JEAN & SAMUEL FRANKEL CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES FALL 2017 FRANKELY SPEAKING

INSIDE 2 From the Director 3 Art Spiegelman 4 New Faculty 5 Visiting Faculty 6 2017-18 Fellows 8 Alumni Spotlight 9 Students 12 Retiring Faculty 14 Mazel Tov! 15 Books Joshua Scott at the Huqoq 16 Save the Date Excavation project in Israel. From the Director Lessons from the Ancients By Jeffrey Veidlinger, Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies

hat can we moderns learn from But the ancient sages also believed that many the ancients? This is one of the boundaries were artificial—they struggled many questions the Frankel intensely in defining gender boundaries, for Center will be investigating this instance, recognizing that gender identification Wyear through the Frankel Institute’s “Jews and was more fluid than the laws imagined. The the Material in Antiquity” theme year. Eleven rabbis were also engaged in efforts to demarcate scholars from around the world will be in the borders between human and beast, and residence at the University of Michigan to between human and divine. They were interested examine how ancient Jews and those in their orbit in understanding how we as humans fit into and understood the physical world around them. impact our physical environment. We will also be using this opportunity to look The ancients were also interested in the production afresh at the world around us. of knowledge. They endeavored to figure out I am not a historian of ancient Judaism myself, but which sources of information were real and I have learned a lot reading applications for the which were fake. Eventually whole new sets of year. I learned that ancient Jews were very aware texts emerged that were regarded as authoritative that they functioned in a multicultural No matter how high the walls of world. They certainly would never have used were built, they could not block out that term, but they new ways of looking at the world. were in constant conversation with by some and rejected by others. Even the ancient other cultures, sages struggled to get it right every time. The adapting foreign information bubble they constructed was technologies and intended to be impervious to foreign ideas, but, wrestling with again, constant contact with new and different different ideas. worldviews had its impact, leading to the diverse Cultural boundaries in the ancient world were and ever-changing traditions we cherish today. fluid—no matter how high the walls of Jerusalem Over the course of the year, the Frankel Center were built, they could not block out new ways of will be sponsoring a series of public events looking at the world. and exhibitions on the theme of Jews and the At the same time, the ancients, like us, were Material in Antiquity. I hope this gives us an eager to draw boundaries between themselves opportunity to reflect on what the ancients can and those they considered different. Improved teach us about the modern world. technologies like the codex, for instance, caught on quickly. But many Jews insisted on continuing to use the scroll, because that’s just who they were. In time, the scroll came to define Jewish difference. Like the hipsters who have helped bring about a revival of vinyl records, ancient Jews saw something of value in the older technology.

2 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 Events Art Spiegelman Pulitzer Prize-winning Artist/Illustrator & Author

artoonist and author Art and Nazis as cats. Spiegelman has Spiegelman will be visiting continued to be active since the the University of Michigan publication of Maus, producing several campus this fall for a lecture works, including The Ghosts of Ellis Cco-sponsored by the Frankel Center Island, Be a Nose, The Wild Party, and for Judaic Studies, Stamps School of Art Co-Mix. But he is aware that Maus will and Design, and the Conflict and Peace be a big part of his legacy. “I’ve got an Initiative. The lecture is part of both the obituary coming and it talks about a Frankel Speakers Series and the Penny Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. called Maus. So I’m aware of that, and His talk takes place November 9th at I’m grateful I suppose for it. But I 5 pm at the Michigan Theater. haven’t fully internalized that I’ve been Spiegelman has been drawing since he in rebellion against that fact ever since was 15 and has been creating innovative and haven’t found anything that has the through this is some of my love for a and provocative comics since the 1960s. same purchase on people’s brains that medium that I really think has not just “As a kid I would go to the Maus does.” been sold short for most of its life, but newspaper library to avoid Maus is considered a turning still hasn’t been appreciated for what it being dragged into a baseball point in the legitimizing of is, a circuit board of brain activity. The game after school,” he comics as an art form; and things that happen from the way those explained in an interview with today, the graphic novel has words and pictures are deposited, I think Frankely Speaking. “I would become a mainstay of con- is much richer and denser…than almost look at what was in the bound temporary literature. (The any other medium I can think of.” newspapers and read these University of Michigan even old comics and really think offers a course on the Jewish Maus remains a best seller today, more about what they were, who made them, Graphic Novel, taught by Maya Barzilai.) than 30 years after its original publication. and why and so on.” Besides publishing Spieglman can take a lot of credit for It is also widely considered one of the many graphic novels, Spiegelman has these developments. “I think I can most important and accessible reflections held a wide variety of positions, ranging proudly say that comics as a medium on the Holocaust: “The fact that it from creative consultant for Topps has moved on to the point that it’s just managed to navigate through [the Bubble Gum Co., to teacher of history like every other medium like fiction and sensitive subject of the Holocaust] and and the aesthetics of comics at the film and theater, which is most of it is tell a story without the usual ceremonial School for Visual Arts in New York. With really shit. I think back in the day I was violin music behind it maybe helped,” his wife, Françoise Mouly, he co-founded just hoping comics would achieve a Spieglman noted. Today, He is concerned RAW, the comics magazine, and was also higher level of mediocrity and they have.” about the continued relevance of Maus: “Us humans haven’t gotten any smarter a staff writer and artist forThe New Spiegelman’s talk, Comics is the Yiddish ultimately; if we have, it’s gone very Yorker from 1993 to 2003. of Art¸ will focus on the history of comic slowly. So, sadly, it remains relevant.... In 1992, Spiegelman won a Pulitzer Prize art and how Jewish artists have influ- We certainly don’t want to make it more for Maus, his graphic novel about the enced the form. “I guess what I would relevant.” Holocaust that portrays Jews as mice like people to take away once we go

Mark Your Calendar: Art Spiegelman, November 9, 5 pm, Michigan Theater

FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 3 Spiegelman photo: Enno Kapitza–Agentur Focus Spiegelman photo: Enno Kapitza–Agentur New Faculty

Bryan Roby Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies

The Frankel Center announces the history of Mizrahi social justice protests The scholarship being produced by my addition of Bryan Roby as Assistant in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s. I colleagues is innovative, intellectually Professor of Judaic Studies. Professor scoured through over a decade of declassi- rigorous, and simply fascinating. I look Roby is the author of The Mizrahi Era fied police reports documenting rebellions forward to contributing likewise during of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil and protests against discriminatory this exciting time of growth for the Rights Struggle, 1948-1967, which was practices affecting them and Palestinian University. published in 2015 by Syracuse University citizens. What I found most surprising My favorite thing about the University Press. He received his PhD in Middle was how much Mizrahi Israelis felt of Michigan is the ease of access to a East Studies from the University of affinities with the Black Diaspora and multitude of resources and university- Manchester in 2013, and has since held looked to the African American Civil Rights led cultural initiatives. I was pleasantly fellowships at New York University’s Movement for inspiration. My current surprised by the student-led Palestine Taub Center for Israel Studies and at the research goes further along these lines Film Festival and watched some amazing Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic by exploring how Middle Eastern Jewry films. I also really loved the “Stumbling Studies. He previously taught at the embraced notions of Blackness in Israel. Blocks” art installations during the Aardvark Israel Program in Tel Aviv. I think that situating Mizrahi history bicentennial celebrations. It was inspiring Professor Roby’s current research within both Judaic and Black Studies to see how much the University of focuses on the relationships between traditions will produce a fruitful conver- Michigan values its student body and the civil rights movements in Israel and sation about race in Israel and will allow understands the importance of diversity America. He will be teaching courses on scholars to look at new ways of examin- in changing history (on and off campus) the social and political history of Israel ing race relations outside the Americas. in positive ways. and on Jews in the Middle East and Can you tell me about your teaching plans? What are some of the things you North Africa. Frankely Speaking had I will be teaching courses on Jewish some questions for Professor Roby. enjoyed about being a Fellow at the history in the Middle East and North Frankel Institute? Tell me something interesting about Africa as well as courses on Israeli As an Institute Fellow, I had the once- your background: history. My courses will focus on the in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a I grew up on the Southside of Chicago and, subject matters of social justice; Jewish year engaging with some of the top after attending UMass Amherst for literature in the Middle East; (post)- junior and senior scholars who are undergraduate studies, moved to Man- colonial Jewish struggles in North Africa; tackling similar issues from a variety of chester, England and earned a PhD in and the intersections of race, gender, angles. I particularly enjoyed the sense Middle Eastern Studies. I’ve traveled a lot and sexuality in various geographic and of camaraderie, which allowed for a and lived in Israel and countries through- historical contexts. I hope students learn frank discussion of issues like migration out Europe, and really love learning new about the different levels of diversity and memory that can be quite challeng- languages. I speak (Judeo-) Arabic, French, found within Jewish history and leave ing for scholars of Israel. One of the and Hebrew. I’m slowly learning German the classroom with an understanding of main takeaways I had from my year as and hope to pick up Esperanto one day. the significance of Middle Eastern Jewish a Fellow was the sense of urgency in What is most interesting about your contributions to world music, literature, looking at the study of Israel from a research? culture, and intellectual production. comparative perspective. This pushed In my research, I focus on the modern What are you most looking forward to me to implement some of the issues history of Middle Eastern and North about U-M? discussed into my second book project, African Jews, who are often referred to I chose Michigan because the Frankel which I hope will make it more rich and as “Mizrahim,” or Arab Jews. In my first Center is quickly positioning itself as insightful. book, I provided the first comprehensive an intellectual powerhouse in my field.

4 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 Visiting Faculty

Sarra Lev Louis and Helen Padnos Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies

We are pleased to welcome to campus Can you tell me a bit about your The course “Ethics and the Rabbis” is an Sarra Lev, the 2017 Louis and Helen scholarly research? experiment for me. I did not want to call Padnos Visiting Professor in Judaic My current research focuses on two it “rabbinic ethics” or some such title, Studies. Professor Lev is Associate categories of intersexuality in rabbinic because I am interested in thinking not Professor of Rabbinics at Reconstruc- literature, the androginos and the only about the ethical system of these tionist Rabbinical College and Affiliate tumtum. I have always had an affinity texts themselves, but about how our Associate Professor at the University with others who do not match cultural own ethical systems might interact with of New Hampshire. She is also an and social expectations, especially them. To manage such a course without ordained rabbi. regarding sex, gender, and sexuality, either becoming entirely anachronistic Professor Lev will be bringing her which drew me to the topic. What I love or making the texts entirely historically talmudic expertise to the University of about this topic is that the rabbis of the contingent is a difficult balance, and I Michigan to teach two courses in the fall first five centuries CE actually talk about look forward to the challenge. semester: Judaic 260: Introduction to intersexuality as if it is the most natural What are you most looking forward to at the Talmud and the Rabbis and Judaic phenomenon, which, in fact, it is, rather the University of Michigan? 417: Ethics and the Rabbis. than trying to cover it up, as we do today I currently teach at a very small rabbinical through surgery and silence. As Padnos Visiting Scholar, Professor college. I look forward to new colleagues Lev will also be delivering two public What can audiences expect to hear at and to cross-disciplinary conversations. talks, one in Ann Arbor on October 24 your two public lectures? Can you tell me about a historical figure and one in Grand Rapids on November The two lectures that I am presenting you would like to meet? 5 in Temple Emanuel. will be on the subject of androginos, I would love to meet Emma Goldman, someone who ostensibly has male and anarchist political activist and writer, The Padnos Visiting Professorship is female genitals. What I would like people made possible by a generous donation because she defied norms, possessed an to learn from these lectures is how the enormous amount of integrity, and from Stuart Padnos, who in 1988 rabbis manage the contradiction established the Professorship in considered the world a place in which between their binary gender system and she could have an active role for justice. commemoration of his parents, the existence of bodies that confound Helen and Louis Padnos. The Padnos’ that system. What do you see as your greatest success? endowment enables the Frankel Center I believe my greatest success is the fact to annually bring a distinguished scholar Can you tell us about your teaching that many of my students come into my to campus to teach at the University of plans for the semester? (compulsory) classes with great Michigan. I am teaching “Introduction to the resistance and leave with a love of Talmud and the Rabbis” and an upper- rabbinic literature. Frankely Speaking asked Professor Lev level undergraduate/graduate course some questions about her plans for the titled “Ethics and the Rabbis.” These semester and her career trajectory. actually fall into the category of courses I love to teach, each for a different reason. Teaching intro courses is one of my favorite things to do, because it allows me to build up students’ knowledge from the start, and it is the place where most light bulbs go off.

FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 5 Fellows Meet the 2017-18 Frankel Institute Fellows

Todd Berzon Sean Burrus Deborah Forger Bowdoin College Metropolitan Museum University of Michigan “Holy Tongues: “Image and Empire: Jewish “God’s Embodiment in The Materiality of Language Identities and Visual Arts Jewish Antiquity” in the Religious World of under Rome” Forger received her PhD in Late Antiquity” Burrus received his PhD Near Eastern studies from Berzon is assistant profes- in the history of Judaism the University of Michigan. sor of religion at Bowdoin at Duke University and She also holds master’s College. He specializes in the religions of recently completed a year as the Bothmer degrees from Duke University and the late antiquity, with a particular interest in Research Fellow in Greek and Roman art University of Michigan. Much of her work how ancient religious communities that at the Metropolitan Museum. His research centers on questions related to how the viewed themselves as distinct (orthodox/ explores the role of material and visual so-called parting of the ways occurred heterodox, Jewish/Christian, etc.) articu- culture in the Jewish experience of late between Judaism and Christianity. Her lated and negotiated perceived differences. antiquity. Currently, he is working on a current research analyzes how Jews, He is the author of Classifying Christians: monograph exploring Jewish visual culture and later Christians, envisioned God in Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits through a series of case studies across corporeal form and humans as divine. of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. His current different media, including mosaics, wall research project, entitled Holy Tongues, paintings, and marble. Chaya Halberstam investigates how Jews and Christians con- King’s University College ceptualized verbal language as a material Catherine Chin at the University of and corporeal object. He received his BA, University of California at Davis Western Ontario MA, and PhD from Columbia University. “Life: The Natural History of an “Justice and Mercy Early Christian Universe” Revisited: a Religious- Rick Bonnie Chin’s work explores how mundane Legal History of Judicial University of Helsinki objects can, with the right kind of attention, Impartiality” “Material Religion in create extraordinary imaginative worlds. Halberstam is associate professor of Hasmonean-Roman Her book Grammar and Christianity in Hebrew Bible and Judaism in the de- Judaea: The Role of the the Late Roman World examines the partment of religious studies at King’s Senses, Space, and Climate supernatural worlds that lurk behind, and University College at Western University in Determining the Use of sometimes in front of, ancient educational in London, Ontario (Canada). She earned Synagogues and Miqva’ot” texts. She recently coedited two books, her PhD from , and has held Bonnie is a postdoctoral researcher in the Late Ancient Knowing and Melania: Early academic posts at King’s College London Centre of Excellence in Changes in Sacred Christianity Through the Life of One Family. (UK) and Indiana University, Bloomington. Texts and Traditions at the University of Currently she is working on multiple Her interdisciplinary work focuses on ideas Helsinki. He earned his BA and MA from projects under the rubric Life: The Natural and discourses of law in ancient Jewish Leiden University and his PhD in archaeology History of an Early Christian Universe. literature, and her current research is on from the University of Leuven. Bonnie’s She received her PhD from Duke University the intersection of law, emotion, and care current research focuses on studying Jewish and teaches at the University of California in ancient attitudes toward judging. Her material culture in Hasmonean-Roman at Davis. book Law and Truth in Biblical and Rab- Judaea in relation to the climatic environment, binic Literature won the Salo Baron Prize visual space, and the human senses. He is for best first book in Jewish Studies. She is the author of the forthcoming book Being also the author of several book chapters Jewish in Galilee, 100–200 CE: An Archaeo- and articles in Prooftexts, Jewish Studies logical Study, and is currently co-editing a Quarterly, Law, Culture, & Humanities, and volume entitled The Synagogue in Ancient the Journal of Ancient Judaism. Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends.

6 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 This year, researching on the theme of “Jews and the them, and how the material world impacted the develop- Material in Antiquity,” eleven scholars will spend the ment of Judaism. The fellows will present lectures and semester or year at the Frankel Center investigating how symposia, and participate in a range of events open to the Jews in antiquity understood the material world around public. We are thrilled to welcome them all to Ann Arbor.

Rachel Neis to treat physical ailments, from amulets and Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism: University of Michigan and local healing cults to incantations and An Analysis of Ma’aseh Merkavah; he is “The Reproduction of liturgical prayers. Much of the research for also coauthor, with Joseph Yahalom, of Species: Humans and her current project was completed during Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur Other Materials in Ancient her residency at the W.F. Albright Institute and, with Lawrence H. Schiffman, of Rabbinic ‘Biology’” of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts Neis holds the Jean and from the Cairo Genizah: Selected Texts Samuel Frankel Chair of Daniel Picus from Taylor-Schechter Box K1. He also Rabbinics and is associate professor in the Brown University served as the associate editor for Judaica history department and the Frankel Center “Ink Sea, Parchment Sky: for the second edition of the Encyclopedia for Judaic Studies at the University of Reading Practices of Late of Religion. Michigan. Neis has a PhD in Jewish studies Ancient Rabbis” from , an MA in religious Picus (PhD expected 2017) Juan Manuel Tebes studies from Boston University, and a law studies religion in the Catholic University of degree from the London School of Eco- ancient Mediterranean at Argentina nomics. Neis also studied art at the Bezalel Brown University. He holds a BA in classics “Fluid Cultural Boundar- School of Art and Design. Her first book, from Macalester College, and an MA in ies in Idumaea and the The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish studies in the Greco-Roman period Formation of Jewish and Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity from the University of Oxford. His research Idumaean Identities” won the Salon Baron Prize for best first focuses on Jews and Christians in late Tebes is a Near Eastern book in Jewish studies and an honorable antiquity, and is driven by questions sur- historian with areas of specialization in the mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Award. rounding the relationship between people, history and archaeology of the Iron Age Neis studies and teaches Talmud, ancient groups, and texts. At the Frankel Institute, southern Levant and northwestern Arabia. Jewish history, Jewish visual culture, and he will continue his research on reading as Tebes currently teaches at the Catholic comparative law. She is currently working a material, embodied practice among late University of Argentina and the University on a book project about rabbinic concep- ancient Jews. of Buenos Aires and is also a researcher at tions of species (human and otherwise) at the National Research Council of Argentina. the intersection of ancient reproductive Michael Swartz He has been a research fellow at several science and zoology. Ohio State University international institutions, including the “The Economics of Ritual in W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Megan Nutzman Judaism in Late Antiquity” Research in Jerusalem, the American Old Dominion University Swartz is professor of Center of Oriental Research in Amman, “Asclepius and Elijah: Hebrew and religious the Maison de l’Archéologie et de Ritual Healing in Roman and studies at The Ohio State l’Ethnologie in Paris, the University of Late Antique Palestine” University and specializes Sydney, and New York University. Nutzman is assistant pro- in the cultural history of Judaism in late fessor of ancient history at antiquity, rabbinic studies, early Jewish Old Dominion University. mysticism and magic, and ritual studies. He Her work focuses on the intersection of received his PhD in Near Eastern languages Greco-Roman religions, Judaism, and and literatures at New York University in Christianity, with a special emphasis on 1986. He is the author of The Mechanics the land of Israel. She received a PhD in of Providence: The Workings of Ancient classics from the University of Chicago Jewish Magic and Mysticism, The Signifying and earned an MTS and a ThM from Holy Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Ancient Judaism, Scholastic Magic: Ritual Her current project examines rituals used and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism,

FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 7 Alumni Spotlight

Sarah Autry BS, Cell and Molecular Biology and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, 2004

MPH, Environmental Health Policy, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2008

n an interview with Frankely ing to be able to suggest and implement Who are some of the U-M professors Speaking, Sarah Autry talked about changes that allow people to spend who inspired you? how her courses in Judaic Studies more time doing what they excel at and I’m pretty sure I took every class that opened up unexpected opportunities. less time fighting with technology. Professor Endelman offered during my I four years at U-M, and I even did a bit of Tell me about your current position: I also work with a wonderful team, made research for him. I also took a couple of up of really smart, creative, motivated I am the Director of Business Systems at courses with Ralph Williams, including people with impressive and diverse the Union for Reform Judaism. Fundamen- one on the works of Primo Levi, and his skills. It’s a pleasure to come into the tally, my job is to solve the organization’s lectures were an absorbing, almost office and solve problems with them. business problems using technology: to theatrical, experience. find ways to help my colleagues do their How did you get interested in What advice would you give to jobs more smoothly and help them access Judaic Studies? students who are considering and analyze information so they can My original plan didn’t involve majoring studying Judaic Studies? make well-informed decisions. I lead a in Judaic Studies—I was a Cell and When I decided to major in Judaic Studies, great team of business analysts, systems Molecular Biology major who wanted to I didn’t have specific plans for how I’d analysts, and software developers. We study more Hebrew. But in my first use the degree after I graduated—I made redefine and automate business process- semester, I took a History of the Holo- the choice because it interested me at es, make decisions about what systems caust class with Todd Endelman. It was a the time. I assumed that after graduation and applications the organization should very satisfying intellectual experience, I’d be working in a research lab using my use, provide training, and generally act and I knew I wanted to take more of his science degree, but I actually got my to help the business function smoothly. classes. So I decided to major in Judaic first job largely on the strength of the Studies, too, which kept me busy! What are some of the most rewarding writing sample I provided: a paper I’d parts of your work? How did your education at the Frankel written senior year about Primo Levi, It’s satisfying to change a process or Center prepare you for your current Tiresias, and having one foot in each build a program that will consistently position? world. save someone hours of work every week My education didn’t lead directly to the You don’t always know what will open or month. It’s a great feeling for me and job I have now, though I do work at a doors for you…or even what doors you’ll my team, and it’s usually a great feeling Jewish nonprofit. It’s very important in want to open! But I think the best way to for the colleagues we’re working with as my job to be able to be a liaison between discover those answers is to pursue the well. I don’t work at a tech company, technical and non-technical people, and things that call out to you. and my colleagues aren’t necessarily that’s something I started learning when deeply interested in technology—they’re I studied in both the sciences and the interested in creating programming for humanities. the communities they serve. It’s reward-

8 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 Students Class of 2017

n 2017, fifteen undergraduate students and two graduate students earned degrees in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Judaic Studies Besides their focus in Judaic Studies, our students studied subjects including Core Courses cognitive science, history, and psychology. “Judaic Studies gave me skills to udaic Studies at the University of Ithink critically about multiple areas in my life,” said Rachel Klein of Ferndale, who Michigan offers a diverse curriculum majored in Judaic Studies and International Studies. “Although I was learning about to undergrads, including three core specific areas in Judaism—Jewish history, etc.—these skills can be applied to other J courses, which give students a broad areas in my life.” Klein is working as a community orga- introduction to the program. Students nizer for Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength majoring in Judaic Studies are required to (MOSES), which trains religious leaders to advocate for social take at least two of the three courses in justice in metro Detroit. addition to the elective courses they can Sharo Costa, who also earned a degree in Judaic Studies, is choose to complete the required credits. attending Vanderbilt University to study International Educa- “What is Judaism” studies the rise and tion Policy. “Deciding to become a Judaic Studies major has development of Jewish civilization and the been the most fulfilling decision I’ve made during my time at diversity that has marked Jewish culture Michigan,” Costa said. “Every day, I am intellectually chal- and religious expression. Students explore lenged by my professors and peers, and cherished by the cultural strategies that enabled Jews to many friends I’ve come to know.” Costa, who was born in Klein adapt to changing historical conditions Kanyakumari, India, and lived in Saudi Arabia before com- and gave new meaning to Jewish identity. ing to the United States, added: “I have been able to learn so much about a country whose narrative is often left out of “Sources of Jewish History” explores the curricula in the Middle East, and the classes I’ve taken have Jewish historical experience through sig- greatly expanded my perspective.” nificant texts, places, and cultural objects. Students learn about the histories of the Each year the Frankel Center honors a graduate with the Jewish people, from their ancient origins Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award. To receive this to the present. award students must be graduating with at least a 3.8 GPA and be recommended by Judaic Studies faculty members. “Jews in the Modern World” examines the This April, the award was presented to Seif-Eldeen Basheer ways in which Jews in Europe, America, Saqallah of West Bloomfield. In recommending Saqallah for Israel, and the Middle East have responded Costa the award, one of his teachers wrote of him: “Seif has been to the cultural, political, economic, and the most engaged student I’ve had at the University of Michigan, regularly coming social forces of modernity. Students will to my office hours to discuss class material in greater depth, actively contribut- consider how Jewish cultures have been ing to classroom discussions in an informed and passionate way. His presence in shaped and reshaped in the face of class and in office hours was always stimulating, and the written material that he unprecedented new freedoms and produced was consistently the highest quality in the class, both in terms of writing persecutions. and in terms of his analytical abilities.” Saquallah is currently attending University of All three classes are foundational courses Michigan Law School. designed to put students on the path to a well-rounded Judaic Studies education.

FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 9 Students

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Frankel Center is able to provide a variety of fellowships, travel grants, and research grants in support of our students. This year twelve students received funding to learn about conflict resolution in Israel, attend language study programs, participate in archaeological excavations, and attend seminars in Talmud and Judaic texts.

Brandt Graduate Fellowship Challenge Account Stanley Frankel Summer Travel Fellowship Frances & Hubert Brandt Israel Fellowship Joshua Scott (PhD, NES) traveled to Israel to work on the Huqoq Yaakov Herskovitz (PhD, NES) Excavation project. “I’ve learned a received funding to conduct great deal about the stratigraphy of dissertation research in Israel and ancient sites and how materials are to present papers at the National catalogued and preserved.” Photo Association of Professors of Hebrew Credit: Jim Haberman conference and the American Comparative Literature Association. Jerold & Kathleen Solovy Fund

Delta Phi Epsilon Scholarships Jason Wagner (PhD, Slavic Language and Literatures) (l) Miriam Saperstein (Undergrad, LSA) and Yeshua Tolle (PhD, English attended Svara’s Queer Talmud Language and Literatures) (r) Camp-Rabbinical & Bliblical Text attended the Naomi Prawer Kadar Study in California. “I am super Yiddish Summer Program at Tel excited to learn more about the Aviv University. SVARA method for Talmud study so Tolle explained: “My research that I can incorporate that into how explores the intersection of Orthodoxy and modernity in I understand Jewish texts in my classes, and also how I Jewish literature of the past century. Yiddish language and facilitate learning as a leader of Ahava. I’m also really excited culture can, I believe, reorient our sense of Jewish intellectual to be in a queer Jewish space!” and literary history in America, allowing us to recover impor- tant lives and works ignored by narratives of secularization.”

Frankel Family Fellowship Fund Joshua Flink (Judaic Studies Minor) Orna & Keenan Wolens Global Experience Fund conducted research and took Martha K. Bindeman Student Awards Fund classes at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem this summer. Rachel Woods (Judaic Studies “I have had the privilege to study Minor) participated in U-M’s with astounding scholars such as Global and Intercultural Study Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Course, “Conflict Resolution Halevi. We have had a number of tiyulim (trips) around and Co-Resistance.” Jerusalem where we have explored Jewish and Palestinian art “I was able to study the culture of as well as the Christian institutions in western Jerusalem. For West Jerusalem and the Old City, my internship, I have been matched with a mentor, Yehuda Bethlehem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Kurtzer, and have been assisting him with his research. beyond. Although it was absolutely amazing to see the Overall, it’s been an incredible experience to live in Jerusalem beautiful landscapes of the Israeli countryside and learn and has been inspiring to be immersed in the heart of about historic and religious landmarks, my favorite part was intellectual thought.” meeting the people around the country.”

10 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 2017 Student Awards

Marshall M. Weinberg Prize

Harry Kashdan (PhD, Comparative Literature) was presented the award for the work on his dissertation prospectus, Eating Elsewhere: Food and Migration in the Contemporary Mediterranean. “The final chapter of my dissertation explicitly attempts to link Judaic and Mediter- ranean Studies, and I plan for this intersection to be a major research area for me in the years to come.” Kashdan also received funding from the Marshall M. Weinberg Endowed Fund to attend an intensive Ladino/Judezmo Summer Skills Workshop in Colorado. L to R: Rima Miah, Noah McCarthy, and Rachel Woods volunteering at Leket Israel (the largest food bank in the country) Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award picking surplus cabbage at a farm outside of Nazareth. Seif-Eldeen Basheer Saqallah (BA, Judaic Studies) was named outstanding undergraduate Weingast Family Fund student. He is currently attend- Noah McCarthy (History Major) and Rima Miah (Business ing University of Michigan Law Administration Major) participated in U-M’s Global and Inter- School. “Judaic Studies is an cultural Study Course, “Conflict Resolution and Co-Resistance.” amazing program, one which Miah explained: “While abroad, we traveled through 13 cities in possesses great insights and Israel and the West Bank meeting with people from different abilities for examining ancient and modern issues.” backgrounds and identities and visiting famous and religiously historical sites. This allowed me to gain insight on the conflict in an unbiased perspective, something I had not received prior to the trip.” McCarthy noted: “I biked along the beaches of Tel Aviv and explored the backstreets of Jerusalem’s Old City, but I also Marshall M. Weinberg Endowed Fund met with Hasidim, Druze Arabs, members of Beta Israel, and for Graduate Students more. It was a privilege to hear all the different voices and Hannah Roussel (PhD, History) stories that define and enrich the Jewish State.” attended the Svara Program to participate in language training in Nathan Moretto (MA, Judaic Studies) rabbinic literature in Wisconsin and received funding from both the California. “Talmud is central to my Weingast Family Fund and an anony- research at the University of Michigan, mous donor to participate in an so dedicating four days to intensive excavation project at Kiriath-Jearim study was a main goal in attending…. This experience definitely in Abu Gosh, Israel through Tel Aviv enriched my own learning and pedagogy, which are highly University and Collège de France. important to my work in academia.” “This is a Biblical site that has not yet been excavated, though it has been surveyed, and this summer will be the first time to break ground. Hopefully this dig will shed light on the ancient cult history of Judah and Jerusalem.”

FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 11 Retiring Faculty

In 2018, two longtime Judaic Studies faculty will be retiring from the University of Michigan. The Frankel Center wishes Zvi Gitelman, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and Political Science, and Anita Norich, Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor of Judaic Studies and English, the best in their future endeavors and, together with their many students, thanks them for all that they have done to advance Judaic Studies at Michigan.

Zvi Gitelman by Jeffrey Veildinger

he opening of the Soviet Soviet Union. In his reading, which he for generations of Wolverines. Students archives during glasnost expanded in his monumental textbook, who have had the good fortune to study was one of the greatest finds A Century of Ambivalence, the early with him recall how hard they had to in Jewish studies, arguably revolutionary years were neither the work for that B+, and how much they Trivaled only by Solomon Schechter’s culmination of Jewish political achieve- learned in the process. His passion, wit, identification of the Cairo Geniza and the ment nor the result of unbridled erudition, and high expectations often discovery of the Dead oppression, but rather represented a come up in student comments. Sea Scrolls by three failed attempt at cultural, intellectual, Although he is retiring from the class- Bedouin shepherds. and political rebirth. room after 49 years, Gitelman continues While numerous dis- Gitelman’s 1997 volume, Bitter Legacy: to be an active teacher and researcher. coveries of forgotten Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR, He is currently working on at least two Soviet Yiddish poets, initiated a whole new direction of schol- books, and is initiating a larger project to Judaic religious arship on both the Holocaust and the help Russian-Jewish immigrants learn practices in Ukraine, Soviet Union. He showed that the Soviet about their own heritage. One of the Holocaust-era killing government did not completely suppress founders of the Frankel Center, Gitelman sites in Belarus, and knowledge of the Holocaust, as had remains a voice of authority and a stal- lost manuscripts commonly been assumed, but rather wart defender of the highest standards in St. Petersburg reinterpreted the Holocaust to conform of teaching and research. have transformed to a broader Soviet intellectual frame- Jewish studies, the When the last chapter of Deuteronomy work. More recently, Gitelman authored is read in synagogue on the festival of central arguments a book that was the result of a decade that Zvi Gitelman has Simchat Torah, it is customary for the of surveys among post-Soviet Russian congregation to chant “Chazak, chazak advanced—many and Ukrainian Jews about their attitudes long before the opening of the archives ve nitchazek,” (be strong, be strong, toward Jewish identity and Judaism. This and let us gather new strength), after confirmed his views—have remained sobering account shows that while some relevant, accurate, and influential. which the congregation immediately post-Soviet Jews have taken on aspects begins reading the Torah anew from His first book,Jewish Nationality and of Jewish identity, it is what Gitelman the first chapter of Genesis. As one Soviet Politics, based on his Columbia calls a “thin” identity, and is unlikely to session of study ends, another begins. dissertation and written during a period be sustained in future generations. As Zvi Gitelman begins a new session in which American scholarship was Gitelman’s scholarship has earned him of study, we all wish him chazak, highly politicized by Cold War battles, accolades from Uzbekistan to Brighton chazak ve nitchazek. presented a nuanced and revisionist Beach, but here in Michigan he is more account of the Jewish experience in the widely recognized as a favorite professor

Please join us for a 3 pm panel discussion, 5 pm lecture by Zvi Gitelman, and reception to follow on December 4, Rackham Assembly Hall.

12 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 Anita Norich by Julian Levinson

first met Anita Norich on the Yiddish modernism. Here was a rambling the class, she noticed, I would rephrase shelves of an academic press assortment of midwestern Shakespear- the question in slightly different lan- bookstore during an extended eans and post-structuralists with a keen guage several times, until somebody layover in Houston. I was a young appreciation for Yankev Glatshteyn. How finally answered. “Instead, askone good Igraduate student trying to organize my easy it was, given Anita’s presence, to question,” she told me, “and give the ideas about modern Jewish literature, introduce myself to my colleagues as a students time to ponder it.” Thus is her and here was a title that demanded my Jewish Americanist. Indeed, I have been pedagogy marked by attention: The Homeless Imagination continually impressed by Anita’s ability deep faith the learn- in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer. to communicate with non-specialists, ing process—and her What? A whole book dedicated to I. B.’s even with those whose awareness of advice here as always brother? Who was this I. J. and who was Jewish culture may go no further than was incisive, well- this A. Norich who had devoted so much a few stereotypes. Where some in her honed, and eminently time to him? That book showed me, position might leave Yiddish or Hebrew practical. as all of her dazzling scholarship has, words untranslated or forget to explain I have been con- what a serious Jewish literary criticism historical figures and movements in tinually amazed by could and should look like. It was subtly Jewish life, Anita never makes anybody Anita’s brilliance argued, impeccably researched, wholly feel like an outsider (translation is, after and versatility, while being moved by her Where some in her position might leave Yiddish uproarious sense of or Hebrew words untranslated or forget to explain humor and generos- ity. An example of the historical figures and movements in Jewish life, latter that I can’t help Anita never makes anybody feel like an outsider. but mention here: When my father died, my wife and I were busy taking care of our newborn twins, unapologetic, and sharply attuned to the all, one of her areas of expertise). She and in no position to hold a shiva (Jew- multiple contexts shaping modern Jewish is keenly aware of her audience, which ish mourning ritual). Anita assured me culture: literary, political, religious, geo- helps explain why everybody feels like that such things are important, and she graphical, and, of course, linguistic. an insider when she begins talking. opened her home to me. What would When I joined the Michigan faculty in Having soon recognized what her stu- I have done without a space to mourn 2000, Anita moved from being a key dents all knew—that Anita is a virtuoso with friends and colleagues? How would reference on my reading lists to my in the classroom—I naturally turned I have honored my father’s memory? closest colleague and mentor, and a to her for advice about teaching. After Anita’s generosity in this case was dear friend. I soon discovered that Anita visiting one of my classes, she offered a matched by her deep wisdom, which had schooled the entire English depart- critique that I still bear in mind whenever has enriched me as it has so many at ment quite thoroughly in the nuances of I teach. Each time I posed a question to Michigan and far, far beyond.

Please join us for a panel discussion and celebration of Anita Norich on March 21, 1 pm, Rackham Assembly Hall FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 13 Mazel Tov!

Graduate Students Brian Schmidt received the Humanities Homilist in Chrono-Locational Perspective,” Research Award from the College of in the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Sam Shuman was awarded a Conference Literature, Science, and the Arts at the Jewish Setting. Travel Grant from the Association for Social University of Michigan and a Hadassah- Scientific Study of Jewry. He also present- Brandeis Research Grant from Brandeis ed papers at the annual Association for Past Fellows University. He also published “Gender Jewish Studies and American Anthropo- Susan C. Dessel was invited to participate Marking, Overlapping and the Identity of logical Association conferences and at the in the “Dangerous Women Project,” an the Bes-Like Figures at Kuntillet Ajrud,” in New York Working Group on Jewish initiative of the Institute for Advanced History, Archaeology and The Bible Forty Orthodoxies December meeting along with Studies in the Humanities at the University Years After “Historicity.” fellow PhD student, Shira Schwartz. of Edinburgh. She was also invited to David Schoem published “Honoring the Shira Schwartz was awarded a Short-Term participate in “Trees of Life and Evil Eyes: Humanity of Our Students,” in Well-Being Research Fellowship in Jewish Orthodoxy A Contemporary Take on Superstition, and Higher Education. from Fordham University. Symbols and Mysticism” at the Abrazo Jeffrey Veidlingerreceived an NEH Public Interno Gallery Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center in conjunction with Yiddish New York. Visiting Faculty Scholars Grant for work on his book on the pogroms of 1919-1921. He also published Lois Dubin published “Diversity on the Shelley Perlove presented “Irony and “Was the Doctor’s Plot a Blood Libel?” in Frontiers in the 18th Century: Why Trieste? Anti-Judaism in Maerten van Heemskerck’s Eugene Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel Chen, and Then and Now” -Gli ebrei nella storia del Hermitage Crucifixion” at the Renaissance Robert Weinberg, eds., The Worlds of Ritual Friuli Venezia Giulia, eds., Miriam David and Society of America. She also recently Murder: Culture, Politics, and Belief in Pietro Ioly Zorattini. She was an Ellie and spoke at the Yeshiva University Museum of Eastern Europe and Beyond, “Jewish Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow at the Art in New York City. Geography in Three Cities: St. Petersburg, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the Moscow and Warsaw in 1897” in Mikhail University of Pennsylvania. Faculty Krutikov and Gennady Estraikh, eds., Three Kirsten Fermaglich began a five-year Maya Barzilai received honorable mention Cities of Yiddish: St. Petersburg, Warsaw tenure as coeditor of the Journal American in the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize and Moscow, and “What if Russian Jewry Jewish History and was invited to partici- for her book Golem: Modern Wars and Had Never Been Confined to the Pale of pate in the workshop inaugurating the Their Monsters. Jewish Settlement?” in Gavriel Rosenfeld, ed., working group, “Situating American Jewish What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Walter Cohen spoke at Warwick University Studies,” through the Berman Center at Zionism. He continues to serve as a Vice-Presi- (UK) on “The Early Modern Period and the Lehigh University. dent of the Association for Jewish Studies. Current Phase of World Literature.” Jessica Marglin published her book, Across Rebecca Wollenberg was awarded the De Zvi Gitelman was awarded the Bernard Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Gruyter Prize for Biblical Reception History Chased/Natalie Mendel Racolsky Fellowship, Morocco. She also published the article and Biblical Studies from the Society of YIVO Institute for Jewish Social Research. “Sharia Courts and the Study of Moroccan Biblical Literature and received a Regional He also published an article, “Ruminations Jews” in Hesperis-Tamuda. Development Grant from the American on Resistance and Rationalism,” in Victoria Academy of Religion. She also published “I Monique Rodrigues Balbuena was a finalist Khiterer, ed., Holocaust Resistance in am God Your Healer: A Short Note on the I for the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Europe and America: New Aspects and Am Sayings and the Dangers of a Transla- in the category of Sephardic Culture for her Dilemmas. tion Tradition,” in Novum Testamentum book Homeless Tongues Poetry and Rachel Neis published “Religious Lives of and “The Dangers of Reading as We Know Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora. She Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in it” in Journal of the American Academy of also published her article, “Ladino in US Late Antique Palestine,” in Archiv für Religion. Literature and Song” in The Cambridge Religionsgeschichte. She also spoke at the History of Jewish American Literature. Klingenstein Annual Lecture in Judaic Current Fellows Veerle Vanden Daelen was appointed Studies in New College Florida, and Deputy General Director and Curator at presented “Species, Reproduction and the Deborah Forger published “Interpreting Kazerne Dossin: Memorial, Museum and Question of Hybridity in Classical Rabbinic the Syrophoenician Woman to Construct Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Literature,” at Duke University. Jewish-Christian Fault Lines: John Chrysostom and the Pseudo-Clementine Human Rights.

14 FRANKE LY SPEAKING — FALL 2017 Books

Maya Barzilai, Associate Literature: The West and the Mikhail Krutikov, Professor, Jewish Literature between Professor, Department of World from Antiquity to the Department of Slavic Languages East and West, 1919-1933, Near Eastern Studies, Golem: Present, Oxford University Press and Literatures, Three Cities University of Michigan Press Modern Wars and Their Deborah Dash Moore, of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw David Schoem, Professor, , , Monsters NYU Press Frederick G.L. Huetwell and Moscow Routledge Department of German, Gabriele Boccaccini, Professor, Professor of History, Depart- Brian Schmidt, Associate Teaching the Whole Student: Department of Near Eastern ment of History, Taking Stock: Professor, Department of Near Engaged Learning With Heart, Studies, Paul the Jew: Reread- Cultures of Enumeration in Eastern Studies, The Materiality Mind, and Spirit, Stylus Publishing , ing the Apostle as a Figure Contemporary Jewish Life of Power: Exploration on the Scott Spector, Professor, , of Second Temple Judaism Indiana University Press Social History of Early Israelite Department of German, Violent , Fortress Press; Enoch and the Caroline Helton, Associate Magic Mohr Siebeck Sensations: Sex, Crime, and , Synoptic Gospels SBL Press Professor, School of Music, Rachel Seelig Fellow, Frankel Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, Walter Cohen, Professor, La Tregua: Songs from a Lost Institute for Advanced Judaic 1860-1914, University of Department of English, World of Italian Jewish Compos- Studies; University of Chicago, Chicago A History of European ers, Vol. II, Blue Griffin Records Strangers in Berlin: Modern

Songs from a Lost World of LaItalian Jewish Composers,Tregua Vol. II (1895-1945)

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Kalman Weiser published Yiddish: a Survey Excellence Research Award from the Eve Posen (BA, 2004) published her new and a Grammar, Revised Edition with University of South Carolina Provost’s book, Pirkei Imahot: Wisdom of Mothers, coeditor David Birnbaum. He also published Office. The Voices of Women with co-author Lois two articles: “Yiddish: A Survey and a Jessica Evans (BA, 2008) accepted a Shenker. Grammar in its historical and cultural position at American Jewish World Service Andrea Ritter (MA, 2013) was hired as an context” and “Saving Yiddish, Saving as Associate Director, Institutional Giving. administrative assistant at Wayne State America Jewry: Max Weinreich in 1940s Deborah Forger (PhD, 2016) published University’s Cohn-Haddow Center for New York City - Languages of Modern Judaic Studies. Jewish Culture: Comparative Perspectives.” “Interpreting the Syrophoenician Woman to Construct Jewish-Christian Fault Lines: Melissa Sherman (BA, 2009) was honored Alumni John Chrysostom and the Pseudo-Clemen- as one of the “36 under 36” in the January tine Homilist in Chrono-Locational 2017 issue of the Detroit Jewish News. J.H. (Yossi) Chajes (BA, 1988) was awarded Perspective,” in the Journal of the Jesus Asa Smith (BA, 2011) was hired as an the Friedberg Prize from Israel Science Movement in its Jewish Setting. associate at Epstein, Becker, & Green, P.C. Foundation, and published his book, Sara Halpern (MA, 2010) received a Junior in the Labor & Employment Department. Between Worlds. He also published an Research Grant from Hadassah-Brandeis article, “Ansky’s Dybbuk as Heretical Institute, the Fritz Halbers Fellowship from Midrash,” in Jewish Studies Quarterly. Retired Faculty the Leo Baeck Institute, and a Sharon Todd Endelman spoke at a memorial Anna Cichopek-Gajraj (PhD, 2008) was a Abramson Research Grant from the meeting at the University of Southern 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Finalist Holocaust Educational Foundation of California for the Holocaust and Anglo- for Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Northwestern University. She will also be Jewish historian David Cesarani. He also Poland and Slovakia, 1944–1948. on a Visiting Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph published “The Jewish Health Organization and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Saskia Coenen Snyder (PhD, 2008) received of Great Britain in the East End of London, Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial a Fellowship-in-Residence at the Nether- 1923-1946,” in An East End Legacy: Essays Museum. lands Institute for Advanced Study, a in Memory of William J. Fishman and “Salo research award from the Memorial Erica Lehrer (PhD, 2005) published her Baron on the Transformative Power of Early Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the article, “Curating Polish Folk” in Political Capitalism,” in The Enduring Legacy of Salo Advanced Support for Innovative Research Critique. W. Baron.

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