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Hanukkah Newsletter 2020 H A N U K K A H E D I T I O N W I N T E R 2 0 2 0 / 2 0 2 1 HJSP I O N E E R I N G J E W I S H S T U D I E S S I N C E 1 8 2 6 CONTINUING ADA RAPOPORT-ALBERT: STUDYING ONLINE EDUCATION AT UCL AN APPRECIATION WITH HJS By Jennifer Basannavar By Mark Geller By Victoria Lisek | p.12 | p. 13 | p. 10 HJS contents 02 Welcome 05 News 06 Mark Geller: Chabad Berlin 02 03 06 09 Francesca Kurlansky: Glass bottle 10 Victoria Lisek: Studying Online with HJS 12 Jennifer Basannavar: Continuing Education at UCL 13 Mark Geller: Ada Rapoport-Albert: An Appreciation 05 12 18 Alinda Damsma: Call for Application 19 Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre 20 Joel Stokes: Celeriac, Hazelnut and Truffle Oil Soup Recipe 13 20 22 Connect with Us HJS Editorial Team: Die Hu 01 S A C H A S T E R N Welcome FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT Whilst staff and students were busy adjusting to the demands and challenges of online learning, some long-term, significant developments have taken place the last few months in the Department. The first is the retirement of Helen Beer, and the second, the appointment of a new Lecturer in Yiddish. Dr Helen Beer left us in July, after more than twenty years in the Department. As the Department’s second Benzion Margulies Lecturer in Yiddish (succeeding Hugh Denman), Helen has been a major figurehead, a role model, and a source of great inspiration. Her very popular courses in Yiddish language (on four levels) and in Yiddish culture and literature have attracted cohort after cohort of degree students, continuing education students, and research students, who have remained forever Helen’s fans and friends and have inspired them to pursue Yiddish in many creative ways. Photo of Helen and Sonia at Ot Azoy 2019 from https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/ot-azoy-2019/ 02 In her role as Department Tutor, the personal support she gave students, sometimes running to many hours through the day, has been exemplary; it is true to say that she saved many students from falling. Her most colourful contribution to the Department has been, beyond any doubt, her drama productions in the Bloomsbury Theatre and at the annual Purim spiel. In the last decade (maybe even earlier) she began writing and producing her own spiels, often on topical themes such as Brexit (a broch!) and – yes, you’ve guessed – Donald Trump. Helen remains with us in an honorary capacity, but I wish her well in retirement, and above all, I owe her a big, personal thank you. The departure of Helen precipitated a challenge, as funding for the position was beginning to dwindle and the viability of the lectureship came under severe questioning. It was by no means a foregone conclusion that we would be able to appoint a successor. However, with the support of a substantial grant from a generous funder, we were eventually able to advertise the position, and secure the long-term future of Yiddish in the Department. Following a rigorous recruitment process, we have appointed Dr Sonia Gollance to the position. Sonia has been, until recently, Director of Yiddish Studies at The Ohio State University, and she is currently a Teaching and Research Associate (Universitätsassistent) in Vienna. She is a great scholar in Yiddish and German-Jewish Studies, with a specialization in literature, dance, theatre, and gender. 03 Her first book, based on her University of Pennsylvania doctoral thesis, will be published this year with Stanford University Press, under the engaging title: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity. Sonia has also been active in the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, in dance and drama productions, and many more creative projects. Her research and her work in the performative arts intersect with the work of many other colleagues in the Department. Staff and students all look forward to welcoming her in the Department, from this coming September, where she will be offering courses in Yiddish language, literature, and culture. There is a historical twist to this appointment: Sonia is not the first Gollance in the Department. Dr Hermann Gollancz (b. Bremen 1852 – d. London 1930) was Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew at UCL from 1902 to 1924, and indeed, the first Jew to earn a doctorate from the University of London (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/about/our-history). Related or not (this needs more research!), it is nice to be reminded of our illustrious history. Sacha Stern F O L L O W U S O N T W I T T E R F O R M O R E U P D A T E S @ U C L H J S 04 The department is sadly saying goodbye to our loveliest Helen. She was the greatest inspiration for many and loved by all of us. We will often think of her wonderful Yiddish lectures, creative Purim spiels and her warmest personality. We wish she enjoys her retirement life and hope to H see her around sometimes! Congratulation to the fantastic Sonia who will be our new Yiddish lecturer from September 2021. We are very excited to meet her and welcome Sher to the department! The 2020 department Hanukkah party was held on Zoom, the atmosphere was great as usual but we did miss the jelly donuts very much and do Zhope to meet each other in person soon! 05 C H A B A D By Mark Geller B E R L I N One of the impressive changes taking place in Jewish Berlin over the past 30 years has been the impact of Chabad, which also changed me personally, in ways which I did not anticipate. I should explain that I first came to reside in Germany for a year in 1980, to Munich, and I was somewhat appalled by the central synagogue. Despite the grand interior, the synagogue was run informally like a shtiebl in an Eastern European shtetl, from where most of the community originated. I did not meet any Yekkes. The lingua franca was Yiddish rather than German, and I remember a shouting match taking place in shul between two business rivals. 06 By the 1990s and after the huge There was a contingent from Riga and migration of Russian Jews, the majority Odessa as well as from Baku, places from of whom could not read Hebrew and which I had never met anyone. What knew little about Yiddishkeit, the needs struck me from the very beginning was of the Jewish communities all over the linguistic setting of the shul. The Germany changed rapidly. I remember a most commonly spoken language was new shul restored in Leipzig in the 1993, Russian, of course, and most of the which imported a rabbi from Israel. regular attendees seemed to know Ivrit Unfortunately, he studied German in as well, and many could speak at least preparation for his new position, which some English as well as reasonable meant that when the rabbi gave a German. But what I found interesting is sermon or drosho, almost no one in the that the small children in the congregation understood him; they congregation would usually speak spoke Russian. The only person in the German or Hebrew among themselves congregation who knew how to daven when playing (and running wild) in the properly was a Christian, a bearded synagogue, but almost always spoke professor of Theology from the Russian to their grandparents. University, who had a good command of the nusach and enjoyed coming to shul One of the characteristics of an with his family. I was impressed. immigrant community elsewhere is that the third generation tends to abandon When I moved to Berlin in 2010 to take the mother tongue of grandparents, but up a position at the Freie Universität not within this Russian-speaking Jewish Berlin, on secondment from UCL, we community, as far as I could tell. In any found a flat in Wilmersdorf, a 30-minute case, I was one of the few non-Russian walk from the nearest shul, which speakers in the shul, which meant that I happened to be Chabad. This was a first couldn't understand the many jokes, for me -- to daven in a chasidic milieu -- until people around me used to translate and it took some getting used to. The for me. I remember one timely joke, in first surprise was the composition of the Russian, about how Putin was told by an congregation. At that time, Chabad advisor, soon after the Crimea invasion, Berlin was host to a yeshiva for young that 70 percent of American school lads from abroad -- mostly America -- children had never heard of the Ukraine. who came to study Gemara in Berlin, Soon, replied Putin, 100 percent would which was not the obvious place for this not have heard of it. This is typical of the kind of institution. They were serious, but Russian humour in shul. I was not sure how comfortable they felt in their Berlin environment. These Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal is a towering youngsters did not mix all that well with figure, both physically and spiritually. At the rest of the congregation, most of first I was amused by his German, which whom came from all over the former is lexically very rich and grammatically Soviet Union. very poor, but no one in the synagogue 07 seemed to notice.
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