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Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List - Week of April 11, 2004
Association
for Jewish Studies Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List Editor/Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur<aben-ur(at)judnea.umass.edu> Week of
Sunday, April 11, 2004 (20 Nissan 5764) NOTE:
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SHOULD BE RENDERED: hsmith@sephardi. Index: 1.
Note
from Editor/Moderator (Ben-Ur) 2. Association for Jewish Studies Call for Papers (Sheramy)
10.
New
Publication: *Farewell to Salonica* (Schofield) 11.
Query:
Accessing Sheet Music for *Antología de Liturgia Española*
(Saxe) 12.
Query:
Connections between Ottoman and Sephardi Cooking (Dorsey) 1. Note
from Editor/Moderator (Ben-Ur) My apologies
to List members for the delay in dispatching this issue, a delay related
to my residence in Providence, RI this semester. Thank you for your patience. Aviva
Ben-Ur --------------------------------------------------------- 2. Association
for Jewish Studies Call for Papers (Sheramy) Date:
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:34:11 -0500 Via: Anna
Urowitz-Freudenstein <hjmod(at)OISE.UTORONTO.CA> The Association
for Jewish Studies is now accepting proposals for its 36th Annual Conference,
to be held December 19-21, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago in Chicago,
Illinois. Online submissions accepted at www.brandeis.edu/ajs.
Proposals in all fields of Jewish studies will be considered.
Proposal deadline: Monday, April 26, 2004. For further information,
see the AJS website or contact the AJS office at ajs(at)ajs.cjh.org
or 917.606.8249. Rona Sheramy Executive
Director Association
for Jewish Studies 15 West
16th St. New York,
NY 10011 --------------------------------------------------------- 3. Announcement: Jewish Museum in Istanbul
(Simon) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:23:03 -0500 From: Rachel Simon <rsimon(at)Princeton.EDU> The Jewish
Museum of Istanbul, the first and only one in Turkey now has a website,
active both in Turkish and English: <http://www.muze500.com>http://www.muze500.com --------------------------------------------------------- 4. Course in Judeo-Spanish Language and Literature
in Estonia (Santa Puche) From:
salvasanta salvasanta(at)tiscali.es Date:
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:30:44 +0100 Kerido
haverim, Mos plaze
poder anunsiarvos ke entre la fin del mez de fevrero i el mez de marzo
sera echo en la universidad de Tartu, Estonia, un kurso sovre lingua
i literatura djudeo-espanyola para los elevos estonianos de estudios
ispanikos. Este kurso
es realisado grasias al apoyo de la embashada de Espanya, ansi ke a
los amatores de esta kultura en este paiz baltiko, komo el profesor
i gran amigo de los sefaradim Ricardo E. Mateo Durand. Mos parese
una gran novedad ke estos mansevos i futuros ispanistas konoskan la
kultura sefaradi. En serka
tiempo vos embiaremos mas informasion. Shalom
a todos, Salvador Dr. SANTA
PUCHE, Salvador Tfn: 968-792197/968-752131 Fax: 968-752131 --------------------------------------------------------- 5. Call
for Contributions, *Murcia-Sefarad* (Santa Puche) From:
salsan salsan(at)arrakis.es Date:
Tuesday, December 31, 2002 6:33 PM Keridos
haverim, Komo savesh
ay una semana fue prezentada la Asosiasion 'Legado Sefardí de
la Región de Murcia', asosiasion ke kere prezervar el pasado
djudio de esta rejion de Espanya. Los butos
de esta asosiasion son: 1. Difundir
i enkorajar los estudios djudios. 2. Kolaborar
endjunto a la Universidad de Murcia en la kreasion del 'Sentro de Estudios
Sefaradis'. 3. Prezervar
los restos arkeolojikos djudios de esta rejion (entre eyos dos sinagogas). 4. Organizar
enkontros internasionales sovre kultura sefaradi, en el marko del Festival
Internasional Tres Culturas ke organiza el Munisipio de Murcia en kolaborasion
kon otros munisipios. Mos agrada
poder anunsiarvos ke ya topimos finansiasion para krear la resvista
semestrala 'Murcia-Sefarad'. Es por eyo ke vos eskrivo afin de demandarvos
una kolaborasion para esta revista. En esta
kolaborasion vos rogamos de avlar kuala es vuestra opinion de la kultura
sefaradi, sus esperansas, sus problemos, kuales kreyesh ke son sus problemas
prinsipales para transmitirla, porke es importante topar esta erensia...
i una salutasion para esta revista! Vos ruego ke, si akseptash a kolaborar,
me embiesh los artikolos en dokumento Word, kon una ekstension de 4-5
ojas antes del 30 de disiembre, ama vos ruego de dizirme si vash a kolaborar.
Mersi muncho, Dr. SANTA
PUCHE, Salvador Tf: 968-792197 Fax: 968-752131 salsan@arrakis.es --------------------------------------------------------- 6. Lecture:
“Sephardim in America” at FIU (Zohar) From: Zion
Zohar zoharz(at)fiu.edu Date:
Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:44:45 –0500 [Note
from Editor/Moderator Aviva Ben-Ur: The following three lectures are
announced post-facto in order to disseminate information about recent
scholarship and FIU’s excellent Sephardic programming] Florida
International University Institute
for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, President
Navon Program for the Study of Sephardic
and Oriental Jewry, The Academy
for Lifelong Learning,Yovel, Hillel & the Office of the Vice Provost
are very proud to present: "The
350th Anniversary of The Sephardic Jews in America" By: Prof.
Jonathan Sarna Thursday
February 19, 2004 at 7:30pm Kovens
Conference Center Ballroom at the Biscayne
Bay Campus (For Directions see below). Dr. Jonathan
Sarna is one of America's foremost commentators on American Jewish history,
religion and life. Born in Philadelphia, and raised in New York and
Boston, he attended Brandeis University, the Boston Hebrew College,
Merkaz HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, and Yale University, where he obtained
his doctorate in 1979. Dr. Sarna
came back to Brandeis in 1990 to assume the new Joseph H. & Belle
R. Braun Professorship in American Jewish history in the Department
of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. He served two terms as chair of
that department, and now chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial
Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
in Cincinnati, where he also serves as consulting scholar. Dr. Sarna
has written, edited or co-edited twenty books, including The American
Jewish Experience, a reader; People Walk On Their Heads, a volume dealing
with Jewish immigrant life in New York, Jacksonian Jew, a biography
of Mordecai Noah; JPS, a cultural history of the Jewish Publication
Society; and with Ellen Smith, The Jews of Boston, an illustrated scholarly
history of that community. His most recent books are entitled Religion
and State in the American Jewish Experience; Women and American Judaism:
Historical Perspectives; and Jews and the American Public Square. Articles,
reviews, and commentaries by Dr. Sarna appear regularly in scholarly
and popular journals, as well as Jewish newspapers across North America.
In addition, he sits on half-a-dozen editorial committees and reviews
Jewish books for the Boston Globe. Dr. Sarna
is now completing a new interpretive history of American Judaism to
be published by Yale University Press. He is married to Professor Ruth
Langer, and they have two children, Aaron and Leah. --------------------------------------------------------- 7. Lecture: “The Rabbi and the Sheikh”
at FIU (Zohar) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:44:28 -0500 From: Zion Zohar zoharz(at)fiu.edu “The
Rabbi and the Sheikh-A Tale of an Inter-Faith Quest and a Human Relationship
in 18th Century Damascus,” by Prof. Zvi Zohar (Bar
Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel and the Shalom Hartman Institute
of Jerusalem) Monday,
February 2, 2004 at 7:30 pm, Kovens Conference Center at the Biscayne
Bay Campus (Florida International University) An amazing
account, published in 1842 by a leading Sephardic rabbi of Jerusalem,
paints a fascinating picture of a personal, intellectual and spiritual
relationship between Rabbi Yehonathan Galante (chief rabbi of Damascus
in the late 18th century) and a contemporary Muslim Sufi Sheikh. The
course of that relationship, culminating in a joint mystic-spiritual
journey, provides insights relevant to the possibility of Muslim-Jewish
religious encounter and dialogue then - and now. Dr. Zvi
Zohar of Bar Ilan University and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel,
who discovered and researched this fascinating document, will analyze
it (in English translation) and discuss its contents and meanings. Zvi Zohar
heads the Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research and the Strengthening
of Jewish Vitality at Bar Ilan University, and is a Senior Research
Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies in
Jerusalem, where he heads the Alan A. and Loraine Fischer Family Center
for Contemporary Halakha. He is also a founding faculty member of Paideia
- The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden. His most recent
publications include Realms of Identity and Deviance [an analysis of
halakhic positions vis a vis desecrators of the Sabbath, from Talmudic
times to the present] (co-authored with Avi Sagi), Tel-Aviv (HaKibbutz
HaMeuhad press) 2000, and The Luminous Face of the East - Studies in
the Legal and Religious Thought of Sephardic Rabbis of the Middle East,
Tel-Aviv (HaKibbutz HaMeuhad press) 2001. For more
information please call Prof. Zion Zohar from the Navon program for
the study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry. --------------------------------------------------------- 8. Lecture:
“The Book of Esther” at FIU (Zohar) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:44:00 -0500 From: Zion Zohar <zoharz(at)fiu.edu> Florida
International University Institute
for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, The President
Navon Program for the Study of Sephardic
and Oriental Jewry & Yovel* proudly
present: "The
Book of Esther -Thought and Exegesis in the Sephardic and Oriental Jewish
Traditions" By: Prof.
Isaac Kalimi Distinguished
Rosenthal Professor in the Department of Classics Case Western Reserve
University Monday,
March 15th, 2004 at 6:00pm
in Wolfe University Center room 245 at the Biscayne Bay Campus In the
Hebrew month of Adar, Jews worldwide observe the holiday of Purim and
reread the Biblical book of Esther. This lecture will critically survey
the place of the Book of Esther within Jewish literature, Biblical commentaries,
art, tradition and even among various Jewish groups from the earliest
times until the modern period, paying special attention to the Sephardic
and Oriental Jewish communities. Dr. Kalimi will explore the absence
of the book from among the manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, its
place within the Hebrew Bible, post-Biblical as well as rabbinical literature
and exegesis. He will demonstrate that the book addresses a specific
fear of annihilation that existed among the Jewish people from the dawn
of their history to the present day. In addition, he will reveal
how the book offers a unique religious message for Jews in all generations
and places, particularly in the Diaspora. Dr. Kalimi is the Distinguished Rosenthal Visiting Professor in the
Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland,
OH), and Professor of Biblical Studies and Jewish History at the Graduate
Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies in Chicago. Professor Kalimi
is also an Associate member of the Leiden Institute for the Study
of Religions at the University of Leiden, and served as Visiting Professor
in several universities, such as in the Universities of Luzern, Oldenburg,
Kampen, Boston, and Chicago (DePaul). He gave many invited lectures
in distinguished institutions in Israel, Europe and America. His area
of academic specialty is the ancient history of the Jewish people,
Biblical and Rabbinic literature, and Jewish exegesis. Professor Kalimi
holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He has published many books and numerous articles in leading international
journals in several languages (English, Hebrew and German) including
Early Jewish Exegesis and Theological Controversies: Studies in Scriptures
in the Shadow of Internal and External Controversies, and his forthcoming
books, An Ancient Israelite Historian: The Chronicler, His Time, Place,
and Writing, and The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles
which will be coming out this year. --------------------------------------------------------- 9. New
Book Publication: *Making Jews Modern: Yiddish and Ladino Press
in the Russian and Ottoman Empires* (Stein) From: Sarah
Stein sstein(at)u.washington.edu Date:
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:44:55 -0800 (PST) New Book
Publication: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, *Making Jews Modern: Yiddish
and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires* (Indiana University
Press, 2003). On the
eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were
caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted
modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries, respectively. What language
should Jews speak or teach their children? Should Jews acculturate,
and if so, into what regional or European culture? What did it mean
to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? Sarah
Abrevaya Stein explores how such questions were formulated and answered
within these communities by examining the texts most widely consumed
by Jewish readers: popular newspapers in Yiddish and Ladino. Examining
the press's role as an agent of historical change, she interrogates
a diverse array of verbal and visual texts, including cartoons, photographs,
and advertisements. This original and lively study yields new perspectives
on the role of print culture in imagining national and transnational
communities; Stein's work enriches our sense of cultural life under
the rule of multiethnic empires and complicates our understanding of
Europe's polyphonic modernities. Sarah
Abrevaya Stein is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and
the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University
of Washington. Ordering
information may be found at the following website: http://iupress.indiana.edu/books/ --------------------------------------------------------- 10. New Publication:
*Farewell to Salonica* (Schofield) From: Will Schofield wschofield(at)pauldrybooks.com Date:
Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:08 PM [Note
from Editor/Moderator Aviva Ben-Ur: Having used this book in my own
class, I highly recommend this book for courses in Ottoman and Sephardic
literature and history. While
it focuses on Salonika, it also includes reflections on immigration
to the United States.] Paul Dry
Books, a small press based in Philadelphia, recently reprinted "Farewell
to Salonica" by Leon Sciaky. Our authorized reprint of this Sephardic
classic (first published in 1946) includes a new afterword by the author's
son, maps, photographs, and a Publisher's Note which provides some historical
background. In "Farewell to Salonica," Leon Sciaky writes
about growing up at the turn of the twentieth century in Salonica, which
at that time was an economic center of the Ottoman Empire and a cultural
center of Sephardic Jewry. "Farewell
to Salonica" gives today's readers a fascinating view into a nearly
forgotten world. When it was first published, the New York Times called
it "a fresh and charming book that throws a kindly light on a sector
of human life unknown to most Americans." Farewell
to Salonica is available for $14.95 through Sephardic House, your local
bookseller, and from our website: www.PaulDryBooks.com. Professors can
purchase exam copies for $5.00; please get in touch. Thank
you, Will Schofield Paul Dry
Books www.pauldrybooks.com Tel: 215-231-9939 Fax:
215-231-9942 ---------------------------------------------------------11. Query: Accessing Sheet Music for *Antología
de Liturgia Española* (Saxe) From:
Stephen Saxe sjsaxe(at)med.umich.edu Date:
Monday, March 22, 2004 3:54 PM Can readers
assist with the following: I am interested
in finding out how to get sheet music that would be found in the "Antologia
de Liturgia Espagnoles" by Isaac Levy. I would appreciate any help that you might
be able to give me in this regard.
Please respond directly to me at: sjsaxe(at)med.umich.edu Thank
you. Stephen
J. Saxe, M.D., F.A.C.S. Clinical
Assistant Professor Department
of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Vitreoretinal
Service Kellogg
Eye Center University
of Michigan 1000 Wall
Street Ann Arbor,
MI 48105 Tel.: (734) 615.9690 12. Query:
Connections between Ottoman and Sephardi Cooking (Dorsey) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:45:03 +0200 From: "James M. Dorsey"
jmdorsey(at)attglobal.net In connection
with a project I am working on regarding Ottoman cookery, I wonder whether
there is any one on your list has looked at the interaction between
Ottoman and Sephardi cooking?
Any suggestion would be very welcome. Please respond both to
the List (aben-ur(at)judnea.umass.edu)
and directly to me (jmdorsey(at)attglobal.net). Thank you and best regards, James
M. Dorsey Quest
Ltd. Tel: +90-532-2149750 Fax: +31-84-8837430 jmdorsey@attglobal.net
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