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AJS Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List, Week of January 22, 2001

AJS Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List, Week of January 22

Index

1. Call for Papers: AATSP Sephardic Studies Conference (Kramer-Hellinx)
2. Call for Papers: Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in Twentieth Century Europe (Rohliger)
3. Call for Papers: Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (Pomeroy)
4. Query: Complas de Purim in Latin Letters (Jerchower)
5. Query: Complas de Purim in Latin Letters (Glatzer)
6. Query: Volume on Complas de Purim (Seidel)
7. Query: Volume on Complas de Purim (Wachs)
8. New Publication in Sephardic Studies: *Cinco Siglos de Presencia Judia en America* (Cohen and Mendoza)
9. Publications in Sephardic Studies: *Istoria Enteresante de la Ermoza Rahel* and *And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust* (Levy)
10. New Electronic Mailing List: "Jewish Languages" (Bunin-Benor)
11. Index of IVRI-NASAWI *News and Views*, January Issue (Elgrably)
12. Music of Hazan Ramon Tasat and New Sephardic House Website (Simon)
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1. Call for Papers: AATSP Sephardic Studies Conference (Kramer-Hellinx)

From: Nechama Kramer-Hellinx <nechamakr@worldnet.att.net>

[Note from Editor/Moderator Aviva Ben-Ur: my apologies for the lateness of this post. For deadline questions, please contact Nechama Kramer-Hellinx at her email address above.]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sephardic Studies, AATSP,
July 5-9, 2000
The Renaissance Park 55 Hotel
San Francisco, California


The deadline date for proposals for presentations for our session is
approaching.

TOPIC:

The Sefardita Universe: Diaspora, Exile and (Im)Migration. Conversos and
Jews. Language, History and Literature.

Send a brief abstract to Nechama Kramer-Hellinx by Dec.25, 2000.

E-mail: nechamakr@worldnet.att.net
Tel; 1-718-793 3384
Fax; 1-718-793 3385

You have to become a member of the AATSP in order to present a paper.

Lynn A Sandstedt, Executive Director
AATSP
University of Northern Colorado
Butler-Hancock Hall 210
Greeley, CO 80639

Tel 1-970-351-1090, fax: 1-970-351-109email AATSP@bentley.unco.edu

Dues $45.00, January- December

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2. Call for Papers: Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in Twentieth Century Europe (Rohliger)

Courtesy: Rachel Simon <rsimon@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:45:23 MET
From: rohliger <rohliger@rz.hu-berlin.de>

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


Call for Papers

Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in Twentieth Century Europe

May 25-27, 2001, Humboldt University Berlin


Minority issues and interethnic relations have been key social phenomena shaping Europe in the age of nation-states and nationalism. The establishment of nation-states was often paralleled by majority-minority or interethnic conflicts resulting in ethnic, demographic and political 'engineering' and widespread population shifts. Not only assimilation,
forced migration, population exchanges, expulsions, and genocide, but also
the establishment and recognition of minority rights were immediate consequences of these political, social and ethnic tensions.=

The conference Voice or Exit - Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in Twentieth Century Europe will focus comparatively on questions of contemporary and historical minority existence in twentieth century Europe. The main emphasis will be put on representation of ('autochthonous'/non-migrant) minorities in nation states, national
public spheres and polities versus minority migration. The regional focus is
Gesamteuropa (all of Europe) from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains, from the North Cap to the Bosporus. Of special interest are:

Abstracts for papers (max. of 600 words) on various aspects of minority issues and existence throughout Europe will be considered on a competitive
basis. Comparative papers and studies are as welcome as historical depth.

The number of participants will be limited to 25 people. Scholars from
the Humanities and the social sciences including law, economics and social
psychology are encouraged to turn in abstracts. Advanced Ph.D. candidates
and post-docs are particularly invited to turn in applications. Accommodation and food will be provided. Limited financial support for the participants to subsidize travel costs is available.=20

Submissions of abstracts and a short biographical note (via conference
homepage!) including a list of publications are welcomed until January 15, 2001. Papers are supposed to be circulated in advance and should be received by April 2, 2001. The conference will take place public at Humboldt-Universit=C0t Berlin, May 25-27, 2001. The publication of
selected papers in an edited volume is planned. For further information and
application procedures please check:


http://www.demographie.de/minorities


Of special interests are:

* inclusion and exclusion of minorities into and from nation states
* interethnic relations in the context of multiethnic societies
* ethnic politics and ethno-nationalism and the creation of minority
politics
* "homeland" politics
* majority-minority relations
* (changes and continuities of) minority rights
* minority representation and the making of minorities over time
* ethnic migration and minority rights in the context of state formation
and nation-building
* (historical) migration patterns and migration systems of minorities
* ethnic violence
* prevention and monitoring of minority rights and ethnic migration
* ethnic "unmixing" of peoples
* the role of international organizations in the area of minority
protection and ethnic migration

Organization Committee:

Rainer Muenz (Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin)
Rainer Ohliger (Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin)
William Safran (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Zsuzsa Toeroek (Central European Univ., Budapest)
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3. Call for Papers: Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (Pomeroy)

Date: Monday, December 11, 2000 3:04 AM
Via: Genuth Nitza-Misgav <misgav@h2.hum.huji.ac.il>

Attached below is a Call for Papers I received from Hilary Pomeroy in the
UK.

Nitza Genuth

Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies
Sunday 24 June to Tuesday 26 June 2001


We invite scholars working in the field of Judeo-Spanish Studies to submit abstracts for papers to be given at the above conference. This will take place at University College London.

Abstracts should be limited to 200 words and should be received by 31 January 2001.

Would you please supply the following information on the page containing you abstract:
Title
Full name
Home Address
University
Home telephone number, work telephone number
Fax number
E-mail address

Abstracts should be sent preferably by e-mail to Hilary Pomeroy at the following address: HilaryPomeroy@cs.com or, if that is not possible, in hard
copy, to Sara Martin, Conference Organizer, Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 6BT.

We hope to inform you of our selection of papers by the end of February.

Conference Committee
Professor Alan Deyermond, Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary College
London
Professor John Klier, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University
College London
Professor Ralph Penny, Department of Hispanic Studies, QM London
Hilary Pomeroy, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UC London
Dr. Jane Whetnall, Department of Hispanic Studies, QM London
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[Editor's note: #s 4-7 refer to the following query:

From: Aviva Ben-Ur, aben-ur@judnea.umass.edu
Date: January 15, 2001
Query: Complas de Purim in Latin Letters (Ben-Ur)

For my course, "Sephardic Cultures and Literatures of the Spanish Diaspora", I seek an easily accessible volume of complas de Purim, preferably in Roman letters, but Hebrew script would be fine as well. I know of several rare editions in private archives, but I am seeking a volume from which I may easily photocopy selections.

Thank you in advance for the suggestions.

Aviva Ben-Ur
University of Massachusetts
Amherst

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From: Seth Jerchower <sethj@pobox.upenn.edu Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:26 AM

4. Query: Complas de Purim in Latin Letters (Jerchower)

Dear Aviva,

I have copies of some printed fragments of the "Coblas de Ester", all in Hebrew characters (as well as fragments from some other coblas). A good sampling of the text can be found there.

In addition, you may want to look at the following two works: Silberstein, Susan Milner. The Provençal Esther poem written in Hebrew characters c. 1327 by Crescas de Caylar: critical edition., [Philadelphia], 1973.

Dato, Mordecai b. Judah
La istoria de Purim io ve racconto, ed. Giulio Busi, Luise` editore, Bologna, 1987.

I still want to compare it to the following (which is currently out on
interlibrary loan):
"Ha-qomplas de purim be-ladino", p. 388 (no. 8): "Enpesar quiero contar /
loque acontessió en Adar", in:
Romansero sefaradi : romansot ve-shire `am bi-Yehudit Sefaradit, meturgamim
le-`Ivrit `im mavo, he`arot
u-ve'ure milim bi-yede Mosheh Atiash.
Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, ha-Universitah ha-`Ivrit `al yede Kiryat
sefer, 721 [1961]

Also, look in:
Armistead, Samuel G, El romancero judeo-español en el archivo Menéndez
Pidal: (catálogo-índice de romances y canciones).
Catedra-Seminario Menéndez Pidal, Universidad de Madrid, Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras, 1978.
pp. 221-223 (E21 - E23) (I will include a copy of this in the mailing).

Feel free to cite this information on the list. The fragments, printed, are
actually bound together with several others pieces at JTS, uncatalogued, but
on microfilm. The contents are as follows:

1. "Coblas Yussuf" (octonaries: abbacddc): 1 fragment of lower half of
bifolio (=four pages).
2. "Coblas Esther" (anisosyllabic, 8 verses/stanza: ABBCCDDC): 4 leaves.
3. "Tefillot Latine", Bologna, 1538. Judeo-Italian siddur. Fols.84a-85b
(misbound as 84b-a, 85b-a).
4. 2 leaves from a printed Mahsor (Saloniki?), Avodah service in Ladino.

Seth Jerchower
University of Pennsylvania
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5. Query: Complas de Purim in Latin Letters (Glatzer)

Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:20:17 -0800
From: <mahonzvi@H2.HUM.HUJI.AC.IL>

Dear Aviva,
I checked in our library and we do not have any complas de Purim in Latin letters, but we do have about 15 different edition in Hebrew letters. Please take a look at Moshe Attias's Hebrew article ("The 'Complas de Purim' in Ladino") in *Sefunot* vol. 2 (1958) and let us know if you want a photocopy of any of the editions that he described there.

All the best,
Michael Glatzer
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6. Query: Volume on Complas de Purim (Seidel)

From: JONSEIDEL@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:16 PM

Aviva

I believe that Issac Levy's "Antologia de Liturgia Sephardi" Vol.3 contains
many of the Complas in Latin transliteration.

There are other non-latin compilations that are available.

I am working on a pre Purim performance of the Complas for the Stone Avenue Temple in Tucson and will be singing a series of them this March in concert.

I will be happy to share some more insight into the complas if people are
interested.

Check out Gerineldo's version of some of the Complas on their cassettes. Check out Jewishmusic.com Tara Music or see if Gerineldo has a WEB site.
Perhaps one could inquire about this at the Centre Juif in Montreal where
Gerineldo is based.

Let me know what you come up with as well.

Bshalom, buena semana,

Jonathan

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7. Query: Volume on Complas de Purim (Wachs)

From: VOTurtle@aol.com
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 10:44 PM

Hi Aviva,
Do you know about the Isaac Levy Antologia de Liturgia Judeo-Espanola?
Volume 4 has the Coplas --in the section on Purim --in Roman letters.

We have just released our Purim recording --"The Sword of the Dove" which
includes several versions--but not the complete texts, of course.

Best regards,
Judy
(Judith Wachs- Director of Voice of the Turtle).

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8. New Publication in Sephardic Studies: *Cinco Siglos de Presencia Judia en America* (Cohen and Mendoza)

From: Robert A. Rothstein <rar@slavic.umass.edu>

Cinco siglos de presencia judia en America : actas del encuentro internacional / Mario E. Cohen, Celina A. Lertora Mendoza, editores. Buenos Aires : Editorial Sefarad 92, [2000] 542 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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9. Publications in Sephardic Studies: *Istoria Enteresante de la Ermoza Rahel* and *And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust* (Levy)

From: Isaac J Levy <ilevy@juno.com>
Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:08 PM

Novela anónima judeoespañola Istoria enteresante de la ermoza Rahel

Transliteración y estudio por Isaac Jack Lévy

Istoria enteresante de la Ermoza Rahel
(An Interesting Story of the Beautiful Rahel)

Transliterated with Introduction and Linguistic Notes by Isaac Jack Lévy

This novel, published anonymously in Izmir, Turkey, in the first decades of the twentieth century, tells of the suffering of a highly respected family who had converted to Catholicism, yet secretly maintained their Jewish traditions. Everyone loves the beautiful Rahel, but she rejects all suitors to remain faithful to the religion of her fathers. The gallant and handsome Antonio rescues Rahel from an abduction plotted by the evil Count Levidos de Kenyon. Antonio and Rahel fall in love, but recognize the impossibility of their union. Tragedy befalls her and her family when they are betrayed by Count Levidos, and they suffer the imprisonment and torture of the Portuguese Inquisition. The denouement concerns the dramatic rescue of the family.

One of the most popular novels of the early 1900s, La ermoza Rahel was originally published in rashi script (Judeo-Spanish written in Hebrew characters). Isaac Jack Lévy presents the original rashi, and gives a line-by-line transliteration in Latin characters on the facing page.
Additionally Lévy provides an introduction to the Judeo-Spanish novel with specific attention to this work, and a section on the nature of the Judeo-Spanish language, with an alphabet key to the Hebrew and rashi characters. Included is a glossary of Judeo-Spanish words translated into modern Spanish. The entire work is in Spanish.

A delightful novel to read for pleasure, La ermoza Rahel is also appropriate as a text for teaching Judeo-Spanish language and literature, and as a literary interpretation of the Inquisition in Portugal in 1752.

LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies

Order information:

Check or money order made payable to Isaac Jack LévyAddress:
Prof. Isaac Jack Lévy
P. O. Box 945
Davidson, North Carolina 28036
U.S.A.

Cost per book $15.00
Shipping and Handling
U.S.A. $3.00 per book
$1.50 per additional book
Abroad (By air)
$6.00 per book

Professor Levy is also the author of *And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust* (University of Illinois Press, 2000, paperback edition; hardcover is out of print).

For order information, please contact:

Prof. Isaac Jack Levy
P. O. Box 945
Davidson, N.C. 28036 -- USA
Tel: (704) 892-5668
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10. New Electronic Mailing List: "Jewish Languages" (Bunin-Benor)

This message is for scholars who work on Jewish languages.

I am pleased to announce the grand opening of "jewish-languages," a new
mailing list for Jewish linguistic research. All around the world,
scholars are researching languages as diverse as Jewish Neo-Aramaic,
Yiddish, and Judeo-Tadjik. This listserve will be a way for us to keep in
touch and advance our individual and (especially) collaborative research.

For the purposes of this listserve, "Jewish languages" will include any
system of speech or writing used by Jews that differs somewhat from the
non-Jewish language(s) around it. Postings may be related to the
structure or use of any Jewish language or to phenomena that several have
in common. Subscribers may post any messages with Jewish linguistic
content, including queries, announcements of publications, conferences,
and jobs, and responses to previous postings.

You can subscribe to "jewish-languages" by sending a one-line message to
<majordomo@lists.stanford.edu> saying "subscribe jewish-languages". You
can leave the message line blank.

Feel free to forward this to other scholars who would be interested and
could contribute to this list.

Thank you, and I look forward to interesting discussions!

Sarah Bunin Benor
Stanford University
USA
sbenor@stanford.edu
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11. Index of IVRI-NASAWI *News and Views*, January Issue (Elgrably)

From: Jordan Elgrably, Ivrinasawi@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2001 6:42 PM

Shalom-Salam and Happy 2001

http://www.ivri-nasawi.org
Sephardi/Mizrahi/Levantine cultures

(go to the website for contents listed below**)

-An Assessment of Ammiel Alcalay
-New Art by Desy Safan
-A Critical Review of Exotic Jews

-January calendar featuring Axiom of Choice, Adam & Laila Del Monte,
Ammiel Alcalay, Masters of Persian Music, Conversations on Roots & Identity
and more

*If you are not yet subscribed to News & Views, simply return "subscribe me"
in your message with your name and city/state; to unsubscribe return unsubscribe in your subject box.
**News & Views continues monthly. Please send your short articles, essays,
reviews and calendar listings to editor@ivri-nasawi.org. Deadline for copy is the 25th of each month.

Ivri-NASAWI
New Assn. of Sephardi/Mizrahi Artists & Writers Int'l.
www.ivri-nasawi.org
1033 N. Orlando Ave
Los Angeles CA 90069
(323) 650-3157

Los Angeles
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SF Bay Area
Washington, DC-Baltimore
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12. Music of Hazan Ramon Tasat and New Sephardic House Website (Simon)

From: Rachel Simon, rsimon@princeton.edu
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2001 6:57 AM

For those interested in Sephardic music, you might want to check the
website of Hazan Ramon Tasat. There is a listing of the CD's he has done and some information about his new book. The website is:
www.ramontasat.com

Also, if you are interested in things "Sephardic"-check out the wonderful new website for Sephardic House http://www.sephardichouse.org/index1.html

Rachel Simon
Princeton University

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