From ajhyman@oise.utoronto.ca Mon Dec 2 22:33:30 1996 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:48:45 -0400 (EDT) From: J S Online Reply-To: Jewish Studies Newsletter To: Jewish Studies Newsletter Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter: Jewish Studies Conferences, CFPs & related 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 5.002p1 * July-Aug 1996 * Readership = 6200+ ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: Note: New Chair of Editorial Board CONFERENCES, CALLS-for-PAPERS, and related: - American Jewish Women: cfp - Slavic Almanach: new journal, ashkenaz cultures - Women in Jewish Life and Culture: cfp - Jews in Hellenistic & Roman Cities Conference - Religion and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean: cfp - Catskills Institute - Cinema Studies Conference: cfp - Representations in Literature: cfp - Amjhistory Discussion Group ------------------------------------------------------------ Note: New Chair, Editorial Board. As of this issue, we are pleased to welcome our new chair of the editorial board, Jonathan Sarna, of Brandeis University. Prof. Sarna replaces Tzvee Zahavy, who recently completed a three-year term, during which the newsletter experienced tremendous growth. A full listing of the board can be found in the masthead at the end of the newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: nancy Isserman Subject: American Jewish Women: cfp A CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS CONFERENCE ON THE RELIGIOUS LIVES OF AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN IN APRIL 1998 AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IN PHILADELPHIA The conference co-chairs are seeking essays which address the following questions albeit in different times and settings. Note that all view the terms Judaism and religion broadly to include education, philanthropy, domesticity, inculcating the next generation, piety and spirituality. What has been the texture of Jewish women's religious lives in the U.S. from the colonial era to now? How did Jewish women define and live their lives in religious terms? What was the shape and content of their private religious lives? In what ways did women express their religion in their interactions in the public spheres of American Jewish life? The 12 to 15 papers accepted will initially be discussed at a invitation-only, one- and-a -half day conference in Philadelphia in late April of 1998. Two months prior to the conference all presenters must submit approximately 25-30 page drafts of their papers. The papers will then be mailed to the conference participants. The conference will thus consist solely of the discussion of these papers. We hope for a range of essays exploring the religious lives of American Jewish women in different times and different settings. If you are interested please submit a one-to-two page abstract on your topic by November 1, 1996. Participants will be chosen based on the abstracts submitted. If you have any questions please contact one of the conference co-chairs. Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University may be reached at 617 736-2977. Pamela Nadell, professor of American Jewish history at American University, may be reached at 202 885-2425. Murray Friedman, Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, may be reached at 215 665-2300. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Professor Joseph Sherman" <071JOS@muse.arts.wits.ac.za> Subject: *Slavic Almanach* new journal, ashkenaz cultures I should like to draw the attention of subscribers to a new journal, now in its third year of publication, which welcomes scholarly essays on all aspects of Yiddish and Ashkenaz culture. The journal is entitled *Slavic Almanach* and is published, with full accreditation and international referees, in South Africa. Information for potential contributors is as follows: *Slavic Almanach* is an annual journal which publishes research in all branches of Slavic, Central, East European and Eurasian studies. Original, unpublished research papers are cordially invited from scholars working in the fields of literature, language and linguistics, cultural studies, politics, history and economics of these regions. *Slavic Almanach* is also interested in Jewish and Yiddish literature and the culture of Ashkenaz in so far as this interrelates with, reflects upon, and responds to the dominant cultures, socieities, politics and history of Central and Eastern Europe. EDITORS: Yiddish: Joseph Sherman, Department of English University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA e-mail : 071jos@muse.arts.wits.ac.za Slavic Studies: Agata Krzychylkiewicz, Department of Russian University of South Africa, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA e-mail: krzycaa@alpha.inisa.ac.za Russian: Henrietta Mondry, Russian Section/Dept of French University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND e-mail: h.mondry@fren.canterbury.ac.nz ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ruth Dickstein Subject: Women in Jewish Life and Culture: cfp CALL FOR PAPERS WESTERN JEWISH STUDIES ASSOCIATION Third Annual Conference April 6--8, 1997 The University of Arizona Conference Theme: WOMEN IN JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE Areas of Interest: - Sephardic, Latin & South America, Crypto-Jews, Jews in the American West - Literature, Media, Arts and Popular Culture - Pedagogy - Biblical Stuies, Theology, Spirituality, Philosophy and Ethics - Interfaith Relations - Israel, Middle Easta, Holocaust Proposals on other topics for panels and workshops are also welcome. Deadline for Submission: October 15, 1996 Send on (1) page abstract (original and four (4) copies) and curriculum vitae to: Esther Fuchs, Chair, Judaic Studies Program The University of Arizona, PO Box 210080 Tucson, AZ 85721-0080 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: ljgrn@creighton.edu (Leonard Greenspoon) Subject: Jews in Hellenistic & Roman Cities Conference Royal Irish Academy Consultative Committee for Biblical and Near Eastern Studies An International Conference Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities 18-21 March 1997 Preliminary notice and call for papers The Consultative Committee for Biblical and Near Eastern Studies will host a conference at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin on the subject of "Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities" from 18 to 21 March 1997. Several leading scholars in the field, including Professor Eric Meyers (Duke University), Dr Martin Goodman (Oxford), Professor Lester L. Grabbe (Hull), Dr Tessa Rajak (Reading), and Dr Brian McGing ( Dublin) have already accepted invitations to give papers.. Dr Alan Bowman ( Oxford) will open the conference with a paper on "The Jews in the Classical World". The programme will focus on three topics: (1) Daily life and the physical world (2) Literature, philosophy, education and politics (3) Religious and social identity of the Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities These themes will be examined in sequence, with the evening lecture of each day opening a new theme. If you wish to offer a short paper (maximum 20 minutes) or to participate in the Conference please contact Dr G.J. Norton, Hon. Secretary, Consultative Committee for Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, Ireland or e-mail G.J.Norton@BHAM.AC.UK ------------------------------------------------------------ From: pats Subject: Religion and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean: cfp CALL FOR PAPERS The Dept. of Greek and Latin, the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and the Humanities Institute of The Ohio State University announce a conference on Religion and Gender in the Ancient Mediterranean, to be held May 20-22, 1997. Keynote speakers include: Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley; Susan Guettel Cole, Smith College; Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago; Sarah Iles Johnston, The Ohio State University; Ross Kraemer, University of Pennsylvania. Please submit 1-2 page abstracts for papers dealing with any aspect of gender in any ancient Mediterranean religion, to Secretary, Department of Greek and Latin, 414 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1319 by November 1st. The abstracts should not include any indication of the author's identity (this should be noted in a separate cover letter). Questions may be addressed to conference organizers, Sarah Iles Johnston (johnston.2@osu.edu) and Tamar Rudavsky (tamar+@osu.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Phil_Brown@brown.edu (Phil Brown) Subject: Announcement of Catskills Institute We are pleased to announce the formation of THE CATSKILLS INSTITUTE AN ORGANIZATION TO PROMOTE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS FOR JEWISH-AMERICAN LIFE The Catskills Institute was created by the organizing committee of the History of the Borscht Belt conference that was held in Woodridge, New York on Labor Day Weekend 1995. The Catskills Institute will hold conferences and provide educational, research, and archival services to advance knowledge of the Catskills as a central component of Jewish-American life. The Catskill Mountains of New York's Sullivan and Ulster Counties are the repository of a wealth of Jewish cultural traditions. A vacation spot since the end of the last century, the Mountains were unique as a playground, a place to launch careers and work one's way through college and professional school. The Borscht Belt was a major location for Jews, many of them recent immigrants, to become Americanized while retaining major elements of their Jewishness. The Catskills spawned endless major show business personalities, and defined the style of Jewish humor in America. In the 1950s and 1960s the Borscht Belt reached the pinnacle of its history, and starting in the 1970s declined till the point where only a handful of major resorts remain. The once-teeming roads of the Catskills are largely barren, with most hotels and bungalow colonies burned, decayed, or destroyed. Many who worked and vacationed there are very old and may not be able to provide their history in a short while. There is precious little time left for scholars, educators, artists, and others to save what remnants there are and to preserve the legacy of this monumental Jewish-American cultural phenomenon. address: Catskills Institute, c/o Phil Brown, Department of Sociology, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence RI 02912 (phone 401-863-2367; fax 401-863-3213); email: Phil_Brown@Brown.Edu Phil Brown, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology Brown University, Box 1916 Providence RI 02912 http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/ ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Terri Ginsberg Subject: Cinema Studies Conference: cfp I am now accepting proposals for papers to be presented at a panel I am chairing at the annual Society for Cinema Studies conference to be held on May 15-18, 1997 in Ottawa, Canada. The title of the panel is: "Class Politics, Hermeneutics, and the (Re)Turn to Fundamentalism in Moving-Image Culture." Its description, as distributed in the Society for Cinema Studies conference bulletin board, is as follows: Recent concessions to the Right have entailed deference to nostalgic, fundamentalist hermeneutic modes. How do current paradigms of moving image scholarship--e.g., cybernetics, performance theory, cognitive studies--parcitipate in, field or otherwise promote today's general cultural (re)turn to literalist, apolitical, supra-historical ways of interpreting social life? How does "labor" figure into (or out of) these paradigms? Has "cultural studies" been left behind? What films or film theories offer resistance? I am particularly interested in papers that can discuss the issues raised above from a Jewish/Judaic perspective and/or a perspective which entails a strong critique of anti-semitism. Deadline for proposals is September 25. Please mail to: Terri Ginsberg You may e-mail any questions (but please not proposals) to me at tjg9373@is2.nyu.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Naomi Sokoloff Subject: Representations in Literature: cfp CALL FOR PAPERS: I am preparing a special issue of SHOFAR, the journal of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, on the topic: representations of Israel in American-Jewish literature/representations of America in Israeli literature. Those interested in contributing should submit a 500-word abstract by December 15th. The deadline for completed essays (20-25 pages in length) will be May 1, 1997. All submissions will be subject to editorial review. Of particular interests are 1) papers on Hebrew literature as it deals with American Jewry or with relations between Zion and the Diaspora; 2) pedagogical comments. If you have incorporated the topic of Israel and America into your teaching (approaching these matters with reference to imaginative literature) SHOFAR would welcome a discussion of your syllabus and of evolving issues in the study of Israel/Diaspora relations. Address submissions and/or inquiries to: Professor Naomi Sokoloff NELC - 229B Denny Hall Box 353120 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3120 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Michelle Feller-Kopman Subject: Announcement of Amjhistory Discussion Group On behalf of the American Jewish Historical Society, I would like to invite you to subscribe to its new online American Jewish History Discussion Group. The group is dedicated to disseminating information and ongoing discussion of issues of interest to the American Jewish historical community. 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