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Sunday-Monday, February 21-22, 2016 | Embassy Suites Hotel | Paradise Valley, Arizona | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 2015-2016 Judaism, S cience & Medicine Harold & Jean Grossman SUNDAY | February 21 1 - 1:30 p.m. welcome George Justice, Dean of Humanities | Arizona State University lectures on Jewish thought Hava Tirosh-Samuelson | Arizona State University 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. End-of-Life and America Today: Science, Religion and Culture Can the Bible Be Our Guide?: The Lessons from Job James Ponet | Yale University Who’s Dying? Which Death?: Contested Issues in Jewish End-of-Life Deliberations Jonathan K. Crane | Emory University Eyes Undimmed and Vigor Unabated: a Jewish Reflection on the Anti-Aging Movement Paul Wolpe | Emory University chair and respondent: David Shatz | Yeshiva University 3:30 - 4 p.m. break 4 - 6 p.m. Jewish Law and the End of Human Life Perpetuating Life Artificially: Respirators and the End of Life Jason Weiner | Cedar Sinai, Los Angeles Randi Rashkover Jules Simon Jewish Law Alternatives in the Contemporary Debate on End-of-Life Care George Mason University University of Texas Saul Berman | Yeshiva University at El Paso Jewish Ritual and the End-of-Life Conundrums Richard Address | Union of Reform Judaism-New York Judaism and the New From State to Star: Reason: Reconciling Franz Rosenzweig’s chair and respondent: Carl Feit | Yeshiva University Jewish Learning and the Passage from Political 6 - 7 p.m. dinner break Science of Knowing Philosophy to Philosopher 7 - 8:30 p.m. Keynote: Dying in the Age of Advanced Medicine: Should Doctors Intervene? of Religion Elliot Dorff | American Jewish University noon | September 10 2015 Lattie F. Coor Hall, room 3323 noon | October 1 2015 MONDAY | FEBRUARY 22 ASU Tempe campus Lattie F. Coor Hall, room 3323 8:30 - 10 a.m. Jewish Medical Ethics: Liberal Approaches ASU Tempe campus Preserving Quality of Life toward the End of Life: A Value-Based Approach David Teutsch | Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Understanding Judaism What I have Learned from Dying? in a Pluralistic World: William Cutter | Hebrew Union College-Los Angeles Who is My Neighbor and Who is the Stranger chair and respondent: Philip Cohen | Temple Israel, West Lafayette, Indiana 10 - 10:15 a.m. break 7 p.m. | September 10 2015 10:15 - 12:30 p.m. Jewish Doctors Face Patients: American and Israeli Health Care Systems Temple Emanuel, Tempe A Jewish Oncologist Confronts Mortality: Experiences and Reflections Alan Astrow | Maimonides Hospital Resilience: Facing Terminal Illness Judith Engelman | Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale End-of-Life Decisions: Secular vs. Orthodox Jews in Israel Jewish philosophy is a distinctive, rich and complex intellectual tradition Batsheva Ziff Werman | Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem within Judaism that bridges the presumed gap between “Athens” and chair and respondent: Michael Schwartz | Texas A & M “Jerusalem,” that is, between “religion” and “philosophy.” This lecture series 12:30 - 1:15 p.m. lunch break by internationally renowned scholars explores the interplay of philosophy, 1:15 - 3:15 p.m. End of Life and Pastoral Care “This Is Hard to Talk About”: Preparing Orthodox Rabbis for End of Life Situations theology, political theory and ethics in Jewish philosophy while situating it Michelle Friedman | Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in its proper historical context. Moral Decision-Making at the End of Life: a Jewish Chaplain’s Perspective Naomi Kalish | Columbia University End of Life Care: Balancing the Needs of Patient, Family and Staff made possible with funding from the Harold & Jean Grossman Chair in Joel Kushner | Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles Jewish Studies and support from the Center for Jewish Studies chair and respondent: Joel Ziff | Cambridge College 3:15 p.m. departure jewishstudies.asu.edu/grossman r.s.v.p. online: http://jewishstudies.asu.edu/science coming in 2015-2016 7 8 2014-2015 in memoriam inon Y 10 el a estro Isr estro a M g May his memory and life’s work be a blessing to all of us! of all to work be a blessing his life’s memory and May erin memb re conductor Israeli-born of the death the mourns University State Arizona at Studies Jewish for The Center a Swiss at concert a youth during collapsed He Germany. in worked and who lived Yinon, Israel Maestro forgotten of specialized works reviving the Yinon in Maestro 29, 2015. 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Wednesday, Wednesday, Cutler✡ concertThis settings of poems written by children presents different musical compiled in the book I Never SawButterfly Another imprisoned in Terezin, details TBA of Music Institute for Art & Design, School Herberger and about the Holocaust that utilize extended technology Works musical techniques, other experimental means of expression special thanks to the Cutler✡ Library for their support for more information visit for more musicandtheholocaust.blogspot.com Experimental Music Reacts to the Holocaust Butterflies Do Not Live Here “A wall of sound made from 6,000,000 voices...” wall of sound made from 6,000,000 voices...” “A Music During the Holocaust Music During a series of curated concerts abouta series of curated the Holocaust music and Gil Dori Jess Schwartz Scholar, 2014-2015 organized by Can T Can Auschwitz? After coming in 2015-2016 in coming In May, 2015 the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University (ASU) and Institute of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University held From Galicia to New York: Salo W. Baron and His Legacy, an international research conference commemorating and examining the intellectual legacy of Salo W. Baron. This conference honored and considered the scholarly work of Salo Wittmayer Baron, whose 120th birthday was celebrated on May 26. He was born in Tarnów, Poland and before his departure to the United States, he studied at Jagiellonian Univeristy and University of Vienna. His scholarship was uniquely interdisciplinary, encompassing the entire gamut of Jewish history from antiquity, through the middle ages, to modern times. His erudite, exacting, and insightful analysis has shaped the trajectory of Jewish history in the 20th century and left a lasting legacy.

Conference photographs were taken, and graciously shared for publication, by Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, graduate assistant at above: Michał Galas; Zachary Baker; and David Engel at Galicia Jewish Museum in Jagiellonian University. Kazimierz/Kraków above, right: conference participants in front of the Baron family home in Tarnów right: Jewish cemetery in Tarnów

right: Shoshana Tancer in front of her father’s home in Tarnów below: conference participants at Jagiellonian University 2014-2015 highlights 2014-2015 11 12 2014-2015 JEWISH STUDIES Faculty Publications The faculty and staff of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University express our gratitude to affiliate faculty members Rachel Fuchs and David Kader for their years of dedicated service to the university and the community! We convey our best wishes, following their recent retirements.

Following 32 vibrant years at Arizona State University, Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, Rachel Fuchs became Professor Emerita upon her retirement from a School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies this summer. Professor Fuchs positively impacted the lives of Paul Cassell Laurie Manchester Martin Beck Matuštík her colleagues and students, serving as a mentor and in her roles Religion, Emergence, Holy Fathers, Secular OUT OF SILENCE: and the Origins of Sons: Clergy, Repair Across teaching a variety of courses in French and European history. During Meaning Intelligentsia and Generations her tenure, she served as associate chair of the history department, the Emergence of Modern Selfhood in as Undergraduate Director, and as Interim Director of the Institute for Revolutionary Russia Humanities Research. Among her numerous accolades: in 2014, Professor Fuchs was named Woman of the Year by the Arizona Women in Higher Education; she has served as President of the Society for French Historical Studies; President of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association; and has authored six books on French and European history.

Professor David Kader received Professor Emeritus status this summer, after 36 years on the law faculty at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, and 41 years as a law professor. Professor Kader primarily taught in the areas of criminal procedure, torts, state constitutional law and religion, and the Constitution. Before joining the ASU faculty in 1979, he was law clerk to Justice R. F. Utter of the Washington Supreme Court and taught at Warwick University in England after obtaining his LL.M. from University College London in England. He served as Associate Dean of the law school at ASU from 1980-83, and as the president of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors’ Association from 1996-97 and 1998-2006.

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In spring 2015, 12 students were enrolled, completing their majors in various degree programs (e.g., Spanish, French, German, Japanese) and are enrolled in the course as part of the requirement that they complete at least one senior capstone course. Distinguished Alumnus, David William Foster, is the 2014 The course focuses on forms of cultural production in Latin America marked by or under the aegis of Jewish recipient of the Victoria Urbano Academic Achievement Award. diasporic identity from the late nineteenth century to the present. While Jewish immigrants and Latin Americans This lifetime achievement award of Jewish descent may be found in all Latin American societies, cultural production is found concentrated recognizes Foster’s dedicated work in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. We are investigating essentially cultural versions of in the field of feminist and gender a sociohistorical consciousness, and we range across a broad spectrum of Latin American Jewish texts in an studies and their impact on Hispanic investigation of what forms of production have emerged to represent this important immigrant component of society and culture. He is the first Latin American national societies. male recipient in the award’s 30-year history. “On my first day of class at UW in October of 1958,” he said, “when Novels and other literary works are examined, along with photography and films, with an emphasis on themes, I was 18 years old, I was shocked to learn that a female classmate in motifs, characters that can be identified with what might be called a Jewish consciousness or Jewish sensitivity. Of her mid-30’s had been sneaking out of her house to attend classes particular interest is the study of how this writing interacts with other immigrant cultural production and how it because her husband would not allow her to go to school. That was a interacts with the hegemonic modes of the Hispanic or Portuguese traditions that underlie contemporary Latin determinant moment in my pursuit of gender studies,” explained Foster. American societies. “In six years, from entering UW to obtaining my Ph.D., I had only one woman professor. There were several gay and lesbian professors in In addition to investigating the historical definitions of what the University community and there was information available but no can be called Jewish, including identity politics and the classroom context or research.” resistance to identity politics, we are discussing the several “Receiving this award signals the way in which feminist and gender and different cultural traditions in Latin America pertinent to studies have become a vast enough intellectual and cultural minority and/or immigrant writing. The course is conducted undertaking that we needn’t think of it as something just women do,” in English because the students come from across the degree said Foster. “Similarly,” he added, “Queer studies are not something programs of SILC. just gays and lesbians do.” Foster has worked to demonstrate that both areas of study are central to a post-modern consciousness of lived human experience. “They interrelate with all aspects of our social The goal is for students to take away from the course an existence,” he said. understanding of Latin American immigrant societies and the important role Jewish culture and its institutions There are many levels to Foster’s research and interest in feminism and play in Latin America. They are learning about the basic gender studies. “In Latin America,” he explained, “there is the added dimension of a history of military tyranny which has intersected with sociohistorical framework of Jewish immigration to Latin The Argentine writer, Ana María Shua, spoke at Arizona State America, acquiring a critical and analytical vocabulary for during fall 2014, on being a Jewish woman writer in the context of social institutions and contributed negatively to the quality of human an adequately informed conversation about the social and the Argentine neofascist military dictatorship (1976-83). life … We have to take issues of humanities to the public arena,” said cultural roles Jews have played in Latin America. Foster. “We have to convince our fellow citizens that the humanities opposite page: Sinagoga de la Congregación Israelita Argentina have something to contribute to the debate over public policy issues (a.k.a. Singaoga or Templo Libertad), Buenos Aires (cornerstone and can provide perspective on solving pending social and political Of direct pertinence to the course is an understanding of the laid 1897; major modifications 1932). The principal synagogue in issues.” conflicts between Latin American Christian heritage and the Buenos Aires, located in what was the first Jewish neighborhood of forms anti-Semitism has taken in Latin America. We are also Buenos Aires (now the Tribunales neighborhood) Foster attended the University of Washington from 1958 to 1964 considering concepts relating to major issues such as cultural during which time he earned an undergraduate degree in Spanish, a survival vs. assimilation and the Latin American understandings of cultural diversity. Special attention is paid to master’s in Spanish and Romance Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Romance the interaction between Spanish and Portuguese and the Jewish languages, specifically the important identifying Languages and Literature. power of Yiddish and Sefardí. Finally, the hope is that students will come to understand the importance of Currently in his 49th year at Arizona State University, Foster is a Regents’ considering immigrant cultures as a challenge to the dominant belief of a Luso-Hispanic, Spanish/Portuguese- Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies in the School speaking Catholic continent. of International Letters and Cultures. He has taught and lectured all over the United States, South America and Mexico, authored more Authors examined include Alberto Gerchunoff (Argentina), Marjorie Agosín (Chile), Moacyr Scliar (Brazil), than 50 books and completed countless articles, translations, and Jacobo Timerman (Argentina), Ana Maria Shua (Argentina), and Marcelo Brodsky/Ilán Stavans (Argentina and papers. “It’s a pathological obsession,” laughed Foster describing the pursuit of scholarly writing. He currently has two books under editorial Mexico, respectively). There are approximate 500,000 self-identified Jews in Latin America, with a bit more than review, one on Mexican American urban photography and another on half of them in Argentina, which accounts for the heavy emphasis of Argentina in the course). Films to be viewed Latin American graphic narrative. include Nora’s Will (Mariana Chenillo; Mexico), Lost Embrace (Daniel Burman; Argentina), and The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Caio Hamburger; Brazil). Read the entire article at http://spanport.washington.edu/news/2015/02/20/ distinguished-alumnus-receives-lifetime-achievement-award faculty update 17 18 SABBATICAL ROAMING Martin Beck Matuštík Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies | New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Professor Martin Matuštík is Lincoln Professor of Ethics & Religion, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, During my sabbatical, in October-November 2014, and Affiliate Professor of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. I participated in an in-depth Tibetan Buddhist study of Lamrim ethics and meditation practices at This year’s publication of my book Out of Silence: Repair across Generations Kopan monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. Kopan has brings together a number of themes: ethics of memory, transgenerational been instrumental in bringing Tibetan Buddhism trauma, and possibilities of repair. In 2011 and 2012 I organized two major to the West with an annual November seminar that symposia on Memory and Counter-Memory at ASU. At the end of my attracts some 300 participants from across the globe. sabbatical this past June, I took my book on a tour to Slovenia, Italy, and I have been working on the impact of certain ethical the Czech Republic. I spoke at Prague’s Jewish Museum, the site where the and meditation practices on coming to terms with Nazis planned in 1942-45 to create a museum of the exterminated Jewish personal and social trauma, and sectarian conflict. peoples—a pan-European think tank that would perversely celebrate the The Kopan course was directed by an Australian dastardly Nazi deed. The Prague book event was introduced by Helena professor-monk together with an Israeli monk and Klímová, a psychoanalyst who works with generations of Holocaust a Swedish nun, while Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche survivors and supervises encounters between children of Nazi victims and guided in depth sessions of insight meditation. those of perpetrators. Mrs. Klímová’s husband, Ivan Klima, is a survivor of Terezin camp. My novels and essays were translated into English and other As part of my sabbatical, I spent four days in the Lawudo languages, and my memoir was released last year. meditation cave and retreat center where Lama Zopa lived for a decade before becoming spiritual leader Martin Beck Matuštík’s mother’s food Out of Silence: Repair across Generations is a story of one person’s journey stamp card (Myjava, June 30, 1946) of Kopan. The Lawudo cave is accessible on a remote through three generations and across five continents to find—and heal—a trek in the altitude of more than 13,000 feet on the past I didn’t know existed. I made a dramatic discovery at the age of forty that I was the child of a Holocaust route from Namche Bazaar to the Everest base camp. survivor. I found my mother’s secret hidden in shoeboxes I, myself, had to hide while fleeing Prague’s Communist During my “summer” vacation, I participated in a 20 regime at 19. When I recovered them a decade later, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, they contained her literary day trek to the Everest region, going through Kongma- and personal archives. Shaping my philosophical autobiography for almost 20 years, my research unveiled my La Pass (18,159 feet), one of the three highest Everest mother’s remarkable life—and the truth behind her painful decision to reject her Jewish heritage and keep it circuit passes. My experience of remote beauty and hidden from her family. high altitude solitude under conditions that press human endurance beyond limit offered a unique ethical perspective on matters of lasting importance and, as the devastating Nepal earthquake reminded the world in April, the ephemerality of many things humans take too seriously and many more they forget.

I have been thinking and writing about several new topics, one of which is “spiritual trekking”—a name I coined for strains of non-tourist travel with transformative significance. People used to go on pilgrimages to holy sites but in our post- denominational, interfaith age with lost and phantom limbs of faith and disbelief, even self-professed atheists suffer pangs of hunger for some form of engaged, non-sectarian, sober nomadism. Whether we find them on the ancient pilgrim roads to Santiago de Salamanca, or in the Nubra Valley of Laddakh, or in proximity to the 26,000-foot-high Himalayas where many Israelis spend their extended travel, people everywhere roam again in search of origins, destinies, anchors, dials, coordinates, hidden maps and signs, as if the entire world has become diasporic.

photograph by Martin Beck Matuštík | Kathmandu, Nepal faculty update 19 20 Book Production and Reading Cultures: The 2015 Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book, Philadelphia, May 2015 RACHEL LEKET-MOR Jewish Studies Librarian, ASU Libraries

Keeping abreast of exponentially developing new technologies is one of the greatest, but rewarding, challenges The 2015 Lehmann workshop did not focus on of academic librarianship. No less enjoyable for me, as Arizona State University’s Jewish Studies librarian, is big names or cornerstone manuscripts, but rather taking part in advancements of the discipline itself through professional conferences of national and international on the economical aspects of fragments preserved societies such as the Association for Jewish Studies, the Association of Jewish Libraries or World Union of Jewish in the Cairo Genizah. By examining 11th century Studies. These meetings are usually attended by hundreds of participants who come to expand their knowledge evidence for wages of Hebrew scribers, cost of and share their own research with colleagues, as I have done numerous times. writing materials, techniques used for creating “pocket books” (rolls made from stitched scraps) This past spring, I had the privilege of attending, for the first time, a much smaller and more focused gathering of and Hebrew script and handwriting analysis, scholars who convened to study together with Dr. Judith Olszowy Schlanger, the Medieval Hebrew Paleography and the community of learners gathered around Dr. Manuscript Studies Chair at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) in Paris. An enthusiastic havrutah Olszowy Schlanger had a rare opportunity to of Jewish Studies professors, graduate students, librarians, independent researchers and rabbis participated in take a crash course on Hebrew book production this phenomenal two-day workshop, titled “Cheap Books From The Cairo Genizah: Formats, Texts, and Readers and dissemination in medieval Egypt. Like in Medieval Egypt,” part of the annual Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the inexpensive books made many generations Jewish Book, hosted and sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. later—think Penguin Books’ paperbacks—the portable rolls made for everyday use contained As described in Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s best seller Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of The Cairo good-quality texts: bible commentary, liturgical Geniza (New York: Schocken, 2011), the repository of worn-out Hebrew manuscripts discovered in Old Cairo’s literature (piyutim and personal prayers), but also th Ben Ezra synagogue in the late 19 century is a rich source of information about the life of medieval Jews in the medical texts and responsa; in short, “highbrow” region. The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection at the University of Cambridge, the major research center in the readings that attest to the high literacy level of field, provides access to this treasure trove via its Digital Library. Among the acclaimed authors whose work is those who carried these rolls around, some of documented in this collection—some of it in their own handwriting—are Saadia Gaon (882–942), Maimonides them probably scholars or medical doctors. (1135–1204) and Yehuda Halevi (1075–1141). Some of the sacred texts in the Genizah include early versions of The cheapness of these books only marked core works such as the Jerusalem Talmud or a sixth century Greek translation of the Tanach. The Genizah is also a their production, not their content: the books treasure trove of non-sacred texts: legal documents (e.g. ketubbot), liturgical texts and literary works that shed light had small margins; small spaces between lines, on everyday life of Jews, their languages (e.g. Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic) and customs. An example for such a literary words and letters; text written on both sides; work is the Diwan (in Arabic: book of poems) of the polymath Samuel ha-Nagid (993–1056), the famous Hebrew poor quality writing material and small script. poet who is also known The fact that some of these books were evidently as a Talmudic scholar, do-it-yourself products is even more remarkable, a lexicographer and a attesting to individuals’ ability not only to read general and statesman (in but also to write in Hebrew. Hebrew: nagid) who lived and worked in Muslim Stepping back from Fustat (Old Cairo) into 21st Spain. A newly published century Arizona after this eye-opening workshop, facsimile edition of this I kept thinking about Jewish intellectual life in classic work is available at ASU Libraries. This medieval times and today. The Cairo Genizah beautifully made volume is unintended library mirrors a material culture in solely based on individual which textual exchanges had to be disposed of once they wore out. While these remnants lacked T-S C2.87, Commentary on the biblical Book of Ezekiel pages from the Cairo Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection Genizah that found their the loving, organizing hand of a curator at the time way to different libraries of their disposal, they may tell us the story of their in the world, now reunited production through their materiality, sometimes to reconstruct the earliest with the help of technological aids. Will our own version of this Hebrew deliberately put-together library collections be poetry book, otherwise able to do the same? Can the metadata describing known to us from a late an eBook or eJournal replace the scriber hand? 16th century manuscript, Samuel ha-Nagid, Michael Rands, and Jonathan Vardi. Diwan of Samuel Ha-Nagid: a Geniza Codex. copied over 500 years after the Jerusalem: Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2015, pp. 180–181. author’s death. news from the libraries 21 22 jewishstudies.asu.edu/scholarships celebrating outstanding jewish studies Students April 27, 2015

The generosity of our donors enables You are invited to join us for coffee and dessert as Jewish 2013-2014 Jewish Studies scholarship Studies honors the accomplishments of Jewish Studies degree, and fellowship recipients presented

the Jewish Studies Program to offer celebrating our outstanding students certificate and award recipients and recognizes the benefactors their experiences funded through the a variety of scholarships, fellowships who make these awards possible. generosity of Jewish Studies donors and grants to ASU students at every from left to right academic level. Jewish Studies Celebrates Our Outstanding Students April 18, 2016 | 6:30 p.m. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Director Memorial Union, Cochise Room (228) | ASU Tempe campus Sharath Patil Philip Skorokhodov Benjamin Goldberg Scholarship learn more and reserve your seat Mehmet Volkan Kasikci jewishstudies.asu.edu/celebrate Carli Anderson Cabot Family Scholarship

Great Students Graduate Fellowship

Harold Alpert Memorial Scholarship Elisa Chavez Intensive Modern Hebrew Sonia Minuskin Memorial Awards Jewish Studies Scholarship Fund Critical Languages Institute at ASU Jewish Studies Scholarship The Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism & the Arts Gil Dori * dissertation research: Holocaust-inspired compositions by Israeli composer Arie (Arik) Shapira Morris & Julia Kertzer Scholars Schwartz Scholar

Research, Study & Travel Grant John Horan * Intern/Graduate Exhibit Assistant: Jewish Refugees of Shanghai Schwartz Scholars Schwartz Scholar Kerri Mathew Seymour H. Jacobs Memorial Prize Intensive Modern Hebrew in Jewish Studies Critical Languages Institute at ASU Jewish Studies Scholarship Holly O’Rourke Rabbis Without Borders research project Great Students Graduate Fellowship Norma Owens Intensive Modern Hebrew Critical Languages Institute at ASU Jewish Studies Scholarship from left to right Naomi Telushkin * Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Director of Jewish Studies Creation of a site-specific theater piece interacting with the Anna Cichopek-Gajraj Assistant Professor Jewish Museum of Berlin Great Students Graduate Fellowship Sonia Minuskin Memorial Competition for the Best Undergraduate Research Paper Related to the Holocaust Award Winners Claire Weisberg Amy Jamieson first prize Applications for Jewish Studies scholarships, Intensive Modern Hebrew | | “The Importance of Teaching the Holocaust to Children” fellowships and grants are accepted on an Critical Languages Institute at ASU Christopher Zomaya | third prize | “Anti-Judaism in the Gospels and Early Christianity” ongoing basis. Please visit the Jewish Studies Jewish Studies Scholarship Samantha Jo Buettner Oswitch | second prize | “Antisemitism in Nazi Germany” website for deadlines, eligibility requirements Mr. Harold Minuskin award benefactor and forms. * these students have been asked to present April 18, 2016 at the Jewish Studies Celebrates Our Outstanding Students event Sonia Minuskin Award for Graduate Scholarship on the Holocaust winner Shauna Stein | “Tuvia Bielski: A Moral Leader” 23 24 award-winning paper: “tuvia bielski, A moral leader” The Jewish Law Students rabbis without borders Association (J LSA) at ASU survey Project Shane Ross Holly P. O’Rourke Director of Community Relations, LJSA Great Students Graduate Fellowship

When Arizona State University (ASU) law student The Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) at the Sandra Day Earlier this year, I was Shauna Stein enrolled in a spring course called “The O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University promotes a involved in a study conducted Moral Leader”—taught by local attorney Howard commitment among Jewish and non-Jewish law students toward by ASU Associate Professor Cabot, in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law— serving the legal needs of their respective communities and of of Psychology, Adam Cohen, she never imagined her final paper for the course would the disadvantaged populations. JLSA focuses on Tikkun Olam or in conjunction with Rabbis be an award-winner. “healing the world” and achieving social justice through utilizing Without Borders, designed our ability to promote and encourage action, by raising awareness to discover how participation Shauna selected Tuvia Bielski—a Jewish partisan in pre- about international and domestic human rights, and by helping in High Holidays services war Poland, responsible for saving more than 1,200 Jews those in need. influenced several psychological during the Holocaust—as the subject of her research outcomes, such as gratitude, and writing. Upon completing her paper, she forwarded Each year, JLSA conducts educational activities designed to inform belongingness, religiosity, satisfaction with life and a copy to her former professor, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, members of the organization and the Greater Phoenix community hope. We were interested in determining how these Director of Jewish Studies at ASU, who subsequently about the legal needs and issues confronting Jewish communities. variables of interest changed over the period of shared it with Harold Minuskin. Furthermore, JLSA seeks to promote and encourage full the High Holidays, and whether that change was participation and equal opportunity for women, third world, and differential for people who attended High Holidays In 2009, Mr. Minuskin generously established the Sonia disadvantaged persons in all institutions of society. For example, services versus people who did not. We found that, Minuskin Memorial Endowment at the Center for last year, JLSA was honored to host Professor Marcie Lee, who in general, after the High Holidays, participants Jewish Studies at ASU, in honor of his mother, Sonia, teaches and lectures widely on a variety of subjects ranging from had higher life satisfaction and lower fear of sin. We who was also Jewish partisan during World War II. After the Hebrew Bible to LGBT issues and rights, to speak about the also found that self-report of religiosity increased reading Shauna’s paper on moral leadership during the comparison between Jewish law and American law. This semester, after the High Holidays. Additionally, when Holocaust, Mr. Minuskin contacted her to discuss it and we are thrilled that Dr. Amy Laff, a social justice advocate and comparing results across denominations, we found share his appreciation with her. Stanford law alum has agreed to speak to our students. We will that participants identifying as Conservative Jews also be opening the event up to Hillel undergraduate students who had higher ratings of several facets of religiosity, Soon afterward, to her great surprise, Shauna also are interested in a career in law and who may have an interest in and also had lower ratings of hope and satisfaction received word from the Jewish Studies Program at ASU Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Director of Jewish Studies; social justice. with life. that she would receive the Sonia Minuskin Award for Harold Minuskin, founder of the Sonia Minuskin Memorial Endowment; and Shauna Stein, recipient of the Sonia Judaism is more than an identity; it’s a philosophy that encompasses Graduate Scholarship on the Holocaust in recognition Minuskin Award for Graduate Scholarship on the Holocaust of her research. “Incredible!” she enthusiastically the principles of justice and fairness central to our legal system. reacted to the news. Following the conferral prizes to the Rabbinic scholars have wrestled with complicated questions for thousands of years, applying principles of old to contemporary winners of the Sonia Minuskin Memorial Competition challenges. As lawyers, we will carry on the spirit of this tradition. of the Best Undergraduate Research Paper Related to the Holocaust, Shauna’s award presentation culminated I was pleased when Dr. Cohen contacted me the annual “Jewish Studies Celebrates Our Outstanding about being a part of this project, and found the Students” event on April 27, 2015. experience to be interesting and educational. In meeting with Dr. Cohen and communicating Shauna is co-president of the Jewish Law Students with the researchers at Rabbis Without Borders, Association at ASU and a Valley Beit Midrash I constantly learned answers to questions about Leadership Corps fellow. She has kept in contact with religiosity that I had not considered. I was also able Mr. Minuskin, and plans to write a future paper on his to utilize skills I have acquired in psychometrics mother, Sonia’s, moral leadership. and measurement, areas I had studied objectively but had very little “hands-on” experience with, learn about the Sonia Minuskin Memorial Endowment before conducting this research. The project for Jewish Studies, at jewishstudies.asu.edu/minuskin increased my understanding of religion and members of Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) allowed me to translate theoretical quantitative research into applicable skills. My involvement For further information about JLSA, or to discuss partnership in the project greatly benefited me by giving me opportunities with us, please contact me at [email protected]. more experience in applying advanced methods to substantive areas of research, specifically the study of religiosity. outstanding students 25 26 Financial, Cultural and Political Difficulties of Muslims and Jews: Challenging the Dynamics of Hate Microcredit Lending in Israel & the Palestinian Eyal Bar Territories Doctoral Student, Political Science SHARATH PATIL Jess Schwartz Memorial Scholarship Thanks to the generous contribution of the Jess Schwarz Memorial Scholarship, I was funded to complete my field Last Fall, I had the privilege of attending the “Muslims and Jews: research for my honors thesis “The Financial, Cultural, and Political Difficulties of Microcredit Lending in Israel Challenging the Dynamic of Hate” conference hosted by the and the Palestinian Territories.” During my undergraduate studies, I grew fascinated with the topic of microcredit Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. As part lending. I was amazed by how extending credit to the world’s poorest people can lead to incredible benefits to of a select group of four Arizona State University graduate students, those families financially and socially, and can even have butterfly effects that benefit everyone environmentally I had the opportunity to observe and participate a number of public and politically. panels and closed-door sessions. In my view, these fora served two functions that should be encouraged in the academic community Despite the growing popularity and apparent effectiveness of this method to fighting poverty, I remained and beyond. unconvinced from my academic study. It seemed like too easy a solution. So, with the help of the Schwartz Family and Jewish Studies Program at ASU, I was able to visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories to meet with, and First, they provided a space for public education on critically interview, microcredit lending organizations in that region. This was a meaningful and extraordinary experience important social and political issues facing the increasingly global because I was able to see firsthand the challenges and successes of this business model, and become intimately community. As rhetoric of East vs. West, Islam vs. Modernity, and familiar with the mechanisms and work involved. Jewish vs. Arab pervade our daily lives through techno-mediatic dispersal, few have the time to step back and carefully analyze the I chose Israel and the Palestinian Territories as my geographic case study because of the implications of these narratives and the interests they serve. With difficult economic, political and military complications, as well as the entrepreneurial the participation of NAU faculty, undergraduates were invited to and industrial promise of that region. I learned a great deal during my time there. I attend panels and ask questions to the invited speakers. The students concluded that, from my experience, microcredit lending is, in fact, an effective, new appeared highly engaged, asking questions that demonstrated their method to combat poverty (though it is not without its faults). I learned that it is a concerns and genuine interest. way to help people help themselves, and also that the risk is relatively minimal, while the benefits are numerous. Second, they created an atmosphere where academics and social activists could share their knowledge and experience on the topic The most interesting find of my research was that women make better borrowers of identity politics, particularly those relating to Judaism and Islam. than men, and also that economic vibrancy is one important pathway towards peace The conference demonstrated the best of what public educational in that beautiful yet conflict-ridden region. Perhaps more importantly than anything institutions and the American academy can achieve when bringing else, I was given the rare and meaningful opportunity to get to know the struggles together scholars from various cultural backgrounds and areas and challenges of most vulnerable people of both Israel and Palestine, and realize how of expertise. Several disciplines were represented, including similarly beautiful we all are as people despite our national and religious differences. sociology, history, law, social psychology, politics and religion. Participant backgrounds were similarly diverse, including Turkish, Arab, Jewish, and Anglo-American and a fair balance of male and female attendees.

The conference was designed to be a small and intimate gathering, both in the number of participants and the planning. To break the monotony of the typical conference experience, the presentations were kept short, with several coffee breaks, a group dinner, and a social function at Professor Bjorn Krondorfer’s home. The formal and informal session struck a balance that allowed creative thinking and unique conversations to emerge. I would encourage and would be pleased to see more iterations of the conference, bringing in new perspectives, and bridging diverse communities to help achieve sustainable solutions to political antagonisms through free and open dialogue. outstanding students 27 28 outstanding students: Summer Hebrew Studies forfunding mysummerstudy. I am trulygrateful to the Department of Jewish that Iwouldhavemissedjust afewmonthsago. a reference able to read awordorunderstand goals, andIcontinuetobe delighted whenIam but deeplyrewardingexperience. Imetmy thejoke!Allinall,itwasanintense understand with hisdog,namedKelev. Iwassoexcitedto and oneofdinerstoldastoryaboutgrowingup was havingShabbatdinnerwithsomefriends, favorite momentsofthesummerwaswhenI silent conjugations andrepeatedlyfailedtonoticethe appreciated asIsloggedthroughunfamiliarverb is patientandresponsivefunny, qualitiesI and writinginHebrew!Dr. Limmer, ourprofessor, in the Critical Languages Institute, I was reading by theendofmyfirstweekfirst-yearHebrew hadn’t mastered both, we were in trouble. So, we learnedtheblock Alef-Bet.Bydayfour, ifwe we learnedthecursiveAlef-Bet.Ondaythree, the end ofthe seven-week course.On day one, exhaustedasIwasat rarely beenasmentally three (ormore)hoursofhomeworkaday. Ihave job. Four hoursofclassaday, fivedaysaweek, we wouldneedtotreatthecourselikeafull-time warned thattogetthemostoutofexperience, it. I met thesegoals—andthen some! We were its natural rhythms sound like,and how to read by learninghowHebrewisconstructed,what were tocomplementmypracticeofJudaism to studyfirst-yearModernHebrew. Mygoals I enrolledintheCriticalLanguagesInstitute Jewish StudiesScholarship, CLI Kerri M religious groupsinIsrael,andfood. aspects Israeliculture,includingmusic,sports,therelationshipsbetweenvariousculturaland feedback foreach student.InadditiontolearningHebrewlanguage,studentslearnaboutvarious The smallclasssizeandlongsessions allow foralotofindividualattentionandconstant year languageclassinsevenweeks,usingaslittleEnglishpossible.It’s intensiveandeffective. ThatCritical LanguagesInstituteattheMelikianCenterASU. coursecoverstheentiretyofafirst firstyearHebrewforthe For thepasttwosummers,shetaught at theUniversityofArizonain2009. East, Bible,history, andarchaeology duringgraduateschool, andbegan teaching modernHebrew with aresearch focusonIronAgeLevantinejewelry. Shebeganteaching coursesontheMiddle Abby LimmerreceivedherdoctorateinNearEasternStudiesfromtheUniversityofArizona2007, Criti ABB in the unfamiliar words. One of my ayin intheunfamiliarwords.Oneofmy Y cal L a IMMER t lan he w g u ag es institute h institute es 29 Abby Limmer, CLI Hebrew Instructor; Kerri Mathew; Rabbi Barton LeeAbby Limmer, Barton CLIHebrewInstructor;Kerri Mathew;Rabbi e b w re instru c tor salad, and served humus, pita bread,cheese anddeliciouscookies. We andservedhumus,pita salad, share awonderfulmemoryofunity, joyandshalom. of my course of study washostingHebrewnight. We openedthe event by singingfoursongs in Hebrew. We made Israeli Oneofthehighlights I amthankfulformyclassmates whoweresuccessfultobecomewonderful,Hebrew conversationalist. and confirmedmypassion. how itisusedtoday. Abbymade learningthelanguagefun!Each dayaddedagreaterappreciation wisdom andknowledgepouredintomedailyregarding Hebrew’s past,someofitschallenges and I amthankfulforthepatienceandgracedemonstratedby myinstructor. Itwasanhonortoreceivethe increase fromonewordtoasentenceinshorttime. an asIsaw the soundsassociatedwitheach; anditalsogave meanadmirationforconversation of the vowels and language. Itguided me in repetitive Aleph-Bet drills; released understanding I amthankfulforthetoolsinmyModernHebrewbook thatlaidthefoundationtolearnthislovely for ourclasses,itwasthisintimatesettingoffivestudents thatgavemehope. other studentswhohadapassiontolearn,ormaster, aninternationallanguage.When wedeparted CLI Hebrew The firstdayof 101 wasJune1,2015. Itwasamazingtobeaparticipantwithover 100 Jewish StudiesScholarship, CLI fall of2016, Iwillforeverbethankfultothe Melikian Centerforprovidingthebasics! Hebrewcourseonaregularbasis.Thoughthe ASU IwillsurelysurpassmycurrentHebrewlevelbytheendof mystudiesinthe Whether itisaskinglocalsforhelpwiththebusroutesororderingdesiredfalafeltoppings, Iamusingtheinformationfrom class andsubsequently, inHaifa. myyear-longstay the bestpossiblepreparationformycurrentlanguage summer course through the Melikian Center provided two yearsofpriorinstruction.Unquestionably, my similar Hebrew level—though with generally one to the lower-intermediateclasswithclassmatesata the UniversityofHaifa.Uponarrival,Iwasplacedin Studiesat my master’s degreeinIsraeli/Holocaust to Israelcompleteamonth-longUlpanandbegin completion of the seven-week course at ASU, I went Hebrew.comprehension ofelementary Following the thorough introduction—and mostimportantly—our and exemplaryinstructionensuredourrapid attention whiletheclasslength,intensivestructure, The smallclasssizeprovidedampleindividual Hebrew courseattheCriticalLanguageInstitute. verb tense.Icannotspeakhighlyenoughaboutmy ofsentencestructure,grammar,understanding and alphabet, Ilefttheseven-weekcoursewithabasic the classwithmerelyaknowledgeofHebrew Languages InstituteattheMelikianCenter. Entering Intensive Hebrew course offered through the Critical in theSpringof2015, IattendedArizonaState’s After graduatingfromNorthernArizonaUniversity Jewish StudiesScholarship, CLI N C la or ire Weisber ma Owens g Romaine, DirectoroftheCriticalLanguagesInstitute Claire Weisberg; DirectorofJewishStudies;Kathleen Evans- HavaTirosh-Samuelson, 30 artistic ASU students . all academic levels . all majors . all campuses Memory, Heroism and Dr. Janus Korczak elizabeth schildkret The Joan Frazer Memorial Award Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts at Arizona State University for Judaism & the Arts On April 15, 2015, five actors and 45 audience members gathered in a small theatre in the Nelson Fine Arts Center to celebrate Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, through a staged reading of the play, Dr. Korczak and the Children by Erwin Sylvanus. The performance was made possible by the Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts, and part of a larger project I designed to examine memory and heroism in the holocaust through theatre and education. The play, Dr. Korczak and the Children, tells the story of Janus Korczak, a Polish and Jewish pediatrician and author who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. While Korczak is relatively unknown in the United States, he is hailed as a hero in Poland and Germany because, when offered his freedom in exchange for delivering the children in his care to an extermination camp, Dr. awards of up to $1,500 support students’ Korczak refused the offer. Instead, he accompanied his sixty-six children all the way to the gas chamber. The play, Dr. Korczak and the Children deals with this decision. In the play, five actors—three men, a woman, and a child—debate how best to tell Dr. creation of original, artistic expressions combining Korczak’s story. They argue with one another, add scenes and delete scenes, and debate what constitutes the truth. This constant elements of Judaism and the arts negotiation raises the question, how do we collectively remember the holocaust? With the help of the Jewish Studies Program, I curated a performance in honor of Yom Ha’Shoah to ask this question. The Joan Frazer The performance began with a lecture by Dr. Erika Hughes, and Memorial Award for culminated in a discussion with audience members about the nature of memory and heroism. The evening concluded with Judaism and the Arts audience members sharing their own stories and memories. The is a designated scholarship of actors and I also took the play into local high schools and taught the Jewish Studies Program workshops around its content. In these workshops, students at Arizona State University, explored the question, how do we remember something that and a fitting tribute to the didn’t directly happen to us? memory of Joan Frazer, who deeply loved all aspects of This performance and the workshops that surrounded it the arts. This special award examined collective memory. In the performance, I introduced offers financial assistance to the concept of collective memory with a story from my childhood: students in the arts at ASU and enables student artists to share When I was young, my family moved from Rochester, New York, their work with the Jewish to Danville, Kentucky, a small town right in the heart of the community. Award funding is Bluegrass State. I remember feeling like a stranger in a foreign designated through the Jewish land. To my classmates, everything about me was new and Community Foundation of different, from my accent (on my first day of school, someone 2013-2014 Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts at Arizona State University asked me if I was from London), to my family’s traditions. For award winners. From left to right: Joseph Finkel; Elizabeth Schildkret; Garret Laroy Johnson Greater Phoenix. many of the students in my first grade class, I was the first Jewish person they had encountered. When my teacher found out that purpose we celebrated Hanukkah, she asked my father to come in and give This award provides students at Arizona State University with funding to support the creation of original, artistic a presentation on the holiday. He came with the menorah that expressions combining elements of Judaism and the arts. It promotes creativity, thoughtful consideration of Judaica, has been in my family for five generations, and I felt so proud. At and encourages students in the arts to become involved in Jewish learning and to showcase their talents in a public the end of his presentation a teacher’s aide asked, “But when do presentation. you celebrate the birth of Jesus?” At the time, I didn’t understand Dr. Korczak and the Children performance at Nelson Fine Arts Center exactly why this question made my father uncomfortable. I don’t photographs courtesy of Erika Hughes eligibility and application criteria remember how he responded, but I do remember the question • Individual and group projects are considered for this award. being asked, and the mood in the room immediately changing. • Applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students of any major, enrolled at Arizona State University during the entire scholarship process (application through presentation of completed project). My family discusses this incident from time to time. We remember it because it defines us, in a way. The telling of stories is a • Proposed projects must explore a Jewish theme, and any form of artistic expression may be considered. powerful tool for memory. For my family, retelling this story is a performance of collective memory. On April 15, we remembered the Holocaust through Erwin Sylvanus’s play, Dr. Korczak and the Children. This play is, at its heart, an exercise in collective memory. The actors tell a story of heroism in the face of tragedy, and through this, invite us, the audience, submission deadline: Friday, November 20, 2015 to remember together. But Sylvanus does not include in his script instructions for how we should engage with this memory. That is up to us. This project invited adults and youth to remember together, and to examine what we remember when we remember full award details and application form the Holocaust. While we did not necessarily answer this question—perhaps it is unanswerable—the act of posing it is, in itself, jewishstudies.asu.edu/frazer an important act of remembrance. How do we collectively remember the Holocaust? It is a question I intend to continue to ask. outstanding students 31 32 Embracing Jewishness in Contemporary Composition: Alchemy, Feedback and Alvin Curran’s Crystal Psalms, A Case Study Technocracy in Richard Joseph Finkel Teitelbaum’s Golem: an Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts at Arizona State University interactive opera GArrett Laroy Johnson My research for the Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts focused on a living American composer Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts and performer: Alvin Curran. Thanks to this generous award for which I am grateful to the Frazer family, I was at Arizona State University able to make a research trip to Oakland, California to access unpublished sketches and recordings of Curran’s letters and notes in the archives of Mills College. This is the place where Curran was the Darius Milhaud Professor of Composition. The materials I studied granted me more insight into Curran’s work and have given me a more With the support of the Joan Frazer Memorial Award for refined understanding of his music. I was fortunate to meet faculty at Mills College who know Curran: professors Judaism and the Arts, I conducted research investigating Maggi Payne and David Bernstein. Crucially, I have also communicated with Curran. My research trip was fruitful, Golem: an interactive opera (1990-92), a musical work by as I have uncovered new information about Curran’s Jewish-inspired works. Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (b. 1939). Teitelbaum is a secular Jewish experimental musician who has achieved renown as Musical modernism and the avant-garde have always captivated Curran. He is one of many Jewish composers a pioneer of intercultural music, live electronics, as well as interested in discovering new artistic territories and in exploring Western music of the past as well as his Jewish his work with biosensors. Among his well-known works is heritage. Born into a Yiddish-speaking family in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1938, Curran has embraced many a cycle of pieces which draws on the Jewish myth of the musical traditions. He studied composition at Brown University and earned a master’s degree in music at Yale golem of Prague. Inspired by a visit to the tomb of the University in 1963. Curran then moved to Rome in 1965, where he earned a living as a pianist and studied with A Musica Elettronica Viva: Alvin Curran, Caspar, Edith Schloss, golem’s supposed creator Rabbi Loew, Teitelbaum explored Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi. Around the same time he co-founded Musica Elettronica Viva, a new music Richard Teitelbaum, Barbara Mayfield, Nicole and Frederic Rzewski this myth in five pieces. In the last of these, Golem: an in Piazza Navona, 1967. photo by Clyde Steiner group dedicated to experimental and live-electronic improvisation. interactive opera (1990-92), Teitelbaum employs an array of acoustic and electronic instruments as well as video In his childhood, Curran learned from letters written by his family’s relatives in Latvia about the dire situation shofars evoke ancient Jewish traditions: the prayers elements to evoke the narrative of the Golem myth. A work in Europe. When the correspondence stopped, Curran gradually realized that his relatives might have suffered a of Yemenite Jews at the Western “Wailing” Wall unexplored in scholarly circles which expresses Teitelbaum’s horrific tragedy. Being raised in a primarily secular household, it would not be until the 1980s when he and many suggest Jewish traditions in the Middle East; the Jewish identity, Golem: an interactive opera draws parallels other American composers of Jewish extraction—among them Steve Reich, Richard Teitelbaum and John Zorn— chanting of famous East European cantors taken between its anecdotal source materials and the ever- would begin to openly embrace their Jewish heritage. At that time there were many events and discussions that from old sound archives recall Jewish musical evolving wicked problems of modern technologies. shed new light on the Holocaust in both Europe and the United States. heritage in Russia. He also used recordings of children in a Roman Jewish orphanage, his niece My research culminates in a paper, which takes a close look Curran’s composition Crystal Psalms (1988) represents one of his earliest works incorporating Jewish elements singing her Bat Mitzvah prayers, his father singing at Golem: an interactive opera and shows how Teitelbaum th and is a Holocaust-based piece written for the 50 anniversary of Kristallnacht. It advocates for an awareness of in Yiddish at family gatherings, and sounds of portrays the golem story in music and how this work relates all crimes against humanity. ship horns, trains and breaking glass. to his Jewish identity. I am currently submitting the paper to various academic periodicals for publication. Crystal Psalms is a concerto for musicians of six nations (Denmark, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Austria). The significance of this work lies in its stream- It is simultaneously mixed and performed as a live radio concert. This composition was broadcast throughout of-consciousness recollection of the sonic a large portion of Western Europe environments of Jewish traditions in Europe, the on October 20, 1988, and brought Middle East, and the United States, in its sonic together through radio over three remembrance of the “Night of the Broken Glass,” hundred musicians who did not and in its attempt to reunite European cultures. know each other, but performed as a unified ensemble. In this work This is only a brief overview of the research Curran wove a tapestry of live- outcomes that the Joan Frazer Memorial Award performed and recorded sounds. has enabled me to produce. I will certainly pursue He borrowed excerpts from many more questions and projects related to this musical works by early Baroque topic. I plan to submit paper proposals on this Jewish composers, excerpts from research to professional conferences and an essay compositions of Jewish liturgical to a few academic journals. Alvin Curran is one th music of the 19 century. Further he of the most fascinating Jewish composers of the composed passages for quartets of past and current centuries, and through further strings and winds, one percussionist scholarship, I will bring more awareness to his and one accordionist. The pre- artistic work. recorded sounds can also be heard “This event—for me a very special form of human artistic collaboration—now exists, alongside the memory of the inhuman pogrom of 1938 that inspired it. One can only wish that it had been in Crystal Psalms and point to many otherwise, that instead we could be remembering and celebrating some noble acts of humanity aspects of Jewish life: the sounds of and love.” - Alvin Curran outstanding students 33 34 The Ana and James melikian Collection james s. melikian Community Member and Rare Books Collector Friends of Jewish Studies understand knowledge is inseparable from identity formation, and knowledge transforms the present and the future. My wife Ana, and I, have been collecting antique bibles, manuscripts Jewish Studies at Arizona State University offers critical inquiry, and artifacts for just over 10 years. Elements of our collection can be viewed online at MelikianCollection.com. The site features inspired teaching, and inventive engagement, and helps transform examples of some of our earlier acquisitions from a variety of cultural life in metropolitan Phoenix by offering a model of life-long cultures—many of these pieces have been displayed in museums around the United States and Europe—and include the first learning through adult education courses, lectures and exhibits. complete Jewish bibles in Yiddish and Ladino. Friends of Jewish Studies investments support a uniquely In February, 2015, I started a small collection of manuscripts and documents focusing on the Jewish communities of India. interdisciplinary unit. 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front cover art Janusz Korczak Monument Monday, February 1, 2016 Pomnik Janusza Korczaka 2016 Albert & Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence Warsaw, Poland Anti-Semitism on 2014-2015 Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts at Arizona State University College Campuses recipient, Elizabeth Schildkret developed “The Lynn Rapaport Holocaust Remembrance Day Project: Examining Henry Snyder Professor of Sociology, Pomona College Heroism and Memory in the play, Dr. Korczak and 7 p.m. | Cutler✡Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center the Children with High School Students” with her award. Professor Rapaport is the author of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Created around the play, Dr. Korczak and the Identity, and Jewish-German Relations— Children, the project examined heroism and which won the 1998 Most Distinguished memory in the Holocaust through the life of Dr. Publication Award in the Sociology of Janusz Korczak, and included a performance Religion from the American Sociological event (talk, staged reading and post-show save the date Association. She is currently working on a workshop), and culminated in two weeks of in- project about the portrayal of Holocaust in school workshops at local high schools. American popular culture from the 1940s to present day. applications for the next award cycle will be accepted September 1 - November 20, 2015 event registration, maps & additional information available online jewishstudies.asu.edu/eckstein jewishstudies.asu.edu/frazer