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FROM the DIRECTORS Looking Forward He Past Year Was Exhilarating for American University’S Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Israel Studies NEWS FROM THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AND THE CENTER FOR ISRAEL STUDIES ■ WINTER 2008 FROM THE DIRECTORS Looking Forward he past year was exhilarating for American University’s Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Israel Studies. When Jewish Studies first emerged at American University in the early 1970s, it refracted Jewish Pamela Nadell, Director, Jewish T civilization through the prisms of religion, history, and Jewish languages and literatures. Few, if any, could Studies Program have anticipated the new directions it would take. Responding to new faculty and student interests in Jewish studies, AU helped lead the way into Holocaust studies and Israel studies. This past year AU continued to further these directions through Prof. Richard Breitman’s new scholarship on the Holocaust, our conference “IsraelBiz@60,” and our ground- breaking exhibit Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel. Now we look forward to a new year. Thanks to the generosity of the Jewish Studies Expansion Project, we welcome to our campus Tatjana Lichtenstein, one of the first Schusterman Teaching Fellows in Jewish Studies in the nation. Russell Stone, Yoram Peri is a visiting professor again, this time as the Dollye and Wolford Berman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies. Director, Center for Israel Studies Finally, we welcome home literature professors Marcela Sulak, who spent last spring in Israel as visiting poet at Bar-Ilan University’s Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program, and Michael Wenthe, who returns from a semester at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Our activities would not be possible without your generosity. We invite you to continue your support for the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Israel Studies, and the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Endowment. With your help, we look forward to advancing Jewish studies and Israel studies in new directions for many more years to come. ■ Adina Kanefield, Deputy Director, Center for Israel Studies Visiting Professor in Israel Studies Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies The center is once again hosting an Israeli visiting professor, Yoram Thanks to the generosity of the Jewish Studies Expansion Project, Peri, thanks this year to the generosity of the Dollye and Wolford the Jewish Studies Program welcomes Tatjana Lichtenstein as a Berman Foundation and the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies. Foundation, and the support of the American-Israeli Cooperative The Jewish Studies Expansion Project, a pilot program aimed at Enterprise. Peri is professor of political sociology and communica- enhancing Jewish studies at underserved colleges and universities tion in the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University, around the country, is supported by a generous where he heads both the Rothschild- grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Caesarea School of Communication and Family Foundation through the Foundation for the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Jewish Culture. AU was one of six universities Politics, and Society. He was political advi- selected from a national competition to partici- sor to the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin pate in this program that expands Jewish and served as editor in chief of the Israeli studies course offerings. daily Davar. Peri has published five books Tatjana Lichtenstein holds degrees from and dozens of articles, editorials, commen- Tatjana Lichtenstein University of Copenhagen and Brandeis taries, and op-ed pieces. His most recent University. Her dissertation in history at the book, Generals in the Cabinet Room: How University of Toronto, “Making Jews at Home: Jewish Nationalism the Military Shapes Israeli Policy, was rec- in the Bohemian Lands, 1918–1938,” looks at the Zionist movement Yoram Peri ognized as one of the “best of the best” by in Czechoslovakia between the world wars, focusing on ways in the Association of American University which nationalism served as a vehicle for Jews’ integration. She has Presses, among others. He is also the author of Brothers at War: The published articles on interwar Zionism and Jews in Czechoslovakia Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Culture War in Israel, which in East European Jewish Affairs and the Simon Dubnow Institute’s received the Prime Minister’s Prize. Peri joins the Center for Israel Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur. 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