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e begin this year’s newsletter with an Wannouncement that has significant implications for the future of the Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP): over $1,000,000 in funding has been raised for Jewish Studies (JS) graduate fellowships. In last year’s newsletter, the Borns JSP announced plans to develop its graduate offerings into one of the very best graduate programs in the country, and as part of that effort, the JSP undertook to raise funds for graduate fellowships that students need to support their studies at this level. In response, several donors,

Annual Newsletter Volume 25 Fall 2006 2 Indiana University individuals of exceptional generosity and commitment, have stepped forward to I N T HIS I SSUE establish endowments that will fund between 6-8 JS graduate students per year. 3 Support Our Undergraduates These endowments include: 4 From the Director The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Fellowship 5 New Faculty The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Fellowship for Yiddish Graduate Studies 6 Programs The Glazer Family Fellowships 10 IU Press This is a truly exceptional level of graduate funding, and represents a major 11 Donor Honor Roll investment in the future of JS scholarship and teaching. The funding generated by 12 JSP Advisory Board these endowments, enhanced by a generous matching program from Indiana 12 Friends of JS University (IU) and a tuition remission from the College of Arts and Sciences, will be 13 JSP Endowments used to recruit the very best graduate students and to support them during their 14 Graduate Student News course work and dissertation research. We aim to make the program as successful at 15 Undergraduate News the graduate level as it has been at the undergraduate level, playing a major role in 19 Courses the development of the next generation of scholars and teachers. The establishment 19 Alumni News of these endowments makes this vision possible. 20 Faculty News We would like to take this opportunity to thank the individuals whose 24 Faculty and Staff generosity and leadership have made this unprecedented opportunity possible: Robert and Sandra Borns Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Theodore Cohn Irving and Pat Glazer Jay and Marsha Glazer If you are a prospective graduate student, you can find out more about these graduate fellowships by going to our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/GraduateStudents.htm.

“Becoming a JS major was the best “I had three requirements for the perfect “The Borns JSP gave me the tools to be decision I ever made during my college university: a top-notch music school, a top- confident and successful in the Jewish career. It gave me the opportunity to form notch JSP, and a vibrant Jewish community. professional world.” a connection with professors, advisors, and Coming to IU is probably the best decision Emily Walsh, Area Certificate, May 2004 students in a much more personal I ever made and my JS classes were the Emily Walsh is pursuing an M.A. atmosphere than any other major I could highlight of my day throughout my four in Jewish communal service have chosen. It also helped me to realize years at IU.” at Hebrew Union College after serving as the JCSC Hillel Fellow that I enjoy learning about Judaism and Philip Ohriner, School of Music B.S. and Outside Field in Jewish Studies, May 2002 at Washington University for 2 years that keeping Judaism a constant part of my Cantorial student at The Jewish life is a meaningful and necessary Theological Seminary experience for me now and in the future. The experiences I’ve had, the friendships I’ve made, and the meaning of Judaism in my life have all been a direct result of the Borns JSP.” Elizabeth Wood, B.A., May 2004 Elizabeth is a third year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.

Philip Sherman defends his honors thesis. (Left to right) Committee members, Drs. Shaul Magid, Marci Shore, and Jeffrey Veidlinger, and Philip Sherman. Borns Jewish Studies Program 3

SUPPORT OUR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Having secured funding for our graduate matched by IU dollar for dollar. The “JS at IU is a great community of students, the Borns JSP turns its attention to scholarship will exist in perpetuity, and is a professors and students to be involved the second part of its student support wonderful way to honor or commemorate a with, and a great way to explore, question, campaign, establishing permanent loved one. scholarships for our undergraduate students. Two couples have already stepped and understand one’s Jewish identity. I Unlike graduate students, undergraduates forward to establish undergraduate backed into JS—I just signed up for three often rely on their parents to support them scholarships, and we take this opportunity to classes one semester and Carolyn e-mailed during college, and as a public university, IU thank them, and to announce the new me to say I might want to consider a is a very affordable place, especially for scholarships they have created: Indiana students. As everyone knows, The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Goldstein major or an area certificate. A very however, the costs of a college education are Scholarship fortuitous event! As someone from a small considerable, even at a place like IU; The Roberta and Arthur Kroot town, this was certainly the first ‘Jewish financial aid is dwindling; and many students Scholarship community’ I’ve ever lived in, and it was a and their families need help. In an effort to Both the Kroots and Goldsteins are long encourage interest in JS and to recruit the time supporters of the program, and we are very positive experience.” very best students to IU from around the very indebted to them for stepping forward Leah Nahmias, country, we are shifting the focus of our yet again in such an exceptional way. Area Certificate, May 2004 student support campaign from graduate There are many ways in which you can Teach for America fellowships to undergraduate scholarships, establish a scholarship endowment—as an hoping to raise four-year scholarships that outright gift, in pledged payments over “I was a student in the highly acclaimed can support the very best JS students several years, as a bequest, and in other through their entire college educations. ways—and the gift may qualify you for Kelley School of Business here at IU. While Establishing such a scholarship is more certain tax benefits. Your generosity can my business education was outstanding, the affordable than ever. Under the terms of a change the lives of generations of students, environment that I was surrounded with in matching program IU has established, a gift and will help the Borns JSP attract the very Business could not compete with that of of at least $50,000 for the purposes of best students in the country. If you would establishing an undergraduate scholarship like more information, please contact the Borns JSP. I was able to develop will receive a 1:1 match on earnings from the Dr. Steven Weitzman, Borns Jewish Studies wonderful relationships with not only university. If you make a gift of $50,000 Program, Indiana University, Goodbody Hall brilliant, hardworking, and fun students, under this program, your gift will provide a 326, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, but with faculty members. Professors and freshman with $5,000 each year for each of IN 47405-7005, tel: 812-855-8358; the four years s/he enrolls at IU—half from [email protected]. staff members within this program have a the endowment established by your gift, genuine interest in the success and lives of their students. The knowledge that I gained throughout all of my JS classes helped create a well-rounded education.” Michelle Steiman, Area Certificate, May 2005

“After attending a private Jewish day school for 12 years, IU offered me the opportunity to get a Jewish education on a higher level. The professors were incredible.” Jonathan Azulay, B.A., May 2004

JS students in “Professional Leadership and the Jewish Community” course. 4 Indiana University

FROM THE DIRECTOR Between the Past and the Present The other initiative is the result of a of Israeli literature and its translation into partnership with the U.S. Holocaust English. Why do universities still use Latin on the Memorial Museum: a Yiddish language Appreciating Jewish Creativity. Jewish diplomas they bestow and why do they course for scholars of the Holocaust. The culture involves much more than literature; require students to wear medieval regalia majority of Jews victimized by the Nazis it also encompasses the visual arts, music, during commencement? Such practices were Yiddish speakers; but relatively few architecture, and other modes of expression originated in Europe hundreds of years ago, historians of the Holocaust, trained in the not necessarily recorded in texts. Seeking to and would seem absurd in almost any other field of German history, know Yiddish, stay at the forefront of this trend, we setting. It is hard to imagine a university making it hard for the field to draw on continue to develop IU’s Institute for Jewish without them however, not just because of Yiddish language sources (now being Culture and the Arts, whose mission is to their nostalgic charm, but also because they actively collected by the museum). This promote understanding and appreciation of symbolize one of the university’s most course, offered for the second time and Jewish artistic creativity through lectures important functions: its role as a link taught in summer 2006 by Dr. Nina Warnke and programs by leading artists, writers, between the past and the present. But just as of the University of Texas, aims to help architects, art critics, and art historians. As importantly, of course, universities are also correct that imbalance by giving scholars of of fall 2006, we will also be offering a range laboratories of creativity and innovation, the the Holocaust the language skills they need of new courses in Jewish music and place where new knowledge is discovered to understand Yiddish language materials. ethnography taught by Dr. Judah Cohen, the and new ideas cultivated. Like the great Opening Up Jewish Texts. One of the Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of university of which it is part, the Borns JSP most important links between the Jewish Jewish Culture. aims to balance between these two roles present and the past are texts, and we have Transitioning to the Future. One of our through research and teaching that is both striven to give our students more access to most important roles is to prepare our engaged in the past and forward-leaning at those texts by improving IU’s Hebrew students for their future. Many of our the same time. language program and offering new courses students aspire to a life of communal service As a way of updating you on the in Jewish and Israeli literature. The recent and leadership. This last year, thanks to a program, I want to cite a few examples of hire of Dr. Miryam Segal, and two lecturers, generous grant from the Professional Leaders how we are attempting to mediate between Ayelet Weiss and Bat Zion Shuman, has Project and the initiative of Robert Aronson, the past and the future with initiatives that made it possible to expand our offerings in and additional support from the Jewish strive to preserve or retrieve Jewish culture modern Hebrew language and literature. For Federation of Greater Indianapolis, we were while also reaching for new discoveries and the first time in several years, we will be able to launch a new course designed to help insights. offering a steady complement of courses in focus that aspiration and introduce students Retrieving Jewish Culture. The Holocaust rabbinic literature thanks to the Department to the organized Jewish community, the itself has long been a major focus of the of Religious Studies’ (RS) recent hire of Dr. challenges it faces, and the vocational Borns JSP, but what of the Jewish and Chaya Halberstam, a scholar of the Hebrew opportunities it offers. The course, taught by Yiddish culture so profoundly disrupted by Bible and its interpretation in midrashic Amy Jackson, brought Jewish communal the Holocaust? Two recent initiatives aim to literature. This is also a good place to leaders and professionals to IU from around help retrieve that culture to the extent it is acknowledge the contributions of IU’s the country both to draw upon their still possible to do so. The IU Yiddish Judaica librarian, Noa Wahrman, who has expertise and to provide students in the Ethnographic Project, led by Drs. Dov-Ber made significant strides in the last few years course with models of leadership and service. Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger, aims to in developing the IU Library’s Judaica and I want to close by thanking my colleagues enhance our understanding of Jewish life Hebrew collections, and the IU Lilly Library for initiating and sustaining so many exciting and language in Ukraine prior to the collection which in recent years has made endeavors, especially Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger Holocaust through extensive on-site important acquisitions relevant to the study who served as Acting Director of the program interviews with surviving Yiddish speakers. while I was on sabbatical in Jerusalem during The oral histories now being gathered by the the spring 2006. Yara Clüver Yara project, to be archived at IU and made Sincerely, accessible to scholars elsewhere via the web, represent a treasure of new insights into Yiddish and East European Jewish life.

Dr. Steven Weitzman Director Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies Borns Jewish Studies Program 5

Yale University in 2004, Dr. Halberstam work as Hebrew language instructor. JSP WELCOMES was Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in During her time here, she taught some EW ACULTY Biblical Literature, cross-appointed in the twelve sections of Hebrew at various levels, N F Departments of Theology and Comparative and her expertise and experience were Judah Cohen and Chaya Halberstam Literature at King’s College, London. Her tremendous assets as we sought to raise the Ethnomusicologist Dr. Judah Cohen’s arrival research interests are in both the Hebrew quality of our modern Hebrew language this fall as the Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in Bible and classical rabbinic literature of late program. Ms. Ben Yehuda will begin the Study of Jewish Culture promises a antiquity. Her work bridges the fields of teaching at Hebrew College in Boston this wealth of new courses and initiatives related Hebrew Bible and early Judaism, seeking fall. Her future students are fortunate to to Jewish culture and the arts. connections between legal and narrative have someone with her teaching Dr. Cohen writing. This year, she is teaching commitment and experience, and we wish received his “Introduction to Hebrew Bible,” “Biblical Nurit all the best in her future endeavors. Ph.D. in music Justice,” “Revolution in Rabbinic We are honored that in 2005-2006 from Harvard Literature,” and “Prophecy in Ancient longtime IU faculty member Bronislava University with Israel.” Volková, Professor of Slavic Languages and a dissertation Literatures, became an adjunct JS faculty member. She teaches various courses on that focused New Appointments in Hebrew Czech and Central European Literature and on the process Language Program Culture, which focus on Jewish subjects. of becoming a Our Hebrew program continues to grow in Reform Jewish quality and quantity with more than 150 F ORMER P ROFESSOR I RVING cantor at the students enrolled in Hebrew language K ATZ H ONORED turn of the courses this fall. Ayelet Weiss joined the JSP Judah Cohen 21st century. faculty in fall 2005 as a full-time lecturer in Thanks to the generosity of numerous Before coming modern Hebrew language and began as the friends, colleagues, and former students, the to IU, he was Dorot Assistant Professor and acting Director of the modern Hebrew Borns JSP has just established an Faculty Fellow in the Skirball Department of language program this summer. She taught endowment fund that will support an Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. His Hebrew at the University of Illinois for 4 annual Irving research in American Jewish music ranges years where she is completing her doctoral Katz from African-American influence on Jewish studies in computational linguistics. A gifted Scholarship in music to the role of singing in the Jewish teacher and pedagogic innovator, she JS. summer camp movement. His study of graduated from Hebrew University (HUJ) in During his 38 colonial Jewish history culminated in the Jerusalem and has also taught Hebrew at years on the publication of Through the Sands of Time: A Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago and for faculty of IU, History of the Jewish Community of St. Shorashim. Irving Katz Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (Brandeis We welcome Bat Zion Shuman as a was an University Press, 2003). visiting immensely Dr. Cohen will teach a number of courses lecturer in popular and this year, including “Music in Judaism,” modern much beloved “Exploring Jewish Identity,” and a graduate Hebrew this teacher. Until course on “Jewish Folklore and Ethnology.” year. She his retirement Irving Katz We are very grateful to Lou and Sybil completed in 2002, Dr. Mervis, of Danville, Illinois, longtime teacher’s Katz taught an array of courses in U.S. members of certification history; economic, social, and labor history; the Borns JSP from the history of American political parties; Advisory Jerusalem’s and American Jewish history. The latter Board and David Yellin course, which Dr. Katz offered regularly members of Teacher’s over a 20-year period, had a large and the JSP College and a dedicated following of students. Many Executive B.A., M.A., Bat Zion Shuman regarded it as a high point in their college Committee, and Hebrew language instructor’s certificate education and praised Dr. Katz’s lively and for from HUJ. She has taught Hebrew for the engaging classroom presence as a prod to establishing Israel Ministry of Education, their studying harder and learning more. this unique Milah–Jerusalem Institute of Education, Beyond the classroom, Dr. Katz showed endowed Hadassah Medical Organization’s School of his dedication to students in faculty many other ways, including the Chaya Halberstam Nursing, Open University, HUJ, and the position. Israel Ministry of Defense. support and mentorship he Dr. Chaya Halberstam joined the RS and We wish to take this opportunity to thank provided to countless students JS faculties this fall. Awarded a Ph.D. from Nurit Ben Yehuda for two years of excellent through years of active participation in IU’s Residential 6 Borns Jewish Studies Program

Programs and Services Faculty Fellows Donor Honor Roll List for Irving Professors Kenneth and Audrey Heller M. Mendel and Frances Piser program. He spoke to student groups on a Katz Scholarship Endowment Fund Dr. David, Evelyn, Daniel, and Sharon Beth Rasmussen (As of July 27, 2006) Herschler Jamie Ratner regular basis, shared meals with them each Evan Hershenson Dr. Joseph and Roberta Rezits week in campus dormitories, served on Professor James and Alex Ackerman Marshall and Judith Jacobs Dr. Sydney Rome Lawrence and Carol Adelman Professor Bruce and Lea Jaffee Professor Mark Roseman numerous student-related committees and Lillian Barr Professor Michael Kaganovich and Professors Michael Rosenblum and advisory boards, and, for 12 years, was a Ann Belth Ella Liderman Susan Nelson Professor Joseph and Marge Belth Professor Stephen and Eileen Katz Professor Alvin and Erna Rosenfeld Groups Program Faculty Friend. Sarah Beren Professor Dov-Ber and Roberta Kerler Sheldon and Lynne Sandman His involvement with teaching and Dr. Daniel Berg John King Tracie Sands curriculum development extended to high Leonard and Alice Berkowitz Thomas and Sarah Kramer Rabbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso Mildred Bern Arthur and Bobbi Kroot Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein school students as well, and for a number of Professor John and Donna Bodnar Sarah Lawson Martin and Helen Schwartz years he served as a faculty resource person Donald Breiter Carolyn Leeds Professor Leah Shopkow Barry, Kathryn, and Brittany Brown Dr. Louis and Myrna Lemberger Curtis and Judy Simic for IU’s Advanced College Project with 5 Carl and Shirley Cohen Margo Lemberger David and Emily Lipp Sirota high schools in central and southern Indiana. Cheryl Cohen Dr. Leslie and Kathleen Lenkowsky Professors Dina and Martin Spechler Rachel Daniels Bradley and Cheryl Lenser Professor Murray and Anita Sperber He also spoke frequently to appreciative Professor Thomas and Ellen Ehrlich Elliot and Chris Lewis Professor Roger and Claudette Temam community audiences throughout the state, Yosh and Orly Eisbart Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and Stanley and Sandra Trockman Professor Paul and Lana Eisenberg George Walker Sidney and Charlene Tuchman often on topics relating to the history of the James and Patricia Ek Professor James and Jeanne Madison Professor Jeffrey and Rebecca modern Middle East. Leon and Judith Faitek Professor Jane and Andrew Mallor Veidlinger Professor Henry Fischel Thomas and Flo Mary Mantel Professor Eugene and Frances In recognition of his exceptional Betty Fleck Professors Herbert Marks and Perry Weinberg contributions in all of these areas of Professor Maurice and Barbara Hodges Douglas and Jill Weinstein scholarship and service, IU President Myles Friedberg David and Beth Levy Merkes Professor Steven Weitzman and Lory Price Friedfertig Perry and Nancy Metz Rabbi Mira Wasserman Brand awarded Dr. Katz the university’s Rabbi Joan Friedman Jason and Lindsey Barton Mintz Dr. Judith Wertheim Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion in Professor George and Esther Gaber Professor Lawrence Moss and Linda Wisen Professor Wendy Gamber Madeline Hirschland Herbert and Lorraine Wolf April 2002. Irving and Pat Glazer Professor Benjamin Nathans and Through his matchless energy, learning, Professor Halina Goldberg Dr. Nancy Silverman Those wishing to make financial Leonard and Rikki Goldstein R. Adam and Eafat Newton wit, humor, and conviviality, Irving added a contributions to the Irving Katz Dr. Kenneth Gros Louis Daniel and Gale Nichols Endowment Fund should contact Joshua Hamerman special spirit to campus culture and a broad Professor Mitchell and Judith Novit Patricia Ek, (812) 855-8358 or Marie Harf Gerald and Dorit Paul range of community activities. The newly Hart and Simona Hasten Professor Derek and Robin Penslar [email protected]. established Irving Katz Scholarship in JS acknowledges with gratitude all that Dr. about the complexities of communal identity Washington University Law School where Katz contributed over so many years and in the context of the continuing public he teaches refugee and asylum law. aims to perpetuate the dedication to conversation in the U.S. about the For more about the Committee on learning that he exemplified so well. relationship between religion and politics, Conscience and its Darfur-related efforts, The first Irving Katz Scholarship will be and questions that are more specific to the see http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/. awarded in coming years to a student who study of Jewish tradition and textuality, and demonstrates those qualities that Dr. Katz their continual rethinking and refashioning. ARCHITECT PETER EISENMAN cared most about—a deep devotion to In addition to IU faculty, the conference Paul Culture and Arts Lecture academic study, especially of history, and a participants included Mara Benjamin, Peter Eisenman, an internationally lively passion for communicating the Nathaniel Berman, Zachary Braiterman, recognized architect and educator and the pleasures and insights that derive from a Aryeh Cohen, Robert Gibbs, Shai Held, Louis I. Kahn Professor of Architecture at serious and sustained encounter with the past. Claire Katz, Martin Kavka, Steven Kepnes, Yale University, will speak about his design Peter Ochs, William Plevan, Randi for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Rashkover, and Dina Stein. The conference Europe in Berlin when he visits the Borns 2006-2007 was supported by the Borns JSP, the College JSP on October 24, 2006 as the Dorit and PROGRAMS Arts and Humanities Institute, and the Gerald Paul Lecturer in Jewish Culture and Department of RS. the Arts. COSMOPOLITANISM, POST- Eisenman has designed a wide range of ETHNICITY, AND THE NEW H OLOCAUST M USEUM’ S projects including the Wexner Center for the JEWISH DIASPORA CONFERENCE J ERRY F OWLER Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library at Ohio Solotkin Lecturer The conference on “Cosmopolitanism, Post- State University, the Aronoff Center for Ethnicity, and the New Jewish Diaspora,” Jerry Fowler, will deliver the Samuel and Design and Art at the University of August 20-22, 2006, on the IUB campus, Lillian Solotkin Memorial Lecture “From Cincinnati, a stadium for the Arizona convened by Dr. Nancy Levene and Dr. Shaul Memory to Action: The Role of Holocaust Cardinals, and the Koizumi Sangyo Magid, closely examined themes surrounding Remembrance in Combating Genocide Corporation headquarters building in Tokyo, Jewish peoplehood at the Today” on Thursday evening, October 12, which received National Honor Awards for intersection of ethics and politics. 2006. He is the Staff Director of the Design from the American Institute of Scholars analyzed Jewish sources Committee on Conscience, which guides the Architects. He founded the international and Jewish traditions with at least genocide prevention activities of the U.S. think tank, the Institute for Architecture and two contemporary intellectual Holocaust Memorial Museum. Fowler is Urban Studies. His most recent book currents in mind: new thinking adjunct faculty member of the George describes his design for a cultural complex in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Code X: The Indiana University 7

City of Culture of Galicia (2005). A number Levi, Simon Schama, Saul Friedländer, The Abraham Lieberman Professor of of his writings are available in Eisenman: Arthur Green, Zvi Gitelman, Dan Segre, Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU, Inside Out, Selected Writings 1963-1988 Robert Alter, Robert Wistrich, Emil Wolfson’s main area of scholarly research is (Yale University Press, 2004). Fackenheim, Michael Walzer, Shulamit the history of Jewish mysticism. The editor Thanks to the generosity of Dorit and Volkov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Shaye Cohen, of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Gerald Paul of Indianapolis, the Borns JSP Lawrence Schiffman, Steven J. Zipperstein, Philosophy, he is the author of many books, established The Dorit and Gerald Paul Deborah Lipstadt, and Dan Miron. including two that won the National Jewish Program in Jewish Culture and the Arts, Book Award for Excellence in Scholarship: which enables us to bring to Indiana S HALOM PAUL Through the Speculum That Shines: Vision outstanding musicians, painters, poets, “Genesis on Genesis” and Imagination in Medieval Jewish playwrights, novelists, and others involved Mysticism (which also won the American Renowned biblical scholar Shalom Paul, in the creation and study of Jewish art. Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence will speak on “The Genesis of Genesis: The Through an ongoing series of exhibitions, in the Study of Religion in the category of Biblical ‘Big Bang’” on November 15, 2006. performances, and lectures, the program Historical Scholarship) and Language, Eros, Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor Emeritus of aims to represent the richness and diversity and Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Bible Studies at HUJ, Paul is the editor of of Jewish cultural and artistic expression in the Poetic Imagination. “Al Kanfei Yonah”: Collected Studies of a variety of forms and at the highest levels. The Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lectures in Jonas C. Greenfield (2 vols.) and author of Past Dorit and Gerald Paul Programs in JS are supported through a grant from the Amos: A Commentary on the Book of Jewish Culture and the Arts have included a Sol Bronstein Charitable Trust in Evansville, Amos, among many other studies. concert by pianist and composer Daniel Indiana. Previous Bronstein lecturers include Galay, cellist Rachel Galay, and clarinetist I LANA PARDES Martin Marty, Antony Polonsky, David Greg Barett; an art exhibit and lecture by Women’s Bibles Sorkin, Jakob Petuchowski, Julius Lester, Harvey Breverman; lectures by The New Francis E. Peters, Susannah Heschel, Tikva York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman “Melville’s Inconsolable Rachel and the Rise Frymer-Kensky, Ronnie Po–chia Hsia, Egon and by famed architect Daniel Libeskind; of Women’s Bibles,” will be the subject of a Mayer, James Shapiro, Elisheva Carlebach, and “The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary lecture by Professor Ilana Pardes on Aron Rodrigue, Norman Stillman, and Peter Jewish Exile Literature,” conference in February 12, 2007. Associate Professor of Schäfer. March 2006. Comparative Literature at HUJ, she is the author of The Biography of Ancient Israel P ETER P ULZER B LOCK L ECTURER and Countertraditions in the Bible: A 2007 Dorit and Gerald Paul H ASIA D INER Feminist Approach. Lecturer American Jews Confront the Catastrophe F RITZ S TERN TO BE PATTEN Peter Pulzer, L ECTURER Gladstone Hasia Diner, a Professor Emeritus specialist in Jewish Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus at of Government history, the history Columbia University and one of the leading and Emeritus of American scholars of Germany and German Jewish Fellow of All Souls women, and history, has devoted a lifetime to analyzing College, University immigration and how the Nazi barbarity became possible. He of Oxford and ethnic history, will will visit IU on March 25-30, 2007, Chair of the Leo deliver the 2006 delivering two Patten Lectures, the most Baeck Institute, Edward A. Block distinguished lecture series at the university. London, will Peter Pulzer Lecture in JS The author of books like The Politics of deliver two lectures in the Dorit and Gerald “Fitting Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of Paul Program for the Study of Germans and Hasia Diner Memorials: Germanic Ideology, Dr. Stern is the Jews: “German Historians and Germany’s American Jews Confront the Catastrophe, recipient of many honors including the Leo Jews,” in Bloomington on Monday, April 1945-1967,” on October 16, 2006. Baeck Medal and the Peace Prize of the 16, 2007, and “What was Special about The Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor German Book Trade in Frankfurt. For more German Anti-Semitism?” in Indianapolis on of American Jewish History at NYU, Dr. information about his Patten Lectures, Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Diner holds a joint appointment in the contact [email protected]. Dr. Pulzer’s most recent books include departments of history and the Skirball Germany 1870-1945: Politics, State Goldstein Goren Center for American B RONSTEIN L ECTURER Formation and War and Jews and the Jewish History. Her most recent books W OLFSON German State 1848-1933: The Political include a history of the Jews of the U.S. To Speak on Kabbalism History of a Minority. In 2004, (2004) and a history of American Jewish “The Other Within and the Other Without: he was awarded the Federal women (2002). Kabbalistic Deconstructions of the Feminine Cross of Merit of the German Dr. Diner continues a distinguished series and the Non-Jew” will be the topic of Federal Republic. of Edward A. Block Fellows who have Dr. Elliot R. Wolfson’s March 29, 2007 The Paul Program for the visited the Borns JSP since 1985: Primo Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lecture in JS. Study of Germans and Jews 8 Borns Jewish Studies Program was established in 1986 by Dorit and gave a talk on Jewish-Muslim Gerald Paul of Indianapolis to foster relations through the ages for ongoing scholarly research into the complex the Sunday Night Forum at interrelationships between German history Congregation Beth Shalom in and Jewish history. The Pauls came to the Bloomington. U.S. in 1938—she from Mannheim, he from Shaul Magid served as Witten. They have maintained ever since a scholar-in-residence at various keen interest in the history and culture of synagogues in the Midwest. German Jewry and are devoted to Michael Morgan gave a talk to perpetuating knowledge of its achievements the Hevrah and Jewish Federa- and its tragic history. tion in Great Barrington, Massa- Former Paul Fellows include Johann N. chusetts, “Images of Judaism in Schmidt of Hamburg University, Michael Postwar American Film.” Brocke of the Free University of Berlin, To commemorate the fourth Micha Brumlik of the University of Heidel- anniversary of the terror attacks berg, Frank Stern of Ben–Gurion University, 2006 New Institute participants and faculty of 9/11/01, Alvin Rosenfeld Gertrud Koch of the Ruhr University, convened and presided over an recently returned from a year of research in Bochum, Dieter Lamping of the Johannes interreligious forum entitled “The Children Poland, presented “The Dancing Jew: Gutenberg University of Mainz, Amir Eshel of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Assimilation, National Identity and the of Stanford University, Alan Bern, musical Islam Pre-and-Post 9/11” at Congregation Majufes.” The New Institute concluded director of Brave Old World, and Michael Beth Shalom, in Bloomington, on September with a performance by the incomparable Brenner of the University of Munich. 11, 2005. Steven Weitzman was a presenter. Marija Krupoves and her band in a splendid Steven Weitzman was a faculty member performance of Jewish folk songs from the JSP COMMUNITY for the Union of Reform Judaism’s Kallah in Sephardic and Ashkenazic traditions. O UTREACH summer 2005. In addition to its teaching and research “Teaching about Israel” 2006 SUMMER I NTENSIVE missions, the Borns JSP places a significant Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute in Y IDDISH C OURSE FOR emphasis on serving broad constituencies Indianapolis H OLOCAUST R ESEARCHERS outside of the classroom. On September 20, 2006, middle school and For the second summer, the Center for high school social studies teachers will Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. gather in Indianapolis for the Melvin and Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Betty Cohn Institute on Jews and Judaism cooperation with the IU Summer Workshop on the theme of “Teaching about Israel: in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Beyond the Conflict.” Co-sponsored by the Languages (SWSEEL), and the Borns JSP, Jewish Community Relations Council of sponsored an intensive language course, Indianapolis, the Institute will be taught by “Reading Yiddish for Holocaust Research,” Dr. Shaul Magid, Dr. Dror Wahrman, and on the IU Bloomington campus, June 16- Hebrew director Ayelet Weiss. July 28, 2006. The Cohn Institute also supported seven Eleven students and scholars (including 2 summer 2007 Holocaust-related evening IU JS doctoral minors) were selected for the lectures that were presented in conjunction six-week intensive reading-comprehension with the intensive Yiddish course for Marija Krupoves and her band course. Participants sought to acquire a Holocaust researchers. reading knowledge of Yiddish in order to New Institute Focuses on “Jews The Cohn Institute was established in 1989 access Jewish source documents and and Music” by Melvin and Betty J. Cohn to provide perspectives on the Holocaust and to better Indiana teachers with opportunities for The Borns JSP Program hosted a memorable understand the Yiddish-speaking Jewish learning more about Judaism and the Jews. 12th Joan and Samuel New Institute for the communities of Europe that were targeted Study of Judaism and the Jews on Sunday, Faculty Outreach by the Nazis. The course, taught by Dr. Nina April 30, 2006 at the Indiana Historical Warnke, of the University of Texas, offered Society in downtown Indianapolis. The day, Over the years, the members of our participants the equivalent of a full year (6 titled “Jews and Music,” began with a faculty have spoken in synagogues, credits) of college language instruction. presentation by Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler on churches, schools, community centers, and The cost of the course, books, housing in Yiddish song in Ukraine. Dr. elsewhere to educate a great many people a residence hall, and a meal allowance were Judah Cohen’s lively “Hearing about Judaism, Jewish culture, and history. paid by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Nazis Sing: Holocaust Memory This summer Stephen Katz presented Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and the American Broadway “Hebrew Paganism: The Emergence of Museum. Musical” focused on three Israeli Culture,” at IU’s Mini University. In addition to intensive language musicals. Dr. Halina Goldberg, In February 2006, Matthias Lehmann instruction, the course included seven Indiana University 9

Holocaust-related guest lectures that were (summer 2005), Moldova (winter 2005), sponsored by the Borns JSP and the Center and Moldova and north-eastern Romania for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. (summer 2006). This is the only Holocaust Memorial Museum. The lectures concentrated effort to document Yiddish by Borns JSP faculty members included: language and living memory in situ or in “Holocaust Cannibalism,” by Dr. Susan close geographic proxmity to the erstwhile Gubar; “Stories of a New Bible? Reflections native habitat of the last generation of on Holocaust Poetry?” by Dr. Alvin native Yiddish speakers born and raised Rosenfeld; “Beyond Conviction: Perpe- before World War II. To date, the project trators and the Holocaust” by Dr. Mark has collected close to 500 hours of Roseman; lectures by Center for Advanced professionally digitally videotaped Holocaust Studies staff, “Vaterland, Mame interviews with 257 informants. These Loshn: Jewish DP Youth, Zionist Culture, interviews will form the core of a future and Yiddish in Post-War Germany,” by Avi Archive of Historic and Ethnographic Patt; “The Use of Jewish Sources to Study Memories (AHEYM) and will be accessible the Holocaust: Case Study Romania,” by from IU’s massive Data Storage System and Paul Shapiro; and a lecture by Assistant catalogued and placed at the IU Archives of Synagogue ark in Botosani, Romania. Photo courtesy Professor of German at the University of Traditional Music. Large thematically of AHEYM. Tennessee Daniel Magilow, “Yiddish, selected segments of these interviews will be Yizkor Books, and Photographic Form.” accessible online on the project’s future Culture at the University of Munich, will be website and on specially edited DVDs and available in booklet form and can be D OCUMENTING Y IDDISH CD ROMs. ordered by calling 812-855-0453 or e- C ULTURE AND L ANGUAGE mailing [email protected]. Complimentary IN U KRAINE PRINTED VERSION OF “JEWISH copies of previous Paul Lectures by Johann HISTORY AND POLITICS” Schmidt, Micha Brumlik, Frank Stern, With funding from the National En- Available Free Upon Request Dieter Lamping, Amir Eshel, and Alan Bern dowment of the Humanities, the Atran are also available upon request. Foundation, and the IU College Arts and The 2005 Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecture for the Study of Germans and Jews, “The Same Humanities Institute, Drs. Dov-Ber Kerler A HALF M ILE OF J EWISH History is not the Same Story: Jewish and Jeffrey Veidlinger have organized and S TUDIES H OLDINGS led three Yiddish ethnographic expeditions History and Jewish Politics,” by Michael to Eastern Europe in a year: Ukraine Brenner, Professor of History and Jewish “The JS holdings in the IU library include approximately 46,691 volumes occupying 2005-2006 JEWISH The Edward A. Block Lecture in JS 754 shelves (a half mile) on three floors,” “Literature as a Vehicle for a National TUDIES ROGRAM —Noa Wahrman, JS Collection Manager S P Renaissance: The Model of Peretz vs. the L ECTURES AND E VENTS Model of Bialik” by Dr. Dan Miron, The growing JS collection in IU’s Herman B “New Thinking about the Creation of the Columbia University, February 23, 2006 Wells Library includes rabbinical literature Palestinian Refugee Problem,” by Dr. Benny “The Writer Uprooted: A Conference on and biblical studies; late antiquity; Jewish Morris, Ben-Gurion University history in all periods; Jewish philosophy September 26, 2005 Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature” March 22-24, 2006 and thought; Jewish diaspora; Zionism; The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program for the Convened by Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld. Evening history and geography of Israel; Holocaust Study of Germans and Jews lecture, “A Displaced Scholar’s Tale: The history, literature and personal narrative by Dr. Michael Brenner, University of Munich Jewish Factor,” by Dr. Geoffrey Hartman, “Zionism as International Nationalism: March 23. documentation and biography; and Paradoxes of a New Political Movement” Hebrew/Israeli language and culture. The JS in Bloomington, October 23, 2005 Bill and Frances Julian Program for Inter- and collections are complemented by strong “The Same History is not the Same Story: Intra-Faith Understanding collections in Slavic Studies, Near Eastern “Go Ask the Jews: Jewish Knowledge and Jewish History and Politics” Languages and Literatures, History, and RS, in Indianapolis, October 24, 2005 Christian Power in Late Antiquity” by Dr. Andrew Jacobs, University of California, as well as by rare books and manuscripts in The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in JS Riverside, March 29, 2006 the collections of the Lilly Library. “When Kafka Says ‘We’: The Borderland The microfilm collection includes Nazi between Solitude and Community” and “Of The George J. Stolnitz Memorial Program Language and Destiny: Where Celan Meets “A Concert of Yiddish Folk Songs with propaganda literature from the library of Kafka” Dr. Marija Krupoves,” April 25, 2006 the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; a November 1 and 2, 2005 by Dr. Vivian Liska, century of Pinkasim from Eastern Europe, University of Antwerp Co-sponsored events: 1841-1939; and Yiddish books “Long Live the King: Women in Power in “A Picture Theory to Map the Pathless from Harvard’s collection. Sephardic Folk Tales” by Mark Cohen Wilderness: Hermann Cohen and Heinrich November 10, 2005 Hertz on ‘Eindeutigkeit’” by Lydia Patton, “Deep Roots, Exotic Flowers: Dances by University of Chicago, March 27, 2006 Jewish Women Choreographers” a dance program by Hadassah Segal Filmmaker Pearl Gluck showed her film November 17, 2005 “Divan,” April 27, 2006 10 Indiana University

In spring 2006, IU Press published six dogma—was the key to religion’s moral IU PRESS new titles. German History from the authority. Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Margins, edited by Neil Gregor, Nils Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 by PUBLICATIONS IN JS Roemer, and IU’s Mark Roseman, offers Benjamin Maria Baader explores the In the past year, Indiana University Press new ways of thinking about ethnic and transformation of Judaism during a period (IUP) has maintained its leadership position religious minorities and other outsiders in of profound change. as a publisher of cutting-edge JS scholarship Forthcoming In November 2005, during a with the publication of thirteen new titles private audience at the Vatican in fall 2006 are and three first-time paperback editions. with Pope Benedict XVI, Israel’s two new titles. The Press is proud to report that two of its president Moshe Katsav presented Creator, Are the pontiff with the IU Press book, 2005 JS titles received very special Cross on the Star of David: The You Listening? recognition. Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Christian World in Israel’s Foreign Israeli Poets on Ottoman Sephardic Culture written by Borns Policy, 1948-1967 by Uri Bialer. God and Prayer JSP and History faculty member Matthias B. by David C. Lehmann was a runner-up for the 2005 Jacobson is an National Jewish Book Award. In his book, anthology that is Lehmann views tradition and modernization both scholarly among Sephardic communities in the and accessible to readers of Ottoman Empire through the lens of rabbinic contemporary poetry. The literature written in Ladino. In November poetry appears in the original 2005, during a private audience at the Hebrew as well as Jacobson’s Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, Israel’s graceful English translations. president Moshe Katsav presented the pontiff In Conscription and the with the IU Press book, Cross on the Star of Search for Modern Russian David: The Christian World in Israel’s Jewry, Olga Litvak traces the Foreign Policy, 1948-1967 by Uri Bialer (see conscription theme in novels photo). Based on recently declassified and stories by some of the documents from Israeli archives, the book best-known Russian Jewish investigates how historical perceptions and modern German history. writers including Osip attitudes influenced Israeli leaders in their Published in association Rabinovich, Judah-Leib dealings with the Christian world after Israeli with the U.S. Holocaust Gordon, and Mendele independence. Memorial Museum, Lodz Mokher Seforim, as well as 2005 saw the appearance of three other Ghetto: A History by Isaiah Trunk, by relatively unknown writers. important new JS books. Haunted in the translated and edited by Robert Moses Finally, three outstanding titles will New World: Jewish American Culture from Shapiro, was originally published in Yiddish appear in paperback for the first time this Cahan to the Goldbergs by Donald Weber in 1962. In it, Polish émigré historian Trunk fall: The Moscow State Yiddish Theatre: explores the role of emotions in artistic describes and explains the tragedy that befell Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, winner works that shaped Jewish American culture the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto of the 2001 National Jewish Book Award, in the first half of the 20th century. Jeffrey S. imposed by the Germans after they invaded among other honors, by the Borns JSP’s Gurock’s Judaism’s Encounter with American Poland in 1939. associate director Jeffrey Veidlinger; Making Sports examines how sports entered the lives Kosher pork—an oxymoron? Anna Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino of American Jewish men and women, how Shternshis’s fascinating study, Soviet and Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires the secular values of sports threatened Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet by Sarah Abrevaya Stein, the 2003 winner religious identification and observance, and Union, 1923-1939, traces the creation of a of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for Best how American Jewish leaders have Soviet Jewish identity that disassociated First Book in JS; and Borns JSP and English responded. Religion and the Self in Jewishness from Judaism. Lawrence L. faculty member Susan Gubar’s pathbreaking Antiquity, edited by Michael L. Satlow, and Langer’s new volume of essays, Using and study, Poetry After Auschwitz: IU professors David Brakke and Steven Abusing the Holocaust, assesses various Remembering What One Never Knew. Weitzman, originated from a fall 2003 literary efforts to establish a place in modern Readers seeking further information or conference supported by the IU Arts and consciousness for the ordeal of those wishing to order JS books and journals and Humanities Initiative and the Borns JSP victimized by Nazi Germany’s crimes against other IUP titles may visit the IUP websites: Endowment. Drawing on recent work on the humanity. In Abraham Geiger’s Liberal http://iupress.indiana.edu for books and body, gender, sexuality, the Judaism: Personal Meaning and Religious www.iupjournals.org for journals. Or, anthropology of the senses, and Authority, Kenneth Koltun-Fromm argues readers may contact the Customer Service power, contributors explore the that for Geiger, who is recognized as the Department, IU Press, 601 N. Morton St., concept of the self within the principal leader of the Reform movement in Bloomington, IN 47404; 1-800-842-6796; religions of the ancient German Judaism, personal meaning—rather fax 812-855-7935. Mediterranean world. than rote ritual practice or acceptance of Borns Jewish Studies Program 11

Dr. Edward and Phyllis Alan and Katherine Leis Gary and Phyllis Schahet DONOR Gabovitch Dr. Louis and Myrna Lemberger Margot Levin Schiff HONOR ROLL Michael and Rachel Garmisa Herbert and Bernice Levetown Rabbi Stacy Schlein and Jeremy (As of July 27, 2006) Barry Gellers Irwin Levin Sosin Bernard and Jean Glazer Richard Levine Robert and Alice Schloss Lawrence and Carol Adelman Cynthia Glazer Seymour and Betty Lichter Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Dr. Annette Alpert and Professor Irving and Pat Glazer Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and Jack and Sherron Schuster Darrell Haile Jay and Marsha Glazer George Walker Professor Drew Schwartz Joseph Alpert Eugene and Marilyn Glick Ernest and Ellen Lorch Elizabeth Borns Shapiro and Major Ariel Axelrod Fritz and Caroline Goldbach Amelia Cook Lurvey Jonathan Shapiro Shirley Backer Rosalie Goldman Professor Jane and Andrew Dr. Paul Shapiro Stephen Backer Alan and Caron Goldstein Mallor Dr. Reuben and Leona Shevitz Dr. Stephen and Barbara Bailie Dr. Kenneth and Mary Thomas and Flo Mary Mantel Dr. Stephen and Caryl Shideler Sylvia Bankoff Goldstein Mary Ann Margolis Dr. Kathleen Sideli Eugene and Nancy Bate Leonard and Rikki Goldstein Ronald Mendelblat Norman Sider Professor Joseph and Marge Honorable Evan and Lynda Tilden and Cathy Mendelson Greg and Renny Silver Belth Goodman Merrill Lynch and Company Curtis and Judy Simic Joel and Karen Benveniste Jack and Sondra Gross Louis and Sybil Mervis Cindy Simon Skjodt and Paul Dr. Daniel Berg John and Rita Grunwald Perry and Nancy Metz Skjodt Leonard and Alice Berkowitz Joshua Hamerman Dr. David Miller Jeffrey and Heather Smulyan Mildred Bern Michael and Nora Hamerman Sidney and Sharon Mishkin Howard Socol Sol and Toby Blickman Marie Harf Marvin and Susan Mitchell Professor Bruce Solomon and Michael and Margery Bluestein Dr. Robert and Ann Harman Robert and Ida Moise Susan Swartz Emily Borns Earl and Carla Harris James and Jacqueline Morris Professors Dina and Martin Robert and Sandra Borns Dr. Howard and Anita Harris Frances Nelson Spechler Stephanie Borns Hart and Simona Hasten Joan New Professor Murray and Anita Donald Breiter Professors Kenneth and Audrey Frank and Dorothy Newman Sperber Dr. Peter and Susan Cahn Heller Daniel and Gale Nichols Nicole Spiegel Robert and Shirley Caresky June Herman Dr. Bernard and Renee Gary and Anne Steigerwald Charles and Karen Cohen Stanley Herman Oppenheim Monique Stolnitz Ronald and Nancy Cohen Thomas and Janie Herman Mark Oring Donna Strnad Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hunter Gerald and Dorit Paul Dr. Lawrence and Sandi Tavel Theodore Cohn Dr. Roger and Francine Hurwitz Arthur and Sondra Percy Professor Roger and Claudette Melvin and Betty Cohn Dr. Martin and Irene Jacobs Lisa Percy Temam Daniel Cook Jewish Community Council of Drs. Mark and Ora Pescovitz Adam and Sara Tennen Dr. Charles and Myra Echt Evansville M. Mendel and Frances Piser Jeffrey and Nancy Trockman Dr. Lawrence and Claudette Jewish Federation of Greater Joshua and Robyn Plaskoff Stanley and Sandra Trockman Einhorn Indianapolis Dr. Eric and Bonnie Prystowsky Sidney and Charlene Tuchman Benjamin and Sharon Eisbart Valerie Joseph Dr. Charles and Leah Redish UBS James and Patricia Ek Frances Julian Lawrence and Candice Reuben Alberto and Paulina Waksman Eli Lilly and Company Irwin Katz Sara Reuben Dr. Myron and Myrna Dr. Ruth Feinberg Weinberger Barton and Judy Kaufman Leonard and Ariel Rifkin Alan and Terry Feldbaum William and Bebe Weinstein Professor Dov-Ber and Roberta Irwin and Jill Rose Donald and Myra Fisher Robert and Barbara Weiskopf Kerler Judith and A John Rose II Betty Fleck Professor Steven Weitzman and Professor Idalene Kesner and Professor Mark Roseman Robert and Bonnie Forman Paul Robins Rabbi Mira Wasserman Ruben Rosenblatt Fort Wayne Jewish Federation Robert and Judith Koor Horst and Margaret Winkler Professor Alvin and Erna Walter and Joan Wolf Irving and Barbara Freeman Arthur and Bobbi Kroot Rosenfeld Judy Wortman Richard and Sherry Frenzel Martin and Natalie Kroot Mr. and Mrs. Andy Rubenstein Daniel and Beth Honorable Ezra and Linda G. Irving Latz Gordon Rubenstein Friedlander Zweig Carolyn Leeds Jeffrey and Susan Rubenstein Professor George and Esther Professor Matthias Lehmann Dr. Marc and Helen Rubenstein Gaber and Miriam Mora-Quilon Joshua Samis 12 Indiana University

Executive Committee JSP ADVISORY Robert Borns Indianapolis Dr. Ruth Feinberg Indianapolis FRIENDS BOARD Jay Glazer Mercer Island, WA Leonard Goldstein Fort Wayne “What is the good way a person should For the last several years, the JSP advisory Bobbi Kroot Columbus, IN follow? Rabbi Joshua said, ‘Being a board has had the good fortune to have two Andrew Mallor Bloomington good friend.’”—Pirke Avot 2:9 excellent leaders at its helm, President Louis Mervis Danville, IL Sybil Mervis Danville, IL Leonard Goldstein and Vice President Ruth B ECOME A F RIEND OF THE B ORNS J EWISH Feinberg. This coming year marks the end of Advisory Board TUDIES ROGRAM their term, and we want to take this Lawrence Adelman Fort Wayne S P opportunity to thank them for their superb Steven Ancel Carmel, IN The generosity of our Friends has been key leadership. Len’s drive and determination Nancy Bate Carmel, IN to making IU a major center for Jewish Sandra Borns Indianapolis have made it possible to complete the learning and scholarship, opening up Dr. Peter Cahn Indianapolis innumerable doors for our students, endowment for the Alvin Rosenfeld Chair in Susan Cahn Indianapolis scholars, and the larger public. Jewish Studies, and to successfully launch Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn New York Becoming a Friend is also a way to our campaign to raise graduate fellowships, Theodore Cohn New York develop one’s own engagement in Jewish among many other accomplishments. In Claudette Einhorn Indianapolis Benjamin Eisbart Fort Wayne learning and culture. To express its addition to helping with those efforts, Ruth Irving Glazer Indianapolis appreciation, the program offers the has been a constant source of encouragement June Herman Indianapolis following educational opportunities to and an important conduit to the larger Francine Hurwitz Indianapolis members of the Friends group: community. Their involvement was crucial to Dr. Louis Lemberger Carmel, IN 1) The Friends “Gathering.” Each year the successful transition in the directorship of Flo Mary Mantel Indianapolis the program hosts a gathering of Friends, Ilene New Granger, IN the program, and both are delightful human usually featuring a special lecture or Jeffrey New Granger, IN beings to know. We are honored by their Gale Nichols Bloomington presentation. (See article on next page association with the program and indebted to Dorit Paul Indianapolis about Gathering with Jeffrey Summit). them for their generosity, wisdom, and Professor Eloise Paul Indianapolis 2) Special Access to Events. Every year devotion. Gerald Paul Indianapolis the Borns JSP and the Institute for Jewish Dr. Mark Pescovitz Carmel, IN We would also like to take this Culture and the Arts host a number of Dr. Ora Pescovitz Carmel, IN special events: guest lectures, concerts, opportunity to thank the other members of A John Rose Bloomington and other kinds of programs. Friends will our truly outstanding executive committee— Judith Rose Bloomington receive advance notice of these events and, Martin Schwartz Muncie Robert Borns, Jay Glazer, Bobbi Kroot, in select cases, guaranteed seating. Andrew Mallor, Louis Mervis, and Sybil Norman Sider Indianapolis Sidney Tuchman Indianapolis 3) An Expanded Reading List. We are Mervis—who have provided outstanding Sally Zweig Indianapolis able to offer Friends a 20% discount on all advice, initiative, and support to our larger IU Press books. IU Press is one of the advisory board. The committee and board Honorary Board leading academic publishers, especially in are crucial to our fund-raising efforts, of Eugene Bate Carmel, IN the field of JS. course, but they are also our main link to the Alice Berkowitz Indianapolis I invite you to become a member of Sol Blickman Indianapolis larger Jewish and Indiana communities, our community: Edward Dobrow Muncie Benefactor ($1,000 above/year) helping to keep the program relevant, Betty Fleck Marion, IN Patron ($500-$999/year) accessible, and vibrant. We are very grateful Janice Goodman Highland Park, IL to our members for their time and Henry Levinsky Northbrook, IL Patron Associate: ($180-$499/year, for people aged 35 and under) commitment to the program and its students. Judy Liff-Barker Nashville, TN Sidney Mishkin Indianapolis JSP Alumni (2001-2006): $36 Frank Newman Indianapolis Please mail your check payable to I N M EMORIAM M. Mendel Piser South Bend “IUF/Jewish Studies Program,” to the Nancy Jo Berg Jack Schuster Rancho Santa Fe, CA address listed below. Friends’ gifts are tax Helen Schwartz Muncie deductible to the extent allowed by law. Nancy Jo Berg passed away on October 2, Harry Sebel Dallas, TX If you have any questions about the Robert Walters Fort Wayne 2005. She and her husband Dr. Daniel Friends group or opportunities for Berg of Bloomington, were longtime establishing permanent endowments in Friends of the Borns JSP. We remember support of JS, please call me without Nancy with great fondness and sadness. hesitation. You can reach me at the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005, tel: 812-855-8358; [email protected]. With much appreciation, Dr. Steven Weitzman Director Borns Jewish Studies Program 13

F RIENDS “GATHER” developed. Rabbi Summit is one of those Music and Culture of the Jews of Uganda scholars and he will be sharing what he has

learned about the music and culture of this Elizabeth Blauvelt This fall, the Friends intriguing community. of the Borns JSP are Together with photojournalist Richard gathering on the IUB Sobol, Rabbi Summit is the author of campus to hear Rabbi Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda (Abbeville Jeffrey Summit, Press). He also recorded, annotated, and Director of the Hillel compiled a CD, Abayudaya: Music From the Foundation, Associate Jewish People of Uganda for Smithsonian Chaplain, and Folkways Recordings that was nominated Associate Professor of for a Grammy Award for best album in the Music at Tufts category of traditional world music. Jeffrey Summit University, speak Francine Hurwitz, Gerald Paul, Dr. Roger Hurwitz The Friends of the Borns JSP has become about “Abayudaya: The Music and Culture one of the largest support groups at IU. The of the Jews of Uganda.” Friends’ goal is to strengthen IU’s already The Abayudaya resemble other Ugandans strong Borns JSP and to insure that it in many ways but with one important continues to flourish as one of the I N M EMORIAM difference: they are Jewish. Little is known of preeminent centers of Jewish learning in Michael B. “Mickey” Maurer this people. Between 1920 and the early America. The Friends of the Borns JSP is 1990s only about fifteen people from the Michael B. “Mickey Maurer, who passed more than just a “giving” society. Regular outside Jewish world are known to have away on March 15, 2006, was a longtime “Gatherings” of the Friends are occasions visited the Abayudaya, but recent researchers supporter of the Borns JSP. His wife Illene that combine both social and intellectual have begun to shed light on them–how they served on the JSP advisory board. A leader activities. survived in such relative isolation, and the in Indianapolis, Mickey was a 1951 distinctive Jewish culture they have graduate of IU. We honor his memory.

J EWISH S TUDIES P ROGRAM E NDOWMENTS We express heartfelt thanks to the • The Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies Sondra and Arthur Percy following donors, who have most • The Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish • The Percy Family Endowment generously established endowment funds Studies Louis* and Leonore* Piser within JS (as of July 27, 2006): Leonard and Rikki Goldstein • The Leonore and Louis Piser Prize Mildred L. Bern • The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Goldstein Sara and Albert* Reuben • The Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay Endowment in Jewish Studies • The Sara and Albert Reuben Competition • The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Goldstein Scholarships in Holocaust Studies Scholarship The Estate of Edward A. Block Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein • The Edward A. Block Lecture John and Rita Grunwald • The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein • The Pearl Schwartz Memorial Program in Chair in Modern Judaism Robert and Sandra Borns Judaism and the Arts • The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Martin and Helen Schwartz Jewish Studies Program Endowment J. William* and Frances Julian • The Helen and Martin Schwartz • The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns • The Julian Endowment in Jewish Studies Scholars Program Fellowship Arthur and Bobbi Kroot Samuel Solotkin* Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Theodore Cohn • The Roberta and Arthur Kroot Scholarship • The Samuel and Lillian Solotkin • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Lou and Sybil Mervis Memorial Lecture Yiddish Studies • The Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study George* and Monique Stolnitz • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Fellowship in of Jewish Culture • The George and Monique Stolnitz Yiddish Studies Drs. Beatrice* and David Miller Yiddish Prize • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Award in • The Drs. Beatrice S. and David I. Miller Yiddish Studies Stanley and Sandra Trockman Endowment for Jewish Culture and the Arts • The Sandra and Stanley Trockman Melvin and Betty Cohn Samuel* and Joan New Scholarship • The Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute • The Joan and Samuel New Institute for the in Jewish Studies Alberto and Paulina Waksman Study of Judaism and the Jews • The Alberto and Paulina A. Waksman Irving and Pat Glazer Gerald and Dorit Paul Scholarships • The Glazer Family Fellowship • The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program for the • The Irving M. Glazer Scholarships *Denotes deceased Study of Germans and Jews Jay and Marsha Glazer • The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program in • The Glazer Family Fellowship Jewish Culture and the Arts • The Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies 14 Indiana University

We look forward to welcoming these Religious Studies. A special feature of these GRADUATE STUDENT talented individuals into our growing fellowships is a well developed program of graduate community, and to offering many mentoring. For more information, see the NEWS additional opportunities for graduate JSP website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/ T HREE I NCOMING students in coming years. fellowship.htm. The application deadline is S TUDENTS AWARDED Friday, January 12, 2007. G RADUATE F ELLOWSHIPS J EWISH S TUDIES For the 2006-2007 year, we are W ORKSHOPS pleased to award graduate fellowships to three incoming students—Jessica JS workshops provide Alpert, Margot Behrend, and Devorah opportunities for the JS Shubowitz. The JSP continues to community of faculty and expand its graduate funding graduate students to learn opportunities thanks to the generosity with visiting and local of its supporters. scholars. Betsy Rosenberg, the Jessica Alpert Devorah Shubowitz Margot Behrend Jessica Alpert, a graduate of translator of Hebrew writers Barnard College, has just completed a year Aharon Appelfeld, David Grossman, and JS DOCTORAL M INORS as a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador where Yehoshua Kenaz, led the first JS workshop she was working on an oral history project Three JS doctoral minors completed their of the 2005-2006 year, “The Romantic with the local Jewish community. With the Ph.D.s during the 2005-2006 year. Debbie Translator,” on Friday, September 16, 2005. support of a Friends of the Borns JSP Fenichel (Anthropology) studied with Dr. On October 17, a workshop, “From Graduate Fellowship, Jessica will begin her Joëlle Bahloul. In October, 2005, Dana Assimilation to Antisemitism: The ‘Jewish graduate work in Latin American and Ohren completed her Ph.D. in History and Question’ in Russian Poland, 1850-1914,” Jewish history. married fellow IU historian John Dichtl. was led by Ted Weeks of Southern Illinois Devorah Shubowitz, who completed a Jeremy Shere (English) studied with Dr. University. Brian Horowitz, of Tulane Uni- master’s degree in RS at NYU, will pursue Alvin Rosenfeld. versity, spoke about “Jewish Philanthropy, the study of Jewish ethnography with Former JS doctoral minor Michah Education, and Identity” on November 18. particular interest in the analysis of Gottlieb has been appointed Assistant Dan Miron, the Edward A. Block Lecturer, women’s Talmud study in the U.S. and Professor of Hebrew and JS at NYU. He was discussed the significance of Yehuda Ami- Israel as a recipient of a Friends of the awarded a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship and will chai’s early poetry, on February 24. Author, Borns JSP Graduate Fellowship. spend the current academic year in Israel. journalist, and political activist Konstanty This fall, Adam Rovner begins teaching Gebert spoke on “From Red Star to Magen Hebrew language and literature as Assistant David: Children of Jewish Communists in Ann Schertz Professor of Comparative Literature at Post-War Poland” on Friday, April 21, 2006. Hofstra University. A MY S HAPIRO F OUR G RADUATE Wins George and Monique Stolnitz F ELLOWSHIPS Yiddish Prize Will Be Awarded for 2007-2008 Amy Shapiro, a Jewish history doctoral The JSP invites applications for the 2007- student minoring in JS, won the 2006 Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Theodore Cohn 2008 Friends of the Borns JSP Graduate George and Monique Stolnitz Yiddish Prize. Fellowship, the Yiddish Studies Fellowship, Amy began her doctoral studies in History The newly endowed Dr. Alice Field Cohn the Dr. Alice Field Cohn Fellowship for at IU two years ago as a Friends of the Fellowship for Yiddish Graduate Studies Yiddish Graduate Studies, and the Glazer Borns JSP Graduate Fellow. She received a will support Margot Behrend’s study of Family Fellowship in JS. The fellowships B.A. in English (Phi Beta Kappa) from the Yiddish language and literature in the will provide stipends and full fee remissions, University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. Comparative Literature Department. and may be tied to multi-year packages of in Holocaust Studies from University Margot, a graduate of St. John’s College, support through fellowships and teaching College London. In the years between her began her study of Yiddish in high school assistantships. undergraduate studies in English and her before studying at the National Yiddish To be eligible for the fellowships, students studies in London, Amy spent a year of Book Center’s summer program. must be accepted into an IU graduate pro- intensive German language study in gram in any of the following departments: Cologne and ten months interning at the Anthropology, Comparative Literature, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. English, Ethnomusicology/Folklore, Amy’s research interests lie primarily in the Germanic Studies, History, Near Eastern field of Holocaust history and literature. She Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, or is using Yiddish language diaries and Borns Jewish Studies Program 15 memoirs written during JSP AWARDS MORE THAN and after the Holocaust $22,000 IN S CHOLARSHIPS about that event in order AND I NTERNSHIPS to explore the ways that Jewish victims portrayed The Borns JSP was pleased to award 13 their perpetrators, both scholarships and an internship, totaling German and local. In more than $22,000 to continuing JS major, summer 2005, she area certificate, Hebrew minor, and doctoral studied Yiddish at minor students for the 2006-2007 year. The YIVO’s Uriel Weinreich scholarships and internships were IU Borns JSP alumna Leslie Kepes Pomerantz (second from left) with JS students established through the generosity of the summer Yiddish from the professional course, (left to right) Amanda Dudley, Aliza Sinkinson, language and culture Inna Kolesnikova, Stephanie Oreck, and Jeff Villano. Fort Wayne Jewish Federation, the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns JS Endowment, program. She continued Hebrew Union College; Lani Santos of the Sondra and Art Percy of Matawan, New to study Yiddish intensively with American Jewish World Service; Bradley Jersey, Sandra and Stanley Trockman of Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler in 2005-2006, and she Solmsen of Brandeis University’s Genesis Evansville, Edward M. Dayan of participated in the 2006 Vilnius Summer program and the Institute for Informal Indianapolis, and Sara and the late Albert Program in Yiddish. Jewish Education; Nechama Skolnick Reuben of Indianapolis. An expression of long-time Bloomington Moskowitz of the Cleveland Center for Abby Schachter of St. Louis, Missouri, a residents George and Monique Stolnitz’s Jewish Education; Rhoda Rosen, Executive senior majoring in JS and Biology and strong commitment to the advancement of Director of the Spertus Museum; Abby minoring in French, received the Fort Wayne education in Yiddish language and culture, Pitkowsky, Director of Jewish Education for Jewish Federation Scholarship. She studied the prize is awarded annually to a student the Global Programs of the American at Ben-Gurion University in fall 2005 and who shows the greatest promise in the study Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Robin has volunteered on medical missions in of Yiddish language or literature, and/or the Axelrod, Director of the University of Honduras and the Dominican Republic. history in which Yiddish culture took root Michigan’s Drachler Program in Jewish Five students were awarded Robert A. and flourished. Communal Leadership; social worker Ann and Sandra S. Borns Merit Scholarships in Hartman Luban; and IU JSP alumni Leslie JS, which recognize truly exceptional Kepes Pomerantz, Director of the Jewish UNDERGRADUATE academic accomplishments. Borns Merit Volunteer Connection for the Associated Scholarship recipients are: Bridget Coraz, a NEWS Federation of Baltimore, and Lindsey Barton JS and Political Science major from Mintz, Government Affairs and Community N EW P ROFESSIONAL C OURSE Indianapolis, has been recognized with Relations Associate for the Indianapolis JCRC. F OR JS STUDENTS membership in Phi Eta Sigma national We are especially grateful to Rhoda Uziel, honor society, Dean’s List, and the National With major support from the Professional Executive Director of the Professional Leaders Society of Collegiate Scholars. Sarah Leaders Project, the JSP was able to offer a Project and Robert Aronson, Executive Kaplan, of Orange, Ohio, was also awarded groundbreaking course, “Professional Director of the Jewish Federation of Metro- the Edward M. Dayan Scholarship. She is a Leadership and the Jewish Community,” for politan Detroit, who met with the students JS major, Hebrew minor student, and the first time in spring 2006. Amy Jackson, and supported this singular initiative. completing the Liberal Arts Management the North American Coordinator for the The Professional Leaders Project, co- Program. Before coming to IU, she spent a Strategic Dialogue Center of Netanya founded by William M. Davidson, the year studying in Israel on the Nativ Academic College, and former Executive Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family program. She is the Jewish Studies Student Director of the Hillel at the University of Foundation, Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Association (JSSA) vice president and has Oklahoma, taught the course. The course, Foundation, Eugene and Marcia Applebaum, served as the Hebrew Table co-chair. funded by the Professional Leaders Project, and Robert P. Aronson, aims to inspire and Margaret O’Connor, from Mountlake is something we hope to offer on an annual develop the next generation of professionals Terrace, Washington, a senior JS and basis to bridge the gap between our and leaders for the Jewish community. Political Science major completing both rigorous academic program and our The Borns JSP has long been committed Hebrew and Arabic minors, studied Arabic students’ professional skills and aspirations. to the career development of our students this summer in Amman, Jordan through the In spring 2006, with additional funding and is one of the foremost undergraduate State Department’s Critical Language from the Jewish Federation of Greater educators of Jewish communal professionals Scholarship Program. She interned at the Indianapolis, weekly guest lecturers (see Alumni News). The program continues Religious Action Center in summer 2004. In introduced the students to the demography, to provide conference funding for students sociology, and structure of the American to attend conferences related professionally Jewish community, and to career options in or academically to JS; sponsors an annual JS Jewish communal service, political action, career night/fair; and sends a weekly e-mail education, and religious life. Guest lecturers newsletter to students with information included Rabbi Gary Zola, Director of the about internships, conferences, jobs, American Jewish Archive and Professor at graduate programs, and careers. 16 Indiana University spring 2006, Jorie Slodki, from Skokie, Germany with Dr. Matthias Lehmann on certificate program, who completed at least Illinois, studied at HUJ and was one of a our course “The Modern Jewish Experience eight JS courses in 3 categories, were handful of students to receive one of their in Germany.” He was one of a group of IU graduates Meytal Ashkenazi of Yehud, Israel, merit scholarships. She was a finalist for an students who created a new organization, Sarah Boughey of Huntington Beach, Internal Wells Scholarship in 2005. That the Coalition to Unite Blacks and Jews. California, Zachariah Cassady of Mis- same year she won the Stolnitz Prize in Deana Sussman of St. Louis, Missouri, hawaka, Indiana, Matthew Dunn of Roslyn, Yiddish as the most outstanding IU Yiddish the Percy Family Scholarship winner, was New York, Jennifer Kraus of Burke, Virginia, student. Cheryl Steiman, of Indianapolis, is recruited to IU with our most prestigious Jennifer Minsberg of St. Louis Park, a pre-med and JS student with a perfect incoming freshmen scholarship in JS. Minnesota, Ariane Pollack of Maple Grove, GPA. A tutor for calculus classes, she is a Named to the Dean’s List each semester Minnesota, Miles Roger of Indianapolis, Hutton Honors College student and a with a near perfect GPA, she is majoring in Alexandra Schneider of Houston, Texas, member of Alpha Lambda Delta honor JS and RS and minoring in Sociology and Ashley Stern of Dallas, Texas, and Rachel society. Psychology. She was the Robert A. and Vilensky of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns JS Sandra S. Borns Administrative Intern for The third class of students completing the Scholarships were awarded to three JS the 2005-2006 year and served as vice JS minor in Hebrew were: Meytal undergraduates. Benjamyn Ellerin of president of the JSSA. Ashkenazi, Peri Berntsen, Jonathan Bubis, Greenwich, Connecticut, is completing a JS doctoral minors Elizabeth Lambert and Amy Friedman of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Science in Music (Early Music- Amy Shapiro received the Sara and Albert Adam Ganson, Aryeh Glazier of South Voice) with an Outside Field (major) in JS. Reuben Scholarships He continues for the second year as the peer for Study of the instructor, teaching a 1 credit course for the Holocaust. Elizabeth JS Freshman Interest Group in fall 2006. As used the scholarship a freshman in 2005-06, Inna Kolesnikova, funds to pursue from Indianapolis, led Hillel’s Mitzvah archival research in Corps and IIPAC, headed the committee to Weimar and organize Israelpalooza (Israel Day), and research trips to chaired the Magen David Adom committee. Buchenwald, Inna is the Hoosiers for Israel publicity Mittelbau Dora, Some 2006 JS graduates at the annual student-faculty dinner chair and the Hutton Honors College and other associated memorial sites. The Bend, Indiana, Lauren Goodman, Ramin community service program coordinator. In Reuben Scholarship helped fund Amy’s Haverim of Tarzana, California, Isac (Ari) summer 2006, she worked in Israel with participation in the 2006 Vilnius Summer Jacobovits of Rockville, Maryland, Interns for Peace. Danielle Zuber, a JS Program in Yiddish. Elizabeth Lintott, Megan Roberts, Miles major and Hebrew minor from Roswell, Roger, Hannah Sacks of Wilmette, Illinois, Georgia, has been cantor for Hillel’s Reform JS GRADUATES Philip Sherman, and Amanda Zola of services for three years and in the summer, Cincinnati, Ohio. she serves as theater director at Camp One hundred and eighty nine students have Philip Sherman graduated with honors in Barney Medintz. She also tutors adults in graduated with a B.A. in JS since our major JS, completing a thesis, “Praying, Eating, Biblical Hebrew and teaches at was established in 1992. Our fourteenth and Dying: Jewish Life in Prague Seventeen Bloomington’s Beth Shalom congregation; class of majors included 18 B.A. recipients: Years after Communism” directed by Dr. she is planning to be a Jewish educator. Justin Bender of Clifton, Virginia, Peri Jeffrey Veidlinger. JS senior Aliza Sinkinson Samantha Leapman of Indianapolis was Berntsen of Boulder, Colorado, Jonathan graduated with departmental honors in awarded the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Bubis of Los Angeles, California, Stephanie Political Science. Administrative Internship for the year. She Clark of Reston, Virginia, Melissa Dress of We are gratified that many of our recent studied at HUJ during the last year. She will Sharon, Massachusetts, Adam Ganson of graduates choose careers related to JS. serve as the JSSA president during 2006- Cincinnati, Ohio, Lauren Goodman of Among our current graduating class, 2007 and as the Borns intern for Carolyn Shreveport, Louisiana, Shira Gross of Jonathan Bubis is teaching history and Lipson-Walker. Potomac, Maryland, Jaime Katz of Elkins drama at Sinai Akiba school in Los Angeles. Joey Rosenberg from Overland Park, Park, Pennsylvania, Michael Kushnick of Stephanie Clark will begin rabbinical school Kansas, is the recipient of the Sandra and Parkland, Florida, Elizabeth Lintott of at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Stanley Trockman Scholarship in JS. A Northbrook, Illinois, Lauren Miller of Religion in Jerusalem in fall 2007. Matthew member of Mortar Board, he traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, Stephanie Oreck of Dunn is beginning studies toward an MSW Minnetonka, Minnesota, Joseph Osgood of at Yeshiva University. Michael Kushnick is Wheaton, Illinois, Lindsey Pollack of attending the Conservative yeshiva in Israel Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Megan Roberts of before beginning rabbinical school. Lauren Knoxville, Tennessee, Philip Sherman of Miller is administrative assistant to the Plymouth, Minnesota, and Aliza Sinkinson education director at Ohr Kodesh of Oakland, California. Congregation in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Joining the 359 alumni of our JS area Stephanie Oreck is a Campaign Associate at Borns Jewish Studies Program 17 the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation in sponsored with Hillel), Dr. Jeremy Shere hour course designed to help freshmen the Women’s Division in Chicago. Megan answered the question “What is a Jewish make the academic transition to IU, and Roberts is a Fellow at the American Hebrew Book?” The JSSA sponsored two film two other JS courses together: “Introduction Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina. showings, “Hiding and Seeking: Faith and to Jewish History” (taught by Dr. Matthias Philip Sherman is the JCSC Fellow at Emory Tolerance after the Holocaust” discussed by Lehmann) and “The Bible and its University Hillel. Aliza Sinkinson is AIPAC’s Dr. Mark Roseman, and “Walk on Water” Interpreters” (a College Topics course Early Engagement Director. discussed by Nurit Ben Yehuda. Elected taught by Borns JSP Director Steven JSSA officers for the 2006-2007 year are: Weitzman). Ben Ellerin, a School of Music President Samantha Leapman, VP Sarah student pursuing JS as an outside field Kaplan, Secretary Rebecca Frazin, and (major), is serving as the JS FIG Peer Treasurer Traci Stratford. Instructor for the second year. The popular JS FIG filled up before the beginning of T HREE H IGH S CHOOL summer 2006 freshman orientation. S ENIORS R ECEIVE $13,000 There is no additional cost to participate IN S CHOLARSHIPS in the JS FIG, nor are there any academic prerequisites. Participants can room with a Thanks to the generosity of Robert and JSSA officers (left to right) Rachel Kaplan, Deana non-JS FIG participant. For more inform- Sussman, Sarah Kaplan, Philip Sherman, with Dr. Sandra Borns and Irving Glazer and his ation about the JS FIG for fall 2007, contact Jeffrey Veidlinger friends and family, scholarships totaling (812) 856-4301 or e-mail: [email protected]. $13,000 were awarded to three incoming JS C AN’ TBEM ATCHED Freshmen for the 2006-2007 year. Riley Intensive Freshman Seminar IU Jewish Studies Student Holzman of Santa Barbara, California on the Holocaust Association Programming received the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Scholarship for an Incoming Freshmen in Incoming freshmen may choose to take a JS- At the heart of the Borns JSP’s philosophy is JS. Emily Berman of Louisville, Kentucky related course “Popular Representations of a commitment to providing students an and Jessica Wainer of Oak Park, Illinois the Holocaust” three weeks prior to the outstanding academic experience, primarily were awarded Irving M. Glazer Scholarships beginning of the fall 2007 semester. Dr. John inside the classroom, but also outside. for Incoming Freshmen in JS. Schilb teaches the course. For more inform- Toward that end, the 2005-2006 leadership Applicants came from a large pool of out- ation, see: http://www.indiana.edu/~ifs/. of the Jewish Studies Student standing high seniors from across the U.S. Association(JSSA)—President Philip D IGGING T EL B ETH Sherman, VP Deana Sussman, Secretary N EWS FOR H IGH S CHOOL S HEMESH Rachel Kaplan, and Treasurer Sarah S TUDENTS Kaplan—organized a full calendar of Current High School Seniors Can For the eighth summer, students spent 3 weeks on the IU Overseas Study Tel Beth student-faculty Logo created by Matthew Bloom Apply for 3 JS Freshmen events. The year Scholarships Totaling $13,000 Shemesh program. With support from began with a well- Dorot Foundation Travel Grants, students attended fall dessert Current high school seniors applying to IU excavated the site and were trained in field on September 29 and committed to JS may apply for 3 fresh- sessions, afternoon workshops, and evening and ended with the men scholarships for the 2007-2008 year. lectures. Designed by Dr. Steven Weitzman gala student-faculty One $5,000 Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns and directed by seasoned Israeli dinner on April 26 Scholarship and two $4,000 Irving M. Glazer archaeologists Zvi Lederman and Shlomo with honored guest Scholarships will be awarded to outstanding Bunimovitz, the excavation has uncovered Bob Borns, who incoming freshmen. an important Judahite border town in the was instrumental in raising generous For information about how to apply for frontier zone between the Israelites and the scholarship funds for JS students for the these scholarships, high school seniors can Philistines. 2006-2007 year. Every Tuesday in the fall view details about the application procedure The field school also affords students and every Wednesday in the spring, Hebrew at http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/glazerscholar several opportunities to experience modern speakers convened for a free dinner at ship.htm The application deadline for fall Israel. They live on a modern kibbutz and Hillel’s kosher café. Todah rabbah to fall 2007 is Friday, March 2, 2007. travel on weekend excursions to various Hebrew Table co-chairs: Sarah Kaplan, parts of Israel. Director of Modern Hebrew Mike Kushnick, Josh Simons, and Jeff JS Freshman Living-Learning Ayelet Weiss served as on-site director for Villano, and to spring 2006 co-chairs: Sarah Group the IU program. Kaplan, Josh Simons, and Jeff Villano. The For the eighth fall, IU freshmen had the JSSA co-sponsored two free lunches with option of living and studying in the JS the faculty: in the fall, Dr. Dror Wahrman Freshman Interest Group (FIG). This fall, spoke about “God vs. Democracy in the 14 JS FIG students are living together (in State of Israel: The Lessons from the the northwest neighborhood), engaging in Disengagement Plan” and in the spring (co- student-initiated JS activities, taking a one- 18 Indiana University

J ONATHAN B UBIS AWARDED sophisticated understanding of literature.” Elizabeth Lintott, Daniel Millner, Margaret P ISER P RIZE Dan has a perfect GPA and has been O’Connor, Philip Sherman, and Deana Outstanding JS Graduate inducted into Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Sussman. Lambda Delta honor societies. He played The spring 2006 Dean’s List included 14 Jonathan Bubis, who graduated in May on the IU rugby team his freshman year and JS majors: Peri Berntsen, Joanna Blotner, 2006 with a JS major and minors in Hebrew participated in the Borns JSP’s “Jewish Jonathan Bubis, Bridget Coraz, Melissa and music studies, was awarded the Leonore Experience in Modern Germany” in May Dress, Yael Eban, Sarah Kaplan, Jonathan and Louis Piser Prize in JS. Of a graduating 2005. Last year, Dan placed 3rd in the Big Kleinman, Michael Kushnick, Lauren class of 35 students, Jonathan was deemed Man on Campus Miller, Daniel Millner, Derrick Murphy, the most outstanding fundraiser for breast Margaret O’Connor, and Aliza Sinkinson. graduating JS student cancer at the IU Margaret O’Connor is recipient of the who plans to pursue Auditorium playing 2006-2007 Jeanice Bartling Lewis Memorial a career related to JS. bagpipes and Scholarship from the College. Named to Phi Beta performing Irish Jori Slodki was the winner of the HUJ Kappa and the dance. After Merit Scholarship in spring 2006. recipient of JS graduation, Dan Laura Siegel graduated in December 2005 scholarships and plans to go to Jewish with honors in Political Science. faculty academic Theological Seminary JS students will be Hillel officers next year: awards throughout Jonathan Bubis Daniel Millner (JTS) to pursue President Joanna Blotner, Vice President college, Jonathan rabbinic and Jewish education degrees. Dani Zuber, and Secretary Inna Koleniskova. studied abroad at HUJ during his junior The annual Bern Essay Competition was Sarah Cohen, one of the organizers of the year where he starred in the spring theatre established to honor the memory of Henry IU winter break relief trip to help Hurricane production. A. Bern, Professor Emeritus in the IU Katrina victims, was honored as the IU He is a member of Eta Beta Rho Hebrew School of Education, loyal supporter of the Commission on Multicultural Under- honor society. During summer 2004, Borns JSP, and a long-time Bloomington standing presented its program award. Jonathan received a Spielberg Fellowship resident. The $500 Bern prize aims to Lauren Miller (Borns JSP) and Jennifer from the Association for Jewish Camping to stimulate undergraduate excellence in Minsberg (McNutt Center) were named work with Jewish theater groups. In writing and research in JS. Outstanding Student Employees. summer 2005, he served as head of drama S TUDENT H ONORS at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. He is JSP FUNDS S TUDENTS AT currently teaching history and drama at Jonathan Bubis (May 2006 B.A.) and C ONFERENCES Sinai Akiba school in Los Angeles. Rachel Vilensky (December 2005 area For the fourteenth year, the Borns JSP with The $750 Piser Prize is awarded annually certificate) were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. support from the Robert A. and Sandra S. to an outstanding graduating JS B.A., area Sarah Cohen, Dan Corson-Knowles, Borns JSP Endowment, subsidized certificate, or Hebrew minor student who is Melissa Dress, Amy Friedman, Alexander conference attendance for students in the planning further graduate work in JS and a Heisler, Inna Kolesnikova, Amy Margolin, U.S. and abroad. Five undergraduate career in the field. Through the Piser Prize Derrick Murphy, Shira Nadel, Margaret students—Sarah Cohen, Inna Kolesnikova, and other initiatives, the Borns JSP hopes to O’Connor, Abigail Schachter, Rachel Rachel Schonwald, Philip Sherman, Aliza demonstrate to our graduating seniors the Schonwald, Joshua Simons, Cheryl Steiman Sinkinson and two doctoral minors—Ben high value of careers in JS. Making the and Rebecca Waxman were named to the Thorne and Amy Shapiro—received funding award possible were the late Leonore and national Hebrew Honor Society Eta Beta to attend JS conferences. During the current Louis Piser, of South Bend. Rho. year, JS students will be eligible to apply for Nine JS majors were named to the subsidies to support attendance at B ERN E SSAY P RIZE W INNER College of Arts and Sciences fall 2005 conferences related academically or JS Major Daniel Millner Dean’s List: Jonathan Bubis, Bridget Coraz, professionally to JS. The Platonic Paul” written by JS major Jacob Ginsburg, Jonathan Kleinman, Daniel Millner, a sophomore from Glencoe, Illinois, received the 2006 Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay Prize in JS. One faculty JSP AND A LUMNI S HARE employment opportunities related to JS are member described Dan’s paper as J OB O PPORTUNITIES sent to alumni, and alumni, in turn, share “inquisitive and probing” and showing “a V IA E-MAIL such news with the JSP via e-mail. If you are a JSP alumnus/alumna and Nine years ago, as an extension of our would like to be on this e-mail job list, please career resource center, the JSP established an e-mail [email protected]. If you have e-mail job network for JSP alumni. The been on the list but have recently changed network enables our alumni to share your e-mail address, please send your new information about job openings. e-mail address to [email protected]. Throughout the year, e-mail notes about Borns Jewish Studies Program 19

C OURSE O FFERINGS Spring 2006-Spring 2007 The curriculum offered each year by the JSP is both broad and deep with 60 courses. ANTHROPOLOGY HISTORY Advanced Hebrew I and II—Katz, Segal, Weiss Ethnography of Europe—Bahloul Globalization and Jewish History (graduate Introductory Readings in Hebrew Literature—Katz Memory and Culture—Bahloul seminar)—Lehmann Individual Readings in Hebrew—Katz Migrations and Diasporas—Bahloul The History of Jerusalem—Wahrman The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction—Katz Modern Jewish Society and Culture—Bahloul History of the Holocaust—Roseman Professional Leadership and the Jewish COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES TOPICS Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Community—Jackson COURSE the Spanish Expulsion—Lehmann Recent Hebrew Literature (in English)—Katz The Bible and its Interpreters—Weitzman Introduction to Jewish History: From the Spanish Recent Hebrew Literature (in Hebrew)—Katz Blacks and Jews—Assensoh Expulsion to the Present—Lehmann, Veidlinger Theory, Method, and Historiography in the Study of Theism, Atheism, and Existentialism—Levene Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Judaism (graduate seminar)—Magid Who Wrote the Bible?—Marks Mediterranean—Lehmann OVERSEAS STUDY Jews in Eastern Europe—Veidlinger COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Tel Beth Shemesh Archaeological Field School— The Jews of Spain: Jewish Life Under Christianity Weiss Literature and the Bible—Marks and Islam—Lehmann ENGLISH Life and Death: Rebuilding Germany after World PHILOSOPHY Studies in Jewish Literature: The Holocaust—Gubar War II (graduate seminar)—Roseman Emil Fackenheim and the Holocaust—Morgan Modern Jewish History: From Expulsion to FOLKLORE POLITICAL SCIENCE Revolution—Lehmann The Holocaust and Politics—Bielasiak Exploring Jewish Identity—Cohen The People of the Book: Jewish History and Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (graduate seminar)— Modern Jewish Texts—Veidlinger RELIGIOUS STUDIES Cohen Perpetrators of the Holocaust—Roseman Ancient Mediterranean Religions—Harrill Music in Judaism—Cohen Biblical Justice—Halberstam HONORS GERMANIC STUDIES The Binding of Isaac in Judaism, Christianity, and American Jewish Writers—Rosenfeld Islam—Magid Beginning Yiddish II—Kerler Hitler and Anne Frank: Studies in the Ghetto, Shtetl, and Beyond: Millennium of History Introduction to Judaism—Magid Representation of Good and Evil—Rosenfeld Introduction to Hebrew Bible—Halberstam and Society of Yiddish—Kerler Literature of the Holocaust—Rosenfeld Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, King David in History and Literature—Weitzman Literature, and Culture—Kerler INTENSIVE FRESHMAN SEMINAR Messiahs and Messianism in Comparative Intermediate Yiddish I and II—Kerler Popular Representations of the Holocaust—Schilb Perspective—Magid Modernity and Tradition in Yiddish Literature and Prophecy in Ancient Israel—Halberstam JEWISH STUDIES Revolution in Rabbinic Literature—Halberstam Culture (graduate seminar)—Kerler Intermediate Biblical Hebrew I and II—Muehlberger Readings in Yiddish Ethnography: Folklore and Introduction to Biblical Hebrew II—Muehlberger SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Dialectology (graduate seminar) —Kerler Introduction to Elementary Hebrew I and II— Central European Literature and Culture between th Selected Readings in 20 Century Yiddish Sarfati, Shuman, Weiss the Wars—Perlina Literature: Fiction, Drama, Poetry—Kerler Intermediate Hebrew I and II—Ben Yehuda, Levy, Yiddish in America—Kerler Weiss

Education at Temple Mount Zion in St. Paul, Shana Canter Levin (1998) and her husband ALUMNI NEWS Minnesota, serves on the National Association Michael welcomed daughter Leah Canter Levin of Temple Educators board of directors and the on March 15, 2006. They recently moved from We are proud of our graduates, so many of congregational schooling committee of the New York City to Columbus, Ohio. whom now hold important positions at major Union for Reform Judaism’s Lifelong Learning Lindsey Barton Mintz, (1998) Director of educational and communal organizations Council. Governmental Affairs for the Jewish throughout the country. Rabbi Eli Garfinkel (1993) is Rabbi of Temple Community Relations Council of Indianapolis, Joan Keller Rothenberg (1985) received a Beth El Somerset in Somerset, New Jersey. was chosen as a 2006 Hoosier Fellow. She and master’s degree in art therapy from the Leslie Brian Shankman (1994) is Northeast Deputy her husband Jason are expecting their first child College branch in Tel Aviv. She has illustrated Director for AIPAC. in September 2006. five Jewish children’s book and a children’s Brett Pelchovitz Stern (1994) is Director of Amanda Borschel-Dan (1999) is editor of prayerbook, published by the Reconstructionist the Conservative Jewish high school Merchaz in The Jerusalem Post’s Up Front Magazine. She Press. She lives in Indianapolis with her four Cincinnati. and her husband are the parents of three children and husband Jeff. Jen Zwilling (1994) married Jon children. Bekki Harris Kaplan (1987) is Executive Rosenwasser. Jen is Hillel’s Soref Senior Rabbi Ellen Brandwein (1999) and her Director of Beth Emet, the Free Synagogue in Associate for Campus Advancement. husband Rabbi Adam Rosenblum Evanston. Bruce Hoffman (1995) is Assistant Professor welcomed daughter Shoshana Rena Debby Barton Grant, (1991) her husband of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University. on June 27, 2006. Scott, and son Jonah, welcomed Benjamin Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg (1996) was Ilene Scholnick (1999) is Barton Grant to the family on September 21st, ordained by HUC-JIR and is the National Campaign Division Director for the 2005. Debby is Executive Vice President of the Deputy Director of AIPAC’s Synagogue Atlanta Jewish Federation. South Bend Jewish Federation. Initiative. Stephanie Stern Fink, (1993) Director of 20 Indiana University

Shauna Replane Leavey (2000) and husband Samantha Pearline (2003) is pursuing a Teen Service Learning and College Volunteers Michael welcomed daughter Nora Gertrude on master’s degree in education at the University of for Dorot. May 3, 2005. Shauna is Assistant Principal at Judaism. Aaron Aft (2000) and Leah Hedrick (2004) Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. Debra Powers (2003) was married to Adam were married in summer 2005 in Kansas City. Rachael Petru (2000) is Senior Development Cutler in July 2006. They are spending the Joshua Samis (2002) and Jill Hibshman Samis Officer for Hadassah’s Western Area current year in Israel. Since graduation, Debra (2002) were married in spring 2006. Josh Development Center. was a Steinhardt Jewish Campus Service Corps recently graduated from Emory University School Karen Cohen (2001) is Coordinator for the Fellow at Hillel of Rochester area colleges and at of Law and is practicing law in Charlotte. Jill Member Support Program for House of Columbia/Barnard Hillel. She also worked for graduated from Emory University School of Representatives minority leader Nancy Pelosi. the National Ramah Commission. Medicine and in June 2006 began a residency in Rebecca Freund (2001) is the Naomi Shulman (2003) is a graduate student pediatrics at Northwestern University. Communications and Activities Assistant at studying Holocaust literature at UC Berkeley. The Borns JSP takes pride in the Steven S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles. Sarina Fogel (2004) works for the Jewish accomplishments of its alumni and is always Hannah Kaufman Joseph (2001) married Council for Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. pleased to hear of their personal and Brent Joseph. They live in Indianapolis where Emily Walsh (2004) is a student at HUC-JIR professional achievements. Please send your Hannah is an attorney with Lewis Kappes. in Jewish Communal Service. news and current e-mail address and mailing Claire Grusin Kaufmann (2001) and her Henry Bernstein (2005) is Youth Director at address to [email protected]. husband Roy, welcomed daughter Hannah on Moriah Congregation in Deerfield, Illinois. July 18, 2006. Jen Gubitz (2005) is the Israel Education Cantor David Reinwald (2001) graduated Fellow at the Schusterman Hillel International FACULTY NEWS from HUC-JIR and is cantor at Congregation Center. A LVIN H. ROSENFELD C HAIR IN Beth Israel in Austin, Texas. Jody Klenetsky (2005) is pursuing a master’s J EWISH S TUDIES Debbie Sasso (2001) and Brad Herold were degree in special education at National Louis IU Bloomington married on December 11, 2005. University. is pleased to Jennifer Steiman (2001) graduated from Rush Elizabeth Lintott (2005) is a preschool announce a School of Medicine and began her residency in teacher at the Skokie JCC. search to fill the anesthesia at the University of Chicago. Laura Siegel (2005) was the Midwest Alvin H. Jami Trockman (2001) is working for the Director of USD Hagshama of the WZO. She Rosenfeld Chair Premier Philanthropy program at the Los entered the M.A. programs in Jewish education in JS, an Angeles Jewish Federation. and Jewish communal service at HUC-JIR in endowed position Diana Kogan (2002) works for the Claims fall 2006. established to Conference in New York City. Rachel Vilensky (2005) began IU honor the Gabe Lewin (2002) was married in winter Bloomington Law School this fall. founding director 2006 to Devorah Maho in Israel. He is Sonya Weisburd (2005) works for the Jewish of the Robert A. studying at a yeshivah there. Youth Philanthropy Institute in Washington, D.C. and Sandra S. Miriam Pullman (2002) completed a master’s Meytal Ashkenazi (2006) is a Business Borns Jewish Alvin H. Rosenfeld degree in Jewish communal service at HUC-JIR Analyst for Target stores. Studies Program. and is campaign associate for the Jewish Melissa Dress (2006) began Regis College’s The search committee welcomes applications Federation of Greater Atlanta. accelerated BS and MS program for non-nurses from scholars in any field or discipline focused Ruth Schachter (2002) completed a master’s to earn an R.N. licensure, a bachelor’s degree in on Jewish culture, society, politics, history, art, degree in Jewish history at the University of nursing, and a master’s degree in psychiatric literature, or thought. (The position will be Maryland. nursing. jointly appointed with the appropriate Scott Zuick (2002) served on the IU School Matt Dunn (2006) is an MSW student at department). The ideal candidate will be an of Medicine’s 2006 Admissions Committee, the Yeshiva University. outstanding scholar at the associate or full first year that students have served on this Adam Ganson (2006) is pursuing a master’s professor rank. The search committee will also committee. He is currently a resident in internal degree in environmental studies through Ben- consider applications from exceptionally medicine at Washington University. Gurion University’s Arava Institute. promising scholars at the assistant professor Rachel Conroy (2003) completed her Ariane Pollack (2006) is continuing at IU in rank. graduate degree from the Drachler Program and 2006-2007 to complete her MBA. Applications received by November 3, 2006 is a Campaign Associate for the Jewish Lindsey Pollack (2006) began a master’s will be assured of consideration. Applications Federation of Greater Atlanta. degree program in elementary education at should include a cover letter, c.v., and a writing Drew Kaplan (2003) is a rabbinical student Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. sample, and applicants should arrange to have at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York. Jewish Studies couples: three letters of recommendation sent to us by Ben Lewis (2003) is Assistant Director of Gina Lewald-Fass (1996) and Jonathan Fass the deadline. Please send all materials to Dr. Education and Youth at Temple Sholom in (1996) welcomed their second child Ezer in Steven Weitzman, Borns Jewish Studies Greenwich, CT. February, 2006. Program, Indiana University, Goodbody Hall Kate Breiter Uslan (2000) and Eytan Uslan 326, 1011 E. Third Street, Bloomington, (2001) welcomed son Benjamin Charles Uslan on Indiana 47405-7005. IU is an equal March 21, 2006 in Charlotte, North Carolina. opportunity/affirmative action employer that Leslie Cohen Kastner (2000) and Andy encourages applications from under represented Kastner (2002) are living in New York while minorities and women. Andy pursues rabbinical studies at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Leslie is Coordinator of Borns Jewish Studies Program 21

Societas at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle- project’s findings for CAHI’s Meet the Author OUR FACULTY Wittenburg, Halle, Germany. His article, “The Series in December, 2005. He delivered Apostle Paul on the Slave Self: An “Beyond When All is Said and Done: The Last Joëlle Bahloul spent the 2005-2006 year on Interpretation of Romans 7” appeared in Leaving Remnants of Prewar Jewish Culture in research leave as a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Religion and the Self in Antiquity, edited by Contemporary Ukraine and Moldova,” for The Department of Performance Studies while David Brakke, Steven Weitzman, and Michael Thomas and Diann Mann Distinguished writing a book on Jews in France. At NYU, she Satlow (IU Press, 2005). He was a panelist for Symposium Series at Ohio State University’s participated in the Jews and the Media seminar “Reassessing Social Status in the First Century Melton Center for JS in January 2006. At the housed in the Center for Religion and the Assemblies,” (Archaeology of Religion in the May 2006 international conference, “Yiddish Media. Dr. Bahloul was named a member of the Roman World Section) and for “Families—A Theatre Revisited: New Perspectives on Drama editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Jews in Useful Category in Early Christian Studies?” and Performance” at University of Washington, the Islamic World to be published by E.J. Brill in (Early Christian Families he spoke about “Vestiges of Pre- 2009. She spoke at a number of universities Group) at the annual War Purimshpil in Living including the University of Laval, and at Rutgers meeting of the Society of Memory.” He taught a course on University where she lectured on collective Biblical Literature in modern Yiddish poetry at the memory and domestic rituals. She delivered the Philadelphia. He hosted two Vilnius Yiddish Institute’s Proshanski Lecture on “French Jews and the campus presentations, “The Inaugural Yiddish Educator Republic in Crisis” at the CUNY Graduate Canonization of the Bible,” Program for Yiddish teachers, Center; she read a paper, “Sephardic Cuisine at the Campus Skeptics professors, and instructors in and the French Republic” at a conference on Alliance in September 2005, May, 2005, and was appointed to Food and Wine in Jewish Culture at UC Davis; and an undergraduate Dept. the Vilnius Institute’s Board of and she participated in the NYU colloquium on of RS “movie night” in Directors. “‘What We Remember material Jews presenting “The Parisian Pletzel in October that featured “God and What We Should Remember’: the Souvenirs’ Gallery: Menoroth and Mezuzoth and Politics––The Battle for Some Early 21st Century Oral on the Tourist’s Trail.” the Bible.” Memories of Soviet Jewish Life in Judah Cohen joined the Borns JSP faculty in Stephen Katz is working Prewar Ukraine” was the title of fall 2006 as the inaugural holder of the Lou on a book manuscript To Be his talk at the international and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of Jewish As Others: The conference on “Yiddish Language Culture. (See article on page 5.) Representation of African- and Native- and Culture in the Soviet Union” at the Russian Despite his retirement in 2003, Paul Americans in Immigrant Hebrew Literature State University for Humanities, Moscow, June, Eisenberg continues to direct various indivi- that centers on the encounter of immigrant 2006. dualized reading courses and to serve on a Hebrew writers in America with other Matthias Lehmann was on a research leave number of dissertation committees. He is also marginalized cultures, especially of Afro- funded by CAHI in fall 2005, working on his active on various university committees. He Americans and Native Americans. He new project entitled “Identity and Philanthropy served this year as a member of the IU Racial presented, “Revisiting Hillel Bavli’s Mrs. in the Sephardi Diaspora, 1660-1860.” His Incidents Team/Religious Bias Incidents Team. Woods,” at the International Conference on book, Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Halina Goldberg spent the 2005-2006 year Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture of Sephardic Culture, was published by IU Press in as a Fulbright-Hays the National Association of 2005 and was a runner-up for a National Fellow in Poland Professors of Hebrew. With the Jewish Book Award. He also published an researching how national support of a College of Arts and article in Jewish Social Studies and presented identity, assimilation, and Humanities Institute (CAHI) papers at the annual conference of the Jewishness in 19th Fellowship, he will spend his Association for JS and as a guest of the Taube century Poland were sabbatical in fall 2006 JS Program and the Mediterranean Studies expressed through music. researching the responses of Forum at Stanford University. In spring 2006, She examined how the American Hebrew writers to the Dr. Lehmann taught an introductory course on political debate on “the Holocaust. He taught a new JS Jewish history from 1492 to the present and an Jewish question” was course “The Kibbutz in Fact and intensive writing seminar on the Jews of Spain. carried out, exploring Fiction” during spring 2006. Nancy Levene is researching reason and musical sounds and their Dov-Ber Kerler’s “Reality, desire in European historiography. Two of her verbal and iconographic Fiction, and Imagination in articles appeared this spring: “Sources of counterparts as symbols Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Stories” History: Myth and Image” in the March 2006 deployed in public appeared in Italian translation issue of the Journal of the American Academy discourse and their in the special volume entitled Ricordando Isaac of Religion in a forum on “The Future of the effects on public opinion. Bashevis Singer (Rome, 2006) of Rassegna Study of Religion in the Academy,” and “The Susan Gubar’s Poetry after Auschwitz: Mensile d’Israel dedicated to the centenary of Fall of Eden: Reasons and Reasoning in the Remembering What One Never Knew was the great American Yiddish author. Dr. Kerler Bible and Talmud” in the spring 2006 issue of published in paperback by IU Press. (See book edited and published the last poems of his Philosophy Today, in a special issue devoted to cover on page 10.) father, Yoysef Kerler, Davke itst – naye un letste Bert Harrill’s new book, Slaves in the New lider [Josef Kerler, Now is the Time – New and Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Last Poems], Yerusholaimer Almanach Press, Dimensions (Fortress Press) was published early Jerusalem, 2005. With Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger, he this year. He participated in a roundtable continued to direct the IU Yiddish Ethnographic discussion of his new book at the 60th general Project (see article on page 9) and presented the meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti 22 Indiana University the question of the contribution of Jewish transmitted orally by Zalman Schachter- Pollock, is forthcoming from SUNY Press, and philosophy to philosophy overall. Last winter, Shalomi. This is the only existing account of this the Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish she chaired a panel at the Association of JS homily. He also published an essay entitled, “A Philosophy, which he co-edited with Peter Eli annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on “The Theological Argument for Sharing the Holy Gordon, is forthcoming from Cambridge Intersection of Theory and Practice: A Land” in The Christian Century, July 11th University Press. Cambridge will also publish Conversation about Justice amongst Scholars, 2006, and contributed articles for the new his book Discovering Levinas. Dr. Morgan was Rabbis, and Activists.” In July, she traveled to edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica, the new awarded a Fellowship from CAHI and will be Rome to do research, and then to Malta for the Encyclopedia of Religion, The YIVO on leave in fall 2006 to write a book, On biennial conference of the International Society Encyclopedia of Eastern European Jewry, and Shame, for the Thinking in Action series, for the Study of European Ideas where she gave the Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora. His published by Routledge. In spring 2006, he a paper on “The Idea of a Philosophical scholarly papers include; “A New Hasidic taught a new course devoted exclusively to the History.” In August, she co-convened (with Reflection on the Necessity of the Holocaust,” work of Emil Fackenheim. Shaul Magid) a symposium at IU on AAR Conference, 2005; “Multiculturalism, Mark Roseman presented “Good “Cosmopolitanism, Post-Ethnicity, and the New Postethnicity: The Loss of ‘Jewish Essence’ and Utopians–Bad Citizens?” at the annual Midwest Jewish Diaspora.” The symposium was the (Re) Birth of the New Jews,” a panel on the German History Workshop, held this year at sponsored by the Borns JSP, the Department of limits of pluralism honoring the work of Eugene the Center for German and European Studies, RS, and CAHI. Borowitz, AJS Conference, 2005; “Teaching University of Minnesota in October. He was Shaul Magid’s From Metaphysical to Jewish Mysticism in the Academy: The Vocation also invited to give the 2006 “Silberman Midrash: History, Myth and the Interpretation of the Heretic,” AJS Conference, 2005; Faculty Seminar on the History of the of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala will be “Contemporary Kabbala,” organizer, chair and Holocaust”, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial published by IU Press’ series in Biblical respondent, AJS Conference, 2005; and Museum in Washington. This was a two week Interpretation in fall 2007. His recently “Judaism, Jewishness and the Land of Israel: seminar to bring faculty from all over the published articles include, “The Politics of (un) Between Religion and Nationalism,” at the country up to speed on the latest Holocaust Conversion: The ‘Mixed Multitude’ (erev rav) “Conference on the Land of Israel in Judaism research. In addition, Roseman gave the paper as Conversos in Rabbi Hayyim Vital’s Etz Ha- and Christianity” at The Christian Theological “Generations of Perpetrators, Generations of Da’at Tov,” Jewish Quarterly Review (summer Institute, Indianapolis, March, 2006. He partici- Nazis. How Much Can the Generational Model 2005); “‘The Ritual is Not the Hunt’: The pated in the conference, “Cosmopolitans, Post- Explain?” in the panel “Generational Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Ethnicity, and the New Jewish Diaspora” held at Discourses and Experiences in 20th-Century Jewish Ritual as Fantasy,”Liturgy, Time, and IU August 20-22, 2006, and spoke with Dr. Germany” at the German Studies Association the Politics of Redemption, Randi Rashkover Adulkadar Sinno at a forum “Earthquake?: The annual conference in Milwaukee in fall 2005. and Chad Pecknold, eds. (Eerdmans Press, Palestinian Elections 2005” and with Dr. Rashid He was invited to be one of the National 2006); “In Search of a Critical Voice in the Omar at a forum “Theological Perspectives on Endowment for the Humanities panelists for Jewish Diaspora: Homelessness and Home in Muslim-Jewish Relations: Eternal Rivals or selecting grant proposals in European history. Edward Said and Shalom Noah Barzofsky’s Partners in American Society,” at IU. Alvin H. Rosenfeld continues to devote the Netivot Shalom,” Jewish Social Studies Michael Morgan gave two lectures as a major part of his teaching, research, and service (summer 2006); and “Ethics Disentangled from Visiting University Scholar at The James activities to the study of Holocaust literature, the Law: Incarnation, the Universal and Hasidic Madison University at the invitation of the contemporary antisemitism, and modern Jewish Ethics,” Kabbalah: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy Department, “Is There Madness in writers. His essay, “Modern Jewish Intellectual Mysticism 15 (2006). He became a contributing Plato’s Method? Philosophy and the Phaedrus,” Failure: A Brief History,” appeared, in an editor to Tikkun Magazine in fall 2006 and “Shame and Genocide.” He gave a paper, abridged version, in Society (Nov./Dec. 2005), contributing the following articles; “Jewish “Jewish Philosophy and Contemporary and then, in a complete version, in The Jewish Renewal: A ‘New’ American Judaism?” Philosophy,” at The Renaissance of Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders, Jan/Feb, 2006; “A New Yavneh: The Holocaust Philosophy in America conference at Princeton eds. Edward Alexander and Paul Bogdanor as Theological Opportunity,” March/April, University, sponsored by the James Madison (Transaction 2006). An essay on a related 2006; “Jewish Renewal and Postmonotheistic Program in American Ideals and Institutions, subject, “Progressive Jewish Thought and the Theology,” May/June, 2006; and “A Nation is Princeton University and the Louis Finkelstein ‘New’ Antisemitism,” will appear, in Polish Not a Family: Re-Thinking Munich,” Tikkun Institute for Religious and Social Studies, JTS. translation, in Midrasz and, in English, in Magazine, on-line edition, June 2006. He also Dr. Morgan presented a paper, “Philosophy, the Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, ed. published an essay in a festschrift volume of Holocaust, and Genocide,” at a conference on Charles Small. “Antisemitic Languages: Spectrum: A Journal of Jewish Renewal the “Representation of the Holocaust in Contemporary Rhetorics of Hostility to Jews presented to Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Literature and Film” at the College of William and the Jewish State” is also forthcoming, as is on his eightieth birthday entitled, “When Will and Mary and spoke on Emil Fackenheim’s To his “Foreword” to Bernard Harrison’s The the Wedding Take Place?” that includes an Mend the World at the University of Notre Resurgence of Antisemitism: Jews, Israel, and annotated transcription and commentary of a Dame. He edited with introductions The Liberal Opinion and his “Foreword” to homily delivered by R. Menachem Mendel Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe, eds. Schneersohn in France in the winter of 1941 as which was published by Hackett Publishing and Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden. Shorter appeared in February 2006. His essay, “Levinas pieces on anti-Zionism and Holocaust literature and Judaism,” appeared in Levinas Studies, an appeared in The New Leader. In the spring, Dr. Annual Review, Vol. 1 (Duquesne University Rosenfeld gave lectures at UCLA and the Press, 2005) edited by Jeffrey Bloechl & Jeffrey University of California Santa Cruz (on Primo L. Kosky. The anthology Philosopher as Levi), at Yale (on contemporary anti-Semitism), Witness: Fackenheim and Responses to the at Harvard (on new Russian Jewish immigrant Holocaust, which he edited with Benjamin authors), and HUJ (on antisemitic rhetoric). In Borns Jewish Studies Program 23

Dr. Veidlinger spoke at the plenary 2004) was awarded the John Ben Snow Foun- session of the American Historical dation Prize by the North American Conference Association’s annual meeting in on British Studies, for the best book by a North Philadelphia on “Voices from the American scholar in any field of British studies Shtetl: Yiddish Oral Histories in from the middle ages to 1800. Earlier in the year, Eastern Europe.” The presentation it also won the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the included video clips from AHEYM American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (The Archive of Historical and He taught a new course in spring 2006, “The Ethnographic Yiddish Memories), History of Jerusalem.” which Dr. Veidlinger co-directs Steven Weitzman spent spring 2006 on with Dr. Dov-Ber Kerler. The sabbatical in Jerusalem as a visiting scholar project, funded by the NEH, with the HUJ’s Orion Center for the Study of collects videotaped Yiddish the Dead Sea Scrolls and as a fellow of the Robert Borns & Jeffrey Veidlinger language interviews with Jews in shtetls and William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological March, he convened a major conference at IU cities throughout Eastern Europe. Dr. Veidlinger Research. During this period, he completed his on contemporary Jewish exile literature, which also presented papers at the national portion of a co-authored history of Jewish brought together Jewish writers from 7 different convention of the American Association for the culture; authored two essays on the War Scroll countries. He is currently editing the conference Advancement of Slavic Studies in Salt Lake and the Samaritans; and advanced an on-going papers for publication as a book on exile litera- City, the “Jews and Russian Revolutions” study of the role of violence in the formation of ture. He continued to chair the U.S. Holocaust conference at Stanford University, “The Yiddish Jewish culture, a sequel to his recently Memorial Museum’s Academic Committee, and Theater Revisited: New Perspectives on Drama published Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural he sits on the Executive Committee of the and Performance” conference at the University Persistence in Jewish Antiquity (Cambridge: Museum. He is in the fourth year of a five year of Washington in Seattle, and the Open History Harvard University Press, 2005). Among his Presidential appointment to the U.S. Holocaust Seminar at Hebrew Union College in Cincin- recent efforts as Director of the Borns JSP, Memorial Council, and also continues his long- nati. At IU, Dr. Veidlinger participated in the Weitzman helped to launch a new professional term service at the IU Press as editor of the IU Writer Uprooted Conference, the History of leadership course with support from the Press series on Jewish Literature and Culture. Human Rights Workshop, the Paul Lucas Professional Leaders Project; helped restore the Miryam Segal’s article “Rahel Bluwstein’s Conference in History, the Midwest Historians IU-Tel Beth Shemesh Program in Israel; and ‘Aftergrowth Poetics’” appears in the current of Russia Workshop, and the Joan and Samuel initiated a campaign to raise scholarship/fellow- issue of Prooftexts. Dr. Segal will be on leave New Institute in Indianapolis on “Jews and ship money for IU undergraduate and graduate this coming year, writing and researching at Music.” He published “Even Beyond Pinsk: students in the field of JS. libraries and archives in New York, Tel Aviv, Yizker Bikher [Memorial Books] and Jewish We want to take this opportunity to congrat- and Jerusalem. She will be completing her study Cultural Life in the Shtetl” in Studies in Jewish ulate Marci Shore on her new appointment in of politics and prosody in pre-State Hebrew Civilization. He is also continuing to work on History at Yale University where she has joined literature, and beginning work on a new project. his current book project, Jewish Public Culture her husband Tim Snyder. Dr. Shore was a vital She served as Director of the Modern Hebrew in Late Imperial Russia, which examines the presence in the Borns JSP and will be missed. language program during the 2005-2006 year. means by which Jewish voluntary associations, Dina Spechler was invited by the U.S. such as drama circles, literary clubs, historical Cover artwork is 19th or early 20th century plaque by Turkish artist David Algranati; appears by permission Department of State to participate in a forum societies, folk music societies and even fire of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. of experts on the U.S. and Russia. The forum brigades, helped define Jewish cultural identity involves scholarly collaboration between within the Russian Empire. Dr. Veidlinger Artwork on page 4 from Ketubah, Oran, Algeria, American and Russian scholars on a policy- teaches courses on Jewish and Russian history. 1847, Ket 268. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. relevant topic relating to one or both of these Bronislava Volková’s scholarly interests countries. Together with her Russian counter- include issues of emotive language, semantics, Artwork on page 5 from Mishneh Torah by Moses part, Dr. Spechler has been researching the and semiotics, as well as implied cultural and ben Mainmon, Spain, 15th century, ms. R 1618. implications for Russia of EU and NATO personal values in literary texts, and issues of Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. expansion. She has been invited to present the gender and exile. She is the author of A results of this research on a speaking tour in Feminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Artwork on page 11 from Haggadah; Scribe: Joseph Russia in December 2006. In summer 2005, she Literature and an edition of Ze tmy zrozená/ ben David Leimpnik, Darmstadt, 1733, ms. 4452a, participated in the International Congress of Born out of Darkness illustrated with her own folio 18r. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Central and East European Studies in Berlin, color collages. Her last publication is a twin and in spring 2006, she presented a paper retrospective CD The Slightest Reminder of Artwork on page 21 from MS Kaufmann A77 appears entitled “Competing Tendencies in Russian Your Being...(Three Decades of Exile: 1974- by permission of the Library of the Hungarian Foreign Policy” at a meeting of the Association 2004)/Nejmen˘sí p_ipomínka Tvého Bytí... Academy of Sciences. for the Study of Nationalities in New York. Her (T_icet let exilu: 1974-2004), 2005. In summer Back cover from The Ashkenazi Haggadah: A Hebrew ongoing research focuses on radical innovation 2006, she taught at the Prague School Manuscript of the Mid-15th Century, ADD 14672 in foreign policy, including the Egyptian Linguistics and Semiotics and Philosophy of f11b appears by permission of The British Library. decision to recognize Israel as a state and the Language. She is presently working on an Photographs—Jane Reeves Israeli decision to recognize the PLO as the anthology of Modern Czech Poetry in English Design—IU Office of Publications representative of the Palestinian people. and on autobiographical essays on exile. Printing—Spectrum Press Jeffrey Veidlinger continued as Associate Dror Wahrman’s recent book, The Making of Director of the Borns JSP, and was Acting the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eight- Director in spring 2006. In January, eenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 24

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