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Association for Jewish Studies Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List Editor/Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur(at)judnea(dot)umass(dot)edu> Week of Sunday, December 3, 2006 (12 Kislev 5767) NOTE: IN ORDER TO LIMIT SPAM SENT TO DICUSSION LIST CONTRIBUTORS, EMAIL ADDRESSES WILL NO LONGER INCLUDE THE (at) SYMBOL. TO REPLY TO A CONTRIBUTOR, SIMPLEY REPLACE (at) WITH THE @ OR THE . SYMBOL. FOR EXAMPLE, hsmith(at)sephardi(dot)com SHOULD BE RENDERED: hsmith@sephardi.com For archived issues please visit: http://www.umass.edu/sephardimizrahi/past_issues/index.html ----------- Index: 1. Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Lunch (Ben-Ur) 2. Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies 2007 (Hoffman) 3. American Jewish History Book Award (Sarna) 4. Call for Papers: Jews and Muslims in the World of Islam (Kobelkwsky) 5. New Issue of _Revista Internacional de Lungüística Iberoamericana_ (Quintana) ----------- 1. Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Lunch (Ben-Ur) Dear Readers: This is to remind you that the Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Lunch will be held at the AJS on Monday, December 18, 2006. The cost of a kosher meal is: $33.00 and payment information can be found at: https://www.donate.net/donationSelector/basket.asp?dept_id=671&shopper_id=693312 Please note that, as in years past, I am not in charge of collecting fees. Please also note that any AJS conference participant may attend the Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus—you need not order a lunch. Aviva Ben-Ur Editor/Moderator Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Discussion List ----------- 2. Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies 2007 (Hoffman) Miriam Hoffman tauber(at)brandeis(dot)edu via: judaic(at)judnea(dot)umass(dot)edu Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:52:08 -0500 November 6, 2006 Dear Colleagues, We now welcome applications for Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies 2007. The Seminar is designed to assist faculty in colleges and universities primarily in North America in the design of new courses in Israel Studies they plan to introduce into the curriculum of their home campuses. Please visit our web site for information on eligibility, application procedures, and stipend: http://www.brandeis.edu/institutes/tauber/israelstudies2.shtml Please share the attached announcement with your colleagues and others who might be interested. Thank you. Miriam Hoffman Tauber Institute Coordinator 781-736-2125 http://www.brandeis.edu/institutes/tauber/ ----------- 3. American Jewish History Book Award (Sarna) From: "Jonathan D. Sarna" <sarna(at)brandeis(dot)edu> via: Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein <hjmod(at)OISE(dot)UTORONTO(dot)CA> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:11:36 -0500 Request for Submissions for the 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award The Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute of the University of Scranton invites submissions for a book award in the area of American Jewish Studies (history, biography, literature, sociology). Only books published during the years 2005 and 2006 are eligible. Edited volumes by multiple authors are not eligible. The winner will receive $2000 and two finalists $750 each. The deadline for submission is Feb. 1, 2007. The results of the competition will be announced by August 2007. Three copies of each book, along with author contact information, should be sent to: Marc Shapiro Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies University of Scranton Scranton, PA. 18510 Jonathan D. Sarna Director, Hornstein: The Jewish Professional Leadership Program (at) Brandeis/Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History/Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies Brandeis University ----------- 4. Call for Papers: Jews and Muslims in the World of Islam (Kobelkwsky) From: Ora.Kobelkwsky(at)mai(dot)biu(dot)ac(dot)il Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:51:10 +0200 Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Jewish Studies The Department of Middle Eastern History The Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society and Education in the Sephardic Heritage in Conjunction with The Jewish Studies Program, San Francisco State University Call for Papers You are cordially invited to participate in an International Conference entitled: Jews and Muslims in the World of Islam The Conference will take place on Tuesday-Wednesday, 31 July - 1 August, 2007 at the University of San Francisco, U.S.A. The conference topics relate to all periods of time:
Middle East, Modern Northwest Africa and the Western world We invite you to submit proposals for lecture topics, accompanied by an abstract of no longer than one page. Final date for submission of proposals is Thursday, February 15, 2007. If you wish 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(dot)biu(dot)ac(dot)il Papers presented at the Conference will subsequently be published in a volume of proceedings, following academic review as required. We look forward to seeing you among the Conference participants. Sincerely yours, The Conference Academic Committee: Prof. Michael M. Laskier (Chair) Prof. Yaacov Lev Prof. Fred Astren Prof. Moshe Halamish Prof. Moshe Gat Dr. Shimon Ohayon ----------- 5. New Issue of _Revista Internacional de Lungüística Iberoamericana_ (Quintana) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:20:10 +0200 From: "A.Quintana" <msquin(at)mscc(dot)huji(dot)ac(dot)il> Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana RILI Estimados amigos, ha comenzado la distribución del No. 8 (270 p., ? 25) de la _Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana_ (_RILI_). Los índices de los números 1 a 7 y más información encontrarán en http://www.ibero-americana.net/es/rili1.html Volumen III (2006)Nº 2(8) I. Sección temática: Una lengua en la diáspora: el judeoespañol de Oriente Editores: Yvette Bürki (Universität Basel), Beatrice Schmid (Universität Basel), Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine) Yvette Bürki/Beatrice Schmid/Armin Schwegler: Introducción 7 Laura Minervini: El desarrollo histórico del judeoespañol 13 Aitor García Moreno: Innovación y arcaísmo en la morfosintaxis del judeo-español clásico 35 Yvette Bürki: El discurso periodístico de la prensa judeoespañola del siglo XIX 53 Aldina Quintana: Variación diatópica en judeoespañol 77 Marie-Christine Varol: El judeoespañol en contacto: el ejemplo de Turquía 99 Tracy Harris: The sociolinguistic situation of Judeo-Spanish in the 20th century in the United States and Israel 115 II. Sección general John Lipski: El dialecto afroyungueño de Bolivia: en busca de las raíces del habla afrohispánica 137 Lotfi Sayahi: Phonetic features of Northern Moroccan Spanish 167 Amalia Pedrero González: Diferencias léxicas entre campo y ciudad en el sudoeste de Estados Unidos 181 Reseñas Ignacio Ahumada Lara: El arte de ordenar las palabras y los conocimientos. Sobre la lengua general y la lengua de la ciencia (Mercedes García de Quesada) 205 Manuel Alvar López: Estudio sobre las hablas meridionales (María Josefina Tejera) 206 Milton Azevedo: Portuguese: a linguistic introduction (Fernanda L. Ferreira) 208 Carmen Blanco: Diversidad léxica del español y destrezas del profesor de ELE (español como lengua extranjera) (Mª Ángeles Pérez Edo) 211 Ignacio Bosque (dir.): REDES. Diccionario combinatorio del español contemporáneo (Begoña Capllonch Bujosa) 215 Marta Fairclough: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States: Struggling with Hypotheticals (Barry L. Velleman) 221 Elena Felíu Arquiola: Morfología derivativa y semántica léxica: la prefijación de auto-, co- e inter- (Jens Lüdtke) 224 Jesús Fuentes Guerra/Armin Schwegler: Lengua y ritos del Palo Monte Mayombe: dioses cubanos y sus fuentes africanas (John M. Lipski) 228 José Ignacio Hualde: The Sounds of Spanish (Paloma Arroyo Vega) 233 Pedro Hurtado Valero: Un ensayo de sintaxis cognitiva del español (Julio Calvo Pérez) 237 Gabriele Knauer/Valeriano Bellosta von Colbe (eds.): Variación sintáctica en español. Un reto para las teorías de la sintaxis (Mercedes Sedano) 241 Luis Fernando Lara: Lengua histórica y normatividad (Iris Bachmann) 246 Julia Lavid: Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías. Nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI (Elmar Eggert) 249 Carmen Llamas Saiz: Metáfora y creación léxica (Begoña Capllonch Bujosa) 253 Ralph Penny: Variación y cambio en español (Coloma Lleal) 258 María Isabel Rodríguez Ponce: La prefijación apreciativa en español (Jeanett Reynoso Noverón) 260 Reciban un saludo cordial, Kerstin Houba N.D. No olvide visitar, en su próximo viaje a Madrid, nuestra LIBRERÍA IBEROAMERICANA, en la calle Huertas, 40. Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert C/ Amor de Dios, 1 E-28014 Madrid Tel. + 34 91 429 35 22 Fax: + 34 91 429 53 97 Vervuert Verlag Wielandstr. 40 D-60318 Frankfurt Tel. + 49 69 597 46 17 Fax: + 49 69 597 87 43 |