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THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER
positions & events in academic Jewish Studies
Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network
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Issue 8.006p1 [#8.022]   *   March 1999   *   Readership = 6200+
for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic
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Table of Contents:              <best read as a print-out>

* Calls for Papers and Conferences
    - Call for Papers/Chair: Music in Yiddish Theatre
    - Updated Conference Programme: Untold Stories: American Jewish Women
      in the Yishuv and Early State of Israel [Brandeis]

* Notices
    - Abraham Golomb Fund
    - New On-Line Exhibit: "Yale and the Ancient Holy Land"
    - Website of Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus
    - Website of the Center of Jewish Education, Ukraine
    - Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins 36.5 [Princeton]

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CALLS FOR PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
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From: Paula Eisenstein Baker <eisenbak@basil.stthom.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers/Chair: Music in Yiddish Theatre

Colleagues,

Seth Wolitz of UT-Austin and I are preparing to submit a proposal to the
Jewish Studies Association for next December's meeting for a session on
"Music in (or and?) the Yiddish Theatre"; he will talk about Goldfadn, and
I will talk about Society for Jewish Folk Music member Leo Zeitlin's year
(1922-23) in Vilna conducting Yiddish operetta.

I'm writing to see whether anyone on the list would be interested in
participating in or chairing such a session.  Private e-mail, please, to
me at <eisenbak@basil.stthom.edu Many thanks.

Paula Eisenstein Baker
Music Dept.
Univ of St. Thomas, Houston
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From: Daniella HarPaz <YishuvConf@aol.com>
Subject: Untold Stories: American Jewish Women in the Yishuv and Early
State of Israel

Wednesday, March 17-Friday, March 19, 1999
Brandeis University, Hassenfeld Conference Center

Sponsored by:
- The International Research Institute on Jewish Women [Brandeis]
- The Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and
  Israel [Brandeis]
- The Lafer Center for Women's Studies [Hebrew University]

Wednesday, March 17, 1999
6:00 pm  Reception
6:30 pm  Dinner.
* Chair:  Shulamit Reinharz [Brandeis]
* Welcoming Remarks:  Mrs. Kena Shoval [Wife of the Israeli Ambassador to
  the United States]
* Keynote Address:  Anita Shapira [Tel Aviv] "Golda Meir: Femininity and
  Feminism"

Thursday, March 18, 1999
8-9:00 am Breakfast
9-10:30 am  At Home and Abroad
* Chair:  Devra Lasden, Combined Jewish Philanthropies
* Joseph Glass [Hebrew University] "American Jewish Women in Palestine:
  Their Settlement and Spatial Distribution, 1918-1939"
* Mary McCune [Ohio State] "Formulating Women's Interpretations of
  Zionism, 1914-1930"
* Nelly Las [Hebrew University] "The Zionist Contribution of the
  International Council on Jewish Women"

10:45 am -12:15 pm  Personal Testimonies
* Chair:  Jane Zolat [Hadassah]
* Participants: Esther Friedman, Ruth Kaslove, Yocheved Herschlag Muffs,
  Zipporah Porath, Lois Slott

12:30-1:30 pm  Lunch

1:30 - 3 pm  Working the Land
* Chair:  Sylvia Barack Fishman [Brandeis]
* Mark Raider [SUNY Albany] "Motivating American Jewish Women Through
  Text: The Plough Woman"
* Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern [Haifa/Stanford] "The Pioneer Women's
  Organization:  Reconstructing Womanhood, Redefining Halutziut"
* Esther Carmel Hakim [Haifa] "Hadassah-WIZO Canada and the Development of
  Agricultural Training for Women in the Early State Israel"

3:15-4:45 pm  Working for Change
* Chair:  Joyce Antler [Brandeis]
* Mira Yungman [Open University of Israel] "Gender and Activism: Hadassah
  in Israel, 1948-1956"
* Dona Phares [Old Dominion] "The Role of American Women in Israel's War
 of Independence"
* Nitza Druyan [Hofstra] "The Yemenite Women of New York: Unassuming in
 their Charities"

4:45-6 pm  Taping of Testimonies

6 pm Dinner
* Chair:  Susan Kahn, Brandeis University
* Keynote Address: Marcia Freedman, Former Knesset Member, "How I Went to
Israel and Became an Anglo-Saxon:  Israeli Feminism Through American Eyes"
* Respondent: Galia Golan [Hebrew University]

Friday, March 19, 1999

8-9 am Breakfast
9 am-12 pm Personalities and Politics
* Chair:  Sue Mizrahi, Hadassah
* Gail Reimer [Jewish Women's Archive] "Lost Links in the Zionist Legacy:
  Emma Lazarus Reading George Eliot"
* Peri Rosenfeld [NYU] "The Life and Times of Sara Bodek Paltiel"
* Baila Round Shargel [SUNY Purchase] "Bessie Gotsfeld: Founder of
  Mizrachi Women"
* Allon Gal [Ben-Gurion Negev] "The Vision of Henrietta Szold"
* Sara Kadosh [American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee] "Rose Viteles
  -Treasurer of the Haganah in Jerusalem"

12 pm  Future Directions for Research:  Feminism, Zionism and Friendship
* Shulamit Reinharz [Brandeis]
Open Mike Discussion

12:45 pm  Lunch

Registration cost is $20 at the door.  Meals must be reserved in advance.
For more information please contact:  yishuv@brandeis.edu, 781-736-2965

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NOTICES
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From: Arieh Lebowitz <CZGD08A@prodigy.com>
Subject: Abraham Golomb Fund

Abraham Golomb (1888-1982) Fond
Profesor, Pedagog, Shrayber un Eseyst

Der Comitet far Yidish un Yidishe Cultur in Meksike hoht bashtimt a premye
fun $1,500.00(toysnt finfhundert dolar) fun dem Golomb Fond, geshafn durkh
zayne gevezene talmides, far a shifrtlekhe arbet oder dizertatzye vegn a
teme fun Abraham Golombs shafungen.  Far protim zikh vendn tzum komitet
far yidish:

Comite Pro Iddish En Mexico
Acapulco 70/2o. Piso
Col. Roma Norte
06700, Mexico D.f.  Mexico
attn: Shoshana Cimet for the Abraham Golomb Fond

Fax (011-525)211-3839
in Mexico, Fax 5211-3839

e-mail<ashkenaz@mail.internet.com.mx>
or <tartak@acnet.net>(Susana Ralsky Tartakaite),
or <tartak@intmex.com(Susana Ralsky Tartakaite)
---

Fund "Abraham Golomb" (1888-1982)
Professor, Educator, Writer, Essayist

The Committee for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture in Mexico appoints a prize
of $1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred dollars) from the Abraham Golomb
Fund, created by his former students, for a written work or dissertation
about a topic or theme from Abraham Golomb's creations.  For more details
please contact the Yiddish Committee at:

Comite Pro Iddish En Mexico
Acapulco 70/2o. Piso
Col. Roma Norte
06700, Mexico D.f.   Mexico
attn: Shoshana Cimet for the Abraham Golomb Fond

Fax (011-525)211-3839
in Mexico, Fax 5211-3839

e-mail<ashkenaz@mail.internet.com.mx>
or <tartak@acnet.net>(Susana Ralsky Tartakaite),
or <tartak@intmex.com(Susana Ralsky Tartakaite)
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From: Nanette Stahl <nanette.stahl@yale.edu>
Subject: New On-Line Exhibit

A new on-line exhibit titled:  "Yale and the Ancient Holy Land:
Archaeology and Exploration in the Yale Collections" is on view at:

http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/exhibits/webarch/front/Splashmainnew.html

Everyone is invited to come and visit.

Nanette Stahl
Judaica Curator
Yale University Library
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From: Aviva Ben-Ur
Subject: Website of Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus

The Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus, which first met at the AJS last
December under the Chairmanship of Aron Rodrigue and myself, is happy to
announce that its website is now available for public access at the
following address:

http://www.princeton.edu/~rsimon/ssc.htm

This website was designed by Rachel Simon with the consultion of Elka
Klein and myself.

The website includes: a statement of purpose; a list of syllabi in
Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies (both nonintegrative and integrative); a list of
scholars in the field along with their research interests and
publications, a list of Sephardi/Mizrahi organizations and resources, a
list of Sephardi/Mizrahi conferences, and links to other relevant sites.

If you wish to be included in the scholars' list, please send your
information (name, institute, title, contact information, research
interests and lists of publications) directly to Dr. Simon at
rsimon@princeton.edu We are also accepting additional syllabi in the field
of Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, including integrative syllabi (for example a
course in American Jewish history that incorporates Sephardi/Mizrahi
studies) and non-integrative (for example a course on the Jews of Spain.)

Please direct all additional correspondence regarding the Caucus website
to Dr. Simon as well. Queries regarding the Caucus discussion list may be
sent to me at the following address: sephardi@oise.utoronto.ca

One of the central goals of the Caucus is to affect the integration of
Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies into general Jewish Studies, and we hope this
will be an important contributing factor in reaching this goal.

Aviva Ben-Ur
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From: Julia Lapidus <center@cjeu.carrier.kiev.ua>
Subject: New Website

The Center of Jewish Education, Ukraine

Dear Colleagues,

We have a honour to introduce the first Jewish Pedagogical Web-site by the
Center of Jewish Education in Ukraine. Please visit it at:

        http://www.cjeu.8m.com/

We need your comments for our future development. Thank you in advance.

Webmaster Julia Lapidus
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From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins

The Fifth Meeting of 1998-99 will be held on Thursday, March 18th from 7-9
pm at Princeton University, location tba..  Persons wishing to dine with
other participants prior to the meeting should meet at 6 pm at the
Religious Studies Lounge -- 1879 Hall.  Take-out food (vegetarian and
non-vegetarian) will be provided.  Cost is $7 per person.

Please RSVP to either chairperson (addresses above), if possible, so that
we might have a rough idea of how much food to arrange.

Program:

Martha Himmelfarb [Princeton]
"Judaism in 1st-4th Century Asia Minor:
An Overview of the Problems and Possibilities for Further Research"

Suggested Reading:

John M. G. Barclay, _Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora from Alexander to
Trajan (323BCE-117 CE)_ (Edinburgh, 1996), 259-81.

Paul Trebilco, _Jewish Communities in Asia Minor__ (Cambridge, 1991),
particularly 37-54 (Sardis), 186-90 (conclusions).

A. T. Kraabel, "Unity and Diversity Among Diaspora Synagogues," in _The
Synagogue in Late Antiquity_ (ed. Lee I. Levine; Philadelphia, 1987),
49-60.

Revelation 2-3.

For detailed directions to the meetings and for further information, visit
the PSCO web site:

        http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/

Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827
kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html

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CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR:
    Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur@oise.utoronto.ca>
ASSOCIATE MODERATOR:
    Marsha B. Cohen <mcohen02@fiu.edu>
MANAGING EDITOR:
    Avi Jacob Hyman <ajhyman@oise.utoronto.ca>
CHAIR:
    Jonathan Sarna <sarna@binah.cc.brandeis.edu>
JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR and BOOK REVIEW EDITOR:
    Lorenzo DiTommaso <ditomml@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
WEBSITE:
    Avrum Goodblatt <goodblat@sprynet.com>

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
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