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Frankely Speaking from the Director JEAN & SAMUEL FRANKEL CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES FALL 2018 FRANKELY SPEAKING From the Director By Jeffrey Veidlinger, Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies he theme for the 2018-2019 year of the Other scholars will be looking at issues of Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic knowledge. How did Andalusians understand the Studies is “Sephardic Identities, Medieval relationship between the oral law and the written and Early Modern.” As a result, the Frankel law? To what extent were they willing to overturn TCenter will be hosting a series of events around Ashkenazi precedents and allow the laws to this subject, and will be welcoming to campus reflect the standards of their own communities? eleven scholars from around the world, who will What role did non-Jewish legal opinions play in be in residence at the Frankel Institute along with Sephardic adjudication? These are all issues we two Michigan faculty. continue to struggle with today. Many of the scholars who will be with us this year The question of what it means to be “native” that so focus on the myth of Sephardi exceptionalism: the idea that the medieval and early modern animated Iberian thinkers resonates with some of the debates period in the Iberian peninsula represented a we are having in the United States today about citizenship. Golden Age, in which—thanks to the convivencia (coexistence) between Jews, Christians, and Still other scholars will be focusing on the Muslims—Jews were able economics of the Sephardic community. How did to flourish intellectually, Jewish oligarchs in Castile utilize their wealth, tax culturally, and economi- exemptions, and privilege to secure their positions? cally, and were marked Did Jewish philanthropy help level social inequalities, by distinction and or did it perpetuate status? How did expanding excellence. Some global trade contribute to the wealth of the scholars will point to Iberian peninsula, and what happened to the moments of conflict and Spanish economy and cultural renaissance after competition to question the expulsion of Jews and Muslims? Why did new the factual basis of the centers of trade and intellectual life flourish in myth, others will look at how this myth was the Netherlands and the Ottoman Empire, areas understood by non-Jewish communities, and in which the Spanish refugees were welcomed? still others will examine the myth’s impact on Once again, in today’s global world we too can more modern Sephardic communities. look for precedents in the past and learn from I am not an expert on this period in Jewish history the experiences of Jewish history. On the Cover myself and look forward to learning from those There are not always definitive answers to these scholars who will be in residence. But I recognize questions, but their relevance today is a testa- Students studied the themes of conflict and coexistence from my ment to the enduring legacy of the Sephardic abroad in Jerusalem own work and the world we live in today. The experience in the medieval and early modern and Tel Aviv with question, for instance, of what it means to be period, and serves as an invitation for all of us Professor Shachar Pinsker; “native” that so animated Iberian thinkers resonates to look at how some of the themes of Jewish Top: Nikki Shultz, Simone with some of the debates we are having in the history—migration, ethnic identity, religious faith, Jaroslaw, Will Hearn; United States today about citizenship. How do law and justice, social responsibility, entrepre- Bottom: Ayo Okunade, individuals reimagine and redefine their ancestry neurship, and economic adventurism—continue Ainslie Woodward, in order to derive real-life benefits? Should the to impact our world today. Ariel Lowenstern, extension of rights be contingent upon one’s ancestry? Or upon where an individual was born? Haley Johnson 2 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — Fall 2018 Events GI JEWS Lisa Ades reflects on Jewish Americans in World War II ocumentary filmmaker Lisa mentary on the subject,” Ades said. Ades will be on campus this “Here, we would be able to tell the stories fall for a screening of her of Jews not only as victims of the war, latest work, GI JEWS: Jewish but as Americans fighting for both their she regrets having to cut the most? DAmericans in World War II. The film, based nation and their people.” She turned to “Jews did their part. Don’t ever forget it,” on Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor Dash Moore’s book, which tells the which was said by Bea Abrams Cohen, a Deborah Dash Moore’s 2004 book, GI stories of 15 Jewish men who enlisted 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant and Jews: How World War II Changed a during World War II and how they the oldest living female veteran in California Generation, has appeared at several film simultaneously managed the demands of at the time of her in interview in 2014. festivals across the United States and military service and the prejudices of their Ades hopes viewers walk away with a premiered on PBS this past April to fellow American soldiers. better understanding of the many Jewish commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Through interviews with historians and Americans who have served in U.S. wars, Day. The screening will be followed by a Jewish World War II veterans including Mel going at least as far back to the Civil War, discussion with Ades and Dash Moore, Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Henry Kissinger, and how important the fight for equality who also served as a senior advisor for viewers learn what it was like for Jewish still is now. “Today, with the rise of white the film. The event will be held at the U-M Americans fighting bigotry at home and supremacists, xenophobia, and anti- Museum of Art Auditorium at 5:30 pm on abroad. “The challenge was how to immigrant sentiment in the United States November 6. capture these stories while the men and and throughout the world, these stories Ades first became interested in making a women who served were still alive to tell of the children of Jewish immigrants film about Jews in World War II in 2012 them,” said Ades. “In 2013, fewer than 6 fighting antisemitism at home in order to during her production of a documentary percent of WWII veterans, mostly in their fight it abroad—and thereby becoming about the history of Jewish people in 90s, were still alive. This was our last more American and Jewish in the Syria. While speaking with Jews of Syrian chance to record these stories, so we process—resonate profoundly for me. decent in America, she learned about appealed to the NEH [National Endow- “Every American has a relationship to their experiences in World War II. “Their ment for the Humanities], which had World War II,” Ades continued, “but the stories were fascinating and surprising— awarded us development and production role of Jewish American service people how after Pearl Harbor they had lied grants, to release ‘emergency funds’ has not been fully explored on film. about their age in order to enlist; what it to begin interviewing. Remarkably, our It’s been gratifying to hear from Jewish meant to serve as children of immigrants; first day of shooting, in December 2014, Americans about how grateful they are the antisemitism they confronted in basic was at 92-year-old Carl Reiner’s house that this story has been told for a national training on their way to fight the Nazis; in Beverly Hills. A gentleman and a audience. Many Jews don’t know the full the horror of the concentration camps mensch, he sat for an interview and history of this period, and it’s important they liberated; and how, on their return then allowed us to interview his close for non-Jewish audiences to learn about home, they found themselves changed friend and fellow GI Jew Mel Brooks the Jewish experience of World War II, forever,” she said. there that same afternoon. It was an from the standpoint of the men and auspicious start to the project.” “I was surprised that even though several women who served.” films had been made on aspects of Ades recorded almost 40 interviews Jewish Americans in World War II, no one with Jewish veterans, many of which had yet made a comprehensive docu- did not make it to the final cut. The line Mark Your Calendar: GI JEWS, November 6, 5:30 pm, U-M Museum of Art Auditorium FRANKE LY SPEAKING — Fall 2018 3 Events 2019 David W. Belin Lecturer James Loeffler “Prisoners of Zion: American Jews, Human Rights, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” n March 12, the Frankel The David W. Belin Lecture in American The book began as a relatively narrow Center will welcome Jewish Affairs was established at the study of American Jewish political Professor James Loeffler University of Michigan in 1991, through advocacy and legal diplomacy on behalf to the University of Michigan a gift from the late David W. Belin, to of Eastern European Jewry between the Oto deliver the 2019 David W. Belin Lecture provide an academic forum for the two world wars, and morphed over time in American Jewish Affairs. Loeffler’s discussion of contemporary Jewish life into a global history of Jewish involvement lecture, “Prisoners of Zion: American in the United States. Previous speakers in both the Zionist movement and the Jews, Human Rights, and the Israeli- have included Deborah Lipstadt, Samuel modern human rights movements of the Palestinian Conflict,” based on his Freedman, Lila Corwin Berman, and Ruth 20th century. Loeffler’s work weaves recently published Rooted Cosmopolitans: Messinger.
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