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Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List
- Second Issue for December 14, 2003
Association for Jewish Studies Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion
List
Editor/Moderator: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur(at)judnea.umass.edu>
Second Issue for Week of Sunday, December 14, 2003 (19 Kislev 5764)
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Index:
1. A few more Sephardi/Mizrahi Sessions at AJS 2003 (Ben-Ur)
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1. A few more Sephardi/Mizrahi Sessions at AJS 2003 (Ben-Ur)
Thanks to Discussion List readers for bringing to my attention additional
sessions that slipped by my electronic word search. For additional sessions,
see the two past issues of the Discussion list. Here are the additions:
1.
10.12: Medieval Spanish Jewry
Chair: Ross Brann (Cornell University)
Contrasting Texts: Islam as Perceived by Medieval Jewish Exegetes and
Poets
Esperanza Alfonso (Cornell University)
The Rendering of Qur`anic Quotations in Hebrew Translations from Spain
Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University)
Bate Din within the Jewish Communities of the Medieval Crown of
Aragon
Elka B. Klein (University of Cincinnati)
Beyond Tolerance and Persecution:
A Historiographic Reassessment of Medieval Convivencia
Jonathan Ray (Yale University)
2.
7.8:Intra-Jewish Linguistic Variation
Chair: Benjamin H. Hary (Emory University)
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Transforming Identities: The Experience of University
Students
Gloria J. Ascher (Tufts University)
Between Meshivon and Mazkirah `Elektronit:
Mapping the Gendered Landscape of Contemporary Jewish Israeli Society
through Language Use
Andrea M. Jacobs (University of Texas at Austin)
Style and Mosaic Identity: The Linguistic Practice of American Reform
Jews
Erez Levon (New York University)
3.
3.10: The Vernacular and the Construction of Jewish Realities
Chair: Lewis H. Glinert (Dartmouth College)
When Jewish Languages Don't Shift (Linguistics, Semiology, and Philology)
George Jochnowitz (College of Staten Island)
Power and Solidarity within the Agonistic Environment of Talmud Study
Aliza Sacknovitz (Georgetown University)
Yevanic: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Features of Judeo-Greek
Mary Connerty (Pennsylvania State University)
The Vernacular Gloss as a Reflection of Cultural Identity
in the Work of Joseph Kara
Kirsten Fudeman (Ithaca College)
4.
5.8: Ethnography of Orthodox Communities: Practical, Ethical, and Theoretical
Issues
Chair: Samuel Heilman (Queens College?CUNY)
Non-Orthodox Jews Studying Orthodox Communities: Self-Representation and
Access
Sarah Bunin Benor (Stanford University)
Perceptions of the Other among the Ultra-Orthodox
Avrum M. Ehrlich (Cambridge University)
Jewish Difference, Language, and Responsibility
Ayala Fader (Fordham University)
Outside-In: Religious Complications of Ethnographic Research
among `Edot ha-Mizrah
Laurence D. Loeb (University of Utah)
5.
9.5: Yemenite Women: Confronting Crises and Challenges
Chair: Nitza Druyan (Hofstra University)
Comunitas Endures: Yemenite Jewish Women in America
Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (Queensborough Community College-CUNY)
`A baby in one hand a pitchfork in the other':
Yemenite Immigrant Women in the Agricultural Settlement
Rachel Sharaby (Bar-Ilan University)
A Silent Passenger on the Feminist Bandwagon: Shoshana Bassin's Story
Lily Zamir (David Yellin College of Education)
Yemenite Women and their Wailing Culture
Tova Gamliel (Bar-Ilan University)
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