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C OME A ND L EARN Jewish culture has long recognized the classroom as a special place—indeed a sacred place akin to the Temple. When the prophet Ezekiel spoke of a “little sanctuary” among the exiles, explains one rabbinic commentator, he was referring to houses of study. The core of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP), its holy of holies as it were, is the classroom. Our faculty is at the cutting edge of humanistic and social scientific research, in fields that include anthropology, linguistics, history,

A NNUAL N EWSLETTER V OLUME 23 FALL 2004 2 Indiana University literary study, philosophy, and political science. In the classroom, they introduce their students to all these approaches, helping them to come to a deeper and more complex understanding of Jewish culture and experience. While our mission is a secular one, I nonetheless think of what my colleagues and I do in the classroom, the education of our students, as a kind of sacred activity, a tremendous responsibility requiring great devotion, vigilance, and care. What gives me great confidence in our ability to fulfill this responsibility is our outstanding faculty, including long-time veterans widely recognized for their contributions to scholarship and the university, and new additions to our faculty. To focus on the latter, in 2003-2004, we welcomed Dr. Mark Roseman as the Pat M. Glazer Chair of JS. Professor Roseman is internationally recognized for his scholarship on the Holocaust and post-war Europe, and is a riveting lecturer and engaging teacher, offering important courses on the Holocaust and the history of antisemitism. We are also honored to welcome Dr. Susan Gubar as an adjunct faculty member. Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University (IU), Professor Gubar is renowned for her ground- breaking contributions to literary and feminist criticism, recently bringing her interpretive insight to bear on the Holocaust and the shadow it casts in Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. She is also recognized as one of the best teachers at IU. Opportunities for our students will expand even more in 2004-2005. We have recently completed the search for the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Modern Judaism, and we are delighted to welcome Dr. Shaul Magid to this position. A former Dean of the undergraduate program at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Dr. Magid will be teaching courses on Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, and other topics in religious studies. Also hired through the Department of Religious Studies for a position in modern Western religious thought, Dr. Nancy Levene, formerly of Williams College, has remarkable expertise in modern Jewish philosophy and will expand our offerings in this area in exciting ways. Dr. Miryam Segal is joining us as Assistant Professor of Hebrew language and literature. An up-and-coming scholar of Israeli and comparative literature, she will direct our Hebrew program and strengthen the literary side of our curriculum. All these scholars are immensely learned, creative, and intellectually alive, and their arrival opens up countless new learning opportunities for our students. The breadth and depth of our faculty’s knowledge, the vitality of their scholarship, and their commitment to promoting our student’s intellectual growth make the Borns JSP a dynamic center not just for the study of Jewish culture but for a superior liberal arts education. Education does not thrive where there is too much self-satisfaction, however, and so even with all the programs currently offered, I feel it is my obligation as director to I N T HIS I SSUE remain dissatisfied, to continue to look for new ways to develop and support the learning 3New Faculty that happens here. In addition to putting the best teachers in the classroom, the Borns JSP 3 Rosenfeld Chair is working to attract and support excellent students by raising funds for scholarships and 5 Faculty Honored internships. Recognizing the whole world as a classroom, we seek to enrich our students’ 5Institute for Jewish Culture learning by using new overseas study programs and “service learning” to help them to and the Arts move from our lecture halls and seminar tables into the wider world. But while the 6Programs project of education requires continuous innovation and adaptation, our most important 12 Graduate Student News focus is the cultivation of what has always been most essential to great learning: 12 JSP Advisory Board committed teachers, engaged students, and the sacred bond between them. 13 Friends of JSP

ara Clüver Sincerely,

14 Donor Honor Roll Y 14 JSP Endowments 15 Student News 19 Alumni News 21 Faculty News Dr. Steven Weitzman 24 Faculty and Staff Director Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies Borns Jewish Studies Program 3

N ANCY L EVENE His courses on the history of antisemitism JSP WELCOMES and the Holocaust have already become We warmly welcome Nancy Levene, some of the most popular at IU. Associate Professor of Modern European FOUR NEW Professor Roseman’s appointment is and Jewish Religious Thought in the made possible by a major gift to the JSP FACULTY MEMBERS Department of Religious Studies and the JSP. from Jay and Marsha Glazer of Washington. Shaul Magid, Nancy Levene, Professor Levene received her Ph.D. from Miryam Segal, Mark Roseman Harvard University in 2000, and since that G ALA H ONORS A LVIN time, has been Assistant Professor at R OSENFELD S HAUL M AGID Williams College. Her research has focused Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair on the intersection of religion and political Established in Modern Judaism thought in the work of the great philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The many contributions of Professor Alvin Shaul Magid, a Rosenfeld, scholar of Her most recent publication is Director of the exceptional breath Borns JSP for 30 and interpretive Spinoza’s Revelation: years and skill, assumed the currently Director Jay and Jeanie Religion, Democracy, and of its Institute for Schottenstein Jewish Culture Chair in Modern Reason (Cambridge and the Arts, were Judaism this fall. celebrated at a Professor Magid University Press, 2004). Future gala in received his Ph.D. Indianapolis on from Brandeis research will Alvin Rosenfeld Shaul Magid Nancy Levene expand to other May 17, 2004. The University and until evening, attended by 180 friends, family this year was Associate Professor of Jewish figures also on the border between Jewish and secular thought. members, colleagues, and former students, thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary from across the country, began with a (JTS) where he also served as Dean of the M IRYAM S EGAL performance by noted chazzan Alberto undergraduate program and as Chair of the Mizrahi. Tributes included presentations by This fall, we are pleased to welcome Department of Jewish Philosophy. Dr. Robert Borns, Leonard Goldstein, and Dean Professor Miryam Segal, Assistant Professor Magid’s research and teaching spans Jewish Kumble Subbaswamy. Marie Harf, a of Modern Hebrew Literature and Language religious experience and thought from the December, 2003 graduate spoke on behalf of and Comparative Literature. Dr. Segal Middle Ages to the present, particularly Professor Rosenfeld’s former students. received her Ph.D. in Comparative Hasidic Judaism, the subject of his Hasidism The evening ended with Professor Steven Literature from the University of California on the Margin published by the University of Weitzman’s announcement of the at Berkeley last year. Her research focuses Wisconsin. His research also reaches into establishment of the Alvin H. Rosenfeld on Hebrew poetry and its interconnections other moments in Jewish history—to 16th Chair. Co-chairs for the gala were Claudette with Israeli nationalism. The recipient of a century Jewish mysticism, the subject of his Einhorn and Gale Nichols; cosponsors with Fulbright Scholarship and many other next book, and to modern Jewish theologians the Borns JSP were Chancellor Kenneth honors, she is a highly successful teacher, like Mordechai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Gros Louis and Dean Kumble Subbaswamy. having taught at the University of Heschel. Ordained as a rabbi through Alvin Rosenfeld was also honored at Pennsylvania, the Drisha Institute in New Yeshivat Ha-Mivtar in Jerusalem, Professor Founders Day in February, 2004, as an York, and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Magid has a deep commitment to textually- exemplary faculty member receiving the W. She will be the Director of our Hebrew based reasoning as the source of a vibrant George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Program beginning in Fall 2005. Judaism. He also has a deep engagement in Service. inter-religious dialogue, sympathetically engaging Christian and Muslim thought in a M ARK R OSEMAN way that is very helpful at this time of Holocaust Historian Assumes religious tension. Pat M. Glazer Chair We are deeply honored to have an Mark Roseman, a leading scholar of endowed chair in JS in the names of Jay and German history and the Holocaust, joined Jeanie Schottenstein. The Schottensteins have the Borns JSP faculty as the Pat M. Glazer demonstrated an unusually generous Chair in JS in January 2004. Professor commitment to Jewish education in this Roseman, who also is a member of the country and in Israel and are the benefactors Department of History faculty, has emerged of numerous schools, academies, and as a notable figure in the history of the universities. Among their many remarkable Holocaust and of German history with the projects is the 72 volume Schottenstein publication of his two most recent books, Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (Mesorah). which have received international acclaim. 4 Indiana University

Establishing the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair In 1999, Marsha and Jay Glazer established two endowed chairs in JS to honor Jay’s parents, Pat and Irving Glazer. In tribute to Contributors to the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair Alvin Rosenfeld, they also contributed half of Professor James Ackerman Marie and Jane Harf Professor Henry and Ingrid Remak the endowment of a third chair in his name, Lawrence and Carol Adelman Dr. Robert and Ann Harman Dr. Sydney Rome challenging the community to raise the other Professors Robert Agranoff and June Herman A John and Judith Rose half. In response, Leonard Goldstein, Susan Klein Stanley Herman Professor Mark Roseman president of the Borns JSP Advisory Board, Professor Edward and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Herman Professor Michael Rosenblum Leah Alexander Dr. Roger and Francine Hurwitz Professor Gavriel Rosenfeld and formed a committee with Irving Glazer Dr. Annette Alpert and Martha Jacobs Dr. Erika Banks serving as honorary chair. Because of the Professor Darrell Haile Professor Bruce and Lea Jaffee Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Rosenfeld leadership and tenacity of Irving Glazer and Steven and Sorelle Ancel Jewish Federation of Professors Sidney and Leonard Goldstein, the hard work of Professor Judith Anderson Greater Indianapolis Stella Rosenfeld committee members Ruth Feinberg, June Stephen Backer Valerie Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rothbaum Professors Joëlle Bahloul and Professor Michael Kaganovich and Mr. and Mrs. Andy Rubenstein Herman, Bobbi Kroot, Sybil Mervis, and Marshall Leaffer Ella Liderman Gordan Rubenstein Frank Newman, the generosity and continued Dr. Richard Balaban and Julie Bloom Professor Irving Katz Jeffrey and Susan Rubenstein initiative of Jay and Marsha Glazer, and the Eugene and Nancy Bate Irwin Katz Dr. and Mrs. Marc Rubenstein generosity of community members, the Professor Robert and Karen Becker Professor Stephen and Eileen Katz Sidney and Sarah Sakowitz endowment campaign was completed. Professor Joseph and Marge Belth Mr. and Mrs. Barton Kaufman Professor Scott and Ruth Sanders Leonard and Alice Berkowitz Professor Dov-Ber and Rabbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso The establishment of the Alvin H. Mildred Bern Roberta Kerler Professor Phillip and Rosenfeld Chair in JS ensures that Professor Sol and Toby Blickman Professor Idalene Kesner and Nancy Saunders Rosenfeld’s name will always be associated Joseph and Wilma Borinstein Paul Robins Robert and Alice Schloss with the program he developed. It also Drs. Myles and Peg Brand John King Jack and Sherron Schuster Nancy Brand and Eric Holm Rose Krakovitz Harry Sebel provides a very important tool to sustain the Professor Yuri and Lucia Bregel Thomas and Farah Kramer Dr. Paul Shapiro excellence of the program. Donald and Marilyn Breiter Arthur and Bobbi Kroot Della Shere We are greatly indebted to Jay and Dr. Peter and Susan Cahn Martin and Natalie Kroot Dr. Reuben and Leona Shevitz Marsha Glazer, Irving and Pat Glazer, and Dr. Louis Calli and Sidney and Judy Laiken Norman Sider the rest of the Glazer family for their vision, Ann Marie Thomson G. Irving “Bud” Latz Dr. Martin Siegel Thomas Clancy and Dana Green Carolyn Leeds Dr. Bruce and Carole Silverstein generosity, and effort in securing the Charles and Karen Cohen Professor Matthias Lehmann and Curtis and Judy Simic establishment of the Rosenfeld Chair. Ronald and Nancy Cohen Miriam Mora-Quilon Deborah Simon Leading the response to the Glazers’ Professor Eli and Rachel Eban Professor Bernard Levinson Professors Martin and Dina Spechler challenge were the following individuals: Dr. Charles and Myra Echt Seymour and Betty Lichter Professor Murray and Anita Sperber Professor Thomas and Ellen Ehrlich Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and Gary and Anne Steigerwald Robert and Sandra Borns Dr. Lawrence and Claudette Einhorn George Walker Monique Stolnitz Theodore Cohn and Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn Benjamin and Sharon Eisbart Amelia Cook Lurvey Dyan Sublett Leonard and Rikki Goldstein Yosh Eisbart Andrew and Professor Jane Mallor Dr. Lawrence and Sandi Tavel Hart and Simona Hasten Professor Paul and Lana Eisenberg Thomas and Flo Mary Mantel Professor Roger and James and Patricia Ek Professors Herbert Marks and Claudette Temam Louis and Sybil Mervis Arnold* and Dr. Ruth Feinberg Perry Hodges Adam and Sara Tennen Gerald and Dorit Paul Professor William and Michael B. and Illene Maurer Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Sara I. Reuben and the Reuben Family Harriet Fierman Herbert and Linda Melrose Jami Trockman Foundation, Inc. Betty Fleck Drs. John and Daisy Merey Stanley and Sandra Trockman Fort Wayne Jewish Federation David and Beth Merkes Sidney and Charlene Tuchman Martin and Helen Schwartz Professor Steven and Karen Franks Merrill Lynch Professor Jeffrey and Cindy Simon Skjodt and Paul Skjodt Professor Maurice and Perry and Nancy Metz Rebecca Veidlinger Jeff Smulyan made in memory of Barbara Friedberg Jason and Lindsey Mintz Dr. Myron and Myrna Weinberger Samuel Smulyan Rabbi Herbert Friedman Sidney and Sharon Mishkin Gisela Weisz Natalie Smulyan made in honor of Dr. Edward and Phyllis Gabovitch Professor Breon and Lynda Mitchell Professor Steven Weitzman and Michael and Rachel Garmisa Marvin and Susan Mitchell Rabbi Mira Wasserman Samatha Smulyan Professor Sheldon and Bakol Gellar Shakir Mustafa and Dr. Mark and Linda Wisen Their generosity took us a long way Cynthia Glazer Nawal Nastrallah Walter and Joan Wolf toward completing the endowment, but it Lindsay Glazer Joan New Allen and Roberta Wurzman Winifred Goldblatt-Silberman Frank and Dorothy Newman Daniel and Beth Zweig required the community as a whole to make Alan and Caron Goldstein Leonard and Louise Newman the chair a reality. We are also extremely Drs. Gerald and Marcia Goldstone Daniel and Gale Nichols * Denotes deceased grateful to the following individuals and Hon. Evan and Lynda Goodman Professor Mitchell and Judith Novit organizations for their generous Professor Jesse Goodman and Dr. Bernard and Renee Oppenheim contributions. Dona Naeser Professor Aviva Orenstein and Thomas and Janice Goodman David Szonyi Paula Gordon Professor Eloise Paul and Bill Lee Rabbi Irving “Yitz” and Arthur and Sondra Percy Blu Greenberg Drs. Mark and Ora Pescovitz Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis Rabbi Aaron Petuchowski John and Rita Grunwald M. Mendel and Frances Piser Frances Hackett Joshua and Robyn Plaskoff Borns Jewish Studies Program 5

poetry of the entire studies departments. Together with the Mediterranean basin or a Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts and grammatical irregularity the highly successful Dorit and Gerald Paul through a dozen or more Lecture Series in Jewish Culture and the archaic languages. I was most Arts, the Mervis Chair in Jewish Cultural impressed, in the 1960s and Studies will make the Borns JSP a major upon a recent visit, with his center for the study and appreciation of humility, his thoroughness, Jewish creative expression. his critical mastery of the We are very grateful to Lou and Sybil field, his quiet wit, his Mervis for making this exciting opportunity devotion to family—his basic possible. Lou Mervis, of Danville, Illinois, humanity.” has been a longtime member of the JSP’s Henry Fischel and Michael Morgan Advisory Board. A 1956 IU graduate, Lou was a Business major and a member of the M ICHAEL M ORGAN INSTITUTE FOR Board of Aeons, Student Senate vice Chancellor’s Professor JEWISH CULTURE president, and a Little 500 Rider. The Michael Morgan was named a Chancellor’s Mervises have been key figures in the Jewish Professor, an award given to faculty members AND ARTS community and arts community of Danville. who have achieved local, national, and Their strong interest in education has international distinction in both teaching and brought them to support opportunities for research/creative activity. Professor Morgan students who otherwise might not have gone came to IU in 1975, became Professor of on to higher education. Philosophy and JS in 1990, and was Associate Dean of the Faculties from S TOLLMAN, GOLDSTEIN, 1994–1996. He is an historian of philosophy A LBERSTEIN, LIBESKIND and Jewish religious thought. He has The Institute for Jewish Culture and the published extensively in ancient Greek Arts, established by the Borns JSP last year philosophy, early modern philosophy, and with Professor Alvin Rosenfeld as its twentieth century philosophy and intellectual director, will bring two of the most gifted culture. Professor Morgan is an expert on the American Jewish authors of this generation work of the late Emil Fackenheim, one of the Aryeh Lev Stollman and Rebecca Goldstein most important twentieth century Jewish Sybil and Lou Mervis and famed Israeli musician Chava Alberstein philosophers and the preeminent post- to IU this year. Holocaust Jewish thinker, and he has L OU AND S YBIL M ERVIS C HAIR published extensively on the impact of the A RYEH L EV S TOLLMAN Holocaust on Jewish thought, Western IN J EWISH C ULTURAL S TUDIES Aryeh Lev Stollman will be at IU from culture, and philosophy. His most recent E STABLISHED March 29-31, 2005. Stollman, the first work is on the twentieth century French The establishment in 2003 of an endowed recipient of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Professor faculty position, the Lou and Sybil Mervis Morgan has written and edited eleven books Chair in Jewish Cultural Studies, represents Chaim Potok and published over one hundred articles and a highly significant moment in the field of Literary Award, is reviews. JS, leading the way in the effort to explore recognized for his and raise awareness about what Jews have elegiac prose, his H ENRY F ISCHEL’ S 90TH contributed to American culture, art and deft B IRTHDAY C ELEBRATED entertainment—theater and drama, humor, characterizations, music, film, literature, radio and television, and his knowledge Beloved Emeritus Professor Henry Fischel and the visual arts. The scholar/teacher of Jewish culture was honored with a surprise 90th birthday recruited for this new faculty position will and history. His celebration at Meadowood Retirement make possible an array of new courses for first novel, The Community on November 20, 2003. Hosted our students that will engage them in the by Henry’s nephew Bob Newhouser and the Far Euphrates is vibrant world of art and culture. It will also Borns JSP, the party honored a beloved an American allow the JSP to develop partnerships with Aryeh Lev Stollman member of the JSP’s faculty. Library Association the outstanding creative arts schools and Fischel’s former student Barry Ivker (B.A. programs that exist at IU: one of the world’s 1964, Ph.D. 1968) wrote in the IU Alumni largest and best music schools; an excellent Magazine: “Dr. Fischel is a world-renowned school of fine arts; an admirable art scholar—a scholar’s scholar, whose seminars museum; a leading department of were frequently attended by professors and ethnomusicology; a fine theater and drama chairpersons in associated fields. He was department, with a state-of-the-art theater capable of tracking a metaphor through the facility; and first-rate literature and film 6 Indiana University

Notable Book of 1997 and a Los Angeles anticipated concert is sponsored by the JSP’s shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East Times Book Review Recommended Book of Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts and peace process and in dealing directly with the the Year. His second novel, The Illuminated the Lotus World Music Festival. Ticket parties in negotiations in both the George H. Soul, was the winner of Hadassah information will be available at (812) 336- W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Magazine’s 2003 Harold U. Ribalow Prize. 6599 or www.lotusfest.org. Director and Ziegler Distinguished Dr. Stollman is currently a neuroradio- Fellow at the Washington Institute for logist at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Near East Policy, Ambassador Ross divides his time between medicine and worked closely with Secretaries of State writing fiction. James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service R EBECCA G OLDSTEIN as special Middle East coordinator under Rebecca Goldstein is the author of five President Clinton, Ross served as director novels, including The Mind-Body Problem, of the State Department’s Policy Planning and a collection of short stories, Strange office in the first Bush administration. In Attractors. Her fourth novel Mazel which that position, he played a prominent role follows three generations of Jewish women, in developing U.S. policy toward the won the 1995 National Jewish Book (Left to right) Daniel Libeskind, Gerald Paul, Dorit Paul former Soviet Award. Her forthcoming book is on Göedl Union, the and she is completing another book on U NFORGETTABLE E VENING unification of Spinoza. WITH D ANIEL L IBESKIND Germany and its In 1996, Goldstein was named a integration into Famed architect Daniel Libeskind presented MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She holds a NATO, arms the Dorit and Gerald Paul Program in Jewish Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton control Culture and the Arts, the inaugural event of University, where her work was concentrated negotiations, and the new Institute for Jewish Culture and the in the philosophy of science. She teaches at the development Arts of the Borns JSP, to an overflow Trinity College in Connecticut. of the 1991 Gulf audience in Whittenberger Auditorium on War coalition. Monday, March 1, 2004. Known for his Ambassador design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Ross has published Libeskind spoke movingly about the extensively on the Dennis Ross “commission of the century”—his design to former Soviet Union, arms control, and the rebuild the World Trade Center site greater Middle East. His book, The Missing destroyed by terrorists on September 11, Peace, a comprehensive look at the Middle 2001. Libeskind’s plans call for a 1,776 foot East peace process, was published this fall. high Freedom Tower, the world’s tallest structure, a memorial site, new streets, a new M ICHAEL B RENNER rail station, a shopping area, and arts R ETURNS TO IU centers. The first architect to be given the 2004 Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecturer Hiroshima Art Prize for work that promotes We welcome back Dr. Michael Brenner to peace, he is determined in his vision to create deliver the 2004 Dorit and Gerald Paul Chava Alberstein spaces that are positive responses to the Program for the Study of Germans and the brutalities that surround us all. C HAVA A LBERSTEIN Jews. He will speak in Indianapolis on A simultaneous webcast of the September 7 on “100 Years After Herzl: Israel’s most accomplished singer, Chava memorable lecture was broadcast to Ball Zionism as Alberstein, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on State University, Purdue University, and to International Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at Bloomington’s the overflow audience in the Georgian Nationalism,” Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. Avenue. Alberstein has released 40 albums in and, in Hebrew, six of which have been awarded the Bloomington, on Kinor David Prize, Israel’s Grammy. She has PROGRAMS the evening of also released 6 albums in Yiddish. The much- September 8, on DENNIS ROSS TO SPEAK “The Same October 20, 2004 History is Not the Ambassador Dennis Ross will deliver a JSP Same Story: Jewish lecture on the Middle East peace process on History and the afternoon of Wednesday, October 20 in Jewish Politics”. Bloomington. A highly skilled diplomat, A professor of Jewish history and Ambassador Ross played a leading role in Michael Brenner Borns Jewish Studies Program 7 culture at the University of Munich, he has and right wing extremist. Her book Denying Prior to the trip, the students will learn taught at Brandeis University and was a the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on about German–Jewish history in a series of visiting professor at IU in 1993–1994. His Truth and Memory, is the first full-length classroom meetings with Professor Lehmann. books include After the Holocaust: study of those who attempt to deny the Our students will have an opportunity to Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Holocaust. meet and interact with scholars of German– Germany; The Renaissance of Jewish Culture Professor Lipstadt serves as historical Jewish history during seminars held in in Weimar Germany; and the co-edited consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial cooperation with JS programs at German German-Jewish History in Modern Times, Museum and helped design the section of the universities; students will meet represen- winner of the 1997 National Jewish Book museum dedicated to the American response tatives of Jewish life in Germany and their Award in Jewish history. to the Holocaust. Her book Beyond Belief: peers at German universities. The Paul Program for the Study of The American Press and the Coming of the Bridge of Understanding was initiated in Germans and Jews was established in 1986 Holocaust examined how the American press 1994 by the coordinator for German- by Dorit and Gerald Paul of Indianapolis to covered the news of the persecution of American cooperation at the German Foreign foster ongoing scholarly research into the European Jews between 1933 and 1945. Office and is supported by the German complex interrelationships between German Professor Lipstadt continues a Foreign and Economic Affairs Ministries. history and Jewish history. Former Paul distinguished series of Edward A. Block Fellows include Professor Johann N. Schmidt Fellows who have visited the JSP since 1985: of Hamburg University, Professor Michael Primo Levi, Simon Schama, Saul Brocke of the Free University of Berlin, Friedländer, Arthur Green, Zvi Gitelman, Professor Micha Brumlik of the University of Dan Segre, Robert Alter, Robert Wistrich, Heidelberg, Professor Frank Stern of Emil Fackenheim, Michael Walzer, Shulamit Ben–Gurion University, Professor Gertrud Volkov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Shaye Cohen, Koch of the Ruhr University, Bochum, Lawrence Schiffman, and Steven J. Professor Dieter Lamping of the Johannes Zipperstein. Gutenberg University of Mainz, Professor Amir Eshel of Stanford University, and Alan G OTTFRIED WAGNER Bern, musical director of Brave Old World. “From Richard Wagner to Adolf Hitler” Marci Shore and Steven Zipperstein S TEVEN Z IPPERSTEIN The Borns JSP has noted with concern the Dr. Gottfried Wagner, a writer, composer, reemergence of antisemitism in Europe and music theater director, and great-grandson of 2003 Block Lecturer elsewhere. Some of our programs address composer Richard Wagner, will speak on “A Passion and a Conception of the World: this troubling phenomenon. Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m., about his On Rereading the Protocols of the Elders of great-grandfather’s fiercely antisemitic views Zion” was the theme of Professor Steven H OLOCAUST S CHOLAR and ways to view Wagner, the composer, in Zipperstein’s 2003 Edward A. Block Lecture D EBORAH L IPSTADT the future. Gottfried Wagner is the author of in JS on Monday, November 10, 2003. He is Block Scholar in February 2005 The Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Professor of a Family’s Legacy. Gottfried Wagner is Culture and History, and Co-Director of the Deborah currently working on an opera with Yehuda Taube Center for JS at Stanford University. A Lipstadt, the Nir, based on Nir’s memoir titled “The Lost prolific scholar, among his most recent books Dorot Professor Childhood.” The work brings together a are Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am; Imagining of Modern survivor of the Holocaust and a Nazi Russian Jewry; Origins of Zionism, which Jewish and descendant in an attempt to confront the won the National Jewish Book Award; and, Holocaust German descent into genocide. The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, Studies at Emory 1794-1881, the winner of the Smilen Award University, will “THE J EWISH E XPERIENCE OF in Jewish History. He edits (with Aron deliver the M ODERN G ERMANY” Rodrigue) Jewish Social Studies, a journal Edward A. Block S TUDENT S TUDY T OUR published by IU Press. Lecture in JS, Bridge of Understanding, May, 2005 “History on Fifteen IU JS major and area certificate Trial: My Days students will accompany Professor Matthias Deborah Lipstadt in Court with Lehmann to Germany for two weeks in May Holocaust Denier David Irving,” on 2005, sponsored by the Bridge of Thursday evening, February 24, 2005. The Understanding, the IU Overseas Study Director of the Institute for JS at Emory, she Program, and the Borns JSP. The goal of the will speak about winning a decisive libel program will be to give students a unique trial in London against David Irving who opportunity to learn about the German- sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier Jewish experience through direct interaction with Germans, Jewish and non-Jewish. 8 Indiana University

A NTONY P OLONSKY seminar on Judaism and the Jews. The New Institute offers Antony Polonsky, a distinguished scholar of community members an the Holocaust and the history of Polish opportunity to engage in Jewry, spoke about “Poles, Jews, and the intensive study of major issues Problems of Divided Memory” on March in Jewish history, thought, and 26, 2004. He holds the Albert Abramson culture with members of the Chair of Holocaust Studies, an appointment JSP faculty. The next Borns JSP held jointly at Brandeis University and the New Institute in Spring 2006 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. His visit will focus on Jews and the arts. was sponsored by the Polish Studies Center Levinas and Wittgenstein conference participants and the Borns JSP. L EVINAS AND W ITTGENSTEIN “THE N EW A NTISEMITISM” Recent events have illustrated the Borns Faculty Research Workshop importance of religion in shaping our world. The 11th Joan and Samuel New Traditionally, Jewish scholarship has been a Institute The following programs focus on the role of religion in Jewish life, past and present. cooperative enterprise, with a strong oral as The well-attended 2004 Joan and Samuel well as written dimension. The Borns JSP New Institute for the Study of Judaism and N OTRE D AME’ S G ARY sees academic scholarship similarly. the Jews on the theme, “The New A NDERSON TO S PEAK Individual research can be facilitated and Antisemitism” convened at University Place advanced by consultation and intensive Professor Gary Anderson, Professor of Conference Center and Hotel on the IUPUI discussion among experts in a given field. Theology, Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at campus in Indianapolis on Sunday, April 25, Toward that end, the Robert A. and Sandra the University of Notre Dame, will deliver a 2004. S. Borns Endowment supports regular lecture “On Seeing the Invisible God: The JSP faculty members Joëlle Bahloul, faculty workshops chaired by JSP faculty Tabernacle Furniture Theologically Alvin Rosenfeld, and Jeffrey Veidlinger members. Considered” on March 28, 2005. “Levinas and Wittgenstein,” a workshop addressed the alarming upsurge of Professor Anderson’s research interests antisemitism in Europe and elsewhere in co-sponsored with the Departments of concern the role of ritual and sacrifice in Philosophy at IU and the University of Notre recent years. Borns JSP Director Steven biblical religion, the reception of the Bible in Weitzman opened the Institute and Dame, was convened on October 26-28, early Judaism and in Christianity, and the 2003, by JSP Professor Michael Morgan and moderated the closing panel discussion. theological task of relating modern Through the New Institute, the JSP Professor Paul Franks, of the University of approaches to the study of biblical texts to Notre Dame. The central themes of the continues its longstanding tradition of the tradition of the church. He has had workshop, which brought scholars to IU contributing to ongoing, high-level particular interest in the way apocryphal from around the U.S. and from England, community-wide education. As a result of a and pseudepigraphic texts, as well as early focused on ethics, religion, and the limits of generous gift from Joan New, of Elkhart, Christian and Jewish art, can be used as language. Presenters included Steven Affeldt, Indiana and Scottsdale, Arizona, and the sources for early biblical commentary. He David Cerbone, Alice Crary, Simon late Samuel New, the JSP regularly offers a has recently completed a book on early Critchley, Simon Glendinning, Gary Gutting, Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Jeffrey Kosky, Michael Morgan, Joshua Shaw, Joan Weiner, and Ed Witherspoon.

CONFERENCE ON “THE RELIGIOUS SELF IN ANTIQUITY” September, 2003 A September 2003 conference on “The Religious Self in Antiquity,” initiated by Professor Steven Weitzman, Professor New Institute faculty and participants David Brakke of the Department story of Adam and Eve, The Genesis of of Religious Studies, and Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Professor Michael Satlow of Brown Christian Imagination. He is currently University, featured such widely recognized working on a commentary on Leviticus. scholars in the fields of biblical studies, rabbinics, ancient Christianity, and pagan religions as Georgia Frank, Bert Harrill, Borns Jewish Studies Program 9

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Esther Menn, Patricia Cox Miller, Saul Olyan,

Jonathan Schofer, Alan Segal, Ben Sommer, Joseph Bercovici Guy Stroumsa, Peter Struck, and Edward Watts. Fourteen papers considered the interior or subjective religious experience of ancient Jews, Christians, and pagans. Conference essays will be published by IU Press as a book tentatively titled, Seeking Selves in Ancient Religion. The conference was supported by the IU Arts and Julian Panel (left to right), Daniel Conkle, Lindsey Humanities Initiative and the Robert A. and Barton Mintz, Nazif Shahrani, Rebecca Jiménez Sandra S. Borns JSP Endowment. Matthias Lehmann and Peter Schäfer “FAITH AND P OLITICS: Roskies, of JTS, culminated in The Jewish E LECTION 2004” Search for a Usable Past (1999). The Schwartz lectures in November 1998 by Inaugural Julian Program Samuel Kassow, of Trinity College, will Excerpts from the inaugural Bill and Frances result in two IU Press books: Emanuel Julian Program for Inter- and Intra-Faith Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbes Archive Understanding “Faith and Politics: Election and Jewish Vilna and Jewish Warsaw. Three 2004,” on April 1, 2004, were later aired on Jewish Philosophers: Buber, Rosenzweig, National Public Radio. Frances and the late Levinas will be the subject of the IU Press Bill Julian endowed this annual JS program book by 1999 Fellow Hilary Putnam of designed to promote dialogue and Harvard University. Historian Omer Bartov, understanding between religious communities Isaiah Gafni of Brown University, delivered the and among different forms of Judaism. I SAIAH G AFNI D ELIVERED 2001–2002 Helen and Martin Schwartz The Undergraduate Religious Studies H ELEN AND M ARTIN Lectures. The Bartov lectures will result in a Association (URSA) with advisor Caroline S CHWARTZ L ECTURES book focusing on The Jew in Cinema. Dowd-Higgins and the Jewish Studies “Past and Present in Rabbinic An endowment by Helen and Martin Student Association (JSSA) organized a panel Literature” Schwartz, residents of Muncie, Indiana, and discussion which brought together Professor longtime friends of the JSP, ensures that the Daniel O. Conkle, the Robert H. McKinney Isaiah Gafni, the Sol Rosenbloom Professor Schwartz Lectures in JS will continue on a Professor of Law; JSP alumna Lindsey of Jewish History at Hebrew University and regular basis and will subsequently be Barton Mintz, Director of Government a noted scholar of the social, political, and published by the IU Press. Affairs for the Indianapolis Jewish religious history of the Jews in the Second Temple, Mishnah, and Talmud periods, was B RONSTEIN L ECTURER I N M EMORIAM the eighth in a notable line of speakers in the P ETER S CHÄFER J. William Julian Helen and Martin Schwartz Lecture Series. “The Femininity of God” He presented two lectures in a series: J. William Julian, who passed away on “Remember the Days of Old: Perceptions of “The Femininity of God in Jewish Mysticism February 19, 2004, was an important civic and in Christianity” was the theme of the Past and Present in Rabbinic Literature” on leader in Indianapolis and a long-time Thursday, October 16, 2003, Sol and Arlene October 20th, 2003, and “Reading the supporter of the Borns JSP and IU Press. A Bronstein Lecture in JS delivered by Rabbis as History” on the following graduate of Yale University, Mr. Julian was Professor Peter Schäfer, the Ronald O. evening. IU Press will publish a book based president of the Gibson Company. Deeply Perelan Professor of JS and Professor of on these lectures. involved in the Jewish community, civic Religion at Princeton University. The Schwartz Lecture Series was philanthropy, and interfaith relations, Mr. A world-renowned specialist in ancient inaugurated in 1993 by Sander Gilman, of Julian’s passionate commitment to the Israel, rabbinics, and early Jewish mysticism, the University of Chicago, whose Jews in ideal of religious coexistence based on he was the 1994 recipient of Germany’s Today’s German Culture (1995) was the first mutual respect and understanding, led him coveted Leibniz prize, granted to that volume in the Schwartz series published by and his wife Frances to establish the Bill nation’s most innovative scholars. the IU Press. The second Schwartz scholar and Frances Julian Program for Inter- and The Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lectures in was Geoffrey Hartman, of Yale University, Intra-faith Understanding. JS are supported through a grant from the whose 1994 Schwartz lectures were Sol Bronstein Charitable Trust in Evansville, published in expanded form as The Longest Indiana. Previous Bronstein lecturers include Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust Martin Marty, Antony Polonsky, David (1996). Arnold Eisen, of Stanford University, Sorkin, Jakob Petuchowski, Julius Lester, was the third Schwartz lecturer. His book, Francis E. Peters, Susannah Heschel, Tikva Taking Hold of Torah, was published by the Frymer-Kensky, Ronnie Po–chia Hsia, Egon IU Press in 1997. The 1998 lectures by David Mayer, James Shapiro, Elisheva Carlebach, Aron Rodrigue, and Norman Stillman. 10 Indiana University

Community Relations Council; Professor student in Jewish history at the University of Nazif Shahrani, Chair of the Near Eastern Maryland. Languages and Cultures Department; and The six-week course, which offered Rebecca Jiménez, minister and Director of participants the equivalent of a full year the Center for University Ministries, to (6 credits) of college language instruction, discuss the impact of religion on the political focused primarily on Yiddish grammar and process in America today. Students Jacob reading skills for use in research. Brukhe Fulk and Michelle Steiman were moderators. Lang Caplan and Dr. Marc Caplan taught The program sponsored by the Borns JSP the course. was also sponsored by the Department of In addition to intensive language Religious Studies, URSA, and the JSSA. instruction, seven Holocaust-related evening Monique Stolnitz and Joshua Fishman lectures, “On the Golden Bridge of Sunset: Jewish Culture and the Holocaust,” open Yeshiva University, Professor Fishman’s also to the public, were sponsored by the publications have shaped and defined At the core of Jewish Studies is engagement Borns JSP and the Center for Advanced modern scholarly study of bilingualism and in Jewish languages and literature. The JSP Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust multilingualism, the relation of language offers many opportunities in the areas of Memorial Museum. The lectures by IU JSP and thought, language spread, and language Hebrew and Yiddish, becoming stronger faculty members included: “Yiddish Songs and nationalism. still in the light of recent hires. and Folk Creativity in the Holocaust,” by The George J. Stolnitz Memorial Professor Dov-Ber Kerler; “Antisemitism or Program, established to honor the memory N URIT B EN Y EHUDA Obedience? Understanding the Perpetra- of IU Economics Professor George J. Stolnitz Visiting Hebrew Lecturer tors,” by Professor Mark Roseman; (1920-2001), seeks to further the “Literature and the Holocaust,” by Professor Nurit Ben Yehuda advancement of education and Yiddish Alvin Rosenfeld; and “Sutzkever and Singer: joins the JSP this language and culture at IU. Two Strategies for Holocaust Fiction in fall as a full-time Yiddish,” by Dr. Marc Caplan; and lectures visiting lecturer in UMMER NTENSIVE IDDISH S I Y by Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies modern Hebrew OURSE FOR OLOCAUST C H staff included: “History of the Holocaust: An language. A native ESEARCHERS R Overview,” by Dr. Peter Black; “The Israeli, Ms. The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Churches and the Holocaust,” by Dr. Yehuda received of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Suzanne Brown-Fleming; and “The her master’s degree cooperation with the 2004 IU Summer Holocaust in Romania,” by Dr. Radu Ioanid. from HUJ and has Workshop in Slavic, taught Hebrew East European, and and ulpan at the Nurit Ben Yehuda Central Asian Rothberg School Languages, and the for International Students at HUJ and in Robert A. and Sandra other settings for more than 17 years. We S. Borns JSP, welcome Nurit to Bloomington and the JSP. sponsored an intensive language course, L INGUIST J OSHUA F ISHMAN “Yiddish for V ISITS Holocaust Research,” Joshua A. Fishman delivered the George J. on the IU Bloomington Stolnitz Memorial Program,“Yiddish in the campus from June 28 21st Century: A Sociolinguistic Perspective,” to August 6, 2004. on Monday, September 15, 2003 on the Ten students and Summer Intensive Yiddish course students with Marc Caplan (2nd from left); Bloomington campus. Distinguished Brukhe Caplan (3rd from left); and Paul Shapiro (far right), Director of the Center scholars were selected for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum University Research Professor Emeritus at from more than forty applicants. Participants had an interest in The cost of the course, books, single- acquiring a reading knowledge of Yiddish in occupancy housing in university order to access Jewish source documents and dormitories, and a meal allowance were to better understand the Yiddish-speaking paid by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Jewish communities of Europe that were Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial targeted by the Nazis. We were pleased that Museum. one of the workshop participants was Ruth Schachter (B.A., 2003) currently a graduate Borns Jewish Studies Program 11

G ILBOA AND S LODKI W IN L ECTURES, Y IDDISH P RIZE C O - George and Monique Stolnitz S PONSORED Yiddish Prize L ECTURES AND E VENTS Zvi Gilboa, a graduate student in Germanic Studies and an instructor of Hebrew, and The JSP cooperates Jorie Slodki, an undergraduate minor in with other Yiddish, were awarded the 2004 George and departments in co- Monique Stolnitz Yiddish Prize. sponsoring visits to Zvi, a graduate of the School of Music campus by scholars and an accomplished pianist, is a student of Modern Hebrew teachers (left to right) Zvi Gilboa, Ronnie Be’eri, and Ofer Levy and artists whose Yiddish and Yiddish literature working with areas of research and Professor Dov-Ber Kerler. H EBREW N EWS creative work are of mutual interest. JSP Jorie Slodki, an Honors College It is believed that IU’s first president Andrew lectures, co-sponsored lectures, and events Scholarship recipient pursuing a double Wylie taught Hebrew language classes during the 2003-2004 academic year major in Anthropology and Theater and a beginning in the year 1829, five years after included: minor in Yiddish, is co-chair of the Hillel the first courses were taught at the Lee Fontanella, Worcester Polytechnic Jewish Arts Council this year. university. In 175 years, thousands of Institute, “Photographing Terror and An expression of long-time Bloomington students have studied Hebrew at IU. The Liberation in a Nazi Camp.” residents George and Monique Stolnitz’s Hebrew program continues to grow and Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, strong commitment to the advancement of thrive. In this past year, enrollments in “Racializing Theology: Nationalism, Nazism, education in Yiddish language and culture, modern Hebrew language courses totaled and the Protestant Desire for Dejudaization.” the prize is awarded annually to a student 318. Of these students, a growing number “Imre Kertész in Perspective: Hungarian th who shows the greatest promise in the study came to IU as intermediate or advanced in and Jewish Culture in the 20 Century” of Yiddish language or literature, and/or the Hebrew. Symposium history in which Yiddish culture took root Biblical Hebrew enrollments numbered Boris Khandros, author and filmmaker and flourished. 34. There were 36 students pursuing the from Kiev, Ukraine, “Living Traces of Hebrew minor during the 2003-2004 year. History: Tracing the Culture and Fate of 2005-2006 YIDDISH S TUDIES The weekly Hebrew table attracted Ukranian Jewry.” F ELLOWSHIP C OMPETITION hundreds of students throughout the year. Ori Kritz, University of Oklahoma, A NNOUNCED Professor Stephen Katz directed the Hebrew “Zionist Visions of the New Jew in Art and Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2005 language program. Ronnie Be’eri was the Literature.” full-time Hebrew instructor. Klezmorchestra, Jewish Book Month The JSP invites applications for the Cohn- Yael Asner, Jonathan Bubis, Adam performance at IU Library. Borns Yiddish Studies Graduate Fellowship Ganson, Isac Jacobovits, Noam Kupchan, Shaul Magid, JTS, “Judaism, Art, and the for the 2005-2006 year. The fellowship Rachel Lubetsky, Philip Sherman, Tanir Modern Reconstruction of Tradition: provides a $15,000 stipend and full fee Shalhav, Sarah Smiley, Rebecca Tehrani, Sari Abraham Ha-Kohen Kook on the Song of remission and can be tied to a multi-year Willis, Alana Zoldan, and graduate student Songs.” package of support through fellowships and Emily Zoss were named to the national Miryam Segal, Pardes Institute and the teaching assistantships. We are interested in Hebrew Honor Society Eta Beta Rho. Conservative Yeshiva, “Bluvstein’s hearing from students who show clear ‘Aftergross’ Poetics.” promise of dedicating themselves seriously Joshua Shanes, University of Wisconsin to Yiddish studies. To be eligible for the and Spertus College, “The Nationalization of fellowship, students must be accepted into Jewish Identity: The Case of Galicia.” an IU graduate program in any of the Neta Stahl, Yale University, “Deceiving following departments: Comparative Mirrors: The Image of Jesus in Agnon’s Literature, Germanic Studies, or History. Stories.” For more information, contact the JSP, e-mail Peter Stansky, Stanford University, “The [email protected] or go to our website at: Shaping of Two Sassoons - Philip and Sybil: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htm. The Nineteenth Century and Beyond.” Application deadline is January 14, 2005. Guy Stroumsa, HUJ, “From the Master of The Yiddish Studies Fellowship is made Wisdom to the Spiritual Master in possible by the generosity of Dr. Alice Ginott Late Antiquity.” Cohn and Theodore Cohn and Sandra and Roman Timenchik, HUJ, Robert Borns. “Jewish Components in Russian Silver Age Culture.” 12 Indiana University

Michael Schlie graduated summa cum GRADUATE STUDENT laude from New York University. Before JSP ADVISORY beginning as a full-time instructor of NEWS Philosophy, Latin, and German for two years BOARD N EW G RADUATE M AJOR IN at East Stroudsburg University, he pursued The dedication of the JSP Advisory Board is J EWISH H ISTORY graduate studies in the Humanities at the vital to the continuation and further University of Chicago. With mastery of Graduate students in the Department of development of the JSP. The Advisory Board German, Latin, French, and Hebrew, Michael History can now major in Jewish history for plays a leadership role in important plans to continue his study of Paul Celan, their master’s and doctoral degrees. History initiatives like the Rosenfeld Chair including research examining Celan’s appro- professors Matthias Lehmann, Mark Endowment Campaign. We are indebted to priation and use of the rhythms, imagery, and Roseman, Marci Shore, and Jeffrey president Leonard Goldstein, vice president expectations of the Hebrew Bible, specifically Veidlinger each work primarily within the Ruth Feinberg, and our board members for the Psalms and the Song of Songs. field of Jewish history; several other faculty their assistance in helping us build and within the department work in related fields. sustain a program of excellence: The department has particular strengths in JS Doctoral Minors Lawrence Adelman Ft. Wayne modern Jewish European history, including Adam Rovner completed his Ph.D. with Steven Ancel Carmel Eugene Bate Carmel Eastern Europe, Germany, and Sephardic highest honors in Comparative Literature. Nancy Bate Carmel Europe. Doctoral candidates pursuing the Jill Smith, after completing her doctorate, is Alice Berkowitz Indianapolis Jewish history major are encouraged to visiting instructor of German at Union Sol Blickman Indianapolis combine their degree with a doctoral minor College in Schenectady. Robert Borns Indianapolis in JS, which allows them to take advantage In 2003-2004, Ellen Muehlberger taught Sandra Borns Indianapolis of the wealth of resources and expertise biblical Hebrew. She is teaching 3rd and 4th Dr. Peter Cahn Indianapolis available through the Borns JSP. Four-year semester biblical Hebrew this year. Ellen’s Susan Cahn Indianapolis Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn New York funding packages including fee remissions paper “The Representation of Theatricality Theodore Cohn New York and stipends have also been made available in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius” won the award Edward Dobrow Muncie to eligible incoming graduate students in for best Religious Studies graduate paper last Claudette Einhorn Indianapolis Jewish history. year. Benjamin Eisbart Ft. Wayne Angela White was selected as a College Dr. Ruth Feinberg Indianapolis A MY S HAPIRO AND Dissertation Year Research Fellow for Betty Fleck Marion Irving Glazer Indianapolis research on her dissertation, “Jewish Lives in M ICHAEL S CHLIE Leonard Goldstein Ft. Wayne Friends of the Borns JS Program the Polish Language: The Polish-Jewish Janice Goodman Highland Park, IL Graduate Fellows Press, 1918-1939.” June Herman Indianapolis Francine Hurwitz Indianapolis Amy Shapiro and Michael Schlie have been F RIENDS OF THE B ORNS JSP Bobbi Kroot Columbus, IN awarded Friends of the Borns JSP Graduate G RADUATE F ELLOWSHIP Dr. Louis Lemberger Carmel Fellowships for the 2004-2005 year. This Henry Levinsky Northbrook, IL fall, they begin their doctoral studies, Amy Application deadline: Friday, Judy Liff-Barker Nashville, TN in History and Michael in Comparative January 14, 2005 Andrew Mallor Bloomington Flo Mary Mantel Indianapolis Literature (both minoring in JS.) Thanks to The JSP invites applications for the 2005- Sybil Mervis Danville, IL the continued and generous support of the 2006 Friends of the Borns JSP Graduate Sidney Mishkin Indianapolis Friends of the Borns JSP, the fellowships Fellowship. The fellowship provides a Ilene New Granger provide stipends and a full fee remission. $17,000 stipend and full fee remission and Jeffrey New Granger A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the can be tied to a multi-year package of Frank Newman Indianapolis University of Texas in English, Amy support through fellowships and teaching Gale Nichols Bloomington completed an M.A. in Holocaust Studies at assistantships. We are interested in hearing Dorit Paul Indianapolis Eloise Paul Indianapolis University College London. In the years from students who show clear promise of Gerald Paul Indianapolis between her undergraduate studies in dedicating themselves seriously to scholar- Dr. Mark Pescovitz Carmel English and her studies in London, Amy ship within one of the core areas of JS. To be Dr. Ora Pescovitz Carmel spent a year of intensive German language eligible for the fellowship, students must be M. Mendel Piser South Bend study in Cologne and ten months interning accepted into an IU graduate program in any Daniel Rifkin Ft. Wayne at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. of the following departments: Anthropology, A John Rose Bloomington Judith Rose Bloomington Amy will continue her study of the Comparative Literature, English, Germanic Jack Schuster Rancho Sante Fe, CA Holocaust, with JS faculty members Mark Studies, History, Linguistics, Near Eastern Helen Schwartz Muncie Roseman, Alvin Rosenfeld, Marci Shore, Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, Martin Schwartz Muncie Jack Bielasiak, and Michael Political Science, Religious Studies, or Slavic Harry Sebel Dallas, TX Morgan. Her particular focus Languages and Literatures. For more Norman Sider Indianapolis of study will be on history and information, contact the JSP, e-mail Sidney Tuchman Indianapolis Holocaust literature and [email protected] or go to our website at: Robert Walters Ft. Wayne Sally Zweig Indianapolis representation. http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htm Application deadline is January 14, 2005. Borns Jewish Studies Program 13

A DEVELOPING F RIENDSHIP F RIENDS AT Become a Friend of the Borns You can give at various levels and all will L ILLY qualify you for the benefits offered by the H OUSE Jewish Studies Program Friends group: IN S UMMER “What is the good way a person should Benefactor: $1,000 and above Roseman follow? Rabbi Joshua said, ‘Being a good Presents friend.’”—Pirke Avot 2:9 Patron: $500-$999 Story of Patron Associate The Borns JSP has been able to flourish Marianne (for people age 35 and under): $180 because of the support of community Ellenbogen members who recognize the value of Recent JSP Alumni: $36 On July 8, 2004, scholarly inquiry and public education. Please mail your gift (see attached the Friends of the Many of these supporters have elected to envelope), payable to “IUF/Jewish Studies Mark Roseman speaks at Borns JSP gathered Friends “Gathering” join the Friends of the Borns JSP. The Program,” to the address listed below. at the beautiful contributions of Friends provide student Friends’ gifts are tax deductible to the extent Lilly House, Indianapolis home of IU support, subsidize public lectures and other allowed by law. President Adam Herbert, to hear Professor special programs, and support the costs of If you have any questions about the Mark Roseman’s moving presentation about scholarly research and conferences. For Friends group or opportunities for the life of Marianne Ellenbogen. Roseman’s example, these funds are used to create a establishing permanent endowments in book The Past in Hiding: Memory and fellowship that helps us recruit top-notch support of JS, please call me without Survival in Nazi Germany is a brilliant reconstruction of Marianne’s odyssey through graduate students. We also use these monies hesitation. You can reach me at the Borns the nightmarish world of the Nazis. It was to augment our pool of undergraduate Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, the recipient of the 2002 History Prize of the scholarship funds and to provide research Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 East Third Street, Lucas Prize Project jointly sponsored by support for newly-hired faculty. Bloomington, IN 47405-7005, tel: 812-855- Harvard University’s Niemann Foundation Becoming a Friend is also a way to 8358; [email protected]. and the Columbia School of Journalism, the develop one’s own engagement in Jewish With much appreciation, Jewish Quarterly’s Wingate Literary Prize, learning and culture. To express its Dr. Steven Weitzman and the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary appreciation, the program offers the Director Jewish History. It was also named a Los following educational opportunities to Angeles Times Book of the Year. members of the Friends group: 1) The Friends “Gathering.” Each year the program hosts a gathering of friends, usually featuring a lecture or presentation by one of our outstanding faculty members. I N M EMORIAM I NMEMORIAM This year’s gathering included a presentation Arnold Feinberg Dr. Beatrice Miller by Professor Mark Roseman, recently Arnold Feinberg, the husband of Dr. Ruth Dr. Beatrice Miller died in Baltimore on installed as the Pat M. Glazer Chair of JS. Feinberg, Vice-President of the Borns JSP February 8, 2004. She earned three degrees 2) Special Access to Events. Every year Advisory Board, died on March 30, 2004. from IU, including an education doctorate the Borns JSP and the Institute for Jewish An industrialist and philanthropist, Arnie in nursing. Director of Nursing and the Culture and the Arts host a number of was a partner in Parts Warehousing and School of Nursing at Sinai Hospital in special events: guest lectures, concerts, and Mid Con Corporation. A leader in Baltimore, she and her husband Dr. David other kinds of programs. Friends will receive charitable causes, he served on the boards Miller ran Camp Glyndon in southern advanced notice of these events and, in of many organizations in both Indianapolis Maryland, a camp for diabetic children. select cases, guaranteed seating. and Cleveland, including the United Way, They established the Borns JSP’s Drs. 3) An Expanded Reading List. For the the Julian Center, the Jewish Federation of Beatrice S. and David I. Miller Endowment first time, we are able to offer Friends a Greater Indianapolis, Indianapolis Hebrew for Jewish Culture and the Arts. 20% discount on all IU Press books. IU Congregation, and the JCC. Press is one of the leading academic publishers, especially in the field of JS. Invest in the Future of Jewish Studies at IU The generosity of our Friends has been Readers may keep up with news of the JSP throughout the year key to making IU a major center for Jewish learning and scholarship, opening up via the internet at the JSP website: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/ innumerable doors for our students, scholars, and the larger public. I invite you to become E-mail users may contact the JSP via [email protected] a member of our community. 14 Indiana University

DONOR HONOR ROLL J EWISH S TUDIES P ROGRAM E NDOWMENTS The Borns JSP thanks the following donors for their generosity during the 2003-2004 year (as of July 30, 2004): Mildred L. Bern Drs. Beatrice* and David Miller • The Drs. Beatrice S. and David I. Professors Robert Agranoff Roie Goldman • The Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay and Susan Klein Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Competition Miller Endowment for Jewish Dr. Annette Alpert and Goldstein The Estate of Edward A. Block Culture and the Arts Professor Darrell Haile Leonard and Rikki Goldstein • The Edward A. Block Lecture Samuel* and Joan New Ariel Axelrod Jack and Sondra Gross • The Joan and Samuel New Institute Shirley Backer John and Rita Grunwald Robert and Sandra Borns for the Study of Judaism and the Jews Dr. Stephen and Barbara Bailie Guidant Foundation • The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Sylvia Bankoff Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harris Jewish Studies Program Endowment Gerald and Dorit Paul • The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program Eugene and Nancy Bate Dr. Howard and Anita Harris Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bates Hart and Simona Hasten for the Study of Germans and Jews Theodore Cohn Professor Joseph and Professor Kenneth and Audrey • The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Marge Belth Heller in Jewish Culture and the Arts Leonard and Alice Berkowitz Dr. Roger and Francine Yiddish Studies Mildred Bern Hurwitz • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Award in Sondra and Art Percy Dr. Ellis Berne Dr. Martin and Irene Jacobs Yiddish Studies • The Percy Family Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Jathan Janove Michael and Margery Bluestein Louis* and Leonore* Piser Joseph and Wilma Borinstein Jewish Community Council of Melvin and Betty Cohn Emily Borns Evansville • The Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute • The Leonore and Louis Piser Prize Robert and Sandra Borns Frances Julian in Jewish Studies Sara and Albert* Reuben Stephanie Borns Irwin Katz Irving and Pat Glazer Professor Idalene Kesner and • The Sara and Albert Reuben Elissa Brown • The Irving M. Glazer Scholarships Dr. Peter and Susan Cahn Paul Robins Scholarships in Holocaust Studies Robert and Shirley Caresky Robert and Judith Koor Jay and Marsha Glazer Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Thomas Clancy and Arthur and Bobbi Kroot • The Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Martin and Natalie Kroot • The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Dana Green Studies Chair in Modern Judaism Ronald and Nancy Cohen Shirley Kulwin • The Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish G. Irving Latz Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Studies Martin and Helen Schwartz Theodore Cohn Dr. Louis and Myrna • The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lemberger • The Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Melvin and Betty Cohn Scholars Program Daniel Cook Herbert and Bernice Levetown Jewish Studies Dr. Lawrence and Margot Levin (See page 4 for listing of all donors) Samuel Solotkin* Claudette Einhorn Michael and Julie Levine Leonard and Rikki Goldstein • The Samuel and Lillian Solotkin Benjamin and Sharon Eisbart Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker Memorial Lecture and George Walker • The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Yosh Eisbart Goldstein Endowment in Jewish James and Patricia Ek Ernest and Ellen Lorch George* and Monique Stolnitz Studies Eli Lilly and Company Amelia Cook Lurvey • The George and Monique Stolnitz Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ettinger Frank and Joyce Maidenberg John and Rita Grunwald Yiddish Prize Linda Falender Andrew and Professor Jane • The Pearl Schwartz Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Falender Mallor Program in Judaism and the Arts Stanley and Sandra Trockman Arnold* and Dr. Ruth Feinberg Sophia Marks • The Sandra and Stanley Trockman Alan and Terry Feldbaum Dr. Robert Matyska, Jr. J. William* and Frances Julian Scholarship Dr. Nathan and Leslie Tilden and Cathy Mendelson • The Julian Endowment in Jewish Fischman Merrill Lynch and Company Studies Alberto and Paulina Waksman Louis and Sybil Mervis • The Alberto and Paulina A. Waksman Betty Fleck Lou and Sybil Mervis Robert and Bonnie Forman William and Karen Mervis Scholarships Fort Wayne Jewish Federation Dr. David Miller • The Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in Jason and Lindsey Mintz Jewish Cultural Studies Richard and Sherry Frenzel *Denotes deceased Hon. Ezra and Carol Mitchell Linda Friedlander Marvin and Susan Mitchell Sara Reuben Jack and Sherron Schuster Dr. Lawrence and Sandi Tavel Dr. Edward and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moise Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rifkin Professor Drew Schwartz Jeffrey and Nancy Trockman Phyllis Gabovitch James and Jacqueline Morris Irwin Rose Martin and Helen Schwartz Stanley and Sandra Trockman Anne Ganz Frances Nelson Judith and A John Rose II Jonathan and Elizabeth Alberto and Paulina Waksman Bernard and Jean Glazer Jeffrey and Ilene New Professor Alvin and Erna Shapiro Dr. Harvey and Carin Irving and Pat Glazer Joan New Rosenfeld Dr. Paul Shapiro Weingarten Jay and Marsha Glazer Daniel and Gale Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roth Dr. Reuben and Leona Shevitz N. William and Bebe Weinstein Lindsay Glazer Dr. Bernard and Renee Jane Rothbaum Dr. Stephen and Caryl Shideler Professor and Mrs. Robert Eugene and Marilyn Glick Oppenheim Dr. Marc and Helen Dr. Robert Shlens Weiskopf Fritz and Caroline Goldbach Gerald and Dorit Paul Rubenstein Norman Sider Professor Steven Weitzman and Winifred Goldblatt-Silberman Art and Sandy Percy Sidney and Sarah Sakowitz Dr. Martin Siegel Rabbi Mira Wasserman Mrs. Jack Goldman Lisa Percy Joshua Samis Greg and Renny Silver Horst and Margaret Winkler Drs. Mark and Ora Pescovitz Ronald and Alvrone Sater Howard Socol Dr. Mark and Linda Wisen M. Mendel and Frances Piser Gary Schahet Professor Bruce Solomon and Walter and Joan Wolf Professor William and Prema Rabbi Stacy Schlein and Susan Swartz Allen and Roberta Wurzman Popkin Jeremy Sosin Nicole Spiegel Dr. Eric and Bonnie Robert and Alice Schloss Gary and Anne Steigerwald * Denotes deceased Prystowsky Judith Schneider Monique Stolnitz Professor Henry and Ingrid Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Sarah Strnad Remak Borns Jewish Studies Program 15

Action Vice-President for the North C URRENT H IGH S CHOOL STUDENT NEWS American Federation of Temple Youth’s S ENIORS CAN A PPLY FOR 3 JS The JSP has grown to have the largest Southern Region. She studied for a semester F RESHMAN S CHOLARSHIPS number of JS majors of any secular in Israel on the Eisendrath (EIE) Program, T OTALING $11,000 and has attended Panim El Panim university in the U.S. Among our 86 majors, Current high school seniors applying to IU Washington Institute for Leadership and 75 students pursuing the area certificate, and and committed to JS may apply for 3 Values. She plans to pursue her graduate 34 pursuing a Hebrew minor in 2003-2004, freshmen scholarships for the 2005-2006 studies in Jewish communal service. were outstanding students from across the year. One $5,000 Robert A. and Sandra S. Lauren Berman is currently president of country, including international past Borns Scholarship and 2 $3,000 Irving M. the Ohio Valley Federation of Temple Youth. presidents of B’nai B’rith Youth Glazer Scholarships will be awarded to Throughout high school, Lauren was on Organization, B’nai B’rith Girls, and United outstanding incoming freshmen committed to student council, served on the principal’s Synagogue Youth. pursuing a major or an area certificate in JS. advisory board, and played varsity soccer, For information about how to apply for Our education efforts go beyond students being named honorable mention Kentucky these scholarships, high school seniors can currently enrolled at IU. This year, we all-state. She plans to be a rabbi or Jewish view details about the application procedure initiated an effort to reach out to high educator. at http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/glazerscholarship.htm. school students. Rachel Kaplan, from Buffalo Grove, The application deadline for Fall 2005 is Illinois, the president of the Chicago Area Friday, March 4, 2005. S OLOTKIN L ECTURE Region of the North American Federation of G OES C AMPLING Temple Youth, Jeffrey Veidlinger speaks received a Borns to Avodahniks at Scholarship. She has Goldman Union Camp been a Union of For the first time, the Borns JSP’s annual Reform Judaism Meitav Fellow, a Samuel and Lillian Solotkin Memorial fellowship that Lecture was delivered to the incoming high includes social action school seniors who are participating in the work and intense work-study Avodah program at Goldman study. She attended Union Camp Institute in Zionsville, Indiana. JS FIGs students dine with JS faculty and JSSA officers the EIE semester of Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger presented a high school in Israel. She is a member of the multimedia lecture “Recovering the Jewish Jewish United Chicago Youth Leadership JS FRESHMAN L IVING- Shtetl” on June 22, 2004, and also discussed Council. She will major in JS and plans to be L EARNING G ROUP with the Avodahniks selecting a college and a rabbi. For the sixth fall, IU freshmen had the college studies with JS in mind. The campers Thanks to the generosity of Irving M. were enthusiastic and we hope to continue option of living and studying in the JS Glazer and his friends and family 15 Freshman Interest Group (FIG). This fall, 14 this new educational connection to Goldman freshmen have received JS scholarships over Union Camp. JS FIG students are living together (in the the past eight years. Applicants for the northwest neighborhood), engaging in 2004-2005 Borns and Glazer scholarships student-initiated JS activities, taking a one F OUR H IGH S CHOOL S ENIORS came from a large pool of outstanding hour course designed to help freshmen make R ECEIVE $12,500 IN students throughout the U.S. the academic transition to IU, and taking S CHOLARSHIPS two JS courses together: “Introduction to Scholarships totaling $12,500 were awarded Jewish History” (taught by Professor to four incoming JS freshmen for the 2004- Matthias Lehmann) and “Introduction to 2005 year. The third annual Robert A. and Old Testament/Hebrew Bible” (taught by Sandra S. Borns Scholarship for an Incoming Professor Steven Weitzman). For the third Freshman in JS was awarded to Deana year, JS student Susan Shirley is the JS FIG Sussman of Chesterfield, Missouri. The first Peer Instructor. place winner at the Greater St. Louis Science There is no additional cost to participate Fair, Deana has been invited to be a Direct in the JS FIG, nor are there any academic Admit student to the College of Arts and prerequisites. Participants can room with a Sciences. A major in JS, she plans to be a congregational rabbi. The recipients of the 2004-2005 Irving M. Glazer Student Scholarships for Incoming Freshmen in JS are Jody Gansel of Marietta, Georgia, and Lauren Berman of Louisville, Kentucky, who both plan to major in JS. Jody is currently the Social 16 Indiana University non-JS FIG participant. For more Greensburg, Indiana, Jonathan Polland of planning further graduate work in JS and a information about the JS FIG for Fall 2005, Bellaire, Texas, Andrea Rosenfeld of Skokie, career in the field. Through the Piser Prize contact (812) 855-5636 or e-mail: Illinois, Amalia Shifriss of Bloomington, and other initiatives, the JSP hopes to [email protected]. Indiana, Benjamin Sider of Indianapolis, demonstrate to our graduating seniors the Gabriel Traylor of Princeton, New Jersey, high value we place on their continued JS GRADUATES and Emily Walsh of Mason, Ohio. education and careers in JS. The late Largest Class of Graduating Majors The second class of students completing Leonore and Louis Piser, of South Bend, the Hebrew minor in JS were Lili Lahav of made the award possible. One hundred and fifty one students have Livingston, New Jersey, Leonid Zelikovich graduated with a B.A. in JS since our major of Carmel, Indiana and JS majors David WARDS ORE HAN was established in 1992. Our thirteenth and JSP A M T Lizzo, Natalie Nachman, and Joshua Taff. IN CHOLARSHIPS largest graduating class of majors included $40,000 S Graduating with departmental honors AND NTERNSHIPS 27 B.A. recipients: Aaron Aft of Springfield, I were Marie Harf in Political Science, Jamie Virginia, Jonathan Azulay of Skokie, Illinois, The JSP was pleased to award 19 Katz in Psychology, and Amy Kuretsky in Dawn Bilobran of Birmingham, Michigan, scholarships and 2 internships, totaling Art History. Daniel Farahan of Carmel, Indiana, Jessica more than $40,000, to continuing JS major, Edelstein of Edina, Minnesota, Elizabeth area certificate, and Hebrew minor students Finn of Olathe, Kansas, Sarina Fogel of West E LIZABETH W OOD AWARDED for the 2004-2005 year. The scholarships Bloomfield, Michigan, David Fuchs of P ISER P RIZE and internships were established through the Westport, Connecticut, Tamar Gal of Outstanding JS Graduate generosity of the Fort Wayne Jewish Savannah, Georgia, Marisa Geer of Elizabeth Wood from West Lafayette, Federation, the Robert A. and Sandra S. Cleveland, Ohio, Dana Haffner of New Indiana, a May 2004 graduate with majors Borns JS Endowment, Sondra and Art Percy Orleans, Louisiana, Leah Hedrick of in JS and Political Studies and a minor in of Matawan, New Jersey, Sandra and Mission, Kansas, Andrew Kaplan of Psychology, was awarded the 2004 Leonore Stanley Trockman of Evansville, Edward M. Gahanna, Ohio, Benjamin Lewis of and Louis Piser Dayan of Indianapolis, and Sara and the late Chicago, Illinois, Jamie Katz of Overland Prize in JS. Of a Albert Reuben of Indianapolis. Park, Kansas, Daniel Kuperstein of Carmel, graduating class of Julie Avchen of Los Alamitos, California, Indiana, David Lizzo of St. Louis, Natalie 47 students, a senior majoring in JS and Sociology and a Nachman of Fairfax, Virginia, Michael Elizabeth was Hebrew and Management minor student, Ravenscroft of Wabash, Indiana, Sam Rodin deemed the most received the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation of Northfield, Illinois, Brian Rosenzweig of outstanding Scholarship. In Spring 2004, she also Baltimore, Maryland, Calli Schiller of Plano, graduating JS received the Jose Rangel Scholarship made Texas, Jonathon Schuster of Rancho Santa student who plans possible by Sidney and Sharon Mishkin of Fe, California, Joshua Taff of Sacramento, to pursue a career Indianapolis. California, Hal Ungar of Metairie, related to JS. Four students were awarded Robert A. Louisiana, Jory Wall of Louisville, Kentucky, Graduating Phi and Sandra S. Borns Merit Scholarships in and Elizabeth Wood of West Lafayette, Beta Kappa, JS, which recognize truly exceptional Indiana. Elizabeth began academic accomplishments. Borns Merit Elizabeth Wood Joining the 321 alumni of our JS area rabbinical school Scholarship recipients are: David Fliesher, certificate program were graduates at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of an Accounting and Finance major and an JS Benjamin Anchill of West Bloomfield, Religion in Jerusalem this summer. Elizabeth area certificate student from St. Louis. In Michigan, Rebecca Berzof of Louisville, was assistant head counselor at Goldman Fall 2003, he was elected governor of Kentucky, Emily Eisenberg of Pepper Pike, Union Camp and advisor for two years for Briscoe and a member of the Blue Ribbon Ohio, Ellyn Fine of Minneapolis, the Bloomington Jewish high school youth Society. Margaret O’Connor, a sophomore Minnesota, Darrin Frankovitz of group. JS and Political Science major from Indianapolis, Jennifer Gossman of The recipient of the 2003-2004 Fort Mountlake Terrace, Washington, interned at Columbus, Ohio, Joshua Hamerman of Wayne Jewish Federation Scholarship, she the Religious Action Center this summer. Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Marie Harf of served on IU’s august student panel, the She is an Honors College student studying Granville, Ohio, Molly Kotlen of Houston, Board of Aeons that meets regularly with both Hebrew and Arabic. Abigail Schachter, Texas, Amy Kuretsky of Minnetonka, the university president, chancellor, and vice a pre-med student from St. Louis majoring Minnesota, Brooke Lipman of West presidents, to advise on long range planning. in JS and Biology, has been inducted into Bloomfield, Michigan, Leah Nahmias of For two years, Elizabeth served as a resident two honor societies, Alpha Epsilon Delta assistant at Wright Quadrangle. She was and Phi Eta Sigma. Danielle Zuber, a JS undergraduate teaching intern for Professor major, was recognized as the most Dina Spechler for two years. outstanding biblical Hebrew student in The $750 Piser Prize is awarded annually 2003-2004. She serves as the cantor for IU to an outstanding graduating JS B.A., area High Holy Day services. certificate, or Hebrew minor student who is Borns Jewish Studies Program 17

J EWISH S TUDIES S TUDENT A SSOCIATION’ S F ULL Y EAR Desserts, Lunches, Film Showing, Weekly Hebrew Table Our students are the centerpiece of our program, and the faculty and staff make special efforts to provide students with an outstanding undergraduate experience, primarily inside the classroom, but also outside. Toward that end, Robert Borns (second row, far left) with Borns Scholarship recipients the 2003-2004 Nine Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns JS and Stanley Trockman Scholarship. A leadership of the Scholarships were awarded. Joanna Blotner Business major pursuing an area certificate Jewish Studies of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a major in JS, in JS, she plans to work for a Jewish not-for- International Studies, and Political Science, profit organization as a fund raiser. Student came to IU last year after completing a Sonya Weisburd of Indianapolis received Association (JSSA)—President Leah summer of intensive Hebrew study in the the Percy Family Scholarship and the Hedrick, VP Lauren Miller, Secretary Rachel Columbia University-HUJ ulpan program. Edward M. Dayan Scholarship. She will Wilder, and Treasurer Michelle Steiman— Sarah Boughey, a junior from Huntington serve as the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns organized a full calendar of student-faculty Beach, California, is majoring in Elementary Research Intern this Fall for Professor events. The year began with a well-attended Education and pursuing an area certificate Veidlinger researching Jewish theater and fall welcome dessert on September 30 and in JS. She serves as secretary of the Indiana culture in Russia in the 1920s. She ended on April 21 with the annual gala Student Education Association. Elizabeth volunteered for 7 weeks in Honduras Student-Faculty celebration. Every Tuesday Lintott, a junior JS major plans to pursue a through American Jewish World Service in evening during the year, Hebrew speakers career in Jewish education. An Honors summer 2003. convened over dinner at Hillel’s kosher café. College mentor, she teaches at Congregation JS doctoral minors James Schelble The popular weekly dinner, chaired by Beth Shalom and plays on the IU lacrosse (Central Eurasian Studies) and Daniel Michael Joffe, Michelle Steiman, Josh Taff, team. She is from Northbrook, Illinois. Clasby (History) received the Sara and and Sonya Weisburd, attracted hundreds of Derrick Murphy, from Crawfordsville, Albert Reuben Scholarships for Study of the students throughout the year. Joe Bercovici Indiana, is spending the fall semester at Holocaust. James is completing his master’s served as JSSA’s photographer. HUJ. He is majoring in JS and NELC. thesis on antisemitism in Hungary. Daniel’s The JSSA and Hillel co-sponsored a free Megan Roberts, a junior from Knoxville, research focuses on the Holocaust and Italy. lunch and talk by Professor Mark Roseman, Tennessee, plans a career in Jewish “‘Shoot First and Ask Questions education. She is majoring in JS and 14TH B ERN E SSAY P RIZE Afterwards?’: Wannsee and the ‘Final International Studies. Rachel Schonwald of AWARDED TO J OSHUA Solution’” in March, 2004; and a crash Oklahoma City plans to be a rabbi. She was G ARFINKEL course in Yiddish, “You Too Can Shmooze a Direct Admit student to the College last Joshua Garfinkel, a junior from Skokie, in Yiddish” with Brukhe Caplan. The spring fall. Philip Sherman, a JS major and a Illinois, was awarded the 2004 Henry A. film night was hosted by Noa Wahrman and Hebrew minor, is vice president of Hillel. Bern Memorial Essay Competition for his featured Israeli film “Passover Fever”. The From Plymouth, Minnesota, he plans a poignant story, “Fresh Baked Bread,” about JSSA co-sponsored an evening of comedy career in Jewish communal service. Stacy a childhood in Holland, a family’s fate in “One Jew, One Arab, One Stage . . . Two Weissman, a senior majoring in Psychology German-occupied Austria, and their and pursuing an area certificate in JS, plans immigration to the U.S. A Hebrew minor, a career as a social worker in a Jewish agency. Jennifer Gubitz of Fort Wayne was majoring in both English and awarded a Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Communication and Culture, Josh served as Scholarship and the Robert A. and Sandra S. the international president of the B’nai Borns Administrative Internship for the B’rith Youth Organization. 2004-2005 year. She studied in the CET JS The annual Bern Essay Competition was program in Prague in Spring 2004. She will established to honor the memory of Henry serve as the JSSA president during the A. Bern, professor emeritus in the IU School coming year and work as an intern for of Education, loyal supporter of the JSP, and Carolyn Lipson-Walker. a long-time Bloomington resident. The Bern Meytal Ashkenazi, a junior born and prize aims to stimulate undergraduate raised in Israel, is the recipient of the Sandra excellence in writing and research in JS. 18 Indiana University

S TUDENT H ONORS Benjamin Anchill, Molly Kotlen, Leah Nahmias, and Elizabeth Wood were initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. Leah Nahmias and Leah Hedrick were accepted into Teach for America Fifteen JS majors were named to the College of Arts and Sciences Spring 2004 Dean’s List: Aaron Aft, Jonathan Azulay, Peri Berntsen, Jonathan Bubis, Sarina Fogel, Jeffrey Veidlinger, JSP Associate Director, meets with JSSA officers—(left to right) Michelle Steiman, Lauren Jonathan Ginburg, Jamie Katz, Elizabeth Miller, Rachel Wilder, and Leah Hedrick. Lintott, Natalie Nachman, Jessica Reiter, Very Funny Guys” with Rabbi Bob Alper Megan Roberts, and comedian Ahmed Ahmed to raise Abigail Schachter, awareness of multicultural understanding Netta Schneller, and tolerance. Sonya Weisburd, and Elected JSSA officers for the 2004-2005 Elizabeth Wood. year are: President Jennifer Gubitz, VP Seventeen JS majors Megan Roberts, Secretary Samantha were named to the Leapman, and Treasurer Ellie Zusstone. Fall 2003 Dean’s List: Michael Arlen, Julie J EWISH S TUDIES Avchen, Joanna C AREER N IGHT Blotner, Jonathan On November 4, 2003, Amy Wagner of Bubis, Sarina Fogel, United Jewish Communities, Rachel Dana Haffner, Jamie Brumberg of the Jewish Education Service of Katz, Daniel North America, Naomi Sobel of the Jewish Kuperstein, Derrick Community Center Association, and Sean Murphy, Natalie Alpert of Hillel International were the Ten IU JS students participated in the CAJE college program in 2003—(back row, Nachman, Michael speakers at the annual JS Career Night. A left to right) Miles Roger, Emily Walsh, Leah Hedrick, Drew Kaplan, Jamie Ravenscroft, Erielle Sistino, Stephanie Clark, Elizabeth Foster; (front row, left to right) Jen Gubitz, Reshef, Philip career fair with national representatives Laura Siegel, Jamie Snow from the United Jewish Communities, the Sherman, Susan Jewish Education Service of North America, Shirley, Laura Siegel, Sonya Weisburd, and Hillel International, Jewish Community JSP FUNDS S TUDENTS AT Elizabeth Wood. Centers of America, JTS, and Baltimore C ONFERENCES Julie Avchen, Jennifer Gubitz, Jamie Hebrew University followed. The event was For the twelfth year, the Borns JSP with Snow, and Laura Siegel received Edward L. co-sponsored by the Helene G. Simon Hillel support from the Robert A. and Sandra S. Hutton International Experience Grants Center. Borns JSP Endowment, subsidized from the Honors College to support study The IU JSP is one of the foremost conference attendance for students. Three abroad. Jennifer Gubitz was awarded the undergraduate educators of Jewish undergraduate students—Joanna Blotner, Prague CET Scholarship to participate in communal service professionals (see Alumni Sarina Fogel, and Emily Walsh, and one their semester program in JS. News). Mentoring students for careers graduate student—Jeremy Shere—received related to JS is a high priority of the JSP. To funding to attend JS conferences. During the support our students, the JSP also sends a 2004- 2005 year, JS students will be eligible weekly e-mail newsletter and maintains a to apply for subsidies to support attendance resource center with information about JS at conferences related academically or graduate programs, the rabbinate and professionally to JS. cantorate, scholarships, internships, and careers. Borns Jewish Studies Program 19

Activities for the University of Chicago. Greenwich, CT. She and Jonathan Fass (1996) are ALUMNI NEWS Robyn Schwartz Plaskoff (1991) and husband the parents of Michal born July 22, 2002. (See We are proud of our graduates, so many of Josh are the proud parents of Ryan Isaac Plaskoff photo on this page.) whom now hold important positions at major born in 2003. Beth Udisky (1996) is Director of Adolescent educational and communal organizations Nancy Brenowitz (1992) is Director of the Outpatient Services at Stillwater Associates in throughout the country. Undergraduate Dietetics Program at the Cleveland. Rabbi Debra Reed Blank (1977) was named University of Maryland. Stefanie Kupersmith Albertson (1997) is Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of JTS. Rabbi Eli Garfinkel (1993) is a rabbi at Adath Assistant Manager of Training Development for She is the Rabbi Philip R. Alstat Professor of Israel Congregation in Cincinnati. Target Corporation. Liturgy. Cheryl Garson Hays (1993) is a realtor at Alberta Comer (1997) is Lending Services Jeffrey Bercovitz (1978) is Director of Juvenile Long and Foster in Bethesda, Maryland. Librarian at Indiana State University. and Family Law for the Indiana Judicial Center. Kevin Hovis (1993) practices general and class Matthew Curran (1997) is an attorney with Dina Elenbogen, (1982) a successful writer, action litigation in the Chicago area. the Cincinnati firm Thompson Hine which teaches at the University of Chicago’s Graham Rabbi Yael Splansky (1993) is Associate Rabbi specializes in business litigation. School. of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. Jennifer Hedderich Dubinsky (1997) is a Judith Fink Ehrenstein (1985) is children’s Jessica Bennett Mehlman (1994) is teacher at Canty Elementary in Chicago. librarian at the Montgomery County Public Endowment Associate at the Jewish Federation of Missy Dobbins (1998) is Speciality Sales Library in Rockville, Maryland. Central New Jersey. Representative for TAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Sara Cogdell Bhagwandin (1986) is an Karen Givon Feder (1995) and her husband Atlanta. attorney with Davis, Wright, Tremaine in Seattle. Rabbi David Feder are the parents of twins Ari Bryan Esenberg (1998) is Assistant Director of Renee Hasten Halevy (1986) teaches computer Public Affairs for the Japan External Trade graphics at Neve Yerushalayim in Israel. Organization. Faith Salesin Becker (1987) is a speech Jamie Harris-Gershon (1998) and her husband pathologist at Hawthorn Junior High in Illinois. David are the proud parents of a baby girl, Peter Malnak (1987) is Development Mayan. We are so pleased that Jamie has Economist at the U.S. Agency of International recovered from her injuries suffered in the Development. Summer 2001 Hebrew University cafeteria Andi Czarlinsky Callam (1988) and Jeff bombing. Callam welcomed their second child, Clayton Rachel Murov (1998) is the Mid-Atlantic Aaron, in October 2003. Andi has been Development Director of AIPAC. appointed Groups Services Director at the Stefanie Kreitzman Rhodes (1998) is Program Louisville JCC. Manager for the Jewish Funders Network in Shelly Greenwald Malmon (1988) is Director NYC. of Administration for the BJE in Orange County. Gary Shyken (1998) and his wife Lee are the Marcus Moir (1988) is the owner of 1st Stop parents of Shmuel Aaron Shyken, born January Gina Lewald-Fass, Jonathon Fass, and baby Michal Travel Store in Bloomington. 16, 2004. Leslie Kepes Pomerantz (1988) is Executive Jared Hershenson (1999) and his wife Jessica Director of the Jewish Volunteer Connection of and Orli born in October 2002. They live in are the parents of Samuel Moshe born January Baltimore’s UJC. Morgantown, West Virginia. 12, 2004. Jared is a resident in pediatrics at Johns Cantor Yael Fischman (1989) is Assistant Valerie Hirschorn Frank (1995) is Donor Hopkins. Director of the Amkolel Judaic Resource Center Relations Professional at the Jewish Community Kate Hirschfeld (1999) is Director of in Rockville, Maryland. Relations Council in Boston. Development and Helping Hearts coordinator at Kevin Zeldin (1989) is Associate Director of Brooke Gardberg (1995) is founder and the Tree of Knowledge Learning Centers in Development at the Jewish Federation of St. instructor of Urban Pilates in San Francisco. Cleveland. Louis. Alexis Gruber (1995) is Program Executive in Libby Katz Hogan, (1999) the co- Leslie Abella Dahan (1990) is an immigration the Volunteer and Leadership Development administrator of Congregation Beth Shalom in lawyer in Washington, D.C. Division at the UJA Federation of New York. Bloomington, is the mother of Kobi and Maya. Steven Greenberg (1990) works in marketing Bruce Hoffman (1995) is Assistant Professor of Elise Kleinman (1999) produces commercials for a software company in Israel. Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. in Chicago. Beth Levy Merkes (1990) is Director of the Matt Davidson, (1996) Assistant Director of David Orensten (1999) is an attorney at Porter, Centennial Campaign for the Jewish United Fund the USC Hillel, produced a Passover documentary Wright, Morris & Arthur in Columbus, Ohio. of Metropolitan Chicago. She was married to “Our Mother’s Recipe” that was aired on PBS. David Merkes in January 2004. He received the 2004 Guild of Temple Musicians Karen Becker Sher (1990) received the 2003 Young Composer’s Award for his song-cycle for Grosberg Award for Leadership Dedication to the Shabbat. Jewish community from the St. Louis Federation. Arin Frome (1996) is a consultant for CCS Rabbi Braham David (1991) was ordained by Fundraising. JTS in 2003 and is Rabbi of Temple Shalom in Jonathan Greenberg (1996) is a rabbinical Medford, Massachusetts. student at HUC-JIR. Reverend Scott Fouts (1991) is associate pastor Meryl Hamerman (1996) is Assistant Editor at of the First United Presbyterian Church in Harper Collins Publishing. Woodville, Virginia. Gina Lewald-Fass (1996) is Vice-Principal of Susan Lipsitz (1991) is Director of Regional the Temple Sholom religious school in 20 Indiana University

Adam Tennen (1999) is with the Planning Sara LeWinter (2001) is Assistant Regional Brant Moriarity (2002) is an Admissions Department of the Jewish Community Federation Director of Rocky Mountain BBYO. Assistant with IU Admissions. of Cleveland. Emily Lipp (2001) is Legislative Assistant for Miriam Pullman (2002) is a graduate student Caryl Berman Auslander (2000) is the Public Representative Baron Hill. She is engaged to at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Policy Specialist for the American Association of David Sirota and will be married in January Religion in Jewish Communal Service. Blood Banks. 2005. Josh Samis (2002) is a law student at Emory Jenny Baumel (2000) is Research Analyst for Emily Malinowski (2001) is Coordinator of University. the California State University Office of the Marketing and Community Relations at the Sarah Strnad (2002) is Administrative Chancellor. Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. Assistant in the Israel, Zionism, & International Kate Breiter (2000) and Eytan Uslan (2001) David Reinwald, (2001) a cantorial student at Affairs Department of Hadassah. join a growing number of other Borns JSP HUC was the featured cantor in the live Scott Zuick (2002) completed his second year couples. They were married this summer. broadcast of The Gotham Radio Players at the IU School of Medicine. Leslie Cohen (2000) completed her graduate presentation of “The Battle of the Warsaw Yuval Asner (2003) is a first year medical degree from the Drachler Program in Jewish Ghetto” on WBAI in New York City. student at IU in Indianapolis. Communal Leadership at the University of Will Smith (2001) is pursuing a master’s degree Jen Bell (2003) is a campaign associate with Michigan. She is a clinical social worker at Jewish at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis. Family Services in West Bloomfield, Michigan. seminary. Mat Bloom, (2003) formerly on staff at the Leslie and Andy Kastner (2002) will be married Jason Vaught (2001) is pursuing a master’s American Jewish Committee in Chicago, is a law in December. Andy is spending the year studying degree in Central Eurasian Studies at IU. He is student at Kent Law School. in Israel in preparation for rabbinical school. spending the year studying in Jerusalem. Rachel Conroy (2003) is a student in the Tamara Gilson (2000) is Administrative Joanne Weingarten (2001) is a doctoral student Drachler Program for Jewish Communal Assistant in Sales and Catering at the Warner in clinical psychology at Phillips Graduate Leadership at the University of Michigan. Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, California. Institute in California. Asa Fradkin (2003) is a cantorial student at JTS. Lindsay Glazer (2000) is a public defender in Alissa Wise (2001) is a rabbinical student at Traci Geffon (2003) is a graphic designer at Broward County, Florida and is engaged to Jason the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary. ADX, Inc. in California. Warshofsky. Robert Cating (2002) has begun a Ph.D. Andrea Jury (2003) is youth groups advisor; Neil Graf (2000) is production supervisor at program in plant medicine at the University of religious school and Hebrew teacher at Temple IU’s Center for Survey Research. Florida. Jeremiah in Northfield, Illinois. Allison Gutnik (2000) is Youth Director at Raneat Cohen (2002) is a student at the IU Tamilyn Millspaugh (2003) was married to Ari West Suburban Temple in Chicago. Optometry School. Leinwand on August 17, 2003. Jennifer Joseph (2000) is news anchor at News Stefanie Corn (2002) is Assistant Producer for Jenni Steinberg (2003) completed her first year 24 in Houston. Manning Productions in Chicago. of law school at the New England School of Law Shauna Replane Leavey (2000) is Assistant Joel Goldsmith (2002) is a buyer with General in Boston. Principal of the religious school of Baltimore Mills and Kallah Coordinator at Adath Jeshurun The Borns JSP takes pride in the achievements Hebrew Congregation. Synagogue in Minnesota. of its alumni and is always pleased to hear of Suzanne Levine (2000) is the Account Jill Hibshman (2002) completed her second their personal and professional accomplishments. Executive at the Dallas office of Publicis Dialog, a year of medical school at Emory University. Please send your news and current mailing and e- national public relations firm. Diana Kogan (2002) is the sole recipient of the mail address to [email protected]. David Roth (2000) is a graduate student at JTS. prestigious Ralph I. Goldman Fellowship in Mike Walter (2000) is the 8th grade program International Jewish Communal Service of the coordinator at Community Midrasha in Durham. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He is also teaching 4th grade Sunday school and She is a graduate of the Drachler Program in 5th grade Hebrew School for the Judea Reform Jewish Communal Leadership at the University of Congregation. Michigan. Jessica Auerbach (2001) is an Associate of Gabriel Lewin (2002) was drama instructor at Financial Resource Development for the Jewish Carr Lane Visual and Performing Arts Middle Federation of Greater Washington. School in St. Louis through Teach for America Elissa Brown (2001) is a preschool teacher in last year and is currently studying at a yeshiva in Lexington, Kentucky. Israel. Karen Cohen (2001) is Online Operations Jonathan Lipnick, (2002) who is pursuing a Manager for House of Representatives minority master’s degree in Religious Studies at HUJ, is leader Nancy Pelosi. engaged to Hila Eisenberg. Jennifer Grubb (2001) is Research Associate at Jenny Micon (2002) is a PA in the Art the University of Chicago. Department at Paramount Pictures. Borns Jewish Studies Program 21

Professor Bielasiak is the Distinguished Culture in Russia” at the University of OUR FACULTY Fulbright Chair in East European Studies at Toronto. In May 2004 he delivered Joëlle Bahloul pursued her ethnographic Warsaw University in Fall 2004. “Remnants of Prewar East European Purim research on the Jews of France. Her article Jerome Copulsky earned his Ph.D. from Plays in Living Memory” at the Berkeley “Jews in France” will be featured in the the University of Chicago Divinity School in Yiddish Conference at the University of Encyclopedia of Diasporas (Kluwer March, 2004, completing his dissertation California. He continued to publish Yiddish Academic/Plenum Publ., Fall 2004). This “Between Exile and Redemption: Political poetry under the pen-name Boris Karloff in research has also resulted in an article on Theology and the Shaping of Modern Jewish the Yiddish weekly Forverts; the Tel Aviv “Sephardic Diasporas since the 1950s,” to Thought.” Dr. Copulsky was a popular bimonthly Lebns-fragn; and the Chicago be published in French in Le Monde teacher during his 3 semesters at IU. We YIVO Society Newsletter. He developed and Sépharade, a volume on Sephardic history wish him well as he joins the faculty of maintains a simple web-portal “Yiddish and culture edited by Shmuel Trigano (Paris, Virginia Tech’s Department of Religious Today,” which offers updated links to online 2005). Professor Bahloul also contributed Studies. sources, resources, and some vital the entry on “Judaism” in the Encyclopedia Susan Gubar spent Spring/Summer 2004 information on contemporary Yiddish press, of Food and Culture (Charles Scribners, on a Bogliosco Fellowship at the Liguria theater, cultural centers in various cities 2003). The Spanish edition of her Study Center for Artists and Humanists in throughout the world, as well as Yiddish ethnography of reading in France Lecturas Italy completing a book In Rooms of Our music, audio, video and texts online Precarias was published by Fondo de Own about the inroads of feminism in (http://www.geocities.com/berkale/). Cultura Economica (2003). She gave the higher education. Her Poetry After Matthias B. Lehmann finished work on Yedida Kalfon-Stillman Memorial Lecture at Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never his book Ladino Rabbinic Literature and the University of Oklahoma on “Sephardic Knew was published by IU Press in 2003. Ottoman Sephardic Culture to be published Women in France: Gender Emancipation She received a fellowship from IU’s Institute by IU Press. He published “Ladino Religious and the Republic.” She also participated in for the Arts and Humanities to work on a Literature” in Jewish Studies Between the the Stanford University conference on book of essays on the ongoing impact of the Disciplines (Brill, 2003) and presented a talk “Jewish Conceptions of Space and Place” Shoah on contemporary fiction, film, and at the Association for Jewish Studies where she spoke on “The Meaning of the poetry. conference. He received research grants Old Jewish Quarter.” At the University of Stephen Katz published the first of a from the Borns JSP and the Maurice Amado Chicago conference, “Practice of Everyday series of studies on how modern American Foundation for work on his project, Life,” she spoke about the collective Hebrew writers represented other minority tentatively entitled “Livorno and the memory of the domestic space in the groups to their readers. His article, “To Be Sephardi Mediterranean in the Eighteenth formation of migrants’ identity. In Spring as Others: E.E. Lisitzky’s Re-presentation of Century.” Professor Lehmann offered a new 2004, she gave a presentation on Native Americans,” appeared in Hebrew course on “Jews, Christians, and Muslims in “Antisemitism and the Jews of France” for Union College Annual. Research grants the Medieval Near East,” co-taught with the JSP’s New Institute. from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Professor Edward Watts of the Department Jack Bielasiak’s research on Culture, the Borns JSP, the Department of of History. He initiated a new overseas democratization in the former communist Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and program for the JSP, “The Jewish Experience states led to the publication of the College of Arts and Humanities Institute of Modern Germany.” “Consolidating Electoral Democracy in supported his research on the representation Herbert Marks is working on a new Postcommunist States” in Donald R. Kelley, of Afro-Americans and Native-Americans in edition of the Hebrew Bible in English (to be ed. After Communism: Perspectives on modern Hebrew literature. Professor Katz published by W. W. Norton). His essay Democracy (University of Arkansas Press, continues as Director of the Modern “Poetry and Memory” will appear in a 2003), and “Party Competition in Emerging Hebrew language program. collection Ars Memoriae: Mémorisation, Democracies: Representation and Dov-Ber Kerler edited and published Remémoration, Oubli, ed. Marie-Christine Effectiveness,” Studies in Public Policy, volume 27 of the periodical collection of Lemardeley (Presses Universitaires de Center for the Study of Public Policy, Yiddish language and culture, Yerusholaimer France). He chaired a panel and gave a University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Almanakh (Jerusalem, 2003) which included paper on “Places, Memories, Citations” at November 2003. As a follow up to his original fiction, poetry, essays and scholarly the annual meeting of the American courses “The Holocaust and Politics” and contributions by over thirty authors. He Comparative Literature Association. “The Politics of Tyranny,” he developed a presented a paper,”Yiddish Cultural Life in new course on “The Politics of Genocide,” a Moscow in the 1960s” at a conference th survey of the major 20 century genocides. “Soviet & Kosher: A Century of Jewish 22 Indiana University

On September 19, 2003, Emil Fackenheim died in Jerusalem. Michael Morgan spoke at the funeral and then thirty days later, at the memorial service at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. Professor Morgan’s lecture on Fackenheim and the Holocaust was presented as the featured presentation at an event in memory of Fackenheim at the University of Judaism, and he has written essays on Fackenheim that will appear in Shofar and in Yad Vashem Studies. He also gave talks at the College of William and Mary, in Boston, in Memphis, and in Baltimore, as well as at the Robert Borns (far left) with JS faculty members (left to right) Jeff Veidlinger, Mark Roseman, Steven Weitzman, Colloquium on Ancient Greek Philosophy at Stephen Katz, Matthias Lehmann, Jerome Copulsky, Dov-Ber Kerler the University of Arizona. Professor Morgan a chapter on the Wannsee Conference for an the University of Toronto, “The Holocaust organized and directed a conference at IU on edited collection in honor of the historian in the Netherlands: Comparisons, Emmanuel Levinas and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jeremy Noakes and another chapter on Assessments, and Significance,” in March. at which he gave a paper on “Levinas, generation conflict in German history that He contributed a paper, “Antisemitism(s): Judaism, and Ritual.” He is the co-editor of will appear in a German collection. He spoke Traditional, Modern, Post-Modern,” at Philosopher as Witness: Fackenheim and on “Generations as Imagined Communities” “Global Antisemitism: An International Responses to the Holocaust, to be published at the conference “Generationen,” at the Conference,” in Montreal, also in March. In by SUNY Press, and is editing the Cambridge Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung in April he chaired the sessions on Hungarian- Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy. June 2003; and “Writing the Biography of a Jewish history and literature at the IU He is revising a completed book manuscript Holocaust Survivor” at “Towards a conference, “Imre Kertesz in Perspective: on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Biographical Turn,” held at the German Hungarian and Jewish Culture in the 20th is at work on several invited essays—on the Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. in Century,” and in May he gave one of the Holocaust and philosophy, genocide, March 2004. He presented “Between 2004 Taubman Lectures at the University of revelation in Judaism and modernist thought, Fanaticism and Banality: Understanding the California Santa Barbara: “The Anne Frank providence and evil, and the work of Emil Perpetrators of the Holocaust” at the We Remember.” In addition to his activities Fackenheim. During the year, Morgan was University of Southampton. In 2003, he was as a member of the Academic Committee of named as Chancellor’s Professor. invited to join the academic advisory council the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mark Roseman joined the JSP faculty in of the Haus der Wannsee Konferenz in Professor Rosenfeld continues to serve as a January 2004 as the Pat M. Glazer Chair in Berlin. member of the museum’s governing council. JS. He was awarded the 2003 Geschwister Alvin Rosenfeld continued to research For the sixth year in a row, he chaired the Scholl Prize for his book In Einem and write about Holocaust literature and committee that selects the winner of the Unbewachten Augenblick which appeared in also saw into print several publications on Koret Foundation Jewish Book Award in the the previous year. He co-organized the present-day antisemitism. Podwójna S´miec´: category of Jewish fiction. He also continues conference “From Empire to Federal Rozwaz˙ania O Literaturze Holocaustu, a his long-term work at the IU Press as editor Republic: Elites, Violence, and Society in Polish translation of his book, A Double of the IU Press series on Jewish Literature German History” held in New York in Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature, and Culture and serves as well as the February 2003. The conference volume will appeared in Warsaw (Cyklady, 2004). His Director of IU’s newly established Institute be published by Berghahn Pressin 2005. “Feeling Alone, Again: The Growing Unease for Jewish Culture and the Arts. German History from the Margins, which he among Germany’s Jews” was reprinted in Marci Shore received the Trustee’s is co-editing, will be published in 2005 by IU Best Jewish Writing 2003, ed. Arthur Teaching Award in 2004. She presented Press. His article “Ideas, Contexts and the Kurzweil. The American Jewish Committee several papers this year, including “Love in Pursuit of Genocide” appeared in the May published and widely circulated his Anti- the Time of Revolution: Intimacy, Betrayal 2003 issue of the Bulletin of the German Americanism and Anti-Semitism: A New and Marxism” at the workshop “Love Historical Institute (London). He completed Frontier of Bigotry and Anti-Zionism in Across European Borders” at the Great Britain and Beyond: A ‘Respectable’ Kulturwissenchaftliches Institut in Essen, Anti-Semitism? A Hungarian translation of Germany; “Children of the Revolution: A the former title appeared in Budapest, and Warsaw Family Story” at the seminar series one of his essays on Anne Frank, “Borderlands: The Shatter-Zone of “Popularisering en herinnering–het geval Empires” at Brown University; and “‘And Anne-Frank,” was published in the They Didn’t Even Invite Me to Say a Few Netherlands. Professor Rosenfeld presented Words. . . ’: How Warsaw’s Fin-de-siècle a paper about Anne Frank at a conference at Generation Departed from Marxism” at the Borns Jewish Studies Program 23

Congress of the American Association for of 1905: A Turning Point in Jewish History” projects include co-writing an introduction the Advancement of Slavic Studies in conference in Jerusalem. He also presented a to Jewish civilization and co-editing a Toronto. She taught three new courses: an lecture at the University of Wisconsin as part collection of essays on self-formation in undergraduate seminar on European of the Jewish Heritage Series. He delivered Jewish, Christian, and pagan antiquity in intellectuals and Marxism; an several papers as part of lecture series and which he has an essay entitled “Self-Reform undergraduate lecture course on Eastern seminars on the IU campus, and participated in Deuteronomy.” Europe under communism; and a graduate in the 2004 New Institute. Together with colloquium on cosmopolitanism and the Professor Dov-Ber Kerler, he continues to avant-garde in East-Central Europe, 1900- participate in the IU Yiddish Ethnographic 1939. She will be spending the academic Project to interview the last Yiddish speakers Cover artwork from MS Kaufmann A77 appears by year at the Institut fur Wissenschaften von of Ukraine in situ. He is also continuing permission of the Library of the Hungarian Academy Menschen in Vienna. work on his forthcoming book on Jewish of Sciences. Dina Spechler presented a paper entitled cultural associations in Russia during the Artwork on page 4 from Ketubah, Oran, Algeria, “Realism or Great Power Activism: interrevolutionary era. 1847, Ket 268. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Since Dror Wahrman spent the year at the Theological Seminary. 9/11” at the Conference of the International Newberry Library, funded by an ACLS Studies Association and the Central and East Burkhardt Fellowship, working on a project Artwork on page 11 from Haggadah; Scribe: Joseph European Studies Association in Budapest, in part, on what was G-d doing in the 18th ben David Leimpnik, Darmstadt, 1733, ms. 4452a, Hungary. She continues working on her century. His book The Making of the folio 18r. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish study of radical innovation in foreign policy, Modern Self was published by Yale Theological Seminary. analyzing and comparing several important University Press in June 2004. He accepted cases in the second half of the 20th century, the directorship of the newly founded 18th Artwork on page 15 from Mishneh Torah by Moses th including the decision by Egyptian President Century Group on the IU campus. He is ben Maimon, Spain, 15 century, ms. R1618. Sadat to recognize Israel and the decision by spending Fall 2004 in Jerusalem. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Israeli Prime Minister Rabin to recognize the Steven Weitzman began the 2003-2004 PLO. year as the new director of the Borns JSP. Artwork on page 21 from Ketubbah (Marriage Jeffrey Veidlinger became Associate The Irving M. Glazer Chair in JS, he contract), Herat, Afghanistan, 1867, Ket 270. Director of the Borns JSP. He published recently completed a book entitled Surviving Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological “Soviet Jewry as a Diaspora Nationality: Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Seminary. The ‘Black Years’ Reconsidered” in East Antiquity, forthcoming from Harvard European Jewish Affairs and “The University Press in Spring 2005. Other Back cover from The Ashkenazi Haggadah: A Hebrew Historical and Ethnographic Construction recent publications include “King David’s Manuscript of the Mid-15th Century, ADD 14672 of Russian Jewry” in Ab Imperio. He gave Spin Doctors,” Prooftexts 23 (2003); f11b appears by permission of The British Library. presentations at the American Association “Myth, History and Mystery in the Copper for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Scroll,” in The Idea of Biblical Photographs—Jane Reeves convention; the “Soviet and Kosher: A Interpretation, eds., H. Najman and J. Design—IU Office of Publications Century of Jewish Life in Russia” Newman (Brill, 2004); and “Plotting conference in Toronto; the Klutznick Harris Antiochus’s Persecution,” Journal of Biblical Printing—Spectrum Press Symposium in Omaha; and “The Revolution Literature (2004). Weitzman’s current

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