Received: from sprynet.com (mh.sprynet.com [165.121.1.59]) by m1.sprynet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA03728 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca [142.150.96.236]) by sprynet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA05857; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:50:54 -0800 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24914 for js-network-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:48:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:49:42 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter: Events and Notices Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Jewish Studies Newsletter Status: X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 0 1 P182A0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.001p8 * October 1998 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: *Events - Seminar: Cultures of Democracy and Democratization: Israel and Eastern Europe Compared [Rutgers] - Conference: A Global Consortium of Educational and Training Institutions [Jerusalem] *Notices - Judaica Library and Museum Outreach Program [IREX] - Vinnitsa Region Jewish Community, Ukraine ------------------------------------------------------------ EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: The Center for the Study of Jewish Life Subject: Seminar: Cultures of Democracy and Democratization: Israel and Eastern Europe Compared Cultures of Democracy and Democratization: Israel and Eastern Europe Compared: A Year-Long Seminar, Fall 1999-Spring 2000 The Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at the State University of New Jersey invite applications from Visiting Scholars, Faculty, and advanced Graduate Students for a seminar during the 1999-2000 academic year. The seminar will examine the cultural prerequisites for democracy in diverse political settings. Among the questions we will address are: Under what conditions can democracy be consolidated and maintained? What historical role have such forces as religion, nationalism, and socialism played in the development of democratic political culture? To what degree have these forces been at odds with the task of building democratic, liberal, and pluralistic polities? What kinds of collective identities, old and new, accomodate democratic values and foster participation in democratic deliberations? How are relationships between political interests and collective identities shaped in various social and political contexts? What mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion from political life and public rituals have emerged in old and new democracies? To answer these questions, we will scrutinize closely the role played by race, gender, and class in shaping the boundaries of citizenship and political participation. The seminar will concentrate on developing comparisons between Israel, which embodies both democratic and religious imperatives in its political culture, and the more recent democracies currently being constructed in post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We welcome projects from any discipline, including those that focus on individual case studies related to our theme, theories of democratization and political culture, or comparative projects. The seminar expects to offer a limited number of stipends to external Fellows, and to Rutgers faculty and graduate students, pending available funding. We invite applications from visiting scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, Israel, and the Rutgers area. The Centers can assist them with administrative support, library privileges, and office space. We also welcome the participation of Associate Fellows and Affiliate Scholars whose research intersects with our topic. Seminar participants are expected to attend the weekly seminar meetings, give a seminar presentation, and attend lectures related to the seminar. Individuals from all disciplines with projects related to the seminar themes are welcome to apply. To apply, please complete the attached application. Please also attach your curriculum vitae (up to 5 pages) and a brief description (3-4 double-spaced pages) of your project and its relevance to the seminar?s theme. If you have questions about the application process for the seminar, please contact: Julie Moscinski at mosci@rci.rutgers.edu or phone her at (USA) (732) 932-8551 CRCEES Rutgers University 172 College Ave. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA Applications are due January 8, 1999. The awards will be announced around March 1, 1999. To obtain an application, please see: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/seminar.html The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life 12 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Tel: (732) 932-2033 Fax: (732) 932-3052 e-mail: csjl@rci.rutgers.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Armand Lauffer Subject: Conference Announcement, A Global Consortium of Educational and Training Institutions Directors (or their representatives) of academic institutions and other training programs preparing either lay leaders or professionals for careers in Jewish communal service and/or in Jewish education will meet in Jerusalem on November 12 and 13. This is an invitational meeting, but there are always the possibilities that we missed some people who should be there. Our purpose is to explore opportunities for cross-national collaborations and exchanges that would enhance the work of individual institutions. These are the institutions might be thought of as preparing people for careers or policy roles in an emerging and increasingly global Jewish civil service. And that training requires both technical and Jewish knowledge and know-how. The meeting will take place during the first 2 days of the World Council of Jewish Communal Service Quadrennial. It follows several smaller meetings held in Paris in 1996 and 1997 under the auspices of LeAtid-Europe, a leadership development program affiliated with the European Council of Jewish Communities. Planning for the Jerusalem conference included regional inputs from North and Latin America, Israel. Europe and the FSU. If you are interested in more information, please contact me. Armand Lauffer (alauffer@umich.edu). --- Armand Lauffer, Professor of Social Work Director of Project STaR The University of Michigan e-mail: alauffer@umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 phone: (734) 763 6583 fax: (734) 936 1961 ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Larry Laufman" Subject: IREX Announces Judaica Library and Museum Outreach Program The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) has received funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation to administer the first of three phases of the Judaica Library and Museum Outreach Program. This is a new IREX initiative that focuses on training library and museum managers from Poland and Ukraine in the development of public outreach and education activities for their institutions. This three-tiered program will include assessments of selected Polish and Ukrainian centers, internships in the United States for specialists from Poland and Ukraine, and development of World Wide Web pages for the Polish and Ukrainian institutions. Due to the near-annihilation of Central and Eastern Europe's Jewish communities during the Holocaust and the following period of religious and cultural suppression under the Communists, much of what now remains as testimony to the rich legacy of Judaism in this region is found only in libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions where materials were gathered and stored. For the first time in over 50 years, these scholarly and cultural centers are opening their doors to collections that can provide new insights to historical eras, events, and individuals. The Judaica Library and Museum Outreach Program will foster public awareness and appreciation of the extensive legacy of Eastern Europe's Jewish communities, and will assist that museums and libraries ensure their own sustainability by increasing community engagement. The program will begin in early 1999 with consultation and evaluation visits by US experts to institutions in Warsaw and Kiev and one additional site in each country. The US experts IREX selects for the program will have experience in organizing public programs for Jewish libraries and museums. The visits will focus on assessing current outreach activities and making recommendations for the care and display of these invaluable collections. At the conclusion of these visits, the US experts, Polish and Ukrainian participants, and other interested local specialists will meet to form a working group that will focus on developing a cooperative plan for the next two phases of the program. US experts interested in participating in this program are invited to contact Beate Dafeldecker at bdafeldecker@irex.org. --- Anne Marie Hvid Editor, Electronic Publishing Communications Division --- IREX International Research & Exchanges Board 1616 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Tel: (202) 942-2171 Fax: (202) 628-8189 Web: www.irex.org ------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Dickerson Subject: Vinnitsa Region Jewish Community, Ukraine Greetings! This announcement is for a Web presentation which provides information about the Vinnitsa Region Jewish Community (VRJC) in Ukraine. The URL for the site is as follows: http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/podolia-vrjc.html The VRJC has several functions, including the following: * supporting the elderly and sick Jews of the region. * creating and implementing educational programs. * revitalizing Yiddish language and culture. * preserving the region's Jewish historical artifacts, sites, and monuments. * celebrating the traditional Jewish holidays. The VRJC's archives (in Vinnitsa) contain documents pertaining to the Holocaust; these materials are primarily in Russian and Ukrainian, but there are also some documents in German. The VRJC has several ongoing projects -- which include restoring the town's synagogue. The community has eight Jewish schools, a lecture center, and musical groups which perform Yiddish music and dance. The VRJC's postal and e-mail addresses are as follows: Mr. Igor Desner, Executive Director Vinnitsa Region Jewish Community Post Office Box 1993 Vinnitsa-21 286021, Ukraine vinjew@sovamua.com Thank you for your time and consideration. Cordially, David Dickerson http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/ http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/podolia-vrjc.html ____________________________________________________________ Chief Editor: Aviva Ben-Ur Digest Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur Managing Editor: Avi Jacob Hyman Review Editor: Henry Abramson Chair: Jonathan Sarna Newsletter Editor: Lorenzo DiTommaso New Books Editor: Lorenzo DiTommaso Jewish Studies On-Line Editorial Board: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Richard Menkis, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, 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