Received: from sprynet.com (mh.sprynet.com [165.121.1.59]) by m1.sprynet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA08910 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 18:45:16 -0700 Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca [192.75.177.236]) by sprynet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA07440; Fri, 23 May 1997 18:45:12 -0700 Received: by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (rsm960611)) for js-network-outgoing id SAA05777; Fri, 23 May 1997 18:17:52 -0400 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970523222304.006a3f5c@MAIL.PSY.MIAMI.EDU> X-Sender: SCasper@MAIL.PSY.MIAMI.EDU X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 18:23:04 -0400 To: js-network@oise.utoronto.ca From: "Susan Casper" Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter: The Jewish Studies Newsletter - Part II Sender: owner-js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Jewish Studies Newsletter Status: X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 0 THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies ____________________________________________________________ Issue 6.002p2 * May 1997 * Readership =3D 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: CONFERENCES and CALL FOR PAPERS: - Independent Scholars - National Identities - Call for Jewish Stories - The Jewish Book Annual - Historical Statistics of US - A Heritage in Transition =20 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Michael Gregory Subject: Independent Scholars - Call For Papers The National Coalition of Independent Scholars and The Institute for Historical Study are co-sponsoring a conference, "The Scholarly Imperative: What Inspires Independent Scholars?" The one-day conference will be held at the San Francisco Main Public Library on Saturday, October 18, 1997. Independent scholars of all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for papers (20 minute presentations) on the subject of what inspires independent scholars to do their work: what subjects they choose to study (and why they choose them), what challenges and problems they face in their work, etc. The following subjects are especially pertinent: * The Thrill of the Chase: The Scholar as Detective * Barriers Independent Scholars Face and How to Surmount Them * Finding an Independent Voice; Finding an Audience * Extending and Revising What is Known * Subjects That Choose Us * Scholarship As Social Action * Scholarship at the Public Library Proposals may be for full panel presentations or for individual papers. Please submit three copies of the proposal, including the following= information: * Title of paper(s) and/or panel * A one- or two-paragraph abstract of the paper(s) * Name(s) of presenter(s) with postal and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers * Brief vita(e) of presenter(s) Send to: Ellen Huppert 1490 Willard Street San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 665-1529; e-mail: pah2@aol.com The deadline for submissions is June 30, 1997. --------- From: Richard Jensen Subject: National Identities - Call For Papers NATIONAL IDENTITIES: History, Geography, Image Scope and objectives: National identity has been one of the principal forces shaping the course of history, certainly since the French Revolution. It has played a key role in revolutions, wars and state-formation. Indeed, since the late eighteenth century the nation state has become the characteristic state form. This new journal would be the first concentrating on historical and geographical approaches to national identities, their interpretation and expression and their economic, social and political impact. The distinctive characteristic of the journal will be an approach to these issues based upon historical and geographical scholarship. Its themes will be the origins and development of nationality. These will include analysis of the uneven nature of the historical process of the development of national identity, and of the emergence of nationalism within territorially based ancien regime states. In the process the journal will seek to assess the forces shaping national identity, how far it is constructed by, as Hobsbawn and Ranger argue, `The Invention of Tradition', and the uses to which it is put. The historical significance of `nation' in political and cultural terms will also be considered in relationship to other important, and in some cases countervailing, forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe, or class. The journal will examine historically how identity and concepts of ethnicity relate, the role in forging identity of cultural (language, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other", etc) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining the ways in which these have been shaped and changed over time. How and why national identities emerged, their expression, and their transmission (for instance, the impact of occidental ideas on the growth of colonial nationalisms) will be key themes of the journal. The proposed journal will not be prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach. It will not seek to peddle some spurious orthodoxy. Instead, it aims to act as a forum within which the growing number of scholars working in this field, in particular historians and geographers, can explore this important subject. The journal will address a burgeoning research field of great contemporary topicality. Its focus will be on the roots and historical development of national identity. This process of development necessarily varies from territory to territory, an uneven historical phenomenon which the journal will also seek to explore. There is therefore no intention of confining the journal to a particular time period, although it is anticipated that the core of the articles and features in each issue may deal principally with the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It is also anticipated that a proportion of articles for the journal will focus on contemporary developments, but these nevertheless will be expected to show an awareness of the historical context in which their subjects are set, and to approach their topics within a historical framework. Comparative perspectives, for instance of western and eastern concepts of identity in the nineteenth century, will also be encouraged. There will be synoptic articles exploring particular issues and review essays, as well as book reviews. It is intended that the journal will also contain some information features which are designed to maximize its value for scholars working in this field. For instance, there will be a regular news feature, containing notices for and reports on conferences and symposia around the world, and an annual bibliography of recently published key works is also envisaged. If you are interested in contributing to National Identities please contact the editors. Peter Catterall=20 ICBH, Room 357=20 Senate House, Malet St=20 London WCIH 7HU +171 436 2478 P.P.Catterall@qmw.ac.uk David Hooson, Geography Department University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Fax: +510-6423370 Elfie Rembold=20 Freie Universitaet Berlin elfrem@zedat.fu-berlin.de Christopher Vernon, School of Planning Landscape Architecture & Surveying Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane, Queensland 4001 +61 7 3864 2077 facsimile +61 7 3864.4308 c.vernon@qut.edu.au If your would like to contribute a review to National Identities please contact the reviews editor. Chandrika Kaul Nuffield College Oxford, OX1 1NF chandrika.kaul@nuffield.ac.uk --------- From: Linda Clifton Subject: Call for Jewish Stories Jewish Chicken Soup For The Soul Do you have a great story about your own life, or about someone you know, or some story you heard, or read - a story that would uplift, encourage, inspire, move, or entertain readers of all faiths? A story that makes us laugh, cry or sigh? A Jewish story with universal appeal (i.e., Tevye)? Then I would be honored to invite you to be part of an exciting new project, a new book I am compiling called Jewish Chicken Soup for the Soul, (co-edited with Jack Canfield and Mark Victory Hansen, well-known for their best-selling series - 10 million copies - Chicken Soup For the Soul.) The sub-title of the book gives you an indication of its contents: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit. The Chicken Soup series now includes some 8 books which have been translated into 16 languages! My book will come out in 1998, and will be designed to uplift souls of readers all over the world, in a series which has already affected millions of people=12s lives for good. In addition, this special book will teach Jewish values, history and heritage to Jews and non-Jews. Some of the topics I am planning to include are: Love, Education, Family, Faith, Courage, Hope, Spirituality, Justice, Holiness, Joy, Truth, Self-Esteem, Aging, Death and Dying, A Matter of Attitude, Eclectic Wisdom. All stories are welcome - between one and five pages, typed, (no more than 1200 words) double-spaced. Feel free to submit more than one story, or send along a published favorite of yours as well (permission will be sought from all authors, copyrighted, and new ones). Please send me your stories by June 1 - regular mail or e-mail is fine. Check out sample Chicken Soup stories on web site: www.chicken-soup.com. Call or write with questions. Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins 212 Stuart Rd. East Princeton, NJ 08540-1946 =20 E-mail: elkins@tigger.jvnc.net =20 Tel: 609/497-7375. --------- From: Philip E. Miller Subject: The Jewish Book Annual - Invitation for Submissions The Jewish Book Annual invites submissions for consideration for Volume 55. Submissions can be in English, Hebrew, or Yiddish, and can cover any aspect of "Jewish literature," i.e., literatures by or about Jews, bibliography, and bio-bibliography. Submissions must be of scholarly quality, but extensive footnotes are not necessary. Articles in English can be sent electronically to miller@huc.edu. Articles in Hebrew or Yiddish must be submitted in paper-copy and sent to: = =20 Jewish book Annual c/o Jewish Book Council 15 East 26th Street New York NY 10010-1579 Attention, P. Miller, Editor Deadline for Volume 55 is September 1, 1997 --------- From: Richard Jensen Subject: Historical Statistics of US - Call For Manuscripts CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES Historical Methods is pleased to announce that it will begin a feature devoted to previously unpublished time series of U.S. historical data that may appear in the forthcoming Millennial Edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to the Present. Contributions will describe how data were constructed and provide detailed notes on sources. As many as four contributions might appear in each quarterly issue through the year 2000. Historical Methods believes such a feature is needed as the work to assemble the forthcoming Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics advances. This new fourth edition of the classic reference work, previously published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, will be published in print and electronic versions in the year 2000 by Cambridge University Press under the general editorship of Susan Carter UC Riverside), Scott Gartner (UC Davis), Michael Haines (Colgate University), Alan Olmstead (UC Davis), Richard Sutch (UC Berkeley), and Gavin Wright (Stanford University). The Millennial Edition is a collaborative project of the scholarly community and will include the fruits of quantitative historical scholarship from the fields of social, economic, demographic, and political history published during the last twenty-five years. Many of the series that deserve to be included in the new edition have never been published, nor have the technical descriptions of their construction been available to scholars. Because access to data and detailed instructions for replicating data are prerequisites for any science, the editors of the Millennial Edition would like to see previously unpublished data and appropriate technical descriptions appear in Historical Methods in advance of publication in the reference work. Manuscripts for this new feature should be submitted to Historical Methods in the usual way. All contributions will undergo peer review before publication. Manuscripts may be of any length, but the best candidates for publication will be short notes consisting of a statement of significance, a table and a simple graphic of the time-series data, and a technical discussion describing the methods of data collection and construction with full bibliographic references. These technical notes should be sufficiently detailed to permit another scholar to reconstruct the data series. Only several paragraphs should be necessary to discuss the relevance of the data for historical or current policy issues and to argue for the superiority of the data offered over alternatives that have been previously published. It is not necessary to write a journal article that makes use of the new data, although Historical Methods stands ready to consider such submissions. In all other respects, manuscripts should conform to HM's guidelines (See the inside back over of most issues or, after June 1, 1997, visit HM's Web site at= www.ucr.edu/methods). Acceptance for publication in Historical Methods does not automatically ensure that the data will appear in the Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics. However, the editors will consider all notes submitted for this feature. Initially, publication will be limited to historical time-series statistics pertaining to the United States; however, the editorial board of the Millennial Edition is actively considering broadening the scope of the project to international historical statistics. Charles Wetherell Susan Carter Editor Contributing Editor Historical Methods Historical Statistics methods@citrus.ucr.edu of the United States susan.carter@ucr.edu9 Charles Wetherell, Editor Historical Methods Department of History University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Phone:(909) 787-5239 Fax: (909) 787-5299 E-mail: methods@citrus.ucr.edu ---------- From: Joe Levy Subject: A Heritage in Transition - Call For Papers A HERITAGE IN TRANSITION A Conference on The Study of the Jews in Canada Sunday - Monday, June 7-8, 1998 Co-Chairs : Irving Abella(York), Joseph Levy (York), Ira Robinson (Concordia) The conference is supported by a grant from:=20 The Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and the Status of Women, Department of Canadian Heritage CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: The York University Centre for Jewish Studies (Program in Canadian Jewish Studies) and the Concordia University Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies, invite you to submit an abstract under one of the following thematic areas:=20 =B7 CULTURE =B7 HOLOCAUST =B7 LITERATURE =20 =B7 EDUCATION =B7 SEPHARDIM =B7 GENDER =20 =B7 FAMILY =B7 SOCIOLOGY =B7 HISTORY =20 =B7 ANTISEMITISM =B7 COMPARATIVE STUDIES Suggestions for other presentations are invited. Please note that all papers must relate directly to Canadian Jews or Judaism. Abstracts must be received by Monday May 19, 1997. Participants will be notified about presentations by Monday July 14, 1997. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: 1. OPENING PRESENTATIONS : There will be overview keynote presentations examining Canadian Studies and The Study Of World Jewry by invited speakers. 2. CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Sunday and Monday June 7-8, will be devoted to=20 concurrent disciplinary and interdisciplinary papers.=20 3. OPEN ROUND TABLES /PANELS: For short presentations of new thrusts in research and teaching. Please forward abstracts and correspondence to:=20 York University Centre for Jewish Studies 260 Vanier College York University 4700 Keele St. North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3 =20 Phone and Fax: (416) 736-5823 =09 e-mail: michaelb@yorku.ca ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor: Susan Casper Discussion Group: Avi Jacob Hyman, Review Editor: Henry Abramson, Chair: Jonathan Sarna Jewish Studies On-Line Editorial Board: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin,=20 Herb Basser, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblat,=20 Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak=20 Kerem, Richard Menkis, Jim Mott, Leslie Train,=20 Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman ------------------------------------------------------------ Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ------------------------------------------------------------ this 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 ___________________________end part 2_______________________