and/or stories of survivors of the period between 1941 and 1945. Deadline for submission of abstract of papers (preferably by e-mail) is October 31, 2001. Papers submitted at the conference will be considered for publication in a volume on the subject. For information contact: Dr. Maurice M. Roumani Director, Elyachar Center for Sephardi Studies Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva telephone: +972-8-6461-134 fax: +972-8-6472-914 e-mail: roumani@bgumail.bgu.ac.il ---------- From: JMKugelmass@aol.com Subject: AFTERMATH: European Jewry Immediately After the Shoah AFTERMATH: An International Conference on European Jewry Immediately After the Shoah February 10-11, 2002 Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University More than fifty years after the end of World War II nothing seems as firmly ensconced in the public culture of American, and world Jewry, than the Shoah. Yet our knowledge of events before, during and afterwards are very much conditioned by what scholars have come to see as the master narrative of Catastrophe and Redemption. The latter refers to the birth of Israel. But it might also signify the emigration of survivors and their subsequent success in rebuilding lives and making their mark on the culture of North American Jewry. So intertwined is the notion of Redemption with emigration that very little interest is ever exhibited in European Jewish life after the Shoah. The reemergence of a German Jewish community is seen as an utter anomaly, making it, therefore, an object of only recent curiosity; outside of academia few would realize the strength of the French Jewish community; and outside of historians of East European Jewry, very few people know of the size and cultural vitality of Hungarian, Polish and Russian Jewry certainly during the first decade after the war. Even within academia, modern European Jewish history generally refers to the period from Emancipation until World War II. Rarely do Jewish Studies programs support positions for European historians who cover the period after World War II. Redemption as the hopeful conclusion to this very bitter tale-tied so much to abandonment of Europe by the remnants of its Jewry-blinds us to the fact that a large segment of European Jewry did not leave Europe. Indeed, many sought, at least for a time, to rebuild their shattered communities. Many survivors felt an obligation to the dead and the need to protect the physical remnants of Jewish communal life including ruined synagogues and desolate cemeteries. Many believed that communal life could be rebuilt and particularly so because the end of Hitler and the discrediting of Nazism spelled to many the end of totalitarianism. Even in the East Stalin's rule had modified during the war. And there were those who had been persecuted not just as Jews but because of their political beliefs. Some of them believed that the new Europe emerging from the ruins had learned a great deal because of the hatred that ruled for twelve years and would now find a way to free itself of the bitter conflicts that preceded it. Wherever Jewish communal life resumed, evidence of the bitterness of the occupation stood before people. Dutch Jewry had been as totally destroyed as Polish Jewry; German Jewry that did survive did so in exile; French and Italian Jewry faced the reality that deportation of fellow Jews took place through the active collaboration of French or Italian citizens. How did Jews who chose to remain in Europe respond to all this? How did they put the past behind them if only for the sake of resuming a semblance of normal existence? How did they respond to fellow citizens whom they suspected or knew had collaborated? What claims did they make for justice or retribution? And how did they deal with the fact that even physical property was difficult if not impossible to reclaim? Questions such as these will be addressed at a two day international conference, February 10--11, 2002, hosted by the Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University. Eighteen participants from various universities throughout North America, Europe and Israel will be selected based upon a general call for proposals and the submission of formal abstracts. The papers will subsequently be published as a separate volume. The conference seeks to examine not only the social situation of European Jewry immediately after the Shoah, but also the responses to European Jewry on the part of the world Jewish community. Relief work was particularly significant in enabling European Jewry to survive but equally important for us were the activities of scholars, literati and artists in the form of studies, press reports, travelogues, film and novels. At the same time, the conference seeks papers that examine the first reflections on the Shoah by Jewish thinkers both secular and religious. Clearly, the aftermath of the Shoah was a period of flux not only for the remnants of European Jewry. World Jewry as well, had to come to terms with the loss of the source of a great deal of Jewish cultural vitality. And it now had to begin struggling with the meaning of the Shoah for Judaism itself. AFTERMATH will be held February 10-11, 2002 on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The city is part of Greater Phoenix and is very close to Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport. Accommodations are at the Tempe Marriott Courtyard on Ash Avenue. The hotel is in downtown Tempe, a block from Mill Avenue's shops and restaurants and walking distance to the university's Memorial Union where conference sessions will be held. Hotel and airfare for accepted presenters are provided by ASU's Jewish Studies Program. Conference presentations are twenty minutes in length. Publishable versions of papers are due August 2002 and should be between twenty and thirty pages double spaced including notes and references. The edited volume will be published by a major academic press. Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be submitted together with a short c.v. by October 1, 2001 to: Jack Kugelmass, Director, Jewish Studies Program, Rm 649c Language and Literature Bldg University Avenue and College Drive Main Campus, Arizona State University, PO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Tel.480 965-8094 Prospective participants are advised to discuss proposals in advance with the conference organizer: via email: JMKugelmass@aol.com by telephone: 480 965-8094. ---------- ____________________________________________________________________ H-JUDAIC DIGEST MODERATORS : Faydra Shapiro Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt JEWISH STUDIES ON-LINE EDITORIAL BOARD: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Aviva Ben-Ur, Marsha Cohen, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Charles David Isbell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Peter Margolis, Barry Mesch, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Jewish Studies Newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network, an affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org. H-JUDAIC is affiliated with the HEBREW COLLEGE OF BOSTON . This important service to the worldwide Jewish scholarly community is made possible by our members' generous contributions. Please mail your gift to H-Judaic at Hebrew College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline MA, USA, 02446. Thank you! H-JUDAIC welcomes recently-published scholarly books on topics in Judaism from the ancient world to the modern. Please send books for potential review to: Lorenzo DiTommaso, H-Judaic Book Review Editor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario CANADA, L8S 4K1. ____________________________________________________________________ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, offering online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------= From hjnews@oise.utoronto.ca Tue Jun 26 13:07:26 2001 Delivered-To: jewstudies@shamash.org Received: (qmail 7737 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2001 17:07:26 -0000 Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (142.150.96.236) by shamash.org with SMTP; 26 Jun 2001 17:07:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (hjnews@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5QH5tC15130 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:05:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:05:55 -0400 (EDT) From: HJ Newsletter Ed To: "The Jewish Studies Newsletter" Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter (Resources) 11.003p3 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: hjnews@oise.utoronto.ca Sender: owner-jewstudies@shamash.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 11.003p3 * March 16, 2001 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Resources: - LABOR & THE HOLOCAUST: The Jewish Labor Movement & the Anti-Nazi Struggle - European Association for Jewish Culture Established - Daniel Elazar On-Line Library - MATERIA GIUDAICA: A new Italian review on Judaism ---------- From: AriehNYC@prodigy.net Subject: LABOR AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Jewish Labor Movement and the Anti-Nazi Struggle Dear Colleagues: The following is a basic description of the website entitled "LABOR AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Jewish Labor Movement and the Anti-Nazi Struggle." The text below comes from the introduction section of the website. "This exhibit presents a portfolio of a hundred photographs and documents from the JLC Collection. The text has been adapted from an article by JLC archivist Gail Malmgreen, originally published in Labor's Heritage (October 1991). The exhibit's seven pictorial sections take the viewer on a chronological journey, from the origins of the JLC, through its anti-Nazi activity of the 1930s, to early rescue efforts and wartime assistance to the anti-Nazi Underground, and then examines three aspects of postwar aid and reconstruction. A final section offers a bibliography of resources for further study." Please note that although not indicated, it is best to move forward and back after finishing reading the text of any section by using the "previous< >next" buttons at the bottom of virtually every page of this web site. Each section can be accessed via the row of boxes at top and bottom of each section except the "opener" page. The [admittedly long] website address is: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/JLC/opener.html Arieh Lebowitz Communications Director Jewish Labor Committee ---------- From: AriehNYC@prodigy.net Subject: European Association for Jewish Culture Established Foundation created to support Jewish cultural projects in Europe By Richard Allen Greene LONDON, May 30 (JTA) A $1 million foundation, the European Association for Jewish Culture, has been established to inject creativity into Jewish life across the continent. A joint project of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London and the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris, the foundation aims to provide a total of $200,000 a year in grants to artists from more than 25 countries across Europe. While the association may run some workshops and conferences, its main purpose is to disburse grants of roughly $5,000 apiece to creative individuals in the visual or performing arts, Lena Stanley-Clamp, director of the association's London office, told JTA. The foundation is supported by a grant from the European Union's Culture 2000 program and a charitable foundation based in Europe that has chosen to remain anonymous. entire article at: http://www.jta.org/story.asp?story=7734 ---------- From: jcpa@netvision.net.il Subject: Daniel Elazar On-Line Library A New Jewish Studies Internet Resource - at the Daniel Elazar On-Line Library Daniel J. Elazar was the father of Jewish political studies. He wrote extensively about an authentic Jewish political tradition and looked at the entire Jewish world through the eyes of an American political scientist. He also appealed to American studies students with his descriptions of American political culture, to Protestant theologians with his discussions of the idea of covenant, and to South Africans and Spaniards with his explanations of federal relations. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, founded and headed for 24 years by Prof. Elazar, has recently made available on the Internet some 240 of his most important articles and book excerpts -- as a major Jewish studies resource and as a lasting tribute to his memory. Browse or search the Daniel Elazar On-Line Library for a wealth of content, written with impressive clarity of thought and perspective. http://www.jcpa.org/djeindex.htm ---------- From: pcapelli@unive.it Subject: MATERIA GIUDAICA: A new Italian review on Judaism Via: Benjamin Richler; Arieh Lebowitz; hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu MATERIA GIUDAICA A new review on Judaism the organ of the Italian Association for the Study of Judaism (AISG) This May La Giuntina Press in Florence has just published a new important scientific journal in the field of Judaic studies carried out in Italy. Its title is "Materia giudaica. Rivista dell'associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo". The Review will have two semi-annual issues per year to appear in April and September. It is the organ of the AISG, whose members include the leading academic researchers in the field of in Italian Universities and other cultural institutions. "Materia giudaica" publishes the most important researches carried out in the field of the Judaic studies both by Italian scholars and by Israeli, American and European researchers in the field of Italian Judaism. The interests of the new Review encompass all three millennia of the History and Culture of Judaism, since ancient biblical times until the present. The articles, published only if presenting new enquiries and new materials refereed by the scientific board, include researches on Biblical Literature, Rabbinic works, Middle Judaism and Apocrypha, Hellenistic Literature, Jewish archaeology in Italy, Kabbalah, History of the Jews in the Peninsula utilizing rich Italian archival documents, the findings in the so-called "Italian Genizah", up till modern and recent times. Director/Editor: Mauro Perani, e-mail: perani@spbo.unibo.it Assistant Editor: Piero Capelli, e-mail: pcapelli@unive.it Scientific Board: Giulio Busi (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Alessandro Catastini (University of Rome, La Sapienza), Bruno Chiesa (University of Turin), Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini (University of Udine), Michele Luzzati (University of Pisa), Valerio Marchetti (University of Bologna), Mauro Perani (University of Bologna), Paolo Sacchi (University of Turin), Gnter Stemberger (Universitaet Wien), Giuliano Tamani (University of Venice), Lucio Troiani (University of Pavia), Ida Zatelli (University of Florence). Subscriptions are available from Editrice La Giuntina, Via Ricasoli 26, I-50122 Firenze, Tel. +39 055-268684; telefax +39 055 219718, e-mail: giuntina@fol.it; Internet: www.giuntina.it Annual subscriptions: Italy: 60.000 Italian Liras, abroad 44 Euros; each issue 30.000 Italian Liras, abroad 22 Euros, shipping included (surface or sea mail). INDEX of Volume VI/1 (2001) (avalaible) Atti del convegno di Bologna (16-17 ott. 2000): 2 A. Scandaliato, Siti ebraici dell'Ortigia medievale alla luce delle fonti notarili. 5 G. Fabbrici, Per una storia dell'insedia-mento ebraico nello Stato di Novellara nel Quattrocento. 13 M. Perani, La presunta iscrizione ebraica (sec. I e.v.) da Voghenza (Ferrara). Tentativi di interpretazione. 16 A. Catastini, L'attribuzione letteraria degli scritti biblici. 28 P.G. Borbone, Orientamenti attuali dell'ecdotica della Bibbia ebraica. A. Zanardo, Mala voluntas a vitiis depravata. Gli ebrei nella predicazione cappuccina del XVII secolo. 42 A. Ferri, Compelle intrare. La predica coatta agli ebrei di Lugo nel 1746. 53 G. Lembi, Il Testimonium Flavianum, Agrippa I e i fratelli Asineo e Anileo. Osservazioni sul libro XVIII delle Antichita di Giuseppe. 69 M. Mottolese, Sulla ri-significazione dei rituali del sacrificio nell'esegesi cabbalistica del XIII secolo. 78 M. Bracchitta, La mistica della preghiera nel Sefer ha-Emunah we-ha-Bittahon di Ya'aqov ben Sheshet. 85 P. Capelli, Il processo di Parigi del 1240 contro il Talmud: verso un'edizione critica del testo ebraico. 91 S. Bernardi Saffiotti, Convivere con minoranze: momenti di vita ebraica dalle Riformanze di Macerata. 99 G. Lacerenza, Per un riesame della presenza ebraica a Pompei. 104 B. Di Porto, Il giornalismo ebraico in Italia. Un primo sguardo d'insieme al Vessillo Israelitico. 110 M.R. Cappellini, Parola e scritto in alcuni autori ebrei contemporanei (Askenazi, Neher, Ouaknin). 115 M. Luzzati, Nota per lo studio della formazione dei cognomi toponimici ebraici italiani: il caso dei Modigliani e Modiano. 120 A. Viterbo, Proposta per una classificazione del fenomeno dei Purim locali. 122 Recensioni e segnalazioni bibliografiche. INDEX of Volume VI/2 (2001) (expected for September 2001) New Discoveries in the European Genizah: from Italian to the Gerona Archives. ATTI DEL CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE (Gerusalemme 12 dicembre 1999) sul tema: Yom Tov Assis (Head, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University): Catalan Jewry before 1391: Archival and Hebrew Sources. Benjamin Richler (Director of The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, JNUL, Jerusalem): Hebrew Manuscripts in Spanish Libraries. Mauro Perani (Director of "The Italian Genizah Project", University of Bologna): The "Genizot" of Gerona and Italy: Towards a typological comparison. Edna Engel (The Hebrew Palaeography Project, JNUL, Jerusalem): The Sefardic Scripts of the 13th-14th Centuries In View of the Gerona Fragments. Avraham Gross (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Gerona. A Sefardic Cradle of Jewish Learning and Religiosity. Danile Iancu-Agou (CNRS. Centre d'Etudes des Religions du Livre, Paris) : Les livres inventories a Gerone aux lendemains de la dispute de Tortose (1414-1415). Ezra Chwat (The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, JNUL, Jerusalem): Identifying an Alfasi Gloss\Supplement on Rosh ha-Shanah, Possibly of R. Yom Tov Assibilli (Ritba) in a Fragment found in Gerona. Mauro Perani (Director of "The Italian Genizah Project", University of Bologna): New publications on the Hebrew fragments in Italian Archives. Laura Gusella (Monastero di Bose), Esseni, communita di qumran, terapeuti. Grge K. Hasselhoff (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn), The Reception of Maimonides in the Latin World: The Evidence of the Latin Translations in the 13th-15th Century. Recensioni e segnalazioni bibliografiche. ---------- ____________________________________________________________________ H-JUDAIC DIGEST MODERATORS : Faydra Shapiro Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt JEWISH STUDIES ON-LINE EDITORIAL BOARD: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Aviva Ben-Ur, Marsha Cohen, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Charles David Isbell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Peter Margolis, Barry Mesch, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Jewish Studies Newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network, an affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org. H-JUDAIC is affiliated with the HEBREW COLLEGE OF BOSTON . This important service to the worldwide Jewish scholarly community is made possible by our members' generous contributions. Please mail your gift to H-Judaic at Hebrew College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline MA, USA, 02446. Thank you! H-JUDAIC welcomes recently-published scholarly books on topics in Judaism from the ancient world to the modern. Please send books for potential review to: Lorenzo DiTommaso, H-Judaic Book Review Editor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario CANADA, L8S 4K1. ____________________________________________________________________ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, offering online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------= From hjnews@oise.utoronto.ca Tue Jun 26 14:50:15 2001 Delivered-To: jewstudies@shamash.org Received: (qmail 26499 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2001 18:50:14 -0000 Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (142.150.96.236) by shamash.org with SMTP; 26 Jun 2001 18:50:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (hjnews@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5QImig00354 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:48:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:48:44 -0400 (EDT) From: HJ Newsletter Ed To: "The Jewish Studies Newsletter" Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter (More Resources) 11.003p4 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: hjnews@oise.utoronto.ca Sender: owner-jewstudies@shamash.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 11.003p4 * March 23, 2001 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Resources: - La Bibliothque Medem - Tirosh - Studies in Judaica - Modern Jewry and the Arts - New MA in Israeli Studies - 2001 Canadian Jewish Book Awards - Faded Mansion - Beyond the Pale CD ---------- From: medem@yiddishweb.com Subject: La Bibliothque Medem Chers amis, La Bibliothque Medem ne peut plus tre jointe a l'adresse : medem@club-internet.fr Elle peut tre jointe a l'adresse : medem@yiddishweb.com Amiti de toute l'quipe Tayere fraynd, Undzer alter blitspost-adres (medem@club-internet.fr) iz nit mer tetik. Der eyntsiker vu me ken shikn blitspostn iz: medem@yiddishweb.com Di mitarbeters fun der Medem bibliotek Dear friends, You can no longer reach the Medem Library at: medem@club-internet.fr Please use the following one: medem@yiddishweb.com Best reguards The Medem Library Bibliothque Medem 52, rue Ren-Boulanger 75010 Paris (France) tel : 01 48 03 20 17 Fax : 01 42 02 17 04 Bazukht undzer vebort: http://www.yiddishweb.com/ Ir zukht yidishe bikher tsu koyfn ? Tut a kuk oyf undzere dubletn-listes: http://www.yiddishweb.com/dubletn/ ---------- From: chlenov@hotmail.com Subject: Tirosh - Studies in Judaica The new issue of "Tirosh - Studies in Judaica" has been published in Moscow. The annual is edited by the Ph.D. students and is dedicated to the publication of student essays in Jewish studies. (The book is printed in Russian with English table of contents, 'About the authors' editorial and paper's summaries). The recent issue no.4 is divided into four chapters: Jewish Philosophy, Bible and Semitic languages, Literature; Russian Jewry. (see http://eshnav.narod.ru). For future publications, the editors welcome Russian-language submissions from our Western colleagues. Priority for publication is given to papers based on original sources from libraries and archival material in the FSU. For more information or to order a copy e-mail tirosh@mail.ru Some titles of the 4th volume include: Reuben Kagan (Jerusalem) SOME REMARKS ABOUT AMIDA PRAYER AND ITS POSSIBLE PARALLELS IN TANAKH Nikolai Okhotin (Moscow) NEW ETYMOLOGICAL DATA FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PROTO-SEMITIC SIBILANTS. Leonid Kogan (Moscow) SEMITIC AND HEBREW FAUNAL LEXICON: AN ETYMOLOGICAL APPROACH Adel Nemirovskaia (St.Petersburg) ONE-HUNDRED-WORD-LIST FOR THE JEWISH PALESTINIAN ARAMAIC Maria Endel (Moscow) KABBALISTIC CODES IN RUSSIAN MASONIC LITERATURE Konstantin Burmistrov (Moscow) THE ENCOUNTER OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY OF THE LATE 19THEARLY 20TH CENTURIES WITH THE KABBALAH David Shneer (Berkeley) BECOMING A REVOLUTIONARY: IZI KHARIK, SOVIET YIDDISH POETRY AND CREATIVE DESTRUCTION Gabriele Freitag (Frankfurt) MOSCOW AS NOVYI BERDICHEVTHE SHTETL IN THE METROPOLIS? JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN MOSCOW IN THE 1920S. Semyon Charney (Moscow) YESHIVA KOL YA'AKOV IN MOSCOW, 1957 1967 Viacheslav Likhachev (Moscow) THE MYTH OF TWO JEWISH NATIONS WITHIN THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF THE RUSSIAN RADICAL RIGHT. and others ... (total 26 essays) The full Table of contents of this and the previous volumes of 'Tirosh' is available on 'Jewish Studies in Russia' at http://eshnav.narod.ru ---------- From: kiron@pobox.upenn.edu Subject: Modern Jewry and the Arts NEW WEB EXHIBIT: "MODERN JEWRY AND THE ARTS" The Center for Judaic Studies Library at University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the 2000-01 Fellows of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn, has assembled a web-exhibit highlighting this past year's research theme of "Modern Jewry and the Arts." To view (and hear) the exhibit, see: http://www.library.upenn.edu/cjs/exhib2001/ or, go to the Penn's main library home page: http://www.library.upenn.edu/ Then, click on "Penn's 15 Libraries" then click on "Center for Judaic Studies Library" then click on "Virtual Exhibit" Special thanks are due to Seth Jerchower, the Public Services Librarian at the Center for Judaic Studies Library, for scanning the materials, designing, encoding and formatting the Exhibit. Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 ---------- From: Colin Shindler Subject: New MA in Israeli Studies ISRAEL STUDIES AT SOAS MA Israeli and Jewish Diaspora Studies SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London has been an international centre for Middle East Studies since its establishment over eighty years ago. Its unrivalled library in Hebraica, Jewish and Israeli Studies is the best of any European University and therefore a great attraction for many scholars and researchers. The development and growth of Israeli Studies in recent years has promoted the introduction of a new masters programme in the autumn of 2001. The MA Israeli and Jewish Diaspora Studies is an interdisciplinary degree which will explore the history, culture, politics, languages and music of Israel and its relationship with the Jews of the Diaspora. Based on a modular system, the subjects covered could be as diverse as the political thought of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, the struggle of Soviet Jews for emigration, the writings of Mendele Moykher-Sforim, the Jews of India, the music of the hasidim, the teachings of the Rambam and the Ramban. It will be taught essentially by the faculty of the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Department at SOAS. The SOAS Music Department and the London School of Jewish Studies will also make major contributions to the teaching of the courses. The Structure of the Course: The MA is taken over one year full-time or two/three years part-time. It consists of: - Three taught courses, one major subject and two minor, which start in October and finish in April - Two essays, each to be completed by the end of the winter and spring terms - A three hour examination in June - A dissertation in the major subject to be completed by the following September Entry Requirements: The usual qualification for entry is a good first degree in a relevant field. However, the School is keen to offer the course to those with a real passion for the subject and wish to develop their strong interest within an academic framework. Course Modules One Israeli Studies course (either major or minor) from: - Zionist Ideology - Communism and Zionism: The Competition for Jewish Loyalty - Israel, the Arab World and the Palestinians - Modern Hebrew Poetry One Diaspora Studies course (either major or minor) from: - Twentieth Century European Jewish Literature - Yiddish Literature - Jews in Africa and Asia Either one further minor from the above list or from the following: - Music of the Jews - Jews in Late Antiquity - Modern Approaches to Talmud - Jewish Medical Ethics - Midrash - Classical Jewish Philosophy - Modern Jewish Philosophy - Hebrew - Yiddish - Arabic For further details, please contact: Dr Colin Shindler, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS tel: 0207 898 4358 fax: 0207 898 4359 email cs52@soas.ac.uk ---------- From: bkatz@uoguelph.ca Subject: 2001 Canadian Jewish Book Awards - 13th Year This year, the "bar mitzvah" year of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards, our awards were highlighted by a special double prize for biography or memoir to two icons of Canadian culture. Both prizes have been awarded posthumously: the Louis L. Lockshin Award goes to the late renowned novelist Matt Cohen for his autobiographical "Typing: a Life In 26 Keys" (Random House Canada, 2000); and the Koffler Centre Prize has been awarded to the late beloved actor-director Al Waxman, author of "Thats What I Am" (Malcolm Lester, 2000). Prizes in an unprecedented twelve categories were awarded this year. The evening's events took place in the Leah Posluns Theatre, Koffler Centre of the Arts, on Wednesday, June 6. The Beatrice and Martin Fischer Fiction Award for a first novel went to Michael Kaufman for his inventive and transcendent "The Possibility of Dreaming On a Night without Stars" (Viking, 1999). In History, Erna Paris' internationally acclaimed "Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History" (Knopf Canada, 2000) won the Dorothy Shoichet Prize; while Franklin Bialystok's significant study, "Delayed Impact: the Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community" (McGill-Queens University Press, 2000) garnered the Joseph and Fay Tanenbaum Award in Canadian Jewish History. Vancouver's Irene Watts, a previous award winner in this category, won this year's Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award in young adult fiction for her engaging "Remember Me" (Tundra Books, 2000). The first winner in a new category, the Laks-Wajsfus Prize in World Jewish Culture, went to the Beth Tzedec Reuben and and Helene Dennis Museum for their beautifull art book, "Art and Tradition: treasures of Jewish Life", edited by curator Dorion Liebgott (Beth Tzedec Congregation, 2000). Winners in other categories were: Barry Dov Walfish, editor of "Apples of Gold In Settings of Silver" (Pontifical Institute of Mediaevil Studies, 1999), who received the Penina Rubinoff Memorial Prize for Biblical or Rabbinic Scholarship; Vivian Felsen, translator of the important "Montreal of Yesterday: Jewish Life in Montreal, 1900-1920" (Vehicule Press, 2000), who gained the Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish Translation; Gitel Donath, author of the touching "My Bones Don't Rest In Auschwitz" (Kaplan Publishing, 2000), winning the Abraham and Fay Bergel Award for Holocaust Memoir; Karen Shenfeld, who received the Henry Fuerstenberg - Betty and Morris Aaron Memorial Prize for Poetry for her collection "The Law of Return" (Guernica Editions, 2000); Howard Margolian, whose very controversial "Unauthorized Entry: the Truth About War Criminals In Canada, 1946-1956" (University of Toronto Press, 2000) garnered the Morris Winemaker Award for Scholarship on a Jewish Theme; and F.C. DeCoste together with fellow editor Bernard Schwartz, who won the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History for their revealing "The Holocaust's Ghost" (University of Alberta Press, 2000). For more information, contact Ms. Diane Uslaner, Director of Cultural Programming, Koffler Centre of the Arts. (416) 630-1880, ext. 352. Bernard Katz, former Head, Special Collections and Library Development McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Guelph ON Canada N1G 2W1 and Member, Canadian Jewish Book Awards Committee ---------- From: entropy@ziplink.net Subject: Faded Mansion David Basch's latest article on Jewish influences in Shakespeare, "Faded Mansion," is now available online. Click on http://www.ziplink.net/~entropy/ to find it and other analyzed sonnets, as well as the complete introduction to THE SHAKESPEARE CODES by David Basch, who has analyzed all 154 of the sonnets and probed the larger meaning behind this work. ---------- From: admin@ashkenaz.org Subject: Beyond the Pale CD Ashkenaz, in association with the Borealis Recording Company presents the CD BEYOND THE PALE - "ROUTES" (now available on Borealis Records) This wide-ranging collection of both original compositions and new arrangements of traditional material runs the gamut from rousing klezmer, Yiddish, and Romanian-style pieces to more daring hybrids touching on reggae, roots music, bluegrass, Balkan music, and high-powered acoustic funk. The CD was produced by Multi-Juno award winner Danny Greenspoon (Great Big Sea, Finjan, Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Jane Bunnet). BEYOND THE PALE features some of the leading figures in Toronto's klezmer music scene: ERIC STEIN (mandolin, tsimbl) ANNE LINDSAY (violin) SASHA LUMINSKY(accordion) MARTIN VAN DE VEN (clarinets) BRET HIGGINS (bass). ---------- ____________________________________________________________________ H-JUDAIC DIGEST MODERATORS : Faydra Shapiro Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt JEWISH STUDIES ON-LINE EDITORIAL BOARD: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Aviva Ben-Ur, Marsha Cohen, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Charles David Isbell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Peter Margolis, Barry Mesch, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Jewish Studies Newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network, an affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org. 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Please send books for potential review to: Lorenzo DiTommaso, H-Judaic Book Review Editor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario CANADA, L8S 4K1. ____________________________________________________________________ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, offering online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------= From hjnews@oise.utoronto.ca Fri Jun 29 10:01:00 2001 Delivered-To: jewstudies@shamash.org Received: (qmail 22880 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2001 14:00:58 -0000 Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (142.150.96.236) by shamash.org with SMTP; 29 Jun 2001 14:00:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (hjnews@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5TDxND19799 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:59:23 -0400 (EDT) From: HJ Newsletter Ed To: "The Jewish Studies Newsletter" Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter (CFPs) 11.003p5 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: hjnews@oise.utoronto.ca Sender: owner-jewstudies@shamash.org X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 11.003p5 * March 30, 2001 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Calls for Papers and Conferences: - Mehqere Hag 13 - Roth-Rotem Festschrift - BIENNIAL SCHOLARS' CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY - Brown Judaic Studies - Rabbinic Self Awareness and Intentionality - The Uses of the Folk ---------- From: yon_saf@bezeqint.net Subject: Mehqere Hag 13 - Roth-Rotem Festschrift The Center for Jewish Holiday Studies and the Department of Biblical Studies at Beit Berl College wish to honor Dr. Joseph Roth-Rotem, founder and long-time chairman of the Center, founder and Chief Editor of Mehqere Hag - A Journal of Jewish Culture, the annual of the Center and former chairman of the Dept. of Biblical Studies. Dr. Roth-Rotem is now emeritus, and continues as Center chairman and Chief Editor. We feel that the best way of expressing our esteem is by devoting the next volume Mehqere Hag, Vol. 13, as a Festchrift in his honor. We therefore invite all scholars interested in any aspects of the study of Hebrew Bible, Jewish Holidays and Jewish Culture - historical, philosophical, existential, literary, etc. to contribute articles to the Roth-Rotem Jubilee Volume. Articles are accepted in Hebrew and English, and may range in length from 15 to 20 pages.. Hebrew articles should be accompanied by a 200-300 word English abstract and vice versa. Articles should be typed with Word for Windows or a compatible PC word processor and submitted in two hard copies plus diskette. E-mail attachment submissions are possible, but we cannot guarantee that they will always arrive safely. The last date for submission of articles is December 31, 2001. Sincerely, Prof. Isaac Kalimi Dept. of Biblical Studies Editor Dr. Jonathan D. Safren Chairman, Dept. of Biblical Studies Editor of the English Section Mehqere Hag - A Journal of Jewish Culture Center for Jewish Holiday Studies Beit Berl College Beit Berl Post Office 44905 Israel --------- From: raider@albany.edu Subject: BIENNIAL SCHOLARS' CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH BIENNIAL SCHOLARS' CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY JUNE 9-11, 2002 AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Fifth Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History, under the sponsorship of the Center for Jewish Studies of the University at Albany, State University of New York and the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, will be held on the campus of the University at Albany on June 9-11, 2002. Proposals for focused expositions of themes, topics, problems, or issues arising from diverse areas of research on American Jews and American Judaism are welcome. Priority for acceptance will be given to high-quality proposals as well as proposals for fully planned sessions. Graduate students completing dissertations may submit proposals accompanied by a letter of recommendation from their advisor. One-page paper abstracts, panel proposals, and bios (250 words max.) are due November 16, 2001. Please submit to: Prof. Mark A. Raider, Program Committee Chair Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History Center for Jewish Studies University at Albany Humanities 244 Albany, NY 12222 Email: raider@albany.edu Web site: www.albany.edu/judaic_studies Fax: (518) 442-4136 ---------- From: David_Jacobson@brown.edu Subject: Brown Judaic Studies Brown Judaic Studies is a peer-reviewed monograph series that publishes high quality, specialized books aimed primarily at a scholarly audience. We welcome submissions in any historical period from antiquity to the present. We are particularly interested in historical, literary and philosophical studies. On occasion, we publish collections of essays such as Festschriften. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts to the Brown Judaic Studies Series. Editors: David C. Jacobson (David_Jacobson@brown.edu) Ross S. Kraemer (Ross_Kraemer@brown.edu) Saul M. Olyan (Saul_Olyan@brown.edu) For information about how to submit a proposal, please consult: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Judaic_Studies/BJS/BJSinfo.html David C. Jacobson, Associate Professor Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University Box 1826, 163 George Street, Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-3908 Fax: 401-863-3938 E-mail: David_Jacobson@Brown.edu ---------- From: okutner@pob.huji.ac.il Subject: Rabbinic Self Awareness and Intentionality Call for Papers The Institute for the Study of Rabbinic Thought at Beit Morasha of Jerusalem will hold its fourth annual conference, on the theme: "Rabbinic Self Awareness and Intentionality". The conference will take during Hanukah 5762 (tentatively Dec. 10-12, 2001), at Beit Morasha, Kiryat Moriah Campus, Jerusalem. The conference will address fundamental hermeneutical questions that emerge from reading Rabbinic biblical interpretation and stories, as well as from the halakhic process: How aware are the Rabbis of the revolutions they are generating by their interpretations? Are they to be regarded as innocent or shrewd readers of their sources? Did they assume their audience would take their expressions literally, or did they intend for their words to be understood in a metaphorical, allegorical, or ironical sense? What is the hermeneutic approach that we attribute to the Rabbis in their relation to their sources, and what, in turn, should be the hermeneutic approach appropriate for the reading of the Rabbinic texts themselves? Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers concerning the array of hermeneutical questions regarding this subject. Papers presenting a broad conceptual approach, or those dealing with particular examples, while attempting to highlight their implications for the wider theoretical issues, will be welcome. Papers dealing with these issues in related literatures, which can shed light on the intellectual activity of the Rabbis, will be accepted as well. Proposals should be submitted by July 31, 2001, to: Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein e-mail: hazal@bmj.org.il ---------- From: Karl Hagstrom Miller Via: AriehNYC@prodigy.net Subject: The Uses of the Folk Call for Article Submissions: "The Uses of the Folk" Radical History Review announces a call for submissions to a thematic issue on "The Uses of the Folk." This issue will address historical processes (in all periods and across nations and cultures) in which "the folk" have been invoked or invented for broader political purposes. In some cases, groups have rallied around a "folk" or vernacular culture as a way of preserving a distinct identity in the face of encroaching commercial or imperial culture. In other cases, observers have used theories of folk culture to draw broad generalizations about racial or class capacity for civilization and citizenship. Increasingly, since the birth of the new social history, scholars have turned to folk artifacts for evidence of the culture and consciousness of people who left few written records. It is thus incumbent on historians to critically interrogate the category of "folk." We see these uses of "the folk" as interrelated sites of struggle, beginning with the questions: what has been described as folk culture and who has the power to define it? We are particularly interested in explorations of the opportunities and limitations that articulations of "folk" identity have presented to the "folk" themselves. Radical History Review publishes material in a variety of forms. In addition to articles based on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various departments, including: * Historians at Work (reflective essays by historians working in academic and non-academic settings that engage with questions of professional practice) * Teaching Radical History (syllabi and commentary on teaching) * Public History (essays on the politics of the past in cultural production and in public settings) * Reflections (proposals for interviews with scholars, activists, and others) * (re)Views (review essays on history in all media--print, film, and digital) Submissions in any of the above forms might address any of the following issues: * invocations of folk culture by political movements of indigenous and aboriginal peoples, or by right-wing or fascist political movements * the marketing of folk imagery and folk culture, including music, performance, material culture, and ethnic or heritage tourism * local, national, and global economies of folk revivals * "folk" and racial, ethnic, and class identities * the uses of the "folk" in imperialist projects * critical investigations of the relationship between folk and popular culture * the claiming and performance of folk culture as a resistant practice * the academic collection and uses of folk culture * the history of the concept of "the folk" within anthropology, history, folklore and other academic disciplines; how investigating concepts like "the politics of everyday life" is similar to or different from investigating "the folk" * self-commodification and the "mask" of "the folk" * gender and folk culture, including perceptions of folk culture as masculine or feminine; the association of folk culture with the supposedly non-commercial, community-based world; the ways in which folk culture is gendered in discourses about its distance from civilization and modernity * the uses of "the folk" in the creation of diasporic identities * how conceptions of "the folk" influence immigrant cultures and issues of assimilation and cultural preservation Please contact issue co-editors Karl Hagstrom Miller karlhagstrommiller@yahoo.com or Ellen Noonan enoonan@gc.cuny.edu if you have any questions. Submissions should be sent to Managing Editor, Radical History Review, Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. --------- ____________________________________________________________________ H-JUDAIC DIGEST MODERATORS : Faydra Shapiro Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt JEWISH STUDIES ON-LINE EDITORIAL BOARD: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Aviva Ben-Ur, Marsha Cohen, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Charles David Isbell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Peter Margolis, Barry Mesch, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Jewish Studies Newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network, an affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org. H-JUDAIC is affiliated with the HEBREW COLLEGE OF BOSTON . This important service to the worldwide Jewish scholarly community is made possible by our members' generous contributions. Please mail your gift to H-Judaic at Hebrew College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline MA, USA, 02446. Thank you! H-JUDAIC welcomes recently-published scholarly books on topics in Judaism from the ancient world to the modern. Please send books for potential review to: Lorenzo DiTommaso, H-Judaic Book Review Editor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario CANADA, L8S 4K1. ____________________________________________________________________ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, offering online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ ----------------------- jewstudies@shamash.org ----------------------=