Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.102.138]) by mx8.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id s7jr93.245.37kbi16 Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:30:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25889 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:56:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:56:51 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.007p2] 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 9.007p2 * January 2000 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Positions - Director, Center for Judaic Studies [Denver] * Call for Papers - MLA Hebrew Literature Discussion Group Call for Papers * Notices - Ladino Virtual Community - Leo Baeck Institute: Lecture, Exhibit and Event Schedule, Winter 2000 - _Prooftexts_ Student Discount - Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Newsletter, Spring 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Patricia A. Larsen Subject: Director, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver The University of Denver seeks a scholar/teacher at the Associate or Full Professor level to direct its Center for Judaic Studies. Candidates must have an accomplished record of scholarship and teaching as well as demonstrated administrative, programming, and development experience. The area of scholarship within the Judaic Studies is open. The successful candidate will direct a Center that offers undergraduate and master's degree programs in Judaic Studies as well as community programs that include the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, the Holocaust Awareness Institute, the Interfaith/Intercultural Institute, and the Media Institute. Please see our web page at www.du.edu/cjs for more details. Review of applications will begin January 15, 2000 and will continue until the position is filled. Please send letter of interest, academic curriculum vitae and three or more letters of reference to: Professor Nancy Reichman Chair, Search Committee Center for Judaic Studies 2199 South University Blvd. Denver, Colorado 80202 The University of Denver is committed to enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages applications from women, persons of color, persons with disabilities and veterans. ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Jacobson Subject: Hebrew Literature Discussion Group Call for Papers Hebrew Literature Discussion Group Call for Papers MLA Convention in Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2000 Session title: Images of Childhood Session description: The imaginative construction of childhood in Israel or Western or Eastern Diaspora communities in works of Hebrew prose, poetry, drama, film. Alternative narratives which deviate from dominant male, Zionist, Ashkenazi voices encouraged. Deadline for submission of proposal abstracts: March 10. Participants in the panel must be members of the MLA by April 1. Submit abstracts to: Nili Gold 322 West 72 street #14B New York, NY. 10023 billgold@worldnet.att.net ----- David C. Jacobson, Associate Professor Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University Box 1826, 163 George Street, Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-3908 Fax: 401-863-3938 E-mail: David_Jacobson@Brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Rachel Amado Bortnick Subject: Ladino Virtual Community A New Online Community for Ladino All Ladino speakers/writers and interested persons are invited to join a new discussion list in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), aiming to communicate in Ladino on subjects of mutual interest, promote the use and knowledge of Ladino, and aid in standardizing the spelling of Ladino written in Roman characters. To subscribe: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Ladinokomunita or e-mail to: Ladinokomunita-subscribe@onelist.com from Rachel Amado Bortnick ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ursula Duba (duba@rcn.com) Subject: Leo Baeck Institute: Lecture, Exhibit and Event Schedule, Winter 2000 [This notice was forwarded to H-Judaic by from H-War by Diane N. Labrosse, the editor of H- Diplo -- L.D.T.] * Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 7:30PM Professor Omer Bartov, Professor of History, Rutgers University will speak on: The German Army and Genocide For the past fifty years, the German Wehrmacht has been portrayed as a professional military organization representing the highest standards of patriotism and honor. Professor Bartov thoroughly shatters this myth, showing that many of the nearly twenty million German soldiers were involved in crimes against civilians and prisoners of war. * Thursday, February 3, 2000, 7:30PM Professor Hyman A. Enzer, Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University and Professor Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer, Associate Professor of English, emerita, at SUNY Nassau Community College and editors of: _Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy_ (University of Illinois Press, 1999) Of all the memoirs that convey the human devastation of Hitler's Final Solution, Anne Frank's _The Diary of a Young Girl_ is by far the most popular and influential. Enzer and Solotaroff-Enzer's new book, with contributions by luminaries such as Bruno Bettelheim, Philip Roth and Simon Wiesenthal, sheds light on the disparate facts and interpretations of Anne Frank. In this lecture they will discuss how stage and film adaptations have altered perceptions of her life and diary, as well as consider how interpreters of Jewish experience in World War II have defined Anne Frank's significance for memorializing the Holocaust. Please check back soon for more upcoming lectures. All LBI Lectures are held at: CONGREGATION HABONIM 44 West 66th Street New York, NY 10023 Lectures begin at 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Admission is free to Members; $5.00 to Non-Members To RSVP for lectures please call: Mrs. Kirschen at LBI, 212-744-6400 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: marc brettler Subject: Student discount for _Prooftexts_ Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, edited by Alan Mintz and David G. Roskies, is published three times a year by Indiana University Press and is available to students for $25.00 per volume, a discount of more than 15% off the regular individual subscription rate. To take advantage of this special offer, you must include a copy of a valid student ID. Send orders, with credit card information, check, or money order to Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404 or call 1-800-842- 6796. For more information on Prooftexts and the other fine journals published by IU Press, which includes Israel Studies, Jewish Social Studies, and History & Memory, please visit their web site at www.iupjournals.org. Marc Z. Brettler Assoc. Professor of Biblical Literature Dept. of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Randal Schnoor Subject: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Newsletter, Spring 2000 The Association For Canadian Jewish Studies is currently assembling material for its spring, 2000 Newsletter. Please submit the following information to be included in our next volume: * 'Research Updates': Send a short piece (1-2 paragraphs) describing your current research which pertains to Canadian Jewish Studies. * Information regarding new University chairs, academic programs, recently filled positions, positions available, scholarships etc. related to Canadian Jewish Studies. * Recently published books, articles, recent conferences, conference papers, call for papers that relate to Canadian Jewish Studies. * Regional Community News that pertains to Canadian Jewish Studies send to Randal F. Schnoor: ----- ** Make a Note of our ANNUAL CONFERENCE which will take place in Edmonton, Alberta: May 28-29, 2000. Send paper proposals by Feb 1/2000 to ____________________________________________________________________ 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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