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Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter ISSN 0278-4033 ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 34 Summer 1983 Editor: A. J. Band Preliminary Announcement Report of the AJS Nominating Committee AJS FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM The following Report will be submitted to the membership at the An- 18-20 December 1983, Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mass. nual Business Meeting on 18 December 1983: 1. Nominees for Officers for 1984: Sunday, December 18,1983 President: Nahum M. Sarna (Brandeis) 10:30 A.M. Registration Main Lobby Vice-President/Program: Ruth Wisse (McGill) Meeting of AJS Board of Directors Back Bay Room Vice-President/Membership: Haym Soloveitchik (Yeshiva) Vice-President/Publications: Robert Chazan (Queens) 1:30 P.M. Session I, Section A: Back Bay Room Secretary-TVeasurer: Robert M. Seltzer (Hunter) Bible 2. The following Directors continue to serve until the Annual Meeting in 1984, Chairperson: in terms to which they were elected at the Annual Meeting in 1982: Rachel Zohar Dulin (Spertus College) Stanley Chyet (HUC-JIR) Robert Goldenberg (Stony Brook) "Yon Can Go Home Again": A Study in Prophetic Ethics Todd Endelman (Indiana) James Kugel (Harvard) Jeremiah Unterman (Barry University) Harriet Freidenreich (Temple) Rela Monson (Gratz) Can External Considerations Such As the Stories of Isaac and Paula Hyman (JTSA) Jehuda Reinharz (Brandeis) Iphigenia Elucidate the Fate of Jephthah's Daughter? 3. Nominees for Members of the Board of Directors to serve a one-year term David Marcus (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) (December 1983-December 1984) until the Annual Meeting in 1984: What Modern Biblical Translators Can Tell Us About Their An- David Blumenthal (Emory) David Ruderman (Yale) cient Counterparts: The Example of Max L. Margolis Steven Katz (Dartmouth) Marshall Sklare (Brandeis) Leonard Greenspoon (Clemson University) 4. Nominees for Members of the Board of Directors to serve a two-year term (December 1983-December 198S) until the Annual Meeting in 1985: 1:30 P.M. Session I, Section B: Forum Room David Berger (Brooklyn) Joel Rembaum (U. of Judaism) Modem Hebrew Literature Jeremy Cohen (Ohio State) Marc E. Saperstein (Harvard) Chairperson: Seymour Feldman (Rutgers) Ismar Schorsch (JTSA) Emanuel S. Goldsmith (Queens College) Michael Fishbane (Brandeis) Michael Signer (HUC-JIR) Memory and Myth: Towards a Grammar of Autobiography in Deborah Dash Moore (Vassar) Leon Weinberger (Alabama) Israeli Fiction Herbert H. Paper (HUC-JIR) Yael Feldman (Columbia University) Honorary Directors: Temporal Structures in the Historical Novel: The Case of Kivsat Leon A. Jick (Brandeis) Marvin Fox (Brandeis) Harash by Moshe Shamir Baruch A. Levine (NYU) Michael A. Meyer (HUC-JIR) Stephen Katz (Indiana University) Arnold J. Band (UCLA) Jane S. Gerber (CUNY-Graduate Love and War in Israeli Fiction Center) Esther Fuchs (University of Texas) Respectfully submitted, Bialik and T.S. Eliot: Poetry of the Waste Land Michael A. Meyer (HUC-JIR), James Kugel (Harvard) David Aberbach (University of Oxford) Chairman Rela Monson (Gratz) Arnold J. Band (UCLA) Jehuda Reinharz (Brandeis) 1:30 P.M. Session I, Section C: Venetian Room Yael Feldman (Columbia) Modern Jewish History Chairperson: Gershon Hundert (McGill University) The Kitab-i Anus! of BabSi ibn Latf (17th cent.) and the Kitab-i Sar Guzasht... of Babii ibn Farhad (18th cent.): A Compari- IN THIS ISSUE son of Itoo Judaeo-Persian Chronicles Vera B. Moreen (Dropsie College) Annual Conference Program Lenin on the Jewish Question: The Theoretical Setting Preliminary Announcement 1 Yoav Peled (Hebrew University) Report of Nominating Committee 1 From Pariah to Parvenu: The Emergence and Composition of Book Reviews 5-20 the Anti-Jewish Stereotype in South Africa Before 1910 Milton Shain (University of Capetown) The Effect of Intermarriage on Jewish Numbers: Findings From the 1980's ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES Bruce A. Phillips (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles) Widener Library M, Harvard University (Continued on Page 2) Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Program (Continued from Page 1) 1:30 P.M. Session I, Section D: Stale Suite 9:00 A.M. Session n, Section C: state Suite Modern Jewish Thought Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Chairperson: Chairperson: To be announced To be announced Krochmal's View of Ibn Ezra Negation of Ethics as Ultimate Human Felicity Jay M. Harris (Columbia University) Raphael Jospe (University of Denver) Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem: The Limits of Revisionism On Joseph Ben Shem Tov Laurence J. Silberstein (University of Pennsylvania) Ruth Birnbaum (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) The Mystical Prayer in the Teaching of Rabbi Kook The Influence of Abner of Burgos on Fifteenth and Sixteenth Moshe Amon (University of British Columbia) Century Kabbalism Shoshanna Gershenzon (University of Judaism) Translating Paul Celan's "Jerusalem" Poems John Felstiner (Stanford University) 9:00 A.M. Session n, Section D: Venetian Room Zionism State Suite 4:15 P.M. Plenary Session I: Chairperson: Chairperson: To be announced To be announced Ihiman and the Jewish Refugees in 1945 From the Oral Folksong to the Written Individual Poem Allen H. Podet (State University of New York College at Buf- Dov Noy (Hebrew University) falo) Polemics of Rebirth: David Gordon and Proto-Zionism State Suite 5:15 P.M. Annual Business Meeting 1858-1886 Carol Diament (New Rochelle, NY) 6:15 P.M. Reception Venetian Room Christian Allies in the Founding of the State of Israel, 1939-1945 Sponsor: Monty N. Penkower (Touro College) Jewish Theological Seminary of America 11:00 A.M. Session m, Section A: Back Bay Room 7:00 P.M. Dinner Oval Room Ttalmud Chairperson: Oval Room 8:30 P.M. Plenary Session II: Herbert Basser (Queens College, Kingston, Ont.) The Literary History of The Babylonian Talmud: The Work of Additions in the Babylonian Talmud from the Halakhot David Weiss Halivni Pesoukot and Halakhot Gedolot Chairperson: Neil Danzig (Yeshiva University) Marvin Fox (Brandeis University) Lifnim Mishurat Ha Din: A Method of Resolving the Dilemma Speakers: Confronting the Halakha David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) H. Joel Laks (Flushing, NY) Meyer S. Feldblum (Yeshiva University) The Interpretation of 'Is (Man) in the Halakk Midrashim Response: Michael Chernick (Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of David Weiss Halivni (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Religion, NY) Monday, December 19,1983 11:00 A.M. Session m, Section B: Venetian Room 9:00 A.M. Session n, Section A: Back Bay Room In conjunction with the American Jewish Historical Society Orthodoxy in America Scoundrels and Scholars: The Migration of a People and thdr Chairperson: Culture To be announced Chairperson: Dealing with Ttadition Marc Lee Raphael (Ohio State University) Samuel Heilman (Queens College) East European Jewry and the Emigration Business Confronting Modernity Pamela S. Nadell (American University) David Singer (New York City) "What Went Awry7": Accounting for Jewish Criminality Inthe Opinions and Beliefs: A Survey New World Steven M. Cohen (Queens College) and Samuel Heilman Jenna Weissman Joselit (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) (Queens College) Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume I 9:00 A.M. Session D, Section B: Forum Room Shuly Rubin Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary of Bible America) Chairperson: Commentator: To be announced Jonathan D. Sarna (Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute Improvising Rules in the Book of Ruth of Religion, Cincinnati) Jan Wojcik (Purdue University) Gender Disagreement in Biblical Hebrew: A Proposed Solution 11:00 A.M. Session ID, Section C: Forum Room Robert Ratner (Wellesley College) Simon Rawidowicsz, the Man and his Work Moses' Alleged Speech Defect: A New Interpretation of Exodus Chairperson: 6:12 Alfred L. Ivry (Brandeis University) Manuel Gold (New York University) Speakers to be announced 3 11:00 A.M. Session m, Section D: state Suite 1:30 P.M. Session IV, Section D: state Suite In conjunction with the Association for the Sociological Study Modern Hebrew Literature of Jewry Chairperson: Intermarriage To be announced Chairperson: Existential Humiliation: Readings in Shulamith Hareven's lb be announced Short Stories Judith Nave (Brandeis University) Raised in a Melting Pot: The Identity Resolutions of Children of Intermarriages The Interplay Between the Biblical and the Colloquial in Egon Mayer (Brooklyn College) Modern Hebrew Poetry Ruth Kartun-Blum (Hebrew University) New Jews: The Dynamics of Religious Conversion Steven Huberman (Univeristy of Judaism) Shlomo Levisohn and Christian Biblical Scholarship: A Study in Cross-Cultural Relationships Dating and Mating: Sources of Commitment to Endogamy Tova Cohen (Bar-Ilan University) Among Unmarried Jewish College Students Rela Geffen Monson (Gratz College) Besieged Feminism in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry Yair Mazor (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 1:00 P.M. Recess 1 JO P.M. Session IV, Section A: Back Bay Room 4:00 P.M. Interest Groups: On the Problem of the Agunah Business Meetings and Programs Chairperson: Joseph Stern (Hebrew College) A. Sociology Forum Room Enforcement of the Ketubah in Civil Courts Authors Meet the Critics Neil Hecht (Boston University) Topic: Higher Jewish Education Orthodox-style Avitzur From the Perspective of Jewish Law Organizer: Harold H. Himmelfarb (Ohio State University) David Bleich (Yeshiva University) Authors: William Helmreich (City College-CUNY), The World of the Yeshiva, Free Press, 1982. Samuel Compulsion of Divorce in the Israeli Rabbinical Courts Heilman
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