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Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List - October 1, 2006Association for Jewish Studies Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List Editor/Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur(at)judnea.umass.edu> Week of Sunday, October 1, 2006 (9 Tishrei 5767) NOTE: IN ORDER TO LIMIT SPAM SENT TO DICUSSION LIST CONTRIBUTORS, EMAIL ADDRESSES WILL NO LONGER INCLUDE THE @ SYMBOL. TO REPLY TO A CONTRIBUTOR, SIMPLEY REPLACE (at) WITH THE @ SYMBOL. FOR EXAMPLE, hsmith(at)sephardi.com SHOULD BE RENDERED: hsmith@sephardi For archived issues please visit: http://www.umass.edu/sephardimizrahi/past_issues/index.html ----------- Index: 1. Call for Sephardi/Mizrahi-related AJS Panel/Paper Synopses (Ben-Ur) 2. AJS 38th Annual Conference Schedule Now Online (Horowitz and Sheramy) 3. Tenure-Track Job Opening: Early American/Atlantic History to 1850 (Rilling) 4. New Publication: _Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism_ (Kellner) 5. Conference: Syrian Jewry: Diaspora Community That Is No More” (Harel) 6. Voice of America Interview with Israeli Filmmaker Rami Kimchi (Kimchi) ----------- 1. Call for Sephardi/Mizrahi-related AJS Panel/Paper Synopses (Ben-Ur) If you are presenting a Sephardi/Mizrahi-related theme at this December’s AJS conference, please send me a synopsis and I will post these in the upcoming issues. Aviva Ben-Ur ----------- 2. AJS 38th Annual Conference Schedule Now Online (Horowitz and Sheramy) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:01:12 -0400 From: Association for Jewish Studies <ajs(at)ajs.cjh.org> Dear Friend, We are pleased to announce that the schedule for the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies is now online at http://www.ajsnet.org/06schmenu.htm. The conference will be held from Sunday, December 17, 2006 - Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Full conference details, including information about hotel and meal reservations and visiting San Diego, can be found on the AJS website at http://www.ajsnet.org/generalinfo.htm. Please contact the AJS office at ajs(at)ajs.cjh.org or 917.606.8249 if you have any questions about the annual meeting. If you have not already done so, we also encourage you to renew your AJS membership for the current membership year (September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2006). Membership information can be found at http://www.ajsnet.org/membership.htm. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego in December. Sincerely, Sara R. Horowitz, Vice-President for Program Rona Sheramy Executive Director, Association for Jewish Studies Association for Jewish Studies 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 Phone: 917.606.8249 Fax: 917.606.8222 E-mail: ajs(at)ajs.cjh.org ----------- 3. Tenure-Track Job Opening: Early American/Atlantic History to 1850 (Rilling) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:55:45 -0400 From:Rosanne Adderley <adderley(at)MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> via: H-CARIBBEAN(at)H-NET.MSU.EDU Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:54:15 -0400 From: drilling(at)notes.cc.sunysb.edu Stony Brook University - Early American/Atlantic History to 1850 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Early American/ Atlantic History to 1850. Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in early American and Atlantic history beginning September 2007. Required: Ph.D. to be completed by September 2007. Preferred: Teaching experience and publications. Preferred specializations include comparative slavery, African-American history, and other comparative approaches to the world of the Atlantic. Closing date: December 1, 2006. Preliminary interviews will be held at AHA. Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. For more information visit www.stonybrook.edu/cjo Contact Info: Send application and placement file to: Early American Search Committee, Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348. For more information visit www.stonybrook.edu/cjo Website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/cjo posted by: Donna J. Rilling Associate Professor Department of History SUNY, Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348 ----------- 4. New Publication: _Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism_ (Kellner) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:11:21 -0400 From: "Prof. Menachem Kellner" <kellner(at)research.haifa.ac.il> via: Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein <hjmod(at)OISE.UTORONTO.CA> Menachem Kellner, _Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism_ foreword by Moshe Idel Maimonides is here presented against the actual religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. This study analyses the thought of Maimonides and contextualizes it in terms of what may be called 'proto-kabbalistic' Judaism that preceded Rambam. The book shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occult affinities, and shows why Maimonides rejected this and how he went about doing it. Maimonides' attempted reformation failed, the clearest proof of that being the success of the kabbalistic counter-reformation which his writings provoked. Maimonides rethought Judaism in different ways. It is in highlighting this process and identifying Maimonides as a religious reformer that this book makes its key contribution. Maimonides created a new Judaism, 'disenchanted', depersonalized and challenging; a religion that is at the same time elitistic and universalist. 364 pages 1-904113-29-X £35.00 / $45.00 The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization P.O. Box 645, Oxford OX2 0UJ, UK website www.littman.co.uk Professor Menachem Kellner, Dept. of Jewish History and Thought, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel tel 972 4 822 7647 fax 972 4 825 2037 http://jewish-history.haifa.ac.il/philosophy/staff/mkellner.htm ----------- 5. Conference: Syrian Jewry: Diaspora Community That Is No More” (Harel) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:23:55 +0300 From: <harely(at)mail.biu.ac.il> I would like to announce to you our conference on "Syrian Jewry: Diaspora Community That Is No More" To take place in Bar Ilan University, Israel on Monday-Tuesday, 28-29 May, 2007. The conference topics relate to all periods, from the community’s establishment to recent times: * Syrian Jewish communities in Israel and abroad * Leadership, governance and communal institutions * Community demography, and migration into and out of Syria * Jewish education * Jewish religious literature * Music, song and religious poetry * The Jews of Syria in literature, art, theater and cinema * Legal and political status * Syrian Jewry and their involvement in the economy * Zionist activity, Aliyah and illegal immigration * Relations with the majority society * Jewish art We invite researchers to submit proposals for lecture topics, accompanied by an abstract of no longer than one page. Final date for submission of proposals is Thursday, November 30, 2006. If anyone wishes to propose a topic not included above, please feel free to do so, and we will consider including it Proposals/abstracts should be sent to the following address: The Dahan Center for Culture, Society and Education in the Sephardic Heritage Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan 52900 E-mail: dahan.center(at)mail.biu.ac.il Papers presented at the Conference will subsequently be published in a volume of proceedings, following academic review where required.
Yours sincerely, Dr. Yaron Harel Chair, the Organizing Committee Dept. of Jewish History Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan 52900 ISRAEL Tel. (Office) 972-3-5318353 Fax (Office) 972-3-5346467 Tel. (Home) 972-2-5363046 Fax (Home) 972-2-5363046 [ed: very slight edit] ----------- 5. Voice of America Interview with Israeli Filmmaker Rami Nathan (Nathan) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:14:46 +0000 From: rami nathan <raminathan(at)hotmail.com> Below is the link to the VOA (Voice Of America ) website where you will be able to find an interview on my family trilogy that was held while I was in Washington last summer . The interview was aired on VOA two weeks ago. Shana Tova to you all Rami [ed: very slight edit] http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/pressconferenceusa.cfm Rami Kimchi, an Israeli filmmaker of Egyptian descent, talks about his new documentary Father Language, and the challenges of creating and producing films in the non-Ashkenazy culture of modern day Israel, with host Carol Castiel, and Rachel Eitches, Web Editor in VOA's Features Division. (Airdate: 2 Sep 2006) |