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JEWISH STUDIES at the University of Pennsylvania 2015 ANNUAL NEWSLETTER FALL/WINTER JEWISH STUDIES at the University of Pennsylvania THROUGH ITS JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AND THE HERBERT D. KATZ CENTER FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES, THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFERS AN UNPARALLELED ARRAY OF INTELLECTUAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. ALONG WITH TEACHER- SCHOLARS, THE UNIVERSITY IS HOME TO SOME OF AMERICA’S GREATEST RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN JUDAICA AND HEBRAICA. left: ""Irgun", first Hebrew version of "Monopoly". Lithographic printing "A. Koffman", Haifa. 48X48 cm. Purchased thanks to the Albert and Ele Wood Judaica Library Endowment at the Kedem auction in Jerusalem, June 2015. CONTENTS pp. 2-3 Directors’ Letters pp. 4-13 Jewish Studies Program pp.14-17 Faculty pp. 18-20 Katz Center The Jewish Studies Program pp. 21-23 Libraries pp. 24 Gifts Undergraduates: The decision of Jewish into the humanities and social sciences. Studies faculty members to create a Faculty members associated with the Jewish Studies Program, rather than a Program teach an average of 400 department, reflects the conviction that undergraduate students per year. groups of their own design, assisted by the Jewish Studies Program. the riches and riddles of Jewish culture Graduate students in different across space and time ought not be departments and schools at Penn The Community: Over thirty events per marginalized, but rather, fully integrated convene conferences and reading year are open to the public. The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies This post-doctoral research institute in Israel, Europe, and Latin America. The of various Penn Departments and the heart of historic Philadelphia weekly seminars in which Katz Center Programs, Katz Center Fellows broaden enables eighteen to thirty selected Fellows present their research are also awareness of Jewish culture’s integral scholars, at different stages in their attended by Penn faculty members and place in the Liberal Arts curriculum. The careers and working in many disciplines, graduate students. Penn graduate 2016–17 theme is: “Political to join in intellectual community, united students have the opportunity to study Ramifications: Expanding Jewish Political by an annual theme. The highly with Katz Fellows in an annual modular Thought.” competitive selection process attracts course. By presenting their research gifted applicants from North America, within the colloquia and lecture series GREETINGS FROM THE DIRECTOR, JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM In 2014-15, Penn’s Jewish Studies Studies, the Penn Law School, the Katz Program partnered with other Penn Center for Advanced Jewish Studies and entities to offer more than thirty events the National Museum of American of relevance to the Jewish cultural Jewish History are described in the experience. Students, faculty and coming pages. members of the public attended musical Of special notice are two events coming and dramatic performances, films, a up in the spring. On February 7, 2016, video exhibition by an Israeli artist -- the Silvers Visiting Scholar Program will and an array symposia and lectures that mark 500 years since the establishment explored a broad force of historically of the first ghetto, n Venice, with a oriented presentations spanning the lecture and concert. On April 20, 2016, gamut from the ancient to the modern the Joseph Alexander Colloquium will included: remarkable new consider the recent decision of the archaeological findings in the Galilee; Spanish government to extend “cheap books” in the Cairo Geniza; citizenship to descendants of Sephardic synergies and tensions at the Jews in a presentation, “Remembering intersection of Jewish studies and Sepharad: History, Memory and Best wishes for a peaceful and Islamic studies; Jewish colonists in 17th Politics.” productive 2016. century Suriname; Hasidic storytelling, and behind-the-scenes Nazi directives The Jewish Studies Program has that resulted in the devastations of developed its position of prominence Kristallnacht, 1938. Contemporary over the years by offering students— themes and issues treated included a undergraduate and graduate—an reassessment of the political profile of opportunity to explore all aspects of Talya Fishman philosopher Leo Strauss, challenges the Jewish cultural experience through Director, Jewish Studies Program posed by Israeli marriage and divorce classroom experiences, encounters with Associate Professor, Department of law and possible solutions, and new visiting scholars and artists, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations developments in Middle Eastern supervised research projects pursued literature – with Israeli Jews writing in independently, on campus, and Arabic, and Israeli Arabs writing in elsewhere. As funding for independent Hebrew. research is particularly valuable, we are honored and delighted to announce the Two professors affiliated with the Jewish newly-created Louis Schwartz and Studies Program, Kathryn Hellerstein and David Ruderman, were celebrated Elaine Friedman Schwartz Fund, at events marking the publication of which will enable the Jewish Studies their new books, and a symposium on Program to provide support for either the work of David Stern was held on undergraduate or graduate students the occasion of his retirement from whose travel and materials are related Penn. to the production of independent research. Established through the Partnerships between the Jewish generosity of James Schwarz, Esq., C’78, Studies Program and a growing number Parent 2016, this fund commemorates of Penn entities are especially valuable; the lives of the donor's inspiring these collaborative enterprises help to parents, and reflects his own passionate cultivate frontier areas in research—and involvement in genealogical research. they give the Jewish experience greater visibility on campus and in the community. Collaborations with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript 2 GREETINGS FROM THE DIRECTOR, HERBERT D. KATZ CENTER FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES On behalf of the Herbert D. Katz together. In its new strategic plan, Penn’s Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, I School of Arts and Sciences has write to say that we very much look announced a new focus on “Mapping forward to another year of the Mind,” the study of the brain and collaboration with Penn’s Jewish Studies how it works. That kind of research program as we transition from a theme mostly happens in fields like focused on the history of scholarship to neuroscience and psychology, but there one that will take us beyond the are ways for Jewish Studies to boundaries of reason. contribute as well. Psychoanalysis, after This last year (14-15), the focus of the all, was once known as "the Jewish Katz Center fellowship was the history science", and Jewish history, literature and thought offer opportunities to think of Wissenschaft des Judentums, academic Jewish Studies. Together with fellows about the mind in cultural contexts from at least eleven countries, the topic different from those which shape gave us an opportunity to partner with present-day scientific conceptions. We Jewish Studies on a number of will be using the year, in effect, to map programs, including a conference that the Jewish mind—the mind as explored the role of Jewish scholars in conceived by Jews in different historical contexts and understood to include not the study of Islam, a lecture by the just intelligence and reason but pain, renowned historian Natalie Zemon Steven Weitzman Davis, and a final year-end Gruss desire, doubt, memory and the Colloquium in April that explored unconscious. Director of the Katz Center of scholarly practice itself, the role of We are pleased to have the opportunity Advanced Judaic Studies collecting and correspondence, how to share some of this research in the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew scholars represent themselves, and their form of public programs cosponsored and Semitic Languages and Literatures various ways of engaging the world by Jewish Studies, including our annual Ella Darivoff beyond academia. Meyerhoff lecture on November 11, The coming year will explore various featuring a lecture on Freud by the philosopher Jonathan Lear. In the spring intersections between Jewish Studies and psychology. Katz Center fellows semester, also keep a look-out for a include scholars working in Hebrew, series that will explore new research Yiddish and other languages on the role into religious experience that will of specific emotions within Jewish feature several Katz Center fellows. It thought and literature, the comparative should be a year of intellectual study of guilt and confession in Jewish adventure. and American law, the representation of I want to conclude by thanking Talya sensation in Israeli literature, the Fishman for her leadership of Jewish treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Studies and other colleagues in Jewish Disorder in Israeli psychiatry, along with Studies for being so welcoming and many other topics. supportive. The focus on psychology offers a chance for the Katz Center and Jewish Studies to move in some new directions The University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program produces the Jewish Studies newsletter annually. We are grateful to Michelle and Peter, C’81, WG’85, Roth for their ongoing sponsorship of this newsletter. Editors: Christine Walsh and Talya Fishman 3 The Jewish Studies Program 2015 FALL COURSES Language Courses JWST 262 REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN JWST 031 BEGINNING YIDDISH I LITERATURE AND FILM • Explores the difficulties faced by JWST 051 ELEMENTARY MODERN HEBREW I narrators, witnesses, allegorists, memoirists,
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