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Jewishstudies Program Th e R o b e r t A . and Sandra S. B o r n s Jew i s h Studi e s Progr a m Annual Newsletter Volume 29 Fall 2010 2 I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y From the Director In my first year as Director of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP), I have been amazed at the dedication of our professional staff, the commitment of our accomplished alumni and supportive community, the promise and enthusiasm of our talented students, and the distinction of our expert faculty. I congratulate our graduating seniors, who this year hailed from twelve different states. They are now pursuing careers in fields as diverse as education, political activism, administration, scholarly research, journalism, medicine, social work, and the clergy. Clearly, a Jewish Studies (JS) degree is not only a personally rewarding experience, but also provides training in the type of critical thinking valued by today’s workplace. Our students received numerous university-wide awards, including the Elvis J. Stahr Senior Recognition Award (Emily Berman) and the John W. Ashton Jeffrey Veidlinger Senior Scholarship (Sarah Wilensky). Many of our students were named to the Dean’s List, to Phi Beta Kappa, and as Founder Scholars. Others were awarded scholarships and awards from the JSP itself. Personally, I find learning with our students to be a most rewarding experience. Our faculty has also had a productive year. Stephen Katz, Judah Cohen, Chaya Halberstam, and Mark Roseman all published books this past year, and both Shaul Magid and I were awarded prizes for books published last year. Our faculty has been awarded competitive grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Alvin Rosenfeld, former director of the JSP, was named the Irving M. Glazer Chair in JS and established a new Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. The faculty continues to be committed to the public mission of the university, contributing their knowledge and expertise to the wider community. Our educational mission remains paramount and our new Associate Director Matthias in this issue Lehmann has been working tirelessly to create new educational opportunities for our students. We 3 Visiting Faculty continue to develop new courses and to find new ways of interesting the next generation of 4 Fall 2010 Events students in the study of Jewish thought and civilization. This past year, the JSP expanded into 5 Spring 2011 Events service learning with our internship and leadership courses. These courses will provide students with the types of hands-on experience that will better prepare them for the professional world and 6 2009-2010 Lectures & Events allow them to apply the knowledge and critical thinking they learn in the classroom to “real- 7 New Antisemitism Institute world” situations. Through artist-in-residence and visiting scholar programs, we are also bringing 8 IU Press – Jewish Studies pioneering and up-and-coming visitors to campus each semester to share their expertise with 9 Advisory Board students and others in the IU community. 10 Donor Honor Roll The JSP has increased its activity in promoting study abroad programs and encouraging our 12 Graduate Student News students to become global citizens. This past year, Indiana University (IU) had the largest student 15 Course Offerings representation of any university in the world at the Hebrew University’s Rothberg School in 16 Undergraduate News Jerusalem (HUJ). This coming year, we will be launching a new “Indiana University in Jerusalem” 21 Alumni News program that will build upon our existing overseas study program and expand our relationship 22 Community Outreach with our Israeli counterparts. Thanks to our rigorous Hebrew language curriculum, under the 23 Faculty News directorship of Ayelet Weiss, and our Yiddish language program, under the direction of Dov-Ber 27 Faculty & Staff Listing Kerler, our students are acquiring the language skills they need to successfully navigate our global world. Over the last several years, our graduate program has expanded as students pursuing degrees in Cover photo: Graduate students (left to disciplinary departments across the university have sought to integrate aspects of the Jewish right): Devi Mays and Jessica Carr. Photo experience into their studies. The newly-formed Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association is but by Jocelyn Bowie. one expression of the growing vitality of our graduate student body. In anticipation of further growth in JS graduate education, we have developed a new JS master’s degree. This new degree will provide a bridge between our highly successful undergraduate major and doctoral minor, and will provide students with the advanced interdisciplinary and language study they will need to become professionals in the world of JS and Jewish affairs. As the summer draws to a close, I look forward to another year of learning as we welcome a new class of students to Bloomington. Jeffrey Veidlinger Director, Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History ISSN: 1930-482X Borns Jewish Studies Program 3 Visiting Faculty 2010-2011 s a r a h i m h o ff Space and Security research group at the Van Leer Institute as well as a Research Fellow in the War and Morality research group at the Visiting Scholar Schwarz Institute-Beit Morasha, Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. Sarah Imhoff, who recently in Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar Ilan University in completed her dissertation, 2009. Dr. Arieli will teach courses on “Israeli Society: Political, “Making Jewish Gender: Social, and Religious Divides,” “Zionism and the State of Israel,” Religion, Race, Sexuality, and “The Arab-Israeli Conflict,” and “Contemporary Environmental American Jews, 1910-1924,” at Challenges in Israel.” We thank the American-Israeli Cooperative the University of Chicago Enterprise for making Dr. Arieli’s visiting professorship possible. Divinity School, will teach Sarah Imhoff courses on “Gender in Rabbinic Literature,” “Jews and Race in the m i c h a e l a l p e rt , K l e z m e r U.S.,” “Understanding the Rabbinic Mind,” and “Women in m u s i c i a n American Jewish History”. A scholar of the history of Judaism, her research broadly considers gender and Judaism. She received dual Paul Artist-in-Residence undergraduate degrees in Religious Studies and Mathematics from and Visiting Lecturer Stanford University in 2002 and her M.A. from the University of Michael Alpert, a pioneering Chicago Divinity School in 2005. She has held a number of figure in the renaissance of fellowships including the Martin Marty Center Junior Fellowship, klezmer music and an the Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, and the Center for Gender internationally known Studies Residency Fellowship. performer, comes to the Borns a s ya V a i s m a n JSP for the spring 2011 Visiting Scholar and semester as a Visiting Lecturer Michael Alpert and Dorit and Gerald Paul Project Director Artist-in-Residence. He has performed and recorded with Brave Asya Vaisman will be a Old World, Kapelye, Khevrisa, David Krakauer, Theodore Bikel, visiting scholar teaching and has won an Emmy and the Rose D’Or as musical director of introductory Yiddish and the PBS Great Performances special “Itzhak Perlman: In the Project Manager for the Fiddler’s House”. In addition to teaching a course in Archives of Historical and Ethnomusicology, he will give a public performance. The Paul Ethnographic Yiddish Asya Vaisman artist-in-residence program provides a unique opportunity to learn Memories (AHEYM). She directly from a major artist. received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2009, with a dissertation entitled “Being Heard: The Yiddish Songs and Singing m at t h e w s u r i a n o Practices of Contemporary Hasidic Women.” She was the Hazel D. Visiting Lecturer Cole Postdoctoral Fellow in JS at the University of Washington last in Religious Studies year. Asya has composed music to the lyrics of several Yiddish poets Matthew Suriano, a Visiting and performs with klezmer bands and at klezmer workshops Lecturer in the Department of around the world. In summer 2010, she taught intensive Yiddish at Religious Studies, received his IU’s Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Ph.D. from UCLA in Near Languages. Eastern Languages and Cultures t a m a r a r i e l i in 2008. He has taught at both Schusterman Visiting UCLA and the University of California Santa Barbara. He Matthew Suriano Israeli Professor will teach four courses this year, Tamar Arieli will be the including “Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Judaism,” Schusterman Visiting Israeli “Introduction to Hebrew Bible,” and “Prophecy in Ancient Israel”. Professor. Coordinator of the Dr. Suriano’s research interests include the history and Conflict Management Program, development of Israelite religions and early Judaism. Lecturer at Tel Chai Academic College, and Lecturer in Tammy Arieli Political Science at Ashkelon Academic College in Israel, she has been a Research Fellow at the 4 I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y F a l l 2010 e V e n t s “z i o n i s m a n D t h e J e w i s h F i l m s e r i e s : “Zionisme andn V ithe r o Environment” n m e n t ” J e w i s h l i F e i n a m e r i c a ProfessorProfessor Tamar Tamar Arieli Arieli Charles and Lynn Schusterman The Films of Aviva Kempner Visiting IsraelSchusterman Professor Jewish Film Series: Jewish Life in America Visiting Israeli Professor In conjunctionThe with Life IU Cinema.
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