Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.102.138]) by mx8.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id s9bdq1.jjh.37kbi16 Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:24:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13238 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:21:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:21:32 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.007p5] 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 P28CE0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 9.007p5 * January 2000 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Conferences - Preliminary Announcement: Esther2000 [Creighton/Nebraska at Lincoln] - Gender and Adult Jewish Education * Notices - Project StaR [Michigan] - Jewish Museum in Berlin Seeking Mementos - Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins 37.4 [Pennsylvania] - The Jerusalem Haggadah - Third Paris Summer University Seminar ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Leonard Greenspoon Subject: Preliminary Announcement: Esther2000 A major conference on the Book of Esther will take place on Sunday, April 2, in Omaha, NE, and Monday, April 3, in Lincoln, NE. This conference, which has received funding from the Nebraska Humanities Council and a number of other sources, is co-sponsored by the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University and the Department of Classics & Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Invited presenters include Adele Berlin, David Clines, Kristin De Troyer, Michael Fox, Libbie Groves, Timothy Laniak, Jon Levenson, Carey Moore, Judith Neulander, Ori Soltes, and Barry Walfish. Other interested scholars and artists are encouraged to attend. A full program will be available shortly. For further information, please contact Leonard Greenspoon, at Creighton University [(402) 280-2303 or ljgrn@creighton.edu] or Sidnie White Crawford, at UNL [(402) 472-4475 or scrawfor@unlserve.unl.edu]. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Benita Ross Subject: Gender and Adult Jewish Education Hebrew University scholar, Professor Steven Cohen will share dramatic, new research on adult Jewish education. The lecture and discussion will take place at Hassenfeld Conference Center, Brandeis University on Monday evening, March 12, at 8 PM. It is free and open to the public. Professor Cohen is one of many prominent speakers at the groundbreaking March 12-14 conference: Gender and Adult Jewish Education planned by the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women (HIRIJW). The conference will bring together scholars, educators, and lay leadership to discuss the historical roots of increased interest by contemporary, American, Jewish adults in Jewish learning and how the current scene differs from the past. How does Jewish education relate to the new roles women are playing as rabbis, educators and in Jewish organizational life? How has women's increased participation in adult Jewish education changed the culture for both men and women? Other distinguished speakers include: Rabbi Michael Balinsky, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.); Erica Brown, scholar-in-residence, Boston Combined Jewish Philanthropies; Dr Betsy Dolgin Katz and Jane Shapiro, Florence Melton Adult Mini School (Chicago); Professor Pamela Nadell, American University (Washingtom, D.C.); Professor Joseph Reimer and Professor Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University; Dr Carol Diament and Dr Regina Stein, Hadassah (New York); Barry Shrage, Boston Combined Jewish Philanthropies; Dr Sara Lee, Rhea Hirsch School of Education (Los Angeles); Dr. Diane Schuster, Claremont Graduate University (Los Angeles); Lee Meyerhoff Hendler, Baltimore; Dr. Paul Flexner, JESNA (New York); and Debbie Kram, Boston, Ma'ayan Chaired by Brandeis Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, this conference is the third in a three part series at the HIRIJW dealing with adult Jewish education. Finding a Home (JTS, October 1999) explored the challenges that continue to face Jewish Women's Studies in the academy. The Third International Scholarly Exchange (Brandeis, December 1999) looked at diverse situations of Jewish women pursuing education around the world For reservations and further information, call Benita Ross, Conference Coordinator HIRIJW, 781-736-2965 ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Armand Lauffer Subject: Project STaR Scholarships and Paid Internships at Michigan Applications are now being accepted for Project STaR. Project STaR is the University of Michigan's graduate program for leadership positions in the Jewish community. Project STaR offers you an opportunity to be of service to the Jewish community on a professional basis. Graduates are heavily recruited for positions in synagogues, Jewish schools and educational agencies, human service, social justice, and community relations agencies, JCCs, Jewish Federations, and Hillels. Here's what you might expect if you qualify: (1) Extraordinary management skills good for any job (2) A graduate school scholarship (3) A paid internship in US and/or abroad (4) Job placement assistance (5) An alma mater with a #1 ranking (6) The advantages of a large University close to a large dynamic Jewish community (7) A choice of professional schools (e.g., social work, business, law, public health, education) (8) Graduate level Judaic Studies (9) Welcoming alumni (10) A career in which you can make a difference every day For more information, click on http://www.ssw.umich.edu/star/ Find your way to STaRGate, a gateway to Jewish communities, Jewish organizations, and the Jewish internet. You can also contact Project.STaR@umich.edu or call 734-764-5392. --- Armand Lauffer Professor of Social Work and Director of Project STaR The University of Michigan 1080 S. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 e-mail: alauffer@umich.edu phone: (734) 763 6583 fax: (734) 763 3372 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Arieh Lebowitz Subject: Jewish Museum in Berlin Seeking Mementos The Jewish Museum in Berlin is looking for objects which reflect the centuries of Jewish family-life in Germany such as photographs, letters, diplomas, diaries, family trees, family photo albums, portraits, identity papers, passports, medals, awards, company brochures and catalogs as well as toys, china, silver, table linens or ceremonial objects. They are also looking for objects which attest to persecution, life in exile or in DP camps, as well as documents relating to reparation or restitution proceedings after 1989. For more information, visit: http://www.hagalil.com/juedisches-museum/berlin-e.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Robert Kraft Subject: Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins 37.4 Topic for 1999-2000: Ethnicity, Regionalism and Religious Developments in Late Antique Egypt Chairpersons: Kirsti Copeland (Princeton University) copeland@princeton.edu Ra'anan Abusch (Princeton University) rsabusch@princeton.edu Coordinator: Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania) kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu THE FOURTH MEETING OF 1998-99 will be held on Thursday, February 10 from 7-9 PM in room 137 in the Religion Department (1879 Hall) of PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.* Persons wishing to dine with other participants prior to the meeting should meet at 6 PM at 1879 Hall (at the corner of Prospect St. and Washington Rd. in Princeton, NJ). Take-out food (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) will be provided. Cost is $7 per person. ** NB - This meeting will be at Princeton University, not the University of Pennsylvania Please RSVP to either chairperson (addresses above), if possible, so that we might have a rough idea of how much food to arrange. PROGRAM: David Brakke (Indiana University) "Jewish Flesh and Christian Spirit in Athanasius of Alexandria: The Construction of Universal Orthodoxy" Howard Clark Kee responding * Suggested Reading: Christopher Haas, _Alexandria in Late Antiquity_, chapter 4 Daniel Boyarin, _A Radical Jew_, chapter 10 -- available electronically at http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/classics/boyarin Athanasius, _Festal Letters_ 1 and 6 (NPNF, 2d ser., vol. 4, pp. 506-10, 519-23) -- available electronically at http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers/NPNF2-04/v2/ Athanasius, _Discourses [or Orations] Against the Arians_ 1.1-10; 3.27-28 (NPNF, 2d ser., vol. 4, pp. 306-12, 408-10) see above for electronic site 1999-2000 TOPIC DESCRIPTION: The Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins in its 37th year will address the themes of "Ethnicity, Regionalism and Religious Developments in Late Antique Egypt." The mass of surviving literary, material and documentary evidence for and about Greco-Roman Egypt enables scholars to produce local histories that focus on the social and economic context of religious developments. It is this local scope which makes it possible to pry apart the relationship between regional developments and the massive continuity that characterizes Egyptian culture well into the Roman period. Factors such as ethnicity, language, and religion operating at a local level can be correlated to the larger historical trajectories without being lost in generalizations about Egyptian or Late Antique civilization. Religious affiliation and ethnicity in Egypt constitute overlapping frameworks of identity. Phenomena which uncomfortably carry the titles "Hellenistic Judaism," "Christianity," "Gnosticism," "Paganism" and "Magic" flourished alongside each other in Late Antique Egypt. The instability that characterizes this religious world complicates the task of delineating the historical developments of these competing traditions. By focusing on the interplay between religious development and contextualized social conditions, these sessions will explore the synchronic and diachronic continuities and discontinuities that exist along contested fault-lines in Late Antique Egypt. 1999-2000 SCHEDULE: Thursday, March 9: Christopher Haas (Villanova University) with Guy Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) responding "Ethno-religious Identity and the Struggle for Cultural Hegemony in Late Antique Alexandria" Thursday, April 12: Sarah Iles Johnston (Ohio State University) "Creating Ritual: Innovation and Tradition in the Magical Papyri" ** Session to be held at Princeton University For further information, please visit the PSCO website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/ *Please note that this session is to be held at Princeton University and not at the University of Pennsylvania.* ------------------------------------------------------------ From: druck Subject: The Jerusalem Haggadah We will be on tour of the U.S. and Northwestern Canada between February 24th and August 23rd. You can visit our site: www.webstazy.com/haggada If you would like to have a private showing of this beautiful haggadah please contact us. Please contact us off list at: adruck@netvision.net.il Arnie & Nechami Druck Aryeh Editions The Jerusalem Haggadah was commissioned by our family in anticipation of 3000 years of the founding of Jerusalem. The Haggadah illustrations are based on architectural motifs of Jerusalem buildings. The 2 volumes were printed in a deluxe limited edition of 550 copies by master printers in Verona, Italy. The Jerusalem Haggadah is the work of the Jerusalem artist Yael Hershberg and calligrapher Yitzchak Pludwinski. Marc Epstein from Vassar College wrote an interesing commentary. We will be in the U.S. from February 24th for 6 months and we will be able to show the Jerusalem Haggadah personally to interested parties. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Gilles Rozier Subject: Third Paris Summer University Seminar [Please forgive the loss of the diacritics in this post -- L.D.T.] Do you want to learn Yiddish in Paris next summer ? Some details in English about... The 3rd Paris Summer University Seminar will take place At the Vladimir Medem Center 52, rue Rene-Boulanger three weeks from July 17 to August 4, 2000 Classes every morning, on three levels, taught by : 1st level : beginners 2nd level : intermediate Beginners and intermediate classes shared by Sonia Pincusowicz (Brussels) and Helen-Khayele Beer (London/Oxford) 3rd level :advanced class ; an intensive writing workshop specially designed for the improvement of writing skills) : teacher Yitskhok Niborski. Details about afternoon activities will be detailed in a few weeks. If you want to receive full information, please contact Bibliotheque Medem Universite d'ete de Langue et de Litterature yiddish 52, rue Rene-Boulanger 75010 Paris tel : (00 33) 1 42 02 17 08 fax : (00 33) 1 42 02 17 04 e.mail : medem@club-internet.fr Gilles Rozier Bibliotheque Medem 52, rue Rene-Boulanger 75010 Paris (France) tel : 01 42 02 17 08 Fax : 01 42 02 17 04 ____________________________________________________________________ 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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