Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx6.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id s6f3v3.net.37kbi14 Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:12:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13235 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 09:17:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 09:17:23 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.006p4] 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 9.006p4 * December 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Calls for Papers - British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting [Leeds] - Call for Articles - _Mehqere Hag_ 12 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALLS FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: E Frojmovic To: Lorenzo DiTommaso Subject: British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting 2000 Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds 4-6 July 2000 Call for Papers Medieval Hebrew, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Languages, Literatures and Cultures The Association's Annual Meeting will be held in Leeds frim 4-6 July 2000. The theme for the meeting will be "Medieval Hebrew, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Languages, Literatures and Cultures." Abstracts for offered papers of up to 20 minutes in length (+10 minutes for discussion) should be sent preferably by 31 December 1999 to: Dr Avi Shivtiel President, BAJS 23 Church Wood Avenue Leeds LS16 5LF UK a.shivtiel@leeds.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Jonathan D. Safren" Subject: Call for Articles - _Mehqere Hag_ 12 Scholars in Judaic Studies and related fields are invited to contribute articles to Volume 12 of Mehqere Hag (Holiday Studies) - A Journal of Jewish Culture, to appear in October 2000. This will be the third year in which articles will be published in English as well as Hebrew, with English-language summaries of the Hebrew articles and Hebrew summaries of the English ones. Mehqere Hag - A Journal of Jewish Culture is an annual devoted to all aspects of study of the Jewish Holidays. Following are some, but not all, of those fields in which articles have been published in previous issues: 1. Holidays and Festivals in the Biblical Period 2. Holidays and Festivals During Second Temple Times 3. Holidays and Festivals During the Period of the Mishna and Talmud 4. Holidays and Festivals from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance 5. Holidays and Festivals in Modern Times 6. Holidays During the Holocaust 7. Holiday Folklore and Folk Customs 8. Holidays in Literature, Drama, and Art 9. Holiday and Festival Liturgy 10. Jewish Holidays and Festivals in the Church 11. Jewish Wedding Customs Articles may be submitted in either Hebrew or English. Those written in Hebrew should include an English-language summary of 200-300 words, while those written in English should include a Hebrew-language summary of similar length. Those authors who find it difficult to write a summary in another language should submit a summary in the language in which the article is written. Articles should be typed in Word for Windows (PC) . In addition to two copies of the typescript, please include a 144 MB (3.5") diskette containing the text. Please do not fax articles. Articles submitted for publication are given to at least two readers for evaluation, and authors receive written notification of acceptance or rejection. The editors reserve the right to make minor changes ( e. g., spelling, grammar). In the case of major changes (content, etc.), the article is returned to the author for corrections. Authors of articles accepted for publication receive 3 copies of the issue in which their article appears. The last date for submission of articles to Vol. 12 is 30 April 2000. Please submit all articles to: Dr. Joseph Roth-Rotem Chief Editor, Mehqere Hag Center for Jewish Holiday Studies Beit Berl College 44905 Beit Berl Post Office Israel e-mail: intmoed@beitberl.ac.il or to the undersigned: Dr. Jonathan D. Safren Editor of the English Section, Mehqere Hag Center for Jewish holiday Studies Beit Berl College 44905 Beit Berl Post Office Israel e-mail: yonsaf@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il ____________________________________________________________________ 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. H-Judaic is affiliated with the Hebrew College of Boston . This important service to the worldwide Jewish scholarly community is made possible by our members' generous contributions. Please mail your gift to H-Judaic at Hebrew College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline MA, USA, 02446. Thank you! H-Judaic welcomes recently-published scholarly books on topics in Judaism from the ancient world to the modern. Please send books for potential review to: Lorenzo DiTommaso, H-Judaic Book Review Editor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario CANADA, L8S 4K1. ____________________________________________________________________