Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx7.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id rl54av.3od.37kbi15 Mon, 31 May 1999 09:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06926 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 31 May 1999 07:15:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 07:15:30 -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 P444D0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.008p3 * May 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Positions and Jobs - Yiddish Language Lectorship [Oxford] - Two Sessional Appointments in Moscow - Part-time Instructors, Jewish Studies Program [Kent State] * Call for Papers - Second Call, Anthology of Essays on the Marranos/Crypto-Jews in Europe * Notices - Sh'ma Fellows - Association of Jewish Libraries 34th Annual Convention [Boca Raton] - Two Events at Park East Synagogue ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIONS AND JOBS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dov-Ber Kerler Subject: Yiddish Language Lectorship Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Lector in Yiddish Applications are invited for the post of Lector in Yiddish. The primary responsibility of the Lector will be to teach Yiddish language for the one-year graduate course taught by the Centre for students registered for the Diploma in Jewish studies awarded by the University of Oxford. Teaching will be required at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Applicants should be fully qualified in the spoken and written language. The salary will be 14,275 pounds. The appointment will take effect from 1 October 1999 and will be for nine months (one academic year). Closing date for receipt of applications is 15 June 1999 Further particulars: The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is the largest advanced teaching and research institute of Judaic studies in Europe. It is an independent institution associated with the University of Oxford. The Centre has an academic staff of thirteen Fellows who teach in various fields of Jewish studies for the University and for the one-year course taught by the Centre for students registered for the Diploma in Jewish Studies awarded by Oxford University. The Lector will teach Yiddish to students registered for the Diploma in Jewish Studies. He or she will be required to teach up to sixteen and a half hours a week to students with varying levels of prior knowledge of the language, as well as up to three hours a week in the University of Oxford. Applicants should be qualified in written and spoken Yiddish with native or near-native fluency. The appointment is full-time and the salary is 14,275 pounds. The appointment will be for nine months from 1 October 1999. The Centre's main buildings are at Yamton Manor, where much of its work and teaching takes place. It also has premises in Oxford. The Lector will be expected to reside in or near Oxford. All teaching which the post holder undertakes for the Centre's one-year course is conducted at Yamton Manor. Applications including a curriculum vitae and a brief sample of the candidate's written Yiddish should be sent directly to the Student Registrar by 15 June 1999. Applicants should also arrange for two academic referees to write directly to the Student Registrar by the same date. Interviews will be held during the week of 21 June 1999. The Student Registrar Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Yarnton Manor Yarnton Oxford OX5 1PY United Kingdom Tel: +44-(0)1865-377946 ext. 109 Fax: +44-(0)1865-375079 e-mail: url:http://asocinst.ox.ac.uk/ochjs ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Lisa Kogen Subject: Two Sessional Appointments in Moscow * Half Year Appointment in Moscow: Rabbinics, Jewish Religion Project Judaica, jointly sponsored by JTS, YIVO, and the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) seeking instructor in Bible, Rabbinics, and Jewish Religion. Must have Ph.D. or near completion. Will teach full-time, February - May. Need expertise in classical Jewish texts in the original, but language of instruction is in English. DO NOT NEED TO KNOW RUSSIAN. Salary for the half year; in addition will be provided with free housing, insurance, and round trip air fare. Contact: Lisa Kogen, JTS by e-mail, phone (212) 678-8983 or Fax (212)749-0752. * One Month Positions for Senior Scholars in All Judaic Disciplines Project Judaica, jointly sponsored by JTS, YIVO, and Russian State University for the Humanities, seeking scholars in Jewish History, Bible, Rabbinics, Philosophy, and Literature to teach for one month in Moscow. Instructor will give classes in areas of expertise. Language of instruction is in English. DO NOT NEED TO KNOW RUSSIAN. Monthly salary is $4,000; additionally, will be provided with free housing, insurance, and round trip air fare. Contact: Lisa Kogen, JTS by e-mail, phone (212) 678-8983 or Fax (212)749-0752. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Brenner Subject: Part-time Instructors, Jewish Studies Program Ethnic Heritage Program, Kent State University (pool positions) Part-time, Temporary Instructors. Applications are invited for qualified instructors to teach courses offered by the Jewish Studies Program. Such classes include the Hebrew language and Jewish history. Minimal requirements are a Master's degree in the academic area and demonstrated competence in teaching. To apply, please send resume, transcript, three letters of recommendation, and a letter specifying areas of teaching interest to Dr. David Brenner Director, Ethnic Heritage and Jewish Studies Programs Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Thanks in advance, David A. Brenner, Director Ethnic Heritage and Jewish Studies 314 Satterfield Hall Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 330-672-2389 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALLS FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Norman Simms Subject: Second Call, Anthology of Essays on the Marranos/Crypto-Jews in Europe Second Call for Papers 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 the place in Conversos and Crypto-Jews in the history, politics, economics, and culture of the emerging Early Modern Period. Questions to be raised may deal with how to access, analyze, and extrapolate from hostile and cryptic documents. Paricular attention will also be paid to 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 in unconventional and non-halakhic circumstances; etc. The anthology also seeks editions and/or translations new unpublished documents, and (near) contemporary reports on the crisis of conscience and consciousness casused by the trauma of conversion, expulsion, exile, and persecution by state and church during the period from 1390 to 1699. 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. New Deadline 15 April 2000. Statements of Intent, however, would be appreciated by 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 34953 Hamilton, New Zealand USA Norman Simms English Department Waikato University Private Bag 3105 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone: Office 64 (7) 856-2889, Ext 8424 Phone: Home 64 (7) 856-6981 FAX: 64 (7) 838-4722 Editor Mentalities/Mentalites www.netline.bc.ca/ment/ P.O. Box 1198 Hamilton, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: JFLSusan@aol.com Subject: Sh'ma Fellows Sh'ma Fellows Sh'ma is planning to initiate a Fellows Program, a group of six graduate-level students to meet monthly in Boston and serve as a sounding board for new ideas while learning about the inner workings of this publication and Jewish publishing. We invite prospective Fellows to send Sh'ma a one-page letter describing yourself and what contribution you could make to the sacred conversations of North American Jews entering the 21st Century. For the past 29 years, Sh'ma has served as a gathering place for independent voices eager to be heard across the Jewish religious, social and political landscape. Through our diversity, intensity, frequency and constancy, we have served as a public diary of the North American Jewish experience. In the pages of Sh'ma, we discuss topics that cut to the very core of our Jewish sense of self. Our tactic is dialogue -- rich conversation of differing positions presented in an honest, respectful, and purposeful way. We cover topics as diverse as the politics of gender; trends in new Jewish social and political involvement; questions of culture and personal identity; ritual innovations; and new readings of ancient texts. Applicants should be graduate-level students in fields of Jewish studies, reside in the Boston area, and be able to make at least a one-year commitment to the program. Please send information about yourself by June 15th to: Sh'ma 56 Kearney Rd. Suite B Needham, MA, USA 02494 Email: jflsusan@aol.com Notification of acceptance will be sent in August, and the program will begin in October, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Bonnie Marshak Subject: Association of Jewish Libraries 34th Annual Convention Association of Jewish Libraries 34th Annual Convention Boca Raton, FL, June 20 - 23, 1999 The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) is pleased to announce that its' 1999 Convention will be held in Boca Raton, Florida on June 20 - 23, 1999, at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. AJL annual conventions are dedicated to presenting the best of new research, practice and experience in the academic disciplines of Judaica, Judaica librarianship and librarianship in general. In addition, it brings together librarians from all kinds of Judaica library settings to network, set goals and problem solve. The AJL is the only organization dedicated solely to supporting the production, collection, organization and dissemination of Judaic resources and library/media services. It has members associated with academic, archival or research institutions, and collections in synagogue, school and community center libraries, as well as other library and media centers. Our members include Judaic libraries and librarians in more than 18 countries. The 1999 convention, to be hosted by the South Florida chapter of the AJL, will feature many sessions and continuing education workshops. For more information, please contact: Schlomit Schwarzer AJL Convention Chair phone: (305) 593-1223, ext.132 Email: d000649c@dc.seflin.org Program information is available at the convention website: www.angelfire.com/fl/ajl/ceu.html. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Edward Portnoy Subject: Two Notices * The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Wayne State University Press are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Profiles of a Lost World by Hirsz Abramowicz, father of YIVO reference librarian Dina Abramowicz. Sunday, June 13, 2 p.m. Park East Synagogue 164 E. 68th St. (between Lex. and Third Aves.) New York City Free and open to the public For further information, call YIVO (212) 246-6080. ----- * Are Americans obsessed with the Holocaust? Rarely talked about in the first decades after WWII, the Holocaust has become a mainstream issue in American life and the cornerstone of American Jewish identity. Please join us in a panel discussion of the controversial new book _The Holocaust in America_ (Houghton Mifflin, June 1999) by Peter Novick, Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Among the panelists will be Alan Mintz (Brandeis University) and Jeffrey Shandler (New York University) Wednesday, June 16, 7:30 p.m. Park East Synagogue 164 E. 68th Street (between Lex. and Third Aves) New York City This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Houghton Mifflin Company. For further information, call YIVO (212) 246-6080. ____________________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. 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