Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx6.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id ribg56.95i.37kbi14.1 Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:50:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25033 for js-network-outgoing; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:23:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:23:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: The 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 P1DEE0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.007p4 * April 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Positions - Yiddish Archivist Position [National Library of Canada] - Sessional Position, Jewish Thought and Culture [Kentucky] * Calls for Papers and Conferences - Call for Papers: Conference on Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Jewry: Ideology, Intertextuality and Transmission - Symposium fuer jiddische Studien in Deutschland [Duesseldorf/Trier] - Colloquium on the Languages of the Maskilim [Duisberg] * Notices - Symposium Notice: The Jewish Question in France from Durkheim to Levinas [Pennsylvania] - Programme: The Martin Buber Memorial Conference - Symposium Programme: Imaging The Self, Imaging The Other: Jews and Their Representations in Medieval Book Illustrations [Leeds] ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Randal Schnoor and Marsha Moshinsky Subject: Yiddish Position The National Library of Canada is looking for someone with an archival and/or library background to create a finding aid to the handwritten Yiddish correspondence and other papers of a well-known Canadian Yiddish author. The candidate will also create a bibliographical listing of approximately 600 Yiddish books. Strong Yiddish language skills required. Transliteration of Yiddish according to ALA/LC or YIVO standards. The work will be carried out at the National Library in Ottawa. This is a Service Contract for the sum of $8000.00 Canadian. Please contact Celine Gendron, Canadian Literature Research Service at : celine.gendron@nlc-bnc.ca or at (613) 992-3052. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Frank Subject: Sessional Position, Jewish Thought and Culture The University of Kentucky has a part-time instructorship available for 1999-2000. We have need for someone to teach a year-long, two-semester, under-graduate sequence on Jewish thought and culture. The first part of the course will extend from the Bible to the Spanish expulsion. The second part will continue the story to the present. I shall be happy to answer questions concerning salary, time schedules, etc. off line. Daniel Frank Director, Judaic Studies Program University of Kentucky Lexington, KY office phone: (606) 257-7749 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALLS FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Aubrey Pomerance Subject: Call for Papers: Conference on Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Jewry: Ideology, Intertextuality and Transmission The Menasseh ben Israel Institute for Jewish social and cultural studies of Amsterdam and the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut fr deutsch-jdische Geschichte of Duisburg are organising a four-day congress on Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Jewry: ideology, intertextuality and transmission 24-27 October 1999 in Middelburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Following an introductory panel session on the borders and definitions of Jewish languages, the congress will feature four different sections, as listed below. Prospective participants are invited to submit proposals for papers in any of the four sections and are strongly advised to formulate their abstracts on the basis of the themes outlined below. Section I: Ideologies of languages of the Western Ashkenazic Jews - The dominance of Hebrew as the Jewish language par excellence - The justification of the use of different languages Spoken and written Men and women Holy and profane Public and private Prose and poetry High and low culture - Language ideologies and language practice - Language of politics (Zionism, Bundism, etc.) Section II: Processes of intertextuality and translation - processes of translation interaction and resistance inclusion and exclusion ardent reception and cautious transmission - the process of translation is not 'innocent': distribution, functions and meanings of languages in translation translating for women / for students / for the elite inventing and modifying canon - ideological, social and political strategies, aims and perspectives of translation embedded in different historical contexts: Haskalah Reform and Orthodoxy Zionism and Bundism - the impossibility of translation: the texture of original, translation, commentary Section III: Presence of Jewish languages in literature - Languages in national literatures German literature: prewar and postwar Literary and linguistic variety elsewhere in Ashkenazic Europe - Ashkenazic beyond Ashkenaz American literature: nostalgia and national identity On the frontier: Australia, South Africa, Argentina Ashkenazic in Israel - Translating and transmitting the 'Jewish' idiom - Jewish uniformity and (inter)national diversity Section IV: Languages of scholarship - Scholarship of languages - Languages of Western Ashkenazic education - Modes of textual transmission and their authority Oral and written Handwritten and printed Editing and creating a textual tradition - Theorizing Western Ashkenazic languages Approaches to grammar Socio-linguistic perspectives - Non-verbality and meta-lingualism Abstracts for papers (30 minutes), not exceeding 300 words, may be sent to the Menasseh ben Israel Institute, PO Box 16737, NL-1001 RE Amsterdam and/or the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut, Geibelstrasse 41, D-47057 Duisburg. Deadline: 31 May 1999. Acceptance of papers will be communicated in June 1999. Participants are expected to provide their own travel and accommodation expenses; meal expenses will be covered by the organizers. The organizing committee will provide ample information on lodging and travel facilities (available in August) and will be happy to assist participants in finding hotels/hostels. Congress fee: DFL. 150,= / DM 135,= (approx. $ 80). For further information, please contact: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, PO Box 16737, NL-1001 RE Amsterdam, tel. + 31 20 626 9945; fax: + 31 20 624 1721; e-mail: . Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut, Geibelstrasse 41, D-47057 Duisburg, tel. + 49 203 370071/72; fax: + 49 203 373380; e-mail: ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Marion Aptroot Subject: Symposium fuer jiddische Studien in Deutschland Mit dem ersten Symposium im Oktober 1998 in Duesseldorf hatten die Jiddisch-Abteilungen der Universitaeten Duesseldorf und Trier den Versuch unternommen, ein 'jiddisches Forum fuer Deutschland' ins Leben zu rufen, wo Studierende und Lehrende ihre Ideen austauschen, ihre Projekte vorstellen und Fragen zur Diskussion stellen koennen. Erfreulicherweise stiess der Plan auf unerwartet grosses Interesse, so dass Jiddischfreunde nicht nur aus Deutschland, sondern auch aus Holland, England, Frankreich und sogar aus Israel zusammenkamen. Dieser Erfolg laesst uns hoffen, dass ein solches Forum tatsaechlich zur staendigen Einrichtung wird. Das zweite Treffen soll nun am 5./6. Oktober 1999 an der Universitaet Trier stattfinden. Lernende und Lehrende sind herzlich eingeladen, daran teilzunehmen bzw. mitzuwirken. Wer etwas vortragen moechte (auf Jiddisch oder auf Deutsch), sollte unbedingt eine kurze Zusammenfassung des Referats an die Symposiumsleitung schicken. Wir haben auch diesmal auf ein einengendes Rahmenthema verzichtet, um moeglichst viele Interessierte anzusprechen. Sollten nicht alle angebotenen Referate vorgetragen werden koennen, so werden sie im Jahre 2000 beim 3. Symposium zum Zuge kommen. Neueste Informationen werden wir regelmaessig ueber das Internet verbreiten: (http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/germanistik/ger_aktuell_xx.html) Wir beantworten aber auch Fragen auf allen heute ueblichen Wegen - per Post, Fax, e-mail. Anmeldungen erbitten wir moeglichst bald an die unten genannten Adressen. Teilnahmegebuehren werden nicht erhoben. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marion Aptroot Abteilung fuer Jiddische Kultur, Sprache und Literatur Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 / Gebaeude 23.03 40 225 Duesseldorf fax: 0211-81-12027 e-mail: jiddisch@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erika Timm FB II, Jiddistik Universitaet Trier Universitaetsring 15 54 286 Trier Fax: 0651-201-3909 e-mail: bielawski@uni-trier.de ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Aubrey Pomerance Subject: Colloquium on the Languages of the Maskilim A one day colloquium on the languages of the maskilim which will take place in Duisburg on June 2, 1999: Studientag des Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Instituts fuer deutsch-juedische Geschichte an der Gerhard Mercator-Universitaet - GH - Duisburg Mittwoch, 2. Juni 1999 Doppelte Sprachbuerrgerschaft Sprache und Sprachlosigkeit der juedischen Aufklaerer Begruessung Prof. Michael Brocke, Direktor Des Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Instituts, Duisburg Prof. Henk Meijering, Vorsitzender des Menasseh ben Israel Instituuts, Amsterdam Die Haskala-Bibliothek des Steinheim-Instituts Mediale Praesentation drs Thomas Kollatz, Steinheim-Institut, Duisburg Die Orientalische Buchdruckerey der Juedischen Freyschule Berlin Uta Lohmann M.A., allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaften, Universitaet Hamburg Aufgeklaerte Typographie Dr. Emile Schrijver, Menasseh ben Israel Instituut, Amsterdam Eine Sprache fuer alles'? Hebraeisch und Deutsch in der Berliner Haskala Andrea Schatz M.A., Steinheim-Institut, Duisburg Die Tradition und ihre Sprachen Rezeption mittelalterlicher Wissenschaften in der frhen jdischen Aufklrung Prof. Irene Zwiep, Juda Palache Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam Multilingualism in the Hebrew Satire of the 19th Century Prof. Yehuda Friedlander, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Einlass: 10.00 Uhr Beginn: 10.30 Uhr s.t. Mittagspause 12-13.30 Uhr Ende gegen 17.30 Uhr Ort: Gerhard Mercator-Universitaet - GH - Duisburg Aula im Gebaeude SG Geibelstrasse 41 47057 Duisburg Auskunft: Tel.: 0203 370071/72 Fax: 0203 373380 Email: institut@sti1.uni-duisburg.de ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Edgar Newman Subject: Symposium: The Jewish Question in France from Durkheim to Levinas Operative Communities? The Jewish Question in France from Durkheim to Levinas Public lecture: Wednesday, May 5, 1999 Symposium: Thursday, May 6 - Friday, May 7, 1999 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA As France confronts vestiges of her Vichy past and questions the universalism of the republican state in relation to its people, we have chosen to frame this interrogation into historical memory and the nature of community in the modern period with the emblematic figures of Emile Durkheim and Emmanuel Levinas. For more information and the detailed program of this event, please contact the French Institute Tel. 215-573-3550 - E-mail: FICT@sas.upenn.edu Please, check our Website : HTTP://www.upenn.edu/FI ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Hune (RainMaker) Margulies" Subject: The Martin Buber Memorial Conference The Martin Buber Forum, In Celebration of The 34th Yahrzeit of Martin Buber, Is Pleased to Announce The Martin Buber Memorial Conference Sunday, May 23 The Brotherhood Synagogue 28 Gramercy Park South (20th Street, between Third Avenue & Irving Place) New York, NY 10003 The purpose of the forum is to provide a public exchange of what we have learned from Martin Buber's teachings and as an appreciation of his life and thought. Keynote Address: Martin Buber and the Human Sciences Prof. Maurice Friedman [San Diego State] Lecture & Lunch: Brown bag lunch (dairy and vegetarian only) Coffee and tea will be provided. Kaddish Service: At the conclusion of the Conference to Memorialize Martin Buber The program is an interactive examination of Buber's everyday meaning with participation desired from all who attend. Papers will be presented and discussions lead by the following Buberian scholars and enthusiasts: Professor Asher Biemann [Washington & Lee]: Reform, Return and Renewal Yitzhak Buxbaum, Author, Storyteller and Teacher: Martin Buber and the World of Hasidic Tales Prof. James Carse [New York]: Buber and Prayer Prof. Willi Goetschel [Columbia]: Buber's Theory of Modernity Rabbi David Greenberg [Jewish Center of the Hamptons]: Buber's Biblical Interpretations Prof. Lawrence Kaplan [McGill]: Martin Buber On The Imitation of God Imitation Of God Dr. Hune Margulies [Columbia]: Buber's Socio-Political Philosophy Fr. Donald J. Moore, S.J. [Fordham]: I And Thou Charles Roth, Former Editor, Jewish Post of New York: Buber's Hasidic Legacy Dr. Anthony Stern, Psychiatrist; Westchester Medical Center: Buber and Psychotherapy Prof. Michael Walters [Touro]: How to Apply Buber's Concept of Education There is no charge to attend, however you must call the Conference Coordinator, Martin J. Warmbrand at 212-242-5637 to reserve a place. Submission of papers for publication are still welcomed. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: E. Frojmovic Subject: Symposium Programme: Imaging The Self, Imaging The Other: Jews and their Representations in Medieval Book Illustrations International Medieval Congress & Centre for Jewish Studies University of Leeds, 12 July 1999 A one-day symposium on the constructions of cultural identity in Jewish visual culture, and of (anti-) Jewish tropes of Otherness in Christian visual culture. The papers and discussions will address some of the following issues: - Is the label 'anti-semitic' applicable to depictions of Jews which underline the Jews' difference, often in an overtly hostile manner, or are there alternative possibilities of conceptualising such images? - How can we analyse medieval anxieties about order, hierarchy and difference underlying such images? - How did Jews, in producing images of the Self, come to terms with the profusion of Christian imagery surrounding them? - How did they assert their own sense of cultural difference in such images? This symposium will focus on book illustration, the medium common to Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages, and adopt inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches. Session 1: 11.15-12.45 Eva Frojmovic [Leeds]: Approaching Jewish Cultural Difference through Visual Culture Marc M. Epstein [Vassar]: Historical Consciousness and Self-Presentation in the Haggadah Diane Wolfthal [Arizona State]: Imaging the Self: Representations of Jews in a Yiddish Custom Book Session 2: 14.15-15.45 Annette Weber [Juedisches Museum Frankfurt]: Anti-Jewish Images in the Moralised Bibles of 13th-century France in the Context of Spiritual Renewal and Social Modernisation Sara Lipton [New York State - Stony Brook]: Synagoga Unveiled: Gender, Carnality, and Judaism in the Bible moralise Session 3: 16.30-18.00 David S. Areford [Northwestern]: Little Simon and the Christ Child: A Late-Medieval Anti-Semitic Woodcut Tom Hubka [Wisconsin]: Medieval Themes (iconographic, technical, and liturgical) in the Wall-Paintings of the 17th and 18th century Polish Wooden Synagogues Related special lecture and discussion 19.30-20.30: The Rouen Discoveries and the Question of Identification of the English 'Schola Judeorum' Prof. Norman Golb [The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago] Moderator: Dr Eva Frojmovic Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT -- UK Tel (+44-113) 233 5197, Fax (+44-113) 245 1977) email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk Registration: International Medieval Congress International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT -- UK Tel (+44-113) 233 3614, Fax (+44-113) 233 3616 email: imc@leeds.ac.uk ____________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. 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