T HE R OBERT A. AND S ANDRA S. BORNS J EWISH S TUDIES P ROGRAM

I N T HIS I SSUE 3 Support Our Undergraduates • 4 News • 6 Programs • 10 Salute to Patricia Ek • 10 IU Press 12 JSP Advisory Board • 13 Friends of Borns JSP • 13 Graduate Student News • 14 Donor Honor Roll 16 Undergraduate News • 17 JSP Endowments • 21 Alumni News • 22 Faculty News 23 Course Offerings • 28 Faculty and Staff

A NNUAL N EWSLETTER V OLUME 26 FALL 2007 2 Indiana University

FROM THE DIRECTOR While the Jewish past occupies a lot of my time as a scholar, as JSP director, my thoughts often turn to the future. The Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP) draws hundreds of undergraduate students to its courses each year. Scores of these students choose to major in Jewish Studies (JS). A central goal of our program is to help our students find their futures—to fulfill their personal, intellectual, and professional potential. The record suggests our impact has been very positive. The Borns JSP established its major in 1992. The program was then some twenty years old and had already drawn thousands of students to its courses, but the new major enabled students to achieve a much broader and deeper education. Since then we have graduated 206 JS majors and 380 JS area certificate students. A remarkable number have gone on to successful careers in the Jewish community as rabbis, cantors, teachers, administrators, and an even larger number of students, Jews and non-Jews, have had their lives enriched by an education that has greatly expanded their horizons of Jewish history and culture. Our efforts to help students is an ongoing project, however, and we are always on the lookout for new ways to encourage our students to begin to shape their lives. For example, working in partnership with the Professional Leaders Project, an initiative founded by Robert Aronson, William Davidson, Michael Steinhardt, Eugene and Marcia Applebaum, and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, we will be offering for the second time this fall a course entitled “Professional Leadership and the American Jewish Community.” The goal is to help students prepare for leadership positions by introducing them to the various challenges and opportunities that the American Jewish community offers young professionals. The course is taught by Judy Wortman, a seasoned professional, a former UJC Federation and JCC director. Guest speakers from around the country will visit to share their expertise with the class, making it an exceptional networking opportunity. We also advance the professional interests of our students by providing funding for them to participate in professional conferences, making available to them caring mentors, and thanks to our terrific academic advisor Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker, offering them various kinds of career counseling. A second recent initiative is the creation of a pre-cantorial program, one of the first such programs in the country. Initiated by Professor Judah Cohen, the Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of Jewish Culture, the program will combine the resources of the Borns JSP and IU’s illustrious Jacobs School of Music, one of the largest and finest music schools in the world, to help a select group of undergraduate students prepare for cantorial school. With the varied programs sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts, a new Jewish a capella group, and other arts-related initiatives, we hope to make IU one of the best places in the nation for students seeking to combine an interest in JS and the arts. A key part of our students’ education involves the relationships they form with fellow students. We have sought to cultivate such relationships by partnering in the creation of a JS Freshmen Interest Group (FIG). FIG students spend their first year at IU living together, taking some of the same courses, and participating in various social and cultural activities—an experience that transforms a large public university into something like a small liberal arts college. Demand to participate in the JS FIG (which enrolls 14-16 students) has grown so rapidly that the university is considering having two JS FIGs in 2008. If you are an alum of the Borns JSP, we hope that you will let us know what is going on in your lives (you can write me directly or send a note to Carolyn Lipson-Walker). If you are a prospective student, or the parent of such a student, please feel welcome to be in touch with questions. Better yet, come to visit us at IU. And if you believe in what we do, and have the resources, please consider establishing an undergraduate scholarship to help us support and encourage the most deserving of our students.

Sincerely, Yara Clüver Yara

Dr. Steven Weitzman Director Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies

ISSN: 1930-482X Borns Jewish Studies Program 3

S UPPORT OUR U NDERGRADUATE S TUDENTS Establish Four-Year Scholarships Writing from the CET Jewish Studies Program in Prague - “I realize how fabulous our Jewish Studies program is when I see the academic backgrounds of the other students here. I realize that our program is above and beyond so many others. IU has prepared me so well.” Jennifer Gubitz (B.A. in Jewish Studies, 2005), rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Having secured significant funding Establishing such scholarships is benefits. Your generosity will change for our graduate students, the Borns more affordable than ever. Under the the lives of generations of students for JSP now plans to establish permanent terms of IU’s matching program, an the better. For more information, please four-year scholarships for our undergraduate scholarship gift of at contact Dr. Steven Weitzman, Director, undergraduate students. Unlike least $50,000 receives a 1:1 match Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana graduate students, undergraduates from the university. Thus, a gift of University, Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 usually rely on their parents to support $50,000 provides a freshman with East Third Street, Bloomington, IN them during college. IU is a relatively $5,000 for each of the four years s/he 47405-7005, tel: 812-855-0453; affordable place, especially for Indiana enrolls at IU—half from the sweitzma@ indiana.edu. students. Nevertheless, the costs of a endowment established by your gift, college education are considerable; matched by IU dollar for dollar. The financial aid is dwindling; and many scholarship will exist in perpetuity and students and their families need is a meaningful way to honor or financial help. To encourage an interest commemorate a loved one. in JS and recruit the very best students You can establish a scholarship to IU, we hope to establish a number of endowment as an outright gift, in four-year scholarships to support pledged payments over several years, as outstanding JS students over the course a bequest, and in other ways. The gift of their entire college educations. may qualify you for certain tax 4 Indiana University

FIRST FOUR–YEAR JS (For a list of those who significant new resource for SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED made the chair possible, see the study of the Yiddish vol. 23, 2004 of the JSP language and Jewish The first four-year scholarship for newsletter.) Beyond memory in Eastern Europe. incoming undergraduates in JS was honoring Professor Veidlinger’s new book, The awarded to an outstanding high school Rosenfeld for his many Jews of This World: Jewish senior Sarah Wilensky, of St. Paul, outstanding contributions, Public Culture in the Late Minnesota. As the recipient of The Karl the chair is meant to Russian Empire, is and Rosey Krakovitz Scholarship, Sarah strengthen the program he forthcoming from IU Press. will receive a $5,000 scholarship for did so much to create by In addition to his wide- each of her four years of study at IU. recruiting a new scholar or ranging scholarly Sarah, now a JS major and JS FIG retaining one of our current Jeffrey Veidlinger contributions, Dr. student, faculty in a very competitive job market. Veidlinger is an outstanding teacher, wrote in the After an extensive two-year search, the both in large classes like “Introduction spring of her JSP faculty decided that the most to Jewish History,” and as an advisor to senior year in deserving recipient of this chair is our an increasing number of graduate high school own Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger, associate students in East European Jewish that she was professor of JS and History and JSP history. He provides excellent leadership looking associate director. for the JSP as associate director, and he forward to The History News Network has been an exemplary colleague for JS continuing recently identified Dr. Veidlinger as one and History faculty—generous with his her study of of the top young historians in the field time and advice, insightful and incisive Hebrew and today. Veidlinger is an enormously in his contributions to collective Jewish Sarah Wilensky productive and respected researcher discussions and decision-making, savvy history at IU. “For the past five years, I have found whose scholarship is highly influential. and creative in the counsel he offers. resources that have allowed me to study His first book, The Moscow State We are delighted to recognize Jewish history, Jewish texts, and the Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Professor Veidlinger’s achievements, and Hebrew language, but they have been Soviet Stage (IU Press, 2000; paperback pay honor to Professor Rosenfeld, by extracurricular . . . The prospect of edition, 2006) won the National Jewish installing Jeffrey as the first incumbent making JS the central focus of my Book Award and the Barnard Hewitt of the Alvin Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish curriculum has been the aspect of Award for Outstanding Research in Studies. Theatre History. It was also named a college life that I have most J EWISH A RTS T HRIVE anticipated.” Choice Magazine Outstanding IN LOOMINGTON This generous scholarship is made Academic Title. Another project, the B possible by Rosey and the late Karl Archive of Historical and Ethnographic The Borns JSP continues to develop Kravovitz of Bloomington. Their Yiddish Memories (AHEYM), in its Institute for Jewish Culture and the daughter, Audrey, completed her area partnership with Dov-Ber Kerler, the Dr. Arts (Professor Alvin Rosenfeld, certificate in JS in 1986 and is the Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Director), whose mission is to promote administrator of the Chapel Hill (NC) Studies, has received substantial funding understanding and appreciation of Kehillah. from the NEH. With more than 500 Jewish artistic creativity through lectures hours of videotaped testimony already and programs by leading artists, writers, ROFESSOR EFFREY P J compiled, the archive represents a architects, art critics, and art historians. V EIDLINGER Inaugural Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in JS Thanks to the generosity of Jay and Marsha Glazer and many other donors, two years ago the JSP established an endowed chair in honor of Alvin Rosenfeld, founding director of the Borns JSP. IU’s HooShir performs at 2006 White House Chanukah party. Borns Jewish Studies Program 5

The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program in Future arts-related programs now in “Jewish Religion in Ottoman Jewish Culture and the Arts enables the the planning stage will focus on Jewish Lands” Institute to bring a variety of artists to music, literature, photography, and film. the Borns JSP. Announcements of these will be In summer 2007, the Sephardic Arts programs during the 2006- forthcoming. Studies Initiative hosted an inaugural 2007 year included: two-day conference on “Jewish Religion N EW S EPHARDIC in Ottoman Lands,” with generous • “Abayudaya: The Music and Culture S TUDIES I NITIATIVE support from the Ottoman and Turkish of the Jews of Uganda,” by Rabbi Studies Chair, Professor Kemal Silay, and Jeffrey Summit, Tufts University, A new initiative within the Borns JSP, coordinated by Professor Matthias the Borns JSP. The following scholars September 10, 2006, Friends of the from the U.S. and Israel participated, Borns JSP Gathering Lehmann, will systematically explore the culture of Sephardic and Middle Eastern exploring Jewish religious thought and • “Writing Towards Hope,” by Jewish communities in the past and practice in their Ottoman context: Marc Professor Marjorie Agosin, Wellesley present. The Borns JSP is in a unique Baer (University of California Irvine), College, October 13, 2006 position to become a center for this Yaron Ben-Naeh (Hebrew University of • “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of growing, dynamic area of JS with several Jerusalem), Yaacob Dweck (University of Europe,” Dorit and Gerald Paul full-time faculty members working on Pennsylvania), Matt Goldish (Ohio State Lecture in Jewish Culture and the Arts aspects of Sephardic and Middle Eastern University), Yaron Harel (Bar-Ilan by architect Professor Peter Eisenman, Jewries. The Sephardic Studies Initiative University), Matthias Lehmann (IU), Yale University, October 24, 2006 will complement the already strong Shaul Magid (IU), and Zvi Zohar (Bar • “Situating the Holocaust Object” (on presence of the Borns JSP in the study of Ilan University and Shalom Hartman literary representations of the the Ashkenazic cultures of Eastern Institute). Europe. This new initiative will be Holocaust in Polish and Jewish-Polish D APHNE T SIMHONI Literature), by Professor Bozena celebrated with a concert by ASEFA on Shallcross, University of Chicago, Monday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Fine Teaching Modern Israel Studies November 29, 2006 Arts 015. in Spring 2008 • “Sounds of Israel,” concert of Israeli Professor Joëlle Bahloul (JS and Modern Israel studies is a vital part composers performed by Yael Manor Anthropology) is an expert on North of any JS curriculum. In spring 2008, and other Jacobs School of Music African Jews and the North African Professor students and coordinated by Jennie Jewish diaspora; Professor Judah Cohen Daphne Woolf, February 22, 2007 (JS and Folklore & Ethnomusicology) works on contemporary Sephardic Tsimhoni, • Showing of film “Awake Zion,” part culture and the arts and on the Department of the American Museum of Natural Sephardim of the Caribbean; and of History’s Margaret Mead Traveling Professor Matthias Lehmann (JS and Humanities Film and Video Festival, February 25, History) is a recognized specialist in the and Arts, The 2007 history of the Sephardim of the Technion and • Israeli jazz fusion concert by Mattan Mediterranean world and the Judeo- The Harry S. Klein Sextet, Indianapolis JCC, April Spanish culture of the Jews in the Truman 25, 2007, Friends of the Borns JSP Ottoman Empire. Each year several Institute, event courses dealing with Sephardic and Hebrew Daphne Tsimhoni In addition, to these events, Middle Eastern Jewries, from medieval University Professor Judah Cohen, the Lou and Spain to modern Israel, are now offered. Jerusalem, will serve as the Rosenbloom Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of In cooperation with other programs, Visiting Scholar in Israel Studies, Jewish Culture, introduced new courses, the Sephardic Studies Initiative will host teaching two courses: “Jews, Muslims, including “Music in Judaism” and workshops and conferences on a range and Christians in Israel” and “The Arab- “What Makes It Jewish?”; created and of topics dealing with the cultures of Israeli Conflict.” Professor Tsimhoni is directed IU’s Jewish a cappella group Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jews. It the author of The Christian HooShir, which performed at the White will also organize lectures and cultural Communities in Jerusalem House Chanukah Party in December events, including concerts and film and the West Bank since 2006; and mentored pre-cantorial screenings, designed to present the rich 1948: An Historical, Social, students as he develops a pre-cantorial heritage of Sephardic and Middle and Political Study. She is program. Eastern Jewries to students, faculty, and currently writing The Jews of the larger community. Modern Iraq 1921-1952. We 6 Borns Jewish Studies Program

welcome Professor Tsimhoni to the gifted teacher and pedagogic innovator, YAEL Z ERUBAVEL Borns JSP and thank Dr. Mitchell Bard she graduated from HUJ. and the American-Israeli Cooperative Michal Maoz-Levy has been named Edward A. Block Lecture in JS venture for making her visiting Visiting Lecturer in Hebrew. A journalist Yael Zerubavel, Professor of JS and professorship possible. and prize-winning novelist, her literary History and the founding Director of career is well-noted in Israeli circles. She AYELET WEISS NAMED the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for has taught Hebrew and writing skills to the Study of IRECTOR OF ODERN D M students at Israeli and American schools, Jewish Life HEBREW PROGRAM including IU. at Rutgers The Borns JSP’s new Director of its University, Modern Hebrew Program, Ayelet Weiss 2007-2008 will deliver has many ambitions for the program: the 2007 implementing initiatives to make it one PROGRAMS Edward A. Block of the leading Modern Hebrew D ANIEL B ENJAMIN TO programs in the U.S., enhancing its Lecture in PEAK ON EACE IN advanced level courses, and expanding S P JS, “The its core first two-year courses. The THE M IDDLE E AST Last Frontier? Borns JSP had 156 students enrolled in “Europe and the Search for Peace in Yael Zerubavel Settlement, first, second, and third year Hebrew the Middle East” will be the topic of Ecology, and Tourism in the Israeli classes in fall 2006. Daniel Benjamin’s public lecture on the The program strives for all its Desert,” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, evening of Thursday, October 18. October 22 in the Oak Room of the graduates to have sufficient language Director of the Center on the U.S. and Indiana Memorial Union (IMU). She abilities for them to use Hebrew for Europe and a senior fellow in Foreign will also lead a JS faculty/ graduate future work or studies, both within and Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute, student workshop on “Images of outside the field of JS. The IU JSP hopes he is visiting IU under the auspices of the Antiquity and the Rhetoric of Renewal to soon offer new graduate-level courses European Union Center of Excellence’s in Contemporary Israeli Culture”. for Hebrew- Scholars-in-Residence program. He will Professor Zerubavel is the author of related have the opportunity to speak with JS Jennie Woolf Recovered Roots: Collective Memory research. students during his IU visit. and the Making of Israeli National Ayelet Before joining Brookings, Mr. Tradition (University of Chicago Press, Weiss came Benjamin was a senior fellow in the 1995), which won the 1996 Salo Baron to IU in fall International Security Program at the Prize of the American Academy for 2005 as a Center for Strategic and International Jewish Research, and numerous articles full-time Studies and served on the National exploring the relations between history lecturer in Security Council staff. From 1994-97, he and memory, nationalism and collective Modern served as foreign policy speech writer and identities, war and trauma, Israeli Hebrew special assistant to President Clinton. The political culture, and the Jewish language and th Ayelet Weiss author of several books, including the immigrant experience in the 20 linguistics. award-winning The Age of Sacred century. She is currently working on a Previously, she taught Hebrew at the Terror, Daniel Benjamin holds degrees book entitled Desert in the Promised University of Illinois for four years, from Harvard and Oxford Universities, Land: Nationalism, Politics, and where she is completing her doctoral where he was a Marshall Scholar. Symbolic Landscapes (under contract studies in computational linguistics. A with University of Chicago Press). P HOTOGRAPHS OF J EWS A ROUND THE Natan Sharansky will deliver the Hart and Simona W ORLD Hasten Visiting Fellows Lecture, “The Israeli-Palestinian Solotkin Lecture Conflict: What are the Prospects for Peace?” Monday, Zion Ozeri, a world-renowned November 12, 8 p.m., Whittenberger Auditorium, photographer who explores the Jewish Indiana Memorial Union experience on a global scale, will present his visual work as the 2007 Samuel and Indiana University 7

television talk between the shows and World Wars,” contributor to when she the French visits the IU media, JSP on Finkielkraut is Monday, professor of the February 4, history of ideas 2008. Dr. at the École Klapper polytechnique in teaches Paris. He has courses on authored many American, Melissa Klapper books including Jewish, and le Juif women’s history. Her research focuses on imaginaire the history of adolescence, education, “Naked Grapes” by Zion Ozeri (1983), in which and gender during the Gilded Age and Lillian Solotkin Lecturer in JS on he wrote about the ‘duty of memory’ the Progressive Era. Her publications Sunday evening, September 9, in the and The Future of a Negation: include Jewish Girls Coming of Age in Oak Room of the IMU. Born in Israel to Reflection on the Genocide Issue America, 1860-1920, NYU Press, 2005. immigrants from Yemen, Ozeri’s (1982). His debt to Emmanuel Levinas photographs capture images of Jews is found in The Wisdom of Love (2001). “GOD IN THE 21ST across the world. His striking In addition to Simona and Hart C ENTURY” photographs have been exhibited in Hasten, a principal co-sponsor of J OAN AND S AMUEL many museums worldwide. Professor Finkielkraut’s visit to IU is the N EW I NSTITUTE Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies A LAIN F INKIELKRAUT of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Spend Sunday, March 2, 2008, Museum in Washington, D.C. learning with some of the leading Jewish Noted French scholars in the country. The 13th Joan David Balicki Intellectual B AGHDADI J EWS OF and Samuel New Institute for the Study to Speak B URMA of Judaism and the Jews will be held that day at the Indianapolis JCC. The Borns Dr. Ruth Cernea, author of Almost The topic of this year’s biennial JSP looks Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British symposium will be “God in the 21st forward to a Burma (2007), will visit the Borns JSP Century.” Although the 21st century is major event, the on Tuesday, October 30, 2007, to speak still in its infancy, it has already become Simona and Hart about her latest book. Dr. Cernea is also clear that humanity’s relationship with Hasten Visiting the author of The Great Latke- God–and the struggle between different, Fellows Program Hamantash Debate (University of often competing, perspectives on that in JS, on Alain Finkielkraut Chicago Press, 2006), and The Passover relationship—will continue to play an Thursday, November 1, 2007, when one Seder: An Anthropological Perspective important part in our lives. At the 2008 of France’s most prominent intellectuals, on Jewish Culture (2nd edition, 1995). symposium, faculty from IU’s JSP will Alain Finkielkraut, will speak about She edited The Hillel Guide to Jewish explore Jewish notions of God in the new manifestations of antisemitism in Life on Campus, which has appeared in 21st century from philosophical, France and Europe. His lecture will 17 editions. religious, historical, and literary explore the discourse of universalism perspectives. The symposium is open to and humanism in France, and, at times M ELISSA K LAPPER the public and promises to be an its conflicted engagement with Jewish Jewish Women in the Suffrage, engaging, educational, and enlightening particularism. He will also discuss the day of learning. Save the date!! adaptability of antisemitism throughout Birth Control, and Peace French history, highlighting the recycling Movements of anti-Judaic tropes in the current Melissa Klapper, associate professor debate in France with respect to the of History at Rowan University, will Middle East conflict. speak about “Patriots and Pacifists: A frequent guest on French Jewish Women and the Peace Movement 8 Borns Jewish Studies Program

B ILL AND F RANCES D AVID M YERS (1995) was the first volume in the Schwartz J ULIAN P ROGRAM 2008 Helen and FOR I NTER- AND series published by the IU Martin Schwartz Press. Other IU Press I NTRA-FAITH books resulting from NDERSTANDING Lectures in JS U expanded forms of David Myers, Paula Fredriksen Schwartz Lectures include: Professor of Jewish Geoffrey Hartman’s The Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio History at UCLA and Longest Shadow: In the Professor of Scripture at Boston Director of the UCLA Aftermath of the University, will deliver the Borns JSP’s Center for JS, will be the Holocaust (1996); Arnold tenth in a notable line of Bill and Frances Julian Program for David Myers Eisen’s Taking Hold of Inter- and Intra-Faith Understanding speakers when he delivers Torah (1997); David lecture on The 2008 Helen and Martin Schwartz Roskies’ The Jewish Search for a Usable Thursday Lectures in JS “Rethinking Jewish Past (1999); Omer Bartov’s The “Jew” evening, Collectivity” on Tuesday, April 8 and in Cinema: From The Golem to Don’t March 27, Wednesday, April 9. Touch My Holocaust (2004); and, most 2008. Dr. Dr. Myers has published widely in recently, Samuel D. Kassow’s Who Will Fredriksen the field of Jewish intellectual and Write Our History? Emanuel has published cultural history. Among his publications Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the widely on the are Re-inventing the Jewish Past; The Oyneg Shabes Archive (2007). social and Jewish Past Revisited (co-edited with An endowment by Martin and the intellectual David Ruderman); From Ghetto to late Helen Schwartz ensures that the history of Emancipation (co-edited with William Schwartz Lectures in JS will continue in ancient Rowe); Enlightenment and Diaspora: Paula Fredriksen perpetuity and will be published by IU Christianity The Armenian and Jewish Cases (co- Press. from the late Second Temple period to edited with Richard Hovannisian); and the fall of the Roman Empire in the Resisting History: The Crisis of C ONFERENCE IN West. Her most recent study, Augustine Historicism in German-Jewish Thought. H ONOR OF P ROFESSOR and the Jews, is forthcoming from He is a completing a book on the M ORGAN Doubleday. twentieth-century Jewish thinker Simon Professor Fredriksen won a Rawidowicz and the Arab question. He Professor Michael Morgan, National Jewish Book Award for Jesus is also engaged in long-term research Chancellor’s Professor of JS and of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish projects on the Satmar Hasidic Philosophy, will be retiring at the end of Life and the Emergence of Christianity community of Kiryas Joel, New York this academic year after more than 30 (Knopf 1999). Together with Adele and the Los Angeles Jewish community. years at IU. To honor him, the JSP will be hosting a one-day conference on his Reinhartz, she edited and contributed to The Schwartz Lecture Series was outstanding contributions to philosophy Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti- inaugurated in 1993 by Sander Gilman, and modern Jewish thought on Monday, Judaism: Reading the New Testament whose Jews in Today’s German Culture After the Holocaust (Westminster/John Knox 2002). She has also edited and JSP AND ALUMNI SHARE regularly sent to alumni, and contributed to a collection of essays J OB O PPORTUNITIES alumni, in turn, share such news about Mel Gibson’s controversial film, VIA E-MAIL with the Borns JSP via e-mail. On “The Passion of the Christ” If you are a Borns JSP (University of California Press 2005). More than a decade ago, the alumnus/alumna and would like to Frances and the late Bill Julian Borns JSP established an e-mail job be on this e-mail job list, please e- endowed this annual JS program to network for Borns JSP alumni. The promote dialogue and understanding mail clipsonw@ indiana.edu. If you network enables our alumni to have been on the list but have between religious share information about job communities and among recently changed your e-mail openings. Throughout the year, e- different forms of Judaism. address, please send your new e-mail mail notes about employment address to [email protected]. opportunities related to JS are Indiana University 9

March 31, 2008. This will be a chance to celebrate his scholarship and learn about the past, present, and future of modern Jewish thought. If you would like to participate in the day’s activities, please contact Missy Deckard ([email protected]) at (812) 856-6014 for more information. Michael Morgan in the classroom owes much of its success to generous Memorial Museum and the IU Summer RESERVING IDDISH P Y funding from the NEH, as well as earlier Workshop in Slavic, East European, and The Archive of Historical and grants from the Atran Foundation and Central Asian Languages plans to host Ethnographic Yiddish Memories IU’s JSP, Russian and East European an Intensive Yiddish Course for (AHEYM), directed by Professors Dov- Institute, College Arts and Humanities Holocaust Research. This will be the Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger, Institute, Arts and Humanities Initiative, third time the course has been offered continued its work collecting video the President’s Council on International on the IUB campus. interviews with Yiddish-speakers in Programs, and a Multidisciplinary It is intended to assist graduate Eastern Europe. Over the last five years, Ventures Grant. Over the coming year, students and scholars in acquiring a AHEYM has conducted seven field AHEYM will search for new funding reading knowledge of Yiddish in order work expeditions to Ukraine, Moldova, opportunities to develop a permanent, to access Jewish source documentation Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and reliable, and user-friendly system of and perspectives on the Holocaust and Russia, interviewing Yiddish-speakers storage and retrieval in order to make thus better understand the Yiddish- about Jewish life before World War II, this uniquely important collection speaking communities of Europe and as well as their experiences during and available to researchers, teachers, and their responses to the assault by the after the war. The project focuses on the the public. Nazis and their allies. In conjunction collection of ethnographic and linguistic with the course, the JSP will be hosting materials, including Yiddish songs, INTENSIVE YIDDISH weekly public lectures on the Holocaust stories, and folklore. COURSE FOR and Yiddish culture by IU faculty, CAHS At present, the archive includes over HOLOCAUST RESEARCH staff, and other visiting scholars. For 500 hours of speech and footage of more information, see www.ushmm.org/ In summer 2008, IU, in conjunction Jewish life in Eastern Europe, all research/center/ or http://www.indiana. with the Center for Advanced Holocaust preserved on digital video. AHEYM edu/~iuslavic/swseel/. Studies (CAHS) of the U.S. Holocaust J EWISH S TUDIES I N M EMORIAM W ORKSHOPS Helen B. Schwartz JS workshops provide opportunities for the JS community of faculty and JSP faculty and friends lost a dear friend when graduate students to learn with visiting Helen B. Schwartz died on February 13, 2007, in and local scholars. On September 11, Muncie, Indiana. She and her husband Martin 2006, Professor Jeffrey Summit, Tufts Schwartz were devoted to education, both Jewish University, led the first JS workshop of and secular, and have been longtime supporters of the 2006-2007 year. Jewish history both the Borns JSP and the Harvard Center for JS. graduate student Jessica Alpert presented They jointly organized and conducted seminars in “The Jewish Community in El Salvador: several Oxford University colleges for the World An Oral History,” on October 20. A Helen B. Schwartz Business Council and established the national third workshop, “Thinking Schwartz Prize to recognize the best public with Shedim, What Can We humanities programs in the U.S. Among her numerous contributions, Helen was Learn from the ‘Mayse fun vice president of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and established Vorms’?” was led by Hoosier Bounty, which provided thousands of meals each year to public Professor Jeremy Dauber, agencies to feed people. 10 Indiana University

Columbia University (November 15). In Patsy’s many outstanding January, 2007, Professor Lisa Fetheringill contributions were not always visible to IU PRESS Zwicker, IU South Bend, spoke about the world outside Goodbody Hall, but PUBLICATIONS IN JS “The Making of Antisemites: German no one has done more to keep the JSP Student Life and Politics, 1890-1914.” JS running smoothly. Patsy provided superb Major contributions on the history doctoral minor and Anthropology oversight of our many operations. She of the Holocaust and the history and graduate student Evelyn Dean presented worked ceaselessly to make sure we were culture of Jews in the Sephardic world “Binding Memory in Mexico City: The using our funding in the most effective highlighted IU Press JS publications Syrian Jewish Past in Commemorative and responsible ways possible; furnished during the past year. Books” on March 2. In collaboration the director with expert advice about a Advocate for the Doomed: The with the Lilly Library, the final wide range of topics; and did much of Diaries and Papers of James G. workshop of the year, on April 16, the day-to-day work for our fund-raising McDonald, 1932-1935, edited by “Translating the Jews,” was a discussion efforts; to list only some of her many Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald led by Professor Barbara Harshav of contributions as a manager, fiscal officer, Stewart, and Severin Hochberg, and Yale University. Associate Director and troubleshooter. published in June 2007 in association Jeffrey Veidlinger is the convener of this One of Patsy’s passions is weaving— with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial series. an apt metaphor for her role in the JSP; Museum, brings to light the she helped interlace the numerous meticulously recorded entries in strands of the program into a coherent McDonald’s diaries, a previously whole. The JSP has been exceptionally unknown source on the early history of fortunate to have had the benefit of her the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt talents and dedication for much of its administration’s reactions to Nazi history; indeed, her long and persecution of German Jewry. exceptionally committed service to the McDonald (1886-1964) was a program is one of the main reasons we privileged witness to many of the key have been able to grow steadily over the events of the 20th century. League of years in both size and quality. This year Nations High Commissioner for was Patsy’s 25th with JS, a milestone we Refugees, he foresaw as early as 1933, marked at our last year-end dinner. The when he met personally with Hitler, the disaster that would befall European Patsy Ek faculty and her co-workers in JS want to reiterate our heartfelt appreciation for all Jewry and tirelessly sought aid to she has done for our faculty, students, resettle outside the Reich Jews and JSP CELEBRATES IU, and the larger community, and to others persecuted there. PATRICIA E K wish her all the best in her new position. Of special note for JSP newsletter readers is that McDonald, whose family Assistant Director Departs lived in Bloomington, received B.A. and after 25 Years M.A. degrees in history from IU in 1907 Patricia Ek, assistant director of our and 1911 and taught history and program, left the JSP for a higher politics at the university from 1914 to ranking position in the College of Arts 1917. He later served as the first U.S. and Sciences at the end of July 2007. Ambassador to Israel and received an Patsy’s promotion represents long honorary degree from IU. Advocate for overdue recognition from the university Readers may keep up with the Doomed is the first of three of her skillfulness, dedication, and news of the Borns JSP projected volumes that will offer outstanding professionalism. Those throughout the year via the significant new perspectives on the Holocaust, its genesis, and its aftermath. familiar with the inner workings of the internet at the JSP website: JSP will know what a loss this is for us. Also published in association with http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/ the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum E-mail users may contact the was the first English translation of Borns JSP at [email protected] Polish historian Isaiah Trunk’s monumental study Lód´z Ghetto: A History, ably translated and edited by Robert Moses Shapiro, which received Borns Jewish Studies Program 11

examines the complex intercommunal areas under German control. Originally relations between Jews and Arabs that collected in the 1940s under the developed direction of two renowned Soviet Jewish within the journalists, Vasily Grossman and Ilya mellah’s Ehrenburg, the original Russian texts of walls. these testimonies were not published Iberian until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jewish Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi: Literature: An Autobiography—the German and Between al- Early American Years, edited and Andalus introduced by Michael A. Meyer, offers and a glimpse into the unusual life and Christian personality of this unconventional and Europe by influential German-American rabbi. In Jonathan P. The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Decter Racial Science, and the Final Solution, acquaints Eric Ehrenreich traces the origins and Forward Magazine’s Bronze readers with implementation of the infamous method Award for History, and the by which citizens of the Third Reich Antisemitism, Christian beautiful proved their Aryan ancestry. Antisemitic Ambivalence, and the Holocaust, edited poetic literature of nostalgia and Myths: A Historical and Contemporary by Kevin P. Spicer, which probes the estrangement that emerged in the 12th Anthology, edited by Marvin Perry and presence of antisemitic thought in the and 13th centuries as Iberian Jews Frederick M. Schweitzer, presents theology and liturgical practice of relocated from Muslim to Christian primary texts that trace the powerful Europe’s Christian churches in the first domains. In Dying in the Law of Moses: and persistent myths that have half of the 20th century. Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the demonized Jews from antiquity up till Who Will Write Our History? Iberian World, Miriam Bodian profiles the present. Contemporary Jewish Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw the lives and fate of defiant, educated Writing in Europe: A Guide, edited by Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive crypto-Jewish martyrs during the Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden, maps by Samuel D. Kassow is the first book Inquisition, revealing unexpected the vitality and diversity of Jewish to detail the gripping story of the connections between Reformation writers and writing in European clandestine organization that thought and historic crypto-Judaism. countries today. Ringelblum established in Nazi- The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics Besides books, IU Press leads the occupied Warsaw to study and and Radical Disperson by Melanie field with JS journals as the publishers document all facets of Jewish life in Kaye/Kantrowitz challenges common of Aleph, History & Memory, Israel wartime Poland and to compile an assumptions about what defines Studies, Jewish Social Studies, Nashim, archive that would preserve this history Jewishness. Presenting in their own and Prooftexts. In addition to print for posterity. Buried in milk cans and tin voices Jews of color from the Iberian format, journals are available digitally boxes, the thousands of documents Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India, to subscribers through IUP’s recently amassed by the Oyneg Shabes Kaye/Kantrowitz argues that Jews are launched electronic publishing platform, collaborators, only two of whom an increasingly multiracial people. INscribe. survived, were unearthed after the war. Five new titles in JS and Holocaust Readers seeking further information Kassow’s absorbing book is based on his Studies will be published during the or wishing to order JS books and talks for the JSP’s Helen and Martin Press’s fall and winter season. The journals may visit IUP’s websites: Schwartz Lecture series. Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust http://iupress.indiana.edu for books and Three titles published during 2006- in the German-occupied Soviet http://inscribe. iupress.org for journals. 2007 focus on the history and culture of Territories, edited by Joshua Rubenstein Readers may also contact the Customer Sephardic Jewry. The Mellah of and Ilya Altman and published in Service Department, IU Press, 601 N. Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in association with the U. S. Holocaust Morton St., Bloomington, Morocco’s Red City by Emily Gottreich Memorial Museum, makes public for IN 47404; 1-800-842-6796; relates the history of the Jewish quarter the first time in English a revealing fax 812-855-7935. of Marrakesh, once the largest Jewish compilation of testimonies from Jews quarter in the Arab world, and who survived the Nazi regime in Soviet 12 Indiana University

2006-2007 JEWISH by Professor Peter Pulzer, All Souls College, University of S TUDIES P ROGRAM Oxford, April 16, 2007 L ECTURES AND “What was Special about E VENTS German Antisemitism?” by Professor Peter Pulzer, in “Cosmopolitanism, Post-Ethnicity, and the Indianapolis, April 17, 2007 New Jewish Diaspora” conference convened by Professors Nancy Levene and Shaul Co-sponsored events: Magid, August 20-22, 2006 Lecture (October 30) by Samuel & Lillian Solotkin Memorial Lecture Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Former Israeli Prime Minister and current Minister of Defense Ehud “From Memory to Action: The Role of of Israel, 1999-2001 Barak with JS students (left to right) Traci Stratford, Mark Swick, Lauren Berman, Joanna Blotner Holocaust Remembrance in Combating “Jewish Intellectuals and the Genocide Today,” by Jerry Fowler, U.S. Question of Modernity in Romania” by February 26, 2007 Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 12, Leon Volovici, Hebrew University of “Visualizing the Leo Frank Case on the 2006. (For more information about the Jerusalem, November 14, 2006 Televisual New Frontier: Profiles in Courage situation in Darfur, see the museum’s website - Governor John M. Slaton,” by Professor at http://www. ushmm.org/googleearth/. “Deportation Transit and Captive Bodies: Re-Thinking Holocaust Witnessing,” by Matthew Bernstein, Emory University, Edward A. Block Lecture Professor Simone Gigliotti, Victoria March 1, 2007 “Fitting Memorials: American Jews Confront University of Wellington, New Zealand, The Paul Lucas Conference in History, the Catastrophe, 1945-1967,” by Professor December 5, 2006 March 3, 2007 Hasia Diner, New York University, October 16, 2006 “Melville’s Inconsolable Rachel and the Rise “The Uncouth Nation: Why the Europeans of Women’s Bibles,” by Professor Ilana Dislike America,” by Professor Andrei The Inaugural James S. Ackerman Lecture Pardes, HUJ, February 12, 2007 Markovitz, University of Michigan, March “The Genesis of Genesis: The Biblical ‘Big 27, 2007 Bang’” by Professor Shalom Paul, Hebrew “Navigating through Different Times and University of Jerusalem, November 15, 2006 Spaces,” IU Germanic Studies graduate Showing of the film “Live and Become,” student conference, February 16-18, 2007 March 28, 2007 Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lecture “The Non-Jew as Woman: Engendering the The Institute for Advanced Study’s lecture by IU Patten Lectures: Pearl Gluck, Rutgers University, “Two Steps Christian and Muslim Other in Kabbalistic “The Second Thirty Years’ War: Europe Back: Uprooting the Autodocumentary,” Symbolism,” by Professor Elliot Wolfson, 1914-1945,” (March 27, 2006) and “The February 20, 2007 New York University, March 29, 2007 Historian and His Own Time: A Witness of th Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecture for the Study “Sacred Death During the Holocaust: On the 20 Century History,” (March 29, 2007) by of Germans and Jews Christian Implications” by Professor Professor Fritz Stern, Columbia University “German Historians and Germany’s Jews,” Gershon Greenberg, American University,

endowed Chairs—a singular Louis Mervis Danville, IL Gerald Paul Indianapolis JSP ADVISORY accomplishment—along with Sybil Mervis Danville, IL Dr. Mark Pescovitz Carmel, IN Dr. Ora Pescovitz Carmel, IN student scholarships and Advisory Board BOARD A John Rose Bloomington fellowships, endowed Lawrence Adelman Fort Wayne The Borns JSP benefits Judith Rose Bloomington lectureships, programs, and Steven Ancel Carmel, IN Martin Schwartz Muncie from the leadership and academic initiatives. They are Nancy Bate Carmel, IN Norman Sider Indianapolis counsel of an outstanding an extraordinary group, Sandra Borns Indianapolis Sidney Tuchman Indianapolis Executive Committee and enormously talented and Dr. Peter Cahn Indianapolis Sally Zweig Indianapolis Susan Cahn Indianapolis Advisory Board drawn from deeply committed to Honorary Board community members in Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn New York education and Jewish culture. Theodore Cohn New York Eugene Bate Carmel, IN Indiana and supporters of IU We are very grateful to our Claudette Einhorn Indianapolis Alice Berkowitz Indianapolis from around the country. members for their time and Benjamin Eisbart Fort Wayne Edward Dobrow Muncie These committed people, led commitment to the program Irving Glazer Indianapolis Betty Fleck Marion, IN by Advisory Board president and its students. June Herman Indianapolis Janice Goodman Highland Park, IL Dr. Mark Pescovitz Francine Hurwitz Indianapolis Henry Levinsky Northbrook, IL and vice president Executive Committee Dr. Louis Lemberger Carmel, IN Judy Liff-Barker Nashville, TN Robert Borns Indianapolis Flo Mary Mantel Indianapolis Sidney Mishkin Indianapolis Dr. Peter Cahn, Ilene New Granger, IN Frank Newman Indianapolis have been crucial Dr. Ruth Feinberg Indianapolis Jay Glazer Mercer Island, WA Jeffrey New Granger, IN M. Mendel Piser South Bend for the program’s Leonard Goldstein Fort Wayne Gale Nichols Bloomington Jack Schuster Del Mar, CA success, raising Bobbi Kroot Columbus, IN Dorit Paul Indianapolis Harry Sebel Dallas, TX funds for six Andrew Mallor Bloomington Professor Eloise Paul Indianapolis Robert Walters Fort Wayne Borns Jewish Studies Program 13

year we host a gathering of Friends, I invite you to become a member FRIENDS usually featuring a special lecture or of our community: “What is the good way a person should cultural presentation. On April 25, Friend: $500 or above follow? Rabbi Joshua said, ‘Being a good 2007, Friends of the Borns JSP were JSP Alumni (2002-2007): $36 friend.’”—Pirke Avot 2:9 treated to an enjoyable jazz concert by Please mail your check payable to the Israeli sextet led by Mattan Klein, “IUF/Jewish Studies Program,” to the ECOME A RIEND OF B F at the Indianapolis JCC. address listed below. Friends’ gifts are THE B ORNS J EWISH 2) Special Access to Events. Every tax deductible to the extent allowed by S TUDIES P ROGRAM year the Borns JSP and the Institute for law. The generosity of our Friends has Jewish Culture and the Arts host a If you have any questions about been key to making IU a major center number of special events: guest lectures, the Friends group or opportunities for for Jewish learning, opening up arts exhibits, concerts, and other kinds establishing permanent endowments in innumerable doors for our students, of programs. Friends will receive support of JS, please contact me at the scholars, and the larger public. advance notice of these events and, in Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana Becoming a Friend is also a way to select cases, guaranteed seating or University, Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 develop one’s own engagement in discounted tickets (New Institute, East Third Street, Bloomington, IN Jewish scholarship and culture. To March 2, 2008). 47405-7005, tel: 812-855-8358; express its appreciation, the program 3) An Expanded Reading List. We [email protected]. offers the following educational are able to offer Friends a 20% With much appreciation, opportunities to members of the discount on all IU Press books. IU Dr. Steven Weitzman Friends group: Press is one of the leading academic Director 1) The Friends “Gathering.” Each publishers, especially in the field of JS. GRADUATE STUDENT the history of the Holocaust and 20th News of our Ph.D. Alumni century Germany, Sephardi history in Michah Gottlieb is assistant NEWS Spain and the Sephardi diaspora, the professor of Hebrew and JS at NYU. history of pre-state Palestine and The Borns JSP has a wider array of Adam Rovner, assistant professor of Jerusalem, and the European 18th disciplines represented among the Hebrew comparative literature at century. growing number of JS graduate students Hofstra University, is translations editor RS students may focus on Jewish than many other universities— of ZEEK : A Jewish Journal of Thought Thought and Culture concentrating on Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Culture. Jill Smith is an assistant biblical studies, rabbinic thought and English, Germanic Studies, History, professor in the German Department at culture, medieval Jewish thought and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Bowdoin College, where she teaches, culture, modern and post-modern Philosophy, and Religious Studies (RS). among other subjects, courses in JS. Jewish thought and culture, Judaism in Graduate students can thus expect to be Angela White is teaching history at comparative perspective, mysticism and part of a truly interdisciplinary Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Hasidism, and Judaism and gender. endeavor. Students interested in ancient Judaism Within the History Department, Eight Graduate Students (Hebrew Bible, early Judaism [through graduate students may major in Jewish Receive Funding 200 C.E.], or rabbinic Judaism) should history for their master’s and doctoral apply to the RS department through the For the 2007-2008 year, we are degrees. Particular strengths include East field of Ancient Mediterranean and pleased to award graduate fellowships European and Russian Jewish history, Near Eastern Religions. and awards to eight students. The 2007- 2008 Alice Ginott Cohn, Ph.D. and I N M EMORIAM Theodore Cohn Fellowship was awarded to Angela Kilsdonk. Angela Sol Blickman received her B.A. in History from the Sol Blickman, who died on November 26, 2006, was a longtime University of Wisconsin with a 4.0 GPA. supporter and member of the advisory board of the Borns JSP. An alumnus This fall, she began her of IU, he was a leading citizen of Indianapolis. A recipient of the studies at IU in the History Distinguished Hoosier Award, Sol served as president of school boards, Department and JS and will Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, and the Kiwanis Club of Downtown focus her studies on the Indianapolis. We honor his memory. Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Angela studied 14 Indiana University

Honorable Ezra and Linda Dr. Louis and Myrna Lemberger Sheldon Sandman DONOR Friedlander Margo Lemberger Tracie Sands Rabbi Joan Friedman and Leslie and Kathleen Lenkowsky Rabbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso HONOR ROLL Nancy Heiden Bradley and Cheryl Lenser Dr. Joseph and Florence Schachter (As of July 6, 2007) Professor George and Esther Gaber Herbert and Bernice Levetown Gary and Phyllis Schahet Dr. Edward and Phyllis Gabovitch Irwin Levin Margot Levin Schiff Professor James and Alex Ackerman Professor Wendy Gamber Richard Levine Rabbi Stacy Schlein and Lawrence and Carol Adelman Michael and Rachel Garmisa Elliot and Chris Lewis Jeremy Sosin Debby Allmayer and James Williams Barry Gellers Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and Robert and Alice Schloss Dr. Annette Alpert and Professor Bernard and Jean Glazer George Walker Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Darrell Haile Cynthia Glazer Lewis Litzky and Suzanne Jack and Sherron Schuster Joseph Alpert Irving and Pat Glazer Simpson-Litzky Professor Drew Schwartz Shirley Backer Jay and Marsha Glazer Ernest and Ellen Lorch Martin and Helen* Schwartz Stephen Backer Eugene and Marilyn Glick Amelia Cook Lurvey Elizabeth Borns Shapiro and Dr. Stephen and Barbara Bailie Fritz and Caroline Goldbach Professor James and Jeanne Madison Jonathan Shapiro Sylvia Bankoff Professor Halina Goldberg Professor Jane and Andrew Mallor Dr. Paul Shapiro Lillian Barr Winifred Goldblatt Thomas and Flo Mary Mantel Dr. Reuben and Leona Shevitz Eugene and Nancy Bate Rosalie Goldman Mary Ann Margolis Dr. Stephen and Caryl Shideler Ann Belth Alan and Caron Goldstein Professors Herbert Marks and Rabbi Susan Shifron Professor Joseph and Marge Belth Dr. Kenneth and Mary Goldstein Perry Hodges Professor Leah Shopkow Sarah Beren Leonard and Rikki Goldstein Herbert and Linda Melrose Kathleen Sideli Dr. Daniel Berg Honorable Evan and Lynda Ronald Mendelblat Norman Sider Leonard and Alice Berkowitz Goodman Tilden and Cathy Mendelson Philip and Doris Siegel Mildred Bern Professor Kenneth Gros Louis David and Beth Merkes Greg and Renny Silver Dr. Ellis Berne Jack and Sondra Gross Merrill Lynch and Company Curtis and Judy Simic Michael and Margery Bluestein John and Rita Grunwald Louis and Sybil Mervis David and Emily Sirota Professor John and Donna Bodnar Jennifer Gubitz Perry and Nancy Metz Cindy Simon Skjodt and Paul Skjodt Joseph Borinstein Joshua Hamerman Dr. David Miller Jeffrey and Heather Smulyan Emily Borns Marie Harf Lindsey and Jason Mintz Natalie Smulyan Robert and Sandra Borns Earl and Carla Harris Sidney and Sharon Mishkin Howard Socol Stephanie Borns Hart and Simona Hasten Marvin and Susan Mitchell Professor Bruce Solomon and Brandi Borr and John Domagalski Professors Kenneth and Audrey James and Jacqueline Morris Susan Swartz Donald Breiter Heller Professor Lawrence Moss and Professors Dina and Martin Spechler Barry and Kathryn Brown June Herman Madeline Hirschland Professor Murray and Anita Sperber Dr. Peter and Susan Cahn Stanley Herman Professor Benjamin Nathans and Nicole Spiegel Robert and Shirley Caresky Thomas and Janie Herman Nancy Silverman Gary and Anne Steigerwald Carl and Shirley Cohen David and Evey Herschler Frances Nelson Steven and Caryl Steinberg Charles and Karen Cohen Evan Hershenson Joan New Monique Stolnitz Cheryl Cohen Bernard Horwitz and Harriet Frank and Dorothy Newman Donna Strnad Ronald and Nancy Cohen Mossler-Horwitz R. Adam and Eafat Newton Dr. Lawrence and Sandi Tavel Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Dr. Roger and Francine Hurwitz Daniel and Gale Nichols Professor Roger and Claudette Theodore Cohn Marshall and Judith Jacobs Professor Mitchell and Judith Novit Temam Melvin and Betty Cohn Dr. Martin and Irene Jacobs Gary and Elissa Okin Adam and Sara Tennen Daniel Cook Professor Bruce and Lea Jaffee Dr. Bernard and Renee Oppenheim Jeffrey and Nancy Trockman Rachel Daniels Jewish Community Council of Mark Oring Stanley and Sandra Trockman Dr. Charles and Myra Echt Evansville Gerald and Dorit Paul Sidney and Charlene Tuchman Professor Thomas and Ellen Ehrlich Valerie Joseph Pearson Education United Technologies Corporation Dr. Lawrence and Claudette Einhorn Frances Julian Professor Derek and Robin Penslar Professor Jeffrey and Rebecca Benjamin and Sharon Eisbart Professor Michael Kaganovich and Arthur and Sondra Percy Veidlinger Yosh and Orly Eisbart Ella Liderman Drs. Mark and Ora Pescovitz Alberto and Paulina Waksman Professor Paul Eisenberg and Lana Professor Stephen and Eileen Katz M. Mendel and Frances Piser Professor Eugene and Frances Ruegemer Eisenberg Barton and Judy Kaufman Professor William and Prema Popkin Weinberg James and Patricia Ek Professor Dov-Ber and Miriam Pullman Dr. Myron and Myrna Weinberger Eli Lilly and Company Roberta Kerler Beth Rasmussen Dr. Harvey and Carin Weingarten Leon and Judy Faitek Professor Idalene Kesner and Jamie Ratner Douglas and Jill Weinstein Dr. Ruth Feinberg Paul Robins Lawrence and Candice Reuben N. William and Bebe Weinstein Professor Henry Fischel John King Sara Reuben Professor Steven Weitzman and Rabbi Dr. Nathan and Leslie Fischman Robert and Judith Koor Joseph and Roberta Rezits Mira Wasserman Donald and Myra Fisher Rosey Krakovitz Dr. Sydney Rome Dr. Judith Wertheim JoEllen and Victor Fitzgerald Thomas Kramer Judith and A John Rose II Horst and Margaret Winkler Betty Fleck Arthur and Bobbi Kroot Professor Mark Roseman Linda Wisen* Robert and Bonnie Forman Martin and Natalie Kroot Ruben Rosenblatt Herbert Wolf and Lorraine Denaburg Fort Wayne Jewish G. Irving Latz Professors Michael Rosenblum and Wolf Federation Sarah Lawson Susan Nelson Walter and Joan Wolf Irving and Barbara James and Katherine Lazerwitz Professor Alvin and Erna Rosenfeld Dr. Douglas and M. Joan Zipes Freeman Carolyn Leeds Mr. and Mrs. Andy Rubenstein Daniel and Beth Zweig Professor Matthias Lehmann and Gordon Rubenstein Professor Maurice and * Denotes deceased Barbara Friedberg Miriam Mora-Quilon Jeffrey and Susan Rubenstein Lory Friedfertig Alan and Katherine Leis Dr. Marc and Helen Rubenstein Borns Jewish Studies Program 15

Russian recipient of Program. Jolanta’s dissertation-in- language at the Friends progress on Jewish women in interwar Wisconsin of the Borns Poland and Lithuania received and Yiddish Graduate honorable mention at the NWSA Jewish this summer Fellowship. Women’s Caucus. in Vilnius, Devi Lithuania. Mays joined Two JS Doctoral Minors She hopes us this Receive Reuben Scholarships to pursue a August with Elizabeth Lambert and Amy career in support from Shapiro, doctoral students in Jewish archival The Glazer history, received the 2007-08 Sara and Angela Kilsdonk research, Family Devi Mays Albert Reuben Scholarships to Support perhaps at Fellowship. the Study of the Holocaust. Elizabeth, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Working principally with Professor who also received a Fulbright IIE Award She was attracted to IU because of its Matthias Lehmann, she will study the for 2007-08, will devote her dissertation strong programs in Yiddish Studies, historical encounter between Sephardic to exploring the politics of Russian and East European Studies, and Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman commemoration in 20th century Holocaust Studies. Empire. Devi received a B.A. in RS and Germany through the lenses of Three current IU graduate students a minor in Near Eastern Studies at the Buchenwald and Weimar. Elizabeth will Margot Behrend, Barbara Krawcowicz, University of British Columbia use the Reuben Scholarship to and Larissa Privalskaya received Alice (Canada). She has spent the last year underwrite her dissertation research in Field Cohn Awards in Yiddish Studies. studying Modern Hebrew at the Germany. During the past year, Last year, Margot Behrend was awarded University of California Berkeley, and Elizabeth was named a Holocaust the Alice Ginott Cohn, Ph.D. and Turkish and Ladino at Bogazici Education Fellow as well as a Center for Theodore Cohn Fellowship to University in Istanbul, Turkey. She has Education and Discipline-Based support her graduate study of received numerous academic Scholarship in Education Fellow. Yiddish language and awards in JS and RS. It is Amy Shapiro will use the Reuben literature in the thanks to the Glazer Scholarship funds to look at Yiddish Comparative Family Fellowship and language sources at YIVO Literature the excellent resources contemporary with the Holocaust in Department. RS/JS available at IU that we order to study how Yiddish authors doctoral candidate were able to bring this have represented their perpetrators. Barbara truly exceptional Krawcowicz’s book student here. 2008-2009 GRADUATE William James: Two additional F ELLOWSHIP AND Pragmatyzm I religia Glazer Family Fellowships AWARDS C OMPETITION (William James: Pragmatism were awarded to advanced IU and Religion) Wroclaw: Wroclaw JS doctoral minors. Amy Shapiro, Glazer Family Fellowships University Press, published in the who is researching the relationship The Friends of the Borns Jewish Studies Foundation for Polish Science between perpetrators and victims during Program Fellowship Monograph Series, will appear soon. the Holocaust, will use her fellowship to The Alice Ginott Cohn, Ph.D. and The book, based on Barbara’s spend a semester conducting dissertation Theodore Cohn Fellowship for dissertation written for her first Ph.D. at research at YIVO in New York. A third Graduate Students working in Yiddish the University of Warsaw, is devoted to Glazer Family Fellowship was awarded Language, Literature or Culture William James’ philosophy of religion, to Dan Clasby, who is writing a The Yiddish Graduate Fellowship for and aims to present this part of James’ dissertation on the Jewish community of Graduate Students Working in Yiddish thought as an integral, if not central, Italy during World War II, focusing on Language, Literature, or Culture aspect of his pragmatism. Barbara is how the Holocaust played out on a local pursuing studies for a second Ph.D. at level in Florence. The Borns JSP offers fellowships for IU in RS and JS. Larissa Privalskaya, a Jolanta Mickute, who spent the students accepted into a doctoral candidate in Comparative summer at YIVO Institute in New York, graduate degree program at Literature and JS studying with was awarded the Borns JSP Graduate IU who show clear promise Professor Dov-Ber Kerler, was awarded Fellowship in Yiddish Studies. She will of dedicating themselves to the George and Monique Stolnitz spend the 2007-2008 year on the scholarship within one of the Yiddish Prize. She came to IU as the Warsaw University-IU Exchange core areas of JS. Each 16 Indiana University fellowship provides a stipend starting at their places as knowledgeable bearers of $15,000 and a fee remission and can be Jewish prayer and song in the 21st tied to multi-year packages. Prospective century. students must apply for admission to a graduate degree program at IU and send FOUR–YEAR SCHOLARSHIP a copy of their completed application COMPETITION and request that letters of recommend- Outstanding High School ation be forwarded to: Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, The Robert A. and Sandra S. Freshman Should Apply Before Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana February 29, 2008 University, Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 E. Monique Stolnitz and Ryan Kilgore The Borns JSP is pleased to offer Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405- two four-year scholarships to support 7005. Each application will be in the study of Yiddish language or literature, and/or the history in which outstanding incoming JS students considered for all relevant fellowship through their entire college educations. opportunities. Review of applications Yiddish culture took root and flourished. Thanks to the generous support of will begin on January 15, 2008. Rosey and the late Karl Krakovitz of Currently graduate students affiliated Bloomington, Sarah Wilensky of St. with the JSP are pursuing degrees in UNDERGRADUATE Paul, Minnesota, an incoming Anthropology, Comparative Literature, NEWS freshman this fall, received the Folklore and Ethnomusicology, inaugural Karl and Rosey Krakovitz Germanic Studies, History, Near Eastern Pre-Cantorial Initiative Scholarship. (See page 4.) Languages and Culture, Philosophy, Starting in fall 2008, students with Outstanding current high school Religious Studies, and The Russian and an interest in becoming cantors can seniors, applying to IU for fall 2008 and East European Institute. The Borns JSP prepare for their careers through a committed to JS, may apply for 2 four- also offers a doctoral minor for students special sequence of courses chosen in year ($5,000 per year) scholarships: the pursuing a Ph.D. in a degree-granting conjunction with the Jacobs School of inaugural Martha Ann Mervis program at IU. Music, the Hebrew Union College Scholarship and the inaugural M. RYAN K ILGORE School of Sacred Music, and the Jewish Mendel and Frances M. Piser Theological Seminary’s H. L. Miller Scholarship. We are indebted to two Wins George and Monique Cantorial School. Coordinated by Judah couples, Lou and Sybil Mervis and Stolnitz Yiddish Prize M. Cohen, Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair Mendel and Francis Piser, long-time in the Study of Jewish Culture, this supporters of the JSP, who stepped Ryan Kilgore, an M.A. student in arrangement is intended to develop into forward in such an exceptional way. In Russian East European Studies working a full-fledged pre-cantorial track that future years, we will be able to offer on Yiddish film in the Soviet Union, combines two of IU’s greatest strengths: additional four-year scholarships thanks won the 2007 George and Monique JS and music study. Our goal is to make to the generosity of Leonard and Rikki Stolnitz Yiddish Prize. He completed his IU a key training ground for the next Goldstein, Arthur and Bobbi Kroot, and first year of Yiddish at IU and continued generation of American Jewish Irving and Pat Glazer. his studies this past summer at Vilnius synagogue musicians. Incoming freshmen applying for JS University in Lithuania. He recently Both music school students and JS scholarships will also be considered for received a FLAS to continue his studies students will be able to embark upon this three one-year scholarships: the $5,000 of Yiddish here at IU in 2007-2008. course of study, which includes courses Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Professor Dov-Ber Kerler, Dr. Alice Field in Hebrew, music theory, music history, Scholarship and two $4,000 Irving M. Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies, writes: Jewish history, Jewish music, and vocal Glazer Student Scholarships for Incoming “Mr. Kilgore is an exceptionally performance. In addition, pre-cantorial Freshmen. For information about how to motivated and highly talented graduate students will have the opportunity to apply for these scholarships, please see student.” meet regularly for films, discussions, and details about the application procedure at An expression of Monique and the meetings with special guests relating to http://www. indiana.edu/~jsp/ late George Stolnitz’s strong Jewish music and the cantorate. They glazerscholarship.htm. The application commitment to the will also have the chance to be mentored deadline is February 29, 2008. advancement of education in by established cantors from the area. Incoming freshmen in fall 2007 Yiddish language and Upon graduation, students will be receiving one-year JS scholarships are culture, the prize is awarded prepared to excel in the cantorial school Leslie Gubitz of Fort Wayne, Indiana, annually to a student who of their choice, and ultimately to take recipient of the Robert A. and Sandra S. shows the greatest promise Borns Jewish Studies Program 17

Borns Scholarship for an Incoming Dean’s List every semester she Freshman; and Jacqueline Wolff of has been a student in the College Prospect, Kentucky and Jillian Cogan of of Arts & Sciences, received the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, recipients of the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation 2007-2008 Irving M. Glazer Scholarship. Professor Shaul Scholarships for Incoming Students in JS. Magid, who has taught Bridget for three semesters, wrote: “Her S CHOLARSHIPS & comments, always astute and on- I NTERNSHIPS FOR point, helped make the class a Riley Holzman, Jessica Wainer, Emily Berman, David Orenstein C ONTINUING learning experience for everyone four superb freshmen, all in the JS U NDERGRADUATES . . . She is intensely engaged in the Freshman Interest Group, who earned material.” perfect or near perfect grade point Nine outstanding continuing JS The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns averages in the fall. They are Emily major and area certificate students Merit Scholarships recognize, regardless Berman of Louisville; Riley Holzman of received more than $22,000 of of financial need, the academic Santa Barbara, California; David scholarship and internship funding for achievement of truly outstanding IU Orenstein of Belmont, Michigan; and the current year. undergraduates, majoring or pursuing Jessica Wainer of Oak Park, Illinois. Bridget Coraz of Indianapolis, a an area certificate or a Hebrew minor in Emily Berman was also chosen to serve senior majoring in JS and Political JS. Merit scholarships were awarded to as this year’s Robert A. and Sandra S. Science who has been named to the

J EWISH S TUDIES P ROGRAM E NDOWMENTS We express heartfelt thanks to the • The Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in • The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program following donors, who have most Jewish Studies in Jewish Culture and the Arts generously established endowment funds Leonard and Rikki Goldstein Sondra and Arthur Percy within JS (as of July 9, 2007): • The Leonard M. and Ruth K. • The Percy Family Endowment Mildred L. Bern Goldstein Endowment in Jewish Louis* and Leonore* Piser • The Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay Studies • The Leonore and Louis Piser Prize Competition • The Leonard M. And Ruth K. Mendel and Frances Piser The Estate of Edward A. Block Goldstein Scholarship • M. Mendel and Frances M. Piser • The Edward A. Block Lecture John and Rita Grunwald Scholarship Robert and Sandra Borns • The Pearl Schwartz Memorial Sara and Albert* Reuben • The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Program in Judaism and the Arts • The Sara and Albert Reuben Jewish Studies Program Endowment J. William* and Frances Julian Scholarships in Holocaust Studies • The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns • The Julian Endowment in Jewish Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Fellowship Studies • The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn and Rosey Krakovitz Chair in Modern Judaism Theodore Cohn • Karl and Rosey Krakovitz Scholarship Martin and *Helen Schwartz • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Arthur and Bobbi Kroot • The Helen and Martin Schwartz Yiddish Studies • The Roberta and Arthur Kroot Scholars Program • The Alice Ginott Cohn, Ph.D. and Scholarship Samuel Solotkin* Theodore Cohen (Yiddish) Fellowship Andrew and Jane Mallor • The Samuel and Lillian Solotkin • The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Award in • Henry Fischel, Ph.D. Scholarship Memorial Lecture Yiddish Studies Lou and Sybil Mervis George* and Monique Stolnitz Melvin and Betty Cohn • The Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in • The George and Monique Stolnitz • The Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute the Study of Jewish Culture Yiddish Prize in Jewish Studies • Martha Ann Mervis Scholarship Stanley and Sandra Trockman Irving and Pat Glazer Drs. Beatrice* and David Miller • The Sandra and Stanley Trockman • The Glazer Family Fellowship • The Drs. Beatrice S. and David I. Scholarship • The Irving M. Glazer Scholarships Miller Endowment for Jewish Culture Alberto and Paulina Waksman • The Irving Glazer Scholarship and the Arts • The Alberto and Paulina A. Waksman Jay and Marsha Glazer Samuel* and Joan New Scholarships • The Glazer Family Fellowship • The Joan and Samuel New Institute • The Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish for the Study of Judaism and the Jews *Denotes deceased Studies Gerald and Dorit Paul • The Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish • The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program Studies for the Study of Germans and Jews 18 Indiana University

Borns Administrative Intern working for Jorie is now working toward a Dr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker. master’s degree in Theatre Inna Kolesnikova was the sole Research at the University of recipient of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Wisconsin-Madison. She plans to Borns Scholarship for 2007-2008. An analyze the conflicts between international studies and political different Jewish cultures in Israel, science major, completing both a JS and and, in the future, use what she non-profit management area certificates learns to help Israeli teens deal and the Hebrew minor, she has been with these issues on stage. involved in a remarkable number of Jorie Slodki (middle) and her parents The Piser Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding initiatives related to Israel education on Borns Merit Scholarship, the Hebrew graduating JS B.A., area certificate, or the IU campus. University Merit Scholarship (for study Hebrew minor student who is planning The tenth recipient of the Sandra there in spring 2006), and the Ronald further graduate work in JS and a career and Stanley Trockman Scholarship in JS Hunter Scholarship in JS. She was in the field. Through the Piser Prize and is Hannah Bolter, a second year JS and honored with a College of Arts and other initiatives, the Borns JSP hopes to Journalism major from Lenexa, Kansas. Sciences’ Intensive Writing Prize for her demonstrate to our graduating seniors She also was awarded the Edward M. paper, “Comfort in Exile: Jewish the high value of careers in JS. Making Dayan Scholarship in JS. Hannah wrote: Women in India.” Among her many the award possible were the late “I have learned more about Judaism and volunteer activities she was a legal Leonore and Louis Piser, of South Bend. Jewish culture in the four classes I took advocacy volunteer for Middle Way my freshman year than I have up to this House. point in my life.” J ORIE S LODKI New Scholarships Recognize distinguished founding member of the AWARDED P ISER P RIZE Two Professors Emeriti JS faculty Professor Henry Fischel, was celebrated at a December dinner Outstanding JS Graduate Two inaugural scholarships, both with donors Jane and Andy Mallor Jorie Slodki, who graduated in May in honor of esteemed emeriti JS and Professor Henry Fischel in 2007 with a JS area certificate, the first professors were awarded for the attendance. The genesis of the JSP minor in Yiddish Studies, and majors in current year: Cheryl Steiman of began with Henry Fischel, professor Anthropology and Theatre & Drama, Indianapolis, a junior with a perfect emeritus of Near Eastern languages was awarded the Leonore and Louis GPA who has focused her Piser Prize in JS. Of a graduating class of JS course work on Jewish 44 students, Jorie was deemed the most history, was the first outstanding graduating JS student. She recipient of The Irving Katz plans to pursue a career related to JS. Scholarship in JS, a Jorie brought innovative Jewish scholarship made possible programming to IU as the co-chair of by the generosity of Irving’s Hillel’s Jewish Arts Council for which colleagues, students, and she directed “The Diary of Anne Frank” friends. Professor Katz, a and “Brooklyn Boy.” She embodies the beloved member of the JS program’s goal of integrating academic and History faculties for 38 studies into all areas of interest and years until his retirement in Rachel Harrison and Professor Henry Fischel showing that JS is relevant to many 2002, taught one of the most fields. popular courses at IU for many and cultures, who pioneered the A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Jorie decades, “American Jewish History”. teaching of Jewish subject matter at was an internal Wells Scholar Finalist. Rachel Harrison, a JS major from IU more than 35 years ago. His She was awarded the George and Boulder, Colorado, studying this scholarship in Judaism in Hellenistic Monique Stolnitz Yiddish semester at Hebrew University in and Roman times is revered. Rachel Prize and is a Hutton Jerusalem (HUJ), was honored as the Harrison was also awarded The Percy Honors College Metz first recipient of the Henry Fischel Family Scholarship, made possible by Scholar. She received the Scholarship in JS. This new Sondra and Arthur Percy of College’s Abel Scholarship, scholarship, honoring a most Matawan, New Jersey. the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program 19

B ERN E SSAY P RIZE that end, the 2006-2007 leadership of VP Riley Holzman, Secretary Emily W INNER the Jewish Studies Student Association Berman, and Treasurer Rebecca (JSSA) —President Samantha Leapman, Waxman. In 2007-2008, the JSSA looks Michelle Greco VP Sarah Kaplan, Secretary Rebecca forward to co-sponsoring Israeli dancing Frazin, and Treasurer Traci Stratford— nights, organized by Professor Judah A paper written for Professor Mark organized a full calendar of student- Cohen. Roseman’s “Perpetrators of the faculty events. Holocaust” course, “Analysis of The year began with Borns JSP POPULAR JS Holocaust References in Political Director Steve Weitzman and his family, FRESHMAN LIVING- Rhetoric,” by Michelle Greco, a junior Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Yosi Weitzman, LEARNING GROUP from Fishers, Indiana, received the 2007 and Hillel Weitzman hosting JS students Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay Prize in for an Israeli dinner at their home on JS. One faculty member described September 5 and ended with the gala Michelle’s paper: “This excellent essay student-faculty dinner on April 24 when offers a deep, penetrating analysis of HooShir provided the entertainment. Holocaust discourse in political speeches On September 14, JS students and in the world today. The study is rich, faculty filled the Hoosier Room for the detailed, and focused on the primary popular annual JS fall dessert. Every sources. It shows how officials and Tuesday in the fall and every Wednesday JS FIG students Mark Swick, David Orenstein, and pundits tend to evoke the Holocaust the Jonathan Klein most when they can do the least to stop the genocidal political crisis being There just addressed. . . An amazingly clear and wasn’t enough room persuasive essay.” this year (the 9th) for A major in Political Science and the many students History with minors in Economics, wanting to French, and Western European Studies, participate in the JS Michelle is also completing the LAMP Freshman Interest (Liberal Arts Management Program.) A Group (FIG). The JS stellar student, Michelle has received a FIG filled up long Byrd Scholarship, a Hutton Honors (Left to right) JSSA officers Traci Stratford, Rebecca Frazin, Samantha before summer Leapman, and Sarah Kaplan plan the year with Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, College Scholarship, and a Valedictorian Associate Director of the Borns JSP orientation. This fall, Scholarship. She received the College of 16 JS FIG students Arts and Sciences’ Jeanice Bartling Lewis are living together (in the northwest in the spring, Hebrew speakers Memorial Scholarship for the 2007- neighborhood), engaging in student- convened for Shulchan Ivrit and a free 2008 year. initiated JS activities, taking a one-hour dinner at Hillel’s kosher café. Todah The annual Bern Essay Competition course designed to help freshmen make rabbah to fall Hebrew Table co-chairs: was established to honor the memory of the academic transition to IU, and two Inna Kolesnikova, Samantha Leapman, Henry A. Bern, Professor Emeritus in other JS courses together: “Introduction Margaret O’Connor, and Jorie Slodki, the IU School of Education, loyal to Jewish History” (taught by Dr. and to spring 2007 co-chairs: Inna supporter of the Borns JSP, and a long- Matthias Lehmann) and “What Makes Kolesnikova, Samantha Leapman, and time Bloomington resident. The Bern It Jewish?” (a College Topics course Rachel Schonwald. With Hillel, the JSSA Prize aims to stimulate undergraduate taught by Dr. Judah Cohen). Jordan co-sponsored a talk and free lunch with excellence in writing and research in JS. Sanders is serving as the JS FIG Peer Professor Judah Cohen who spoke Instructor for this year. about “We Were Both Slaves: Black- A CTIVE JS STUDENT The fall 2006 JS FIG students were Jewish Musical Dialogues”. The JSSA A SSOCIATION a very bright and lively group who co-sponsored a performance by comic enjoyed getting together with their JS Judy Gold, an event coordinated by JS Desserts, Lunches, Dinner with professors at a special dinner hosted by Faculty, Weekly Shulchan Ivrit major Rebecca Waxman. On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the JSSA provided At the heart of the Borns JSP’s volunteers for a leadership breakfast at philosophy is a commitment to IU. providing students an outstanding Elected JSSA officers for the 2007- academic experience, primarily inside 2008 year are: President Rachel Kaplan, the classroom, but also beyond. Toward 20 Indiana University the JSSA officers. With their peer JS GRADUATES Jersey, Shuli Miller (August 2007) of instructor Ben Ellerin they explored Los Angeles, California, Elan Neiger Two hundred and six students have treasures on the IU campus and (August 2006) of Dayton, Ohio, Keren graduated with a B.A. in JS since our attended Jacobs School of Music Neiger of Dayton, Ohio, Elizabeth major was established in 1992. Our concerts. Rosenberg of Lexington, Kentucky, Jorie fifteenth class of majors included 17 There is no additional cost to Slodki (summa cum laude) of Arlington B.A. recipients: (Miriam) Claire participate in the JS FIG, nor are there Heights, Illinois, Vickie Winner of Bernstein (December 2006) of any academic prerequisites. Participants Louisville, Kentucky, and Ellie Zusstone Memphis, Tennessee; Joanna Blotner of can room with a non-JS FIG participant. (August 2006) of Clarksville, Indiana. Chevy Chase, Maryland, Sarah Cohen For more information about the JS Students completing the JS minor in of Lexington, Mississippi, Amanda FIG/s for fall 2008, contact (812) 856- Hebrew were: Yael Asner (August 2006), Dudley of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 4301 or e-mail: [email protected]. Sarah Cohen, Rachel Gutterman of Jacob Ginsburg of Ann Arbor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Asaf Harris of N EMORIAM Michigan, Austin Greenberg (August I M Rockford, Michigan, Jordan Huffer 2007) of Bayside, Wisconsin, Daniele (August 2006) of Port Charlotte, Florida, Linda Wisen Hurwitz of Columbus, Ohio, Sarah Sarah Kaplan, Noam Kupchan, Kaplan (cum laude) of Cleveland, Ohio, Linda Wisen, who passed away Samantha Leapman, Candice Levy Samantha Leapman of Indianapolis, on April 22, 2007, and her late (August 2007) of Highland Park, Illinois, Derrick Murphy of Crawfordsville, husband Dr. Mark Wisen, both of Jodie Love of Bethesda, Maryland, Indiana, Margaret O’Connor (summa Bloomington, supported IU students Rachel Lubetsky (August 2006) of West cum laude) of Seattle, Washington, participating in the Tel Beth Bloomfield, Michigan, Elan Neiger, Abigail Schachter (cum laude) of St. Shemesh archaeological field school Keren Neiger, Margaret O’Connor, Louis, Rachel Schonwald of Oklahoma through their generous donation of Zachary Pollakoff of Highland Park, City, Adina Sklare of Indianapolis, Olga W. Wisen Israel Scholarships. Illinois, Todd Roland (cum laude) of Shana Slutsky (magna cum laude) of We remember Linda with fondness Indianapolis, Jennifer Rubenstein of Highland Park, Illinois, Alana Zoldan of and sadness. Cincinnati, Adina Sklare, Jacob Taulman Wilmette, Illinois, and Danielle Zuber of of Remington, Indiana, Sari Willis Roswell, Georgia. S TUDENTS S TUDYING (December 2006) of Deerfield, Illinois, Benjamyn Ellerin of Greenwich, IN I SRAEL Alana Zoldan, and Danielle Zuber. Connecticut, was the sixth student to JS senior Margaret O’Connor In spring 2007, 5 students studied complete the Bachelor of Science in graduated with departmental honors in at Hebrew University in Jerusalem Music (Early Music Vocal Performance) Political Science, completing an honors through IU’s Overseas Study Program. and the outside field in JS. thesis, directed by Dr. Dina Spechler, on This fall semester, 6 JS students are Joining the 380 alumni of our JS the key factors necessary for reaching studying on the IU HUJ program. While area certificate program, who completed successful Israeli-Palestinian peace in Jerusalem, they are enjoying the at least 8 JS courses in 3 categories, were agreements, using the Oslo Accord and hospitality of IU graduates Terry and graduates Leslie Abrams (cum laude) of the Camp David Summit of 2000 as a Ron Hendin who serve as IU Overseas Carmel, Indiana, Matthew Albert of case study. Derrick Murphy graduated Study’s “friends”. As Terry describes it, East Brunswick, New Jersey, Max with honors in the interdepartmental “We want to give our students a feeling Aronson of Franklin, Michigan, Yael RS/Philosophy major. Leslie Abrams, that IU loves and cares about them even Asner (August 2006) of St. Louis, Joanna Blotner, David Fliesher, Jeffrey if they are far away.” Rachel Barnes (December 2006) of De Gluckman, Sarah Kaplan, Margaret Study in Israel is an integral part of Pere, Wisconsin, Michael Joseph Brown O’Connor and Jorie Slodki completed the JS curriculum. We are pleased to of Westfield, Indiana, Amber Brandes of the Honors Notation from the Hutton also see a growing number of JS Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Elliott Dees Honors College. students at Tel Aviv University, Haifa of Western Springs, Illinois, Amanda We are gratified that many of our University, and Ben-Gurion University. Dorman (magna cum laude) of Carmel, recent graduates choose careers related Indiana, Jessica Farber (August 2007) of to JS. Among our current graduating Des Moines, Iowa, David Fliesher of St. class, Joanna Blotner is the Legislative Louis, Jeffrey Gluckman (magna cum Assistant for the Religious Action laude) of Lincolnshire, Illinois, Paul Center of Reform Judaism in Helms of Washington, Indiana, Jennifer Washington, D.C. Michael Joseph Kobiela (December 2006) of Auburn, Brown is the Southern Illinois Hillel Indiana, Noam Kupchan of Skokie, Director. Sarah Cohen and Iva Litvak Illinois, Iva Litvak of Milburn, New Borns Jewish Studies Program 21 are participating in the OTZMA Advancing Student Leadership. Dena Grinberg on September 3, 2006. program in Israel. Amanda Dudley and Kranzberg is the 2007-08 Hillel Amy Allee Appelman (1995) is the Samantha Leapman are studying toward president. Director of Education at Congregation the MSW at Yeshiva University. Jeffrey Samantha Leapman (Borns JSP) Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield, Gluckman and Margaret O’Connor are was named an Outstanding Student Michigan. AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Employee. Valerie (Hirschorn) Frank (1995) Fellows in Washington, D.C. Daniele Paul Helms was elected to Theta and husband Jason celebrated the birth Hurwitz is the JCSC Fellow at the Alpha Kappa, RS international honor of twin girls Alexandra and Serena, Tampa Hillel. Sarah Kaplan is society. born January 9, 2007. The twins were Community Relations and Israel Affairs Thirteen JS majors were named to welcomed by their three-year-old sister. Coordinator at the Jewish Community the College of Arts and Sciences fall Matthew Davidson (1996) is Federation of Charlotte. Rachel 2006 Dean’s List: Emily Berman, Sarah Director of Undergraduate Admissions Schonwald is a field organizer at 15 Cohen, Yael Eban, Rachel Harrison, at the University of Judaism. He and his universities and colleges for AIPAC. Jonathan Kleinman, Daniel Millner, wife Lindy welcomed daughter Clara in Danielle Zuber is studying toward her Derrick Murphy, Margaret O’Connor, November 2006. master’s degree in Jewish education on a Abigail Schachter, Daniel Schwarz, Omid Rastegar (1996) his wife full fellowship at the Davidson School Andrew Schwimmer, Shana Slutsky, and Jennifer, and son Asher, welcomed for Jewish Education at The Jewish Rebecca Waxman. Estelle Jolie Rastegar born on Monday, Theological Seminary. The spring 2006 Dean’s List January 15, 2007 in Indianapolis. included 14 JS majors: Ayesha Athar, Bryan Esenberg (1998) completed a S TUDENT H ONORS Emily Berman, Bridget Coraz, Jacob master’s in Real Estate in December Jeffrey Gluckman (May 2007 area Ginsburg, Riley Holzman, Jonathan 2005. He is the NeighborHouse certificate), Margaret O’Connor (May Kleinman, Belinda Krebs, Samantha Manager for the Neighborhood 2007 B.A.), Jorie Slodki (May 2007 area Leapman, Daniel Millner, Margaret Reinvestment Corporation of NHS certificate and Yiddish minor), Shana O’Connor, David Orenstein, Daniel Chicago. Slutsky (May 2007 B.A.), and Deana Schwarz, and Shana Slutsky. Lindsey Barton Mintz (1998) and Sussman (3rd year major and Hebrew Jason Mintz welcomed Rachel Mintz, minor) were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. ALUMNI NEWS born September 6, 2006. Andrea Fram Plotkin (1998) and The IU Student Alumni Association We are proud of our graduates, so Tal Plotkin welcomed daughter Ellie awarded Sarah Cohen the prestigious many of whom now hold important Yadin in December 2005. Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior positions at major educational and Scott Segal (1998) completed his Award. She was also named as volunteer communal organizations throughout the M.A. in JS at Hebrew Union College- of the year by Stone Belt, an agency that country. works with developmentally disabled Jewish Institute of Religion in citizens. Beth Levy Merkes (1990) and her Cincinnati. Abigail Scott was one of 20 U.S. husband Dave welcomed Rebecca Ann Eve Shapiro (1998) completed a college students to receive the Beinecke on May 4, 2006. Older brother, Jacob Ph.D. in Sociology from the Univ. of Scholarship. She also was recognized by Maxwell, was born in January 2005. California, Santa Barbara in December the College of Arts and Sciences with the Debbie Morgan Rappaport (1990) 2005. She is Assistant Professor of Charles H. and Shirley A. Stammer and Adam Rappaport are the parents of Sociology at the University of San Scholarship, Williams Karsell twin daughters, Gabrielle Ava and Sasha Francisco. Scholarship, and Z.G. and Ethel Starr Laurel, born on December 20, 2006. Simon Braune (1999) is the Clevenger Scholarship. Stephanie (Stern) Fink (1993) and librarian at the Middle East Institute’s Margaret O’Connor received the husband Jeremy, welcomed their son, George Camp Keiser Library in 2007 Ford P. Hall Scholarship in born on December 29, 2006. Stephanie, Washington, D.C. Political Science. Director of Education at Mount Zion Katie Himm (1999) is a marine Emily Berman was named an IU Hebrew Congregation in St. Paul, was working in intelligence. She completed a Alumni Association Scholar for 2007- among the first recipients of the Legacy one-year tour of duty in Iraq and was 2008. Heritage Innovator award for family awarded the Distinguished Service Ben Ellerin was a member of the education innovations. Medal. Board of Aeons. Wendy Rapport Grinberg (1993), Livia (Libby) Katz Hogan Joanna Blotner, Hillel president, Associate Director of the Department of (1999), the co-administrator received an outstanding president Lifelong Jewish Learning of the Union of Congregation Beth Shalom certificate from the Council for for Reform Judaism, married Michael in Bloomington, is parenting 22 Indiana University

(along with husband Josh) three Jennifer Bell (2003), along with Jen Gubitz (2005) began rabbinical children, the youngest Simon, born December 2006 JS graduate Claire school at Hebrew Union College this January 2007. Bernstein, were named among the five summer. Wendy Gossman Margolin (2000) inaugural JCC Association Graduate Eric (Ricky) Marcus (2005) is is Associate Editor of the JUF Scholars. Jen has begun graduate studies Jewish Student Life Coordinator at the News/Chicago Jewish Community at NYU in non-profit management and Cleveland Hillel Foundation. He Online. Judaic Studies. married Lindsay Herman, an IU grad, in Robin St. Cyr Anderson (2000) Asa Fradkin (2003) graduated from May 2007. married IU graduate Michael Anderson. the H.L. Miller Cantorial School at JTS Philip Sherman (2005) began A graduate of the Brandeis Hornstein in 2007 where he was class president for studies in the Hebrew College rabbinical Program, she is the Assistant Director the past year. He moved to Greenwich, program in fall 2007. for Camp Young Judaea Midwest and CT with his wife Sarah where he serves Sonya Weisburd (2005) entered the Area Supervisor for Greater Midwest as cantor for Temple Sholom, a MSW program at the University of Young Judaea. Conservative shul. Maryland this fall. Elyce Zimmerman Bader (2000), Samantha Pearline (2003) Claire Bernstein (2006) is an her husband JP and their daughter completed an M.A. in Jewish education inaugural JCC Association Graduate Mayrav, welcomed Ezra Seraph Bader to at University of Judaism and is the Scholar pursuing an MSW at their family on September 29, 2006. Judaica Director at Temple Beth Hillel Washington University. Rachael Petru Horowitz (2000) is in Valley Village, California. Stephanie Clark (2006) began Senior Development Officer for Ashley Plotnick (2003) married Seth rabbinical school at Hebrew Union Hadassah’s Western Area Development Schriftman on June 25, 2006. Ashley is College this summer. Center. She is a Jeremiah Fellow through completing an M.A. in JS at RRC and a Lauren Goodman (2006) was a the Progressive Jewish Alliance. She dual degree in social work and sex Fellow at the American Hebrew married Josh Horowitz in December education at Widener University. Academy 2006-2007 along with Megan 2005. Jennifer Steinberg (2003) graduated Roberts (2006). Lauren is a Campaign Emily Malinowski (2002) from the New England School of Law in Associate with the Jewish Federation of completed her MBA from Pace May 2006. New Orleans. Megan is a Fellow at the University and works in the business Sarina Fogel (2004) is Government Institute for Southern Jewish Life. department at Rubenstein Public Affairs Associate at Families USA, a Michael Kushnick (2006) began Relations. health care policy organization. She rabbinical school at The Jewish Emily Lipp Sirota (2001) is married Robbie Gerson in summer 2007. Theological Seminary this fall. pursuing an MSW at the University of Lili Lahav (2004) completed a Denver. master’s degree in counseling psychology FACULTY NEWS Joel Goldsmith (2002) is engaged to at Northwestern University in June Laurie Stone (sister of JS alumna Cantor 2006. She works as a therapist with FACULTY O UTREACH Paula Pepperstone (1995). juvenile sex offenders in the Chicago In addition to its teaching and research Gabe Lewin (2002) is married and area. She married fellow IU graduate missions, the Borns JSP faculty places a teaches English and drama at Yeshivat Scott Jacobson in May, 2007. significant emphasis on serving broad Rambam in Baltimore. He is working Sam Rodin (2004) is Youth Director constituencies outside of the classroom. on a master’s degree in administrative at Congregation B’nai Tikvah in On September 20, 2006, middle school education from Loyola University Chicago. and high school social studies teachers Chicago along with certification from Elizabeth Wood (2004) is a 4th year gathered in Indianapolis for the Melvin and the Jewish Education Leadership rabbinical student at Hebrew Union Betty Cohn Institute on Jews and Judaism on the theme of “Teaching about Israel: Institute. College in Cincinnati where she is Beyond the Conflict.” Co-sponsored by the Philip Ohriner (2002) is a rabbinical serving for a second year as president of Jewish Community Relations Council of student at JTS. He is married to fellow the student body. This year, she is a Indianapolis, the Institute was taught by rabbinical student Shoshana Winograd- rabbinic intern at Temple Shalom in Professor Shaul Magid, Professor Dror Hutner. Louisville. Wahrman, and Modern Hebrew Program Ruth Schachter (2002) is Sarah Beren (2005) is Development Director Ayelet Weiss. The Cohn Institute the Jewish Student Life and Campus Associate at the Ohio State was established in 1989 by Melvin and Coordinator at the Hillel. Betty J. Cohn to provide Indiana teachers University of Illinois-Chicago Debbie Fenichel (Ph.D. 2005) and with opportunities for learning more about Hillel. David Kreindler, of Toronto, welcomed Judaism and the Jews. son Jacob Fenichel Kreindler on January Stephen Katz served as a Melton 4, 2007. Instructor at the Indianapolis Bureau of Borns Jewish Studies Program 23

C OURSE O FFERINGS HISTORY Professional Leadership and the Jewish Globalization and Jewish History Community—Wortman Spring 2007-Spring 2008 (graduate course)—Roseman Recent Hebrew Literature in English— Numbering more than 60 courses, The Holocaust in American Memory— Katz the curriculum offered each year by the Linenthal Recent Hebrew Literature in Borns JSP is both broad and deep. Introduction to Jewish History: From Hebrew—Katz the Bible to the Spanish Spring 2007-Spring 2008 offerings PHILOSOPHY Expulsion—Lehmann included: Modern Jewish Philosophy—Morgan Introduction to Jewish History: From Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First ANTHROPOLOGY the Spanish Expulsion to the Philosophy—Morgan Ethnography of Europe—Bahloul Present—Veidlinger Migrations and Diasporas—Bahloul Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the POLITICAL SCIENCE Jewish Women: Anthropological Medieval Mediterranean— The Holocaust and Politics—Bielasiak Perspectives—Bahloul Lehmann st RELIGIOUS STUDIES Jews in the World in the 21 The Jews of Eastern Europe— Century—Bahloul The Bible and Slavery—Harrill Veidlinger Biblical Justice—Halberstam COLLEGE OF ARTS AND The Jews of Islam—Lehmann The Binding of Isaac in Judaism, SCIENCES Life after Death: Rebuilding Germany Christianity, and Islam—Magid The Bible and its Interpreters— after World War II (graduate Introduction to Judaism—Magid Weitzman course)—Roseman Introduction to Old Testament— Theism, Atheism, and Existentialism— Memory of the Holocaust—Lambert Magid Levene The People of the Book: Jewish Introduction to Rabbinic Literature— What Makes it Jewish?—Cohen History and Modern Jewish Halberstam Texts—Veidlinger COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Judaism in the Making—Weitzman The Agnostic Bible—Marks HONORS King David in History and Ancient Mediterranean Literature and Anne Frank and Hitler: Studies in the Literature—Weitzman the Rise of Interpretation—Marks Representation of Good and Prophecy in Ancient Israel— Evil—Rosenfeld Halberstam FOLKLORE Literature of the Holocaust— Revelation in Rabbinic Judaism— Exploring Jewish Identity Today— Rosenfeld Halberstam Cohen The Struggle for the Holy Land: JEWISH STUDIES Jewish Folklore and Ethnography Power, Piety, and Politics in the Advanced Hebrew I and II—Katz (graduate course)—Cohen Israeli/Palestinian Conflict— The Arab-Israeli Conflict—Tsimhoni Music in Judaism—Cohen Magid Biblical Themes in Modern Hebrew Studies in American Judaism: GERMANIC STUDIES Literature—Katz Theological and Cultural Anne Frank: Her Diary in Colloquium in Jewish Studies Perspectives–Magid Perspective—Ham (graduate course)—Lehmann Beginning Yiddish I and II—Kerler Contemporary Israeli Culture—Katz SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND Culture, Memory, and Identity: Yiddish Intermediate Biblical Hebrew II— LITERATURES in the Post-Holocaust World— Muehlberger Contemporary Czech Literature— Kerler Intermediate Hebrew I and II—Weiss Fantasy, Realism, and Fiction: First Volkova Introduction to Biblical Hebrew I and Interwar Central Europe: Cultural Century of Modern Yiddish II—Muehlberger Literature, 1810-1913—Kerler Florescence and Apocalyptic Introduction to Elementary Hebrew I Vision—Volkova Intermediate Yiddish II—Kerler and II—Levy, Shuman Love, Soul, and Destiny in Modern Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Yiddish Literature—Kerler Israel—Tsimhoni Readings in Modern Yiddish Poetry Modern Hebrew Literature in (graduate course)—Kerler th English—Katz Selected Readings in 20 Century Modern Hebrew Literature in Yiddish Fiction—Kerler Hebrew—Katz Yiddish in America—Kerler 24 Indiana University

Jewish Education teaching a spring 2007 levirate marriage in the Hebrew Bible, and African-American musical diasporas. ten-session course entitled, “Israeli rabbinic law, midrash and targum, and the He had three essays published in collected Literature as a Window to Israeli Society.” relationship between “story” and “law.” volumes: “Singing Out for Judaism: A Jeffrey Veidlinger taught a session on Steven Weitzman spoke at Purdue History of Songleaders and Songleading at “Jewish History and Modern Jewish University, a first step toward developing a Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute” in Gary Identity” at Congregation Beth El-Zedeck in stronger relationship with its JSP. Zola and Michael Lorge, eds., A Place of Indianapolis, and was scholar-in-residence at Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Aitz Hayim Congregation in Highland Park, OUR FACULTY Camping (University of Alabama Press); IL. “‘And the Youth Shall See Visions. . .’: After a year-long leave spent at NYU, JS faculty were featured throughout the Summer Camps, Songleading and Identity Joëlle Bahloul returned in fall 2006 to her year at Congregation Beth Shalom’s Sunday Among American Reform Jewish Bloomington classes and research on the Night Forum Series. In October, 2006, Alvin Teenagers,” in Susan Boynton and Roe-Min ethnography of French Jews. Her essay, “La Rosenfeld, Matthias Lehmann and Dina Kok, eds., Musical Childhoods and the nouvelle diaspora sépharade,” appeared in a Spechler participated in a panel discussion, Cultures of Youth (Wesleyan University volume dedicated to the Sephardic world “Israel’s War with Hezbollah: Causes, Press); and “Exploring the Postmodern entitled Le monde sépharade, (ed. Sh. Outcomes, and Consequences.” That same Landscape of ‘Jewish Music’” in Vincent Trigano, Paris: 2006). She continued month, Dov-Ber Kerler spoke about Brook, ed.,You Should See Yourself: Jewish “Yiddish and Prewar Eastern European Identity in Postmodern American Culture Jewish Culture in Living Memory.” In (Rutgers University Press). He also gave January 2007, Judah Cohen presented papers at the annual meeting of the “What Makes Jewish Music Jewish?” Shaul “The JSP has been an American Academy of Religion, Oxford Magid presented, “Modernity’s Nightmare: incredible experience. I feel College of Emory University, the University The Turn to Fundamentalism in Judaism, very blessed to have had the of Wisconsin, and the IU Folklore Christianity, and Islam,” at Beth Shalom in Department Colloquium Series. He February 2007. opportunity to learn under introduced into the JS undergraduate Mark Roseman spoke to Congregation such talented professors in an curriculum the courses, “Exploring Jewish Beth Shalom’s “The Gathering” on the exciting environment.” Identity Today” and “Music in Judaism,” subject, “Did America Invent the and taught the graduate seminar “Jewish Holocaust?” In March 2007, Mark Sarah Kaplan, B.A. in JS and Folklore and Ethnology.” He also helped to Roseman spoke to the Community minor in Hebrew, 2007 create IU’s Jewish a capella group HooShir, Education Program at Foster and McNutt Community Relations and which performed at the White House residence halls on a panel looking at the Chanukah Party in December 2006. He is links between early Indian symbols and Israel Affairs Coordinator, Jewish mentoring the pre-cantorial group and is groups and modern discourse of the “Aryan Community Federation of Charlotte developing a pre-cantorial program—one of race”. In April 2007, he spoke within the the first in the U.S. Fireside Chat Program at Collins Living- Despite his retiring in 2003, Paul Learning Center on “Rescue and Resistance Eisenberg continues to offer various editorial work for the Encyclopedia of Jews in Nazi Germany”. individualized readings courses and to serve in the Islamic World, which is scheduled to Bert Harrill gave a presentation on Dan (in some cases as director) on a number of be published in 2009 by E.J. Brill. In March, Brown’s The DaVinci Code, the largest master’s thesis or doctoral committees. This 2007, she presented a paper on “The attended event of the year for IU’s past summer, he attended and served as a Parisian Pletzel as ‘Makom’” at a Undergraduate RS Student Association. respondent at the conference on conference, “No Direction Home: Jeffrey Veidlinger and Dov-Ber Kerler “Cosmopolitanism, Post-Ethnicity, and the Reimagining Jewish Geography” at Lehigh co-taught the course “Living Memory: New Jewish Diaspora.” Among other IU University. She also participated in the Revisiting Jewish Eastern Europe,” in committees, he was, during the past year, a conference at Vanderbilt University, where March, 2007, for IU Continuing Studies. member of the Bloomington Faculty she gave a presentation on “On the Bronislava Volkova taught “Interwar Council’s Diversity and Affirmative Action Domestic Front: Food Production and Central Europe: Jewish Writers of Bohemia, Committee, the University Faculty Council’s Cultural Reproduction among North Poland, and Germany” for IU Continuing Honorary Degrees Committee, the Racial African Jewish Women in France”. Professor Studies in February, 2007. Incidents Team, and the Religious Bias Bahloul and her graduate student Evelyn Michael Morgan was a faculty member Incidents Team. Dean gave a paper, “Collective Memory and for the 2006 URJ Kallah in New Chaya Halberstam joined the IU faculty Migrants’ Sense of Place,” at the IU Hampshire. in fall 2006 after teaching at King’s College, conference, “Putting Memory in Place”. This past summer, Miryam London, and shortly thereafter became a Judah M. Cohen thoroughly enjoyed Segal taught at the Drisha core member of the JSP faculty. This year, his first year at IU, where he pursued Institute for Jewish Education in she received a Research Travel Grant from projects on the practice of music in New York. Her course, “Law the College Arts and Humanities Initiative. American Jewish life and issues of Jewish and Narrative” focused on She has already created and taught three Borns Jewish Studies Program 25 new courses: “Revelation in Rabbinic this time to Hungary and Slovakia. Blessings, Redemption, and Judaism,” “Biblical Justice,” and “The Matthias Lehmann was awarded tenure Jewish Ritual as Fantasy,” Hebrew Bible in Hollywood,” in addition to and promotion to the rank of associate Liturgy, Time, and the teaching “Prophecy in Ancient Israel,” and professor this year. He continued research Politics of Redemption, “Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.” on his current book project, “Identity and Randi Rashkover and Chad Bert Harrill published three articles: Philanthropy in the Sephardi Diaspora, Pecknold eds. (Eerdmans “The Slave Still Appears: A 1660-1860,” with support from the Office Press, 2006); “In Search of Historiographical Response to Jennifer of the Vice Provost for Research. His article, a Critical Voice in the Glancy,” Biblical Interpretation 15 (2007), “Levantinos and Other Jews: Reading Jewish Diaspora: an invited response to that journal’s review H.Y.D. Azulai’s Travel Diary,” is to be Homelessness and Home essay of his recent book, Slaves in the New published in Jewish Social Studies in 2007. in Edward Said and Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral He also contributed two chapters to a Shalom Noah Dimensions (Fortress Press 2006); “The forthcoming new textbook on Jewish Barzofsky’s Netivot Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of history, co-written with John Efron, Joshua Shalom,” Jewish Social Tertullian,” Studia Patristica 42 (2006); and Holo, and Steven Weitzman. Together with Studies 12:3 (spring 2006); “Servile Functionaries or Priestly Leaders? Aron Rodrigue, Professor Lehmann “Who Owns the Holy Roman Domestic Religion, Narrative organized a symposium on “Sephardi Land?: Sacred Real Estate,” Intertextuality, and Pliny’s Reference to Identities on the Margins of Europe” at The Christian Century July Christian Slave Ministrae (Ep. 10,96,8),” Stanford University in March 2007. With 25, 2006; “Zionism, Anti- Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche the joint support of the Borns JSP and IU’s Semitism and the Wissenschaft 97 (2006). Harrill continues to Ottoman and Turkish Studies Chair, Boundaries of Dissent,” serve as the Director of IU’s graduate Professor Kemal Silay, he also convened a Zeek Magazine, April 2007; program in Ancient Studies, which received conference on “Jewish Religion in Ottoman “Jewish Renewal–A New a major grant to sponsor an interdisciplinary Lands” held in Bloomington in August American Religion?” conference this fall, “The End of Everything: 2007. In the past year, Professor Lehmann Tikkun Magazine Catastrophe and Community in the Ancient gave talks at Stanford University, (January/February 2006); Mediterranean and Near Eastern Worlds.” Georgetown University, and for the IU “The Holocaust and Jewish Steven Katz completed To Be as Others: Department of History. Together with JS Renewal: A Theological The Representation of Native and African- Professors Joëlle Bahloul and Judah Cohen, Response,” Tikkun Americans in Modern Hebrew Literature he is creating a new Sephardi Studies Magazine (March/April which is under consideration by an Initiative at IU. 2006); “Jewish Renewal, academic press. In spring 2007, his article, In February 2007, Nancy Levene was a American Spiritualism, and “Child’s Play: Hillel Bavli’s ‘Mrs. Woods’ panelist at the symposium “Religion, Law, Postmonotheistic and Indian Representation in American and the Public Sphere,” the second event in Theology,” Tikkun Magazine (May/June Hebrew Literature,” appeared in Modern a series of workshops convened by the 2006). The latter essay was also included in Judaism. He is currently writing about Collective on Religion and the Secular, the 20th anniversary edition of Tikkun American Hebraists’ journeys to the land of University of Michigan. In March, she was a Magazine, October/November 2006. He Israel, evoking themes from the medieval respondent at a symposium at IU on the gave invited lectures at the University of poet Yehudah Halevi; he has begun research work of Alain Badiou, and will participate Amsterdam, Ben-Gurion University, the on the reaction of America’s Hebrew poets in the organization of a visit of Badiou University of Denver, Northeastern and novelists to the Holocaust. In spring himself in the fall. In May, she presented a University, The Graduate Theological 2006, he taught a new course “The Kibbutz paper entitled “Reflections on the Seminary in Berkeley, and Brandeis in Fact and Fiction.” Materialist Spinoza” at a conference in University. His conference papers included Dov-Ber Kerler received the Leyb Jerusalem on “Spinoza as Social and “Between Meta-Halakha and Post-Halakha: Rubinlicht Prize for Yiddish Literature and Political Thinker,” the sixth in the series Messianism, Democracy, and the Future of Culture from the Israeli Association of Spinoza by 2000—“The Jerusalem Jewish Law,” AAR Conference, Washington, Yiddish Writers and Journalists in 2006. Conferences,” organized by the Jerusalem D.C.; “Meta-Halakha and Post-Halakha in “Realtà, Finzione e Immaginazione: Spinoza Institute. In the fall and winter, she Contemporary Judaism,” AJS Conference; Osservazioni di un Lettore Yiddish su Isaac will teach two new courses: a graduate and “Judaism, Jewishness and the Land of Bashevis-Singer” appeared in a special seminar on Kant and Hegel, and an Honors Israel: Between Religion and Nationalism,” volume on I.B. Singer of La Rassegna course entitled “God and the Human Conference on the Land of Israel in Judaism Mensile di Israel (Rome, Dec., 2005). Under Condition.” and Christianity, Christian Theological the name Boris Karloff, Professor Kerler Shaul Magid’s book From Metaphysics Institute, Indianapolis. He edited ELABREK: Lider fun Nayem to Midrash: Myth, History and the organized and participated in Yortoyznt, Eygns Press, 2006. In December Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic three panels at IU in 2006-2007; 2006, he co-organized, with Jeffrey Kabbala will appear with IU Press in 2008. “Israel, Hamas, and the Veidlinger, and led the sixth Yiddish He has recently published, “‘The Ritual is Palestinian Elections,” “Israel, ethnographic expedition to Eastern Europe, Not the Hunt’: The Seven Wedding Palestine and the War in 26 Indiana University

Lebanon,” and “The Perils of Jewish (IU JS alumna, 1990) and her husband second IU Trustees Teaching Award. In April Identity: Israel, Palestine and the Legitimacy Adam Rapaport in Washington, D.C. 2007, he was awarded a Charles H. Revson of Dissent in American Jewry.” He is a Mark Roseman’s book German History Research Fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust founding member of the Middle East from the Margins, co-edited with Neil Memorial Museum, where he is in residence Conflict and Reform Group at IU and “Jews Gregor and Nils Roemer, appeared in 2006 this fall. against the War,” a national organization of with IU Press. He published “‘Generationen Alvin Rosenfeld’s “’Progressive’ Jewish Jews opposed to the war in Iraq. In spring als ‘imagined communities’. Mythen, Thought and the New Antisemitism,” 2008, he will be a Fellow at the Council of generationelle Identitäten und published in December 2006, with the Arts and Humanities Institute at IU. Generationen_konflikte in Deutschland,” American Jewish Committee, has appeared Michael Morgan spent the 2006-2007 vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert in Ulrike in German and French translations; the academic year on various research projects. Jureit, Michael Wildt (eds.), Generationen. essay, which has provoked wide discussion He was the recipient of a fellowship from Zur Relevanz eines wissenschaftlichen in the U.S., Europe, and Israel, was followed the College Arts and Humanities Institute Grundebegriffes (Hamburger Edition, by “Rhetorical Violence and the Jews: for fall 2006, and was on sabbatical in 2005); “Gerettete Geschichte. Der ‘Bund’. Critical Distance,” The New Republic spring 2007. He attended and gave papers at Gemeinschaft für sozialistisches Leben im Online (February 27, 2007). His edited several conferences and was invited by the Dritten Reich,” in Mittelweg 36, Vol. 16, book, The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Political Theory Group at the University of (February 2007); “Gespräche und Lektüren Jewish Exile Literature, is forthcoming with Notre Dame to give a paper, “Agencies of zum Körper,” in BIOS, Vol. 20, special issue IU Press. In March, Rosenfeld spoke on Redemption.” He published “Responding to (“Kritische Erfahrungsgeschichte und American Jews and Israel at the 14th Street the Holocaust: Fackenheim, Cavell, grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit. The Y in New York City, and in May, he was a Levinas,” in The Representation of the Networks of Oral History”), (2007); featured speaker, with Aayan Hirsi Ali and Holocaust in Literature and Film, Volume II, “Chancen und Kosten der others, in a session entitled “Winning the edited by Marc Lee Raphael. His essay Wiedergutmachung: ein Fallbeispiel” for War of Ideas” at the AJC’s annual “Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and the Norbert Frei and Constantin Goschlar convention, in Washington, D.C. He chairs Holocaust,” will appear in Modern Judaism (eds.), The Practice of Wiedergutmachung: the Academic Committee of the Center for and Historical Consciousness: Identities, Nazi-Victims and Indemnification in Israel Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Encounters, Perspectives (Brill, July 2007), and Germany, 1952-2002 (2007); “Ideas, Holocaust Memorial Museum, in edited by Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Contexts and the Pursuit of Genocide,” in Washington, D.C.; he is also a member of Weise. Professor Morgan co-edited, with Jeremy Black (ed.), The Second World War. the Museum’s Executive Committee and Peter Eli Gordon, The Cambridge Vol. V The Holocaust, (Ashgate 2007). He holds a presidential appointment to the U.S. Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy, also published articles on the Wannsee Holocaust Memorial Council. In recognition which was published by Cambridge conference for Encyclopaedia Judaica and of his contributions to JS, Holocaust University Press in May 2007. Included in for John Merriman and Jay Winters (eds.) Studies, and American academic and the volume is his essay “Emil Fackenheim, Scribners, The Encyclopedia of Europe, cultural life, Hebrew Union College-Jewish the Holocaust, and Philosophy” and the 1914-2000 (Gale Publishers 2006) and a Institute of Religion awarded him a Doctor introductory essay, written by the co-editors, longer article on the Holocaust for the latter of Humane Letters degree at its graduation entitled “Modern Jewish Philosophy, encyclopedia. In spring 2006, Professor ceremony in Cincinnati, June 3, 2007. Modern Philosophy, and Modern Judaism.” Roseman took up his Alexander von Miryam Segal’ s ACCENT: The Poetics His study of Emmanuel Levinas, Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship and was a and Politics of a New Sound in Hebrew Discovering Levinas, was also published by guest at the Hamburg Institut für Poetry will be published by IU Press in Cambridge in May 2007, and his book On Sozialforschung for three months. During 2008. She spoke on “Esther Raab and Shame will appear shortly in Routledge’s that period, he was the first of a series of Nativeness” at a HUJ conference in “Thinking in Action” series. Professor guests invited to teach in the University of December 2006. Her study of authorship Morgan and Benjamin Pollock are the co- Jena’s new Jena Center Geschichte des 20. and authenticity will be published in a editors of the anthology Philosopher as Jahrhunderts, where he inaugurated its new collected volume on “Nativeness and Place” Witness: Fackenheim and Responses to the interdisciplinary graduate course by Kibbutz Hameuchad. Another article, Holocaust, which is forthcoming from “Zeitgeschichte Schreiben” with a day-long “Labor Lost, Longing Found, or the SUNY Press. He completed the final course entitled “Schreiben und Nachdenken Formation of the Writer,” will appear in a preparations for the publication of Emil über Holocaust-Überlebende am Beispiel des forthcoming volume on Slavery and Fackenheim’s memoirs, Epitaph to German Buches ‘In einem unbewachten Servitude in Judaism. Last fall, Professor Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem, for Augenblick’”. In June 2006, he taught for Segal traveled to Israel on a CAHI which he provided a forward (University of two weeks at the U.S. Holocaust Museum as fellowship for archival research on two Wisconsin Press in August the year’s Silbermann Guest Lecturer, Hebrew authors of the early 20th century. 2007.) Most importantly, the enabling faculty from around the country to This summer, she taught “Law and Morgans became grandparents become current with recent research on the Narrative: The Case of Yibbum (Levirate for the first time, with the birth Holocaust. He also served on the 2006-2007 Marriage),” at the Drisha Institute. She has of twin girls, Gabrielle and NEH Fellowships panel for the European been awarded a Harvard University Sasha, to their daughter Deb history field. In 2007, he was awarded his Fellowship and will be spending the Borns Jewish Studies Program 27

Network and was featured on their forthcoming from Prentice-Hall, that aims website. Professor Veidlinger to present a cutting-edge account of Jewish continued to serve as Associate history in a form accessible to the general Director of the JSP and to teach reader. He also finished work as editor of a courses in Jewish history and Russian special volume of the journal Prooftexts that history. He also continues to co-direct will revisit Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical the AHEYM (Archive of Historical Narrative 25 years after its publication and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories) (Prooftexts 27.2). An earlier essay, a project with Dov-Ber Kerler. In this revisionist account of the story of capacity, he made two fieldwork trips Hanukkah, provoked controversy last year to Eastern Europe (Moldova, when it was featured in a front page article Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Current Slovakia), where he helped conduct projects include a rereading of the War Alvin Rosenfeld (middle) receiving a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa, from Hebrew Union College–Jewish oral history, ethnographic, and Scroll (found among the Dead Sea Scrolls) Institute of Religion. (Left) President David Ellenson. linguistic interviews with Yiddish- that aims to understand its contents in light 2007–2008 academic year at The Divinity speakers in the region. He also of ancient theories of psychological warfare; School, where she will work on her next traveled twice to Moscow to present a paper a reconsideration of the Samaritans as book project on Hebrew and Israeli women at the “Yiddish in the Soviet Union” described by the Jewish historian Josephus; poets’ literary and political uses of the Bible, conference and to participate in a workshop and a literary biography of King Solomon Christian saints’ lives, and Jewish legal and on Jewish migrations from Russia and the under contract with Yale University Press. mystical traditions, as well as on a volume former Soviet Union. He was invited by the His invited talks included lectures at Purdue on “The Embarrassment of Scripture,” President of the American Historical University, Stanford University, and the which she is co-editing. Association to present on the Plenary Panel International SBL in Vienna. This was the Dina Spechler’s most recent research of the American Historical Association’s fourth year of Dr. Weitzman’s term as has arisen out of three projects in which she national conference. Professor Veidlinger Director of JSP, and he has just been participated in the past year, each designed presented papers at the “Scholarship In and appointed to a second term. Among his to have an impact on American foreign On Yiddish” conference at University of plans: the continued building of the policy. The first was sponsored by the California, Berkeley and at the American program’s graduate and Hebrew programs, National Bureau of Asian Research, a Association for the Advancement of Slavic the development of Israel studies, a pre- Washington-based think tank that seeks to Studies national convention in Washington cantorial program and other initiatives in influence the thinking of American policy DC. He delivered invited lectures at Queen’s the arts and communal leadership, and a makers on issues relating to Asian security. University in Canada, Miami University of strengthened relationship with the growing The outcome of her participation in this Ohio, and Tulane University. He also number of JSP alumni. project was a study, published by the Bureau chaired panels at the Polish-German and distributed to policy makers, on the Post/Memory conference and the HGSA Cover artwork is from Haggadah; Scribe: Joseph ben implications of economic trends and Paul Lucas conference in History, both at David Leimpnik, Darmstadt, 1733, ms. 4452a, folio resources in Central Asia for stability and IU. Professor Veidlinger’s article “’Du lebst, 18r. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. conflict in the region. The second project mayn folk’: Bergelson’s play Prints Ruveni in was funded by the Open Society Institute, an Historical Context, (1944-1947)” is Artwork on page 14 from marriage contract international non-governmental expected to appear this summer in the book (Ketubbah), Istanbul, Turkey, 1853. Courtesy of the organization, and was designed to train David Bergelson: From Modernism to Israel Museum, Jerusalem. junior faculty and advanced graduate Socialist Realism. He also completed his Artwork on page 15 from Mishneh Torah by Moses students from the Former Soviet Union, who book manuscript, The Jews of This World: ben Maimon, Spain, 15th century, ms. R1618. are working in the field of international Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological security. Her participation consisted of Empire. Professor Veidlinger will be on Seminary. presentations of her recent work on Russian sabbatical leave in fall 2007. Artwork on page 25 from Rothschild Mahzor foreign policy, as well as discussions and Bronislava Volková regularly teaches (Florence, Italy, 1492), MS 8892, folio 227r. Courtesy individual meetings with these young 2nd eight week classes in Czech and Central of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. scholars, held at Odessa National University, European Literature, often with heavy Back cover from MS Kaufmann A77 appears by Odessa, Ukraine. The third project was emphasis on Jewish writers and thinkers of permission of the Library of the Hungarian Academy sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow the area. In spring 2007, she taught of Sciences. and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural “Modern Czech Literature and History Photographs—Jane Reeves Affairs of the Department of State and through Film,” where half of the content Design—IU Office of Publications involved collaborative research between was focused on Jewish topics. Russian and American scholars on issues Steven Weitzman, a scholar of biblical Printing—Spectrum Press related to global security and cooperation. and early Jewish culture, spent the last year This year Jeffrey Veidlinger was named completing the History of Jewish a “Top Young Historian” by History News Civilization, a co-authored book 28

JSP FACULTY JSP STAFF James S. Ackerman Dov-Ber Kerler Patricia Ek Professor (Emeritus), Religious Studies Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies; Assistant Director Professor, Jewish Studies and Germanic Carolyn Lipson-Walker Joëlle Bahloul Studies Academic Advisor and Assistant Director for Associate Professor, Jewish Studies and Yiddish Studies Communication and Student Affairs; Anthropology Newsletter Editor Social and Cultural Anthropology of Judaism Matthias Lehmann and the Jews Associate Professor, Jewish Studies and History Melissa Deckard Jews in Islamic Lands and Medieval Spain; Events Coordinator Jack Bielasiak Sephardic Literature; Ottoman-Jewish Professor, Political Science; Russian and East History; 19th Century German Jewry Melissa Hunt European Institute Department Secretary Politics of the Holocaust Nancy Levene Associate Professor, Religious Studies Noa Wahrman Judah Cohen Modern Jewish and European Religious Hebrew and Yiddish Librarian and Jewish Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in the Study of Thought Dina R. Spechler Studies Bibliographer Jewish Culture; Assistant Professor, Jewish Associate Professor, Political Science Shaul Magid B IBICAL H EBREW I NSTRUCTOR Studies and Folklore Comparative Foreign Policy; Arab-Israeli Ellen Muehlberger Jewish Music, Art and Culture Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Relations Studies; Associate Professor, Jewish Studies M ODERN H EBREW I NSTRUCTORS Paul D. Eisenberg and Religious Studies Jeffrey Veidlinger, Associate Director, JSP Ofer Levy Professor (Emeritus), Philosophy Modern Jewish Religious Experience; Hasidism Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies; Associate Professor, History Liora Sarfati Henry Fischel Herbert J. Marks Modern Jewish History; East European S TUDENT A SSISTANTS Professor (Emeritus), Near Eastern Associate Professor, Comparative Literature Jewish History; Russian History Jolanta Mickute Languages and Cultures Biblical and Literary Studies Bronislava Volková Graduate Assistant Halina Goldberg Michael L. Morgan Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Samantha Leapman Assistant Professor, School of Music, Chancellor’s Professor, Jewish Studies and Czech/Jewish Literature; Czech Linguistics Borns Administrative Intern Department of Musicology Philosophy and Semiotics 19th Century Jewish-Polish Musicians Jewish Philosophy Maya Ben-Meir Dror Wahrman Work-Study Staff Susan Gubar Mark Roseman Ruth N. Halls Professor, History Distinguished Professor, English Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Cultural History; History of Ottoman Please help us keep our mailing list Holocaust Literature Professor, Jewish Studies and History Palestine and Israel current by notifying us of any changes History of the Holocaust; History of Chaya Halberstam Ayelet Weiss in your name or address. If you do not Antisemitism; German-Jewish History wish to receive future mailings from the Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Director of Modern Hebrew Language Hebrew Bible and Midrash Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director, Institute Program; Lecturer JSP at IU, simply return this page with for Jewish Culture and the Arts Modern Hebrew a note. Thank you. J. Albert Harrill Professor, Jewish Studies and English (812) 855-0453 Associate Professor, Religious Studies Literature of the Holocaust; American Jewish Steven Weitzman, Director, JSP (812) 855-4314 FAX New Testament and Early Judaism Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Literature e-mail: [email protected] Jeffrey Isaac Professor, Jewish Studies and Religious Miryam Segal Studies Rudy Professor of Political Science Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies and Political Theory Hebrew Bible and Early Biblical Comparative Literature Interpretation Irving Katz Modern Hebrew Literature and Language Professor (Emeritus), History Bat Zion Shuman Stephen Katz Visiting Lecturer, Jewish Studies Associate Professor, Jewish Studies Modern Hebrew Hebrew; Israeli Culture; Modern Hebrew Literature

R OBERT A. AND S ANDRA S. BORNS J EWISH S TUDIES P ROGRAM Nonprofit Organization Goodbody Hall 326 U.S. Postage 1011 E. Third Street PAID Indiana University Permit No. 2 Bloomington, IN 47405-7005 Bloomington, IN