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Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List - Week of February 20, 2005

Association for Jewish Studies Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List

Editor/Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur(at)judnea.umass.edu>

Week of Sunday, February 20, 2005 (11 Adar I 5765)

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Index:

1. Conference on Medicine among Ladino-speaking communities (Refael)

2. Call for Papers: 37th Annual AJS Conference (Horowitz and Sheramy)

3. Call for Papers: Iranian Jewry: History, Society and Culture (Azulay)

4. Call for Papers: “Visions of “Sepharad” for AJS conference 2005 (Friedman and Schapkow)

5. Benjamin Disraeli's Alroy on line (Spector)

6. Digitization of "Zion's messenger" - Bombay (Jerchower)

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1.  Conference on Medicine among Ladino-speaking communities (Refael)

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:16:58 +0200

From: <refaes(at)mail.biu.ac.il>

10th Ladino “Marathon:” Conference on medicine among Ladino-speaking Jewish communities (Refael)

Medicine and Healing in Ladino-speaking Communities/Kuras I Melizinas en Ladino, March 3, 2005.  Naime & Yehoshua Salti Center for Ladino Studies, Bar-Ilan Univeristy

For full Hebrew/Ladino program see www.ladino-biu.com.  Note: Ladino is in Hebrew characters.

Shmuel Refael

Ben-Gurion University

[ed: the above message is the editor’s synopsis of Hebrew/Ladino flier]

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2. Call for Papers: 37th Annual AJS Conference (Horowitz and Sheramy)

From: Association for Jewish Studies <ajs(at)ajs.cjh.org>

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:56:42 -0500

Dear Colleague,

The Call for Papers for the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, to be held December 18 - 20, 2005 at the Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington, D.C., is now online at <http://www.brandeis.edu/ajs>.  The AJS Online Proposal Submission Site will be available starting March 1, 2005; the deadline for proposal submission is April 18, 2005.  All proposals must be submitted through the online submission site.

The Call for Papers includes general information regarding the submission process, grant opportunities, and accommodations.  If you have more specific questions regarding any of these matters, please contact the AJS office at  <ajs(at)ajs.cjh.org> or 917.606.8249.  We look forward to seeing you in Washington, D.C.

Sincerely,

Sara R. Horowitz

Vice President for Program

Association for Jewish Studies

 

Rona Sheramy

Executive Director

Association for Jewish Studies

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3. Call for Papers: Iranian Jewry: History, Society and Culture (Azulay)

From: <mazulay@mail.biu.ac.il>

via: Rachel Simon <rsimon(at)Princeton.EDU>

Date: February 15, 2005

Bar-Ilan University

The Faculty of Jewish Studies, Interdepartmental Division of Jewish Studies

The Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society & Education in the Sephardic Heritage

Call for Papers

You are hereby invited to participate in an international conference entitled:

Iranian Jewry: History, Society and Culture (June 15-16, 2005)

Conference Topics:

History and Society

Cultural Works – Literature, Language, Music and Art

Encounters Between Judaism and Islam

The Persian-Jewish Diaspora

Zionism and Aliyah

You are hereby invited to submit a proposal for presentation of a paper, together with an abstract of no more than one page.

Proposals should be submitted no later than February 28, 2005 to:

The Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center Bar-Ilan University

Ramat Gan 52900 Israel

Email: <mazulay(at)mail.biu.ac.il>

Conference papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings following scientific review as required.

Sincerely,

The Conference Academic Committee

Prof. Shaul Regev

Dr. Yaron Harel

Dr. Bracha Yaniv

Dr. Ze’ev Maghen

Prof. Amnon Netzer

The Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center

Bar Ilan University

Ramat Gan 52900

Israel

[note from Editor/Moderator Aviva Ben-Ur: Please email <mazulay(at)mail.biu.ac.il> for the electronic conference proposal form.

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4. Call for Papers: “Visions of “Sepharad” for AJS conference 2005 (Friedman and Schapkow)

From: Michal Friedman <mrf25(at)columbia.edu> and Carsten Schapkow <cschapkow(at)gmx.de>.

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:15:44 -0500

Call for Papers for the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, 18-20 December 2005, Washington D.C.

Visions of “Sepharad”: Spain in the Jewish Historical and Literary Imagination (1800-2000)

Organizers: Carsten Schapkow (Simon Dubnow Institute) & Michal Friedman (Columbia University)

In his seminal essay, “The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy” (1989), Ismar Schorsch explored the place of Iberian-Sephardic culture and history in the imaginary of nineteenth-century German-Jewish intellectuals; he conceptualized this interest in the Sephardic past as a “Sephardic Mystique”. Schorsch illustrates how German-speaking Jews interpreted Iberian-Sephardic culture as a process of (inter)cultural mediation from a core of Jewish culture into the non-Jewish culture. In this panel we widen the application of a “Sephardic Mystique” beyond the exclusive province of intellectuals and historiographical debate, and beyond the confines of German-speaking Jewry, to embrace an exploration of the place of “Sepharad” in the emergence and transformation of modern Jewish identities in multiple Jewish diasporic communities. Thus, in a departure from the dichotomies of “East” and “West” and “European” and “non-European”, we illustrate the place of “Sepharad” in Jewish communities, ranging from nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, Germany and North Africa, to twentieth-century Salonika, Spain and Latin America. We wish to examine how these divergent Jewish modern experiences shaped the ways both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews conceptualized and made claims on Spain or “Sepharad” as well as the place of “Sepharad” in shaping these experiences. Moreover, we wish to illustrate how “Sepharad” as a subject of historiography, memory, literature and political discourse, may have provided a forum for Jewish communities to engage in internal, as well as external dialogue and struggle with the broader non-Jewish societies, over questions of religious, political, and national identity.

In the framework of the conference, a two-part panel will be organized dealing with different geographical spaces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and with special interest in those regions that have to date been under-explored in studies of the reception of Ibero-Sephardic culture and history. Prospective papers might deal with the following topics, among others: How were “visions” of “Sepharad” or Spain constructed in diverse places during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?  To what extent did the Jewish reception and “recovery” of Iberian-Sephardic culture and history intersect with discussion of Sephardic history by non-Jews? How did Jewish scholars understand the Sephardic past and put it to use in understanding their present situations? How were visions of Sepharad transformed in the Jewish historiography and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Papers dealing with mutual influences between historiography and literature, and examining the multifaceted linguistic contextualization of this reception in the multi-ethnic empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the Maghreb are also welcome. Contributions are also sought that explore the dynamic of mutual influence in the use of imagery pertaining to al-Andalus and Sepharad among Jews in Eastern and Western Europe, as well as among Jews and non-Jews. We welcome papers which draw on historical, literary and ethnographic studies in their discussion of these multiple “visions”. The deadline for abstracts is March 31st and they should be no longer than one page or 500 words. Abstracts should be sent to Michal Friedman <mrf25(at)columbia.edu> and Carsten Schapkow <cschapkow(at)gmx.de>.

Michal Friedman, Ph.D. Candidate
Center for Israel & Jewish Studies
Dept. of History
Columbia University
New York, NY  10027

Dr. Carsten Schapkow
Simon-Dubnow-Institute for
Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University
Goldschmidtstraße 28
D-04103 Leipzig

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5. Benjamin Disraeli's Alroy on line (Spector)

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:29:02 -0500

From: SSpec46166(at)AOL.COM

I am pleased to announce electronic publication of Benjamin Disraeli's *Alroy*, edited by Sheila A. Spector, and published by Romantic Circles.  Considered by Cecil Roth to be the first Jewish historical novel, *Alroy*, first published in 1833, uses the career of the failed twelfth-century David Alroy to explore Disraeli's own attitude towards the Middle East, and as such, to project the direction to be taken by  his foreign policy when he would become prime minister later in the  century.

In addition to Spector’s critical introduction, annotations, and bibliography, the edition contains reprints of Disraeli’s sources for information about the historical David Alroy, as well as early reviews and later criticism of the novel, making it an extremely useful text for classroom study.

The edition can be accessed through Romantic Circles, at http://www.rc.umd.edu/ (http://www.rc.umd.edu/) editions/alroy/

Sheila A.  Spector

505 Elmwood Avenue #3A

Brooklyn, New York 11230

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6. Digitization of "Zion's messenger" - Bombay (Jerchower)

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:24:41 -0500

From: Seth Jerchower <sethj(at)pobox.upenn.edu>

via: Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein hjmod(at)OISE.UTORONTO.CA

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to add to its digitized collections the periodical "Zion's messenger", published by the Bombay Zionist Association (1920-1925 ca.).  The digitization was prepared by Penn's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) from the holdings of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies:

Zion's messenger.

Persistent URL: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/14291

Unrestricted Access

Description: Periodical of the Bombay Zionist Association (ca. 1920-1925)

Holdings: v.3 (1922-1923) n.11; v.4 (1923-1924) n.2-6, 8, 11/12; v.5

(1924-1925) n.3, 5

Timeframe: modern|

Print Counterparts: Zion's messenger

Publisher/Provider: Bombay Zionist Association.

It may also be accessed through the Penn Library's E-Resources at: http://www.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/res/sr.cgi

Seth Jerchower

Public Services Librarian

Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library

University of Pennsylvania

http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/

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