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Kelly Johnson IN THIS ISSUE: 7 0 • CONFERENCE NEWS 0 pages 1-2 2 • FACULTY NEWS R pages 3 E T • LECTURES N I page 4 W • STUDENT PROFILES pages 7-9 • VISITOR NEWS VOL XVIII, NUMBER 1 page 10 VE RI TAS CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES HARVARD UNIVERSITY ...featuring the CONFERENCE ON RELIGION EDUCATION & October 17-18, 2006 CONFERENCE ON RELIGION EDUCATION & OCTOBER 17 & 18 2006 ROSOVSKY HALL HARVARD HILLEL BUILDING 52 MT. AUBURN STREET CAMBRIDGE, MA Co-Sponsors: CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES , HARVARD UNIVERSITY MANDEL CENTER FOR STUDIES IN JEWISH EDUCATION , BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY SCHOLION –INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CENTER IN JEWISH STUDIES , THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, THE MANDEL INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 9:30 - 10:30 Professor Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University: “Approaches to the Study of Education” 10:45 - 12:30 Professor Michael Heyd, Hebrew University, “‘A young man according to his way’ or - ‘train up the child in the way he should go’?: Proverbs 22:6 in Translations, Commentaries and Sermons of the Early Modern Period” Mr. Asaph Ben-Tov, Hebrew University, “The Authority of Pedagogues and the Authority of the Ancients: Pagan Texts in Reformation Germany” 1:45 - 3:45 Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel, Yeshiva University, “’For the Student Can Outsmart His Teacher’: The Right of Disagreement in Tosafist Thought” Professor Bernard Septimus, Harvard University, “Rabbinic Discipleship and Aristotelian Friendship in Maimonides” 4:00 - 5:30 Ms. Michal Kravel-Tovi, Hebrew University, “Teaching and Educating - Aspects of Orthodox Conversion in Israel” PHOTOS BY MARCUS HALEVI 1 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES WINTER 2007 PICTURED OPPOSITE PAGE: AT TOP (L-R): Tamar El-Or, Allan Nadler, Immanuel Etkes CENTER: Gregory Freeze BOTTOM: Baruch Schwartz I V E L A H S U C R A M Y B S O T O PICTURED THIS PAGE: H P CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP RIGHT: Michael Heyd, Shlomo Tikochinski, Shani Mr. Shlomo Tikochinski, Hebrew University, Bechhofer, Jay Harris, and Asaph Ben-Tov “Involvement or Isolation: The Beginnings of the ‘Mussar’ Yeshivos in Erez Israel” Respondent: Prof. Gregory Freeze, Brandeis University 1:15 - 2:30 Dr. Susan Tanchel, Brandeis University and Professor Tamar El-Or, Hebrew University, Gann Academy, “Teaching Biblical Criticism in “’Once you start’: the linear destiny of religious- a Jewish Community High School” feminist education” 5:30 - 6:30 Respondent: Dr. Shani Bechhofer, Yeshiva Dr. Susan M. Kardos, “Jewish Education and University Community” Respondent: Jay M. Harris, Harvard 2:45 - 4:00 University Professor Baruch Schwarz, Hebrew University, “‘Hevruta’ in Lithuanian-Israeli WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Yeshivas: An Empirical Approach” 9:30 – 12:00 Prof. Immanuel Etkes, Hebrew University, “The Respondent: Jay M. Harris, Harvard Hasidic Leader as an Educator: The Case of University Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi” 4:15 – 5:15 Prof. Allan Nadler, Drew University, “The Dr. Jon A. Levisohn, Brandeis University, Influence of Lithuanian Talmudism on 20th “Conference Conclusion: On Some False Century Hasidic Yeshivot” Dichotomies in Religious Education” WINTER 2007 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES 2 FACULTY CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES News EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WELCOMES TWO NEW MEMBERS: VISITING PROFESSORS RACHEL GREENBLATT , hanks to the visiting Assistant Professor of Near Eastern professorships at the Center for Languages and Civilizations, TJewish Studies, we are able to Department of Near Eastern Languages host prominent scholars to teach classes and Civilizations (Faculty of Arts and in important areas of Jewish studies not Sciences) covered by our full-time faculty. The Center hosted two visiting professors JONATHAN SCHOFER , during the 2006 fall semester. Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethics (Harvard Divinity School) DEREK PENSLAR , Samuel J. Zacks Chair in European Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Toronto, was our fourth Nachshon Visiting Professor of Modern Israel Studies. Professor Penslar taught two classes, “Zionism and the State of Israel” and “Power and Identity in Modern Jewish History.” LEE LEVINE , Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was our Gerard Weinstock Visting Professor of Jewish Studies. He offered two classes, “Jewish Identities in Antiquity: PICTURED TOP OF PAGE: Permutations and Transformations” and Professor Derek Penslar “Visual Judaism: History, Art and ABOVE: Identity in Late Antiquity.” Professor Lee Levine 3 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES WINTER 2007 CJS OCTOBER 12, 2006 “The Eve of Spain: Mythmaking and the Conversion of History” Lectures PATRICIA GRIEVE 2006 Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University The Friends of the Center for Jewish Studies Fund _________________________________________ NOVEMBER 8, 2006 A reading by ORLY CASTEL BLOOM Eminient Israeli Writer I Martin D. and Helen B. Schwartz Lecture Fund V E L Co-sponsored by CMES and NELC Modern A H Hebrew Program S U C _________________________________________ R A NOVEMBER 8, 2006 M Y “Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Transformations B O and Permutations” T O H LEE LEVINE P The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University (Fall 2006) CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Estelle and Howard Rubin Fund _________________________________________ DIRECTOR: Shaye J.D. Cohen NOVEMBER 16, 2006 ADMINISTRATOR: Rachel Rockenmacher “Baghdad Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew” STAFF ASSISTANT: Brenna Wells SASSON SOMEKH CHAIR, FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR Sasson Somekh is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University where he held the Halmos Chair in JEWISH STUDIES: Peter J. Solomon Arabic Literature. He is the former director of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Rachel Israel Academic Center in Cairo. He is the author of several books in English, Arabic and Hebrew, Greenblatt, Jay M. Harris, Miri about modern Arabic literature, including a 1973 Kubovy, Jon Levenson, Peter Machinist, monograph on the novels of the Egyptian Nobel Avi Matalon, Jonathan Schofer, Laureate, Naguib Mahfouz. His memoir of his childhood, Baghdad Yesterday, was published in Bernard Septimus and Ruth Wisse 2004. Co-sponsored by CMES and Yanoff-Taylor Lecture and Publication Fund CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES _________________________________________ Harvard University DECEMBER 14, 2006 6 Divinity Avenue “Envisaging Jewish Assimilation or the Meaning Cambridge, MA 02138 of Moses Mendelssohn’s Beard” MICHAEL SILBER PHONE: 617-495-4326 Senior Lecturer in History of the Jewish People, FAX: 617-496-8904 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cjs The Leon I. Mirell Lecture Fund DESIGN: Erin P. Dowling WINTER 2007 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES 4 FRIENDS VERI CoEfNtThEe R FOR TAS JEWISH STUDIES Peter J. Solomon, Chairman Friends of the Center for Jewish Studies n December 1984, Peter Solomon YOU ARE INVITED... (AB ‘60, MBA ‘63), then a member ...to show your interest in Jewish Iof the Harvard Board of Overseers, Studies at Harvard by joining the announced the establishment of the Friends of the Center for Jewish Studies Friends of the Center for Jewish Studies. in one of the following categories: This organization seeks to provide an ongoing base of support for the Center Associate: $50 Patron: $100 and to enable it to expand its present Pillar: $500 Benefactor: $1,000 areas of activity. Annual support from the Friends helps shape the future of Jewish Studies and sustain the Center ASSOCIATES of the Center receive the as an influential, multifaceted newsletter and invitations to lectures, enterprise at Harvard. symposia and colloquia. PATRONS of the Center additionally Some of the specific projects the Friends receive priority invitations to selected of the Center for Jewish Studies include: • student research projects (both events and selected publications. undergraduate and graduate, school- PILLARS of the Center additionally year and summer); receive copies of all Center • graduate student fellowships; publications. • research-related expenses for visiting scholars; BENEFACTORS of the Center receive all • public lectures and class presentations of the preceding, including invitations by distinguished scholars; to additional events. • doctoral dissertation advising by specialized scholars from outside This year we hope to substantially Harvard; increase the number of Friends of the • group discussions of research in Center, thereby creating a broader progress for Harvard faculty and students in Jewish studies base of support for the Center’s projects and activities. If you know anyone who might be interested in joining the Friends, would you please notify the Center 617.495.4326 so that we may acquaint him or her with the Center’s work. 5 CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES WINTER 2007 2006-07 COURSE OFFERINGS L = NEW COURSE FACULTY OF ARTS AND • History of the Study of the Hebrew Bible: • From Jewish Literature to Israeli SCIENCES From the Renaissance to the Present: Literature: Seminar CORE CURRICULUM Seminar • Problems in the Literature, History, and • Jewish Life in Eastern Europe • Biblical Theology: Seminar Religion of Israel: Seminar • Tel Aviv: Urban Culture in Another Zion • Literature of Israel: Seminar • Jews in Modern Times: From the French POSTBIBLICAL JEWISH STUDIES • The Medieval Torah Commentary: A Revolution to the Emergence of Israel • Introduction to Yiddish Culture Practical Introduction: Seminar • Modern Jewish Literature • Modern Jewish Religious Movements • Joseph and Esther: Seminar • “Athens and Jerusalem”:
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