News fromzerici the Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Israeli Studies Fall 2002

From the Directors

our years ago, when we conceived of this joint newsletter of American University’s Center for Israeli Studies and Jewish Studies Program, we did not imagine how different the context would be—then Fand now. More than ever, this altered context has highlighted the importance of having these two programs at American University, not only for the campus but also for the wider Washington, D.C., com- munity. As we remain committed to our core university missions, we have also responded to the chal- lenges of a changed environment. The pages of this year’s YediAUt testify to the enhanced importance of these two academic ventures today. We thank you, our readers, for your past support and welcome your continuing financial contributions. Pamela Nadell, There is a donation form on the next-to-last page of the newsletter. More than ever, your help is vital to Director, Jewish meet the new demands placed on us and to ensure that we have sufficient resources to continue to mount Studies Program our ambitious programming at American University.

Diaspora and Comparative Immigration

he Center for Israeli Studies held its fourth and most ambitious conference in May 2002, T“Diaspora and Comparative Immigration: The Jewish Experience.” Sixteen papers were pre- Howard Wachtel, sented by scholars, about half each from Israel and Director, Center for the United States. The keynote dinner speaker was Israeli Studies syndicated Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, whose address was entitled “Diaspora Jewry: The Challenge of Survival.” Conference participants and attendees at lunch heard from Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum. The theme of the conference was the explo- ration of Jewish migrations to Israel and the United States in a comparative perspective. Historians, Inside sociologists, demographers, and cultural anthropol- ogists from Israel and the United States explored ■ Speakers the migration and incorporation experiences of Syndicated columnist and keynote speaker Charles ■ Pres. Ladner's letter Jews who left their homelands for the United StatesKrauthammer, seated, discussing his remarks with AU to Hebrew University literature professor Myra Sklarew, to his left, and other and Israel from the late nineteenth century to the North Africa (Sephardic). Panelists were asked to ■ Notes from the dinner guests present. address several thematic questions: Jewish Studies The conference panels were organized by Program • How do gender differences affect migrants’ Jewish migration flows from particular countries or experiences of national integration? ■ Spotlight on Our regions: from eastern Europe, Russia, Ethiopia, and Donors ■ Teach-Ins

See Diaspora page 2 national cultures that are themselves being homogenized by AU President Benjamin Ladner’s Letter after Exhibit of Photography • How do specific employment occu- globalization? Diaspora from page 1 pations shape the integration experi- • What has been the impact of Jewish migration from particular Hebrew University Bombing In a second collaboration with the American University’s ence in each society? parts of the globe on the politics of their host country? Watkins Art Gallery (the first was an original installation The following is the text of a letter sent to the president of Hebrew University, • How have these migrants affected • How successful was the host country’s educational system in the by the Israeli sculptor Nahum Tevet in 1998), the Menachem Magidor, by presidents of universities throughout the world after the the arts and culture in each society? integration process? Experiences in the military? Center for Israeli Studies sponsored a photographic bombing on the campus of the university. It was signed by American University exhibition, “Conversations through Photography,” organ- • How has the homogenizing influ- We are now collecting conference papers to be published in a President Benjamin Ladner: ized by the Israeli art curator Nella Cassouto. ence of globalization imperiled book. The complete conference program, with lists of participants Institutions of higher learning, and in particular universities, reflect the core values Consisting of photographs by Israeli and Palestinian Jewish identity and distinctiveness? and conference papers, is available on the Center for Israeli Studies of their respective societies. All great universities share certain characteristics that photographers depicting each others’ lives in a conflict- • How has each host society—Israel Web site: . shape their academic and scientific directions: they are committed to pluralism, and the United States—integrated The conference was organized by the Center for Israeli Studies diversity, multiculturalism and uphold the tenets of democracy and mutual co-exis- ed land, the exhibit was created to initiate a dialogue newcomers sharing a common and cosponsored by American University’s Jewish Studies Program, tence. For these reasons and many more, institutions of through visual art when individuals find it difficult to ■ Jewish heritage and different dias- with additional support from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish higher education in North America cannot remain silent. meet to exchange words. poric experiencesFormer commissioner into their own of the Culture. We, the undersigned, denounce terrorism and, in Immigration and Naturalization ■ particular, condemn the attack at The Hebrew University Service Doris Meissner of Jerusalem on July 31st that claimed seven lives and injured scores of people. We express our solidarity with the academic pursuits of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Universities serve as intellectual meeting places that should ideally invite dialogues between people from all backgrounds. Throughout its history, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has played a critical role in promoting co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians and amongst peoples of all nationalities, religions and cultures. The murderous act that took place on the Mount Scopus campus was intended to prevent the type of human interaction Benjamin Ladner Uri Ben-Eliezer,University of Haifa, right, and discourse that can facilitate change and a more complex understanding of our and Adriana Kemp, Tel Aviv University, Judith Shuval,Hebrew challenging world. left, reviewing their notes before their University, speaking while We join The Hebrew University—and all universities—in a global quest to create presentation panelists Sanford J. Ungar, productive avenues to peace and progress. We send our condolences to the families Zvi Gitelman, University of president, Goucher College, who mourn the loss of their loved ones and wish those who were injured a com- right, and Calvin Goldscheider, Michigan, speaking on the plete recovery. Brown University, middle, Demographer Sergio DellaPergola speakingimpact of Russian immigration await their turn to speak on Sephardic migration on a panel with on Israel’s society and politics Russell Stone, American University ■ Nella Cassouto and Israeli scholar in residence Yoram Center for Israeli Studies and Jewish Studies Program Speakers ■ “The Beginnings of Jerusalem’s Sanctity in the Hebrew Peri discuss the Bible” was the title of a lecture by Yair Zakovitz, profes- exhibit. ■ Yoram Peri, Israeli scholar in residence, spoke at a dinner hosted by■ Author and screen writer Arnost sor and dean of Hebrew University’s Faculty of Humanities Rhea Schwartz and Paul Wolff at their home in Washington, D.C. Lustig, professor, Department of and a visiting professor at the University of California at President of the New Israel Fund and a distinguished Israeli public Literature, spoke at a screening of Berkeley. His Center for Israeli Studies lecture was cospon- intellectual whose career straddles academic and public affairs, Dr. Peri the award-winning documentary sored by the American University Hillel, Jewish Studies spoke on the current state of the conflict in the region. ■ film Fighter, in which he has a prin- Program, University Chaplain, and Embassy of Israel. cipal role. The winner of numerous literary awards for his score of nov- Yair Zakovitz els, Lustig most recently publishedArnost Lustig, right, and Jan The Bitter Smell of AlmondsWiener,and left, in a scene from ■ The Center for Israeli Studies, the School of Lovely Green Eyes. the film Fighter International Service, and the Embassy of Israel cosponsored a lecture by Yossi Olmert, professor, Bar-Ilan University, on ■ Frances W. Schwartz, lecturer at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Israel and the current international crisis in Institute of Religion in New York and coauthor of The Jewish Moral From left, dinner guests Harriet Kelman, Judith Walter, the Middle East. The Israeli photographer Rina Castelnuovo borrowed a

Virtues, delivered a lecture, “The Yetzer—Inclination to Good and Photo by Rina Castelnuovo and Paul Wolff, with Yoram Peri in the rear studio from a Palestinian photographer in Ramallah Yoram Peri Evil in the Jewish Ethical System,” cosponsored by the Jewish and allowed her subjects to select a pose. Studies Program and the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Rhea Schwartz, deputy director of the Center for Israeli Studies, left, Yossi Olmert, middle, and Russell Stone, right, professor, Department of Sociology

2 3 News from the Jewish Studies Program Faculty Notes Marvin Bash, Department of Philosophy during his sabbatical academic year of Public Administration. Among the seven arti- Jewish Studies Program Welcomes and Religion, taught Jewish Ethics. 2002–2003 will be at the Hoover Institution, cles he published last year are “Administrative Richard Breitman, Department of History, Stanford University. Reform: Ten Major Questions” in the Asian Joan S. Friedman continues his work at the National Archives Richard G. Linowes, Kogod School of Journal of Comparative Development and and Records Administration on the declassifica- Business, continues to teach entrepreneurship “Public Administrators’ Liability for he Jewish Studies Program and the Gratch explored modern midrash of the biblical tion of World War II documents in conjunction at the Israel School of Enterprise Management Constitutional Torts” in Public Personnel Department of History are delighted to story of Joseph; Margaret Heidema traced the history with the Nazi War Criminal Interagency and Innovation (ISEMI) in Ramat Aviv, Israel Management. welcome Joan S. Friedman to the faculty for Working Group. (May–June 2002 and January 2003). He also Rita Simon, School of Public Affairs, coau- T of Reform Judaism’s commitment to social action; Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, delivered two public addresses in Israel to the thored two books, A Comparative Analysis of 2002–03. Friedman is completing her PhD in Jamie Levine wrote “Gender Regimes of the Israeli Jewish history at Columbia University. Her disserta- has continued his research on Israeli high tech. business community: “Israeli Chutzpah and the Capital Punishment with Danny Blaskovich Defense Force”; and Cori Roth studied American His latest paper is “Issues Facing Israeli High- Spirit of Enterprise” and “The New Economy: (Lexington Books) and Adoption, Race, and tion, “Solomon B. Freehof, the Reform Responsa, Jewish communal agencies and their historic posi- Tech Firms as They Internationalize,” Myths and Reality.” Identity with Howard Alstein, revised edition and the Shaping of American Reform Judaism,” tions on church-state relations. Thanks to the Melbourne Business School working paper. Arnost Lustig, Department of Literature, (Transaction Publishers); edited A Comparative explores the life and legacy of Rabbi Freehof Rivka Degani, Department of Language published Lovely Green Eyes, a “strong novel” Perspective on Major Social Problems generosity of the Jane and Jerrold Goodman (1892–1990), the chief architect of Reform and Foreign Studies, taught Hebrew. that Lustig “seems to have . . . just right,” (Lexington Books); and wrote seven articles, Fund and the Everett Gordon Fund, each student Judaism’s body of legal literature, the Reform Joan Friedman, Department of History according to Kit Reid, who reviewed the book including “The Defense of Insanity,” received a $1,000 award to defray research expenses. and Jewish Studies Program, has just published for the Washington Post’s Book World. He also International Encyclopedia of the Social and Responsa. Her article “A Critique of Solomon B. The process of writing a thesis can at times be “A Critique of Solomon B. Freehof’s Concept has been in demand as a speaker in connec- Behavioral Sciences. Freehof’s Concept of Minhag and Reform Jewish daunting. As Jamie Levine, who now works for of Minhag and Reform Jewish Practice.” tion with the film Fighter. Myra Sklarew, Department of Literature, Practice” has just been published in Re-Examining Odette Goldberg, Department of Language Pamela S. Nadell, Department of History completed preparation of a book manuscript, B’nai B’rith Youth as a program specialist, reflected: Progressive Halakhah. and Foreign Studies, taught Hebrew. and Jewish Studies Program, has a new book, Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, “the finished product looked nothing like what I Friedman was ordained at Hebrew Union Gershon Greenberg, Department of American Jewish Women’s History: A Reader, to Essays, Poems, to be published by SUNY Press, envisioned in August of last year.” But rigorous Philosophy and Religion, continues his work be published by New York University Press in and is continuing research on another book College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in “Theresearch whole process and ofweekly meetings with thesis supervisor on theological responses to the Holocaust. 2003. She continues to serve as chair of the project, Holocaust and the Construction of 1980 and, for six years, was Jewish chaplain and writing a senior thesis Joan S. Friedman joins the Jewish Pamela Nadell, director of the Alan Kraut, Department of History, contin- Academic Council of the American Jewish Memory, which looks at Lithuanian Holocaust instructor in religion at Colgate University. She was was one of the best ued to serve as president of the Immigration Historical Society. testimony of witnesses, rescuers, collaborators, Studies Program as interim Jewish Studies Program, and also rabbi of Congregation Beth Shalom in learning experiences I had and Ethnic History Society and delivered Saul Newman, School of Public Affairs, and survivors in terms of current thinking in director. the other seniors during the Bloomington, Indiana. in college. Choosing a numerous lectures, including: “The Rise and published three articles, including a chapter on neuroscience about how memory is constructed. topic, countless hours of fall semester led her first to Demise of the Jewish Hospital: American Scotland in the Encyclopedia of Ethnoregional Russell Stone, Department of Sociology, During 2002–03 Friedman will serve as interim research, and the daunting narrow her topic and then to Jewry’s Response to Nativism in Health Care Groups in Europe, and continues his research continues as administrative officer for the director of the Jewish Studies Program, while task of writing a section realize and write a strongly Institutions” at the International Conference on on settling settler conflicts in Northern Ireland, Association for Israel Studies, headquartered in Pamela Nadell enjoys a sabbatical year. Friedman each week made this argued thesis. There she Jews and Medicine (Wayne State University); South Africa, and Israel and theories of nation- American University’s Center for Israeli Studies. will teach a wide range of courses in Jewish “Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Human alism. He organized the session “Current Findings in project one of my greatest showed how gender in- civilization, the Holocaust, and contemporary accomplishments at AU.” Experimentation: The Mississippi Prisoners” on Naima Prevots, Department of Performing Public Opinion” at the Association’s 18th equalities are perpetuated in Jewish affairs; supervise the program’s senior —JESSICA DENINO the panel on medical experiments and ethical Arts, received the Pola Nirenska Lifetime Annual Meeting in Vail, Colorado, hosted by the Israeli military and how, questions at the Fourth Annual Conference of Achievement Award in Dance and met in the University of Denver. He is advising editor theses and internships; and advise students. as long as these remain in the Southern Association of the History of Israel with the chair of the Department of for the Israeli Studies series published by place, Israeli “women will Medicine and Science; and “Bias at the Theater and Dance at Tel Aviv University SUNY Press, which publishes four to six books Bedside: The Jewish Hospital, An Institutional about developing a master’s degree in dance. each year on Israeli history and contemporary ■ still find it difficult to advance in both military and Response to Antisemitism in American A former student of dance at American society and politics. He serves on the editorial civil societies.” Healthcare Institutions,” Third Annual John C. University, Meisha Bosma, has joined Amir boards of the journals Israel Studies and Israel Jessica DeNino, who is now a graduate student Livingston Memorial Lecture in American Kolben’s Kombina Dance Company in Israel, Studies Forum and was a member of the pro- Jewish Studies Majors in speech and hearing, commented that her topic, Jewish History at the University of Denver. as a result of the Center for Israeli Studies gram committee for the 2002 Middle East Studies Judaism and biomedical ethics, allowed her to Robert I. Lerman, Department of sponsorship of his residency at American Association meetings in Washington, D.C. Write Senior Theses Economics, taught Social Policy in Industrial University. She has been there since March, Howard M. Wachtel, Department of combine her interests in healthcare and Jewish Countries for the graduate public policy pro- performing extensively and teaching. Economics, completed his book on the history ince the founding of AU’s studies: “The whole process of writing a senior gram at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, during Linda Raphael, Jewish Studies Program, of Wall Street, Street of Dreams—Boulevard of major in Jewish studies in thesis was one of the best learning experiences I the December 2001–January 2002 semester taught Jewish literature and has just published Broken Hearts, and has completed an article the early 1970s, the senior had in college. Choosing a topic, countless hours break. In addition, he presented seminars to Narrative Skepticism: Moral Agency and on water security in Israel and the surrounding S the faculty—Retreat or Reform: Changing Representations of Consciousness in Fiction. region, “The Intersection of Food and Water thesis has stood as its capstone, of research, and the daunting task of writing a Social Policies in the U.S.—at the Department David H. Rosenbloom, School of Public Security: A Case Study of the Near East,” for an required of all students. In May section each week made this project one of my of Economics and Public Policy Program at Affairs, received two of the highest awards in anthology on food security. He received the 2002, five seniors completed greatest accomplishments at AU.” Hebrew University. At the Association for the field of public administration in 2001: the McKeever Institute of Economic Policy Analysis their theses and graduated as At the spring Jewish studies luncheon, graduating Israel Studies conference in Denver in May National Academy of Public Administration Prize for his article “Tax Distortion in the Jewish studies majors. Their sub- seniors proudly present their theses. As they do, 2002, he organized a panel on the impact of Louis Brownlow Award for Excellence in Global Economy.” jects suggest the diversity and they remind the rising seniors sitting there that, just water issues on a Mideast peace settlement Public Administrative Literature for his book Robert Whitehill, Department of breadth of both their interests a short year ago, graduating seniors had sat in their and served as a discussant on a panel dealing Building a Legislative-Centered Public Language and Foreign Studies, taught Hebrew with social capital and the peace process. Administration: Congress and the at AU, is the translator of Yitzhak Ben-Ner’s and of the range of Jewish stud- places, excited and a bit nervous as they prepared Smiling seniors at the College of Arts and Science gradua- Alan Levine, School of Public Affairs, has Administrative State 1946–1999 and the Rustic Sunset and Other Stories, and is the tion in May 2002: Cori Roth, Jessica DeNino, Margaret ies as an interdisciplinary major: to take on the capstone of their AU Jewish studies been appointed a permanent associate fellow, American Political Science Association’s 2001 author of Efes Makom: Shirim. ■ Heidema, joined by Alexis Bock, Jewish studies graduate,Jessica DeNino wrote “Judaism major. Institute of United States Studies, School of John Gaus Award for Exemplary Scholarship in class of 2001. Not pictured: Nicole Gratch and Jamie Levine,and Biomedical Ethics: Issues at ■ Advanced Study, University of London, and the Joint Tradition of Political Science and who double-majored in Jewish studies and internationalthe Beginning of Life”; Nicole service and who attended the AU School of International Service graduation ceremonies

4 5 Center Sponsors Teach-In on the Middle East Spotlight on Our Donors www.centerforisraelistudies.org n a throwback to the 1960s, the Center Accords, and the second Camp David, in (The Center for Israeli Studies and the Jewish Studies Program would not exist without our dedicated supporters, who are listed at the end of this July 2000. newsletter. We focus this year on two special donors who played a critical role in launching the Center for Israeli Studies, Lillian Klein Abensohn and for Israel Studies sponsored two teach- A panel of the center’s faculty affiliates Stuart Bindeman.) ins on the conflict in the Middle East. I led a discussion on these and other topics Using an informal setting that with an audience of State at Los Angeles and her PhD in literature Kermit Moyer of the Department of Literature allowed more time to explore NEW CENTER FOR ISRAELI illian Klein Abensohn became involved more than 100 people, at the University of California at Irvine. Her offered her an adjunct teaching position. Her complex issues, the teach-ins STUDIES WEB SITE with the Center for Israeli Studies almost drawn from faculty, from the moment it was a germ of an professional academic career began with an interest in the Hebrew Bible brought her into were organized in response to L appointment in Munich, Germany, where she contact with Pamela Nadell, professor, Jewish numerous requests for back- staff, students, and For updated information on programs of the idea. In 1998 she hosted a very successful fund- Center for Israeli Studies and to learn more about raising women’s luncheon that produced one of taught literature for 20 years for the University studies, and eventually to her introduction to ground information on the con- community members. the center, visit our Web site: the first significant clusters of donations to the of Maryland’s Munich Campus of University the Center for Israeli Studies. Since her retire- text of the conflict: the 1947 College as a resident professor. “It was there,” ment from a successful teaching and publishing . center. More than simply a supporter, however, partition plan and War of she has also been a prominent guest at many of she says, “that I began to identify more strongly career, ever searching for new challenges, she Independence, the 1967 war, For information about the Jewish Studies Program the center’s programs. as a Jew, not because of any problems with has not been idle. She now devotes her time to maps that showed who was and its major and minor, please visit She comes to this philanthropy in an unusual Germans, but because there were so few Jews another life-long interest, oil painting. She has Philadelphia, she attended Temple in Germany.” She speaks with a great smile on had a successful exhibition at the Jewish where and when, the Camp _jewish.shtml>. University, dropped out to start a family, then her face when she talks about her Munich years Community Center in Rockville, Maryland, and David Agreement, the Oslo finished her undergraduate degree at California and her travels to places like Turkey and participated in exhibitions at the Montgomery Budapest and Prague. It was also in Munich County Municipal Center and at the Yellow that she became interested in studies of and Barn, both in Maryland. Her works are currently research into the Bible from a critical literary displayed at the Moriah Gallery in Bethesda, perspective. This pursuit developed into a Maryland, and the Thistle Gallery in Lewes, course in literary approaches to the Bible taught Delaware. She has donated all of the proceeds on site in Israel for many years and to her first from recent sales of her paintings to the center. book, The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Reflecting on her remarkable life’s journey, Judges (Almond Press, 1988). Writing this book Lillian Klein Abensohn sees in the Center for was a “euphoric experience, because struggling Israeli Studies her vehicle for giving back to the with the biblical text,” she says, “taught her community, a way to promote her commitment what Jacob’s struggle with God is about.” What to art and learning and culture: “We think about became an enduring interest in the Bible has French culture, German culture, but we know led to publication of many essays and her too little about Israeli culture. I envision the Howard Wachtel, economics, and second book, Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics center as that place where the American director, Center for Israeli Studies in the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press), which will University and Washington, D.C., communities appear in spring 2003. come to know and appreciate the remarkable Panelists, from left, Russell Stone, sociology, Erran Carmel, American University was fortunate to vitality of Israeli culture. Knowledge of Israel Kogod School of Business, Renee Marlin-Bennett, School of discover Dr. Klein (she was not married to and experience in Israel will enrich America International Service, and Robert Lerman, economics Seymour Abensohn at this time) in 1993 when and Americans.” ✄ Lillian Klein Abensohn with one of her paintings Invest in the future of JEWISH STUDIES and ISRAELI STUDIES education. Help foster Jewish studies and Israeli studies teaching, research, and scholarship at American University. Your gifts guarantee he Cora and John H. Davis Foundation strong ties to AU. Mr. Bindeman was a 1970 nent commemoration developed. Howard that AU’s Jewish Studies Program and Center for Israeli Studies will move from strength to strength in the coming years. We is one of the Washington area’s lovely graduate of the School of Government and Mr. Wachtel and Pamela Nadell approached the welcome and very much appreciate gifts of any amount. secrets. A small, private foundation, it has Zirkin received his master’s foundation with the idea of creating a center to T in financial management highlight the achievements of modern Israel. ❏ Here is my contribution to the Jewish Studies Program, JSP ______provided seed money for worthwhile causes in here. In addition, at the Jewish studies had become a well-established the area since 1982, the legacy of a local painting ❏ Here is my contribution to the Center for Israeli Studies, CIS ______contractor turned real estate developer and his time Mr. Bindeman was part of the university curricula in the United wife. The foundation gives seed money to pro- serving on the Board of States, but a center focused on Israeli studies Name ______grams that it believes have the ability to grow Directors of the Jewish would be unique. and ultimately become self-sufficient. It was the Community Center of With the help of Mr. Bindeman and Mr. Address ______Greater Washington, Zirkin, the Cora and John H. Davis Foundation “angel donor” which brought the Center for City ______State ______Zip ______Israeli Studies into existence. Pamela Nadell, chair of the made the university a gift to start the center. Since 1983 the foundation has given to uni- Jewish Studies Program, And through the generosity of the foundation, ❏ Visa ❏ MasterCard ❏ American Express Card#______Exp. Date______versities in the Washington, D.C., area to sup- was also on the board. So, these funds have enabled us to establish the Signature______port various projects. At American University it when the foundation was strong core of programs, in-residence Israeli Stuart Bindeman has provided financial aid for needy and approached with the idea of funding the new scholars, conferences, and study abroad pro- ❏ My (spouse’s) employer will match my gift. ______deserving students, established the Cora and center, the codirectors were willing to listen. grams that have been built over the last five (Please enclose the appropriate information.) The idea that a gift could be made to the years. Mr. Bindeman says, “We are so pleased John H. 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