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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Center for Jewish Studies 2015-2016 annual newsletter On behalf of the Center for Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University (ASU), 2014-2015 ART PROGRAMS welcome to a new academic year (2015-2016). We wish the faculty, students and Friends of Jewish Studies a Jewish Studies works collaboratively with the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in supporting educational, artistic projects productive and creative new year. The center's 2014-2015 academic year was most successful, and we could not on campus. have done it without the wonderful Jewish Studies staff: Ilene Singer (Assistant Director) and Dawn Beeson (Coordinator Senior). I am deeply grateful for their dedication and hard work on behalf of Jewish Studies. “Dancing in Jaffa” | October 30, 2014 Film screening documenting ballroom dancing as a way to bridge between Jewish and Muslim children in Jaffa. Together, the Center for Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies Program continue to offer exciting programs benefitting “Shifting Sands: Recent Videos from the Middle East” | September 9 - November 29, 2014 the discipline of Jewish Studies; the ASU community of faculty and students; Friends of Jewish Studies; and This exhibit at the ASU Art Museum featured videos by four international artists—including Israeli artist, Yael Bartana—who use film cultural life in metropolitan Phoenix. Following are summaries of our activities in the previous academic year and video to explore the Middle Eastern desert as a site charged with meaning. and plans for the forthcoming year. 2014-2015 MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST ERA 2014-2015 RESEARCH CONFERENCES Recovered Voices, a program of chamber music | March 29, 2015 Healing: The Interplay of Religion and Science | October 26-27, 2014 In collaboration with The OREL Foundation and Arizona Opera, the continued exploration of Jewish music of the Holocaust era The Center for Jewish Studies continues its involvement and contribution to the discourse of religion and science. The featured Student Artists of the Colburn Conservatory, Los Angeles, at the Arizona Opera Center, celebrating music by Gideon Klein, annual Judaism, Science & Medicine Group (JSMG) conference was held at ASU, and focused on “Healing: The Interplay Bohuslav Martinu, Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ulmann. of Religion and Science.” The keynote was delivered by Dan Sulmasy. Presenters included: Teodoro Forcht Dagi; Jonathan K. Crane; Michal Raucher; Alan Astrow, M.D.; Rabbi and Rector Elliot Dorff; Alan Mittleman; David Shatz; Neil Wenger, For the coming academic year the Center for Jewish Studies has planned the following activities. Please refer to the calendar on M.D.; Cathie-Ann Lippman, M.D.; Michael Schwartz, M.D.; and Paul Mittman, M.D. the following pages for additional details. From Galicia to New York: Salo W. Baron and His Legacy | May 26-29, 2015 2015-2016 RESEARCH CONFERENCE The Center for Jewish Studies continued its collaboration with the Institute of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Health, Mortality and Morality: Jewish Perspectives | February 21-22, 2016 Kraków, Poland, where we held an international research conference to commemorate and assess the legacy of Salo W. The seventh annual conference of the Judaism, Science & Medicine Group (JSMG), co-sponsored by Valley Beit Midrash, will be Baron, the most important Jewish historian in the 20th century. The conference received support from several academic devoted to end-of-life issues. institutions and private foundations. Jagiellonian University Press, in collaboration with Columbia University Press, 2015-2016 GUEST LECTURES will print a volume of the conference presentations and additional essays. We give special thanks to Assistant Professor of History, Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State University, who served on the organizing committee and whose Grossman Lectures in Jewish Thought tremendous efforts ensured the success of the conference. • Judaism and the New Reason: Reconciling Jewish Learning and the Science of Knowing and Understanding Judaism in a Pluralistic World: Who is My Neighbor and Who is the Stranger 2014-2015 GUEST LECTURES Randi Rashkover, George Mason University | September 10, 2015 Harold and Jean Grossman Lectures in in Jewish Thought | February 12, 2015 • From State to Star: Franz Rosenzweig’s Passage from Political Philosophy to Philosopher of Religion organized by Norbert Samuelson, Harold and Jean Grossman Chair in Jewish Studies Jules Simon, University of Texas-El Paso | October 1, 2015 • Sarah Pessin, University of Denver | Rethinking Ibn Gabirol’s ‘Jewish God’: Divine Will, Divine Desire and the Lincoln and the Jews | October 28, 2015 Greek Ground of Unknowing This public lecture by author and professor Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University, is co-sponsored by Valley Beit Midrash. Jewish Argentinian Lecture Series | October 6-7, 2014 Social Justice: Issues to Watch in 2016 | November 12, 2015 | Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Armstrong Hall organized by David William Foster, Regents Professor of Portuguese and Spanish Amy Laff, J.D., Ph.D., Stanford University | organized by the Jewish Law Students Association • Ana María Shua | Cultural Project of the 1976-83 Argentine Military Dictatorship: Imposition and Resistance • Sylvio Fabrikant | Argentine Cumbia Stars and Other Marginal Subjects: A Photographer’s Experience Albert and Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence | February 1, 2016 | Lynn Rapaport, Pomona College • The Holocaust in American Popular Culture | 10:30 a.m. | ASU Tempe campus Race, Class and Neighborhood: Jews and African-Americans in Gotham | February 16, 2015 • Anti-Semitism on College Campuses | 7 p.m. | Cutler✡Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center Jeffrey Gurock, Yeshiva University 2015-2016 COMMUNITY OUTREACH Albert and Liese Eckstein Scholar-in Residence | February 23, 2015 The 2014-2015 Albert and Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence was Kenneth Frieden, Syracuse University. Professor Limmud | January 31, 2016 | Memorial Union, ASU Tempe campus Frieden delivered two lectures: Celebrate Jewish life and learning. • Traveling to Zion and Beyond: Sea Travel, Translation and the Rise of Modern Literature | campus 2015-2016 HISTORICAL EXHIBITS • American Cinema and the Yiddish Tradition | community Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Museum Exhibit | October 18 - December 15, 2015 | Cutler✡Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 2014-2015 COMMUNITY OUTREACH In collaboration with the Confucius Institute at ASU, and the Arizona Jewish Historical Society, the Center for Jewish Studies brings The Center for Jewish Studies promotes adult education on various aspects of Jewish life independently and in to Phoenix an exhibit telling the story of some 18,000 Jewish refugees from Europe, saved from the Nazi regime by migrating to collaboration with other Jewish, educational, and civic institutions in metropolitan Phoenix. Shanghai, China. The exhibit is supported by a generous grant from the Jewish Community Foundation. The opening reception at 5 p.m. on October 18 will be free and open to the public. Reservations required: 602-241-7870. Health and Healing in the Jewish Tradition | November 5, 2014 The center organized this panel with Valley Beit Midrash, and I was pleased to participate as a panelist. Jan Karski: Humanity’s Hero, 1914-2000 | opening reception, January 24, 2016 organized by the Polish Consulate of Los Angeles with the Arizona Jewish Historical Society Judaism, Science and Medicine: How Do They Relate | October 15, 2014 This exhibit tells the story of Jan Karski, the young diplomat-turned-courier for the Polish Underground, who carried an eye-witness Hava Tirosh-Samuelson | ASU Presidential Engagement Program (PEP) lecture | Northern Trust, Scottsdale report of the destruction of the Jews of Poland, to the free world. Limmud AZ | February 8, 2015 2015-2016 MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST ERA A one-day celebration of Jewish life and learning, co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, welcomed more than Arizona Lady | October 7, 2015 400 people from across the state to Arizona State University. The Arizona Opera’s upcoming season includes the performance of this work by Emerich Kálmán, a Jewish-Hungarian composer who fled Europe in World War II, and wrote it as a love letter to his new home, the southwest. This special program featuring Arizona Lady Not on Our Watch | April 13, 2015 and singers of the Arizona Opera will be held at Temple Beth Israel. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Mark von Hagen | Genocide Awareness Week, organized by Scottsdale Community College Teaching the Human Tragedy: the Humanities in the Arts | April 9, 2016 2014-2015 ADULT JEWISH LEARNING An in-service workshop for teachers, and concert featuring Annelies, a full-length choral work based on The Diary of Anne Frank, by From Eastern Europe to the United States: Our Wandering Jewish Ancestors | Tuesdays, October - December, 2014 James Whitbourn. Adult education course taught by Emily Garber, M.A. at the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, in Scottsdale. I wish all of our readers and supporters an exciting and rewarding academic year and thank you for your support of our programs. from the director SEP 10 lecture | on campus Judaism & the New Reason: Reconciling Jewish Learning & the Science of Knowing NOV 12 lecture | on campus Randi Rashkover George Mason University Social Justice: Issues to Watch in 2016 2015 Amy Laff noon - 1:15 p.m. | ASU Tempe campus | Lattie F. Coor Hall, room 3323 12:15 p.m. | ASU Tempe campus | Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Courtroom 115 SEP 10 lecture | community organized by the Jewish Law Students Association at ASU with support from the Jewish Studies Program Understanding Judaism in a Pluralistic World: Who is my Neighbor & Who is the Stranger Randi Rashkover George Mason University DEC 1 concert 7 p.m. | Temple Emanuel | 5801 South Rural Road, Tempe “A wall of sound made from 6,000,000 voices...” 6 p.m. | Tempe Public Library | 3500 South Rural Road, Tempe SEP 10 book reading & signing Electro-acoustic music written in response to the Holocaust, created by electronic means, to be played through speakers. Transgenerational Trauma, Memory & Repair author Martin Beck Matuštík Lincoln Professor of Ethics & Religion 7 p.m.