Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx9.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id rh3tkt.de2.37kbi17 Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16603 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:45:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:45:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter 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 P63960.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.007p2 * April 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Call for Papers - Anthology on the Marranos/Crypto-Jews ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Norman Simms Subject: Anthology on the Marranos/Crypto-Jews Charles Meyers and Norman Simms are planning to produce an anthology of essays on the Marranos/Crypto-Jews in Europe and the New World colonies during the 15th through 17th Centuries. Papers are called for to deal with such areas as: Identity Confusions amongst individuals and family groups; traumatic illness amongst the forced Catholic converts and children of conversos; recreations of Judaism and Jewishness under the inadvertent tutelage of Inquisition codes and trials; the development of new kinds of Jewish communal organization and education in small isolated groups; manuals of instruction in Jewish tradition and custom; life-histories and responsa as sources of information on the Marrano experience; the viability of Jewish identity ion unconventional and non-halakhic circumstances; etc. All papers should be approx. 4000 words, normally unpublished, and submitted in typed form in duplicate plus on disk Word 6.1 or 5.1. Please enclose a brief bio-bibliography. Deadline 1 December 1999. Send to: Dr. Norman Simms Dr Charles Meyers English Department Independent Scholar Waikato University 738 Southwest Aster Road Private Bag 3105 Port Saint Lucie, FL USA 34953 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone: Office 64 (7) 856-2889, Ext 8424 Phone: Office 64 (7) 856-2889, Ext 8424 FAX: 64 (7) 838-4722 Editor Mentalities/Mentalites www.netline.bc.ca/ment/ P.O. Box 1198 Hamilton, New Zealand ____________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. Cohen MANAGING EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR and BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt 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, Barry Mesch, 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