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“Pesha and Benno.” Photo courtesy of Eric Bermann. It is taken from the exhibit “Pesha’s Journey: From Rabbi’s Daughter to Feminist Radical,” showing through May 31 at 202 South Thayer Street, Common Room. From the Director: The State of in Poland: Living History A Conversation with Marcin Wodzinski Deborah Dash Moore is the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History Marcin Wodzinski is a Professor of Jewish analysed the relationship between the state and Reaching the postwar era in my course, History of campaign targeted Studies and Director of the Centre for the Culture the Hasidic movement from its inception in the , I come to a moment when potentially northern stores and Languages of the Jews at the University Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th some my own experiences become relevant to the although they served of Wrocław. His special fields of interests are century, but focused on the critical development subject matter. Then I face a dilemma: just how both black and white nineteenth-century Jewish of the Hasidic involvement relevant and pedagogically useful are my memories? customers. social history, the regional in politics in the 19th Should they enter self-consciously into my lectures history of Jews in Silesia, century. The central thesis of and our discussions? Long ago I adopted a policy of As it happens one and Jewish sepulchral the lecture was the unusually never teaching my own books to undergraduates. I of the exercises I art. Several of his books modern character of Hasidic wanted to avoid any conflict of interest if students give students when Photo by Jean-Pierre Jans. focus on intellectural and political activity and the role were purchasing books. I also anticipated that students we reach Jewish religious trends, such as of politics in the distinctive would feel uncomfortable criticizing their professor’s participation in the civil rights movement revolves Haskalah and Hasidism in path of Hasidic development work. In addition, I recognized that students heard my around the moral dilemmas of picketing Woolworth’s. the Kingdom of Poland: A into “anti-modernist interpretations in class and they didn’t necessarily need I ask students to choose a position considering several History of Conflict(2005), modernity.” to read them. intertwined questions. Would they cross picket lines published by the Littman under any circumstances? Picketing regularly occurred Library, and Hasidism in FS: Can you talk a bit about But memories fall into a different category. I regularly on Saturday. As Jews (and they are asked to assume the Kingdom of Poland, Jewish studies in Poland? ask students to read memoirs written by Jewish Jewish identities for this exercise), would they walk a 1815–1867: Historical immigrants. They watch documentaries that include picket line on the Sabbath? Or would they just watch? Sources in the Polish State To put it briefly, Jewish interviews of participants in living history. I encourage Once they have chosen sides, I invite them to offer Archives (2011). He has studies in Poland are them to consider their own subject positions relative Jewish, ethical arguments for their position based on co-edited Jews in Silesia flourishing beyond any to such course topics as suburbanization. But to what what they have read. (Theoretically they know from (2001); a special triple issue expectations. Thirty years extent should my own experiences matter in the their assigned reading arguments Jews marshaled on of Jewish History entitled ago, there was only one classroom context? different sides of the integration struggle.) Towards a New History of semi-academic, and isolated, Hasidism (2013); Polin: institution dealing with These issues rose to the fore recently because of a It is always a fascinating class and produces thoughtful, Studies in Polish Jewry Jewish studies in Poland, no provocative faculty-student colloquium given in engaged participation. Relatively few of my students (Volume 27); and Jews in publications, no scholars, February by Professor Miyuki Kita from the University choose to picket. The majority prefers to be onlookers. Kingdom of Poland, 1815- no public. Now, we have of Kitakyushu in Japan. Professor Kita is researching But a vocal number decide to cross the picket line and -1914 (forthcoming). He is six universities teaching BA the participation of Brandeis University students in purchase items in the store, thus violating both union vice president of the Polish or MA programs in Jewish civil rights. She is interested in exploring possible solidarity and Sabbath prohibitions. Association of Jewish Studies and editor in chief studies, hundreds of students enrolling in our connections between the establishment of this secular, of its periodical, Studia Judaica. In 2011, he courses each year, six scholarly periodicals, and non-sectarian Jewish-sponsored university after World What I don’t tell the students, however, is that my idea received the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize, some 100 books a year. Each year the national War II committed to non-discriminatory policies in for the class exercise comes from my own experiences. I given by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. bibliography records between 1500 and 2000 admissions and its students’ civil rights activism. In her participated briefly in picketing Woolworth’s. Now, after publications—books and articles—dealing with presentation she discussed an intensive campaign joined hearing Professor Kita’s presentation, I wonder whether Jewish subjects. Not all of them are, of course, by Brandeis students (most of them Jewish) against the should I tell them. What would my experience as an On April 3, he visited The Frankel Center and academic. Still, it illustrates the size of public national five and dime giant, Woolworth’s, to integrate informant add to or detract from the class? I don’t have spoke on “Hasidism and Politics.” This lecture interest. It is important to stress that there is the lunch counters in its southern stores. The picketing an answer to this dilemma of living history.

2 3 increase in quality, too. A growing number of develop, however, in communist times. Some scholars in or from Poland publish important 250,000 Holocaust survivors left Poland, and studies. Some people foretell the Poles will be the remainder were expelled in 1968. After Yiddish@UMich: Geh’ Blau! the next wave, after Germans, to flood positions 1968, state censorship did not allow many Yiddish arose nearly a thousand years ago in Western Europe, flourished for centuries in Eastern Europe, and was in Jewish studies in European universties. publications on Jewish studies, one notable brought to the U.S. and elsewhere by immigrants who built a rich cultural life with it. At , Yiddish is a And maybe, one day, in North America, too. exception being a study proving Zionism to be vibrant language. Students learn its idioms and grammar, read its literary treasures, and explore its centrality to Beware, Ann Arbor! the imperialist and racist agenda. modern Jewish life.

FS: What can you say about Jewish studies When asked the question, “Why study Yiddish?,” a very Yiddish answer might be, “Why not?” Study of Yiddish in Poland? It was only in the late 1970s that independent samizdat publications brought Jewish issues may stem from a personal connection to the language, its cultural heritage, its role as a window to Eastern European back to the Polish public consciousness and, Jewish history and its connection to the Jewish American immigrant experience. Yiddish played and continues to The roots of Jewish studies in Poland reach as play an important role within the modern Jewish experience. far back to amateur maskilic historiography in soon, to the academy, too. Many people the early 19th century. But academic studies like myself started with documenting Jewish landmarks in nearby neighborhoods, Learning the language enables students to engage with the study of historical, literary and religious texts, as well as began only in late 19th century, with Galician politics, folklore, anthropology, and other contemporary aspects of the culture, such as film and media. Jewish graduates of Austrian universities discovering the Polish-Jewish past, literature turning to Jewish scholarship. Moses Schorr, or culture that once flourished here and is no more. This was certainly amateurish, Students of Yiddish can progress to a high level of fluency at the . Texts include Yiddish Majer Balaban and Ignacy Schipper come to children’s literature, folklore, literary and historical texts, films, and music. Yiddish is examined within a broader mind as innovators. but gave great impetus to more structured, academic endeavors. In the mid-1980s, the context within the history, sociology, politics, and culture it produced. very first Department of Jewish Studies was The great boom in Jewish studies came in established in a Polish university. Since then, The Yiddish program at Michigan has been built from scratch by a dedicated faculty and committed donors. Below, interwar Poland, exemplified first and foremost the development of Jewish studies in Poland these faculty and students, too, talk a bit about Yiddish @ Umich. by the YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher has been just amazing. Institut) established in 1925 in Wilno (then Alexandra Hoffman, full-time lecturer, Yiddish each other and to promote Yiddish to the larger Poland). Professor Majer Balaban established “Studying, working, and living in Ann Arbor for the university community, we had a session of do-it-yourself at the same time the first MA seminar in FS: How did you become involved in Jewish past eight years, I have grown attached to the active stencil and free-hand t-shirt design; there will be another Jewish history at Warsaw University. This Studies? and growing Yiddishist community at and around the session on the last day of school, April 23rd. Learning was annihilated with the Holocaust, but even Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The first time I through collaborative creativity has been a passion of at the time of the Second World War and the In the mid-1980s, I was studying Polish taught Yiddish was in the Fall of 2009, and I received mine since my involvement with Imagine Community, Holocaust, there were some scholarly activities. literature and found it not exactly to my particular pleasure from my growing interaction with the a grassroots organization promoting solidarity among Emanuel Ringelblum documented life under liking, especially that Polish literary studies students seeking to study Yiddish. The students in my homeless and homed people through skill-sharing, Nazi occupation. Ignacy Schipper penned his at the time were still dominated, horrible classes have been - almost without exception - earnest, creativity and care. With the same goal of strengthening history of Hasidism in Poland, miraculously dictu, by structuralism. For some time, I enthusiastic, independent, ambitious, amiable. I delight and expanding the community of Yiddish students and survived and published only in 1992. (This was searching for something else, including in learning with them and from them, as we share an enthusiasts, I organized a short film series of old and is a very important and almost totally esoteric literatures and anthropology, but did appreciation of what we know of the Yiddish language new Yiddish films. I screenedYidl mitn Fidl in February, forgotten study.) not consider Jewish studies. As some point I and sustain each other’s curiosity to learn more. a medley of Yiddish shorts in March, and the new happened to meet Professor Jerzy Woronczak, Yiddish film Romeo and Juliette in Yiddish was screened one of the great scholars of the time who “My only complaint, really, is that there aren’t more on April 9th.” Immediately after the war, the Central Jewish became my mentor. He was so much smarter students. In the winter of 2010, we designed a new flier Historical Commission was established, whose than me, and I don’t really know when he urged advertising the Yiddish language course, and hung it Anita Norich, Professor of English and Judaic goal was mainly to document Holocaust me to study Jewish literature and culture. Then, around campus and the larger community. David Schlitt Studies crimes. In 1947, this was transformed into you can say my involvement in Jewish studies created a “Yiddish@umich” logo that we used on t-shirts FS: What is the role/use of Yiddish in your research the Jewish Historical Institute, with a much is a product of disappointment, chance, and of that we distributed to students, staff, faculty, friends, and and teaching? wider scholarly agenda. Jewish studies did not the encounter with an interesting person. Frankel Institute fellows. This year, in order to create an opportunity for students of all levels to get to know “All-encompassing! I teach a range of Jewish literature

4 5 courses as well as courses the English Department that period. Yiddish is important to my research because it “Yiddish literature is my primary research subject. I am on a renewed interest in Yiddish]: ethnic revival, search are not about Jewish literature, but in all cases I try was one of the native tongues of many of the writers I primarily interested in its transnational and transcultural for roots and authenticity, klezmer, and the political and to incorporate some Yiddish in translation. My work on. dimensions, the way Yiddish writers in various parts of ideological “neutrality” of Yiddish—it creates a common scholarly work is entirely concerned with modern the world represented their past and present, the ways ground for people with different political views, religious Yiddish literature.” “Yiddish studies at the U of M consist of a really of interaction between different parts of the Yiddish- affiliation, forms of Jewish identity, as well as non-Jews. exciting mix of language with the study of Yiddish speaking world, especially the Soviet Union, Poland and FS: What do you think differentiates U-M from other literature, culture, and history. The fact that the teacher, America. I always incorporate Yiddish literary texts in Yiddish is cool, ‘organic,’ homey, warm, unpretentious, schools in its Yiddish curriculum? Sasha [Alexandra Hoffman] is a scholar of Yiddish my courses, some of which are focused on Yiddish— open for all kinds of interpretation, and completely literature really makes a difference. She succeeds in such as the first-year seminar Yiddish Love Stories; harmless.” “It has a full three years. Mostly, it has a wide range of making the class fun and challenging, and in expanding others include Yiddish sources along with texts in other faculty from different disciplines and departments who students’ perspective beyond the nostalgic dimension of languages—Contact and Conflict: Jewish Experience in Avery Robinson, first-year master’s student, MA in rely on Yiddish materials: English, Comp Lit, German, learning Yiddish. Eastern Europe or The Shtetl: Image and Reality.” Judaic studies, researching Jewish American culinary NES, PoliSci, History. It’s impossible to imagine a history Jewish Studies curriculum at UM that doesn’t include “I believe the recent surge in the popularity of Yiddish FS: What do you think differentiates U-M from other “I’ve wanted to learn Yiddish for quite some time: In some aspect of Yiddish alongside, of course, Hebrew.” has something to do the identity crisis of American Jewry schools in its Yiddish curriculum? addition to using a bisele Yiddish in my daily speech, in recent years. It seems to be part of the effort of certain I’m interested in knowing Yiddish so I can sing more FS: To what do you attribute the surge in popularity parts of this community to better understand, and perhaps “The number of faculty and diversity of their interests: songs, use more cookbooks, and read more stories. An of Yiddish? underscore, its difference from other white Americans.” We have the largest number of Yiddish-speaking faculty emphasis on Yiddish culture for learning the language of all American universities, and Yiddish is incorporated through songs, history, jokes, parables, and curses are the “Good teaching! Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and in courses in various fields and disciplines: English, foundation for this colorful class. To me, the revival of Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies Slavic Studies, Hebrew, Comparative Literature, German, Jewish culture sees Yiddish as a tool to create a distinctly “Also: Yiddish is often seen as a source of ethnic “I have been using Yiddish in my research since writing Political Science, American Culture. Jewish setting that recalls the Ashkenazic heritage for identification that is neither religious nor Zionist. It may a term paper as a junior in college (1960). My first book building contemporary identities and connections.” well be that for a number of our Jewish students, but it is (1972) was based largely on Yiddish sources and my “There is a combination of factors [that have brought also being studied by those who are not seeking that kind current research on the Holocaust in the USSR uses of identification or by those who are not Jewish. These Yiddish newspapers, memoirs, diaries and anthologies. students may come to study the language because they Our curriculum is a solid combination of language have become excited about literature they read in English and literature and gives graduate students some ability translation, or because they are interested in some aspect to work with Yiddish sources and undergraduates of popular culture (such as film or klezmer music). an appreciation of Yiddish culture and literature. Many—especially, but not only our graduate students— Unfortunately, we have not done enough to place our recognize that there are many subjects of interest to them Yiddish curriculum on a firm financial footing.” that they simply cannot study without Yiddish. Some examples of reasons some of our recent students have Yaakov Herskovitz, first-year Ph.d. student, Near learned Yiddish: to study American immigration; to Eastern Studies and Judaic studies compare Yiddish and Hebrew or Yiddish and German “I am a student of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish or Yiddish and English literatures; to study Eastern literature. During my M.A. studies, I took Yiddish as European Jewish history; to understand contemporary a research language and fell in love. I was drawn to its ethnicity. And because it’s a pleasure to learn a language strong connection to Hebrew literature, as well as the with such rich cultural and literary treasures!” fact that most early Hebrew modern writers were bilingual, to some extent, Yiddish being their writing Orian Zakai, post-doctoral fellow at the language as well.” Students from Alexandra Hoffman’s Frankel Institute Yiddish class custom-design t-shirts. “I study Hebrew Literature and am currently working on Mikhail Krutikov, associate professor, Judaic Studies a book about Hebrew Women’s writing from the pre-state and Slavic Studies

6 7 U-M, American Jewish Historical Society, and American Jewish Archives Host First Conference for Ph.D. Students of American Jewish History May 21-May 23 Two Prominent Israeli Scholars to Visit During late May 2013, some relationship between the main “More immediately, though, the the Frankel Center in Fall 2013 15 Ph.D. students of American- grad student workshop was an Jewish History will gather outgrowth of the experience During Fall 2013, Moshe Ma’oz is professor of Islamic and Middle with U-M Professor Deborah history,”field of American explains Rosenblatt.history and Ronit and I had at the Biennial The Frankel Center Eastern studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dash Moore and Beth Wenger “Ratherthe subfield than of thinking American about Jewish Scholars Conference in American will welcome two where he has specialized on Syria, Palestine, and (University of Pennsylvania) for American history and Jewish Jewish History this past June prominent Israeli Arab-Israel relations. In addition, he has also held several days of workshopping held at the Center for Jewish scholars: Galit scholarly positions at prominent American and but also to discuss jobs, teaching, we’d like to explore the ways History. In addition to giving us Hasan-Rokem and British research centers, including the Middle and writing strategies. history as two separate fields, the opportunity to meet many Moshe Moaz. East Institute, Harvard University, the Brookings in fact, mutually constitutive. In scholars, the conference was Institution, and the Wilson Center. Ma’oz twice The idea for the conference grew manythese twoways, fields this areconversation related and, great because we got to meet and Galit Hasan- served as director of the Harry S. Truman Institute out of conversations between has been a sustained response interact with a group of graduate Rokem is the Max for Advancement U-M Ph.D. students Katie to a March 2009 article by students who are all doing work and Margarethe of Peace at Hebrew Rosenblatt and Ronit Stahl. UC Berkeley professor David on various aspects of American Grunwald Professor University. He is Hollinger, “Communalist and Jewish history. Ronit and I both of Folklore & also prominent “Part of the impetus for this Dispersionist Approaches to felt after the fact that it would Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew in Israeli politics was an ongoing conversation American Jewish History in an University of Jerusalem and has been appointed where he served as that Ronit and I have had Increasingly Post-Jewish Era.” a graduate student community the Louis and Helen Padnos Visiting Professor of an adviser to Israeli with Deborah [Dash Moore], Hollinger called on American great to find ways to maintain Judaic Studies for the Fall term 2013. Prime Ministers Matt Lassiter, Gina Morantz- Jewish historians to move biennial conference, to foster Yitzhak Rabin and Sanchez, and others about the beyond communalist strategies aoutside sense of cohort-nessthe confines amongof a Professor Hasan-Rokem is a distinguished Shimon Peres, that emphasize the those of us who work on related scholar of Jewish ethnology and folklore, with Defense Minister internal world of the topics.” an international reputation. Her scholarship Ezer Weizman, and “Jewish people” and includes Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish on the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and instead to embrace “The conference will allow us to Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity (2003), an Defense. a dispersionist workshop dissertation chapters,” influential study of rabbinic texts that moves beyond methodology that “might adds Stahl, “but I’d suggest traditional analyses into the realm of gender and Professor Ma’oz has also authored several promote stronger and that there are other goals as literary study. She has led several research groups in books—Asad: The Sphinx of Damascus: A Political more sustained mutual well: providing the space for Israel on such topics as Hebrew and Israeli proverbs, Biography; Palestinian Leadership on the West engagements with us to have conversations about rabbinic and midrashic folklore, and the exegetical Bank; The PLO and Israel, Syria and Israel; Studies other specialists in professionalization, teaching imagination. Out of these research seminars have on Palestine During the Ottoman Period; Palestinian U.S. history.” In other pedagogy, dissertation writing come varied volumes that explore some of these Arab Politics; Middle East Minorities; and words—how do those of strategies, etc. themes. Professor Hasan-Rokem has co-edited A Palestinian Nationalism: The West Bank Dimension. us who identify as both Companion to Folklore (2012), Web of Life: Folklore American historians “We spoke to Deborah about and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature (2000), The Hasan-Rokem and Ma’oz will offer two classes and American Jewish this, and she, as usual, worked Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poetry (1999), each in Fall 2013. Hasan Rokem is offering historians ask questions her magic, getting the American and Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other “Folkloristic and Ethnographic Perspectives of and produce scholarship Jewish Historical Society and Enigmatic Modes (1996) among other noteworthy Rabbinic Literature: Sirens in the Synagogues” that is relevant to both the American Jewish Archives books. In her scholarship, Professor Hasan-Rokem and “The Wandering Jew in Folklore, Literature, American and Jewish to partially sponsor a graduate bridges the divide that often exists between and Art.” Ma’oz courses are “Arab-Israeli Relations” scholars? student workshop at Michigan.” scholars of late antique Judaism and those of and “Religious and Ethnic Minorities and contemporary Jewish life. Communications in the Middle East.” Visit www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic for details. “Pesha in New York.” Photo courtesy of Eric Bermann. Taken from the exhibit “Pesha’s Journey: From Rabbi’s Daughter to Feminist Radical.” . 8 9 Deborah Dash Moore Wins National Jewish Book Award tute’s winter 2013 event poster and website. City of Promises: A History of the second volume, Annie Polland their own. Jews in New York edited by U-M and Daniel Soyer chronicle the MAZEL TOV! FELLOWS Professor of History Deborah Dash metamorphosis of New York into The National Jewish Book Awards FACULTY: Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin, Mil- Moore has won the Everett Family a “Jewish city,” exploring the program began in 1950 when the Deborah Dash Moore will be honored along waukee) gave the inaugural lecture of UCLA’s Foundation Jewish Book of the impact of immigration on New Jewish Book Council presented with Michael Chabon, Scott Berrie, and new “Vienna in Los Angeles” series at their Year Award. Given each year by the York Jewish life. The third volume, awards to authors of Jewish books Leon Botstein with the 2013 Jewish Cultural Center for Jewish Studies. The talk was titled Jews in Gotham by Jeffrey Gurock at its annual meeting. Past notable Achievement Award, given by the Foundation “Vienna’s Jewish Geography: Beyond the highlights the neighborhood as a literary winners include Chaim for Jewish Culture. Leopoldstadt.” cornerstone of New York Jewish Grade, Deborah Lipstadt, Bernard life. Malamud, Michael Oren, Chaim Mark Tessler was the keynote speaker earlier Lois Dubin (Smith College) will publish “One Potok, Philip Roth, and Elie Wiesel. at a conference at the Hebrew University. Jewish Woman, Two Husbands, Three Laws: “I am deeply honored to receive this The topic of the conference was “The Many The Making of Civil Marriage and Divorce in award,” acknowledged Deborah Awards are presented in over Faces of Public Opinion.” His talk, based on a Revolutionary Age” in AJS Perspectives. She 18 categories. In addition, since his research in Arab countries, looked at “At- also gave a lecture at the Annual Meeting of 2003, one non-fiction book has titudes toward Islam’s Place in Political Life the American Historical Association in New been selected as the winner of the Before and After the Arab Spring.” Orleans on a panel devoted to “Jewish Society Everett Family Foundation Jewish and Culture from the Enlightenment to the Book of the Year Award. Last year, STUDENTS: Napoleonic Period (1750-1815).” Simon Montefiore’s Jerusalem: A Nick Block won an award for outstanding GSI. Biography was chosen. He will also begin a three-year postdoctoral Dubin is guest-editing a special issue of Jew- appointment at Emory University in Fall 2013. ish History devoted to the scholarly legacy of A complete list of the 2012 National historian Yosef Haim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) Jewish Book Award winners Oren Segal has accepted an appointment as in which she has an article, “Yosef Hayim National Jewish Book Council, the and finalists is available at the assistant professor at the College of Charles- Yerushalmi, the Royal Alliance, and Jewish Everett award recognizes the best Jewish Book Council’s website, ton - South Carolina. Political Theory” for a special issue of the book of Jewish non-fiction. www.JewishBookCouncil.org. journal Jewish History to be devoted to the Saul Hankin and Aliza Storchin have been scholarly legacy of Yerushalmi (1932-2009). “City of Promises is an unparalleled invited to join the Alpha of Michigan Chapter and essential study of one of the most of Phi Beta Kappa. She has been invited to deliver a lecture at significant Jewish communities in an international conference: “Revealers of the modern world―and the largest Dash Moore, director of the Katie Rosenblatt and Ben Pollak have been Secrets – 200 Years of Galician Haskalah (The in Jewish history,” attested the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies awarded summer fellowships from the In- Fifth International Conference for the Study award committee. and Frederick G.L. Huetwell stitute for Research on Women and Gender of the Haskalah Movement),” Jerusalem, De- Professor of History, “because (IRWG). cember 22—25, 2013. Finally, she presented Deborah Dash Moore served as it recognizes the importance of a talk at the Gendered Rites/Gendered Rights general editor for the three-volume collaboration in writing history. Ronit Stahl (Ph.D. Candidate, History), is the conference at Brandeis this month entitled set. Each volume includes a visual The sprawling complex history of winner of the Eisenberg Institute’s winter “Jewish Women, the State, and the Making of essay by art historian Diana L. Jews in has eluded 2013 photo contest. Ronit’s image features a Civil Marriage in Revolutionary Europe.” Linden, an unusual feature in scholars. Its size—more Jews lived man sitting among the lush, verdant history books. The series begins in New York than in most western landscape of northwestern Vietnam. Accord- She also published “Medicine as Enlighten- with Haven of Liberty. Howard and central European countries— ing to Ronit, “the man, who had been work- ment Cure: Benedetto Frizzi, Physician to Rock traces the first Jews’ arrival and its centrality for American ing, was resting and looking over terraced rice Eighteenth-century Italian Jewish Society,” in in New Amsterdam in 1654 up Jewish history proved daunting,” fields … near a Black Hmong village outside the journal Jewish History 26: 1-2 (2012). through the end of the Civil War she acknowledged. Now, however, of Sapa.” Her image was featured on the Insti- in 1865. In Emerging Metropolis, New York Jews have a history of 10 11 University of Michigan Frankel Center for Organization US Postage Judaic Studies 202 S. Thayer Street PA ID 2111 Thayer Building Ann Arbo r, MI Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 Permit No . 144 734.763.9047 Executive Committee Deborah Dash Moore, Director Mikhail Krutikov Julian Levinson Anita Norich

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