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International Conference Explores Role of Testimonies INSIDE ore than fifty scholars from around the world Mcame to Rutgers in March to participate in the Jonathan Gribetz conference “ Testimonies, Personal Narratives, Joins Faculty and Alternative Tellings ,” sponsored by the Page 3 Bildner Center with support from the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences . Representing a wide Jewish Film Festival Page 5 range of academic disciplines, these scholars examined the diversity of testimonial narratives and Holocaust the broader, more complex understanding of Professors Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer deliver the Testimonies Archive “witnessing” that has developed in large part in opening lecture at the conference. Pages 6 response to the Holocaust, but also in reaction to other events involving genocide, extreme forms of lecture, “Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Graduates and violence, or violations of human rights. The The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Student Awards conference was held in conjunction with Rutgers’ Camps.” Open to the public, Browning’s talk was the Pages 8—9 new access to the USC Shoah Foundation Bildner Center’s Raoul Wallenberg Annual Institute’s Visual History Archive (VHA) . Program , funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman . Visiting Scholars Page 9 Christopher Browning , the Frank Porter Browning’s award-winning book on the Nazi slave- Graham Professor of History at the University of labor camps was the first scholarly work that drew Faculty Updates North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gave the keynote primarily on testimonies in the VHA. Pages 1 0—11 For more on other VHA initiatives and the conference, see pages 6—7.

New Master’s Degree in Jewish Studies he Department of Jewish Studies The M.A. in Jewish studies will prepare Tinaugurated its new M.A. program in students for doctoral-level work in the discipline response to a growing demand for opportunities or careers in related areas. Students, to specialize in the field. particularly educators and professionals already Offering an interdisciplinary approach, the engaged in Jewish communal fields, may pursue program draws on the strength of Rutgers’ the M.A. part-time. faculty in Jewish history and literature, the The department’s undergraduate and Bible, cultural and religious studies, Yiddish, master’s degree programs in Jewish studies are ARTWORK BY ILANA SHAFIR and Israel studies. Students will gain a the only ones offered in New Jersey. The degree sophisticated understanding of the development was established in part by an award from the of Jewish life from the biblical era to the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences present and will be exposed to a broad range of Entrepreneurial Program. methodologies. CSJLNL2011newsletterFinal_CSJLNL2007 9/22/11 5:40 PM Page 2

From the Director’s Desk From the Chair’s Desk reating a strong academic presence on e had a particularly dynamic year Ccampus and an extensive educational Win the Department of Jewish program for the public has been a Studies. We received full state approval challenging, yet highly rewarding, for a 30-credit master’s degree in experience at the Bildner Center. This year’s Jewish studies, the only program of its public programs, such as Christopher kind in New Jersey. We anticipate our Browning’s lecture, the panel “Cartooning incoming classes to be composed of Jewish New York,” and our annual Jewish film festival, were diverse types of students: college graduates seeking to attended by packed audiences. An international conference deepen their knowledge of Jewish studies in order to apply brought together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to to Ph.D. programs, Jewish professionals interested in career explore the evolving nature of testimonial narratives in the growth, and energetic retirees eager to return to school. post-Holocaust era. The highly stimulating exchange among In support of the new degree, Jewish studies was participants was the culmination of the year’s exploration of one of four academic departments to win a grant from the this theme in conjunction with Rutgers’ new online access to Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Entrepreneurial the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. Program to innovate intellectually creative and financially Israel-related lectures and events are an important part self-sufficient programs. With this support, we were able of the Bildner Center’s educational programming and to launch a major advertising campaign, in print, digital, extracurricular offerings for students. The study of Israel is and web forms, which attracted our first cohort of also an important area within the Jewish studies curriculum. students for fall 2011. The master’s program joins our Rutgers students are offered a plethora of opportunities to certificate in Jewish studies, a four-course program that supplements either Ph.D. or professional training in other expand their knowledge about the history of Israeli society graduate programs on the New Brunswick campus, such and various facets of its political, religious, and cultural life as social work and education. from an academic perspective. Our ability to run a master’s program without A wide range of courses on Israel, including seminars by jeopardizing the integrity of our undergraduate program Bildner Center visiting scholars, are cross-listed by the has been bolstered by the newest addition to our faculty, Department of Jewish Studies, the Department of History, Dr. Jonathan Gribetz, who joins the department in fall and the Middle Eastern Studies Program. This past year 2011. Trained at Harvard College and Columbia alone, students were able to take courses including “Israeli University, and most recently the Ray D. Wolfe Culture,” “Israeli Politics,” “Kibbutz in History, Literature Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of and Film,” “Community and Identity in Modern Israel,” Toronto’s Centre for Jewish Studies, Gribetz specializes in “Zionism: Idea and Ideology,” and “The Arab-Israeli Conflict,” the history of the Jews in the Islamic world, with a focus as well as courses in Hebrew language and literature. In on late Ottoman Palestine. Jointly appointed in Jewish many of these courses, students of diverse backgrounds and studies and history, Gribetz will teach four courses next religious affiliations study, side by side, the complexities of year, including “The Arab-Israeli Conflict,” “The Jews in historical processes and present realities. In the “Arab- Islam,” “Jerusalem Contested: Jewish, Christian, and Israeli Conflict” course, taught by Muli Peleg, the Muslim Perspectives,” and “Jewish Society and Culture II.” Schusterman Visiting Scholar in Israel Studies, students (See p. 3.) obtained firsthand experience in representing different Other faculty news includes our successful points of view during simulated Middle East peace recruitment of an American Council of Learned Societies negotiations. New Faculty Fellow, Dr. Sara Jessica Milstein, a recent Last year, there were a number of reported incidents of Ph.D. from New York University, who specializes in the bias on the Rutgers –New Brunswick campus. In the spirit of literary history of the ancient Near East. (See p. 9.) promoting dialogue and tolerance, the Bildner Center and Another departmental initiative was the creation of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, together with the a new minor to encompass our many offerings in biblical Department of Jewish Studies and the Middle Eastern and rabbinic language, literature, and culture. Rutgers Studies Program, will cosponsor a panel this fall on anti- students can now minor in the language and culture of Semitism, Islamophobia, and the role of the media. ancient Israel, in addition to Jewish studies and modern In this program, as in others, the Bildner Center strives Hebrew, opening new avenues for engagement in the field to advance scholarly exchange, build bridges, and reduce of Jewish studies. prejudice. These values have always been at the core of the Bringing the department to this next phase of its Center’s educational mission, and we hope that our programs development has been a challenging, gratifying, and will establish them as our legacy for future generations. exciting process. —– Yael Zerubavel, Bildner Center director —– Nancy Sinkoff, department chair

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Jonathan Gribetz Joins Jewish Studies Faculty JEWISH STUDIES oining the Jewish studies faculty aspirations: Palestine. He began to FACULTY Jthis fall is Professor Jonathan examine how Jewish arrivals to Gribetz , a scholar of the encounter Palestine and the local Arab population between Jews and Arabs in the modern perceived one another in the early days Core Faculty era, who is particularly interested in of Zionism. Fluency in Arabic and Nancy Sinkoff, Jewish-Arab mutual perceptions in late Hebrew enabled him to read published department chair Ottoman Palestine. He has been jointly and unpublished sources written by Jonathan Gribetz appointed to the Department of Zionists and Arabs about their new Gary A. Rendsburg History. neighbors, providing the basis for his Jeffrey Shandler Given the nature of his field, doctoral research at Columbia Paola Tartakoff* Gribetz’s teaching addresses sensitive University. Azzan Yadin-Israel topics. His greatest challenge, as he In the article “The Arabic-Zionist Yael Zerubavel, sees it, is to create a safe environment Talmud: Shimon Moyal’s At-Talmud ” Bildner Center director in which his students can read and (Jewish Social Studies , Fall 2011), analyze historical sources without the Gribetz examined an early twentieth- *vice chair of obscuring lens of contemporary politics century initiative by a Jaffa-born Jew to undergraduate studies and ideologies. translate the entire Associated Faculty “Creating this sort Talmud into Arabic. Maurice J. Elias of environment is Although the project Leslie Fishbein difficult because was aborted after the Ziva Galili students feel, not first volume was Judith Gerson without reason, that printed, Gribetz’s article David Greenberg much is at stake,” demonstrates how the Douglas Greenberg observes Gribetz, “but translation aimed at because the stakes are once to highlight the Paul Hanebrink high, intellectual commonalities among Martha Helfer honesty is all the more Judaism, Christianity, Michael G. Levine important.” and Islam while Phyllis Mack Gribetz comes to Rutgers implicitly defending Jewish Barbara Reed following a postdoctoral fellowship at nationalism’s ancient vintage. Emma Wasserman the University of Toronto’s Centre for Currently, he is revising his Visiting Scholars Jewish Studies. He previously dissertation, “Defining Neighbors: completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Religion, Race and the Early ‘Zionist- Israel Bartal the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Arab’ Encounter,” for publication. In Anna B. Manchin at the University of Pennsylvania and a his book, Gribetz challenges the idea Sara Jessica Milstein research fellowship at the Hebrew that the early encounter between Instructor University of Jerusalem. Zionists and Arabs was conceived Hilit Surowitz-Israel As an undergraduate at Harvard primarily in national terms. Instead, he College, he first pursued his academic argues, religion and race, as understood Part-time Lecturers interest in Diaspora Zionism through a at that time, were central to the mutual Zachary Mann study of a World War I–era American perceptions of these communities. Jonathan Mendilow Zionist philosopher. Continuing his Gribetz also has several other Mordecai Schwartz studies at Oxford University, he articles in the works. One is a study of Ute Steyer received a master’s in modern Jewish an influential fin-de-siècle Arab studies; his primary research addressed intellectual and his ideas about the Language Instructors Anglo-Zionism in the 1940s. He Jews as a race and their racial Orly Moshenberg, Hebrew- explored how Zionists in Palestine relationship with the Arabs. Another language coordinator viewed the British as the enemy of article analyzes an Islamic theory of Edna Bryn-Noiman & their nationalist ambitions, while Jews Jewish secularization. Tamara Ruben, in England struggled with their dual As he joins the faculty at Rutgers, Hebrew instructors loyalties to Great Britain and the Gribetz says he looks forward “to Edward Portnoy, Zionist cause. participating in the rich intellectual life Yiddish instructor His initial interest in Zionism and of the small and vibrant Jewish studies nationalism in the Jewish Diaspora led department” and to “getting to know its Gribetz eastward to the focus of Zionist many engaged and curious students.”

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Technologies Advance Center’s Mission ew technologies have served the Bildner Center well in The festival has become a community event, where Nits quest to make the communal experience personal neighbors and strangers come together for a shared and the global Jewish experience local. Jewish Studies experience and dialogue. Conversations with scholars, Online brings Rutgers professors into homes worldwide; the filmmakers, and other artists inspire audience members to USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive share personal experiences that echo themes raised in the (VHA) is now accessible from Rutgers’ campuses; and films. These conversations continue throughout the year— advances in filmmaking have facilitated the surge of movies in classrooms, in homes, in public libraries, and even in available to the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival. supermarkets. The festival serves the community yet also More than 3,000 people in fifty countries have operates within the academic framework of the university, accessed Jewish studies courses via our free online study exposing Rutgers students to independent films of Jewish program. The impact of the internet takes education well interest and encouraging them to express their ideas in a beyond the classroom. public forum. The VHA has expanded opportunities for the use of Sometimes the connections are even closer than we testimonies in education. Rutgers professors and students think: sitting in the computer lab, I discovered my cousin’s now have direct access to these digitized interviews, which testimony and her photos of my great-grandparents in are keyword searchable. Through our educators’ forum, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland), in 1935. Her story high school teachers are also able to search for and view and those photos, along with thousands of others testimonies online to incorporate into their classroom perpetually stored in the VHA, forge a remarkable link from curricula. Rutgers to Europe and to my family’s heritage. Think of the impact on a French literature class: –– Karen Small, associate director students read a memoir about the occupation of Vichy, France, and then are able to watch a survivor’s testimony recorded in French about the same time period. Or, in a history class focused on the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, students can view an eyewitness to that history talk about his or her personal experience. The mix of international documentaries and narrative films in the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival showcases the broad Jewish experience. Topics range from the unlikely friendships between Muslims and Jews to the search for Ruth Gruber with Karen Small and Sharon Karmazin at the family roots; from the strength of Holocaust survivors to the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival resilience of teens with special needs.

Israel-Iran Relations in Historical Perspective he Bildner Center’s Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual cooperation between the two. The phenomenon is unique.” TLecture in October featured a talk by Professor Uri In fact, Bialer said that oil was what brought the two Bialer , the Maurice B. Hexter Chair in International countries together for many years, highlighting the Relations–Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University creation of a pipeline in 1957 that ran from the southern of Jerusalem. Bialer explored the historical foundations of Israeli city of Eilat to the coastal city of Ashkelon in order the relationship between Israel and Iran, tracing a to transfer oil from Iran. This oil was then exported by surprising cooperation back to 1950, when Iran emerged as Israel, earning the country as much as $40 million a year in the second country in the Middle East, after Turkey, to the 1960s. recognize Israel as a state. Israeli-Iranian cooperation existed for nearly twenty- “Iran became the best of allies of the State of Israel five years, even after the Iranian Revolution, but today, up until 1978,” Bialer told the audience at the Douglass Bialer noted, it’s quite a different picture in the Middle Campus Center at Rutgers. “For a very, very long time, they East. “Israel was able, in the 1940s through the 1970s, to were a better ally than the United States and France. In work its way along without the Americans in terms of Iran,” economic terms, Iran provided 95 percent of Israel’s oil for Bialer said. “I doubt that Israel will be able to work its way something like fifteen years. There was intelligence [now] without international cooperation.”

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PUBLIC PROGRAM Rutgers Jewish HIGHLIGHTS 2010 –2011 Film Festival he eleventh annual Rutgers Jewish TFilm Festival took filmgoers around the globe, portraying dramatic vignettes from modern Jewish life and introducing audiences to extraordinary individuals whose lives represent Ludi Boeken addresses the audience on crucial moments in Jewish history. opening night. Held November 3–14, 2010, the film festival was supported by a grant from the Karma Foundation and by a loyal the perilous tale of Catholic farmers in cadre of festival patrons. Nazi Germany who risked their lives to The festival screened eighteen save a Jewish family from deportation. films from Argentina, Mexico, Israel, The evening included an exclusive Germany, and the United States, dinner reception for patrons and a among them nine New Jersey special appearance by Dutch-Israeli Cartooning Jewish New York premieres. These films garnered a total director Ludi Boeken . The Abram Matlofsky of fifteen international awards and four Among other festival highlights Memorial Program other prestigious nominations. In was The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground , Funded by the Karma Foundation addition, the festival offered numerous a documentary that follows the Speakers: Robert Mankoff , opportunities to hear the insights of groundbreaking, Grammy-winning cartoon editor, The New Yorker, and film directors, screenwriters, and other band from New York’s Lower East Side Eddy Portnoy, Rutgers University experts, including subjects of the films to Kraków, Poland, over four years. themselves. Sponsored by David and Sylvia Jewish Renaissance in the Most notable among festival Steiner , the screening featured special Russian Revolution guests was the international foreign appearances by director Erik The Toby and Herbert Stolzer correspondent and photojournalist Greenberg Anjou and members of Endowed Program Ruth Gruber —age ninety-nine at the the band. Speaker: Kenneth Moss , time of the festival—who attended a Jews and Baseball: An American Johns Hopkins University screening of the documentary Ahead of Love Story , a documentary that Time. The film charts the course of celebrates the contributions of Jewish Israeli Authors Forum Gruber’s iconic, seventy-year career, major leaguers and the Jewish passion A Conversation with Michal Govrin which put her at the heart of critical for America’s favorite pastime, was a on her book Hold On to the Sun events during World War II and the festival favorite. The Rutgers Class of founding of the State of Israel. Sharon 1954 sponsored a screening of the film From Sarajevo to Israel: Karmazin , president of the Karma that featured a talk by Ira Berkow , a An Artist’s Journey Foundation, interviewed Gruber at the Pulitzer Prize–winning sports Discussion with artist Ilana Shafir , screening, and the audience had the columnist for the New York Times and hidden child from Sarajevo opportunity to listen in on their the screenwriter of the film. Berkow extraordinary dialogue. enthralled audiences with anecdotes The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife New this year at the festival was from his interviews with featured of Menachem Mendel Schneerson “Israel in Short,” a grouping of three ballplayers and a behind-the-scenes Supported in part by the Sagner thought-provoking, award-winning look at how he scored in getting Sandy Family Foundation short films curated by Isaac Zablocki , Koufax to participate. Speaker: Samuel Heilman , director of the Israel Film Center in The festival closed with Berlin Queens College, CUNY New York. The festival also paired the ’36 , a German film inspired by the true documentaries Leap of Faith and story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Interfaith Cooperation on Behalf Leaving the Fold for a unique double Bergmann’s remarkable but now- of Soviet Jewry: Catholic Nuns feature exploring questions of religious forgotten place in Olympic history. and the American Jewish faith and identity. Her son, Gary Lambert , held a lively Committee Opening night featured Saviors discussion with the audience after the Speaker: Fred A. Lazin , in the Night , which eloquently depicts screening. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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THE HERBERT AND LEONARD LITTMAN FAMILIES HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER Holocaust Testimonies Archive Prompts Universitywide Initiatives

utgers University now has digital in the computer lab at the Alexander Raccess to the USC Shoah Library to view testimonies and dis - Foundation Institute’s Visual cuss using these recordings in the History Archive (VHA) , which classroom to supplement teaching of houses 52,000 testimonies of survivors the Holocaust and World War II. Led and other witnesses to the Holocaust. by educational consultant Colleen These interviews, which were filmed Tambuscio , participants were intro - in fifty-six countries and conducted in duced to the searchable database of thirty-two languages, include the archive and explored strategies to discussions of the interviewees’ lives create student research projects. before, during, and after World War II. The archive is keyword searchable Byrne Seminar for Rutgers Freshmen Two-Day International and can be accessed from computers Rutgers students had the opportunity on any of the Rutgers campuses. to learn about the VHA through the Conference on Technical support is provided by the Byrne Family First-Year Seminar Testimonies Rutgers University libraries. Program , which offers one-credit In March 2011, as a follow-up for courses designed to connect first-year faculty, the Bildner Center Faculty Seminar on Innovative students with prominent professors presented the interdisciplinary Teaching Methods In October 2010, throughout the university. “The conference “Testimonies, the Bildner Center , the Rutgers Holocaust in History and Memory,” Personal Narratives, and School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) , taught by Professor Douglas Alternative Tellings ,” which gave and the Rutgers Libraries presented a Greenberg , utilized the testimonies scholars from the United States, universitywide, interdisciplinary of witnesses preserved in the VHA as Israel, and Europe the seminar for faculty and graduate a powerful tool to educate students opportunity to examine the use of students to examine the new cache of about the Holocaust. The course gave testimonies and narratives testimonies and the various ways it can students access to search the digital outside their primary fields. The be used in research and teaching. A archive, view the testimonies of sur - conference planning committee, panel of scholars gave presentations on vivors, and contemplate the meaning chaired by Yael Zerubavel , their experiences using the VHA. The of a kind of suffering that few included Rutgers professors distinguished group included Colin Americans have experienced and Ethel Brooks , sociology; Judith Keaveney , French literature, most cannot even imagine. Gerson , sociology; Jochen University of Southern California; Hellbeck , history; and Jeffrey Douglas Greenberg , SAS dean and Shandler , Jewish studies. professor of history, Rutgers; and Ethel Right: Conference Brooks and Arlene Stein , both of soci - presenters Noah ology and women’s studies at Rutgers. Shenker, Judith Gerson, and Jeffrey Seminar for High School Teachers Shandler High school teachers also had a chance to explore the archive through the seminar “Teaching with Testimonies,” offered through the Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center . Educators gathered

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Testimonies, Personal Narratives, and Alternative Tellings March 27 –28, 2011

Vulnerable Lives: Secrets, Dust, and Noise Opening Lecture Marianne Hirsch , Columbia University Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College Interpreting Testimonies: Douglas Greenberg and Yael Zerubavel, with Kim Simon (second A Cross-Disciplinary View from left) and Stephen Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Chair: Nancy Sinkoff , Rutgers University Alexandra Garbarini , Williams College Anna-Maria Brandstetter, The Impact of Testimonial Responses to the Johannes Gutenberg –Universität Mainz Ukrainian Pogroms of 1918 –1921: The Politics of “Witnessing” in History, Justice, and Public Opinion Post-Genocide Rwanda Michael Rothberg , University of Illinois Multidirectional Memory and the Witnessing and Alternative Telling Politics of Testimony Chair: Jochen Hellbeck , Rutgers University Judith Gerson , Rutgers University Steven Barnes , George Mason University Testimonial Truths: Reading Memoirs of Survivors and Perpetrators Tell the Soviet Gulag German Jewish Refugees through the Visual Arts Henry Greenspan , University of Michigan Erica Lehrer and Monica Patterson , Reinventing Testimony: An Emerging Paradigm in Concordia University Holocaust and Genocide Studies Re-Curating Testimony: Pedagogy for “Self-Aware” Witnessing Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Michael G. Levine , Rutgers University The Case of the Starachowice Touchstones: Memories of Jews in France and Factory Slave Labor Camps the Klaus Barbie Trial Keynote Lecture Yael Zerubavel , Rutgers University Christopher Browning , the University of North Carolina Graphic Representation as a Testimonial Narrative of at Chapel Hill Traumatic Memory: Maus and Waltz with Bashir Greetings: Douglas Greenberg , executive dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University Archived Testimonies and Remarks: Stephen Smith , executive director, Mediated Stories USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Chair: Arlene Stein , Rutgers University Visual History and Education Ethel Brooks , Rutgers University Testimony, Visualities, Hope: The Limits and Testimonies in the Public Sphere Possibilities of the Shoah Visual History Archive Chair: Laura Ahearn , Rutgers University Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Alex Hinton , Rutgers –Newark Survivors on Schindler’s Lis t: Personal Narratives in the Testimony, Truth, and Trauma: Penumbra of a Major Motion Picture Event A Day at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Noah Shenker, McMaster University Carol Kidron , University of Haifa Embodied Memory: A Comparative Study of the Enlisting Survivor-Family Testimonies: Archival Mediations of Traumatic Memory in National Intervention or Intergenerational Agency? Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies

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STUDENT AWARD Yiddish Studies RECIPIENTS

Leads Student Ariel L. Bucher, ’11 to Rutgers Ruth Feller Rosenberg Award Amanda Cove, ’12 ordan N. Kutzik grew up singing Barry and Deborah Venezia Adler JYiddish folk songs at his International Study Award Philadelphia Hebrew school and listening to the Spanish spoken by Rachel Fine, ’12 immigrants in a nearby neighborhood. Margolin Family Award Although his fascination with language for Study in Israel emerged out of both experiences, it Shira Galler, ’13 was ultimately Yiddish that played a Leonard and Adele Blumberg Award role in bringing him to Rutgers. Jordan first learned Yiddish in reconstitution of Hasidic communities Michal S. Gordon, ’11 order to read the yizko r, or memorial, in the United States after World War II. Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award books written by the survivors of There, Shandler observes, “his interest Tal Grebel, ’11 Eastern European Jewish communities in how they speak, write, and teach Maurice Meyer III and Irma destroyed by the Holocaust. Initially Yiddish blossomed.” Meyer Award self-taught in the language, he set his For his Jewish studies honors sights on studying Yiddish at Rutgers thesis, Jordan expanded on his earlier Dara Grzesh, ’12 after reading Professor Jeffrey research on American Hasidim, Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award Shandler’s book Adventures in examining their pedagogical materials. Samuel Hollander, ’13 Yiddishland. “He developed thoughtful insights into Norma U. and David M. Levitt Award In addition to studying Yiddish how Hasidim grapple with the Hannah Johnson, ’13 with Professor Edward Portnoy , challenges of maintaining their use of Betty and Julius Gillman Jordan received the Baruch S. and Yiddish in the very different context of Memorial Award Pearl W. Seidman Award to attend postwar America,” says Shandler. the Vilnius Yiddish Institute in Vilnius, Jordan’s research has been Jordan N. Kutzik, ’11 Lithuania, in the summer of 2008. He supported by the 2010 Deborah and Rudolph and Mary Solomon recorded his frequent walks around Herbert B. Wasserman Research Klein Award the city with a Holocaust survivor and Award , and in 2011 he received the Michelle D. Lieblich, ’11 posted her reminiscences in Yiddish Rudolph and Mary Solomon Klein Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award about prewar Jewish culture on Award in recognition of his scholarly YouTube with subtitles. achievements. His passion for Yiddish Yael C. Malul, ’11 As a double major in Spanish and language goes beyond academia, Louis Fishman Memorial Award Jewish studies, Jordan found however. As a board member of Laura Marder, ’11 Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish, he is occasional opportunities for overlap Alexander and Ruth Seaman Award between his scholarly interests. He was working to create a Yiddish Twitter able to use secondary Spanish sources network. He also serves on the Christopher M. Mercurio, ’11 for research in Professor Paola board of Yiddish Farm, based in Harold and Betty Perl Award upstate New York. Tartakoff’s Jewish studies seminar, Matthew S. Nover, ’11 Jordan is currently a fellow at the “Jewish Mediterranean,” and he made Baruch S. and Pearl W. Seidman Award a fortuitous connection with an National Yiddish Book Center, where important translator of Yiddish he is developing a Yiddish culture Shoshana T. Smolen, ’11 literature while studying abroad in curriculum for Jewish day schools. His Gertrude and Jacob Henoch Valencia, Spain. future plans include translating Memorial Award In Shandler’s course “The Yiddish texts into English and creating Joseph Tadrick, ’12 Ethnography of Contemporary Jewish new opportunities for younger Student Support for the Study Life,” Jordan developed an interest in generations to speak Yiddish. of Yiddish the confluence of ethnography and “Not a day goes by when I don’t Jewish history. He then visited have a conversation in Yiddish,” Samuel Weiner, ’12 Brooklyn as part of an independent reflects Jordan, “either face-to-face or Deborah and Herbert B. Wasserman study with Shandler on the via Facebook.” Research Award

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Jewish Studies FACULTY SEMINARS 2010 –2011 Graduates The Henry Schwartzman Endowed Faculty Seminar he Schwartzman seminar, “When May We Kill Our Brethren? Jews at War in Majors Europe 1848–1918,” was delivered in February by Derek J. Penslar, the Samuel Joshua B. Barer T Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. His talk dealt with Ariel L. Bucher the tension that Jewish soldiers often experienced between their patriotic Ted R. Dreier inclinations and their transnational attachments to Jews in the lands of their Hod Klein country’s enemies. Penslar also gave the public talk “The Jewish Soldier in Modern Jordan N. Kutzik Jewish Memory: ‘Willing Patriot or Forced Conscript?’” He examined Jewish Laura Marder experiences with, and historical views on, military service, and how they have Matthew S. Nover changed in the wake of the Holocaust and since the establishment of Israel. Lauren E. Rabner Minors Additional faculty seminars: Shirel E. Amar I Federica Francesconi , Aresty Visiting Scholar , Bildner Center: “Jews under Cassandra Aronds Inquisitorial Surveillance: Reading, Culture and Censorship in Early Modern Italy” Sophia Bailey I Corinna Ruth Kaiser , Dr. Norman and Syril Reitman Visiting Scholar , Bildner Danielle S. Barta Center: “Who Is Pharaoh, Who Are the Slaves? Contemporary Updates to the Miriam B. Brukner Passover Narrative in Light of the Arab-Israeli Conflict” Mor Caspi Michelle F. Eisenberg Joshua J. Goldberg VISITING SCHOLARS 2011 –2012 Jaimie G. Goldstein Michal S. Gordon Israel Bartal is the Avraham Harman Professor of Jewish History and the Tal Grebel former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Lauren T. Grodentzik Jerusalem. A world-renowned scholar of the history and culture of Eastern Freddy J. Kpeli European Jewry, Jewish nationalism, and the Jews of Palestine in the pre- Jordan A. Lieber Zionist era, Bartal has written numerous publications, including The Jews of Michelle D. Lieblich Eastern Europe: 1772–1881 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, 2006) and Yael C. Malul Cossack and Bedouin: Land and People in Jewish Nationalism (Tel Aviv: Am Christopher M. Mercurio Oved Publishers, 2007). At Rutgers, Bartal will participate in the Bildner Adele K. Mizrahi Center’s public programming and teach “History of Zionism.” Jeffrey A. Myers Ian D. Price Anna B. Manchin , the Aresty Visiting Scholar , earned her Ph.D. in modern Samuel A. Schiff European history in 2008 from Brown University and subsequently was a Julia S. Selznick postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Jewish Studies. Her Mitchell Shusteris forthcoming publications include “Imagining Modern Hungary through Film: Rachel L. Skoff Debates on National Identity, Modernity and Cinema in early 20th-Century Shoshana T. Smolen Hungary,” in Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: European Perspectives on Emma S. Stern Film Cultures and Cinema-going , edited by Richard Maltby et al. (Routledge, Elizabeth L. Unger 2011), and “Jewish Humor and the Hollywood Narrative in Interwar Hungarian Comedies,” in Storytelling in World Cinemas , edited by Lina Khatib (Wallflower Press, 2011). At Rutgers, she will teach “Holocaust Media” and “Jews and the Movies.” Sara Jessica Milstein , an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , obtained her doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic studies in 2010 from New York University. Her publications include The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative (E. J. Brill, Cuneiform Monographs Series, 2010), coauthored with Daniel Fleming, and “From Rambam to Richard Wright: Job, the Delayed Angel, and the Conception of Modern Midrashim,” in Why Hidest Thy Face: Job in Traditions and Literature , edited by Mishael Caspi (D. & F. Scott Publishing, 2002). During her two years at Rutgers, she will teach “Women in the Bible,” “Jewish Society and Culture I,” and “Beginnings: A Student award recipients gather with Literary Reading of Genesis.” faculty at a ceremony in May.

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Emigration from the Altreich ” for the session Oxford, Cambridge, London, Manchester, and FACULTY “Narrating the Past in the Present: Birmingham, as well as at Trinity College in Interpreting Diaries, Interviews, and Bristol. He served for the second time as the UPDATES Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors” at the 42nd Mandelbaum Visiting Professor of Jewish annual Association for Jewish Studies confer - Studies at the University of Sydney in Maurice J. Elias received the Joseph E. Zins ence. She was a visiting scholar at SKOK— Australia. He was a visiting scholar in the Distinguished Scholar Award for Action Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at Department of Near Eastern Languages and Research in Social and Emotional Learning the University of Bergen in Norway, where Cultures at the University of California–Los from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, she was invited to present a seminar paper, Angeles and the Barnett Visiting Scholar in and Emotional Learning (CASEL). He is the “Reading Gender in the Memoirs of German Jewish Literature at Brite Divinity School of principal investigator of Social-Emotional Jewish Refugees during the Nazi Era.” She Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth. He Learning and Academic Success, a project was also invited to present a paper, published the following articles: “The Siloam funded by the NoVo Foundation. He gave the “Holocaust Narratives, Immigrant Lives: Tunnel Inscription: Historical and Linguistic keynote address, “Social-Emotional Learning German Jewish Refugees, Gender, and Perspectives,” Israel Exploration Journal , and Character Development Interventions in Collective Memory,” at the Center for Studies coauthored with William M. Schniedewind; Schools: Addressing Key Variations across of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in and “Qumran Hebrew (with a Trial Cut Groups,” at the Seventh Annual Culture Oslo, Norway. [1QS]),” in The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: Scholarly Contributions of New York Conference, “Addressing Culture, Race, and Martha Helfer gave the talk “‘Ein heimlich University Faculty and Alumni (Brill). Ethnicity in Different Contexts,” held at the Ding’: The Self as Object in Annette von Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Droste-Huelshoff” at the German Studies Jeffrey Shandler was nominated to serve as Professional Psychology, in Piscataway. He Association conference in Oakland, the next president of the Association for coauthored with Jonathan Cohen a reference California. A German version of the paper Jewish Studies, beginning in December 2011. guide, School Climate: Building Safe, was published as “‘Ein heimlich Ding’: Das He gave the following talks: “The Man in the Supportive and Engaging Classrooms and Selbst als Objekt bei Annette von Droste- Glass Box: The Eichmann Trial on American Schools , published by National Professional Huelshoff,” in Redigierte Tradition: Television” at the international colloquium Resources. Literaturhistorische Positionierungen “Le procès Eichmann: Réceptions, Leslie Fishbein chaired the Department of Annette von Droste-Huelshoffs (Schoeningh). médiations, posterities” in Paris; “Keepers Women’s and Gender Studies. She was a With William C. Donahue, she organized the of Accounts: The Practice of Inventory in panelist in “Race Matters: Teaching Race second German Jewish Studies Workshop at Modern Jewish Life” at the Jewish and Representation in the K–16 Classroom,” Duke University. Theological Seminary, New York; “Looking beyond the Book—and Back: Lessons from a session—cosponsored by the K–16 Michael G. Levine was promoted to full the History of Jews and New Media” at the Collaboration Committee of the American professor. He was awarded a stipend by the “Symposium on the Jewish Book: Past, Studies Association (ASA) and the Visual National Endowment for the Humanities to Present, Future,” Center for Jewish History, Culture Caucus—at the ASA convention in participate in its seminar “Walter Benjamin’s New York; “The Yiddish Consumer Culture of San Antonio. She presented an all-day Later Writings” at the University of Contemporary Hasidim” and “The Image of workshop, “The Culture of the Sixties,” to the California–Irvine. He also was awarded the Isaac Bashevis Singer in American Films” (in Institute for High School Teachers, sponsored Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Cassis, Yiddish) for the Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. France. He gave the following talks: “Celan Series, Stanford University; “Jews and New She also delivered lectures on Jewish topics on Poetry’s Demands and Abrahamic Media: An Old Story?” at the symposium for the New Jersey Council for the Sacrifice” at the American Comparative “Journals and Jewish Intellectual Life: The Humanities. Literature Association’s annual conference; Jewish Quarterly Review at 100,” organized Ziva Galili gave the following talks: “Celan’s Poems for Eric” at the German by the University of Pennsylvania; and “Queer “Archives in Post-Soviet Russia” at the Inter- Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University; Yiddishkeit” at Hampshire College. He also University Young Scholars Forum, organized and “German Writing on French Borders” presented a paper at the Rutgers conference by the Hebrew University; and “From Russia (Camargo Foundation, France). He also on testimonies (see p. 7) and was a panelist to Palestine and Elsewhere: The Personal presented a paper at the Rutgers conference at the symposium “Queer Jewish Religiosity and the Collective in Writing My Family’s on testimonies (see p. 7). He published “The in America: Directions and Trends” at History” at the History Forum at Rutgers Day the Sun Stood Still: Benjamin’s Theses, Stanford University. He was a participant in University. Trauma and the Eichmann Trial,” MLN . He the roundtable “Joel and Ethan Coen’s A also served on the editorial board of the Judith Gerson presented a paper, “Narrating Serious Man ,” a respondent for the session journal Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Luck, Denying Trauma: German Jewish “Comics, Museums, Cafés: Jewish Culture on Studies. Refugees’ Flight and Resettlement during the Display,” and chair of the session Nazi Era,” at the American Sociological Gary A. Rendsburg spent the past year on “Representing Resistance: The Warsaw Association conference in Atlanta and at the sabbatical. He was a visiting scholar at the Ghetto Uprising” at the 42nd annual Rutgers conference on testimonies (see Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Association for Jewish Studies conference. p. 7). She presented the paper “‘I Was Lucky’: Studies, at Yarnton Manor in England. He He published the following essays: “The Jewish Refugees’ Narratives of Forced delivered lectures at the universities of Holocaust in Jewish Culture,” in The Oxford

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Handbook of Holocaust Studies ; “Jewish on Mussar .” She continued to serve as the He continued to serve as head of the Popular Culture,” in The Cambridge Guide to academic coordinator of the Graduate Fellows Rabbinics Division of the Association for Jewish History, Religion, and Culture ; “ Di Program at the Center for Jewish History in Jewish Studies. He remains a coeditor of the toyre fun skhoyre , or, I Shop, Therefore I Am: New York and was the Brown Bag Speaker for Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism book The Consumer Cultures of American Jews,” the seminar “The Perils of Sentimentalism: series for Mohr Siebeck. He completed his in Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Privacy’s Inviolability and the Writing of Lucy second year as acting chair of the Classics Jewish Consumer Culture (Brill); “The S. Dawidowicz’s Biography.” She was elected Department. Jewish Book and Beyond in Modern Times,” to the board of trustees of the Association for Yael Zerubavel gave the keynote lecture, AJS Review ; “Keepers of Accounts: The Jewish Studies. “The Tree and the Forest in Israeli Culture: Practice of Inventory in Modern Jewish Life,” Paola Tartakoff was a fellow at the Herbert The Transformation of National Symbols,” at Twentieth Annual David W. Belin Lecture D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies the conference “Designing National Parks in (Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, (CAJS), University of Pennsylvania. She Israel,” and presented the colloquium “The University of Michigan); “The Cultural presented her research in the CAJS seminar Desert in Israeli Culture” for the History, Politics of Yiddish in the United States after series, and she also gave a talk, “Jewish Theory and Criticism Group in the the Holocaust,” in Amsterdam Yiddish Converts and Poverty in the Medieval Crown Department of Architecture, at the Technion. Symposium 5: The Politics of Yiddish of Aragon: Problems and Possibilities,” at the She presented a paper, “Performing the Past: (University of Amsterdam); “Transformations CAJS fall conference, “Truth and Authenticity Reimagining Antiquity in Israeli Culture,” at of the Ketubbah ; Or, the Gallery of Broken in Conversion Narratives.” She published an the conference “Zionist Historiography across Marriages,” Images: A Journal for Jewish article, “Christian Kings and Jewish Time and Space” at Yale University. She was a Art and Visual Culture ; “Wyprawy do Jidysz- Conversion in the Medieval Crown of member of the panel “Author Meets Critics,” landu: Postwernakularny j çezyk i kultura . Aragon,” in the Journal of Medieval Iberian dealing with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi’s book jidysz,” in Cwiszn: Zdowski kwartalnik o Studies . She also served as a panelist for the Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination and the literaturze i sztuce (a Polish translation of program “Conversations on Conversion” at Dilemmas of Commemoration , at the excerpts from Shandler’s book Adventures in the Center for Jewish History in New York. Eastern Sociological Society meeting in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Philadelphia. She organized the international Culture ); “Teaching Jewish Studies with Emma Wasserman gave the following talks: conference “Testimonies, Personal Museums,” AJS Perspectives ; “Looking for “Does Christian Apocalyptic Further Narratives, and Alternative Tellings,” the Lower East Side,” in The View from Progressive Politics? Cosmic Hierarchy, sponsored by the Bildner Center, and Below: Photography, Innovation, and the Apocalypticism, and Subjectivity in the presented a paper (see p. 7). She took part in Lower East Side (University of Michigan); Letters of Paul” at the annual meeting of the the panel discussion “History, Memory, “This Is Your Life : Holocaust Stories,” in This Modern Languages Association, in Los Atrocity” at the Rutgers Comparative Is Your Life: Preserving Holocaust Survivor Angeles; “Cosmic Hierarchy and Rebellion in Literature Graduate Student Conference Testimonies on Early Television (UCLA Film 1 Corinthians 15” at the annual meeting of “Survival Logics: Narrative and the Margins.” and Television Archive). the Society of Biblical Literature; “Evil She organized the panel “Antiquity in the Everywhere? Demons, Spirits, and Powers in Nancy Sinkoff gave the following lectures: Modern Israeli Imagination,” presented the the Letters of Paul” at Virginia “Vilna on My Mind: The Polishness of Lucy S. paper “Biblical Images and Secular Commonwealth University, as part of the Dawidowicz’s Turn to Neoconservatism,” at the Interpretations in Israeli Culture,” and Blake lecture series; and “Cosmic Hierarchy Third Annual U.S. Intellectual History chaired the session “The Jewish State and in the Apocalypticism of the Apostle Paul” at Conference, CUNY Graduate Center; and Jewish Selves in Contemporary Israel” at the the International Association for the History “Jewish Politics in America and the Rise of 42nd annual Association for Jewish Studies of Religions Quinquennial World Congress, in the New Conservatives” for the Queens (AJS) conference. She concluded her third Toronto. She is a fellow this year at the College Jewish Studies Program. She also term on the board of directors of the AJS, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. chaired a session at the Rutgers conference on and continued to serve on the editorial testimonies (see p. 7). She presented the Azzan Yadin-Israel published a number of boards of the journals Israel Studies, paper “Fiction’s Archive: Ethnography and scholarly studies, including “Rabbi Akiva’s Journal of Israeli History, Israel Studies Authenticity in John Hersey’s The Wall ,” Youth,” Jewish Quarterly Review ; and “ Aretz Review, AJS Perspectives , and Postscripts: organized the panel “Representing et la sèmantique de la terre,” Les cahiers du The Journal of Sacred Texts and Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” judaïsme . A shorter entry on Rabbi Akiva Contemporary Worlds. She also served on was a respondent for the panel “Transatlantic appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ancient the editorial boards of the Rutgers University Transfers: The Salvage and Reconstruction of Judaism (Eerdmans). He published a more Press series Jewish Cultures of the World and Jewish Culture after WWII,” chaired the popular essay, “A Measure of Beauty,” on the the Academic Studies Press series Israel: panel “Haskalah Sea Journeys,” and Israeli hip-hop band Hadag Nahash in the Society, Culture, and History. Her participated in the roundtable “Totems and Jewish Review of Books . He chaired the publications included “Coping with the Taboos” at the 42nd annual Association for session “Antiquity in the Modern Israeli Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Jewish Studies conference. She was the on- Imagination” and presented the paper Films,” in Israeli Cinema: Identities in air historian for “Shalom USA,” WVIE-AM, “Divine Presence and Authorial Intent” for Motion (University of Texas Press); and “A Baltimore, streamed live on www.fox1350.com the panel “Law, Theology, and Ideology in Secular Return to the Bible? Reflections on and www.shalomusaradio.com, where she gave Tannaitic Literature” at the 42nd annual Israeli Society, National Memory, and the a talk entitled “Benjamin Franklin’s Influence Association for Jewish Studies conference. Politics of the Past,” AJS Perspectives.

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