Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx8.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id rma2p1.kaf.37kbi16 Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:01:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09637 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:35:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:35:42 -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 P6DCD0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.009p2 * June 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Position - Susi Bradfield Lectureship in Jewish Studies [London School of Jewish Studies] * Call for Papers - Second Call for Papers, Anthology on Marranos/Crypto-Jews in Europe * Notices - 5th Annual History of the Catskills Conference - Orion-list Evening Symposium [Hebrew University] ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITION ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "London School of Jewish Studies" Subject: Susi Bradfield Lectureship in Jewish Studies. London School of Jewish Studies (formerly Jew's College) part of the University of London. Applications are invited for the Susi Bradfield Lectureship in Jewish Studies. This full time position will include special responsibility for the LSJS Womens Educators Programme and Fellowships. Appointment is from 1 October 1999 or as soon thereafter as can be arranged. Responsibilities will include teaching BA and MA courses, PhD supervision, and engaging in research, in addition to setting-up, promoting, administering and teaching the Fellowship programme. The Women Educators Programme and Fellowships are a new LSJS initiative, organised in close co-operation with other communal bodies, sponsored through the generosity of the Bradfield family, to help develop and promote women involved in community informal education. This new three year post will be open to specialists in any field of Jewish Studies. Applicants should also possess a good understanding of both the training needs of less experienced female educators and the educational needs of the community. Applicants should have university teaching experience, and should either show evidence of research or be committed to developing their research interests. The ideal candidate would be self motivated and enthusiastic, with the vision and energy to drive the Fellowship Programme, to lead and motivate others, and to communicate with people from a wide variety of different backgrounds. The London School of Jewish of Jewish Studies (formerly Jew's College) is a modern Orthodox academic institution and candidates should be committed to its religious ethos. Appointment will be made for an initial three year period commencing as soon as possible. Ph.D. preferred; in the absence of a Ph.D., an M.A. is essential. Salary according to UK University pay scales. Letter of application, C.V. and details of 3 academic referees should be sent to: Dr Sacha Stern Head of Department LSJS, Schaller House Albert Road London NW4 2SJ Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Stern or Professor Ruben on 0181 203 6427. Closing date for application is June 30 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Norman Simms Subject: Second Call for Papers, Anthology on Marranos/Crypto-Jews in Europe 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. Particular 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Phil Brown Subject: 5th Annual History of the Catskills Conference The Catskills Institute is pleased to announce the 5th Annual History of the Catskills Conference August 27-29, 1999 (Friday night till Sunday afternoon) Sunny Oaks Hotel, Woodridge, New York -- in the heart of the Catskills Join us for a wonderful weekend of historical, musical, literary, and cultural presentations on the remarkable legacy of the Jewish experience in the Catskills. Here is our wonderful list of speakers: - Henry Foner - on the history of leftist politics in the Catskills - Thane Rosenbaum - reading his short story "Bingo by the Bungalow" - Irwin Richman - slide presentation of Catskills postcards - Phil Brown - reading his short story "The Make-Believe Hotel" - Ellen McHale and Pamela Brown - "The Jewish Resorts of Sharon Springs in Schoharie County" - Rachel Trubowitz and Elizabeth Bellamy - "Catskills Resort Culture and Post-Holocaust Melancholia" - Maurie Sacks - "Vernacular Catskills Architecture: Schlock Shuls or Historic Gems?" - Arthur Tanney - "Ruby the Knishman and other Stories from the Bungalow Colonies" - Tania Grossinger - "Growing up at Grossingers" - Leslie Paris - "Jewish Summer Camps in the Catskills" Other likely possibilities: - a surprise appearance by a filmmaker - a veteran tummler - a reading by a veteran novelist - a talk by a veteran hotel owner Each year, the conference has been a delightful combination of styles of presentation. Scholars will learn a lot, and non-scholars won't feel like they're at an academic conference. The hotel and the people are all very haimishe. Plus, we always have perfect weather. A klezmer concert with nationally reknowned musicians is a favorite feature of the conference. Sal Kluger's pushcart of book, records, and memorabilia is full of great finds and is always a central gathering spot See updated information and other wonderful material on the Catskills Institute website http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/ Conference fee: $50 whole weekend, single day $25; single event $10 -- payable at the conference or by mail to Phil Brown, 4 Goodman Road, Cambridge, MA 02139 (checks payable to Catskills Institute). Catskills Institute members pay one-half the rate. Room rates and reservations: For room reservations, call: Sunny Oaks Hotel, Box 297, Woodridge, NY 12789 800-679-4387 or 914-434-7580 sunnyoaks@aol.com --- Phil Brown Professor of Sociology Brown University Box 1916 Providence RI 02912 phone 401-863-2633 secretary 401-863-2367 fax 401-863-3213 Sociology website http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Sociology President, The Catskills Institute mailing address as above Catskills Institute website http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/ ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Avital Pinnick Subject: Orion-list Evening Symposium An evening symposium will be held to celebrate the publication of Pseudepigraphic Perspectives: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 January, 1997. Edited by Esther G. Chazon and Michael E. Stone with the collaboration of Avital Pinnick. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 31. Leiden: Brill, 1999. and to honour Prof. Michael Stone, founder and former director of the Orion Center, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Introductory comments: Yair Zakovitch (Dean of the Faculty of Arts) Yom Tov Assis (Head of the Institute for Jewish Studies) Short lectures: Esther Chazon Adolfo Roitman David Satran Michael Stone Chair: Avi Hurvitz June 14, 1999 @ 7:30 pm Beit Meyersdorff, Mt. Scopus Hebrew University of Jerusalem Program in Hebrew ____________________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. 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