JSEE: Общая информация
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JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPE
Vol. 2, No. 4, July 1998
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CONTENTS
- CALENDAR OF EVENTS
- The Golden Age of Jewish Galicia (conference)
- The Third International CIS Student Conference
on Jewish Studies
- Program update for the Congress of the European
Association for Jewish Studies
- "Esperansa '98": Sephardic Cultural Festival
- Panels at the 30th National Convention of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
- Selected Calendar of Lectures and Exhibits
- RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Youth Autobiographies Project
- INFORMATION RESOURCES
- The Directory of Jewish Studies in Europe by Universiry
College London, England
- The Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory by
Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet/GH Duisburg, Germany
- PUBLICATIONS
- Notices:
- Bibliography notes on recent publications on Jewish
history in Eastern Europe
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF JEWISH GALICIA
May 30 - June 1, 1998, Cracow, Poland
Organizers:
- Center for Jewish Culture, Kazimierz (Cracow), Poland;
- American Association for Polish Jewish Studies.
Speakers:
- John-Paul Himka
Polish-Jewish-Ukrainean Relations;
- Stanislaw Grodziski
Effects of Austrian Reforms on the Jews;
- Jozef Buszko
Consequences of Galician Autonomy;
- Tomasz Gasowski
Jewish Landowners in Galicia.
The conference was followed by a study tour in Lviv.
For more information contact:
Center for Jewish Culture
Address: 17 Rabina Meiselsa St., 31-058, Cracow, Poland
Tel.: 48-12-235-595, 48-12-235-587
or
American Association for Polish Jewish Studies
Address: 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel.: 1-617-547-7701
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THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CIS STUDENT
CONFERENCE ON JEWISH STUDIES
July 1 - 3, 1998, Moscow, Russia
The Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish
Civilization "Sefer" and the Association of Moscow Jewish
Studies Students have organized the Third International CIS
students Conference on Jewish Studies held in Moscow on July
1 - 3, 1998. The opening session took place at the Russian
Academy of Sciences.
The conference program includes a series of workshops on
various topics in academic Judaica:
- Biblical Studies
- Semitology
- Jewish Thought
- Jews and the Surrounding World: Ethnic-Cutural Contacts
- Non-Ashkenaz Jewish Ethnic Groups
- History of the East European Jews
- Holocaust
- Jews in the USSR: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- Literature, Arts, Music
The program includes more than 100 papers presented by the
participants - undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students
as well as young professors - from Russia (Moscow, Petersburg,
Tyumen, Tomsk, Ekaterinburg, Volgograd, Kursk, Saratov,
Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Krasnodar, Birobidzghan), Ukraine
(Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, Poltava, Zaporozh'e, Zholkva, Chernovtsy,
Uzhgorod, Donetsk), Belarus (Minsk), Moldova (Kishinev),
Latvia (Riga), Lithuania (Vilnius, Klaipeda), Kirgizia
(Bishkek), Georgia (Tbilisi) as well as scholars from Israel
and Germany. The conference languages were Russian, Hebrew,
Yiddish and English.
Following the conference was the Summer School on Jewish Studies
(Mendeleevo, Moscow region, July 3 - 7, 1998) with more than
60 students from CIS and Baltic States participated. The School's
program included:
- Shabbat
organized by Rabbi Victor Rashkovsky (USA)
- Lectures and workshops
conducted by
Mordechai Altschuler (Jerusalem)
Israel Bartal (Jerusalem)
Michael Chlenov (Moscow)
Zeev Elkin (Jerusalem)
Dmitry Elyashevich (St. Petersburg)
Jonathan Frankel (Jerusalem)
Uri Gershovich (Jerusalem)
John Klier (London)
Zoja Kopelman (Jerusalem)
Leonid Matsikh (Jerusalem)
For more information contact:
Motya Chlenov and Katya Rempel - conference coordinators
E-mail: rempel@centro.ru
or
Moscow Center
for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"
Address: Leninskii Prospekt, 32A-B-808, Moscow 117334 Russia
Tel.: 7-095-938-57-16
Fax: 7-095-938-00-70
E-mail: sefer@glasnet.ru, victoria@cityline.ru
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CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES
July 19 - 23, 1998, Toledo, Spain
Update to the information published in September 1997 (see
JSEE, Vol. 1, No. 3):
The general theme of the five plenary lectures will be
Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Lectures to be delivered include:
- Shlomo Morag (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Oral heritage and revival;
- Stefan Reif (Cambridge University)
The impact on Jewish studies of a century of Genizah
research;
- Florentino Garcia Martinez (University of Groningen)
Qumran and Judaic studies at the end of the century;
- Peter Scheifer (Princeton University)
Rabbinic studies and Jewish mysticism in the twentieth
century;
- Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Paris)
The study of Jewish art in the twentieth century.
For more information contact:
Annette Winkelmann, Administrator
Secretariat
European Association for Jewish Studies,
European Centre
for the University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Address: Yarnton Manor, Yarnton, Oxford OX5 1PY, United Kingdom
Tel.: 44-1865-374010 (also answerphone) or -377946 ext.111
Fax: 44-1865-375079
E-mail: eajs@sable.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://nonuniv.ox.ac.uk/~eajs
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"ESPERANSA '98":
SEPHARDIC CULTURAL FESTIVAL
July 23 - 26, 1998, Sofia, Bulgaria
The European Council of Jewish Communities together with the
Organisations of Jewish in Bulgaria "Shalom" and the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee have organised an informal
Sephardic Cultural Festival and celebration entitled
"Esperansa '98" which will take place in Bistriza - a
picturesque location just 20 minutes from Sofia.
The programme will include a variety of activities including:
films, prayers in traditional melodies, Ladino Chazanut, a
bazaar, photo exhibition, theatrical performances, book
displays, genealogical research, Judeo - Espaniol circles and
many other manifestations of the Sephardic Jewish life in the
Balkans. Participants will be from all over the Sephardic
world, all of whom will contribute their own ideas and
projects.
For further information contact:
Miriam Leci
ECJC
Address: 74 Gloucester Place, London W1H 3HN England
Tel.: 44-171-224-3445
Fax: 44-171-224-3446
E-mail: ecjc@ort.org
Website: http://www.ort.org/ecjc
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NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES (AASS)
September 24 - 27, 1998, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
The AAASS convention will include the following pannels
dealing with the topics in East Europen Jewish history:
- Wars, Upheavals, and East European Jews
Chair: Maurice Friedberg (University of Illinois,
Urbana)
Papers: Alice Nikhimovsky (Colgate University),
Alla Zeide (Hunter College - CUNY)
"Jews and the Russo-Turkish War"
Discussant: Vera Von Wiren-Garczynksi (CUNY and
Slavic American Cultural Association)
- Negotiating Minority Identities in New National States:
Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1918 - 1939
Chair: Gary Bennett Cohen (University of Oklahoma,
Norman)
Papers: Eagle Glassheim (Columbia University)
"Nationalization of the Bohemian Nobility in
Interwar Czechoslovakia"
James Krapfl (University of Illinois)
"Czech Perceptions of the Roma During the
First Republic"
Katrin Steffen (Free University, Berlin, Germany)
"Polish and Jewish? Negotiating Jewish Identity
in Interwar Poland"
Discussant: Nancy Meriwether Wingfield (Northern
Illinois University)
- Jews and the Khmelnytsky Uprising, 1648 - 1657
Papers: Zenon Kohut (University of Alberta, Canada)
"Jews and the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Early
Ukrainian Historiography"
Serhii Plokhy (University of Alberta, Canada)
"The Right to Rebel: Jews and the Justification
of the Khmelnytsky Uprising"
Frank Edward Sysyn (University of Alberta, Canada)
"The Polish-Jewish Relationship During the
Khmelnytsky Uprising"
Discussants: Henry Abramson (Florida Atlantic University),
Henry Huttenbach (City College of New York)
- Retrieving/Reinventing Jewish Life in Poland
Chair: Madeline Levine (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
Papers: Theodosia Smith Robertson (University of Michigan)
"Andrzej Szczypiorski and the Construction of
Memory"
Maria Stalnaker (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
"Illuminating the Past with the Candle of Nostalgia:
Contemporary Responses in Polish Literature to the
Loss of the Shtetl"
Katarzyna Zechenter
"Pawel Huelle and the Art of Re-discovery"
Discussant: Sven Spieker (University of California,
Santa Barbara)
- The Jewish Question in Russian Literature
Chair: Barry Paul Scherr (Dartmouth College)
Papers: Alice Stone Nakhimovsky (Colgate University)
"Il'ia Il'f and the Jews"
Gary Rosenshield (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Pushkin and the Merchant of Venice: The Jew and
the Modern World"
Maxim Shrayer (Boston College)
"The Jewish Question and the Decline of Russian
Village Prose"
Discussant: Josephine Woll (Howard University)
For more information contact:
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
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SELECTED CALENDAR OF LECTURES AND EXHIBITS
- Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies
May 27, 1998
Public Lectures at Yarnton
Charles Berlin (Harvard University Library)
Hebrew and Yiddish Collections in the Harvard College Library
June 3, 1998
Louis Jacobs Lecture Series
Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge University)
The Life and Thought of Ignaz Maybaum
June 10, 1998
Haym Soloveitchik (Yeshiva University)
Responsa as an Historical Source
For more information contact:
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Tel.: 44-1865-377946
- National Yiddish Book Center
November 6 - 8, 1998
The New Jewish Woman in America: The Transformation of the
Eastern European Legacy
A weekend program at the Yiddish Book Center, with
Prof. Paula Hyman of Yale University.
Exhibition:
Yiddish Posters from Inter-war Poland.
For more information contact:
Conference Office,
National Yiddish Book Center
Tel.: 1-800-535-3595, 1-413-256-4900
E-mail: events@bikher.org, yiddish@bikher.org
- Hebrew Union College
June 12, 1998
Presentations at the 3rd Scholar's Conference on American
Jewish History, session "Comparative Perspectives on
Immigration":
Tobias Brinkman
Jewish Immigrants in 19th Century Chicago
Rebbeca Kobrin
Bialystok Jewish Emigres
For more information contact:
Ms. Ann Millin
E-mail: amillin@ch.huc.edu
- Judah L. Magnes Museum
May 10 - September 6, 1998
Exhibition:
Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making
of a Soviet Jewish Homeland
For more information contact:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
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YOUTH AUTOBIOGRAPHIES PROJECT: AN UPDATE
YIVO's project to publish in English translation selected
autobiographies written by Jewish youth in Poland during the
1930s is progressing, with late 1998 now set as the target
for a completed manuscript. The YIVO youth autobiographies
were submitted to three contests organized by Max Weinreich
in 1932, 1934 and 1939. About three quarters were written
in Yiddish; one quarter in Polish.
Some 350 of the 600 autobiographies survived; 20 have been
selected for translation and publication in the new volume.
The book is being co-edited by Rachel Wiznerand YIVO Senior
Research Fellow Michael C. Steinlauf, who assumed
co-editorship after the death of Dr. Lucjan Dobroszycki
in 1995. These autobiographies are unique because they were
written by 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds who happen to represent
the last prewar generation of young Polish Jews. They differ
from the memoirs written by survivors looking back on their
youth through the prism of the Holocaust. They are void of
political hindsight and nostalgia. They provide a genuine
slice of life of interwar Polish Jewry as seen through the
eyes of young Jews. There are currently about 800 pages of
text. Editing the translations is a complex three-tiered
process, involving copy editing, checking doubtful or
omitted translations against the original Yiddish, and
annotating obscure terms (an average of 25 footnotes per
translation).
A second related project involves a Polish-language edition
of youth autobiographies, co-editedby Dr. Steinlauf and
Dr. Alina Cala of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland,
which is scheduled for publication in Poland in 1998.
For more information contact:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, USA
Tel.: 1-212-246-6080
Website: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/yivo
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INFORMATION RESOURCES
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THE DIRECTORY OF JEWISH STUDIES IN EUROPE
By: John Klier
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University
College London maintains a database of researchers working
on topics related to East European History and Culture. The
present database, which exists in hard copy only, has close
to two hundred entries. The Department is now preparing a
new version of the database which will be placed on-line.
We invite all researchers who wish to be included to
contact the editor, Professor John Klier.
Please include full contact details (including e-mail, if
available, taking care to differentiate between ambiguous
characters such as "1" and "l"). Please also indicate areas
of research or interest, as briefly as possible. All
participants will receive a hard copy of the database.
Contact:
Professor John Klier
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
University College London
Address: Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT England
Fax: 44-171-209-1026
E-mail: j.klier@ucl.ac.uk
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ACADEMIC JEWISH STUDIES INTERNET DIRECTORY AT
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB1/JStudien/judaica.htm
By: Stefan Rohrbacher
This directory has been established earlier this year to
serve as a main gateway to online information on academic
associations, research institutes, study programs at
universities, libraries and archives in the field of Jewish
Studies worldwide. It also offers access to online library
catalogues as well as to "RAMBI - Index of Articles in Jewish
Studies". All entries are subject to careful screening.
Updates are made every other week. A mailing list keeps
subscribers posted on significant changes and additions to
the directory and provides information on other relevant
resources on the internet.
The Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory has now become
part of THE WWW Virtual Library, making it a partner in one of
the best information services available on the Internet.
For more information contact:
Prof. Stefan Rohrbacher
Juedische Studien,
Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet/GH Duisburg, Germany
E-mail: hb413ro@unidui.uni-duisburg.de
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PUBLICATIONS
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NOTICES
- Bibliography notes on recent publications on Jewish
history in Eastern Europe
By: Shaul Stampfer
E-mail: stampfer@huj.huji.ac.il
Michael Polishchuk just finished a superb doctorate on the
topic of modernization in New Russia. Deals with reform at
length. The doctorate is in Russian but an article should be
forthcoming in Shvut, the fine journal on East European
Jewish history published at Tel Aviv University. The author
can be reached at: Rehov Tor Hazahav 11, Herzelia 46502 Israel.
Arthur Cygielman has privately published, in English, a book
titled "Jewish Autonomy in Poland and Lithuania until 1648".
This large volume (~500 pages) is an updated translation of
part of his Hebrew study on the same topic. The book contains
many translations from primary sources, including responsa,
which are otherwise impossible to find. To obtain a copy,
one can write to the author: Rehov HaHagan 6, Jerusalem 97852
Israel; fax: 972-2-5825510.
A very important bibliography and guide to the history of
the Jews in the Ukraine is apparently due to appear soon.
It is titled "Jewry in Ukraine / Scientific-Bibliographical
index". For details contact the Book Chamber of Ukraine:
27 Yuri Gagarin Ave., Kyiv 253094 Ukraine.
On Jews of Odessa: an unpublished Hebrew University thesis
in English by Peter Shaw "The Odessa Jewish Community
1855 - 1900: An Institutional History (Jerusalem, 1988).
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JSEE International academic editorial board:
Henry Abramson (Florida Atlantic University, USA),
Dmitry Elyashevich (Petersburg Jewish University, Russia),
Avraham Greenbaum (Ben-Zion Dinur Institute, Israel),
Rashid Kaplanov (Center "Sefer", Russia),
John Klier (University College London, England),
Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University, USA),
Paul Radensky (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA),
Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),
Michael Steinlauf (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, USA).
Chief editor of JSEE: Elina Shkolnikova.
Editors of JSEE Vol. 2, No. 4: Glenn Dynner, Vassili Schedrin
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