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JSP Newsl Winter @PENN T HE J EWISH S TUDIES N EWSLETTER Fall 2004 Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Penn, through its Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, offers one of the most comprehensive programs in Jewish Studies in America. The Jewish Studies Program (JSP) is an interdisciplinary academic group with a faculty of twenty-one from ten departments that coordinates all courses relating to Jewish Studies in the university, as well as undergraduate majors and minors and graduate programs in different departments. JSP also sponsors many events including two endowed lectureships and the Kutchin Faculty Seminars. The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (CAJS) is a post-doctoral research institute that annually brings eighteen to twenty-five distinguished scholars to Penn as fellows to pursue scholarly research on selected themes. These fellows are selected from the finest and most prominent Judaic scholars in the world. Every year several CAJS fellows teach courses at Penn, and both graduate students and University faculty participate in the Center’s weekly seminars. The Center is also home to one of America’s greatest research libraries in Judaica and Hebraica and includes a Genizah collection, many manuscripts, and early printings. Together the Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Advanced Judaic The image above—a whale swallowing or spitting up a man (an obvious allusion to the story of Jonah)—was the coat-of-arms of the prominent Italian-Jewish Morpurgo Studies make Penn one of the most exciting and richest family, and is found on the front and back of the 18th c. silver binding encasing a communities of Jewish scholarship and intellectual life daily prayerbook, Tefilah Kol Ha-Shanah Ke-Minhag K"K Ashkenazim (Venice: in the world. Bragadine, 1793). This magnificent book was recently donated to the University Library by Ms. Iris Newman; for more on our donor and her book, see p. 12 inside. Table of Contents COVER PAGE: JSP AT PENN statement . .1 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies . .8–9 Greetings from the Director, JSP . .2 2003–2004 Special Events and Programs . .10–11 Greetings from the Director, CAJS . .3 Penn’s Judaica Library News . .12-14 Recent Gifts . .4 About Our Students . .14-17 Jewish Studies Program News . .5–7 Faculty News . .17-20 1 Jewish Studies Program Center for Advanced Judaic Studies GREETINGS FROM THE DIRECTOR, GREETINGS FROM THE DIRECTOR, JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM CENTER FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES This past year has been a banner year for Jewish wealthy in resources, could make to the At the annual banquet of the Gruss colloquium Add to this achievement the several volumes of Studies at Penn. Our course enrollments continue Jewish community in America with complete held this past spring, we marked several milestones essays based on the Gruss colloquium and on the to grow, as does the presence of Jewish Studies as an intellectual credibility. Jewish Studies at in the history of CAJS. First, we celebrated with weekly seminars that are edited by the fellows intellectual force within the Penn community. So Penn is blessed with many riches—our Martin Gruss the tenth anniversary of the Gruss themselves and published in our book series at the does our presence within the larger Philadelphia faculty, our students (on both undergraduate colloquium, the culmination of each year’s University of Pennsylvania Press – five have been community. Last year we ran an international and graduate levels), and our rich experience seminars and deliberations. Second, we formally published, one is in press, and three more are in conference on Marcus Jastrow and the History of in teaching texts as a window into Jewish named the Ella Darivoff directorship of the Center, preparation – and one begins to appreciate the Rabbinic Lexicography which drew large audiences history and culture. By joining forces with the ensuring the future of this critical position for impact CAJS has had on the world-wide academic of both academics and laypersons. This year we Graduate School of Education and helping to years to come. Finally, we also presented to our community in its short life time. Judging from the will be co-sponsoring two additional conferences— shape a truly challenging and compelling program board and fellows our new publication, Breaking larger number of applicants we receive each year, it one, on the Israeli novelist Amos Oz, which is to train Jewish teachers with high Hebraic and New Ground: Scholars and Scholarship at the Center is no exaggeration to say that CAJS has become the taking place just as this newsletter is going to press; Judaic literacy we felt we could give back to the for Advanced Judaic Studies 1993-2004, edited by address for post-doctoral research within the the other, in the spring, to celebrate the 350th Jewish community some of the support we have Drs. Natalie Dohrmann and Elsie Stern. academic world of Judaic Studies. It has helped anniversary of the Jews’ arrival in America. Two of received from it and make a real impact on Jewish shape and re-define fields of study, opened new This volume documents the history of the annual our faculty (including myself) were fortunate to be education in America. scholarly questions, and offered fresh thinking programs of CAJS for the last eleven years, awarded Guggenheim Fellowships—probably a first about the meaning of Jewish civilization for years The new Masters in Jewish Education is only one describing each of the topics, listing all of the for any Jewish Studies Program in America, and a to come. great testimony to the strength of our Program and of several new programs we have recently initiated. fellows who participated each year – some 250 its faculty. Several students—both undergraduates Others include the Manfred Lehmann Master scholars from North America, Israel, and Europe – As CAJS begins its twelfth year, it seeks to engage and graduate students—also won awards and prizes. Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book, and and documenting the publications that emanated even more scholars, young and old, in its You will find articles about all these achievements, a new Post-Baccalaureate Program in Hebrew and from their time at the Center. It also includes programs, and to create conversations between and more, inside this newsletter. Jewish Studies launched by the faculty in the newly several reflections on the place of the Center in the individuals that would not take place outside the renamed Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and academic world, as well as several short essays on special environment of the Center. We also seek to The biggest news of last year was the launching of Civilizations. You will find articles about all these important manuscripts in our precious library locate new avenues of cooperation and plans to begin an M.S. Ed. in Jewish Education in initiatives inside. You will also find an article collection. In short, the book represents a collaboration between institutions and individual Penn’s highly-ranked Graduate School of spotlighting our various graduate programs and remarkable testimony to the variety of projects and scholars around the world so that the kind of Education, an initiative co-sponsored by GSE, the their graduates and the Falk Fellowship. Finally, in themes pursued in our seminars, the interchange of programs we have created will serve as a model for Jewish Studies Program, and the School of Arts recognition of the Library’s growing role as a major ideas and approaches that transpire each year, and other programs and as a catalyst for new thinking and Sciences. force in Jewish Studies at Penn we’ve also given it a the rich human relationships that emerge out of and creativity within the academic community and section of its own, complete with what we hope these ongoing encounters. As the book This new program is the final outcome of the various beyond it. will become a regular part of this newsletter—a demonstrates, CAJS has indeed “broken new initiatives in Jewish education that JSP has developed short essay on an especially important holding in ground” in creating on-going communities of As always, I invite you to visit the Center and to over the past years—our joint undergraduate minor, the library collection. scholars throughout the world. Perhaps most explore the full scope of our academic and public the annual course in Jewish education we sponsor, impressive is the larger number of Europeans who programs on our website [www.cjs.upenn.edu]. A and the Akiba-Penn collaboration. As my colleague David Ruderman explains more visit Philadelphia each year and interact, some for complimentary copy of Breaking New Ground can fully in his letter on the facing page, The Center the first time, with colleagues from the major be obtained by writing to us. A lengthy article inside will tell you more about for Advanced Judaic celebrated its tenth programs in Judaic studies in Israel and in this the Masters in Jewish Ed, but here I want to say a anniversary as part of Penn last year. The Jewish country. For these scholars especially, CAJS makes few words about what led us to begin this Studies Program joins with the rest of the a powerful impact in opening up new lines of program. The idea for the new program basically university in congratulating its “sister” Jewish communication, new opportunities for interaction came from two sources. The first of these was Studies institution on reaching this milestone and student demand: about eight years ago, several of and collaboration even years after the initial on contributing so much through its presence to David B. Ruderman our best and most talented majors asked if it were encounters have taken place.
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