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Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List - March 23, 2008

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, March 23, 2008 (16 Adar II 5768)

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Index:

1. New Report on Jews from Arab Lands: “Forgotten Exodus” (Green)

2. Call for Papers: Panel on Jewish-Muslim Relations, American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco (Cooper)

3. Sephardi/Mizrahi Titles at Sussex Academic Press Books (Goldish)

4. Conference: "Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60,” University of Virginia (Loeffler)

5. Symposium: "Discourses of 'Jewishness': A Symposium on Jewish Identity and Representation,” University of Pittsburgh (Shear)

6. Lecture: "Dominican Haven: the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-45" (Albert)

7. Seminar: "The Study of Ethiopian Jewry 1977-2007: What Have We Learned?"

(Hoffman)

8. Query: Impact of Sephardic Immigration on Turkey (Shanker)

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1. New Report on Jews from Arab Lands: “Forgotten Exodus” (Green)

 Professor Green has recently completed a report on the exodus of Jews from Muslim lands in the wake of the founding of the State of Israel. He kindly agreed to share it with readers of this listserve. For the report, click here.

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2. Call for Papers: Panel on Jewish-Muslim Relations, American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco (Cooper)

From:            "Alanna E. Cooper" <alanna(at)kikayon(dot)com>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:09:36 -0400

We are organizing a panel entitled, "Jewish and Muslim Neighbors: Narratives of the Past" for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, which will be held in San Francisco, November 19-23.  Please be in touch if you are interested in participating.

Alanna Cooper: alanna at kikayon dot com

Sarah Levin: sflevin at Berkeley dot edu

Jewish and Muslim Neighbors: Narratives of the Past

At the beginning of the twentieth century some one million Jews lived in North Africa, the Muslim Middle East and Central Asia. Although many of these communities traced back their history in the region for well over a millennia, the forces of modernity dislodged their deep roots in the region, giving rise to dramatic population upheaval. By the close of the twentieth century, less than a tenth of the Jews remained.  This panel seeks to explore the ways in which individuals remember their lives prior to migration, and narrate their migration experiences. Particular attention will be paid to memories of Jewish-Muslim relations and memories of the events that led up to the Jews' massive departure. In an effort to address the ways in which personal histories and intimate views of self and other are refracted through collective memory, papers will explore the role that contemporary Israeli-Arab political tensions have played in shaping memory.

Alanna Cooper

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3. Sephardi/Mizrahi Titles at Sussex Academic Press Books (Goldish)

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:46:54 -0400

From:             Matt Goldish <goldish(dot)1(at)osu(dot)edu>           

I would like to mention something that might interest members of the list. I received the Sussex Academic Press catalogue today, which has only one page of Jewish Studies, but it is almost all about modern Sephardi and Mizrahi topics. There are books on the Mashadis, Jews of Libya, Jews of Lebanon, Jewish entrepreneurship in early

20th c. Salonica, and the Vidal family. There are a few other titles in their backlist on Sephardi/Mizrahi subjects, and a lot on Israel.

Matt Goldish

Director of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and

Samuel M. and Esther Melton Professor of History

The Ohio State University

306 Dulles Hall

230 W. 17th Ave.

Columbus, OH 43210

(614) 292-1358    goldish(dot)1(at)osu(dot)edu

[ed: very slight edit]

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4. Conference: "Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60,” University of Virginia (Loeffler)

From: "James Loeffler" <james(dot)loeffler(at)virginia(dot)edu>

via: H-JUDAIC automatic digest system <LISTSERV(at)H-NET(dot)MSU(dot)EDU>

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:01:40 -0400

Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60

University of Virginia

April 13-14, 2008

We are happy to announce Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60, an international conference sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia.

For full details, please visit the following page:

http://www.virginia.edu/jewishstudies/music-conference.html

Information on the concerts associated with the event is available at:

http://www.virginia.edu/music/israeliconcert

and http://www.virginia.edu/music/pressrelease/07-08/cuso041208.html

As the State of Israel marks its sixtieth anniversary in 2008, the University of Virginia Jewish Studies Program will be hosting a unique conference on music in Israel on Sunday April 13, 2008 and Monday, April 14, 2008. All events are free and open to the public and will take place in Classroom 50 of the Darden School of Business, unless otherwise noted.

This unprecedented gathering will feature leading Israeli, North American, and European scholars exploring music as a window into national identity, politics, religion, and culture. Alongside the academic sessions, the conference will also feature concert performances by Israeli musical legends Etti Ankri and Moussa Berlin as well as cellist Uri Vardi and the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra.

The academic conference sessions will run Sunday 9:00 AM - 1:15 PM and Monday, 9:00 AM-6:15PM. The keynote address, “Approaching the Music of Israel: Processes, Identities and Experiences,” will be given by Professor Edwin Seroussi, Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, Chairman of the Musicology Department and Director of the Jewish Music Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, along with presentations by Nissim Calderon (Ben Gurion University), Motti Regev (Open University of Israel), Benjamin Brinner (University of California, Berkeley), Amy Horowitz (Ohio State University), Jehoash Hirshberg (Hebrew University), Barbara Johnson (Ithaca College), Abigail Wood (SOAS, University of London), Assaf Shelleg (Hebrew University/Tel Aviv University), David McDonald (Bowling Green State

University), Galit Saada-Ophir (University of Toronto), Ronit Seter (Hebrew University), Amit Schejter (Pennsylvania State University), Francesco Spagnolo (Judah Magnes Museum/Hebrew University), Evan Rapport (New York University), Galeet Dardashti (University of Texas, Austin), and others.

Panel topics include: "What¹s Israeli about Israeli Music?," "Hebrew Music Reconsidered: Law, Language, and Postmodern Aesthetics," "The Sounds of Place: Geography and Identity in Israeli Music," "Arab-Jewish Encounters in Music: Partners or Polemics?," and "Imagining Zion(s): Diaspora and Homeland in Israeli Music."

In conjunction with the conference, two concerts will take place.

Sunday, April 13th, 2008, 3:30 pm - Old Cabell Hall:

“Fantasy & Festival” with the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra and cello soloist, Uri Vardi, performing works by Osvaldo Golijov, Ernest Bloch, and Hector Berlioz.

Sunday, April 13, 2008, 8:00 pm - Abbott Center Auditorium, Darden School of

Business:

An evening of rock and folk music featuring the Israeli musical legends Moussa Berlin Ensemble and the Etti Ankri Band.

Conference Organizers:

James Loeffler, Assistant Professor of History

Joel Rubin, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Music Performance

Conference Advisory Committee:

Alon Confino, Professor of History and Nathan and Ida Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies

Gabriel Finder, Lecturer in History

Michelle Kisliuk, Associate Professor of Music

Conference Producer:

Kid Wongsrichanalai

Assistant Conference Producer:

Jasmine Hunter

Co-sponsored by:

The McIntire Department of Music, the Gunst Family Foundation, the Posen Foundation, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Corcoran Department of History, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, the Middle Eastern Studies program, the Department of Religious Studies, the University of Virginia Hillel, and the Cultural Affairs Department of the Embassy of Israel.

All the best,

Joel Rubin and James Loeffler

 joelerubin(at)virginia(dot)edu

james(dot)loeffler(at)virginia(dot)edu

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5. Symposium: "Discourses of 'Jewishness': A Symposium on Jewish Identity and Representation,” University of Pittsburgh (Shear)

From: Adam Shear ashear+(at)pitt(dot)edu

via: H-JUDAIC automatic digest system <LISTSERV(at)H-NET(dot)MSU(dot)EDU>

Date:    Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:04:01 -0400

Discourses of "Jewishness" Symposium

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:10 -0400

The Jewish Studies Program University of Pittsburgh presents:

Discourses of "Jewishness"

A Symposium on Jewish Identity and Representation at the University of Pittsburgh March 30-31

Keynote address:

Dara Horn, Award-winning novelist of In the Image and The World to Come

"Do You Consider Yourself a Jewish Writer?"

Sunday March 30, 2008, 7:30 pm,

University of Pittsburgh, Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Room 1501

Symposium:

Monday, March 31, 2008, 8:30 am-4:30 pm

University of Pittsburgh, Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Room 2500

Session A                    8:30-10:00a

FASHIONING JEWISH ETHNICITIES

Chair: Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh

"Engaging America in Hebrew: Fashioning Jewish Immigrant Identities in American Hebrew Literature"

Jill Aizenstein, New York University

"Marranos, Conversos and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish and Hispanic Crossings in the American Southwest and the Boundaries of Ethnic Identity"

Jonathan Freedman, University of Michigan

"How the Jews Became Japanese in Brazil"

JEFFREY LESSER, Emory University

Session B                     10:30a-Noon

JEWISHNESS IN THE CULTURAL IMAGINARY

Chair: Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh

 "Convertible Subjects: Inquisition, Interrogation and Jewish Conversion in the Modern Luso-Brazilian Imaginary"

Erin Graff Zivin, University of Pittsburgh

"The Mirror in the Window: Ferzan Ozpetek's Jewish Rome"

Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh

"Italian Independence on the 'Golden Wings' of Jewish Emancipation"

Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College

Session C                    1:30-3:00p

RECONSTRUCTING JEWISH PRESENCE

Chair:  Adam Shear, University of Pittsburgh

"Sephardism and the 'Regeneration' of Spain: Ernesto Giménez Caballero's Philo-Sephardic Crusade"

Michal Friedman, Columbia University

"Mahia: The Distillation of Moroccan/Jewish Identity"

Oren Kosansky, Lewis and Clark College

"'Shabbos Goyim'" and the Re-creation of 'Jewish Space' in Present-day Poland"

Erica Lehrer, Concordia University

Session D                   3:30-4:30p

EXPRESSIONS: CONVERSATIONS WITH CONTEMPORARY JEWISH ARTISTS

Chair: Kathryn Spitz Cohan, Director, Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival

Jane Bernstein, Author, Carnegie Mellon University

Leslie Golomb Hartman, Artist and Director, American Jewish Museum

David Stock, Composer, Duquesne University

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6. Lecture: "Dominican Haven: the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-45" (Albert)

From: Miriam Hoffman tauber(at)brandeis(dot)edu and Phyllis Albert <phyllisalbert(at)comcast(dot)net>

via: Judaic and Near Eastern Studies <judaic(at)judnea(dot)umass(dot)edu>

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:00:30 -0400

 [Note from Editor/Moderator Aviva Ben-Ur: The Jewish refugees who settled in Sosua during World War II were Ashkenazim, however their presence on the island is an example of what some scholars have called “neo-Sefardism.”]

April 28, 4:15 p.m. - 6 p.m.

*"Dominican Haven: the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-45"*

*Speaker:* MARION KAPLAN, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History,

New York University

*Location:

*Center for European Studies

27 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA

Cabot Room

*Sponsor:* Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

*Contact Name:* Phyllis Albert

*Contact Email:* phyllisalbert(at)comcast(dot)net

Phyllis Albert, Ph.D.

Center for European Studies

Harvard University

617 969 7745

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7. Seminar: "The Study of Ethiopian Jewry 1977-2007: What Have We Learned?"

(Hoffman)

From: Miriam Hoffman <tauber(at)brandeis(dot)edu>

JEWISH SOCIETIES AND CULTURES SEMINAR, HARVARD CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES

present

Steven Kaplan, Professor of African Studies and Comparative Religion, Hebrew

University of Jerusalem and Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University

"The Study of Ethiopian Jewry 1977-2007: What Have We Learned?"

Monday, March 31, 2008 - 5:00 pm

Harvard Center for the Humanities,

Room 114 (Kresge Room), Barker Center

Yanoff-Taylor Lecture and Publication Fund

Miriam Hoffman

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

Coordinator

781-736-2125

tauber(at)brandeis(dot)edu

http://www.brandeis.edu/institutes/tauber/

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8. Query: Impact of Sephardic Immigration on Turkey (Shanker)

From:             marcshanker(at)aol(dot)com

Date:             Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:19:58 -0400

I am looking for sources that relate to the cultural, eonomic, etc. impact of Spanish-Jewish immigration to Turkey following the expulsion from Spain. Please use: Marcshanker(at)aol(dot)com.

Thank you.

Marc Shanker

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