Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx10.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id sblg02.6or.37kbi3u Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:35:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00698 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:08:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:07:57 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.008p4] 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 9.008p4 * February 2000 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Calls for Papers and Conferences - Conference: The Impact of the Holocaust on Contemporary Society [Brandeis] - Proposals Invited for History of Jewish Education Panel [AJS 2000] - Magic and Gender [AAR/SBL] * Notices - PSCO 37.5 [Pennsylvania] - Jerusalem summer school/liturgy [Hebrew University of Jerusalem] - Tamiment Library Pathfinders - Marriage and Divorce Papyri On-Line ------------------------------------------------------------ CALLS FOR PAPERS AND CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Miriam Hoffman, Tauber Institute" Subject: Conference: The Impact of the Holocaust on Contemporary Society International Conference Sunday, March 26 - Wednesday, March 29, 2000 at Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts Organized by The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University In cooperation with The Hamburg Institute for Social Research The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches The Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University For information and brochure contact: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Brandeis University MS 075 Waltham, MA 02454 Tel: 781-736-2125 Fax: 781-736-2070 Email: tauber@brandeis.edu For more information please refer to the web site: http://www.brandeis.edu/new/reporter/impact.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From: sheramy@brandeis.edu Subject: Proposals Invited for History of Jewish Education Panel [AJS 2000] We are interested in proposing a panel for AJS 2000 on the role of twentieth-century Jewish educational institutions (schools, camps, youth organizations, etc.) in shaping Jewish identity in various national contexts. We welcome submission of proposals (500 words) by March 7 to the e-mail addresses below. Rona Sheramy (sheramy@brandeis.edu) Dept. of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Brandeis University Jonathan Golden (jgolden@brandeis.edu) Dept. of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Hayim Lapin Subject: Magic and Gender [AAR/SBL] The Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism Section of the SBL will be holding a session in the November 2000 annual meeting of the AAR/SBL on accusations of magic and witchcraft in the Greco-Roman world, and invites papers particularly relating to gender. The panel is almost complete. However, since the session was incorrectly listed in the call for papers, and may have been missed by colleagues, we are still accepting paper proposals. In addition, the section is holding a session on class in the ancient world--in connection with or in opposition to other categories such as gender, status, or ethnicity. A number of participants have been invited but, again, we are still accepting applications. For inquiries concerning either session please contact Hayim Lapin, Department of History, University of Maryland, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD, 20742. (o) 301 405 4296; (f) 301 314 9399; email: HL49@umail.umd.edu. Best regards, Hayim Lapin Dept. of Hist., UMD ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Robert Kraft Subject: PSCO 37.5 Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins 37.5, 9 March at UPenn University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies 201 Logan Hall 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 FIFTH MEETING OF 1998-99 will be held on Thursday, March 9 from 7-9 PM in the Lounge on the second floor of Logan Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. Persons wishing to dine with other participants prior to the meeting should meet at 6 PM at Logan Hall (southeast of Locust Walk and 36th Street Walk). Take-out food (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) will be provided. Cost is $7-10 per person. Please RSVP to either chairperson (addresses above), if possible, so that we might have a rough idea of how much food to arrange. PROGRAM: Christopher Haas (Villanova University) "Multitudo Immanis: Public Disorder and Communal Identity in Late Antique Alexandria" Suggested Readings: A sampling of ancient sources -- Ammianus Marcellinus 22.11, 22.16.15-23 (J. C. Rolfe, trans. in LCL, vol. 2, pp. 257-263, 303-309) Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium 34-37, (ed. and trans. J. Rouge/, Sources Chre/tiennes, vol. 124) Julian, Ep. 21, 47 (W. C. Wright, trans. in LCL, vol. 3, pp. 61-67, 143-151), (Bidez-Cumont nos. 60, 111) Historia Acephala 18 (NPNF ser. 2, vol. 4 , p. 499) see http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers2/NPNF2-04/TOC.htm (just before the Festal Letters; "Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles...") Socrates Scholasticus, Historia Ecclesiastica, 5.16-17, 7.13-15 (NPNF ser. 2, vol. 2, pp. 126-127, 159-160) see http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm Modern Discussions -- Garth Fowden, "Religious Communities" in Bowersock, Brown, and Grabar, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, (Cambridge, MA, 1999), pp. 82-106 William D. Barry, "Popular Violence and the Stability of Roman Alexandria" Bulletin de la Socie/te/ Arche/ologique d'Alexandrie 45 (1993): 19-34 C. Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity (Baltimore, 1997), chap 1 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. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Avital Pinnick Subject: Jerusalem summer school/liturgy [NOTE: replies should be addressed to the Institute for Advanced Studies e-mail at the end of this message] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Institute for Advanced Studies announces The 10th Jerusalem Summer School in Jewish Studies, on Jewish Liturgy And Synagogue Life 26 June - 5 July, 2000 This year's school will address the history and development of Jewish liturgy from its earliest and formative stages to contemporary attempts at forging new and innovative forms of prayer. Seminars will examine the historical and theological contexts in which normative Jewish liturgical texts were created and disseminated. Specific topics of inquiry will include: the relationship of prayer to poetry; prayer as a mystical experience; the development of musical contexts for liturgical expression; the evolution of liturgical texts from Qumran and the talmudic/geonic periods through the Middle ages; varietirs of liturgical development among specific Jewish communities; a comparative study of Christian and Jewish liturgies; prayer as the religious expression of elite and non-elite groups within the Jewish community; contemporary liturgy and the challenge of feminism. A day-long trip to ancient synagogues in the Galilee will attempt to provide a sense of the physical and social environments in which liturgical texts were produced and employed. The school is intended for advanced graduate and post-doctoral students. Scholarships covering substantial portions of travel and accomodation are available to qualified candidates. For application forms write to: The Jerusalem Summer School, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram 91904, ISRAEL. Fax: 972-2-6523429. E-mail: advanc@vms.huji.ac.il Application deadline: 20 April 2000 Website address: http://www.as.huji.ac.il/html/jewish2000.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Jane H. Rothstein Subject: Tamiment Library Pathfinders Two new pathfinders to the collections of the Tamiment Library at New York University, both by NYU history graduate students, are now available on the Tamiment webpage. These are: "Guide to Yiddish-Speaking Labor and Radical Movements" http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/yiddish/Index/index.html by Jane Rothstein and "Sources in U.S. Women's Labor History" http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/women/cover.html by Kathleen Barry. These join Tamiment Librarian Andrew Lee's older guide, "References Sources in U.S. Labor Studies" http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/resources Eventually these will include selected illustrations (cover art, pamphlets, buttons and pins, posters, photographs) but at present these are text only. Please feel free to use them and let us if you find them useful. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dr Peter M. Head Subject: Marriage and Divorce Papyri A new web site which may be of interest to many colleagues: David Instone Brewer has set up a web site which is hoping to become an exhaustive list of all Greek, Latin and Aramaic marriage and divorce papyri from the 4th C BCE to the 4th C CE. The site includes the texts, links to the morphologically tagged texts at Perseus and links to images of the texts (in the rare occasions when they exist online). He has found over 170 such papyri, but is aware that there are probably many more. He would like to hear from anyone who knows of texts which have been missed out. The site can be found at: http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Brewer/MarriagePapyri/Index.htm Cheers Peter ____________________________________________________________________ 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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