Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx6.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id s5sm7o.o4p.37kbi14 Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:27:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23716 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:43:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:43:03 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.006p3] 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 THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 9.006p3 * December 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Conferences - Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany [Trier and Duesseldorf] - 6th Annual Catskills Conference * Notices - Montague Burton Fellowship [Leeds] - Klezkamp: The 15th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Marion Aptroot Subject: Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany The third Annual Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany -- organized by the Chairs of Yiddish at the universities of Trier and Duesseldorf -- will be held August 28-30, 2000 and not in September as previously announced. A call for papers will be sent out in Spring. Further information is posted on the internet (http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/jiddisch/) or can be sent by mail or e-mail (jiddisch@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de). Marion Aptroot ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Phil Brown Subject: 6th Annual Catskills Conference We are pleased to announce that the Sixth Annual History of the Catskills Conference will take place August 25-27, 2000 at: Kutsher's Country Club Monticello, NY 12701 phone: (914) 794-6000 or (800) 431-1273 Located in the heart of Monticello, Kutsher's offers one of the finest 18-hole golf courses, 12 all-weather and clay tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, state of the art fitness center, an ice-skating rink, as well as a sports complex for raquetball, handball, volleyball or basketball. Only a short walk from the hotel is Club Anawana, the newest site for water skiing, canoeing, kayaking, and a host of other sports and recreational activities. Top performers entertain every night in the Stardust Club. For more information visit Kutshers on the web at www.kutshers.com. Rates begin at $99 per person, double occupancy, with a two-night minimum, and range up to $141 for the top level. All rooms have private bath, telephone, and television. Children sharing parent's rooms are $60 for ages 10-16 in main dining room and $40 for up to 9 years in junior dining room. Triple occupancy for a third adult is 80% of the regular rate. Tips, at $11/day, are added to the bill. We believe the accommodations and facilities at Kutsher's are excellent, and will please everyone. It is too early for us to have speakers lined up, but those of you who have attended previous conferences know that we always have wonderful speakers. We will post information on the website as it becomes available. The website has reports from all other conferences, so you can get an idea what they're like if you have never attended. Visit us in the Virtual Mountains: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: E Frojmovic Subject: Montague Burton Fellowship The University of Leeds Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies Available from the end of January 2000 for a three year fixed- term within the Centre for Jewish Studies in any area of Modern/Contemporary Jewish studies/Jewish culture, especially writing/literature, film, thought or history. You will pursue an active research profile and teach at UG and PG levels. Informal enquiries to Dr E. Frojmovic tel: 44-113-233 5197 e-mail: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk Salary: Lecturer A (17,238p.a) Further particulars and application forms can be obtained from Human Resources, University of Leeds, Tel 0044-113-233 4146, Fax 233 4127, quoting REF NO: 004-003-002-009. Closing date 5 January 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Phil Brown Subject: Klezkamp: The 15th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program We are pleased to announce that Phil Brown, President of the Catskills Institute, will be one of the instructors (giving a series of four lectures and short story readings) at this year's wonderful Klezkamp: The 15th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program December 22-28, 1999 Paramount Hotel Parksville, Ny Jewtopia 2000: A Tam Ganeydn While the rest of the world warily looks ahead to the coming of the Millennium and of Y2K in particular, we at Living Traditions are taking a relaxed, angst-free look at Yiddish culture and its renewed position in today's world. Here's our personal invitation to experience A tam ganeydn: Jewtopia 2000. Here's KlezKamp: The 15th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program. KlezKamp continues to offer an astonishing array of intensive Yiddish programming. We are pleased to welcome back to our staff pianist/arranger Pete Sokolow, culinary maven Eve Jochnowitz, outstanding folksmentshn Mayer and Dora Kirshenblatt, visual artist Galia Goodman, Yiddish instructor Miriam Issacs, Jewish Museum media historian Aviva Weintraub and poet Irena Klepfisz. New instructors this year include trombonist Dan Peisach and violinist Cookie Segelstein. First-time classes include a look at the art of choreographing Yiddish dance for the stage with Steven Weintraub, Susan Leviton's survey of Yiddish women's songs, informal daily Yiddish shmooze sessions led by Harvey Varga, and Phil Brown's history of the Catskills. All this plus our famed klezmer music, Yiddish song and language curriculums, KlezKids programs, evening events including nightly dancing to live music, slow jams with Sherry Mayrent, films, Jenny Romaine's Youth Theater Workshop - the most exciting Yiddish event in the world, a Jewish paradise, Jewtopia 2000! Once again, KlezKamp will be held in the newly expanded Paramount Hotel in the heart of New York's Catskill region, a mere two hours from mid-town Manhattan. Offering three sumptuous meals, comfortable rooms with private bath and traditionalCatskill hospitality, it's your Yiddish home away from home. For more information and schedule/registration material, visit www.livingtraditions.org 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 ____________________________________________________________________ DIGEST MODERATORS : Charles David Isbell Faydra Shapiro Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein 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, Aviva Ben-Ur, Marsha Cohen, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Peter Margolis, 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 Jewish Studies 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. 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