From ajhyman@oise.on.ca Mon Dec 2 22:29:05 1996 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 11:03:16 -0500 (EST) From: JSJeJ To: Academically-based Jewish Studies Subject: NEWSLETTER (Jewish Studies 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 4.004p2 * December 1995 * Readership = 6200+ ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: - NYU in Cracow Summer Program -CJHS Annual Conference Call for Papers -1996 Graduate History Conference -Latin American Jewish Studies Association -Call for Papers for North American Religions -Cultures in Conflict: cfp -SSHA (im)migration network: cfp ------------------------------------------------------------ From: lipmanj@is2.nyu.edu (Jonathan Lipman) Subject: NYU in Cracow Summer Program New York University Summer Program in Cracow - The Modern History and Experience of Jews in Eastern Europe Following the success of last summer, NYU is pleased to announce that their groundbreaking summer program devoted to the study of the modern history and experience of the Jewish people in Eastern Europe, is now accepting applications for Summer 1996. We are also pleased to announce that for the first time financial aid will be availabe to NYU in Cracow students through the Project Judaica Foundation. The funds, granted to the Project Judaica Foundation by Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation, are earmarked specifically to support students selected for the NYU in Cracow Program. The stipends, which will be awarded in varying amounts as determined by individual needs will be known as the Spielberg Stipend. NYU in Cracow is a unique program devoted to the study of the modern history and experience of the Jewish people in Eastern Europe -- their multifaceted community life, economic and political experiencess, literature, and folklore, as well as the tragedy of the Holocaust. The five week summer session, July 1 - August 2, 1996, is taught by leading scholars in the field of Jewish studies from New York Universty, Stanford University, YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, and Brandeis University. Four weeks of course work are supplemented by a one-week study tour to various locations throughout the Jewish Galicia. The trip highlights the richness of Jewish life in the towns and cities of Poland before 1939. Participants vist the remnants of Jewish ghettos, synagogues and cemeteries as well as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. Students register for two courses (undergraduate or graduate) from the following: Modern History of East European Jewry; The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry; East European Government and Politics: Introduction to Yiddish Folklore and Ethnograpy; History and Art of the Jewish Galicia; Intensive Polish and Elementary Yiddish. The program is organized in conjunction with Jagiellonian University and the Judaica Center for Jewish Culture. Rooms with breakfast are provided in dormitories of Jagiellon University. Classes are held in the Judaic Center for Jewish Culture in Cracow, in a magnificently renovated 19th-Century Prayer House in the old Jewish quarter of Cracow. For admission and financial aid forms please contact: NYU in Cracow, New York University, 285 Mercer Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10003; phone 212/998-8175; FAX 212/995-4177; or send e-mail to abroad@nyu.edu Deadline for applications is April 30. 1996. Jonathan Lipman, Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University 6 Washington Square North (212) 998-8018 lipmanj@is2.nyu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: ROBINSO@vax2.concordia.ca Subject: CJHS Annual Conference Call for Papers Papers are invited for the CJHS Annual Conference which will take place on Sunday and Monday June 2-3, 1996 at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario during the 1996 Learned Societies Congress. We welcome papers on all topics related to the Canadian Jewish experience. We hope to concentrate in this conference on topics focusing on the Jewish experience in small Canadian communities. Possible themes include: settlement patterns, leadership, culture, observance and identity, farming and literature. Other themes under consideration are Canadian Jewish writers, Jewish geneology as well as Jews and Social Activism. If you are interested in presenting a paper or have any other ideas for sessions, please contact Dr. Paula Draper, 142 Pears Ave. #C4, Toronto, Ontario M5R 1T2. Fax 416-967-7742. We look forward to seeing you at this year's conference. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: joe walter wojak Subject: 1996 Graduate History Conference The Department of History and the graduate planning committee at the University of Mississippi announce the 1996 Graduate Conference on Southern United States history. The conference is open to all graduate students and is scheduled for March 8-9, 1996. The program committee solicits papers concerning all aspects of southern history from the colonial period to the present. Please submitt a two page abstract to the address below: John Dittmer, author of the book Local People, is our keynote speaker. Prof. Dittmer will also conduct a workshop on the practice of history, methodology, issues in academia, etc., on Saturday, March 9. Please send your questions or submissions to: David Libby or Joe Wojak Graduate Conference on Southern History Department of History, University of Mississippi University, MS 38677 FAX: (601) 232-7033 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Regina_IGEL@umail.umd.edu (ri1) Subject: Latin American Jewish Studies Association The 8th International Research Conference of LAJSA (Latin American Jewish Studies Association) took place last November 11-14 in Mexico City. It attracted scholars from all over the world working on the subject of Latin American Jewry, past and present. The talks were attended by the local Mexican Jewish and non-Jewish communities, who received the 240 participants with warmth, receptions, sightseeings and visits to synagogues, museums and art galleries. Some of the subjects and the scholars who presented them are: Victor Mirelman, "World War I, antisemitism and Jewish unity in Argentina" Lucia Elena Costigan, "Los cripto-judios en la literatura brasilena: De lo colonial a lo post-colonial" Sonia Bloomfield Ramagem, "Judaism in Latin America: The case of Brasil" Sergio DellaPergola, "Jewish sociodemographic trends: Mexico in world perspective" Eva Uchmany, "Identidad y asimilacion en espanoles y portugueses" Jeffrey Lesser, "Jewish Brazilians or Brazilians Jews: Reflection on Brazilian ethnicity" Nora Glickman, "La trata de blancas en el cine latinoamericano" Gilda Salem Szklo, "La literatura de la Diaspora" Diane Kuperman, "Guerra y paz en el Medio ORiente bajo la optica de los medios de comunicacion brasilenos" Margalit Bejarano, "Bistritzky en Cuba: su influencia sobre la estructuracion del Keren Kayemet y su actividad politica entre los cubanos" Lois Baer Barr, "De Balun Canaan a la Bobe" Roberto Grun, "La estructura de las comunidades judia y armenia en la ciudad de Sao Paulo" Ethel V. Kosminsky, Estudio comparativo de emigrantes judios de Europa Oriental a Estados Unidos y Brasil" Naomi Lindstrom, "Los gauchos judios" Rochelle Saidel, "Jewish women who immigrated to Sao Paulo, 1933-1950" Stanely Hordes & Kristine K. Bordenave, "__Pemphigus vulgaris__ among hispanos, and its connection to crypto-judaism in New Mexico" Regina Igel, "Arieh Chen, the Hamlet-CHalutz" (Ari Chen, dramaturgo brasileiro) The event received the support of the Mexican Association of Friends of the University of Tel Aviv, the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, la Universidad IBeroamericana, the Comite' Central Israelita de Mexico, the Comunidades Ashkenazi y Sefaradi de Mexico, the Comunidades Maguen David, Mornte Sinais and the Bank Hapoalim en Mexico. The languages spoken and papers delivered were Spanish, English and Portuguese. The next meeting will take place in Jerusalem, in 1997. The new-president elect is Professor Nelson Vieira, Brown University. The first president and co-founder of LAJSA is Professor Judith Laikin Elkin, University of Michigan. Submitted by Professor Regina Igel Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Maryland, College Park, USA ------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hackett Subject: 1996 Call for Papers Here is the 1996 Call for Papers for the North American Religions Section. In most of its sessions, the North American Religions section seeks to stimulate comparative discussion across a range of traditions around particular themes. Most years we will also devote one session to highlighting new and interesting work on a particular tradition and another to a newly published book of outstanding merit to the field. This year papers are invited on the following themes: 1) Women in Local Communities; 2) Religion and Music. Here we welcome papers that move beyond the case study (though they might be historical or ethnographic case studies primarily) to consider larger methodological questions about how to interpret music and/or suggest how the study of music might reshape our understanding of American religious history; 3) Religion in Louisiana. African-American, ethnic Catholic, southern Evangelical, new immigrant faiths, their hybrids, and more can be found in Louisiana. Particularly welcome are papers that help us to understand the character of religious life in Louisiana; 4) Ethnographies of American Religion; 5) Engendering American Catholic Studies. Here we especially welcome papers that help us to understand the intersection of gender with other ethnic, racial, sexual and/or other boundaries; 6) Urban Religion; 7) 20th Century American Judaism. Papers that help us to grasp what the key features of 20th century American Judaism have been and what sigificant transformations have taken place over time are particularly encouraged; 8) Religion and Sports in America. Here we are thinking of muscular Christianity; masculinity, sports, and religion in Promisekeepers; religion and the Olympics; and other twentieth century intersections of sports and religion. Conversations with the chair prior to submission are welcome. All submissions must arrive by Friday, March 1st for consideration. North American Religions. David G. Hackett, Department of Religion, 125 Dauer Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. E-Mail DHackett@Religion.ufl.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Linda Clifton Subject: Cultures in Conflict: cfp C A L L F O R P A P E R S Medieval to Early Modern Student Organizations of the Pacific (MEMSOP) announce their Second Annual Graduate Student Conference C U L T U R E S I N C O N F L I C T April 19-21, 1996, at the University of California at Berkeley. MEMSOP is a joint venture by students from the University of Washigton, UC Berkeley, and UCLA to provide a conference that features student research in medieval and early modern studies. At the 1996 conference we will explore medieval and early modern CULTURES IN CONFLICT. The theme is intended to be inclusive, and any paper that relates to the topic in any discipline will be seriously considered. Among our keynote speakers will be Ralph Hexter (UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature and Classics). Prof. Hexter works on topics in Latin culture from the classical period through the Renaissance. Please send proposals for papers of no more than 20 minutes' reading time to: Kathryn Vulic Kim Starr-Reid Dept. of English Dept. of Comparative Literature 322 Wheeler--#330 4408 Dwinelle--#2510 University of California University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Berkeley, CA 94720 krv@uclink2.berkeley.edu ksr@uclink.berkeley.edu DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS FEBRUARY 1, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: e301wk@acs.tamu.edu (Walter Kamphoefner) Subject: SSHA (im)migration network call for papers, revised CALL FOR PAPERS: Migration/Immigration Network Social Science History Association annual meeting, 10-13 October 1996 in New Orleans, LA. This interdisciplinary group attracts historians and a broad range of social scientists and specifically encourages graduate student participation. Proposals for individual papers or entire panel sessions of 2-4 papers are equally welcome. Deadline for program committee is Feb. 15, so please send submissions by Feb. 1, and sooner if possible. Migration/Immigration Network Chair: Walter Kamphoefner, Dept. of History, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; e-mail: waltkamp@tamu.edu phone: 409-845-7176 (office); 409 822-4792; FAX 409 862-4314 Co-chair: Stanley Nadel, Chair, Dept. of Social Sciences, SW Oklahoma State Univ., Weatherford, OK E-mail: nadels@swosu.edu Phone: 405 774-7097 ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ Editor: Avi Jacob Hyman, Review Editor: Henry Abramson, Chair: Tzvee Zahavy Jewish Studies On-Line Editorial Board: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Bernard Cooperman, Nathan Ehrlich, Mark Flumerfelt, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblat, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Richard Menkis, Jim Mott, Jonathan Sarna, Leslie Train, Belarie Zatzman ------------------------------------------------------------ Jewish Studies Resources: http://www.oise.on.ca/~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 2_______________________