Received: from mh.sprynet.com (mh.sprynet.com [165.121.2.59]) by m1.sprynet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13910 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca [142.150.96.236]) by mh.sprynet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA25230; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08358 for js-network-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 06:44:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 06:45:44 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter: Positions and Conferences 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: 35127424 0 1 P67F71.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.002p5 8.012 * November 1998 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Positions - Director, Center for Jewish Studies [Florida] - Modern American Jewish History [Michigan State] - Position [P/T] in Hebrew Language [Drew] * Conferences and Symposia - Historical Perspectives: Jewish History from the Maccabees to Bar Kochba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls [Hebrew University] - Third International Josephus Colloquium [Aarhus] - Historiography and Vision of the Past in Defining Ashkenazic Jewish Identity, 19th and 20th Century [Paris] - Twelfth Annual Klutznick Symposium [Creighton] * Notice - "Echoes from the Ancients" [PBS] ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Geoffrey Giles Subject: Director, Center for Jewish Studies Applications are invited for the position of Director of the University of Florida's Center for Jewish Studies. Currently celebrating its silver anniversary, the Center has built a flourishing, multidisciplinary, nationally recognized program of teaching, research and public service. Its mission is supported by the Price Library of Judaica (60,000 volumes). The Director will provide intellectual leadership in sustaining, organizing and further developing the Center's academic and public activities. Responsibilities include oversight of the undergraduate and graduate degree programs, curriculum development, state and local community outreach, management of a growing endowment, and the coordination of major lecture series. The appointment will be made at the associate or full professor rank to a recognized scholar in some area of Jewish Studies. Applicants must show proven leadership skills and administrative capabilities. Salary negotiable. Possible named chair opportunity. The application should include a letter of intent, c.v., and the names and addresses of three referees whom the applicant has asked to send letters of recommendation direct to the search committee chair. Applications should be received by February 15, 1999 at the following address: Professor Geoffrey J. Giles Chair, Jewish Studies Search Committee Department of History PO Box 117320 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-7320. Enquiries and nominations may be sent to Professor Giles at: ggiles@history.ufl.edu. The University of Florida is an EEO/AA/ADA employer. Avrum Goodblatt goodblat@sprynet.com (415) 9451368 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Kenneth Waltzer Subject: Position, Modern American Jewish History Tenure-track position, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. required. Primary research interest in modern American Jewish history. Undergraduate and graduate teaching responsibilities in American history, Michigan State University's core curriculum, and Jewish Studies. MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Applications from women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged. Handicappers have the right to request and receive reasonable accomodation. Applications must include curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and writing samples. These materials and letters of recommendation should be mailed to Henry Silverman, Chairperson, Department of History, 301 Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. Please refer to position number A&L 854 in all correspondence. The deadline for applications is Feb. 1, 1999. Kenneth Waltzer for the Search Committee Kenneth Waltzer Director - Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts & Humanities College of Arts and Letters waltzer@pilot.msu.edu Michigan State University phone: 517-353-3560 (office) East Lansing, MI 48824-1044 fax: 517-432-1858 (office) Professor James Madison College Michigan State University phone: 517-353-9395 (office) East Lansing, MI 48825-1205 fax: 517-432-1804 (office) ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Allan Nadler Subject: Position in Hebrew Language (part-time) The program in Jewish Studies at Drew University is looking for a part-time Modern Hebrew language instructor, beginning January 1999. Currently, Drew offers an annual Elementary Hebrew course and a one-semester Intermediate Hebrew course. This new appointment will initially be for the second semester of Elementary Hebrew. There are future possibilities for additional course development, as well as other Judaically-oriented campus work, in Drew's growing Jewish community. Apply immediately to; Professor Allan Nadler Department of Religion Faulkner House, # 302 Drew University Madison, NJ, 07940 e-mail: anadler@drew.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Avital Pinnick Subject: Historical Perspectives: Jewish History from the Maccabees to Bar Kochba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute of Jewish Studies Hebrew University of Jerusalem Fourth International Symposium January 27-31, 1999 Mt. Scopus Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This symposium will assess the implications of the Dead Sea Scrolls for our knowledge of the history of the Jewish people in the land of Israel from the period leading up to the Maccabean Revolt to the aftermath of the Bar Kochba Revolt (c. 200 BCE-200 CE). The rich discoveries from the various sites along the Dead Sea and its immediate vicinity (Qumran, Masada, Nahal Hever, Wadi Murabba'at, Nahal Seelim, Nahal Mishmar, Khirbet Mird, Wadi el-Daliyeh and Jericho) will be considered together with the previously known sources for this period (inscriptions, documents, historiographical writings, early rabbinic sources, and other ancient literature). The symposium will serve as a forum for discussion of the integration of these diverse ancient sources with the aim of attaining a better picture of the political, economic, social, and religious history of the period. Further details are posted on our web site. Dr. Avital Pinnick Chief of Publications Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew University of Jerusalem http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il - Scrolls bibliography updated weekly tel: 972-2-588-2063; fax: 972-2-588-3584 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Steve Mason Subject: Third International Josephus Colloquium Folker Siegert has asked me to post the following (translated) announcement. Responses should be addressed to him, thus: Prof. Dr. Folker Siegert, Direktor Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum Wilmergasse 1 48143 Mnster, Germany ijd@uni-muenster.de Third International Josephus Colloquium Sunday June 27 to Tuesday June 29, 1999, Aarhus, Denmark. Host: Prof. Dr. Per Bilde, University of Aarhus The Josephus Team at the University of Muenster will be responsible for arranging the programme. The particular themes of this colloquium will be: * the _Contra Apionem_; * ancient prejudices concerning foreigners and minorities; * investigations of all kinds into the language of Josephus. We invite registration for the colloquium, with or without a precise paper topic, by March 10, 1999. For the Josephus Team, Prof. Dr. Folker Siegert ----- Steve Mason, Professor Programmes in Classics and Religious Studies 219 Vanier College (Division of Humanities) York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 416-736-2100 x66987; FAX 416-736-5460; smason@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/smason ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Bechtel Delphine Subject: Historiography and Vision of the Past in Defining Ashkenazic Jewish Identity, 19th and 20th Century [Ed.: Please forgive the loss of diacriticals in the following] I would like to announce that the research group "Groupe d'Etudes du Monde Ashkenaze Europeen" in Paris is organizing an International Conference on "Historiography and Vision of the Past in Defining Ashkenazic Jewish Identity, 19th and 20th Century". The Conference is taking place on November 30th and December 1st, 1998, the first day will take place in Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 54 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, Salle 214, the second day in Universit Paris 10-Nanterre, Salle des Colloques, Batiment C. Conference program: "Ecriture de l'histoire et perception du passe comme approche de l'identite juive ashkenaze, 19e-20e siecles" 30 novembre 1998: 9h30-12h30: "Narration et histoire," seance presidee par Evelyne Patlagean * Jean Baumgarten (CNRS): "Folklore, traditions narratives juives et identite nationale en monde ashkenaze, 19e-20e siecles" * Delphine Bechtel (Universite Paris IV): "Recherches yiddish en linguistique et histoire litteraire comme vecteur de l'identite" * Jacques Le Rider (Universite Paris VIII): "Les personnages juifs dans le roman historique de langue allemande" * Perrine Simon Nahum (CNRS): "Entre judaisme et hellnisme: l'Antiquite vue par les historiens et philologues juifs dans la seconde moitie du 19e siecle" 14h-17h30: L'Historiographie et ses enjeux, seance presidee par Pierre Birnbaum (Universite Paris I) * Jacques Ehrenfreund (Universite Bar Ilan, Ramat Gan): "Memoire juive et nationalite allemande: les reprsentations collectives du passe des Juifs berlinois" * Michael Brenner: "On Cleo's Battleground: Visions of Jewish History and Identity during WWI in Germany" * Giacomo Todeschini (Universite de Trieste) "Les historiens juifs et le debat sur l'origine du capitalisme avant 1914" * Victor Neumann (Universite de Timisoara): "La question de l'identite juive dans l'historiographie roumaine des 19e et 20e siecles" * Marcin Kula (Universite de Varsovie): "Enseigner l'histoire des Juifs ou l'integrer dans l'enseignement des sciences sociales" 1er decembre 1998 9h30-12h30: Autobiographies, seance presidee par Maurice Kriegel (EHESS) * Claudie Weill (EHESS): "Autobiographies politiques de socialistes juifs d'Europe orientale" * Alina Cala (Institut historique juif, Varsovie): " La conscience historique de la jeunesse juive en Pologne de l'entre-deux-guerres a travers la collection des autobiographies du YIVO" * Annette Wieviorka (CNRS): "Les temoignages des disparus de la Shoah" * Giovanni Levi (Universite de Venise): "La double identite du judaisme italien: les composantes ashkenaze et sefarade" 14h-17h30: "Il n'est d'histoire que du present": seance presidee par Roland Goetschel (Paris IV) * Ferenc Eros (Academie hongroise des sciences): "Between Pathology and Testimony: Post-Holocaust Hungarian Jewish Identity Narratives" * Paul Zawadzki (Universite Paris I): "Comment se reinscrire dans la trame du temps: Recompositions identitaires et dissimilation en Pologne" * Jean-Charles Szurek (CNRS): "Etre temoin sous le stalinisme: premiere decennie de l'Institut d'Histoire Juive de Varsovie 1945-55" * Andras Kovacs (Universite Eotvos Lorand, Budapest): "Jewish Politics and Jewish Identity in Modern Hungary - Historical Tradition, Change and Conflict" The Conference was made possible by GEODE (Departement de Sociologie, Universite Paris X), Laboratoire d'analyse des systmes politiques (Paris X), Universite Paris X), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, DAAD Office allemand d'echanges universitaires, Institut Hongrois, Institut Polonais, Universite de Trieste, Universite de Venise, Fondation Soros. Contact: Delphine Bechtel Associate Professor for German and Yiddish Literature University of Paris IV Sorbonne Postal address: 90 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris tel: (33) 1. 43. 55. 52. 89 bechtel@ccr.jussieu.fr ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Leonard Greenspoon Subject: Twelfth Annual Klutznick Symposium "The End of Days?: Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present" October 10-11, 1999 Creighton University's Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Center for the Study of Religion and Society will host the Twelfth Annual Klutznick Symposium to take place in Omaha, Nebraska, on Sunday, October 10, and Monday, October 11. 1999. The theme of the Symposium will be "The End of Days?: Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present." The Program Committee seeks proposals from presenters in the humanities (including literature and literary studies), social sciences, applied and fine arts, and other appropriate fields. We hope to prepare a program that encompasses a variety of approaches and contexts. Preference will be given to individuals who have not been presenters at previous Klutznick Symposia. Those chosen to participate in the Symposium will be expected to make original presentations of their material in a manner suitable to an audience composed of the general public, undergraduate students, and other scholars. Audiovisual aids are encouraged. Participants must also submit their papers in a scholarly format; selected papers will be published in a thematic volume. The reading of papers as submitted for publication will not be appropriate for our audience. Some support for the presenter's costs of transportation and accommodation will be provided. For further information contact Leonard Jay Greenspoon Chairholder of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization (ljgrn@creighton.edu, phone 402-280-2304, fax 402-280-1454) or Ronald A. Simkins Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society (rsmkns@creighton.edu, phone 402-280-2504) Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68178. One page abstracts and vitae should be submitted to either Dr. Greenspoon or Dr. Simkins by March 15, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Peter Richardson Subject: "Echoes from the Ancients" "Echoes from the Ancients," a national PBS documentary developed by WXXI in Rochester, will be broadcast throughout North America on Thursday, 17 December 1998, at 10.00 p.m. The program features the archaeological excavations at Yodefat/Jotapata in the Galilee, a few miles north of Nazareth and one mile from Cana. Yodefat was memorialized by Josephus as the first place where the Roman forces under Vespasian besieged a fortified Jewish town; after a 47-day siege (described in detail by Josephus, the Jewish general commanding the forces in the town) the town fell--on 20 July 67 CE--and was destroyed, never to be built over again. It was at Yodefat that Josephus surrendered to Vespasian, predicting that he would become Roman Emperor. The dig is important prmarily for the light it sheds on first-century Galilean Jewish life and the context it provides for the rise of the Jesus movement. The documentary features several 3D animations by Cartesian FX of Rochester, and revolves around the work of Moti Aviam, district archaeologist of Western Galilee for the Israel Antiquities Authority, with supporting roles by William Scott Green and Peter Richardson. ____________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. 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