T H E R O B E R T A . A N D S A N D R A S . B O R N S

J EW I S H S T U D I E SPRO G R A M

A n n u a l N e w s l e t t e r V o l u m e 2 5 F a l l 2 0 0 6

We begin this year’s newsletter with an announcement that has significant implications for the future of

the Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP): over $1,000,000 in funding has been raised for Jewish Studies (JS) graduate fellowships. In last year’s newsletter, the Borns JSP announced plans to develop its graduateofferings into one of the very best graduate programs in the country, and as part of that effort, the JSP undertook to raisefunds for graduate fellowships that students need to support their studies at this level. In response, several donors,

individuals of exceptional generosity and commitment, have stepped forward toestablish endowments that will fund between 6-8 JS graduate students per year. These endowments include:

The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Fellowship

The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Fellowship for Yiddish Graduate Studies

The Glazer Family FellowshipsThis is a truly exceptional level of graduate funding, and represents a major

investment in the future of JS scholarship and teaching. The funding generated bythese endowments, enhanced by a generous matching program from IndianaUniversity (IU) and a tuition remission from the College of Arts and Sciences, will beused to recruit the very best graduate students and to support them during theircourse work and dissertation research. We aim to make the program as successful atthe graduate level as it has been at the undergraduate level, playing a major role inthe development of the next generation of scholars and teachers. The establishmentof these endowments makes this vision possible.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the individuals whosegenerosity and leadership have made this unprecedented opportunity possible:

Robert and Sandra Borns Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Theodore Cohn

Irving and Pat Glazer Jay and Marsha GlazerIf you are a prospective graduate student, you can find out more about these graduate fellowships by going to our

website at http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/GraduateStudents.htm.

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Philip Sherman defends hishonors thesis. (Left to right)

Committee members, Drs. ShaulMagid, Marci Shore, and JeffreyVeidlinger, and Philip Sherman.

“Becoming a JS major was the best

decision I ever made during my college

career. It gave me the opportunity to form

a connection with professors, advisors, and

students in a much more personal

atmosphere than any other major I could

have chosen. It also helped me to realize

that I enjoy learning about Judaism and

that keeping Judaism a constant part of my

life is a meaningful and necessary

experience for me now and in the future.

The experiences I’ve had, the friendships

I’ve made, and the meaning of Judaism in

my life have all been a direct result of the

Borns JSP.” Elizabeth Wood, B.A., May 2004

Elizabeth is a third year rabbinical studentat Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute

of Religion in Cincinnati.

“I had three requirements for the perfect

university: a top-notch music school, a top-

notch JSP, and a vibrant Jewish community.

Coming to IU is probably the best decision

I ever made and my JS classes were the

highlight of my day throughout my four

years at IU.”Philip Ohriner, School of Music B.S. and

Outside Field in Jewish Studies, May 2002Cantorial student at The Jewish

Theological Seminary

“The Borns JSP gave me the tools to be

confident and successful in the Jewish

professional world.”Emily Walsh,

Area Certificate, May 2004Emily Walsh is pursuing an M.A.

in Jewish communal service at Hebrew Union College after

serving as the JCSC Hillel Fellowat Washington University for 2 years

IN TH I S IS S U E

3 Support Our Undergraduates4 From the Director5 New Faculty6 Programs

10 IU Press11 Donor Honor Roll12 JSP Advisory Board12 Friends of JS13 JSP Endowments14 Graduate Student News15 Undergraduate News19 Courses19 Alumni News20 Faculty News24 Faculty and Staff

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Having secured funding for our graduatestudents, the Borns JSP turns its attention tothe second part of its student supportcampaign, establishing permanentscholarships for our undergraduate students.Unlike graduate students, undergraduatesoften rely on their parents to support themduring college, and as a public university, IUis a very affordable place, especially forIndiana students. As everyone knows,however, the costs of a college education areconsiderable, even at a place like IU;financial aid is dwindling; and many studentsand their families need help. In an effort toencourage interest in JS and to recruit thevery best students to IU from around thecountry, we are shifting the focus of ourstudent support campaign from graduatefellowships to undergraduate scholarships,hoping to raise four-year scholarships thatcan support the very best JS studentsthrough their entire college educations.

Establishing such a scholarship is moreaffordable than ever. Under the terms of amatching program IU has established, a giftof at least $50,000 for the purposes ofestablishing an undergraduate scholarshipwill receive a 1:1 match on earnings from theuniversity. If you make a gift of $50,000under this program, your gift will provide afreshman with $5,000 each year for each ofthe four years s/he enrolls at IU—half fromthe endowment established by your gift,

matched by IU dollar for dollar. Thescholarship will exist in perpetuity, and is awonderful way to honor or commemorate aloved one.

Two couples have already steppedforward to establish undergraduatescholarships, and we take this opportunity tothank them, and to announce the newscholarships they have created:

The Leonard M. and Ruth K. GoldsteinScholarship

The Roberta and Arthur KrootScholarship

Both the Kroots and Goldsteins are longtime supporters of the program, and we arevery indebted to them for stepping forwardyet again in such an exceptional way.

There are many ways in which you canestablish a scholarship endowment—as anoutright gift, in pledged payments overseveral years, as a bequest, and in otherways—and the gift may qualify you forcertain tax benefits. Your generosity canchange the lives of generations of students,and will help the Borns JSP attract the verybest students in the country. If you wouldlike more information, please contact Dr. Steven Weitzman, Borns Jewish StudiesProgram, Indiana University, Goodbody Hall326, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington,IN 47405-7005, tel: 812-855-8358;sweitzma@indiana.edu.

SUPPORT OUR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS“JS at IU is a great community of

professors and students to be involvedwith, and a great way to explore, question,and understand one’s Jewish identity. Ibacked into JS—I just signed up for threeclasses one semester and Carolyn e-mailedme to say I might want to consider amajor or an area certificate. A veryfortuitous event! As someone from a smalltown, this was certainly the first ‘Jewishcommunity’ I’ve ever lived in, and it was avery positive experience.”

Leah Nahmias, Area Certificate, May 2004

Teach for America

“I was a student in the highly acclaimedKelley School of Business here at IU. Whilemy business education was outstanding, theenvironment that I was surrounded with inBusiness could not compete with that ofthe Borns JSP. I was able to developwonderful relationships with not onlybrilliant, hardworking, and fun students,but with faculty members. Professors andstaff members within this program have agenuine interest in the success and lives oftheir students. The knowledge that I gainedthroughout all of my JS classes helpedcreate a well-rounded education.”

Michelle Steiman, Area Certificate, May 2005

“After attending a private Jewish dayschool for 12 years, IU offered me theopportunity to get a Jewish education on ahigher level. The professors wereincredible.”

Jonathan Azulay,B.A., May 2004

JS students in “Professional Leadership and the Jewish Community” course.

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FROM THEDIRECTOR

Between the Past and the Present

Why do universities still use Latin on thediplomas they bestow and why do theyrequire students to wear medieval regaliaduring commencement? Such practicesoriginated in Europe hundreds of years ago,and would seem absurd in almost any othersetting. It is hard to imagine a universitywithout them however, not just because oftheir nostalgic charm, but also because theysymbolize one of the university’s mostimportant functions: its role as a linkbetween the past and the present. But just asimportantly, of course, universities are alsolaboratories of creativity and innovation, theplace where new knowledge is discoveredand new ideas cultivated. Like the greatuniversity of which it is part, the Borns JSPaims to balance between these two rolesthrough research and teaching that is bothengaged in the past and forward-leaning atthe same time.

As a way of updating you on theprogram, I want to cite a few examples ofhow we are attempting to mediate betweenthe past and the future with initiatives thatstrive to preserve or retrieve Jewish culturewhile also reaching for new discoveries andinsights.

Retrieving Jewish Culture. The Holocaustitself has long been a major focus of theBorns JSP, but what of the Jewish andYiddish culture so profoundly disrupted bythe Holocaust? Two recent initiatives aim tohelp retrieve that culture to the extent it isstill possible to do so. The IU YiddishEthnographic Project, led by Drs. Dov-BerKerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger, aims toenhance our understanding of Jewish lifeand language in Ukraine prior to theHolocaust through extensive on-siteinterviews with surviving Yiddish speakers.The oral histories now being gathered by theproject, to be archived at IU and madeaccessible to scholars elsewhere via the web,represent a treasure of new insights intoYiddish and East European Jewish life.

The other initiative is the result of apartnership with the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum: a Yiddish languagecourse for scholars of the Holocaust. Themajority of Jews victimized by the Naziswere Yiddish speakers; but relatively fewhistorians of the Holocaust, trained in thefield of German history, know Yiddish,making it hard for the field to draw onYiddish language sources (now beingactively collected by the museum). Thiscourse, offered for the second time andtaught in summer 2006 by Dr. Nina Warnkeof the University of Texas, aims to helpcorrect that imbalance by giving scholars ofthe Holocaust the language skills they needto understand Yiddish language materials.

Opening Up Jewish Texts. One of themost important links between the Jewishpresent and the past are texts, and we havestriven to give our students more access tothose texts by improving IU’s Hebrewlanguage program and offering new coursesin Jewish and Israeli literature. The recenthire of Dr. Miryam Segal, and two lecturers,Ayelet Weiss and Bat Zion Shuman, hasmade it possible to expand our offerings inmodern Hebrew language and literature. Forthe first time in several years, we will beoffering a steady complement of courses inrabbinic literature thanks to the Departmentof Religious Studies’ (RS) recent hire of Dr.Chaya Halberstam, a scholar of the HebrewBible and its interpretation in midrashicliterature. This is also a good place toacknowledge the contributions of IU’sJudaica librarian, Noa Wahrman, who hasmade significant strides in the last few yearsin developing the IU Library’s Judaica andHebrew collections, and the IU Lilly Librarycollection which in recent years has madeimportant acquisitions relevant to the study

of Israeli literature and its translation intoEnglish.

Appreciating Jewish Creativity. Jewishculture involves much more than literature;it also encompasses the visual arts, music,architecture, and other modes of expressionnot necessarily recorded in texts. Seeking tostay at the forefront of this trend, wecontinue to develop IU’s Institute for JewishCulture and the Arts, whose mission is topromote understanding and appreciation ofJewish artistic creativity through lecturesand programs by leading artists, writers,architects, art critics, and art historians. Asof fall 2006, we will also be offering a rangeof new courses in Jewish music andethnography taught by Dr. Judah Cohen, theLou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study ofJewish Culture.

Transitioning to the Future. One of ourmost important roles is to prepare ourstudents for their future. Many of ourstudents aspire to a life of communal serviceand leadership. This last year, thanks to agenerous grant from the Professional LeadersProject and the initiative of Robert Aronson,and additional support from the JewishFederation of Greater Indianapolis, we wereable to launch a new course designed to helpfocus that aspiration and introduce studentsto the organized Jewish community, thechallenges it faces, and the vocationalopportunities it offers. The course, taught byAmy Jackson, brought Jewish communalleaders and professionals to IU from aroundthe country both to draw upon theirexpertise and to provide students in thecourse with models of leadership and service.

I want to close by thanking my colleaguesfor initiating and sustaining so many excitingendeavors, especially Dr. Jeffrey Veidlingerwho served as Acting Director of the programwhile I was on sabbatical in Jerusalem duringthe spring 2006.Sincerely,

Dr. Steven WeitzmanDirectorIrving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studiesand Professor of Religious Studies

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work as Hebrew language instructor.During her time here, she taught sometwelve sections of Hebrew at various levels,and her expertise and experience weretremendous assets as we sought to raise thequality of our modern Hebrew languageprogram. Ms. Ben Yehuda will beginteaching at Hebrew College in Boston thisfall. Her future students are fortunate tohave someone with her teachingcommitment and experience, and we wishNurit all the best in her future endeavors.

We are honored that in 2005-2006longtime IU faculty member BronislavaVolková, Professor of Slavic Languages andLiteratures, became an adjunct JS facultymember. She teaches various courses onCzech and Central European Literature andCulture, which focus on Jewish subjects.

FO R M E R PRO F E S S O R IRV I N GKAT Z HO N O R E D

Thanks to the generosity of numerousfriends, colleagues, and former students, theBorns JSP has just established anendowment fund that will support anannual IrvingKatzScholarship inJS.During his 38years on thefaculty of IU,Irving Katzwas animmenselypopular andmuch belovedteacher. Untilhis retirementin 2002, Dr.Katz taught an array of courses in U.S.history; economic, social, and labor history;the history of American political parties;and American Jewish history. The lattercourse, which Dr. Katz offered regularlyover a 20-year period, had a large anddedicated following of students. Manyregarded it as a high point in their collegeeducation and praised Dr. Katz’s lively andengaging classroom presence as a prod totheir studying harder and learning more.

Beyond the classroom, Dr. Katz showedhis dedication to students inmany other ways, including thesupport and mentorship heprovided to countless studentsthrough years of activeparticipation in IU’s Residential

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JSP WELCOMESNEW FACULTY

Judah Cohen and Chaya Halberstam

Ethnomusicologist Dr. Judah Cohen’s arrivalthis fall as the Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair inthe Study of Jewish Culture promises awealth of new courses and initiatives relatedto Jewish culture and the arts.

Dr. Cohenreceived hisPh.D. in musicfrom HarvardUniversity witha dissertationthat focusedon the processof becoming aReform Jewishcantor at theturn of the21st century.Before coming

to IU, he was Dorot Assistant Professor andFaculty Fellow in the Skirball Department ofHebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. Hisresearch in American Jewish music rangesfrom African-American influence on Jewishmusic to the role of singing in the Jewishsummer camp movement. His study ofcolonial Jewish history culminated in thepublication of Through the Sands of Time: AHistory of the Jewish Community of St.Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (BrandeisUniversity Press, 2003).

Dr. Cohen will teach a number of coursesthis year, including “Music in Judaism,”“Exploring Jewish Identity,” and a graduatecourse on “Jewish Folklore and Ethnology.”We are very grateful to Lou and SybilMervis, of Danville, Illinois, longtime

members ofthe Borns JSPAdvisoryBoard andmembers ofthe JSPExecutiveCommittee,forestablishingthis uniqueendowedfacultyposition.

Dr. Chaya Halberstam joined the RS andJS faculties this fall. Awarded a Ph.D. from

Yale University in 2004, Dr. Halberstamwas Lecturer (Assistant Professor) inBiblical Literature, cross-appointed in theDepartments of Theology and ComparativeLiterature at King’s College, London. Herresearch interests are in both the HebrewBible and classical rabbinic literature of lateantiquity. Her work bridges the fields ofHebrew Bible and early Judaism, seekingconnections between legal and narrativewriting. This year, she is teaching“Introduction to Hebrew Bible,” “BiblicalJustice,” “Revolution in RabbinicLiterature,” and “Prophecy in AncientIsrael.”

New Appointments in HebrewLanguage Program

Our Hebrew program continues to grow inquality and quantity with more than 150students enrolled in Hebrew languagecourses this fall. Ayelet Weiss joined the JSPfaculty in fall 2005 as a full-time lecturer inmodern Hebrew language and began as theacting Director of the modern Hebrewlanguage program this summer. She taughtHebrew at the University of Illinois for 4years where she is completing her doctoralstudies in computational linguistics. A giftedteacher and pedagogic innovator, shegraduated from Hebrew University (HUJ) inJerusalem and has also taught Hebrew atAnshe Emet Day School in Chicago and forShorashim.

We welcome Bat Zion Shuman as avisitinglecturer inmodernHebrew thisyear. Shecompletedteacher’scertificationfromJerusalem’sDavid YellinTeacher’sCollege and aB.A., M.A.,and Hebrew language instructor’s certificatefrom HUJ. She has taught Hebrew for theIsrael Ministry of Education,Milah–Jerusalem Institute of Education,Hadassah Medical Organization’s School ofNursing, Open University, HUJ, and theIsrael Ministry of Defense.

We wish to take this opportunity to thankNurit Ben Yehuda for two years of excellent

Judah Cohen

Bat Zion Shuman

Chaya Halberstam

Irving Katz

Programs and Services Faculty Fellowsprogram. He spoke to student groups on aregular basis, shared meals with them eachweek in campus dormitories, served onnumerous student-related committees andadvisory boards, and, for 12 years, was aGroups Program Faculty Friend.

His involvement with teaching andcurriculum development extended to highschool students as well, and for a number ofyears he served as a faculty resource personfor IU’s Advanced College Project with 5high schools in central and southern Indiana.He also spoke frequently to appreciativecommunity audiences throughout the state,often on topics relating to the history of themodern Middle East.

In recognition of his exceptionalcontributions in all of these areas ofscholarship and service, IU President MylesBrand awarded Dr. Katz the university’sThomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion inApril 2002.

Through his matchless energy, learning,wit, humor, and conviviality, Irving added aspecial spirit to campus culture and a broadrange of community activities. The newlyestablished Irving Katz Scholarship in JSacknowledges with gratitude all that Dr.Katz contributed over so many years andaims to perpetuate the dedication tolearning that he exemplified so well.

The first Irving Katz Scholarship will beawarded in coming years to a student whodemonstrates those qualities that Dr. Katzcared most about—a deep devotion toacademic study, especially of history, and alively passion for communicating thepleasures and insights that derive from aserious and sustained encounter with the past.

2006-2007PROGRAMS

COSMOPOLITANISM, POST-ETHNICITY, AND THE NEWJEWISH DIASPORA CONFERENCE

The conference on “Cosmopolitanism, Post-Ethnicity, and the New Jewish Diaspora,”August 20-22, 2006, on the IUB campus,convened by Dr. Nancy Levene and Dr. ShaulMagid, closely examined themes surrounding

Jewish peoplehood at theintersection of ethics and politics.Scholars analyzed Jewish sourcesand Jewish traditions with at leasttwo contemporary intellectualcurrents in mind: new thinking

Washington University Law School wherehe teaches refugee and asylum law.

For more about the Committee onConscience and its Darfur-related efforts,see http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/.

ARCHITECT PETER EISENMANPaul Culture and Arts LecturePeter Eisenman, an internationallyrecognized architect and educator and theLouis I. Kahn Professor of Architecture atYale University, will speak about his designfor the Memorial to the Murdered Jews ofEurope in Berlin when he visits the BornsJSP on October 24, 2006 as the Dorit andGerald Paul Lecturer in Jewish Culture andthe Arts.

Eisenman has designed a wide range ofprojects including the Wexner Center for theVisual Arts and Fine Arts Library at OhioState University, the Aronoff Center forDesign and Art at the University ofCincinnati, a stadium for the ArizonaCardinals, and the Koizumi SangyoCorporation headquarters building in Tokyo,which received National Honor Awards forDesign from the American Institute ofArchitects. He founded the internationalthink tank, the Institute for Architecture andUrban Studies. His most recent bookdescribes his design for a cultural complex inSantiago de Compostela, Spain, Code X: The

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Donor Honor Roll List for IrvingKatz Scholarship Endowment Fund(As of July 27, 2006)

Professor James and Alex AckermanLawrence and Carol AdelmanLillian BarrAnn BelthProfessor Joseph and Marge BelthSarah BerenDr. Daniel BergLeonard and Alice Berkowitz Mildred BernProfessor John and Donna BodnarDonald BreiterBarry, Kathryn, and Brittany BrownCarl and Shirley CohenCheryl CohenRachel DanielsProfessor Thomas and Ellen EhrlichYosh and Orly EisbartProfessor Paul and Lana EisenbergJames and Patricia EkLeon and Judith FaitekProfessor Henry FischelBetty FleckProfessor Maurice and Barbara

FriedbergLory Price FriedfertigRabbi Joan FriedmanProfessor George and Esther GaberProfessor Wendy GamberIrving and Pat GlazerProfessor Halina GoldbergLeonard and Rikki GoldsteinDr. Kenneth Gros LouisJoshua HamermanMarie HarfHart and Simona Hasten

Professors Kenneth and Audrey HellerDr. David, Evelyn, Daniel, and Sharon

HerschlerEvan HershensonMarshall and Judith JacobsProfessor Bruce and Lea JaffeeProfessor Michael Kaganovich and

Ella LidermanProfessor Stephen and Eileen KatzProfessor Dov-Ber and Roberta KerlerJohn KingThomas and Sarah KramerArthur and Bobbi KrootSarah LawsonCarolyn LeedsDr. Louis and Myrna LembergerMargo LembergerDr. Leslie and Kathleen LenkowskyBradley and Cheryl LenserElliot and Chris LewisDr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and

George WalkerProfessor James and Jeanne MadisonProfessor Jane and Andrew MallorThomas and Flo Mary MantelProfessors Herbert Marks and Perry

HodgesDavid and Beth Levy MerkesPerry and Nancy MetzJason and Lindsey Barton MintzProfessor Lawrence Moss and

Madeline HirschlandProfessor Benjamin Nathans and

Dr. Nancy SilvermanR. Adam and Eafat NewtonDaniel and Gale NicholsProfessor Mitchell and Judith NovitGerald and Dorit PaulProfessor Derek and Robin Penslar

M. Mendel and Frances PiserBeth RasmussenJamie RatnerDr. Joseph and Roberta RezitsDr. Sydney RomeProfessor Mark RosemanProfessors Michael Rosenblum and

Susan NelsonProfessor Alvin and Erna RosenfeldSheldon and Lynne SandmanTracie SandsRabbis Dennis and Sandy SassoJay and Jeanie SchottensteinMartin and Helen SchwartzProfessor Leah ShopkowCurtis and Judy Simic David and Emily Lipp SirotaProfessors Dina and Martin SpechlerProfessor Murray and Anita SperberProfessor Roger and Claudette TemamStanley and Sandra TrockmanSidney and Charlene TuchmanProfessor Jeffrey and Rebecca

VeidlingerProfessor Eugene and Frances

WeinbergDouglas and Jill WeinsteinProfessor Steven Weitzman and

Rabbi Mira WassermanDr. Judith WertheimLinda WisenHerbert and Lorraine Wolf

Those wishing to make financialcontributions to the Irving KatzEndowment Fund should contactPatricia Ek, (812) 855-8358 orpek@indiana.edu.

about the complexities of communal identityin the context of the continuing publicconversation in the U.S. about therelationship between religion and politics,and questions that are more specific to thestudy of Jewish tradition and textuality, andtheir continual rethinking and refashioning.In addition to IU faculty, the conferenceparticipants included Mara Benjamin,Nathaniel Berman, Zachary Braiterman,Aryeh Cohen, Robert Gibbs, Shai Held,Claire Katz, Martin Kavka, Steven Kepnes,Peter Ochs, William Plevan, RandiRashkover, and Dina Stein. The conferencewas supported by the Borns JSP, the CollegeArts and Humanities Institute, and theDepartment of RS.

HO L O C A U S T MU S E U M’SJE R RY FO W L E RSolotkin Lecturer

Jerry Fowler, will deliver the Samuel andLillian Solotkin Memorial Lecture “FromMemory to Action: The Role of HolocaustRemembrance in Combating GenocideToday” on Thursday evening, October 12,2006. He is the Staff Director of theCommittee on Conscience, which guides thegenocide prevention activities of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum. Fowler isadjunct faculty member of the George

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The Abraham Lieberman Professor ofHebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU,Wolfson’s main area of scholarly research isthe history of Jewish mysticism. The editorof the Journal of Jewish Thought andPhilosophy, he is the author of many books,including two that won the National JewishBook Award for Excellence in Scholarship:Through the Speculum That Shines: Visionand Imagination in Medieval JewishMysticism (which also won the AmericanAcademy of Religion’s Award for Excellencein the Study of Religion in the category ofHistorical Scholarship) and Language, Eros,and Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics andthe Poetic Imagination.

The Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lectures inJS are supported through a grant from theSol Bronstein Charitable Trust in Evansville,Indiana. Previous Bronstein lecturers includeMartin Marty, Antony Polonsky, DavidSorkin, Jakob Petuchowski, Julius Lester,Francis E. Peters, Susannah Heschel, TikvaFrymer-Kensky, Ronnie Po–chia Hsia, EgonMayer, James Shapiro, Elisheva Carlebach,Aron Rodrigue, Norman Stillman, and PeterSchäfer.

PE T E R PU L Z E R2007 Dorit and Gerald PaulLecturer

Peter Pulzer,GladstoneProfessor Emeritusof Governmentand EmeritusFellow of All SoulsCollege, Universityof Oxford andChair of the LeoBaeck Institute,London, willdeliver two lectures in the Dorit and GeraldPaul Program for the Study of Germans andJews: “German Historians and Germany’sJews,” in Bloomington on Monday, April16, 2007, and “What was Special aboutGerman Anti-Semitism?” in Indianapolis onTuesday, April 17, 2007.

Dr. Pulzer’s most recent books includeGermany 1870-1945: Politics, StateFormation and War and Jews and theGerman State 1848-1933: The PoliticalHistory of a Minority. In 2004,he was awarded the FederalCross of Merit of the GermanFederal Republic.

The Paul Program for theStudy of Germans and Jews

City of Culture of Galicia (2005). A numberof his writings are available in Eisenman:Inside Out, Selected Writings 1963-1988(Yale University Press, 2004).

Thanks to the generosity of Dorit andGerald Paul of Indianapolis, the Borns JSPestablished The Dorit and Gerald PaulProgram in Jewish Culture and the Arts,which enables us to bring to Indianaoutstanding musicians, painters, poets,playwrights, novelists, and others involvedin the creation and study of Jewish art.Through an ongoing series of exhibitions,performances, and lectures, the programaims to represent the richness and diversityof Jewish cultural and artistic expression ina variety of forms and at the highest levels.

Past Dorit and Gerald Paul Programs inJewish Culture and the Arts have included aconcert by pianist and composer DanielGalay, cellist Rachel Galay, and clarinetistGreg Barett; an art exhibit and lecture byHarvey Breverman; lectures by The NewYork Times art critic Michael Kimmelmanand by famed architect Daniel Libeskind;and “The Writer Uprooted: ContemporaryJewish Exile Literature,” conference inMarch 2006.

BL O C K LE C T U R E RHA S I A DI N E RAmerican Jews Confront theCatastrophe

Hasia Diner, aspecialist in Jewishhistory, the historyof Americanwomen, andimmigration andethnic history, willdeliver the 2006Edward A. BlockLecture in JS“FittingMemorials:American Jews Confront the Catastrophe,1945-1967,” on October 16, 2006.

The Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professorof American Jewish History at NYU, Dr.Diner holds a joint appointment in thedepartments of history and the SkirballGoldstein Goren Center for AmericanJewish History. Her most recent booksinclude a history of the Jews of the U.S.(2004) and a history of American Jewishwomen (2002).

Dr. Diner continues a distinguished seriesof Edward A. Block Fellows who havevisited the Borns JSP since 1985: Primo

Levi, Simon Schama, Saul Friedländer,Arthur Green, Zvi Gitelman, Dan Segre,Robert Alter, Robert Wistrich, EmilFackenheim, Michael Walzer, ShulamitVolkov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Shaye Cohen,Lawrence Schiffman, Steven J. Zipperstein,Deborah Lipstadt, and Dan Miron.

SH A L O M PA U L“Genesis on Genesis”

Renowned biblical scholar Shalom Paul,will speak on “The Genesis of Genesis: TheBiblical ‘Big Bang’” on November 15, 2006.Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor Emeritus ofBible Studies at HUJ, Paul is the editor of“Al Kanfei Yonah”: Collected Studies ofJonas C. Greenfield (2 vols.) and author ofAmos: A Commentary on the Book ofAmos, among many other studies.

IL A N A PA R D E SWomen’s Bibles

“Melville’s Inconsolable Rachel and the Riseof Women’s Bibles,” will be the subject of alecture by Professor Ilana Pardes onFebruary 12, 2007. Associate Professor ofComparative Literature at HUJ, she is theauthor of The Biography of Ancient Israeland Countertraditions in the Bible: AFeminist Approach.

FR I T Z ST E R N T O B E PAT T E NLE C T U R E R

Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus atColumbia University and one of the leadingscholars of Germany and German Jewishhistory, has devoted a lifetime to analyzinghow the Nazi barbarity became possible. Hewill visit IU on March 25-30, 2007,delivering two Patten Lectures, the mostdistinguished lecture series at the university.

The author of books like The Politics ofCultural Despair: A Study in the Rise ofGermanic Ideology, Dr. Stern is therecipient of many honors including the LeoBaeck Medal and the Peace Prize of theGerman Book Trade in Frankfurt. For moreinformation about his Patten Lectures,contact mtilton@indiana.edu.

BR O N S T E I N LE C T U R E RWO L F S O NTo Speak on Kabbalism

“The Other Within and the Other Without:Kabbalistic Deconstructions of the Feminineand the Non-Jew” will be the topic ofDr. Elliot R. Wolfson’s March 29, 2007 Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lecture in JS.

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Hasia Diner

Peter Pulzer

was established in 1986 by Dorit andGerald Paul of Indianapolis to fosterongoing scholarly research into the complexinterrelationships between German historyand Jewish history. The Pauls came to theU.S. in 1938—she from Mannheim, he fromWitten. They have maintained ever since akeen interest in the history and culture ofGerman Jewry and are devoted toperpetuating knowledge of its achievementsand its tragic history.

Former Paul Fellows include Johann N.Schmidt of Hamburg University, MichaelBrocke of the Free University of Berlin,Micha Brumlik of the University of Heidel-berg, Frank Stern of Ben–Gurion University,Gertrud Koch of the Ruhr University,Bochum, Dieter Lamping of the JohannesGutenberg University of Mainz, Amir Eshelof Stanford University, Alan Bern, musicaldirector of Brave Old World, and MichaelBrenner of the University of Munich.

JSP CO M M U N I T YOU T R E A C H

In addition to its teaching and researchmissions, the Borns JSP places a significantemphasis on serving broad constituenciesoutside of the classroom.

New Institute Focuses on “Jewsand Music”

The Borns JSP Program hosted a memorable12th Joan and Samuel New Institute for theStudy of Judaism and the Jews on Sunday,April 30, 2006 at the Indiana HistoricalSociety in downtown Indianapolis. The day,titled “Jews and Music,” began with apresentation by Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler on

Yiddish song in Ukraine. Dr.Judah Cohen’s lively “HearingNazis Sing: Holocaust Memoryand the American BroadwayMusical” focused on threemusicals. Dr. Halina Goldberg,

recently returned from a year of research inPoland, presented “The Dancing Jew:Assimilation, National Identity and theMajufes.” The New Institute concludedwith a performance by the incomparableMarija Krupoves and her band in a splendidperformance of Jewish folk songs from theSephardic and Ashkenazic traditions.

“Teaching about Israel”Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute inIndianapolis

On September 20, 2006, middle school andhigh school social studies teachers willgather in Indianapolis for the Melvin andBetty Cohn Institute on Jews and Judaismon the theme of “Teaching about Israel:Beyond the Conflict.” Co-sponsored by theJewish Community Relations Council ofIndianapolis, the Institute will be taught byDr. Shaul Magid, Dr. Dror Wahrman, andHebrew director Ayelet Weiss.

The Cohn Institute also supported sevensummer 2007 Holocaust-related eveninglectures that were presented in conjunctionwith the intensive Yiddish course forHolocaust researchers.

The Cohn Institute was established in 1989by Melvin and Betty J. Cohn to provideIndiana teachers with opportunities forlearning more about Judaism and the Jews.

Faculty Outreach

Over the years, the members of ourfaculty have spoken in synagogues,churches, schools, community centers, andelsewhere to educate a great many peopleabout Judaism, Jewish culture, and history.

This summer Stephen Katz presented“Hebrew Paganism: The Emergence ofIsraeli Culture,” at IU’s Mini University.

In February 2006, Matthias Lehmann

gave a talk on Jewish-Muslimrelations through the ages forthe Sunday Night Forum atCongregation Beth Shalom inBloomington.

Shaul Magid served asscholar-in-residence at varioussynagogues in the Midwest.

Michael Morgan gave a talk tothe Hevrah and Jewish Federa-tion in Great Barrington, Massa-chusetts, “Images of Judaism inPostwar American Film.”

To commemorate the fourthanniversary of the terror attacksof 9/11/01, Alvin Rosenfeldconvened and presided over an

interreligious forum entitled “The Childrenof Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, andIslam Pre-and-Post 9/11” at CongregationBeth Shalom, in Bloomington, on September11, 2005. Steven Weitzman was a presenter.

Steven Weitzman was a faculty memberfor the Union of Reform Judaism’s Kallah insummer 2005.

2006 SU M M E R IN T E N S I V EYI D D I S H CO U R S E F O RHO L O C A U S T RE S E A R C H E R S

For the second summer, the Center forAdvanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum, incooperation with the IU Summer Workshopin Slavic, East European and Central AsianLanguages (SWSEEL), and the Borns JSP,sponsored an intensive language course,“Reading Yiddish for Holocaust Research,”on the IU Bloomington campus, June 16-July 28, 2006.

Eleven students and scholars (including 2IU JS doctoral minors) were selected for thesix-week intensive reading-comprehensioncourse. Participants sought to acquire areading knowledge of Yiddish in order toaccess Jewish source documents andperspectives on the Holocaust and to betterunderstand the Yiddish-speaking Jewishcommunities of Europe that were targetedby the Nazis. The course, taught by Dr. NinaWarnke, of the University of Texas, offeredparticipants the equivalent of a full year (6credits) of college language instruction.

The cost of the course, books, housing ina residence hall, and a meal allowance werepaid by the Center for Advanced HolocaustStudies of the U.S. Holocaust MemorialMuseum.

In addition to intensive languageinstruction, the course included seven

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Marija Krupoves and her band

Culture at the University of Munich, will beavailable in booklet form and can beordered by calling 812-855-0453 or e-mailing iujsp@indiana.edu. Complimentarycopies of previous Paul Lectures by JohannSchmidt, Micha Brumlik, Frank Stern,Dieter Lamping, Amir Eshel, and Alan Bernare also available upon request.

A HA L F MI L E O F JE W I S HST U D I E S HO L D I N G S

“The JS holdings in the IU library includeapproximately 46,691 volumes occupying 754 shelves (a half mile) on three floors,”—Noa Wahrman, JS Collection Manager

The growing JS collection in IU’s Herman BWells Library includes rabbinical literatureand biblical studies; late antiquity; Jewishhistory in all periods; Jewish philosophyand thought; Jewish diaspora; Zionism;history and geography of Israel; Holocausthistory, literature and personal narrativedocumentation and biography; andHebrew/Israeli language and culture. The JScollections are complemented by strongcollections in Slavic Studies, Near EasternLanguages and Literatures, History, and RS,as well as by rare books and manuscripts inthe collections of the Lilly Library.

The microfilm collection includes Nazipropaganda literature from the library ofthe YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; acentury of Pinkasim from Eastern Europe,1841-1939; and Yiddish booksfrom Harvard’s collection.

Holocaust-related guest lectures that weresponsored by the Borns JSP and the Centerfor Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum. The lecturesby Borns JSP faculty members included:“Holocaust Cannibalism,” by Dr. SusanGubar; “Stories of a New Bible? Reflectionson Holocaust Poetry?” by Dr. AlvinRosenfeld; “Beyond Conviction: Perpe-trators and the Holocaust” by Dr. MarkRoseman; lectures by Center for AdvancedHolocaust Studies staff, “Vaterland, MameLoshn: Jewish DP Youth, Zionist Culture,and Yiddish in Post-War Germany,” by AviPatt; “The Use of Jewish Sources to Studythe Holocaust: Case Study Romania,” byPaul Shapiro; and a lecture by AssistantProfessor of German at the University ofTennessee Daniel Magilow, “Yiddish,Yizkor Books, and Photographic Form.”

DO C U M E N T I N G YI D D I S HCU LT U R E A N D LA N G U A G EI N UK R A I N E

With funding from the National En-dowment of the Humanities, the AtranFoundation, and the IU College Arts andHumanities Institute, Drs. Dov-Ber Kerlerand Jeffrey Veidlinger have organized andled three Yiddish ethnographic expeditionsto Eastern Europe in a year: Ukraine

(summer 2005), Moldova (winter 2005),and Moldova and north-eastern Romania(summer 2006). This is the onlyconcentrated effort to document Yiddishlanguage and living memory in situ or inclose geographic proxmity to the erstwhilenative habitat of the last generation ofnative Yiddish speakers born and raisedbefore World War II. To date, the projecthas collected close to 500 hours ofprofessionally digitally videotapedinterviews with 257 informants. Theseinterviews will form the core of a futureArchive of Historic and EthnographicMemories (AHEYM) and will be accessiblefrom IU’s massive Data Storage System andcatalogued and placed at the IU Archives ofTraditional Music. Large thematicallyselected segments of these interviews will beaccessible online on the project’s futurewebsite and on specially edited DVDs andCD ROMs.

PRINTED VERSION OF “JEWISHHISTORY AND POLITICS”Available Free Upon Request

The 2005 Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecture forthe Study of Germans and Jews, “The SameHistory is not the Same Story: JewishHistory and Jewish Politics,” by MichaelBrenner, Professor of History and Jewish

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Synagogue ark in Botosani, Romania. Photo courtesyof AHEYM.

2005-2006 JE W I S HST U D I E S PR O G R A MLE C T U R E S A N D EV E N T S

“New Thinking about the Creation of thePalestinian Refugee Problem,” by Dr. BennyMorris, Ben-Gurion UniversitySeptember 26, 2005

The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program for theStudy of Germans and Jewsby Dr. Michael Brenner, University of Munich“Zionism as International Nationalism:Paradoxes of a New Political Movement”in Bloomington, October 23, 2005

“The Same History is not the Same Story:Jewish History and Politics”in Indianapolis, October 24, 2005

The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in JS“When Kafka Says ‘We’: The Borderlandbetween Solitude and Community” and “OfLanguage and Destiny: Where Celan MeetsKafka”November 1 and 2, 2005 by Dr. Vivian Liska,University of Antwerp

“Long Live the King: Women in Power inSephardic Folk Tales” by Mark CohenNovember 10, 2005

“Deep Roots, Exotic Flowers: Dances byJewish Women Choreographers” a danceprogram by Hadassah SegalNovember 17, 2005

The Edward A. Block Lecture in JS“Literature as a Vehicle for a NationalRenaissance: The Model of Peretz vs. theModel of Bialik” by Dr. Dan Miron,Columbia University, February 23, 2006

“The Writer Uprooted: A Conference onContemporary Jewish Exile Literature”March 22-24, 2006Convened by Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld. Eveninglecture, “A Displaced Scholar’s Tale: TheJewish Factor,” by Dr. Geoffrey Hartman,March 23.

Bill and Frances Julian Program for Inter- andIntra-Faith Understanding“Go Ask the Jews: Jewish Knowledge andChristian Power in Late Antiquity” by Dr. Andrew Jacobs, University of California,Riverside, March 29, 2006

The George J. Stolnitz Memorial Program“A Concert of Yiddish Folk Songs with Dr. Marija Krupoves,” April 25, 2006

Co-sponsored events:

“A Picture Theory to Map the PathlessWilderness: Hermann Cohen and HeinrichHertz on ‘Eindeutigkeit’” by Lydia Patton,University of Chicago, March 27, 2006

Filmmaker Pearl Gluck showed her film“Divan,” April 27, 2006

In spring 2006, IU Press published sixnew titles. German History from theMargins, edited by Neil Gregor, NilsRoemer, and IU’s Mark Roseman, offersnew ways of thinking about ethnic andreligious minorities and other outsiders in

modern German history.Published in associationwith the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum, LodzGhetto: A History by Isaiah Trunk,translated and edited by Robert MosesShapiro, was originally published in Yiddishin 1962. In it, Polish émigré historian Trunkdescribes and explains the tragedy that befellthe Jews imprisoned in the first major ghettoimposed by the Germans after they invadedPoland in 1939.

Kosher pork—an oxymoron? AnnaShternshis’s fascinating study, Soviet andKosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the SovietUnion, 1923-1939, traces the creation of aSoviet Jewish identity that disassociatedJewishness from Judaism. Lawrence L.Langer’s new volume of essays, Using andAbusing the Holocaust, assesses variousliterary efforts to establish a place in modernconsciousness for the ordeal of thosevictimized by Nazi Germany’s crimes againsthumanity. In Abraham Geiger’s LiberalJudaism: Personal Meaning and ReligiousAuthority, Kenneth Koltun-Fromm arguesthat for Geiger, who is recognized as theprincipal leader of the Reform movement inGerman Judaism, personal meaning—ratherthan rote ritual practice or acceptance of

In November 2005, during aprivate audience at the Vaticanwith Pope Benedict XVI, Israel’spresident Moshe Katsav presentedthe pontiff with the IU Press book,Cross on the Star of David: TheChristian World in Israel’s ForeignPolicy, 1948-1967 by Uri Bialer.

IU PRESSPUBLICATIONS IN JSIn the past year, Indiana University Press(IUP) has maintained its leadership positionas a publisher of cutting-edge JS scholarshipwith the publication of thirteen new titlesand three first-time paperback editions.The Press is proud to report that two of its2005 JS titles received very specialrecognition. Ladino Rabbinic Literature andOttoman Sephardic Culture written by BornsJSP and History faculty member Matthias B.Lehmann was a runner-up for the 2005National Jewish Book Award. In his book,Lehmann views tradition and modernizationamong Sephardic communities in theOttoman Empire through the lens of rabbinicliterature written in Ladino. In November2005, during a private audience at theVatican with Pope Benedict XVI, Israel’spresident Moshe Katsav presented the pontiffwith the IU Press book, Cross on the Star ofDavid: The Christian World in Israel’sForeign Policy, 1948-1967 by Uri Bialer (seephoto). Based on recently declassifieddocuments from Israeli archives, the bookinvestigates how historical perceptions andattitudes influenced Israeli leaders in theirdealings with the Christian world after Israeliindependence.

2005 saw the appearance of three otherimportant new JS books. Haunted in theNew World: Jewish American Culture fromCahan to the Goldbergs by Donald Weberexplores the role of emotions in artisticworks that shaped Jewish American culturein the first half of the 20th century. Jeffrey S.Gurock’s Judaism’s Encounter with AmericanSports examines how sports entered the livesof American Jewish men and women, howthe secular values of sports threatenedreligious identification and observance, andhow American Jewish leaders haveresponded. Religion and the Self inAntiquity, edited by Michael L. Satlow, andIU professors David Brakke and StevenWeitzman, originated from a fall 2003conference supported by the IU Arts andHumanities Initiative and the Borns JSPEndowment. Drawing on recent work on the

body, gender, sexuality, theanthropology of the senses, andpower, contributors explore theconcept of the self within thereligions of the ancientMediterranean world.

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dogma—was the key to religion’s moralauthority. Gender, Judaism, and BourgeoisCulture in Germany, 1800-1870 byBenjamin Maria Baader explores thetransformation of Judaism during a periodof profound change.

Forthcomingin fall 2006 aretwo new titles.Creator, AreYou Listening?Israeli Poets onGod and Prayerby David C.Jacobson is ananthology that isboth scholarly

and accessible to readers ofcontemporary poetry. Thepoetry appears in the originalHebrew as well as Jacobson’sgraceful English translations.In Conscription and theSearch for Modern RussianJewry, Olga Litvak traces theconscription theme in novelsand stories by some of thebest-known Russian Jewishwriters including OsipRabinovich, Judah-LeibGordon, and MendeleMokher Seforim, as well as

by relatively unknown writers.Finally, three outstanding titles will

appear in paperback for the first time thisfall: The Moscow State Yiddish Theatre:Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, winnerof the 2001 National Jewish Book Award,among other honors, by the Borns JSP’sassociate director Jeffrey Veidlinger; MakingJews Modern: The Yiddish and LadinoPress in the Russian and Ottoman Empiresby Sarah Abrevaya Stein, the 2003 winnerof the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for BestFirst Book in JS; and Borns JSP and Englishfaculty member Susan Gubar’s pathbreakingstudy, Poetry After Auschwitz:Remembering What One Never Knew.

Readers seeking further information orwishing to order JS books and journals andother IUP titles may visit the IUP websites:http://iupress.indiana.edu for books andwww.iupjournals.org for journals. Or,readers may contact the Customer ServiceDepartment, IU Press, 601 N. Morton St.,Bloomington, IN 47404; 1-800-842-6796;fax 812-855-7935.

DONORHONOR ROLL(As of July 27, 2006)

Lawrence and Carol AdelmanDr. Annette Alpert and Professor

Darrell HaileJoseph AlpertMajor Ariel AxelrodShirley BackerStephen BackerDr. Stephen and Barbara BailieSylvia BankoffEugene and Nancy BateProfessor Joseph and Marge

BelthJoel and Karen BenvenisteDr. Daniel BergLeonard and Alice Berkowitz Mildred BernSol and Toby BlickmanMichael and Margery BluesteinEmily BornsRobert and Sandra BornsStephanie BornsDonald BreiterDr. Peter and Susan CahnRobert and Shirley CareskyCharles and Karen CohenRonald and Nancy CohenDr. Alice Ginott Cohn and

Theodore CohnMelvin and Betty CohnDaniel CookDr. Charles and Myra EchtDr. Lawrence and Claudette

EinhornBenjamin and Sharon EisbartJames and Patricia EkEli Lilly and CompanyDr. Ruth FeinbergAlan and Terry FeldbaumDonald and Myra FisherBetty FleckRobert and Bonnie FormanFort Wayne Jewish FederationIrving and Barbara FreemanRichard and Sherry FrenzelHonorable Ezra and Linda

FriedlanderProfessor George and Esther

Gaber

Dr. Edward and PhyllisGabovitch

Michael and Rachel GarmisaBarry GellersBernard and Jean GlazerCynthia GlazerIrving and Pat GlazerJay and Marsha GlazerEugene and Marilyn GlickFritz and Caroline GoldbachRosalie GoldmanAlan and Caron GoldsteinDr. Kenneth and Mary

GoldsteinLeonard and Rikki GoldsteinHonorable Evan and Lynda

GoodmanJack and Sondra GrossJohn and Rita GrunwaldJoshua HamermanMichael and Nora HamermanMarie HarfDr. Robert and Ann HarmanEarl and Carla HarrisDr. Howard and Anita HarrisHart and Simona HastenProfessors Kenneth and Audrey

HellerJune HermanStanley HermanThomas and Janie HermanMr. and Mrs. Ronald HunterDr. Roger and Francine HurwitzDr. Martin and Irene JacobsJewish Community Council of

EvansvilleJewish Federation of Greater

IndianapolisValerie JosephFrances JulianIrwin KatzBarton and Judy KaufmanProfessor Dov-Ber and Roberta

KerlerProfessor Idalene Kesner and

Paul RobinsRobert and Judith KoorArthur and Bobbi KrootMartin and Natalie KrootG. Irving LatzCarolyn LeedsProfessor Matthias Lehmann

and Miriam Mora-Quilon

Alan and Katherine LeisDr. Louis and Myrna LembergerHerbert and Bernice LevetownIrwin LevinRichard LevineSeymour and Betty LichterDr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and

George WalkerErnest and Ellen LorchAmelia Cook LurveyProfessor Jane and Andrew

MallorThomas and Flo Mary MantelMary Ann MargolisRonald MendelblatTilden and Cathy MendelsonMerrill Lynch and CompanyLouis and Sybil Mervis Perry and Nancy MetzDr. David MillerSidney and Sharon MishkinMarvin and Susan MitchellRobert and Ida MoiseJames and Jacqueline MorrisFrances NelsonJoan NewFrank and Dorothy NewmanDaniel and Gale NicholsDr. Bernard and Renee

OppenheimMark OringGerald and Dorit PaulArthur and Sondra PercyLisa PercyDrs. Mark and Ora PescovitzM. Mendel and Frances PiserJoshua and Robyn PlaskoffDr. Eric and Bonnie PrystowskyDr. Charles and Leah RedishLawrence and Candice ReubenSara ReubenLeonard and Ariel RifkinIrwin and Jill RoseJudith and A John Rose IIProfessor Mark RosemanRuben RosenblattProfessor Alvin and Erna

RosenfeldMr. and Mrs. Andy RubensteinGordon RubensteinJeffrey and Susan RubensteinDr. Marc and Helen RubensteinJoshua Samis

Gary and Phyllis SchahetMargot Levin SchiffRabbi Stacy Schlein and Jeremy

SosinRobert and Alice SchlossJay and Jeanie SchottensteinJack and Sherron SchusterProfessor Drew SchwartzElizabeth Borns Shapiro and

Jonathan ShapiroDr. Paul ShapiroDr. Reuben and Leona ShevitzDr. Stephen and Caryl ShidelerDr. Kathleen SideliNorman SiderGreg and Renny SilverCurtis and Judy Simic Cindy Simon Skjodt and Paul

SkjodtJeffrey and Heather SmulyanHoward SocolProfessor Bruce Solomon and

Susan SwartzProfessors Dina and Martin

SpechlerProfessor Murray and Anita

SperberNicole SpiegelGary and Anne SteigerwaldMonique StolnitzDonna StrnadDr. Lawrence and Sandi TavelProfessor Roger and Claudette

TemamAdam and Sara TennenJeffrey and Nancy TrockmanStanley and Sandra TrockmanSidney and Charlene TuchmanUBSAlberto and Paulina WaksmanDr. Myron and Myrna

WeinbergerWilliam and Bebe WeinsteinRobert and Barbara WeiskopfProfessor Steven Weitzman and

Rabbi Mira WassermanHorst and Margaret WinklerWalter and Joan WolfJudy WortmanDaniel and Beth

Zweig

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FRIENDS“What is the good way a person shouldfollow? Rabbi Joshua said, ‘Being agood friend.’”—Pirke Avot 2:9

BE C O M E A FR I E N D O FT H E BO R N S JE W I S HST U D I E S PR O G R A M

The generosity of our Friends has been keyto making IU a major center for Jewishlearning and scholarship, opening upinnumerable doors for our students,scholars, and the larger public.

Becoming a Friend is also a way todevelop one’s own engagement in Jewishlearning and culture. To express itsappreciation, the program offers thefollowing educational opportunities tomembers of the Friends group:

1) The Friends “Gathering.” Each yearthe program hosts a gathering of Friends,usually featuring a special lecture orpresentation. (See article on next pageabout Gathering with Jeffrey Summit).

2) Special Access to Events. Every yearthe Borns JSP and the Institute for JewishCulture and the Arts host a number ofspecial events: guest lectures, concerts,and other kinds of programs. Friends willreceive advance notice of these events and,in select cases, guaranteed seating.

3) An Expanded Reading List. We areable to offer Friends a 20% discount on allIU Press books. IU Press is one of theleading academic publishers, especially inthe field of JS.

I invite you to become a member ofour community:

Benefactor ($1,000 above/year)Patron ($500-$999/year)Patron Associate: ($180-$499/year,

for people aged 35 and under)JSP Alumni (2001-2006): $36Please mail your check payable to

“IUF/Jewish Studies Program,” to theaddress listed below. Friends’ gifts are taxdeductible to the extent allowed by law.

If you have any questions about theFriends group or opportunities forestablishing permanent endowments insupport of JS, please call me withouthesitation. You can reach me at the BornsJewish Studies Program, Indiana University,Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 East ThirdStreet, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005, tel:812-855-8358; sweitzma@indiana.edu.With much appreciation, Dr. Steven WeitzmanDirector

JSP ADVISORYBOARD

For the last several years, the JSP advisoryboard has had the good fortune to have twoexcellent leaders at its helm, PresidentLeonard Goldstein and Vice President RuthFeinberg. This coming year marks the end oftheir term, and we want to take thisopportunity to thank them for their superbleadership. Len’s drive and determinationhave made it possible to complete theendowment for the Alvin Rosenfeld Chair inJewish Studies, and to successfully launchour campaign to raise graduate fellowships,among many other accomplishments. Inaddition to helping with those efforts, Ruthhas been a constant source of encouragementand an important conduit to the largercommunity. Their involvement was crucial tothe successful transition in the directorship ofthe program, and both are delightful humanbeings to know. We are honored by theirassociation with the program and indebted tothem for their generosity, wisdom, anddevotion.

We would also like to take thisopportunity to thank the other members ofour truly outstanding executive committee—Robert Borns, Jay Glazer, Bobbi Kroot,Andrew Mallor, Louis Mervis, and SybilMervis—who have provided outstandingadvice, initiative, and support to our largeradvisory board. The committee and boardare crucial to our fund-raising efforts, ofcourse, but they are also our main link to thelarger Jewish and Indiana communities,helping to keep the program relevant,accessible, and vibrant. We are very gratefulto our members for their time andcommitment to the program and its students.

Executive CommitteeRobert Borns IndianapolisDr. Ruth Feinberg IndianapolisJay Glazer Mercer Island, WALeonard Goldstein Fort WayneBobbi Kroot Columbus, INAndrew Mallor BloomingtonLouis Mervis Danville, ILSybil Mervis Danville, IL

Advisory BoardLawrence Adelman Fort WayneSteven Ancel Carmel, INNancy Bate Carmel, INSandra Borns IndianapolisDr. Peter Cahn IndianapolisSusan Cahn IndianapolisDr. Alice Ginott Cohn New YorkTheodore Cohn New YorkClaudette Einhorn IndianapolisBenjamin Eisbart Fort WayneIrving Glazer IndianapolisJune Herman IndianapolisFrancine Hurwitz IndianapolisDr. Louis Lemberger Carmel, INFlo Mary Mantel IndianapolisIlene New Granger, INJeffrey New Granger, INGale Nichols BloomingtonDorit Paul IndianapolisProfessor Eloise Paul IndianapolisGerald Paul IndianapolisDr. Mark Pescovitz Carmel, INDr. Ora Pescovitz Carmel, INA John Rose BloomingtonJudith Rose BloomingtonMartin Schwartz MuncieNorman Sider IndianapolisSidney Tuchman IndianapolisSally Zweig Indianapolis

Honorary BoardEugene Bate Carmel, INAlice Berkowitz IndianapolisSol Blickman IndianapolisEdward Dobrow MuncieBetty Fleck Marion, INJanice Goodman Highland Park, ILHenry Levinsky Northbrook, ILJudy Liff-Barker Nashville, TNSidney Mishkin IndianapolisFrank Newman IndianapolisM. Mendel Piser South BendJack Schuster Rancho Santa Fe, CAHelen Schwartz MuncieHarry Sebel Dallas, TXRobert Walters Fort Wayne

IN ME M O R I A MNancy Jo BergNancy Jo Berg passed away on October 2,2005. She and her husband Dr. DanielBerg of Bloomington, were longtimeFriends of the Borns JSP. We rememberNancy with great fondness and sadness.

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We express heartfelt thanks to thefollowing donors, who have mostgenerously established endowment fundswithin JS (as of July 27, 2006):

Mildred L. Bern• The Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay

Competition

The Estate of Edward A. Block• The Edward A. Block Lecture

Robert and Sandra Borns• The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns

Jewish Studies Program Endowment• The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns

Fellowship

Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Theodore Cohn• The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in

Yiddish Studies• The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Fellowship in

Yiddish Studies• The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Award in

Yiddish Studies

Melvin and Betty Cohn• The Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute

in Jewish Studies

Irving and Pat Glazer• The Glazer Family Fellowship• The Irving M. Glazer Scholarships

Jay and Marsha Glazer• The Glazer Family Fellowship• The Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies

• The Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies• The Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish

Studies

Leonard and Rikki Goldstein• The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Goldstein

Endowment in Jewish Studies• The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Goldstein

Scholarship

John and Rita Grunwald• The Pearl Schwartz Memorial Program in

Judaism and the Arts

J. William* and Frances Julian• The Julian Endowment in Jewish Studies

Arthur and Bobbi Kroot• The Roberta and Arthur Kroot Scholarship

Lou and Sybil Mervis• The Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study

of Jewish Culture

Drs. Beatrice* and David Miller• The Drs. Beatrice S. and David I. Miller

Endowment for Jewish Culture and the Arts

Samuel* and Joan New• The Joan and Samuel New Institute for the

Study of Judaism and the Jews

Gerald and Dorit Paul• The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program for the

Study of Germans and Jews• The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program in

Jewish Culture and the Arts

Sondra and Arthur Percy• The Percy Family Endowment

Louis* and Leonore* Piser• The Leonore and Louis Piser Prize

Sara and Albert* Reuben• The Sara and Albert Reuben

Scholarships in Holocaust Studies

Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein• The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein

Chair in Modern Judaism

Martin and Helen Schwartz• The Helen and Martin Schwartz

Scholars Program

Samuel Solotkin*• The Samuel and Lillian Solotkin

Memorial Lecture

George* and Monique Stolnitz• The George and Monique Stolnitz

Yiddish Prize

Stanley and Sandra Trockman• The Sandra and Stanley Trockman

Scholarship

Alberto and Paulina Waksman• The Alberto and Paulina A.Waksman

Scholarships

*Denotes deceased

JE W I S H ST U D I E S PR O G R A M EN D O W M E N T S

FR I E N D S “GAT H E R”Music and Culture of the Jews of Uganda

This fall, the Friendsof the Borns JSP aregathering on the IUBcampus to hear RabbiJeffrey Summit,Director of the HillelFoundation, AssociateChaplain, andAssociate Professor ofMusic at TuftsUniversity, speak

about “Abayudaya: The Music and Cultureof the Jews of Uganda.”

The Abayudaya resemble other Ugandansin many ways but with one importantdifference: they are Jewish. Little is known ofthis people. Between 1920 and the early1990s only about fifteen people from theoutside Jewish world are known to havevisited the Abayudaya, but recent researchershave begun to shed light on them–how theysurvived in such relative isolation, and thedistinctive Jewish culture they have

developed. Rabbi Summit is one of thosescholars and he will be sharing what he haslearned about the music and culture of thisintriguing community.

Together with photojournalist RichardSobol, Rabbi Summit is the author ofAbayudaya: The Jews of Uganda (AbbevillePress). He also recorded, annotated, andcompiled a CD, Abayudaya: Music From theJewish People of Uganda for SmithsonianFolkways Recordings that was nominatedfor a Grammy Award for best album in thecategory of traditional world music.

The Friends of the Borns JSP has becomeone of the largest support groups at IU. TheFriends’ goal is to strengthen IU’s alreadystrong Borns JSP and to insure that itcontinues to flourish as one of thepreeminent centers of Jewish learning inAmerica. The Friends of the Borns JSP ismore than just a “giving” society. Regular“Gatherings” of the Friends are occasionsthat combine both social and intellectualactivities.

Francine Hurwitz, Gerald Paul, Dr. Roger HurwitzJeffrey Summit

IN ME M O R I A MMichael B. “Mickey” MaurerMichael B. “Mickey Maurer, who passedaway on March 15, 2006, was a longtimesupporter of the Borns JSP. His wife Illeneserved on the JSP advisory board. A leaderin Indianapolis, Mickey was a 1951graduate of IU. We honor his memory.

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GRADUATE STUDENTNEWS

TH R E E IN C O M I N GST U D E N T S AWA R D E DGR A D U AT E FE L L O W S H I P S

For the 2006-2007 year, we arepleased to award graduate fellowshipsto three incoming students—JessicaAlpert, Margot Behrend, and DevorahShubowitz. The JSP continues toexpand its graduate fundingopportunities thanks to the generosityof its supporters.

Jessica Alpert, a graduate ofBarnard College, has just completed a yearas a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador whereshe was working on an oral history projectwith the local Jewish community. With thesupport of a Friends of the Borns JSPGraduate Fellowship, Jessica will begin hergraduate work in Latin American andJewish history.

Devorah Shubowitz, who completed amaster’s degree in RS at NYU, will pursuethe study of Jewish ethnography withparticular interest in the analysis ofwomen’s Talmud study in the U.S. andIsrael as a recipient of a Friends of theBorns JSP Graduate Fellowship.

The newly endowed Dr. Alice Field CohnFellowship for Yiddish Graduate Studieswill support Margot Behrend’s study ofYiddish language and literature in theComparative Literature Department.Margot, a graduate of St. John’s College,began her study of Yiddish in high schoolbefore studying at the National YiddishBook Center’s summer program.

We look forward to welcoming thesetalented individuals into our growinggraduate community, and to offering manyadditional opportunities for graduatestudents in coming years.

JS DO C T O R A L MI N O R S

Three JS doctoral minors completed theirPh.D.s during the 2005-2006 year. DebbieFenichel (Anthropology) studied with Dr.Joëlle Bahloul. In October, 2005, DanaOhren completed her Ph.D. in History andmarried fellow IU historian John Dichtl.Jeremy Shere (English) studied with Dr.Alvin Rosenfeld.

Former JS doctoral minor MichahGottlieb has been appointed AssistantProfessor of Hebrew and JS at NYU. He wasawarded a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship and willspend the current academic year in Israel.

This fall, Adam Rovner begins teachingHebrew language and literature as AssistantProfessor of Comparative Literature atHofstra University.

FO U R GR A D U AT EFE L L O W S H I P SWill Be Awarded for 2007-2008

The JSP invites applications for the 2007-2008 Friends of the Borns JSP GraduateFellowship, the Yiddish Studies Fellowship,the Dr. Alice Field Cohn Fellowship forYiddish Graduate Studies, and the GlazerFamily Fellowship in JS. The fellowshipswill provide stipends and full fee remissions,and may be tied to multi-year packages ofsupport through fellowships and teachingassistantships.

To be eligible for the fellowships, studentsmust be accepted into an IU graduate pro-gram in any of the following departments:Anthropology, Comparative Literature,English, Ethnomusicology/Folklore,Germanic Studies, History, Near EasternLanguages and Cultures, Philosophy, or

Religious Studies. A special feature of thesefellowships is a well developed program ofmentoring. For more information, see theJSP website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htm. The application deadline is

Friday, January 12, 2007.

JE W I S H ST U D I E SWO R K S H O P S

JS workshops provideopportunities for the JScommunity of faculty andgraduate students to learnwith visiting and localscholars. Betsy Rosenberg, thetranslator of Hebrew writers

Aharon Appelfeld, David Grossman, andYehoshua Kenaz, led the first JS workshopof the 2005-2006 year, “The RomanticTranslator,” on Friday, September 16, 2005.On October 17, a workshop, “FromAssimilation to Antisemitism: The ‘JewishQuestion’ in Russian Poland, 1850-1914,”was led by Ted Weeks of Southern IllinoisUniversity. Brian Horowitz, of Tulane Uni-versity, spoke about “Jewish Philanthropy,Education, and Identity” on November 18.Dan Miron, the Edward A. Block Lecturer,discussed the significance of Yehuda Ami-chai’s early poetry, on February 24. Author,journalist, and political activist KonstantyGebert spoke on “From Red Star to MagenDavid: Children of Jewish Communists inPost-War Poland” on Friday, April 21, 2006.

AM Y SH A P I R OWins George and Monique StolnitzYiddish Prize

Amy Shapiro, a Jewish history doctoralstudent minoring in JS, won the 2006George and Monique Stolnitz Yiddish Prize.Amy began her doctoral studies in Historyat IU two years ago as a Friends of theBorns JSP Graduate Fellow. She received aB.A. in English (Phi Beta Kappa) from theUniversity of Texas at Austin and an M.A.in Holocaust Studies from UniversityCollege London. In the years between herundergraduate studies in English and herstudies in London, Amy spent a year ofintensive German language study inCologne and ten months interning at theU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Amy’s research interests lie primarily in thefield of Holocaust history and literature. Sheis using Yiddish language diaries and

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memoirs written duringand after the Holocaustabout that event in orderto explore the ways thatJewish victims portrayedtheir perpetrators, bothGerman and local. Insummer 2005, shestudied Yiddish atYIVO’s Uriel Weinreichsummer Yiddishlanguage and cultureprogram. She continuedto study Yiddish intensively with Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler in 2005-2006, and sheparticipated in the 2006 Vilnius SummerProgram in Yiddish.

An expression of long-time Bloomingtonresidents George and Monique Stolnitz’sstrong commitment to the advancement ofeducation in Yiddish language and culture,the prize is awarded annually to a studentwho shows the greatest promise in the studyof Yiddish language or literature, and/or thehistory in which Yiddish culture took rootand flourished.

UNDERGRADUATENEWS

NE W PR O F E S S I O N A L CO U R S EFO R JS ST U D E N T S

With major support from the ProfessionalLeaders Project, the JSP was able to offer agroundbreaking course, “ProfessionalLeadership and the Jewish Community,” forthe first time in spring 2006. Amy Jackson,the North American Coordinator for theStrategic Dialogue Center of NetanyaAcademic College, and former ExecutiveDirector of the Hillel at the University ofOklahoma, taught the course. The course,funded by the Professional Leaders Project,is something we hope to offer on an annualbasis to bridge the gap between ourrigorous academic program and ourstudents’ professional skills and aspirations.

In spring 2006, with additional fundingfrom the Jewish Federation of GreaterIndianapolis, weekly guest lecturersintroduced the students to the demography,sociology, and structure of the AmericanJewish community, and to career options inJewish communal service, political action,education, and religious life. Guest lecturersincluded Rabbi Gary Zola, Director of theAmerican Jewish Archive and Professor at

Hebrew Union College; Lani Santos of theAmerican Jewish World Service; BradleySolmsen of Brandeis University’s Genesisprogram and the Institute for InformalJewish Education; Nechama SkolnickMoskowitz of the Cleveland Center forJewish Education; Rhoda Rosen, ExecutiveDirector of the Spertus Museum; AbbyPitkowsky, Director of Jewish Education forthe Global Programs of the AmericanJewish Joint Distribution Committee; RobinAxelrod, Director of the University ofMichigan’s Drachler Program in JewishCommunal Leadership; social worker AnnHartman Luban; and IU JSP alumni LeslieKepes Pomerantz, Director of the JewishVolunteer Connection for the AssociatedFederation of Baltimore, and Lindsey BartonMintz, Government Affairs and CommunityRelations Associate for the Indianapolis JCRC.We are especially grateful to Rhoda Uziel,Executive Director of the Professional LeadersProject and Robert Aronson, ExecutiveDirector of the Jewish Federation of Metro-politan Detroit, who met with the studentsand supported this singular initiative.

The Professional Leaders Project, co-founded by William M. Davidson, theCharles and Lynn Schusterman FamilyFoundation, Jewish Life Network/SteinhardtFoundation, Eugene and Marcia Applebaum,and Robert P. Aronson, aims to inspire anddevelop the next generation of professionalsand leaders for the Jewish community.

The Borns JSP has long been committedto the career development of our studentsand is one of the foremost undergraduateeducators of Jewish communal professionals(see Alumni News). The program continuesto provide conference funding for studentsto attend conferences related professionallyor academically to JS; sponsors an annual JScareer night/fair; and sends a weekly e-mailnewsletter to students with informationabout internships, conferences, jobs,graduate programs, and careers.

JSP AWA R D S M O R E T H A N$22,000 I N SC H O L A R S H I P SA N D IN T E R N S H I P S

The Borns JSP was pleased to award 13scholarships and an internship, totalingmore than $22,000 to continuing JS major,area certificate, Hebrew minor, and doctoralminor students for the 2006-2007 year. Thescholarships and internships wereestablished through the generosity of theFort Wayne Jewish Federation, the RobertA. and Sandra S. Borns JS Endowment,Sondra and Art Percy of Matawan, NewJersey, Sandra and Stanley Trockman ofEvansville, Edward M. Dayan ofIndianapolis, and Sara and the late AlbertReuben of Indianapolis.

Abby Schachter of St. Louis, Missouri, asenior majoring in JS and Biology andminoring in French, received the Fort WayneJewish Federation Scholarship. She studiedat Ben-Gurion University in fall 2005 andhas volunteered on medical missions inHonduras and the Dominican Republic.

Five students were awarded Robert A.and Sandra S. Borns Merit Scholarships inJS, which recognize truly exceptionalacademic accomplishments. Borns MeritScholarship recipients are: Bridget Coraz, aJS and Political Science major fromIndianapolis, has been recognized withmembership in Phi Eta Sigma nationalhonor society, Dean’s List, and the NationalSociety of Collegiate Scholars. SarahKaplan, of Orange, Ohio, was also awardedthe Edward M. Dayan Scholarship. She is aJS major, Hebrew minor student, andcompleting the Liberal Arts ManagementProgram. Before coming to IU, she spent ayear studying in Israel on the Nativprogram. She is the Jewish Studies StudentAssociation (JSSA) vice president and hasserved as the Hebrew Table co-chair.Margaret O’Connor, from MountlakeTerrace, Washington, a senior JS andPolitical Science major completing bothHebrew and Arabic minors, studied Arabicthis summer in Amman, Jordan through theState Department’s Critical LanguageScholarship Program. She interned at theReligious Action Center in summer 2004. In

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IU Borns JSP alumna Leslie Kepes Pomerantz (second from left) with JS studentsfrom the professional course, (left to right) Amanda Dudley, Aliza Sinkinson,Inna Kolesnikova, Stephanie Oreck, and Jeff Villano.

spring 2006, Jorie Slodki, from Skokie,Illinois, studied at HUJ and was one of ahandful of students to receive one of theirmerit scholarships. She was a finalist for anInternal Wells Scholarship in 2005. Thatsame year she won the Stolnitz Prize inYiddish as the most outstanding IU Yiddishstudent. Cheryl Steiman, of Indianapolis, isa pre-med and JS student with a perfectGPA. A tutor for calculus classes, she is aHutton Honors College student and amember of Alpha Lambda Delta honorsociety.

Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns JSScholarships were awarded to three JSundergraduates. Benjamyn Ellerin ofGreenwich, Connecticut, is completing aBachelor of Science in Music (Early Music-Voice) with an Outside Field (major) in JS.He continues for the second year as the peerinstructor, teaching a 1 credit course for theJS Freshman Interest Group in fall 2006. Asa freshman in 2005-06, Inna Kolesnikova,from Indianapolis, led Hillel’s MitzvahCorps and IIPAC, headed the committee toorganize Israelpalooza (Israel Day), andchaired the Magen David Adom committee.Inna is the Hoosiers for Israel publicitychair and the Hutton Honors Collegecommunity service program coordinator. Insummer 2006, she worked in Israel withInterns for Peace. Danielle Zuber, a JSmajor and Hebrew minor from Roswell,Georgia, has been cantor for Hillel’s Reformservices for three years and in the summer,she serves as theater director at CampBarney Medintz. She also tutors adults inBiblical Hebrew and teaches atBloomington’s Beth Shalom congregation;she is planning to be a Jewish educator.

Samantha Leapman of Indianapolis wasawarded the Robert A. and Sandra S. BornsAdministrative Internship for the year. Shestudied at HUJ during the last year. She willserve as the JSSA president during 2006-2007 and as the Borns intern for CarolynLipson-Walker.

Joey Rosenberg from Overland Park,Kansas, is the recipient of the Sandra andStanley Trockman Scholarship in JS. Amember of Mortar Board, he traveled to

Germany with Dr. Matthias Lehmann onour course “The Modern Jewish Experiencein Germany.” He was one of a group of IUstudents who created a new organization,the Coalition to Unite Blacks and Jews.

Deana Sussman of St. Louis, Missouri,the Percy Family Scholarship winner, wasrecruited to IU with our most prestigiousincoming freshmen scholarship in JS.Named to the Dean’s List each semesterwith a near perfect GPA, she is majoring inJS and RS and minoring in Sociology andPsychology. She was the Robert A. andSandra S. Borns Administrative Intern forthe 2005-2006 year and served as vicepresident of the JSSA.

JS doctoral minors Elizabeth Lambert andAmy Shapiro received the Sara and AlbertReuben Scholarshipsfor Study of theHolocaust. Elizabethused the scholarshipfunds to pursuearchival research inWeimar andresearch trips toBuchenwald,Mittelbau Dora,and other associated memorial sites. TheReuben Scholarship helped fund Amy’sparticipation in the 2006 Vilnius SummerProgram in Yiddish.

JS GR A D U AT E S

One hundred and eighty nine students havegraduated with a B.A. in JS since our majorwas established in 1992. Our fourteenthclass of majors included 18 B.A. recipients:Justin Bender of Clifton, Virginia, PeriBerntsen of Boulder, Colorado, JonathanBubis of Los Angeles, California, StephanieClark of Reston, Virginia, Melissa Dress ofSharon, Massachusetts, Adam Ganson ofCincinnati, Ohio, Lauren Goodman ofShreveport, Louisiana, Shira Gross ofPotomac, Maryland, Jaime Katz of ElkinsPark, Pennsylvania, Michael Kushnick ofParkland, Florida, Elizabeth Lintott ofNorthbrook, Illinois, Lauren Miller ofCincinnati, Ohio, Stephanie Oreck ofMinnetonka, Minnesota, Joseph Osgood ofWheaton, Illinois, Lindsey Pollack ofMilwaukee, Wisconsin, Megan Roberts ofKnoxville, Tennessee, Philip Sherman ofPlymouth, Minnesota, and Aliza Sinkinsonof Oakland, California.

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certificate program, who completed at leasteight JS courses in 3 categories, weregraduates Meytal Ashkenazi of Yehud, Israel,Sarah Boughey of Huntington Beach,California, Zachariah Cassady of Mis-hawaka, Indiana, Matthew Dunn of Roslyn,New York, Jennifer Kraus of Burke, Virginia,Jennifer Minsberg of St. Louis Park,Minnesota, Ariane Pollack of Maple Grove,Minnesota, Miles Roger of Indianapolis,Alexandra Schneider of Houston, Texas,Ashley Stern of Dallas, Texas, and RachelVilensky of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The third class of students completing theJS minor in Hebrew were: MeytalAshkenazi, Peri Berntsen, Jonathan Bubis,Amy Friedman of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,Adam Ganson, Aryeh Glazier of South

Bend, Indiana, Lauren Goodman, RaminHaverim of Tarzana, California, Isac (Ari)Jacobovits of Rockville, Maryland,Elizabeth Lintott, Megan Roberts, MilesRoger, Hannah Sacks of Wilmette, Illinois,Philip Sherman, and Amanda Zola ofCincinnati, Ohio.

Philip Sherman graduated with honors inJS, completing a thesis, “Praying, Eating,and Dying: Jewish Life in Prague SeventeenYears after Communism” directed by Dr.Jeffrey Veidlinger. JS senior Aliza Sinkinsongraduated with departmental honors inPolitical Science.

We are gratified that many of our recentgraduates choose careers related to JS.Among our current graduating class,Jonathan Bubis is teaching history anddrama at Sinai Akiba school in Los Angeles.Stephanie Clark will begin rabbinical schoolat Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute ofReligion in Jerusalem in fall 2007. MatthewDunn is beginning studies toward an MSWat Yeshiva University. Michael Kushnick isattending the Conservative yeshiva in Israelbefore beginning rabbinical school. LaurenMiller is administrative assistant to theeducation director at Ohr KodeshCongregation in Chevy Chase, Maryland.Stephanie Oreck is a Campaign Associate at

Some 2006 JS graduates at the annual student-faculty dinner

the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation inthe Women’s Division in Chicago. MeganRoberts is a Fellow at the American HebrewAcademy in Greensboro, North Carolina.Philip Sherman is the JCSC Fellow at EmoryUniversity Hillel. Aliza Sinkinson is AIPAC’sEarly Engagement Director.

CA N’T B E MAT C H E DIU Jewish Studies StudentAssociation Programming

At the heart of the Borns JSP’s philosophy isa commitment to providing students anoutstanding academic experience, primarilyinside the classroom, but also outside.Toward that end, the 2005-2006 leadershipof the Jewish Studies StudentAssociation(JSSA)—President PhilipSherman, VP Deana Sussman, SecretaryRachel Kaplan, and Treasurer SarahKaplan—organized a full calendar ofstudent-facultyevents. The yearbegan with a well-attended fall desserton September 29and ended with thegala student-facultydinner on April 26with honored guestBob Borns, whowas instrumental in raising generousscholarship funds for JS students for the2006-2007 year. Every Tuesday in the falland every Wednesday in the spring, Hebrewspeakers convened for a free dinner atHillel’s kosher café. Todah rabbah to fallHebrew Table co-chairs: Sarah Kaplan,Mike Kushnick, Josh Simons, and JeffVillano, and to spring 2006 co-chairs: SarahKaplan, Josh Simons, and Jeff Villano. TheJSSA co-sponsored two free lunches withthe faculty: in the fall, Dr. Dror Wahrmanspoke about “God vs. Democracy in theState of Israel: The Lessons from theDisengagement Plan” and in the spring (co-

hour course designed to help freshmenmake the academic transition to IU, andtwo other JS courses together: “Introductionto Jewish History” (taught by Dr. MatthiasLehmann) and “The Bible and itsInterpreters” (a College Topics coursetaught by Borns JSP Director StevenWeitzman). Ben Ellerin, a School of Musicstudent pursuing JS as an outside field(major), is serving as the JS FIG PeerInstructor for the second year. The popularJS FIG filled up before the beginning ofsummer 2006 freshman orientation.

There is no additional cost to participatein the JS FIG, nor are there any academicprerequisites. Participants can room with anon-JS FIG participant. For more inform-ation about the JS FIG for fall 2007, contact(812) 856-4301 or e-mail: figs@indiana.edu.

Intensive Freshman Seminaron the Holocaust

Incoming freshmen may choose to take a JS-related course “Popular Representations ofthe Holocaust” three weeks prior to thebeginning of the fall 2007 semester. Dr. JohnSchilb teaches the course. For more inform-ation, see: http://www.indiana.edu/~ifs/.

DI G G I N G TE L BE T HSH E M E S H

For the eighth summer, students spent 3weeks on the IU Overseas Study Tel BethShemesh program. With support fromDorot Foundation Travel Grants, studentsexcavated the site and were trained in fieldsessions, afternoon workshops, and eveninglectures. Designed by Dr. Steven Weitzmanand directed by seasoned Israeliarchaeologists Zvi Lederman and ShlomoBunimovitz, the excavation has uncoveredan important Judahite border town in thefrontier zone between the Israelites and thePhilistines.

The field school also affords studentsseveral opportunities to experience modernIsrael. They live on a modern kibbutz andtravel on weekend excursions to variousparts of Israel. Director of Modern HebrewAyelet Weiss served as on-site director forthe IU program.

sponsored with Hillel), Dr. Jeremy Shereanswered the question “What is a JewishBook?” The JSSA sponsored two filmshowings, “Hiding and Seeking: Faith andTolerance after the Holocaust” discussed byDr. Mark Roseman, and “Walk on Water”discussed by Nurit Ben Yehuda. ElectedJSSA officers for the 2006-2007 year are:President Samantha Leapman, VP SarahKaplan, Secretary Rebecca Frazin, andTreasurer Traci Stratford.

TH R E E HI G H SC H O O LSE N I O R S RE C E I V E $13,000I N SC H O L A R S H I P S

Thanks to the generosity of Robert andSandra Borns and Irving Glazer and hisfriends and family, scholarships totaling$13,000 were awarded to three incoming JSFreshmen for the 2006-2007 year. RileyHolzman of Santa Barbara, Californiareceived the Robert A. and Sandra S. BornsScholarship for an Incoming Freshmen inJS. Emily Berman of Louisville, Kentuckyand Jessica Wainer of Oak Park, Illinoiswere awarded Irving M. Glazer Scholarshipsfor Incoming Freshmen in JS.

Applicants came from a large pool of out-standing high seniors from across the U.S.

NE W S F O R HI G H SC H O O LST U D E N T SCurrent High School Seniors CanApply for 3 JS FreshmenScholarships Totaling $13,000

Current high school seniors applying to IUand committed to JS may apply for 3 fresh-men scholarships for the 2007-2008 year.One $5,000 Robert A. and Sandra S. BornsScholarship and two $4,000 Irving M. GlazerScholarships will be awarded to outstandingincoming freshmen.

For information about how to apply forthese scholarships, high school seniors canview details about the application procedureat http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/glazerscholarship.htm The application deadline for fall2007 is Friday, March 2, 2007.

JS Freshman Living-LearningGroupFor the eighth fall, IU freshmen had theoption of living and studying in the JSFreshman Interest Group (FIG). This fall,14 JS FIG students are living together (inthe northwest neighborhood), engaging instudent-initiated JS activities, taking a one-

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JO N AT H A N BU B I S AWA R D E DPI S E R PR I Z EOutstanding JS Graduate

Jonathan Bubis, who graduated in May2006 with a JS major and minors in Hebrewand music studies, was awarded the Leonoreand Louis Piser Prize in JS. Of a graduatingclass of 35 students, Jonathan was deemedthe most outstandinggraduating JS studentwho plans to pursuea career related to JS.

Named to Phi BetaKappa and therecipient of JSscholarships andfaculty academicawards throughoutcollege, Jonathanstudied abroad at HUJ during his junioryear where he starred in the spring theatreproduction.

He is a member of Eta Beta Rho Hebrewhonor society. During summer 2004,Jonathan received a Spielberg Fellowshipfrom the Association for Jewish Camping towork with Jewish theater groups. Insummer 2005, he served as head of dramaat Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. He iscurrently teaching history and drama atSinai Akiba school in Los Angeles.

The $750 Piser Prize is awarded annuallyto an outstanding graduating JS B.A., areacertificate, or Hebrew minor student who isplanning further graduate work in JS and acareer in the field. Through the Piser Prizeand other initiatives, the Borns JSP hopes todemonstrate to our graduating seniors thehigh value of careers in JS. Making theaward possible were the late Leonore andLouis Piser, of South Bend.

BE R N ES S AY PR I Z E WI N N E RJS Major Daniel Millner

The Platonic Paul” written by JS majorDaniel Millner, a sophomore from Glencoe,Illinois, received the 2006 Henry A. BernMemorial Essay Prize in JS. One facultymember described Dan’s paper as“inquisitive and probing” and showing “a

sophisticated understanding of literature.” Dan has a perfect GPA and has beeninducted into Phi Eta Sigma and AlphaLambda Delta honor societies. He playedon the IU rugby team his freshman year andparticipated in the Borns JSP’s “JewishExperience in Modern Germany” in May2005. Last year, Dan placed 3rd in the Big

Man on Campusfundraiser for breastcancer at the IUAuditorium playingbagpipes andperforming Irishdance. Aftergraduation, Danplans to go to JewishTheological Seminary(JTS) to pursue

rabbinic and Jewish education degrees.The annual Bern Essay Competition wasestablished to honor the memory of HenryA. Bern, Professor Emeritus in the IUSchool of Education, loyal supporter of theBorns JSP, and a long-time Bloomingtonresident. The $500 Bern prize aims tostimulate undergraduate excellence inwriting and research in JS.

ST U D E N T HO N O R S

Jonathan Bubis (May 2006 B.A.) andRachel Vilensky (December 2005 areacertificate) were elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Sarah Cohen, Dan Corson-Knowles,Melissa Dress, Amy Friedman, AlexanderHeisler, Inna Kolesnikova, Amy Margolin,Derrick Murphy, Shira Nadel, MargaretO’Connor, Abigail Schachter, RachelSchonwald, Joshua Simons, Cheryl Steimanand Rebecca Waxman were named to thenational Hebrew Honor Society Eta BetaRho.

Nine JS majors were named to theCollege of Arts and Sciences fall 2005Dean’s List: Jonathan Bubis, Bridget Coraz,Jacob Ginsburg, Jonathan Kleinman,

Elizabeth Lintott, Daniel Millner, MargaretO’Connor, Philip Sherman, and DeanaSussman.

The spring 2006 Dean’s List included 14JS majors: Peri Berntsen, Joanna Blotner,Jonathan Bubis, Bridget Coraz, MelissaDress, Yael Eban, Sarah Kaplan, JonathanKleinman, Michael Kushnick, LaurenMiller, Daniel Millner, Derrick Murphy,Margaret O’Connor, and Aliza Sinkinson.

Margaret O’Connor is recipient of the2006-2007 Jeanice Bartling Lewis MemorialScholarship from the College.

Jori Slodki was the winner of the HUJMerit Scholarship in spring 2006.

Laura Siegel graduated in December 2005with honors in Political Science.

JS students will be Hillel officers next year:President Joanna Blotner, Vice PresidentDani Zuber, and Secretary Inna Koleniskova.

Sarah Cohen, one of the organizers of theIU winter break relief trip to help HurricaneKatrina victims, was honored as the IUCommission on Multicultural Under-standing presented its program award.

Lauren Miller (Borns JSP) and JenniferMinsberg (McNutt Center) were namedOutstanding Student Employees.

JSP FU N D S ST U D E N T S ATCO N F E R E N C E S

For the fourteenth year, the Borns JSP withsupport from the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns JSP Endowment, subsidizedconference attendance for students in theU.S. and abroad. Five undergraduatestudents—Sarah Cohen, Inna Kolesnikova,Rachel Schonwald, Philip Sherman, AlizaSinkinson and two doctoral minors—BenThorne and Amy Shapiro—received fundingto attend JS conferences. During the currentyear, JS students will be eligible to apply forsubsidies to support attendance atconferences related academically orprofessionally to JS.

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JSP A N D AL U M N I SH A R EJO B OP P O RT U N I T I E SVI A E-M A I L

Nine years ago, as an extension of ourcareer resource center, the JSP established ane-mail job network for JSP alumni. Thenetwork enables our alumni to shareinformation about job openings.Throughout the year, e-mail notes about

employment opportunities related to JS aresent to alumni, and alumni, in turn, sharesuch news with the JSP via e-mail.

If you are a JSP alumnus/alumna andwould like to be on this e-mail job list, pleasee-mail clipsonw@indiana.edu. If you havebeen on the list but have recently changedyour e-mail address, please send your new e-mail address to clipsonw@indiana.edu.

ALUMNI NEWSWe are proud of our graduates, so many ofwhom now hold important positions at majoreducational and communal organizationsthroughout the country.

Joan Keller Rothenberg (1985) received amaster’s degree in art therapy from the LeslieCollege branch in Tel Aviv. She has illustratedfive Jewish children’s book and a children’sprayerbook, published by the ReconstructionistPress. She lives in Indianapolis with her fourchildren and husband Jeff.

Bekki Harris Kaplan (1987) is ExecutiveDirector of Beth Emet, the Free Synagogue inEvanston.

Debby Barton Grant, (1991) her husbandScott, and son Jonah, welcomed BenjaminBarton Grant to the family on September 21st,2005. Debby is Executive Vice President of theSouth Bend Jewish Federation.

Stephanie Stern Fink, (1993) Director of

Education at Temple Mount Zion in St. Paul,Minnesota, serves on the National Associationof Temple Educators board of directors and thecongregational schooling committee of theUnion for Reform Judaism’s Lifelong LearningCouncil.

Rabbi Eli Garfinkel (1993) is Rabbi of TempleBeth El Somerset in Somerset, New Jersey.

Brian Shankman (1994) is Northeast DeputyDirector for AIPAC.

Brett Pelchovitz Stern (1994) is Director ofthe Conservative Jewish high school Merchaz inCincinnati.

Jen Zwilling (1994) married JonRosenwasser. Jen is Hillel’s Soref SeniorAssociate for Campus Advancement.

Bruce Hoffman (1995) is Assistant Professorof Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University.

Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg (1996) wasordained by HUC-JIR and is the NationalDeputy Director of AIPAC’s SynagogueInitiative.

Shana Canter Levin (1998) and her husbandMichael welcomed daughter Leah Canter Levinon March 15, 2006. They recently moved fromNew York City to Columbus, Ohio.

Lindsey Barton Mintz, (1998) Director ofGovernmental Affairs for the JewishCommunity Relations Council of Indianapolis,

her husband Jason are expecting their first childin September 2006.

Amanda Borschel-Dan (1999) is editor ofThe Jerusalem Post’s Up Front Magazine. Sheand her husband are the parents of threechildren.

Rabbi Ellen Brandwein (1999) and herhusband Rabbi Adam Rosenblumwelcomed daughter Shoshana Renaon June 27, 2006.

Ilene Scholnick (1999) isCampaign Division Director for theAtlanta Jewish Federation.

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CO U R S E OF F E R I N G SSpring 2006-Spring 2007

The curriculum offered each year by the JSP is both broad and deep with 60 courses.ANTHROPOLOGYEthnography of Europe—BahloulMemory and Culture—BahloulMigrations and Diasporas—BahloulModern Jewish Society and Culture—Bahloul

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES TOPICSCOURSE

The Bible and its Interpreters—WeitzmanBlacks and Jews—AssensohTheism, Atheism, and Existentialism—LeveneWho Wrote the Bible?—Marks

COMPARATIVE LITERATURELiterature and the Bible—Marks

ENGLISHStudies in Jewish Literature: The Holocaust—Gubar

FOLKLOREExploring Jewish Identity—CohenJewish Folklore and Ethnology (graduate seminar)—

CohenMusic in Judaism—Cohen

GERMANIC STUDIESBeginning Yiddish II—KerlerGhetto, Shtetl, and Beyond: Millennium of History

and Society of Yiddish—KerlerIndividual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language,

Literature, and Culture—KerlerIntermediate Yiddish I and II—KerlerModernity and Tradition in Yiddish Literature and

Culture (graduate seminar)—KerlerReadings in Yiddish Ethnography: Folklore and

Dialectology (graduate seminar) —KerlerSelected Readings in 20th Century Yiddish

Literature: Fiction, Drama, Poetry—KerlerYiddish in America—Kerler

HISTORYGlobalization and Jewish History (graduate

seminar)—LehmannThe History of Jerusalem—WahrmanHistory of the Holocaust—RosemanIntroduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to

the Spanish Expulsion—LehmannIntroduction to Jewish History: From the Spanish

Expulsion to the Present—Lehmann, VeidlingerJews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval

Mediterranean—LehmannJews in Eastern Europe—VeidlingerThe Jews of Spain: Jewish Life Under Christianity

and Islam—LehmannLife and Death: Rebuilding Germany after World

War II (graduate seminar)—RosemanModern Jewish History: From Expulsion to

Revolution—LehmannThe People of the Book: Jewish History and

Modern Jewish Texts—VeidlingerPerpetrators of the Holocaust—Roseman

HONORSAmerican Jewish Writers—RosenfeldHitler and Anne Frank: Studies in the

Representation of Good and Evil—RosenfeldLiterature of the Holocaust—Rosenfeld

INTENSIVE FRESHMAN SEMINARPopular Representations of the Holocaust—Schilb

JEWISH STUDIESIntermediate Biblical Hebrew I and II—MuehlbergerIntroduction to Biblical Hebrew II—MuehlbergerIntroduction to Elementary Hebrew I and II—

Sarfati, Shuman, WeissIntermediate Hebrew I and II—Ben Yehuda, Levy,

Weiss

Advanced Hebrew I and II—Katz, Segal, WeissIntroductory Readings in Hebrew Literature—Katz Individual Readings in Hebrew—Katz The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction—Katz Professional Leadership and the Jewish

Community—JacksonRecent Hebrew Literature (in English)—Katz Recent Hebrew Literature (in Hebrew)—KatzTheory, Method, and Historiography in the Study of

Judaism (graduate seminar)—Magid

OVERSEAS STUDYTel Beth Shemesh Archaeological Field School—

Weiss

PHILOSOPHYEmil Fackenheim and the Holocaust—Morgan

POLITICAL SCIENCEThe Holocaust and Politics—Bielasiak

RELIGIOUS STUDIESAncient Mediterranean Religions—Harrill Biblical Justice—Halberstam The Binding of Isaac in Judaism, Christianity, and

Islam—MagidIntroduction to Judaism—Magid Introduction to Hebrew Bible—HalberstamKing David in History and Literature—WeitzmanMessiahs and Messianism in Comparative

Perspective—MagidProphecy in Ancient Israel—HalberstamRevolution in Rabbinic Literature—Halberstam

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURESCentral European Literature and Culture between

the Wars—Perlina

was chosen as a 2006 Hoosier Fellow. She and

Shauna Replane Leavey (2000) and husbandMichael welcomed daughter Nora Gertrude onMay 3, 2005. Shauna is Assistant Principal atBaltimore Hebrew Congregation.

Rachael Petru (2000) is Senior DevelopmentOfficer for Hadassah’s Western AreaDevelopment Center.

Karen Cohen (2001) is Coordinator for theMember Support Program for House ofRepresentatives minority leader Nancy Pelosi.

Rebecca Freund (2001) is theCommunications and Activities Assistant atSteven S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles.

Hannah Kaufman Joseph (2001) marriedBrent Joseph. They live in Indianapolis whereHannah is an attorney with Lewis Kappes.

Claire Grusin Kaufmann (2001) and herhusband Roy, welcomed daughter Hannah onJuly 18, 2006.

Cantor David Reinwald (2001) graduatedfrom HUC-JIR and is cantor at CongregationBeth Israel in Austin, Texas.

Debbie Sasso (2001) and Brad Herold weremarried on December 11, 2005.

Jennifer Steiman (2001) graduated from RushSchool of Medicine and began her residency inanesthesia at the University of Chicago.

Jami Trockman (2001) is working for thePremier Philanthropy program at the LosAngeles Jewish Federation.

Diana Kogan (2002) works for the ClaimsConference in New York City.

Gabe Lewin (2002) was married in winter2006 to Devorah Maho in Israel. He isstudying at a yeshivah there.

Miriam Pullman (2002) completed a master’sdegree in Jewish communal service at HUC-JIRand is campaign associate for the JewishFederation of Greater Atlanta.

Ruth Schachter (2002) completed a master’sdegree in Jewish history at the University ofMaryland.

Scott Zuick (2002) served on the IU Schoolof Medicine’s 2006 Admissions Committee, thefirst year that students have served on thiscommittee. He is currently a resident in internalmedicine at Washington University.

Rachel Conroy (2003) completed hergraduate degree from the Drachler Program andis a Campaign Associate for the JewishFederation of Greater Atlanta.

Drew Kaplan (2003) is a rabbinical studentat Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York.

Ben Lewis (2003) is Assistant Director ofEducation and Youth at Temple Sholom inGreenwich, CT.

Samantha Pearline (2003) is pursuing amaster’s degree in education at the University ofJudaism.

Debra Powers (2003) was married to AdamCutler in July 2006. They are spending thecurrent year in Israel. Since graduation, Debrawas a Steinhardt Jewish Campus Service CorpsFellow at Hillel of Rochester area colleges and atColumbia/Barnard Hillel. She also worked forthe National Ramah Commission.

Naomi Shulman (2003) is a graduate studentstudying Holocaust literature at UC Berkeley.

Sarina Fogel (2004) works for the JewishCouncil for Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.

Emily Walsh (2004) is a student at HUC-JIRin Jewish Communal Service.

Henry Bernstein (2005) is Youth Director atMoriah Congregation in Deerfield, Illinois.

Jen Gubitz (2005) is the Israel EducationFellow at the Schusterman Hillel InternationalCenter.

Jody Klenetsky (2005) is pursuing a master’sdegree in special education at National LouisUniversity.

Elizabeth Lintott (2005) is a preschoolteacher at the Skokie JCC.

Laura Siegel (2005) was the MidwestDirector of USD Hagshama of the WZO. Sheentered the M.A. programs in Jewish educationand Jewish communal service at HUC-JIR infall 2006.

Rachel Vilensky (2005) began IUBloomington Law School this fall.

Sonya Weisburd (2005) works for the JewishYouth Philanthropy Institute in Washington, D.C.

Meytal Ashkenazi (2006) is a BusinessAnalyst for Target stores.

Melissa Dress (2006) began Regis College’saccelerated BS and MS program for non-nursesto earn an R.N. licensure, a bachelor’s degree innursing, and a master’s degree in psychiatricnursing.

Matt Dunn (2006) is an MSW student atYeshiva University.

Adam Ganson (2006) is pursuing a master’sdegree in environmental studies through Ben-Gurion University’s Arava Institute.

Ariane Pollack (2006) is continuing at IU in2006-2007 to complete her MBA.

Lindsey Pollack (2006) began a master’sdegree program in elementary education atLoyola Marymount in Los Angeles.

Jewish Studies couples:Gina Lewald-Fass (1996) and Jonathan Fass

(1996) welcomed their second child Ezer inFebruary, 2006.

Kate Breiter Uslan (2000) and Eytan Uslan(2001) welcomed son Benjamin Charles Uslan onMarch 21, 2006 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Leslie Cohen Kastner (2000) and AndyKastner (2002) are living in New York whileAndy pursues rabbinical studies at YeshivatChovevei Torah and Leslie is Coordinator of

Teen Service Learning and College Volunteersfor Dorot.

Aaron Aft (2000) and Leah Hedrick (2004)were married in summer 2005 in Kansas City.

Joshua Samis (2002) and Jill Hibshman Samis(2002) were married in spring 2006. Joshrecently graduated from Emory University Schoolof Law and is practicing law in Charlotte. Jillgraduated from Emory University School ofMedicine and in June 2006 began a residency inpediatrics at Northwestern University.

The Borns JSP takes pride in theaccomplishments of its alumni and is alwayspleased to hear of their personal andprofessional achievements. Please send yournews and current e-mail address and mailingaddress to clipsonw@indiana.edu.

FACULTY NEWSALV I N H. RO S E N F E L D CH A I R I N

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IU Bloomingtonis pleased toannounce asearch to fill theAlvin H.Rosenfeld Chairin JS, anendowed positionestablished tohonor thefounding directorof the Robert A.and Sandra S.Borns JewishStudies Program.The search committee welcomes applicationsfrom scholars in any field or discipline focusedon Jewish culture, society, politics, history, art,literature, or thought. (The position will bejointly appointed with the appropriatedepartment). The ideal candidate will be anoutstanding scholar at the associate or fullprofessor rank. The search committee will alsoconsider applications from exceptionallypromising scholars at the assistant professorrank.

Applications received by November 3, 2006will be assured of consideration. Applicationsshould include a cover letter, c.v., and a writingsample, and applicants should arrange to havethree letters of recommendation sent to us bythe deadline. Please send all materials to Dr.Steven Weitzman, Borns Jewish StudiesProgram, Indiana University, Goodbody Hall326, 1011 E. Third Street, Bloomington,Indiana 47405-7005. IU is an equalopportunity/affirmative action employer thatencourages applications from under representedminorities and women.

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OUR FACULTYJoëlle Bahloul spent the 2005-2006 year onresearch leave as a Visiting Scholar at NYU’sDepartment of Performance Studies whilewriting a book on Jews in France. At NYU, sheparticipated in the Jews and the Media seminarhoused in the Center for Religion and theMedia. Dr. Bahloul was named a member of theeditorial board of the Encyclopedia of Jews inthe Islamic World to be published by E.J. Brill in2009. She spoke at a number of universitiesincluding the University of Laval, and at RutgersUniversity where she lectured on collectivememory and domestic rituals. She delivered theProshanski Lecture on “French Jews and theRepublic in Crisis” at the CUNY GraduateCenter; she read a paper, “Sephardic Cuisineand the French Republic” at a conference onFood and Wine in Jewish Culture at UC Davis;and she participated in the NYU colloquium onmaterial Jews presenting “The Parisian Pletzel inthe Souvenirs’ Gallery: Menoroth and Mezuzothon the Tourist’s Trail.”

Judah Cohen joined the Borns JSP faculty infall 2006 as the inaugural holder of the Louand Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of JewishCulture. (See article on page 5.)

Despite his retirement in 2003, PaulEisenberg continues to direct various indivi-dualized reading courses and to serve on anumber of dissertation committees. He is alsoactive on various university committees. Heserved this year as a member of the IU RacialIncidents Team/Religious Bias Incidents Team.

Halina Goldberg spent the 2005-2006 yearas a Fulbright-HaysFellow in Polandresearching how nationalidentity, assimilation, andJewishness in 19th

century Poland wereexpressed through music.She examined how thepolitical debate on “theJewish question” wascarried out, exploringmusical sounds and theirverbal and iconographiccounterparts as symbolsdeployed in publicdiscourse and theireffects on public opinion.

Susan Gubar’s Poetry after Auschwitz:Remembering What One Never Knew waspublished in paperback by IU Press. (See bookcover on page 10.)

Bert Harrill’s new book, Slaves in the NewTestament: Literary, Social, and MoralDimensions (Fortress Press) was published earlythis year. He participated in a roundtablediscussion of his new book at the 60th generalmeeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti

Societas at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenburg, Halle, Germany. His article, “TheApostle Paul on the Slave Self: AnInterpretation of Romans 7” appeared inReligion and the Self in Antiquity, edited byDavid Brakke, Steven Weitzman, and MichaelSatlow (IU Press, 2005). He was a panelist for“Reassessing Social Status in the First CenturyAssemblies,” (Archaeology of Religion in theRoman World Section) and for “Families—AUseful Category in Early Christian Studies?”(Early Christian FamiliesGroup) at the annualmeeting of the Society ofBiblical Literature inPhiladelphia. He hosted twocampus presentations, “TheCanonization of the Bible,”at the Campus SkepticsAlliance in September 2005,and an undergraduate Dept.of RS “movie night” inOctober that featured “Godand Politics––The Battle forthe Bible.”

Stephen Katz is workingon a book manuscript To BeAs Others: TheRepresentation of African- and Native-Americans in Immigrant Hebrew Literaturethat centers on the encounter of immigrantHebrew writers in America with othermarginalized cultures, especially of Afro-Americans and Native Americans. Hepresented, “Revisiting Hillel Bavli’s Mrs.Woods,” at the International Conference onHebrew Language, Literature, and Culture of

the National Association ofProfessors of Hebrew. With thesupport of a College of Arts andHumanities Institute (CAHI)Fellowship, he will spend hissabbatical in fall 2006researching the responses ofAmerican Hebrew writers to theHolocaust. He taught a new JScourse “The Kibbutz in Fact andFiction” during spring 2006.

Dov-Ber Kerler’s “Reality,Fiction, and Imagination inIsaac Bashevis Singer’s Stories”appeared in Italian translation

in the special volume entitled Ricordando IsaacBashevis Singer (Rome, 2006) of RassegnaMensile d’Israel dedicated to the centenary ofthe great American Yiddish author. Dr. Kerleredited and published the last poems of hisfather, Yoysef Kerler, Davke itst – naye un letstelider [Josef Kerler, Now is the Time – New andLast Poems], Yerusholaimer Almanach Press,Jerusalem, 2005. With Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger, hecontinued to direct the IU Yiddish EthnographicProject (see article on page 9) and presented the

project’s findings for CAHI’s Meet the AuthorSeries in December, 2005. He delivered“Beyond When All is Said and Done: The LastLeaving Remnants of Prewar Jewish Culture inContemporary Ukraine and Moldova,” for TheThomas and Diann Mann DistinguishedSymposium Series at Ohio State University’sMelton Center for JS in January 2006. At theMay 2006 international conference, “YiddishTheatre Revisited: New Perspectives on Dramaand Performance” at University of Washington,

he spoke about “Vestiges of Pre-War Purimshpil in LivingMemory.” He taught a course onmodern Yiddish poetry at theVilnius Yiddish Institute’sInaugural Yiddish EducatorProgram for Yiddish teachers,professors, and instructors inMay, 2005, and was appointed tothe Vilnius Institute’s Board ofDirectors. “‘What We Rememberand What We Should Remember’:Some Early 21st Century OralMemories of Soviet Jewish Life inPrewar Ukraine” was the title ofhis talk at the internationalconference on “Yiddish Language

and Culture in the Soviet Union” at the RussianState University for Humanities, Moscow, June,2006.

Matthias Lehmann was on a research leavefunded by CAHI in fall 2005, working on hisnew project entitled “Identity and Philanthropyin the Sephardi Diaspora, 1660-1860.” Hisbook, Ladino Rabbinic Literature and OttomanSephardic Culture, was published by IU Press in2005 and was a runner-up for a NationalJewish Book Award. He also published anarticle in Jewish Social Studies and presentedpapers at the annual conference of theAssociation for JS and as a guest of the TaubeJS Program and the Mediterranean StudiesForum at Stanford University. In spring 2006,Dr. Lehmann taught an introductory course onJewish history from 1492 to the present and anintensive writing seminar on the Jews of Spain.

Nancy Levene is researching reason anddesire in European historiography. Two of herarticles appeared this spring: “Sources ofHistory: Myth and Image” in the March 2006issue of the Journal of the American Academyof Religion in a forum on “The Future of theStudy of Religion in the Academy,” and “TheFall of Eden: Reasons and Reasoning in theBible and Talmud” in the spring 2006 issue ofPhilosophy Today, in a special issue devoted to

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the question of the contribution of Jewishphilosophy to philosophy overall. Last winter,she chaired a panel at the Association of JSannual meeting in Washington, D.C. on “TheIntersection of Theory and Practice: AConversation about Justice amongst Scholars,Rabbis, and Activists.” In July, she traveled toRome to do research, and then to Malta for thebiennial conference of the International Societyfor the Study of European Ideas where she gavea paper on “The Idea of a PhilosophicalHistory.” In August, she co-convened (withShaul Magid) a symposium at IU on“Cosmopolitanism, Post-Ethnicity, and the NewJewish Diaspora.” The symposium wassponsored by the Borns JSP, the Department ofRS, and CAHI.

Shaul Magid’s From Metaphysical toMidrash: History, Myth and the Interpretationof Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala will bepublished by IU Press’ series in BiblicalInterpretation in fall 2007. His recentlypublished articles include, “The Politics of (un)Conversion: The ‘Mixed Multitude’ (erev rav)as Conversos in Rabbi Hayyim Vital’s Etz Ha-Da’at Tov,” Jewish Quarterly Review (summer2005); “‘The Ritual is Not the Hunt’: TheSeven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, andJewish Ritual as Fantasy,”Liturgy, Time, andthe Politics of Redemption, Randi Rashkoverand Chad Pecknold, eds. (Eerdmans Press,2006); “In Search of a Critical Voice in theJewish Diaspora: Homelessness and Home inEdward Said and Shalom Noah Barzofsky’sNetivot Shalom,” Jewish Social Studies(summer 2006); and “Ethics Disentangled fromthe Law: Incarnation, the Universal and HasidicEthics,” Kabbalah: A Journal of JewishMysticism 15 (2006). He became a contributingeditor to Tikkun Magazine in fall 2006contributing the following articles; “JewishRenewal: A ‘New’ American Judaism?”Jan/Feb, 2006; “A New Yavneh: The Holocaustas Theological Opportunity,” March/April,2006; “Jewish Renewal and PostmonotheisticTheology,” May/June, 2006; and “A Nation isNot a Family: Re-Thinking Munich,” TikkunMagazine, on-line edition, June 2006. He alsopublished an essay in a festschrift volume ofSpectrum: A Journal of Jewish Renewalpresented to Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomion his eightieth birthday entitled, “When Willthe Wedding Take Place?” that includes anannotated transcription and commentary of ahomily delivered by R. Menachem MendelSchneersohn in France in the winter of 1941 as

transmitted orally by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. This is the only existing account of thishomily. He also published an essay entitled, “ATheological Argument for Sharing the HolyLand” in The Christian Century, July 11th

2006, and contributed articles for the newedition of the Encyclopedia Judaica, the newEncyclopedia of Religion, The YIVOEncyclopedia of Eastern European Jewry, andthe Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora. Hisscholarly papers include; “A New HasidicReflection on the Necessity of the Holocaust,”AAR Conference, 2005; “Multiculturalism,Postethnicity: The Loss of ‘Jewish Essence’ andthe (Re) Birth of the New Jews,” a panel on thelimits of pluralism honoring the work of EugeneBorowitz, AJS Conference, 2005; “TeachingJewish Mysticism in the Academy: The Vocationof the Heretic,” AJS Conference, 2005;“Contemporary Kabbala,” organizer, chair andrespondent, AJS Conference, 2005; and“Judaism, Jewishness and the Land of Israel:Between Religion and Nationalism,” at the“Conference on the Land of Israel in Judaismand Christianity” at The Christian TheologicalInstitute, Indianapolis, March, 2006. He partici-pated in the conference, “Cosmopolitans, Post-Ethnicity, and the New Jewish Diaspora” held atIU August 20-22, 2006, and spoke with Dr.Adulkadar Sinno at a forum “Earthquake?: ThePalestinian Elections 2005” and with Dr. RashidOmar at a forum “Theological Perspectives onMuslim-Jewish Relations: Eternal Rivals orPartners in American Society,” at IU.

Michael Morgan gave two lectures as aVisiting University Scholar at The JamesMadison University at the invitation of thePhilosophy Department, “Is There Madness inPlato’s Method? Philosophy and the Phaedrus,”and “Shame and Genocide.” He gave a paper,“Jewish Philosophy and ContemporaryPhilosophy,” at The Renaissance of JewishPhilosophy in America conference at PrincetonUniversity, sponsored by the James MadisonProgram in American Ideals and Institutions,Princeton University and the Louis FinkelsteinInstitute for Religious and Social Studies, JTS.Dr. Morgan presented a paper, “Philosophy, theHolocaust, and Genocide,” at a conference onthe “Representation of the Holocaust inLiterature and Film” at the College of Williamand Mary and spoke on Emil Fackenheim’s ToMend the World at the University of NotreDame. He edited with introductions TheEssential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings,which was published by Hackett Publishing andappeared in February 2006. His essay, “Levinasand Judaism,” appeared in Levinas Studies, anAnnual Review, Vol. 1 (Duquesne UniversityPress, 2005) edited by Jeffrey Bloechl & JeffreyL. Kosky. The anthology Philosopher asWitness: Fackenheim and Responses to theHolocaust, which he edited with Benjamin

Pollock, is forthcoming from SUNY Press, andthe Cambridge Companion to Modern JewishPhilosophy, which he co-edited with Peter EliGordon, is forthcoming from CambridgeUniversity Press. Cambridge will also publishhis book Discovering Levinas. Dr. Morgan wasawarded a Fellowship from CAHI and will beon leave in fall 2006 to write a book, OnShame, for the Thinking in Action series,published by Routledge. In spring 2006, hetaught a new course devoted exclusively to thework of Emil Fackenheim.

Mark Roseman presented “GoodUtopians–Bad Citizens?” at the annual MidwestGerman History Workshop, held this year atthe Center for German and European Studies,University of Minnesota in October. He wasalso invited to give the 2006 “SilbermanFaculty Seminar on the History of theHolocaust”, at the U.S. Holocaust MemorialMuseum in Washington. This was a two weekseminar to bring faculty from all over thecountry up to speed on the latest Holocaustresearch. In addition, Roseman gave the paper“Generations of Perpetrators, Generations ofNazis. How Much Can the Generational ModelExplain?” in the panel “GenerationalDiscourses and Experiences in 20th-CenturyGermany” at the German Studies Associationannual conference in Milwaukee in fall 2005.He was invited to be one of the NationalEndowment for the Humanities panelists forselecting grant proposals in European history.

Alvin H. Rosenfeld continues to devote themajor part of his teaching, research, and serviceactivities to the study of Holocaust literature,contemporary antisemitism, and modern Jewishwriters. His essay, “Modern Jewish IntellectualFailure: A Brief History,” appeared, in anabridged version, in Society (Nov./Dec. 2005),and then, in a complete version, in The JewishDivide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders,eds. Edward Alexander and Paul Bogdanor(Transaction 2006). An essay on a relatedsubject, “Progressive Jewish Thought and the‘New’ Antisemitism,” will appear, in Polishtranslation, in Midrasz and, in English, inAntisemitism in Comparative Perspective, ed.Charles Small. “Antisemitic Languages:Contemporary Rhetorics of Hostility to Jewsand the Jewish State” is also forthcoming, as ishis “Foreword” to Bernard Harrison’s TheResurgence of Antisemitism: Jews, Israel, andLiberal Opinion and his “Foreword” toContemporary Jewish Writing in Europe, eds.Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden. Shorterpieces on anti-Zionism and Holocaust literatureappeared in The New Leader. In the spring, Dr.Rosenfeld gave lectures at UCLA and theUniversity of California Santa Cruz (on PrimoLevi), at Yale (on contemporary anti-Semitism),at Harvard (on new Russian Jewish immigrantauthors), and HUJ (on antisemitic rhetoric). In

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2004) was awarded the John Ben Snow Foun-dation Prize by the North American Conferenceon British Studies, for the best book by a NorthAmerican scholar in any field of British studiesfrom the middle ages to 1800. Earlier in the year,it also won the Louis Gottschalk Prize of theAmerican Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.He taught a new course in spring 2006, “TheHistory of Jerusalem.”

Steven Weitzman spent spring 2006 onsabbatical in Jerusalem as a visiting scholarwith the HUJ’s Orion Center for the Study ofthe Dead Sea Scrolls and as a fellow of theWilliam F. Albright Institute of ArchaeologicalResearch. During this period, he completed hisportion of a co-authored history of Jewishculture; authored two essays on the War Scrolland the Samaritans; and advanced an on-goingstudy of the role of violence in the formation ofJewish culture, a sequel to his recentlypublished Surviving Sacrilege: CulturalPersistence in Jewish Antiquity (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2005). Among hisrecent efforts as Director of the Borns JSP,Weitzman helped to launch a new professionalleadership course with support from theProfessional Leaders Project; helped restore theIU-Tel Beth Shemesh Program in Israel; andinitiated a campaign to raise scholarship/fellow-ship money for IU undergraduate and graduatestudents in the field of JS.

We want to take this opportunity to congrat-ulate Marci Shore on her new appointment inHistory at Yale University where she has joinedher husband Tim Snyder. Dr. Shore was a vitalpresence in the Borns JSP and will be missed.

Cover artwork is 19th or early 20th century plaque byTurkish artist David Algranati; appears by permissionof The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Artwork on page 4 from Ketubah, Oran, Algeria,1847, Ket 268. Courtesy of the Library of the JewishTheological Seminary.

Artwork on page 5 from Mishneh Torah by Mosesben Mainmon, Spain, 15th century, ms. R 1618.Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary.

Artwork on page 11 from Haggadah; Scribe: Josephben David Leimpnik, Darmstadt, 1733, ms. 4452a,folio 18r. Courtesy of the Library of the JewishTheological Seminary.

Artwork on page 21 from MS Kaufmann A77 appearsby permission of the Library of the HungarianAcademy of Sciences.

Back cover from The Ashkenazi Haggadah: A HebrewManuscript of the Mid-15th Century, ADD 14672f11b appears by permission of The British Library.

Photographs—Jane Reeves

Design—IU Office of Publications

Printing—Spectrum Press

March, he convened a major conference at IUon contemporary Jewish exile literature, whichbrought together Jewish writers from 7 differentcountries. He is currently editing the conferencepapers for publication as a book on exile litera-ture. He continued to chair the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum’s Academic Committee, andhe sits on the Executive Committee of theMuseum. He is in the fourth year of a five yearPresidential appointment to the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Council, and also continues his long-term service at the IU Press as editor of the IUPress series on Jewish Literature and Culture.

Miryam Segal’s article “Rahel Bluwstein’s‘Aftergrowth Poetics’” appears in the currentissue of Prooftexts. Dr. Segal will be on leavethis coming year, writing and researching atlibraries and archives in New York, Tel Aviv,and Jerusalem. She will be completing her studyof politics and prosody in pre-State Hebrewliterature, and beginning work on a new project.She served as Director of the Modern Hebrewlanguage program during the 2005-2006 year.

Dina Spechler was invited by the U.S.Department of State to participate in a forumof experts on the U.S. and Russia. The foruminvolves scholarly collaboration betweenAmerican and Russian scholars on a policy-relevant topic relating to one or both of thesecountries. Together with her Russian counter-part, Dr. Spechler has been researching theimplications for Russia of EU and NATOexpansion. She has been invited to present theresults of this research on a speaking tour inRussia in December 2006. In summer 2005, sheparticipated in the International Congress ofCentral and East European Studies in Berlin,and in spring 2006, she presented a paperentitled “Competing Tendencies in RussianForeign Policy” at a meeting of the Associationfor the Study of Nationalities in New York. Herongoing research focuses on radical innovationin foreign policy, including the Egyptiandecision to recognize Israel as a state and theIsraeli decision to recognize the PLO as therepresentative of the Palestinian people.

Jeffrey Veidlinger continued as AssociateDirector of the Borns JSP, and was ActingDirector in spring 2006. In January,

Dr. Veidlinger spoke at the plenarysession of the American HistoricalAssociation’s annual meeting inPhiladelphia on “Voices from theShtetl: Yiddish Oral Histories inEastern Europe.” The presentationincluded video clips from AHEYM(The Archive of Historical andEthnographic Yiddish Memories),which Dr. Veidlinger co-directswith Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler. Theproject, funded by the NEH,collects videotaped Yiddish

language interviews with Jews in shtetls andcities throughout Eastern Europe. Dr. Veidlingeralso presented papers at the nationalconvention of the American Association for theAdvancement of Slavic Studies in Salt LakeCity, the “Jews and Russian Revolutions”conference at Stanford University, “The YiddishTheater Revisited: New Perspectives on Dramaand Performance” conference at the Universityof Washington in Seattle, and the Open HistorySeminar at Hebrew Union College in Cincin-nati. At IU, Dr. Veidlinger participated in theWriter Uprooted Conference, the History ofHuman Rights Workshop, the Paul LucasConference in History, the Midwest Historiansof Russia Workshop, and the Joan and SamuelNew Institute in Indianapolis on “Jews andMusic.” He published “Even Beyond Pinsk:Yizker Bikher [Memorial Books] and JewishCultural Life in the Shtetl” in Studies in JewishCivilization. He is also continuing to work onhis current book project, Jewish Public Culturein Late Imperial Russia, which examines themeans by which Jewish voluntary associations,such as drama circles, literary clubs, historicalsocieties, folk music societies and even firebrigades, helped define Jewish cultural identitywithin the Russian Empire. Dr. Veidlingerteaches courses on Jewish and Russian history.

Bronislava Volková’s scholarly interestsinclude issues of emotive language, semantics,and semiotics, as well as implied cultural andpersonal values in literary texts, and issues ofgender and exile. She is the author of AFeminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through CzechLiterature and an edition of Ze tmy zrozená/Born out of Darkness illustrated with her owncolor collages. Her last publication is a twinretrospective CD The Slightest Reminder ofYour Being...(Three Decades of Exile: 1974-2004)/Nejmen˘sí p_ipomínka Tvého Bytí...(T_icet let exilu: 1974-2004), 2005. In summer2006, she taught at the Prague SchoolLinguistics and Semiotics and Philosophy ofLanguage. She is presently working on ananthology of Modern Czech Poetry in Englishand on autobiographical essays on exile.

Dror Wahrman’s recent book, The Making ofthe Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eight-eenth-Century England (Yale University Press,

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JSP FA C U LT Y

James S. AckermanProfessor (Emeritus), Religious StudiesReligion of Ancient Israel; Bible

Joëlle BahloulAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies andAnthropologySocial and Cultural Anthropology of Judaismand the Jews

Nurit Ben YehudaVisiting Lecturer, Jewish StudiesModern Hebrew

Jack BielasiakProfessor, Political Science; Russian and EastEuropean InstitutePolitics of the Holocaust

Judah CohenLou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study ofJewish Culture; Assistant Professor, JewishStudies and FolkloreJewish Music, Art and Culture

Paul D. EisenbergProfessor (Emeritus), PhilosophyJewish Philosophy

Henry FischelProfessor (Emeritus), Near EasternLanguages and CulturesHebrew; Aramaic; Talmud; IntertestamentalLiterature

Halina GoldbergAssistant Professor, School of Music,Department of Musicology19th Century Jewish-Polish Musicians

Susan GubarDistinguished Professor, EnglishHolocaust Literature

Chaya HalberstamAssistant Professor, Religious StudiesHebrew Bible and Midrash

J. Albert HarrillAssociate Professor, Religious StudiesNew Testament and Early Judaism

Jeffrey IsaacRudy Professor of Political SciencePolitical Theory

Amy JacksonAdjunct Faculty, Jewish StudiesProfessional Leadership and the JewishCommunity

Irving KatzProfessor (Emeritus), HistoryAmerican Jewish History

Stephen KatzAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies Hebrew; Israeli Culture; Modern HebrewLiterature

Dov-Ber KerlerDr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies;Professor, Jewish Studies and GermanicStudiesYiddish Studies

Matthias LehmannAssistant Professor, Jewish Studies and HistoryJews in Islamic Lands and Medieval Spain;Sephardic Literature; Ottoman-JewishHistory; 19th Century German Jewry

Nancy LeveneAssociate Professor, Religious StudiesModern Jewish and European ReligiousThought

Shaul MagidJay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in JewishStudies; Associate Professor, Jewish Studiesand Religious StudiesModern Jewish Religious Experience; Hasidism

Herbert J. MarksAssociate Professor, Comparative LiteratureBiblical and Literary Studies

Michael L. MorganChancellor’s Professor, Jewish Studies andPhilosophyJewish Philosophy

Mark RosemanPat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies;Professor, Jewish Studies and HistoryHistory of the Holocaust; History ofAntisemitism; German-Jewish History

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director, Institutefor Jewish Culture and the ArtsProfessor, Jewish Studies and EnglishLiterature of the Holocaust; American JewishLiterature

Bella SapirAdjunct Faculty, Jewish StudiesModern Hebrew

Miryam SegalAssistant Professor, Jewish Studies andComparative LiteratureModern Hebrew Literature and Language

Marci ShoreAssistant Professor, HistoryPolish-Jewish History; Jewish Intellectualand Cultural History in Modern Europe

Bat Zion ShumanVisiting Lecturer, Jewish StudiesModern Hebrew

Dina R. SpechlerAssociate Professor, Political ScienceComparative Foreign Policy; Arab-IsraeliRelations

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Associate Director,JSP; Acting Director (Spring 2006), JSPAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies and HistoryModern Jewish History; East EuropeanJewish History; Russian History

Bronislava VolkováProfessor, Slavic Languages and LiteraturesCzech/Jewish Literature; Czech Linguisticsand Semiotics

Dror WahrmanProfessor, HistoryCultural History; History of OttomanPalestine and Israel

Ayelet WeissLecturer, Jewish StudiesModern Hebrew

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