Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx10.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id rik1ku.el5.37kbi3u Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:38:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29449 for js-network-outgoing; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:37:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:37:29 -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 P109E0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.008p1 * May 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Position - Jewish Medieval History [Southampton] * Calls for Papers and Conferences - Conference: Shem in the Tents of Japhet [Harvard] - Conference: Sprache und Sprachlosigkeit der juedischen Aufklaerer * Notices - Online course on Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide [CSU Chico] - _Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal_ 2.1 (Winter 1999) ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Sarah Pearce Subject: Position: Jewish Medieval History The Department of History at Southampton University is advertising a new position in Jewish medieval culture and Society (further details at http://www.soton.ac.uk/#history/mjcspost.html). Applications are welcome from people working in the period including the fifth century to the sixteenth, with special emphasis on Jewish intellectual history. Dr Sarah Pearce Department of History University of Southampton ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Annette Reed Subject: Conference: Shem in the Tents of Japhet Shem in the Tents of Japhet A Conference on Hellenism and Judaism Sponsored by Bar Ilan and Harvard Universities Harvard University, May 13, 1999 PRESENTATION OF PAPERS 9:30am-6:00pm; Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Professor Gary Anderson, Harvard University "Forgive us our Debts: A Semitic Image in Graeco-Roman Culture" Professor Guy Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Athens or Jerusalem: From Eschatological Hopes to Cultural Memory" Professor David Runia, Leiden University, Netherlands "One of Us or One of Them? Christian Reception of Philo the Jew in Egypt" Professor Albert Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University "Hellenistic Judaism: A History of Modern Scholarship" Professor Ranon Katzoff, Bar Ilan University "Japhet's Laws in the Tents of Shem" Professor Nicholas Constas, Harvard University "Vanity of Vanities? Solomon's Trilogy and the Patristic Subversion of Scripture" Professor Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard University "Assessing Philo's Influence in Christian Alexandria" DINNER SYMPOSIUM: PANEL 6:30-9:30pm; Harvard Faculty Club, 2nd floor, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Dr. Ellen Birnbaum, Harvard University Professor John Collins, University of Chicago Professor Carl Holliday, Emory University Professor James Kugel, Harvard and Bar Ilan Universities For more information, contact the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard. Tel. (617) 495-4326; E-mail: rlrocken@fas.harvard.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ [The following message is an expanded version of a message posted in last week's Newsletter L.D.T.] From: Aubrey Pomerance Conference: Sprache und Sprachlosigkeit der juedischen Aufklaerer Studientag des Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Instituts fuer deutsch-juedische Geschichte an der Gerhard Mercator-Universitaet - GH - Duisburg Mittwoch, 2. Juni 1999 Doppelte Sprachbuergerschaft 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' und fuer jede? Hebraeisch und Deutsch in der Berliner Haskala Andrea Schatz M.A., Steinheim-Institut, Duisburg Die Tradition und ihre Sprachen Rezeption mittelalterlicher Wissenschaften in der fruehen juedischen Aufklaerung 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: "Edelman, Sam" Subject: CSU Chico offers Online course on Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide California State University, Chico is offering an online course for teachers on TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE, CMST/SOCI 256-11s 3 UNITS (This course may be taken for graduate credit). Students will study six major genocides from the 20th century including the Holocaust/Shoah, the Soviet mass murders under Stalin, the Armenian Genocide, the Cambodian killing fields, and the recent slaughter in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. Not only have the Holocaust, genocide in Rwanda and the ethnic war in Kosovo been in the news, but also the study of these events has been mandated as part of the educational curriculum in the state of California and other states. This seminar is designed to help teachers prepare curricular materials and assist them in dealing with these topics in the classroom. For a sample syllabus go to: This course will be offered online using Web-based documentation and lectures via streaming video. Students will need access to a high-speed computer, the Internet and have the RealPlayer application loaded. Dates: June 14 - July 1 Course #: CMST 256-11s, 3 units Professor: S. Edelman Fees: $360 To enroll please call CSU, Chico Continuing Education at 530-898-6105 or visit ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dina Eylon Subject: _Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Volume 2, No. 1, (Winter 1999)_ We are pleased to announce the electronic publication of a new issue of _Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal_. The journal can be accessed at http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/ This is the first multidisciplinary refereed periodical solely dedicated to gender-related issues in Judaism. This issue features: _Articles_ Getting Away with Murder: The Application of Marriage Laws in Jewish Yemen by Dina Dahbany-Miraglia. Women's Voices, Men's Laws: The Halakhic Process and Three Women's Accounts of Rape by Justin Jaron Lewis. _Biographical essays_ An Unexpected Heir: A Jewish Feminist Response to Letters from Pre-state Israel by Daphne Desser. Narrative vs Historical Truth: Insights from Field Work in Right-wing Popular Consciousness in Israel by Batya Weinbaum. _Bibliography_ of Sources on Sexual and Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community by Marcia Cohn Spiegel. _Letter to Editor_ by Dorothy Werner. The editors extend special thanks to Mike Sosteric, Executive Director, The International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication , who made this issue possible, and to Won Bin Yoo, Information Commons, University of Toronto. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto, 4 Bancroft Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1 e-mail: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca ____________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. 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