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Essential BJPA Readings for Conference Sessions of Special Interest to ASSJ Members AJS Resource Guide 2012 December 16—18, Chicago, IL Essential BJPA readings for conference sessions of special interest to ASSJ members 9:30—11:00 Sunday, December 16 11:15-1:00 Jews Outside the Conventional Narrative: Small-Town American Jewish Year Book: Retrospect & Prospect Jews, “Half Jews,” and the Construction of Outsiders Moderator: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut) “Insiders” and “outsiders” in Jewish discourse and practice Discussants: Morton Weinfeld (McGill University); Barry A Kosmin (Trinity Jennifer Thompson (California State University at Northridge) College); Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Ira Sheskin Using Multiraciality to Understand Jews of Mixed Parentage (University of Miami) Bruce A Phillips (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion) ____________________________________________________ Transmitting Jewish Identity in the Absence of Jewish Educational BJPA Readings: Programs | Matthew E. Boxer (Brandeis University) American Jewish Year Book: entire BJPA collection Chair & Respondent: Randal F. Schnoor (York University) ____________________________________________________ Arnold Dashefsky’s publications on BJPA BJPA Readings: Morton Weinfeld’s publications on BJPA Being Gay and Jewish: Negotiating Intersecting Identities Barry Kosmin’s publications on BJPA Randal F. Schnoor. Sociology of Religion, 2006 Sergio DellaPergola’s publications on BJPA A Flame Still Burns: The Dimensions and Determinants of Jewish Ira Sheskin’s publications on BJPA Identity Among Young Adult Children of the Intermarried Pearl Beck. Jewish Outreach Institute, June 2005 The Twentieth Century Through American Jewish Eyes: A History of the American Jewish Year Book, 1899-1999 Jewish Life in America's Small Communities Jonathan D. Sarna, Jonathan Golden. AJYB, 2000 Lee-Shai Weissbach. Sh’ma, November 2003 2 Sunday, December 16 11:15—1:00 Genes and Jews Histories from Below: New Developments in Jewish Diasporas: What Genes Can Tell Us Research Uses of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Wesley K. Sutton (Lehman College/CUNY) Using Holocaust Witness Accounts as Primary Resources Genes, Jews and Biocultural Story-Telling Joanne Weiner Rudof (Yale University) Judith S. Neulander (Case Western Reserve University) Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Police Issues of Recognition and Authenticity in Cases of ‘Questionable’ Jews Katarzyna Person (Center for Jewish History) Stuart Zane Charmé (Rutgers University (Camden)) Developing Testimonial Literacy: A Comparative Approach to the Research Uses of Holocaust Testimonies Respondent & Chair: Peter J. Haas (Case Western Reserve University) Noah Shenker (Monash University) ____________________________________________________ Respondent: Avinoam Patt (University of Hartford) BJPA Readings: Chair: Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union) Embracing the Jewish Body? Mitchell Hart. Sh’ma, April 2009 ____________________________________________________ BJPA Readings: Biological Discourse and American Jewish Identity Lynn Davidman, Shelly Tenenbaum. AJS Perspectives, Fall 2007 Holocaust Survivors in Israel: Population Estimates, Demographic, Health and Social Characteristics, and Needs What Is a Jew? The Meaning of Genetic Disease for Jewish Identity Jenny Brodsky, Yitschak Shnoor, Assaf Sharon, Yaron King, Shmuel Be'er. Rebecca T. Alpert. The Reconstructionist, Spring 2007 Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, 2010 Browse BJPA for Science Browse BJPA for Holocaust 3 Sunday, December 16 4:15—6:15 Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture Cultural Change Among American Jews: Means and Reflections on the Science of the Scientific Study of Jewry Modes Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University) Moderator: Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis University) Discussants: Matthew E. Boxer (Brandeis University) ; Michelle Shain Discussants: Vanessa Ochs (University of Virginia); Andrea M. Most (Brandeis University) ; Daniel Parmer (Brandeis University); Benjamin Phillips (University of Toronto); Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College - Jewish (Abt SRBI) Institute of Religion); David E. Kaufman (Hofstra University); Mark Loren Kligman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion) Chair: Harriet Hartman (Rowan University) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ BJPA Readings: BJPA Readings: Trends Among Contemporary American Jews, Focusing on Young Leonard Saxe’s publications on BJPA Adults in Los Angeles Sarah Bunin Benor, June 2012 Matthew Boxer’s publications on BJPA Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity Michelle Shain’s publications on BJPA Steven M. Cohen, Sarah Bunin Benor. HUC-JIR, October 2009 Daniel Parmer’s publications on BJPA Ten Jewish Sensibilities Benjamin Phillips’s publications on BJPA Vanessa L. Ochs. Sh’ma, December 2003 Harriet Hartman’s publications on BJPA Relatively Speaking: Constructing Identity in Jewish and Mixed Married Families | Sylvia Barack Fishman. 2002 Belin Lecture 4 Monday, December 17 8:30—10:30 Jews in the Second City: Reassessing the History of The NEW AMERICAN HAGGADAH: Chicago Jewish Communities Passover in the Digital Age “Chicago is a Miracle”: Travel Writing and American Judaism, 1843-1877 The good Book: Storytelling and the NEW AMERICAN HAGGADAH Shari Lisa Rabin (Yale University) Ari Y. Kelman (Stanford University School of Education) Jennie Franklin Purvin, Progressive Era Activist: A Chicago Jewish Authenticity and Image in the NEW AMERICAN HAGGADAH Woman Tackles Social Reform | Bernice Anne Heilbrunn (U. of Houston) Ken Koltun-Fromm (Haverford College) Distant Neighbors: Radical Reform Jews and African Americans in Imagining Identity: Cultural Responses to the NEW AMERICAN Twentieth Century Chicago | Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State University) HAGGADAH | Mara Benjamin (St. Olaf College) The Jewish Deli as an Ethnic "Third Place" in Chicago Jewish Philosophy and Thought at Wordpress (Writing about the NEW Ted Merwin (Dickinson College) AMERICAN HAGGADAH) Chair & Respondent: Daniel Greene (Newberry Library) Zachary J. Braiterman (Syracuse University) ____________________________________________________ Chair: Noam F. Pianko (University of Washington) BJPA Readings: ____________________________________________________ The Organized Jewish Community of Greater Chicago | Daniel J. Elazar. BJPA Readings: JCPA, 1999 Does it Matter if Authenticity is Authentic? | Noam Pianko. Sh’ma, 2011 Insuring our Future: A Report on Jewish Education in Chicago Beyond the Hermetically Sealed Self | Mara Benjamin. AJS, 2011 Raymond Epstein. Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Ukeles Associates, November 1991 The Reality of the Virtual: Looking for Jewish Leadership Online | Ari Y. Kelman. AVI CHAI Foundation, 2010 Jewish Communal Progress: Chicago | Louis Cahn. JSSQ (JJCS), 1927 5 Monday, December 17 11:00—12:45 The Family as a Category of Analysis in Jewish Broadening the Intersections with Jewish Studies I: Studies Inter-disciplinary Collaborations and Partnerships From Generation to Generation: The Transmission of Property and Moderator: Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota) Culture in Modern Jewish History Discussants: Leora Auslander (University of Chicago); Caryn Aviv (University Todd Michael Endelman (University of Michigan) of Colorado, Boulder); Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union); Judit Bokser Liwerant (Unam Mexico) Research on Jewish Families: A Sociological Perspective Calvin Goldscheider (Brown University) ____________________________________________________ Literary Myths, Tropes, and Representations of the Jewish Family BJPA Readings: Anita Norich (University of Michigan) Riv-Ellen Prell’s publications on BJPA Chair: Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) Caryn Aviv’s publications on BJPA ____________________________________________________ Judit Bokser Liwerant’s publications on BJPA BJPA Readings: Religion and Its Discontents Calvin Goldscheider’s publications on BJPA Susannah Heschel. AJS Perspectives, Fall 2011 Social Science and the Jews: A Research Agenda for the Next Generation Jewish Studies as an Interdisciplinary Project Calvin Goldscheider. 2002 Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture, ASSJ. Arnold Eisen, David Biale. AJS Perspectives, Fall 2003 Are American Jews Vanishing Again? | Calvin Goldscheider , 2003 Dispatches from a Jewish Studies Conference Libby Garland. CLAL, 2001 Browse BJPA for Family 6 Monday, December 17 11:00—12:45 Borderland Jews of New York: Different Displays of Diversity Chair: Ira Sheskin (University of Miami) Diversity as Normative within the Chicago Jewish Community Ron Miller (North American Jewish Data Bank) A Tale of Multiple Streams: Diversity within the Orthodox Jewish Community in the United States Jacob B. Ukeles (Ukeles Associates) The Striking Diversity of New York Jewry Steven M. Cohen (BJPA, HUC-JIR) Respondent: Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR) ____________________________________________________ BJPA Readings: Ira Sheskin’s publications on BJPA Ron Miller’s publications on BJPA Jacob B. Ukeles’s publications on BJPA Steven M. Cohen’s publications on BJPA Sarah Bunin Benor’s publications on BJPA Browse BJPA for Diversity Jewish Diversity and Its Implications for Jewish Peoplehood: Obstacle or Opportunity Steven M. Cohen, Jacob B. Ukeles, Ron Miller. The Peoplehood Papers, November 2012 7 Monday, December 17 2:15—4:00 Jews and New York City Politics New Directions in Folklore and Ethnography Jews and New York Electoral Politics, 1700-1865 Chair: Vanessa Ochs (University of Virginia) Howard Rock (Florida
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