Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx8.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id req1cd.d8n.37kbi16 Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:05:17 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20915 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:16:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:18:04 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Position, Conferences, and Notice 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 X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 0 1 P78830.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.006p2 [#8.023] * March 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Position - Jewish Religious Thought and Literature [Wisconsin-Madison] * Conferences - Conference on the History of American Jewish Political Conservatism [Temple/American University] - Orion Conference in Switzerland - Programme of Conference on Germany, Jews, and The Future of Memory [Princeton] * Notices - Reunion of Michael Stone's Former Students ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITION ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Michael Fox Subject: Position in Jewish Religious Thought and Literature The Hebrew Department and the Jewish Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are jointly seeking a scholar and teacher in classical Jewish religious thought and literature. The position is supported by a grant from the Belzer Foundation. Hiring will be on the assistant professor level, tenure track. A Ph.D. in the field must be attained by the starting date of the appointment. Full training and research competance in classical texts required. Specialization open but with a preference for rabbinics. Courses to be taught include: a one-semester survey of Judaism; rabbinic texts in the original languages and in translation; topics in Jewish religion. Ability to teach a course in the methodology of religious studies and history of religions is highly desirable. Appointment available 8/2000. Send rsum and four letters of recommendation by 9.30.99 to Prof. Michael Fox, 1220 Linden Dr., rm. 1346, Madison, WI 53706. Queries to MFOX@LSS.WISC.EDU. See also the Department's web page: polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/hebrew/. Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. EOE/AA. ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Nancy Isserman Subject: Conference on the History of American Jewish Political Conservatism The Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center of Temple University and the Jewish Studies Program and History Department of American University are sponsoring a conference on The History of American Jewish Political Conservatism on April 15 and April 16, 1999 at American University in Washington D.C. Sessions will be held on Historic and Religious Roots, The Premature Jewish Neo-Conservatives, The Making of a Jewish Neo-Conservative, Jewish Conservatives and Israel, The Neo-Conservatives, and the Next Generation. For a list of presenters, the titles of their papers and other details of the conference please look on the Feinstein Center web site at http://www.temple.edu/feinsteinctr. For more information email Murray Friedman, Director of the Feinstein Center at MurrayFrie@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Avital Pinnick Subject: Orion Conference in Switzerland Information about the following conference has been posted on the Orion web site: Qumran - Die Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer. Ein wissenschaftliches Symposium anlaesslich der Qumran-Ausstellung in St. Gallen, Switzerland 3 July 1999 For further information, contact Konrad Schmid at Konrad.Schmid@access.unizh.ch or visit the site http://www.unizh.ch/theol/forschung/at/qumran.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Froma Zeitlin Subject: Conference on Germany, Jews, and The Future of Memory Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Jewish Studies presents an International Conference, April 15-18, 1999, Princeton University Thursday, April 15 * 3:30-4:15 pm: "Opening the Agenda." Froma Zeitlin [Princeton] Welcoming Remarks: - President Harold Shapiro [Princeton] - Ambassador Jrgen Chrobog [Federal Republic of Germany] - Ruth Mandel [Vice-Chair, United Holocaust Memorial and Museum] - Steven Some [Chair, NJ Commission on Holocaust Education] * 4:30-5:30 pm: Keynote Address: Saul Friedlander [Class of 1939 Chair in Holocaust Studies, UCLA, Tel Aviv University] Introduction: Anson Rabinbach [Princeton] "Negotiations" * 7:30 pm: Round Table. Negotiating the Paths of Memory Chair: Christian Wildberg [Princeton] - Andreas Nachama [Juedische Gemeinde, Berlin] "The Jewish Community, the Holocaust and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany" - Claus Leggewie [Giessen] "Negotiating the Past in Collective Memory after German Unification" - Daniel Daniel Libeskind, Architect "The Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrueck" - Michael Berenbaum [Shoah Visual History Foundation] "Documenting the Experience of Survivors: The Shoah Visual History Foundation" Friday, April 16 * 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Panel One. Sites of Memory: History in the Museums Chair: James Young [Massachusetts, Amherst] - Edward T. Linenthal [Wisconsin, Oshkosh] "From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to Oklahoma City: the Function of Memory" - Thomas Lutz [Topographie des Terrors, Berlin] "The History of the SS Terror Center and the Politics of Memory in Berlin" - Annegret Ehmann [Director of Education, Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin] "Learning from History: the Nazi Era and the Holocaust in German Education - Cilly Kugelmann [Juedisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main] "The National Context of Jewish Museums in Germany" * 2:00-5:00 pm. Panel Two. The Past in Stone: Memorials/Monuments/ Architecture Chair: Mario Gandelsonas, architect [Princeton] - Michael Z. Wise, author "Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy" - Y. Michal Bodemann [Toronto] "The Course of Memory and Jewish Space. Notes on a German Tug-of-War" - James Young [Massachusetts, Amherst] "Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem -- and Mine" - Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects [Princeton] "An Architect Designs a Memorial" * 8:00 pm. Film: _Letter without Words_. (1997) Discussion afterwards with the director, Lisa Lewenz Saturday, April 17 "Performances" * 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Panel Three. Manufacturing Memory: After Schindler's List Chair: Thomas Levin [Princeton] - Anat Feinberg [Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien, Heidelberg] "The Stage of Memory: Holocaust and German Theater" - David Bathrick [Cornell] "Re-Screening The Holocaust': The Children's Stories" - Frank Stern [Center for German Studies, Ben Gurion University] "Imagining Memory: Screening German Jews as Redemptive Entertainment" - Gertrud Koch [Freie Universitaet] "Pictorialization and Monumentalization - The Holocaust as Visual Metaphor" * 2:00 pm-5:00 pm. Panel Four. Optics of Memory: History and Public Perception Chair: Leora Batnitzky [Princeton] - Andrei S. Markovits, [California at Santa Cruz] "The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe" - Eric Santner [Chicago] "Freud's Moses and Monotheism after the Holocaust" - Sander Gilman [Chicago] "Can the Shoah be Funny? Thoughts on New and Old Films" - Andreas Huyssen [Columbia] "Present, Pasts: Public Sites of Memory" * 5:30-6:30 pm Keynote Address: Michael Blumenthal [Juedisches Museum, Berlin] "The Public and the Struggle over Memory" Introduction: Andrew Baker (Rabbi) [Director of European Affairs (AJC)] Sunday, April 18. "The Future of Memory" * 9:00 am-11:15. Roundtable: The New Berlin Republic and the Politics of Memory Chair: Anson Rabinbach [Princeton] - Susan Stern, author "German Agendas -- Where Do the Jews Figure?" - Eugene DuBow [American Jewish Committee, Berlin Office] "Germany and the American Jewish Agenda" - Peter Schneider, author "Historical Consciousness and Self-Esteem: A German Dilemma?" * 11:30-12:30 pm Keynote Address: Michael Naumann [Cultural Minister, Federal Republic of Germany] "Anamnesis: Some Remarks on the Perceptions of Political Reality" Introduction: Hans-Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg [Deputy Consul General of the FDR] * 2:00-4:30 pm. Round Table: Frontlines: History and the Future of Memory Chair: Barbara Hahn [Princeton] - Omer Bartov [Rutgers] "Germany as Victim" - Michael Brenner [Ludwig-Maximilian Universitaet] "Good Jews, Bad Jews, and Vulnerable Germans: Changing Perceptions in German-Jewish Relations at the Turn of the Century" - Micha Brumlik [Heidelberg] "German-Jewish Grandchildren of the Holocaust, Russian Immigrants, and the Multicultural Future" - Michael Geyer [Chicago] "The Future of the Past: German History for the 21st Century" Co-sponsor: the Federal Republic of Germany, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, American Jewish Committee For further information: contact either Dr. Joan Rivitz, Conference Coordinator, fax 201-265-7944. Email: drjoanr@aol.com or Marcie Citron, Program Manager of Jewish Studies, phone:609-258-0394; email:mcitron@princeton.edu, or see Website: www.princeton.edu/~jwst/conf/ --- Froma I. Zeitlin, Director, Program in Jewish Studies Dept of Classics, Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 609 924 3020 (home), 609 258 3957 (office; secy: 3951 or 6201), 609 258 1943 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Robert Kraft Subject: Michael Stone's Former Students Participants in Michael Stone's Thursday Night Seminar between 1967 and the present are asked to contact Nira Stone at stone@vms.huji.ac.il A reunion is being planned. Greetings to all, Nira Stone PO Box 16174 Jerusalem 91161 fax: +972-2-642-6631 Michael E. Stone Armenian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: +972-2-642-6631 Fax: +972-2-642-6631 --- Please cross-post as appropriate. (It's not a secret.) Bob Kraft 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 ____________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. 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