From ajhyman@oise.on.ca Mon Dec 2 22:27:45 1996 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: JSJeJ - Avi Hyman To: Academically-based Jewish Studies Subject: Calls for Papers, conferences, etc. JEWISH * STUDIES * J U D A I C A * e J O U R N A L * research & current events in academic Jewish Studies * ____________________________________________________________ Issue 4.002p1 * October 1995 * Readership = 6200+ ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: - America's Encounter with the Holocaust - Canadian Jewish Studies - Kovno Ghetto Artifacts - Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review - Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies - Primo Levi conference - Encyclopedia of Jewish American Authors ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Pamela Nadell Subject: America's Encounter with the Holocaust "America's Encounter with the Holocaust: Cultural Perspectives," a conference co-sponsored by American University's Jewish Studies Program, Department of History, and College of Arts and Sciences and by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will take place on November 8th and 9th, 1995. The opening session, "The Holocaust and the University," will take place at American University and includes panelists Stanley Katz, Raul Hilberg, John K. Roth, and Yehuda Bauer. The conference continues on November 9th at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The session, "The Holocaust and American Literature," includes William Styron, Lawrence L. Langer, S. Lillian Kremer, and Sara Horowitz. Peter Novick, Edward T. Linenthal, Michael Berenbaum, Mark Weitzmann, and Richard Rubenstein will speak on "Holocaust Memorials and Museums." The conference will conclude with "The Holocaust on Stage and Screen," with participants Stanley Kauffmann, Sandra Wentworth Bradley, and Arnost Lustig. "America's Encounter with the Holocaust: Cultural Perspectives," is free and open to the public. For further information, call the American University's Department of History at 202-885-2401. Pamela S. Nadell, Director, Jewish Studies Program, American University ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Richard Menkis Subject: Canadian Jewish Studies I am pleased to inform you that issue number two of Canadian Jewish Studies/Etudes juives canadiennes (ISSN 1198-3493) is now available. *** >From the Table of Contents: ARTICLES - Craig Chouinard, A Tale of Two Synagogues: Culture, Conflict and Consolidation in the Jewish Community of Saint John, 1906-1919; - R.Linn and N. Barkan-Ascher, Imaginary Suitcases in the Lives of Israeli Expatriates in Canada: A Psychological Look at a Unique Historical Phenomenon; - Norman Ravvin, Eli Mandel's Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies; MELANGES - Ben Kayfetz, On Community Relations in Ontario in the 1940s; - Ray Shankman, Raging Like a Layton: A Tribute (Review Essay); REVIEWS - Stephen Scheinberg reviews Alan Davies, ed. Antisemitism in Canada:History and Interpretation; - Leo Davids reviews Louis Rosenberg, Canada's Jews: A Social and Economic Study of Jews in Canada in the 1930s. Ed. by Morton Weinfeld; BOOK NOTES - Henriette Kallus reviews Melech Ravitch, Night Prayer and other Poems AND Harold Rubin, Those Pesky Weeds. **** I encourage the readers of this list to consider submitting their research to the CJS/EJC. All CJS/EJC's articles are refereed. Short research notes if about 5-8 pages on work in progress, bibliographies, reviews of the literature etc. will published at the discretion of the editorial board. Regarding book reviews, please contact Ira Robinson or myself. Thanks, Richard Menkis, Editor CJS/EJC ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Rose, Paul F." Subject: Kovno Ghetto Artifacts Washington, D.C., -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is searching for artifacts to include in a new special exhibition on the Kovno Ghetto (Kaunas, Lithuania) that it plans to open in 1997. Using surviving artifacts, photographs, and documents from the Ghetto's clandestine archives, the exhibition will examine the extraordinary experiences of individuals who were imprisoned in the Ghetto from August 1941 to July 1944. To complete the exhibition, the Museum is searching for photographs of Ghetto life; objects made in the Ghetto workshops; personal items used in the homes; children's toys, clothing, and books; items used in the resistance and partisan movements, and sacred materials, including prayer books, prayer shawls, and liturgical items. The Museum also is seeking artifacts from the destroyed world of pre-Holocaust Kovno -- including photographs, ceremonial objects, household items, books, and art works -- to use in the exhibition. In addition to artifacts, the exhibition team is looking for scholarly works on the Jewish material culture of Lithuania, works on Lithuanian - Jewish relations, and papers on the German occupation of Lithuania. Anyone who is willing to make such materials available to the Museum, or knows of sources for such materials, including any names and locations of survivors of the Kovno Ghetto, should contact Paul Rose, Exhibition Researcher at the museum, via his E-Mail address (prose@ushmm.org), by calling him at (202) 488-0400 ext.749, or by writing him at the Department of Exhibitions, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place S.W., Washington D.C. 20024-2150. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Guy H. Haskell" Subject: Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review Announcement: The editors of the JEWISH FOLKLORE AND ETHNOLOGY REVIEW are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 16, number 2, which is a CUMULATIVE INDEX of the journal since its inaugural issue in 1977. There is a subject, author, and issue index. The REVIEW is also having a back issue sale. For subscription and order information please contact Guy H. Haskell, General Editor, JFER, at ghaskel@emory.edu. The next issue, due out next month, is devoted to Jewish Pilgrimage, and is guest edited by Dr. Shifra Epstein of Emory University. The following issue will deal with the folklore of the Holocaust, followed by an issue devoted to the Crypto-Jews of the Southwest United States. Dr. Guy H. Haskell Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 e-mail: ghaskel@emory.edu phone: 404-727-4624 * fax: 404-727-2903 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Joshua Schwartz Subject: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies Bar-Ilan University, the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Department of Land of Israel Studies announce the establishment of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies. The Rennert Center is an interdisciplinary center devoted to research and education on the history, archaeology, culture, religion and literature of Jerusalem throughout the ages and in contemporary times. The Rennert Center would like to establish ties with scholars who engage in Jerusalem-oriented research or with academic institutions interested in developing Jerusalem-oriented programs. Please respond directly to the director of the Rennert Center by Email, regular post or fax. Joshua Schwartz, Director Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies Department of Land of Israel Studies Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Email: schwaj@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il Fax: 00-972-3-535-1233 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: rkool@cln.etc.bc.ca (Richard Kool) Subject: Primo Levi conference PRIMO LEVI: Writer, Witness & Holocaust Educator An international conference focusing on the legacy of Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi November 4 - 5, 1995 University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia All events will take place on the campus of the University of British Columbia except the Sunday evening concert and the post conference events which take place at the Jewish Community Centre. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4 7:00 p.m. Registration 7:30 p.m. Keynote address "The Haunted Legacy of Primo Levi" Dr. Lawrence Langer 110 Henry Angus Bldg., Main Mall, UBC SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Registration Lobby of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC 8:45 a.m. Opening remarks: Dr. Gabriella Bianco, Italian Cultural Institute 9:00 a.m. Opening address: "Levi as Witness" Dr. Franca Molino Signorini Milan, Italy Session I. - Levi and Science 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Mirna Cicioni, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. "Moral Snares and Parables: Primo Levi's Science Fiction Stories." Nancy Harrowitz, Boston University. "Science as Evil Nurse: Levi, Modern Science and the Holocaust." Moderator: Professor Carlo Testa, UBC 10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - Refreshment break Session II. - Language and the Lager 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Brian Cliff, Emory University. "Violence Done to Humanity through Violence Done to Language." Patricia Sayre & Linnea Vacca, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. "Language and Personhood: Speaking and the Unspeakable" Risa Sodi, Yale University. "The Rhetoric of Univers concentrationnaire in Primo Levi." Moderator: Professor John Willinsky, UBC 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. - Lunch provided Session III. - Levi's Poetry 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: When Primo Levi's Ghosts Haunt His Poetry" Nicholas Patruno, Bryn Mawr College. "At An Uncertain Hour: The Other Side of Primo Levi" Moderator: Professor Andrew Busza, UBC 2:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. - Break Session IV. - The Legacy of Primo Levi 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Henry Huttenbach, City College of New York. "Primo Levi in Death/Wiesel in Life: Two Responses to Evil" Stephen Feinstein, University of Wisconsin, "Mingling the Visual and the Narrative: Primo Levi's Influence on Contemporary Artists." Jerald Zaslove, Simon Fraser University. "The Persistence of Primo Levi: Beyond the Cult of Surviving." Moderator: Professor Ira B. Nadel, UBC 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Closing remarks Panel: Professor Richard Menkis, UBC, chair with Miriam Waddington , Author 6:00 p.m. No - host dinner SUNDAY EVENING 8:00 p.m. Primo Levi In Memoriam: A tribute in poetry and music Readings by Otto Lowy, Music by John Reeves Performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Clyde Mitchell, Conducting Norman Rothstein Theatre Jewish Community Centre 950 W. 41st Ave. Reception following at the Holocaust Education Centre MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1995 Using Literature to Teach Social Justice: Primo Levi 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Post-Conference Curriculum Project A special session for Educators & Levi Scholars Special presentation: Dr. Walter Temelini, Director of the Centre for Multicultural Development and Documentation, Windsor, Ont., and Dr. Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre 50 - 950 W. 41st. Ave. 7:30 p.m. Post Conference Lecture "Differing Voices: Women Writing the Holocaust" Risa Sodi, Yale University JCC Board Room, Jewish Community Centre 950 W. 41st. Ave. Tickets $8. & $6. Sponsored by Jewish Book Week Primo Levi Conference Coordinator at (604) 264-0499 or FAX (604) 264-0497 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Susan Schultz (by way of hmorse@hgea.org (Jonathan Morse)) Burt Kimmelman -@NJIT via: POETICS Subject: Encyclopedia of Jewish American Authors Michael Taub (dept of religion, vassar college) and joel shatzky (dept of english, SUNY at Cortland 13045) are in need of contributors to complete their Encyclopedia of Jewish American Authors: Here's who needs writing about (a few juicy choices remain it seems to me): FICTION: Jonathan Baumbach, Ethan Chanin, Arthur Cohen, Irving Faust, richard ellmann, bruce jay friedman, thomas friedman, gerald green, robert kotlowitz, wallace markfield, bud schulberg, leon uris, jerome weidman. POETRY: Stanley burnshaw, allan feldman, irving feldman, charles fishman, allen grossman , edward hirsch, richard howard, vincent katz, stanley kunitz, allen mandelbaum, gail mazur, cynthia mcdonald, robert mezey, stephen mitchell, lisel mueller, lorine neidecker, george oppen, joel oppenheimer, carl rakosi, david rosenberg, frederick seidel, luis simpson, mark strand, ann waldeman, ann winters. DRAMATISTS: woody allen, paddy chayevsky, jules feiffer, herb gardner, william hoffman, wendy kesselman, tony kushner, arthur laurents, norman lessing, barbara lebow, susan miller, ronald ribman, murray schisqual, neil simon, elisabeth swados, arnold weinstein. You can e-mail Taub at MITAUB@VASSAR.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ Editor: Avi Jacob Hyman, (ajhyman@oise.on.ca) Chair: Tzvee Zahavy Editorial Board: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Herb Basser, Nathan Ehrlich, Mark Flumerfelt, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblat, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Chana Lajcher, Richard Menkis, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Belarie Zatzman ------------------------------------------------------------ Jewish Studies Resources: http://shamash.nysernet.org/~ajhyman/jsjej.html ------------------------------------------------------------ JSJeJ is published & distributed by: The SHAMASH Project@NYSERNET (jewstudies@shamash.nysernet.org) and The H-Net (Humanities) Project@MSU (h-judaic@msu.edu) - back issues available via GOPHER, WWW or FTP ___________________________end part 1_______________________