From ajhyman@oise.on.ca Mon Dec 2 22:30:10 1996 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 23:51:09 -0500 (EST) From: JSJeJ To: Academically-based Jewish Studies Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter (resources) 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 4.005p2 * January 1996 * Readership = 6200+ ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: Jewish Studies Internet Resources: - Jewish-Africana Update - Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Schoen Books - Hebrew College On-Line Courses - Index to Havatzelet, ha-Maggid and ha-Levanon - New WWW site: The Genizah Research Unit - Sassoon Center Homepage (Antisemitism) - New Jewish Web Site - Internet Course on Rhetoric of the Israel-Arab Negotiations - Noah's Window - Holocaust Related Web Sites - US Library of Congress: 30 manuscript guides On-Line - Electronic mailing list for Holocaust RI - Electronic course on Holocaust ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Carolivia Herron" Subject: Jewish-Africana Update I enclose below a preliminary description of the Jewish-Africana group as well as WWW information regarding the Alliance of Black Jews. I welcome comments on the description of the discussion group and am happy to receive names of person interested in joining the list once it is established. 1) DESCRIPTION OF JEWISH-AFRICANA DISCUSSION GROUP Name: Jewish-Africana@shamash.nysernet.org Brief Description: Judaic African AfricAmerican connections Longer Description: Listowner: Carolivia Herron, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School and Hebrew College (Brookline, MA). cherron@div.harvard.edu The Jewish-Africana discussion group is an open and unmoderated academic discussion list for information and research on the interconnections between Judaism and the African Diaspora including, demography of Jews of African descent throughout the world, comparative linguistics of Semitic and African languages, social and cultural history of African and African American Jews, comparative anthropology of Jewish and African peoples, the Hebraic strain within non-Jewish African peoples (e.g. Moses as an African American hero). The list will also maintain a website (to be announced) for documents, bibliographies, and other resources of special interest for Jewish Africana. This web site will also have direct access to the website for the Alliance of Black Jews. For further information contact Carolivia Herron at cherron@div.harvard.edu. 2) HOW TO CONTACT THE ALLIANCE OF BLACK JEWS Aaron Freeman of the Alliance of Black Jews maintain a web page for the alliance at http://www.mcs.net/~afreeman/home.html/blackjews.html This site includes press releases from the Alliance as well as contact for the group which has its charter meeting November 10-12 in Chicago. For further information on the Alliance of Black Jews contact: Michelle Stein-Evers 818 908-0804 Aaron Freeman afreeman@mcs.com Carolivia Herron cherron@div.harvard.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Subject: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature The Orion Center is happy to announce the inauguration of its Orion LISTSERV Network. Scholars and others with an interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls are encouraged to join this network and make a contribution to the international discussion of these significant documents. Please pass this message on to friends, colleagues and others who may be interested in discussion of this topic. The network will also carry news of current bibliography, lectures and meetings on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as activities sponsored by the Orion Center. To subscribe write to majordomo@pluto.mscc. huji.ac.il. Write nothing in the "subject line." The message itself should read simply: Subscribe Orion. If there are any questions about the Listserve network or about the Orion Center For the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. please contact Michael Segal at msorion@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Michael E. Stone, Director Supported by the Orion Fund Limited. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: schoen@trischo.jpr.com Subject: Schoen Books If you are in need of out-of-print Judaica, you may be interested in receiving the FREE Schoen Book Catalogue via e-mail. If you are, simply send us a note and we will put you on our mailing list. Shalom, Ken Schoen & Jane Trigere Schoen@TriScho.jpr.com ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Nathan Ehrlich Subject: Hebrew College On-Line Courses Hebrew College's Department of Continuing Education offers several on-line courses, including "An On-line Tour of the Jewish Internet" and "One Hundred Years of Jewish Short Stories". Both courses offer eight weeks of on-line lectures and discussions. If you live in the Boston area you can also take advantage of our classroom based course, "A Hands-on Introduction to the Jewish Internet". For more information about our Continuing Education program, contact Nathan Ehrlich, nehrlich@lynx.neu.edu. (Tel: 617-278-4929) ------------------------------------------------------------ From: ELHANAN ADLER Subject: Index to Havatzelet, ha-Maggid and ha-Levanon The University of Haifa Library and the Institute for the History of Eretz Israel of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi are happy to announce that the Institute's: Index to Havatzelet, ha-Maggid and ha-Levanon (Subject and author index to items related to Eretz-Israel) is available for searching via Internet. The index is accessible via the ALEPH system at the University of Haifa Library. The Index lists some 10,000 articles which appeared in the newspapers: Havatzelet (1863, 1870-1910), ha-Maggid (1857-1892), ha-Maggid ha-Hadash/ ha-Maggid le-Yisrael (1892-1913) and ha-Levanon (1863-1884). They are indexed by author and subject. The subject index is highly detailed - including listings for individual institutions such as schools, synagogues, yeshivot, factories, hotels, societies, etc. The subject headings are alphabetico-classified rather than direct, for example: JERUSALEM - HOSPITALS: BIKUR HOLIM (in Hebrew!) with cross references from the direct forms. To access the index (assuming you have Hebrew capability and are familiar with the Israeli ALEPH system): Telnet to: LIB.HAIFA.AC.IL Login as Username: ALEPH and Select terminal type for Hebrew enter: BASE YBZ enter: F7 to switch to Hebrew search using standard ALEPH commands: authors: mem-het= titles: khaf-taf= subjects: nun-shin= words: mem-tsadi-aleph Elhanan Adler Assistant Director University of Haifa Library ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dr DR de Lacey Subject: New WWW site: The Genizah Research Unit The Genizah Research Unit in the Cambridge University Library announces the opening of its new Web site. This will be dedicated to the publication of catalogues of the Genizah materials; bibliographies; and detailed studies of specific manuscripts. As a pilot study we shall first concentrate on a dozen MSS chosen to illustrate the range of the Genizah materials. The first of these is now available; together with general information and a basic bibliography. We invite responses to this pilot to help guide us in this new venture. (And we apologise in advance if you receive multiple copies of this posting, or if you feel that our archives are not directly relevant to this particular group.) The URL is http://www.cam.ac.uk/Libraries/Taylor-Schechter Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Arzt Rosalind Subject: Sassoon Center Homepage (Antisemitism) We would like to bring to your attention our Home Page on the WEB. Our URL is: http//www2.huji.ac.il/www_jcd/top.html. Comments and suggestions appreciated. Rosalind Arzt, Information Manager SICSA - Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus 91905 Jerusalem ISRAEL Email: rarzt@hum.huji.ac.il * Phon: 972 2 882870 * Fax: 972 2 881002 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Max Levitte Subject: New Jewish Web Site Hot Max, is our directory of Jewish and Israeli Internet sites. Please drop by the directory (http://www.jcn18.com/jhot000.htm) and let us know if we got everything right. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Sam Edelman Subject: Internet Course on the Rhetoric of the Israel-Arab Negotiations SIT AT HOME AT YOUR COMPUTER AND TAKE A NEW AND INNOVATIVE COURSE THE RHETORIC OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: AN INTERNET COURSE (See our WWW site @ http://www.csuchico.edu/cont/hol/Israel.html) TAUGHT BY PROFESSORS SAM AND CAROL EDELMAN, The course will focus on exploring the ongoing peace negotiations between the State of Israel and the Arab world. Students will be using only the Internet as their basic resource. A variety of Web sites will be examined and the speeches and documents concerning the peace negotiations will be analyzed. Each student in the class will produce two papers. There will be no exams. Students may meet with the professors at regular times in cyberspace. All papers will be submitted electronically. The VEE (Virtual education environment) will permit us all to meet once a week for a few hours to discuss topics and ongoing events in real time with some of the diplomats and leaders who have been working on the various proposals. For example the class will be discussing the current status of the peace negotiations after the assassination of Yitzak Rabin with representatives of the Israeli government and AIPAC. Students will get to talk with Israeli, Palestinian , Jordanian officials on the VEE. See our Web Site for Registration information. Note: this course may also be taken for graduate credit with permission of the instructors and the assignment of additional work. sedelman@oavax.csuchico.edu cedelman@oavax.csuchico.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: BBR Media Subject: Noah's Window NOAH'S WINDOW: A GIFT FOR YOUR READERS Noah benShea the International Best Selling author of JACOB THE BAKER and JACOB'S JOURNEY has created a weekly electronic column that you can distribute to your readers, FREE OF CHARGE. Noah's weekly window of thoughts combines the wisdom and compassion of his character JACOB with timeless insights drawn from a wide range of sources. We invite you to join the growing thousands of on-line readers who find comfort and wisdom in Noah benShea's weekly publication. To receive a sample issue of NOAH's WINDOW, send a blank E-Mail to: noah@zoom.com You will receive a reply within minutes. For permission to distribute NOAH'S WINDOW, in its entirety, to your list readers, send email to: msh@rain.org ------------------------------------------------------------ Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List From: "Klevan, David G." Subject: Holocaust Related Web Sites Available now is my latest draft of a "webography" of Holocaust-related sites. Any suggested additions or changes to the list are appreciated. ANNOTATED "WEBOGRAPHY" I. Holocaust-related Web Sites 1. Authoritative Organizations for the Study of the Holocaust 2. Major Web Sites on the Holocaust / General History 3. Specialized Holocaust History / Holocaust-Related Sites 4. Jews, Romani ("Gypsies"), and Freemasons on the Web 5. On-line Courses and Cooperative Learning about the Holocaust 6. Holocaust Deniers and Those Who Fight Them (Nizkor, RUE, and the Skeptic Homepage) Please write to me directly for the complete "webography" David Klevan dklevan@ushmm.org ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: US Library of Congress: 30 manuscript guides On-Line From: Mary Lacy The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the expansion of its menu on LC MARVEL, the Library's gopher. This menu now provides selected finding aids which are searchable using WAIS, information on Reading Room policies and procedures, instructions for searching manuscript catalog records in the Library's online catalog, and the Division's annual acquisitions reports. To date, only a small percentage of the division's finding aids are available in electronic format: twenty finding aids are currently online, with ten more to follow shortly. This number will increase as finding aids are converted on an ongoing basis. >From the main menu of LC MARVEL (at marvel.loc.gov), go to: --> Research and Reference --> Reading Rooms of the Library --> Manuscript For direct access from the World Wide Web, use the URL: gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/research/reading.rooms/manuscripts. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Helene Sinnreich Subject: Electronic mailing list for RI The United States Holocaust Rearch Institute, the scholarly division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is automating its mailing list so that people with email accounts can receive the calendar and other announcements via email. If you wish to receive announcements from the Research Institute via email, please send an email message from your account to: listserv@listserv.ushmm.org The message should say: subscribe USHRI Sample message: Subscribe USHRI John Doe ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Eli Birnbaum Subject: Electronic course on Holocaust The Student and Academics department in conjunction with California State University offers you a new educational experience: THE HOLOCAUST: FOUNDATION, TRAGEDY AND AFTERMATH Drs. C. & S. Edelman This course was developed to help students and scholars understand the political events, philosophies and beliefs that led up to the Holocaust, and the world's acquiescence to the Nazi annihilation of the Jews. Who organized the resistance and rescue movements throughout Europe? What has been the Jewish cultural response to the Holocaust? What was the long-term effect of the post-War political response? This course will be conducted using the virtual educational environment (VEE). This multiple user domain object oriented site will allow you to enter a virtual classroom where discussion and research groups will work together. Lectures and reading assignments will be distributed weekly via e-mail with the opportunity of interaction with the professors. College credit available. For more information on enrollment, fees and registration procedures, e-mail inquiries to: dbarger@oavax.csuchico.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ 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/JewishStudies/ ------------------------------------------------------------ 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_______________________