News fromzerici the Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Israeli Studies Fall 2003

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n this year’s YediAUt you will find information on the extraordinary achievements of American University’s Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Israeli Studies. The Jewish Studies Program Ihas been selected to host the 2004 Biennial Scholars’ Conference in American Jewish History, which will commemorate the 350th anniversary of Jewish life in the United States and is cosponsored with, among others, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. The Center for Israeli Studies marks its fifth anniversary. This milestone presented an opportunity to review our achievements so far and initiate a set of new projects for the next five years, which are explained in this year’s YediAUt (see below ). Pamela Nadell, We are grateful to our readers of YediAUt for their support for AU’s Jewish Studies Program and the Director, Jewish Center for Israeli Studies. There is a donation form on the next-to-last page of this newsletter. To achieve Studies Program our objectives over the next several years, we count on your continuing support and encouragement.

Center for Israeli Studies Launches Curricula Initiative

aving completed its first five years, the Center 1998. September 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq have for Israeli Studies has designed a strategic mis- heightened interest in the Middle East on campuses. sion for its next five: the development of cur- This has led to new tensions about Israel on campuses H across the country. ricula on Israeli Studies. Howard Wachtel, Inaugurated in 1998 by former prime minister The study of Israel is subsumed within Middle East Director, Center for Shimon Peres to commemorate the 50th anniversary of studies programs but almost exclusively in terms of the Israeli Studies the State of Israel, the center dedicated its first five Arab-Israeli conflict. There are 125 Middle East studies years to presenting the creative and intellectual contri- programs in colleges and universities funded by gov- butions of modern Israel to the American University ernment sources, foundations, and private donors. The campus, to the Washington, D.C., community, and by Department of Education, for example, supports 14 extension to a wider audience through its national and Middle East centers and nearly 100 student fellowships international programming. We hosted 10 in-residence (currently at $4 million per year) in a program that Israeli scholars, artists, and scientists; held four confer- started in 1958. About $100 million has been invested ences; sponsored 15 individual lectures; and initiated two in Middle East studies over the 45 years of this funding. student study abroad programs in Israel. (See our Web Our research found that essentially none of this public site for details: www.centerforisraelistudies.org.) Over 20 funding has gone to curricula development on Israel. Inside faculty members across some 15 disciplines are part of The next generation of leaders in the foreign service, ■ Speakers the center, which is also the administrative home for nongovernmental organizations, and international Poet Ronny Someck the Association for Israel Studies—an international pro- organizations is emerging from university without in residence fessional organization that hosts an annual meeting and knowledge of the history of Israel in the Middle East, 5its unique political democracy, its multiethnic character, ■ From the Jewish publishes a journal. We will continue to support this its achievements and contributions in the arts, sciences, Studies Program programming as we embark on our journey in a new direction. humanities, and social sciences. This gap and imbal- ■ Spotlight on Our Today we face new challenges. The security situa- ance in university curricula has been made more appar- Donors tion in Israel is vastly different in 2003 than it was in ent in the past three years of conflict and controversy.

See Initiative page 2 Initiative from page 1 Poet Ronny Someck is 10th In-Residence Israeli AU student interns with M.K. Natan Starting nearly 18 months ago, the center conducted an examination Conversations through of existing curricula on the Middle East, considered how to address the he Center for Israeli Studies hosts Israeli in-residence artists, writers, Sharansky, Minister for Diaspora Affairs Photography wins award imbalance in the teaching about Israel, and arrived at a strategy for and scholars who teach master classes and offer a public program. (See addressing this problem in a way that not only impacts AU’s campus butTour Web site, www.centerforisraelistudies.org, for a complete list.) The The Washington City Paper named the photo exhibition can be replicated across the nation. It has three parts. The Center forlatest, and 10th, is the poet Ronny Someck, who was born in Iraq in 1951, Conversations through Photography, curated by Nella arrived in Israel as a small child, and spent his childhood in an Israeli transit Jason Benkendorf, AU senior, Jewish studies minor, and former president of AU Israeli Studies will: Cassouto (the center’s curator in residence), as one of the top camp for new immigrants until his family moved just outside Tel Aviv. He Students for Israel, studying at Hebrew University in fall 2003, helped organize M.K. • develop new curricula on the modern nation of Israel that has 10 photo exhibits of 2002. Sponsored by the Center for Israeli has worked as a leather goods vendor and an instructor to street gangs. Sharansky’s September speaking tour of the United States and interned out of Sharansky’s components on the nation’s history, multiethnicity, immigration and Studies and the Department of Art, the exhibition was held at Currently he teaches literature at a special high school for dropouts. office in the prime minister’s building. “I consider myself incredibly lucky to have this AU’s Watkins Gallery. In making this award, the paper said: absorption, political system, water and arid agriculture, arts and letters, Someck graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature from the opportunity,” he said. “But I also know that this is just the start of a lifetime’s work in “This collection of documentary photographs by 10 Israeli and economy, and society, extending the themes of the center’s first five University of Tel Aviv. He hosts his own popular radio show and travels, strengthening Israeli-Diaspora relations.” ■ Palestinian artists featured a series of portraits of steely-eyed years by examining the country not only as a nation in conflict but oneas did troubadours of old, all over Israel with a singer who has set many Palestinian career women, unexpectedly colorful images of that has produced remarkable accomplishments in the arts, sciences, of his poems to music. The author of eight books of poetry, Someck has life in the refugee camps, and a wistful documentation of a humanities, and social sciences seen his work translated into 22 languages. modest experiment in cross-border harmony. But the exhibi- • create a Summer Institute on Israeli Studies for university pro- The Fire Stays in Red is his first full-length book in English, translated tion’s clear standout was photo journalist Rina Castelnuovo. fessors, high school teachers, and community college teachers to extendby Moshe Dor, formerly an AU adjunct professor, and AU alum Barbara One of her series captured Palestinian children swimming in the center’s reach beyond the AU campus Goldberg. water covered with an intensely colored film of green algae. Someck writes: “I feel as if I live in a transit station. On the memory • establish a rotating visiting professorship staffed by Israelis who Another features gut-wrenching images of an all-too-common shelves are arranged candies from various cultures, but all of them are will bring to the AU campus and the region the best of Israeli scholars to rite of passage in the occupied territories: young boys posing wrapped up in a local tissue paper. My mother dreams in Arabic, I dream teach in the AU curricula we are developing and participate in the sum- with assault rifles in front of incongruously cheery cartoon in Hebrew and speak in Hebrew, but sometimes, within the Hebrew, I backdrops, taken so that parents can have a martyr photo- mer institute can hear the sound track of a singer like Fairuz conducting a duet with graph if their child is killed in the streets.” In view of the tension surrounding Israel in the Middle East, it is cru-Frank Sinatra or Elvis.” cial that students learn about Israel in an informed, balanced, and compre- ■ hensive framework. The ultimate goal of this undertaking is to open the door to reasoned discussion about Israel on university campuses and to encourage students’ intellectual growth, exploration, and curiosity about Israel as a modern, multiethnic, democratic nation facing many of the same problems as the United States but set in a region of acute conflict. This is a major undertaking for AU’s Center for Israeli Studies that impacts how Israel is taught in universities at a critical crossroads in its Ronny Someck history and evolution. To achieve our goals requires a level of financial A large audience for his support greater than in our first five years. Please send in your contribu- public reading tion with the donation form on the last page of this newsletter and help Algae Carpet, 2000 by Rina Castelnuovo us balance the teaching of Israel in American universities.

chairman, Areivim. He was formerly director general, Lectures Sponsored by the Center for Israeli Studies Shalom Hartman Institute. He is a graduate of Hebrew University in Bible and Jewish history and received a YediAUt is dedicated law degree from Tel Aviv University. to “our teachers and ■ GIDEON DORON >> election he was Itzhak Rabin’s for Jewish Zionist Education); chairman of the their students and the spoke on the results of the campaign strategist and has board, Israel Experience Limited; president and ■ TAL BECKER >> told us about the tribulations of students of their Israeli election and their written 12 books and edited immediate past chairman, Israel Forum; and Israel at the UN in a talk entitled “Israel at the UN: students” down through implications for the Israeli- three volumes. Plaintiff or Defendant?” the generations. Palestinian conflict. Tal Becker holds a law ■ AVRAHAM INFELD >> degree and is legal Professor Doron is past inspired his luncheon audi- adviser to the Jewish Studies Program Center for Israeli Studies president of the Israeli ence in an address entitled Permanent Mission of American University Political Science Association “Challenges Faced by Israel to the United 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW and a graduate of Hebrew Universities in Middle East Washington, DC Nations. He has repre- 20016-8042 University and the University Education.” Avraham Infeld sented Israel at the UN of Rochester. He was twice is currently counsel for in numerous bilateral http://www.american elected to the executive Jewish affairs, Hillel, and and multilateral negotia- against terrorism and the international criminal court..edu/academic.depts/cas/ board of the Inter- its interim director; the tions, including those He was legal adviser to the Israeli delegation during js/js.html national Political Science founder and president leading to the compre- the Middle East Peace Process. Among his many Association. During the 1992 emeritus of Melitz (Center hensive convention awards is the Rabin Prize. Produced by University Publications

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2 3 From the Jewish Studies Program Faculty Notes Richard Breitman, Department of a book entitled The Idea of America in Rita Simon, School of Public Affairs, orty-one percent of Jewish college students Not surprisingly, our faculty’s scholarly reputa- History, is editor of Holocaust and European Political Thought: 1492–Today published three books in 2003: Approaches Amos Perlmutter have taken a Jewish studies course, accord- tions make them widely sought after as consultants Genocide Studies and continues to work on and delivered several lectures on this topic to Pornography: A Comparative Assessment ing to the 2000–2001 National Jewish to an array of projects. Last summer Alan Kraut the declassification of World War II docu- throughout the western United States. (with Richard Procida); Global Perspectives F was consultant to the Department of Homeland ments for the National Archives and Records Arnost Lustig, Department of Literature, on Social Issues: Marriage Award Established Population Survey. But giving courses and teaching students is only one facet of the life of the Jewish Security’s Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Administration. serves as president of the Prague-based and Divorce (with Howard In memory of our former col- studies professor. Outside our campus AU’s Jewish Services for its “U.S. History Guide for Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Nine Gates Festival of Czech-German-Jewish Altstein); and Education the league Amos Perlmutter, American Naturalization Applicants.” He has also just been Business, continues his work on the Israeli Culture. His most recent novel, Lovely World Over (with Lisa Banks). University’s School of Public Affairs studies faculty play major roles in the world of appointed chair of the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island high-tech sector with a forthcoming article, Green Eyes, was named one of 12 notable She also served on the U.S. has established the Amos PerlmutterJewish studies. As leaders in national and interna- History Advisory Committee. Pamela Nadell is con- Award and Research Fund to recog- tional professional associations, editors of journals “Israel’s Silicon Wadi: The Forces behind works of fiction for 2003 by the American secretary of education’s nize the outstanding performance of and book series, and consultants on projects sultant to the permanent exhibition planned for the Cluster Formation.” Library Association. Commission on Opportunity a graduating senior from the School requiring scholarly expertise, our faculty contribute new National Museum of American Jewish History, Rivka Degani, Department of Language Pamela Nadell, Department of History in Athletics: Title IX, on the of Public Affairs in the area of com- to the flourishing of Jewish studies across the to be built on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall. and Foreign Studies, teaches Hebrew. and Jewish Studies Program, published editorial board of two academic journals Gershon Greenberg, Department of American Jewish Women’s History:A Reader. (Gender Issues and Women and Criminal parative politics. United States and throughout the world. She is also deeply involved in the activities Professor Perlmutter was an Philosophy and Religion, visited Germany She is completing a three-year term as chair Justice), and as a member of the board of While Jewish studies scholars join many profes- planned to mark the 350th anniversary of Jewish expert in comparative politics and and Lithuania, where he delivered a speech of the Academic Council of the American the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. sional associations reflecting their specific disci- settlement in America in September 2004. foreign affairs. During his career, he entitled “Nineteenth-Century Reform Jewish Jewish Historical Society and is historical Myra Sklarew, Department of Literature, pline, the umbrella organization is the Association Yet, even these are not all of our faculty’s published 15 books, including The Thought and Religionswissenschaft” at the consultant to the permanent exhibition of published Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish for Jewish Studies (AJS). Its annual meeting brings numerous professional contributions. They deliver Life and Times of Menachem Begin; Jewish Museum–University of Erfurt confer- the National Museum of American Jewish Stories, Essays, Poems and several poems F. D.R. and Stalin: A Not So Grand papers at scholarly conferences and symposia, together Judaic studies scholars in all fields, history ence on Judentumswissenschaft and History. and essays, including: “A Three-Course Meal Alliance, 1943-1945; and The cross the country giving invited lectures, and are and sociology, Hebrew language and literature. AU presented a paper on the 1939 Torah Naomi McNally, Department of for the New Year,” “Writing the Holocaust,” Military and Politics in Modern often interviewed by the press. In sum, service to Jewish studies director Pamela S. Nadell is com- Conference in Vilnius: “The Last Theological Language and Foreign Studies, teaches “4 1/2 Street, S.W.: Grandfather Lost and Times. His career included roles as Jewish studies beyond the borders of American pleting her second term on the AJS board of direc- Declarations of Eastern Jewry before Soviet Hebrew. Found,” and “Teaching the Children,” and member of the Israeli delegation to University constitutes an integral part of the lives of the UN, political advisor to the chief tors, where she is in the midst of a three-year term Occupation.” His recent publications Saul Newman, School of Public Affairs, gave poetry readings at the Politics and AU’s Jewish studies faculty. of staff and high command of the as chair of its Nominations Committee. At the same include: “The Holocaust Apocalypse of is now chair of the Department of Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., the Israeli Defense Forces, advisor to time, she is chairing the Academic Council of the Ya’akov Mosheh Harlap,” Jewish Studies; Government. He continues conducting D.C. Jewish Community Center, and other the Greek government, member of American Jewish Historical Society, the oldest eth- ■ “Jerusalem, Vilna, Chicago: Gedaliah research on the decline of settler national- venues. the Israeli Atomic Energy nic history association in the United States. Russell Bublick’s Wartime Dilemma,” in America ism in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Russell Stone, Department of Sociology, Commission, and author of a weekly Stone, chair of AU’s sociology department, is the and Zion: Essays in Honor of Mosheh Davis, Israel and its impact on resolving disputes continues as administrative officer for the column for the Washington Times. administrative officer of the Association for Israel AU to Host 2004 Biennial Scholars’ ed. Sarna and Lederhendler; “Shlomo between settler and native nationalist move- Association for Israel Studies; is an advising He was a fellow at the Brookings Zalman Unsdorfer: With God through the ments. editor for the Israel Studies series published Institution and the Woodrow Wilson Studies, an international academic association for Conference on American Jewish History Yad Vashem Studies; Center for Scholars and founder and the study of contemporary Israel housed at Holocaust,” “Religious Naima Prevots, Department of by the State University of New York Press; editor of the Journal of Strategic American University. History professor Alan Kraut eptember 2004 will mark 350 years since a Survival among Orthodox Jewish Displaced Performing Arts, completed an evaluation serves on the editorial boards of the journals Studies. His contributions to has just completed a three-year term as president boatload of 23 impoverished Jewish refugees, Persons,” in Thinking in the Shadow of for the Ministry of Education in Israel Israel Studies and Israel Studies Forum; was American University and the world of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. fleeing the long arm of the Inquisition in Hell, ed. Jacques Doukhan. (March 2003) on a proposed change in the a member of the program committee for the community enriched the field of S Alan Kraut, Department of History, was Bagrut exams for dance. She initially 2002 Middle East Studies Association; and is Our faculty are also experienced editors. HistoryBrazil, landed in New Amsterdam, now New York. comparative politics. professor Richard Breitman, Their arrival marks the beginning of American appointed chair of the Statue of Liberty–Ellis worked with the Ministry of Education in also chair of AU’s Department of Sociology. The School of Public Affairs has author of, among other works, Jewish life and has already been recognized by the Island History Advisory Committee; served 1993 to help develop the high school dance He was on two panels at the 19th annual established a fund to perpetuate this as a consultant to the Bureau of Citizenship Official Secrets:What the Nazis United States Senate in a resolution designating major and the related Bagrut exams and meeting of the Association for Israel Studies award and to promote research in of the Department of Homeland Security on supported the recent proposal that would and spoke on panels sponsored by Project Planned, What the British and September 2004 as American Jewish History Month. those areas that animated Professor the revision of the history and government allow students to complete more work in South of the Washington Book Forum and Perlmutter’s own work. Those who Americans Knew, is editor in In June 2004, scholars of American Jewry will portions of the citizenship examination; was their selected dance major. at the Palestine Research Center. want to make a contribution to the chief of the journal Holocaust meet to discuss and prepare for this occasion. the historical advisor on the advisory panel David Rosenbloom, School of Public Howard M. Wachtel, Department of Amos Perlmutter Fund are welcome and Genocide Studies, an inter- American University’s Jewish Studies Program is that issued the report “America’s Challenge: Affairs, had new editions of two of the prin- Economics, published Street of Dreams— to send donations to Office of national, interdisciplinary jour- proud to join the Commission for Commemorating Development, School of Public Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and cipal textbooks in public Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street’s nal on the Holocaust, published in association with350 Years of American Jewish History in hosting Affairs, American University, 4400 National Unity after September 11”; and administration published: First Century and delivered two speeches in the 2004 Biennial Scholars’ Conference on Massachusetts Ave, NW, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. completed his three-year term as president Public Administration: Prague at the Nine Gates Festival of Czech- Washington, DC 20016-8130. PleaseProf. Stone is advising editor of the Israeli Studies American Jewish History. The conference is of the Immigration and Ethnic History Understanding Management, German-Jewish Culture: “Anti-Semitism: New earmark contributions to the Amos series published by the State University of New cosponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society. He published the book Goldberger’s Politics, and Law in the and Old” and “Czech Foreign Policy towards Perlmutter Award, School of Public York Press. Each year the series publishes several Society, the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the War:The Life and Work of a Public Health Public Sector (5th edition), Israel: What Would Help the Roadmap?” He Affairs. books on contemporary Israeli society, politics, andAmerican Jewish Archives, the Library of Congress, Crusader. which also appeared in a was interviewed on these talks in: Pravo history. Currently, it has 65 books in print. Prof. and the National Archives and Records Alan Levine, School of Public Affairs, Chinese translation in 2003, (“Zacal Festival Devt Bran”) and in the Nadell is book review editor for the journal Administration, which are the partners of the spent the year on sabbatical at the Hoover and Personnel Management in Government Prague Jewish community magazine, Ros American Jewish History. Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of Institution at Stanford University working on (5th edition). Chodos (“O Novem Antisemitismu”). ■ American Jewish History. American University looks forward to welcoming the scholars of American Jewry to our campus.

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4 5 Juilliard, then earned a master’s in dance at the University of Wisconsin Spotlight on Our Donors Andean Development Corporation and of the and a PhD from the University of Association of Development Banks of Latin (The Center for Israeli Studies and the Jewish Studies Program would not exist without our dedicated supporters, who are listed at the Southern California. Her family has America. From these positions he has decisively end of this newsletter.We focus this year on Alan Goldner, who played a critical role in launching the Center for Israeli Studies) strong ties to Israel. Her father, contributed to President Toledo’s proposals for Reuben Wallenrod, lived in Israel in innovative financial mechanisms to support his youth and was a renowned democratic governance in developing countries. Comings and Goings from previous page Hebrew scholar and writer. lan Goldner’s sparkling eyes glow their first meeting when he was a senior, after country that served an estimated 5,000 children His enthusiasm, wisdom, and wit will be Although raised primarily in New brighter when he describes his first winter break, at the Tavern and their first date in 2003. He is on the board of the Alexander missed in AU’s Center for Israeli Studies. York City, she grew up bilingual at Blackie’s House of Beef on February 19, Muss High School in Israel, which offers a year Naima Prevots, who recently retired from encounter with Israel in 1983. It was a has worked since 1993 with the Ministry of and went to high school in Israel during the A 1970—even the bottle of wine they shared or semester in Israel for American high school the AU performing arts department, is a real “life-changing experience,” he says. He was Education to help develop the high school War of Independence. Prevots and her husband (Lancers) which he still possesses, carefully students. Both of his children—Rachel, who pioneer in dance education and a true star in “hooked” and has been there at least 50 times dance major and the related Bagrut (final) are both very active in Neve Shalom. the world of dance. She began teaching dance since 1983 to pursue his two primary interests inscribed with the date and the dinner’s signifi- lives in Chicago, and Josh, who made aliya to exams. In 2002 she facilitated a visit by four Her interest in the Center for Israeli Studies at AU in 1967 as a member of the physical edu- in Israel: the Israel Tennis Centers and the cance. Israel in 1997—attended Alexander Muss. officials from China’s elite Beijing Academy to is “natural,” she says and she has played an cation department and immediately began to After various start-of-career positions in the Alan Goldner says he “likes to find niches see dance in the United States, and last year she important role in its development from the out- Alexander Muss High School, as well as family lobby for a performing arts department. Six health and beauty care industry, Alan purchased that can change lives” in his philanthropic was invited as an informal ambassador to teach set. She was instrumental in arranging the Bat and Jewish Federation commitments. He was years later she succeeded in her efforts and a partnership in United Supply Corp. in 1989—a endeavors, which he pursues with the same choreography at the Beijing Academy. She is Sheva dance company as the center’s inaugural introduced to Israel since 1973 has built one of the largest graduate school supplies business—where he is now passion that enlivens all his projects, from a currently a senior Fulbright specialist working event at the Kennedy Center and an in-residence and Jewish affairs dance programs in the country. She created the on a three-year project involving Germany, master class visit of two performers-choreogra- primarily through his president. A warehousing and distribution com- 1961 Corvette restoration to his collection of Wolftrap–American University Academy for the Holland, Belgium, and Portugal, sponsored by phers from the Bat Sheva company. As part of wife, Ellen, whose pany, United Supply services over 600 college sports memorabilia. When asked why he has Performing Arts, which she headed until 1981, the European Union. The goal is to create an the center’s in-residence program she also hosted bookstores as part of over 3,000 retail stores become engaged with AU’s Center for Israeli and brought world-famous choreographers like mother and father, international course for dancers in Europe Jerusalem choreographer Amir Kolben on campus, throughout the United States, Canada, and Studies, he says, first, that it is the university he Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, and Eric Hawkins to one of the founders which would enable dancers to share ideas where he taught master classes to AU dance Puerto Rico. attended and he was delighted to see a project the campus. In 1995 the D.C. Jewish of Rite Aid, had been about themselves and their cultures. She has students. She believes the center can promote Community Center named her one of five pio- active in the Jewish AU’s Center for Israeli Studies encountered that “united his interests in Israel and written four books: Dancing in the Sun: “more open discussion” and “have a major neers of Washington dance. And in 2003 she Federation. Alan Goldner at its own start-up in 1998 at a Jewishness.” He identifies with projects that Hollywood Choreographers, 1915–1937 (1987), impact on helping people understand Israel in a received the Pola Nirenska Award for Lifetime meeting in New York among some half dozen “will produce and have some impact” and American Pageantry:A Movement for Art and broader context.” Though no longer on campus Alan and Ellen Achievement, honored for her “many years of interested individuals, where the center’s idea wants to be “associated with a program that Democracy (1990), Dance in Israel: Pathways to regularly, she intends to participate in as many met as students at devoted service in dance.” and programming were presented for feedback continues to grow and meets students’ needs, to Learning, Communication, Integration (1993), of the center’s programs as possible. American University Prevots is especially proud of her work as a and comment. From the very beginning, Alan present the truth in the relationship between and Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and To AU students she offers this advice: “Be during the tumul- “cultural ambassador.” Her scholarship focuses the Cold War (1998), a book that summarizes open to new things; take advantage of as many tuous Vietnam war has been a keen supporter of the Center for the United States and Israel, showing both on dance in a cultural context, and she has her lifetime study of cultural diplomacy. opportunities as possible; take advantage of years. Alan’s final Israeli Studies and a much valued informal advi- sides” of this complex story. He is “happy to be explored this theme around the world. She had Prevots is a graduate of Brooklyn College being in Washington, D.C.—and take risks!” ■ exams in his senior sor as well as an important donor. part of it.” a Fulbright in Australia in 1987. In Israel she (Phi Beta Kappa), did postgraduate work at year were canceled at AU, as they were at Through him we have learned about his The center values Alan’s generosity and many schools, because of the Kent State connections to Israel. He is presently chair of counsel about its programs and directions. It protests. He quips that this explains how he the International Board of the Israel Tennis is a relationship that, like the center itself, was able to graduate. He remembers vividly Centers—a complex of 15 sites around the continues to grow and mature. ✄ ■ Invest in the future of JEWISH STUDIES and ISRAELI STUDIES education. Help foster Jewish studies and Israeli studies teaching, research, and scholarship at American University. Your gifts guarantee that AU’s Jewish Studies Program and Center for Israeli Studies will move from strength to strength in the coming years. We Faculty Comings and Goings before joining AU’s Department of Economics convener. 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When in Israel ❏ Here is my contribution to the Jewish Studies Program, JSP ______Two members of AU’s faculty who have and four in Spanish, as well as dozens of arti- he enjoys seeing his relatives and old friends made substantial contributions to the Center for cles, he is known throughout the world for his from Peru who made aliya. ❏ Here is my contribution to the Center for Israeli Studies, CIS ______Israeli Studies are embarking on new phases of work on economic development in Third World To close the circle of his their lives and careers: Daniel Schydlowsky, countries, as testified to by his consultancies in life, Schydlowsky was invit- Name ______Department of Economics, and Naima Prevots, 16 countries. ed back to Peru in 2001 by Address ______Department of Performing Arts. “Creating the Center” he says, “was the most President Dr. Alejandro Daniel (Dani) Schydlowsky started AU’s fitting 50th birthday present for Israel from a Toledo to be his presidential City ______State ______Zip ______study abroad program at Hebrew University for university with a heart. 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