tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59546236126970032332012-02-02T13:01:20.024-08:00News for Jewish Studies from the UC Santa Cruz Library.Lee Jaffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08072201065431299245noreply@blogger.comBlogger1011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954623612697003233.post-76669732213888924982012-02-02T12:59:00.000-08:002012-02-02T13:01:20.050-08:00

Dear friends, I am glad to invite you to the Judaica Europeana International Conferenceorganized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and Judaica Europeana( http://www.judaica-europeana.eu ). It will take place next February 27th at the Italian National Library in Rome. For more details and registration see the link:http://www.otebac.it/index.php?it/22/archivio-eventi/217/

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Some 100 publications issued by the Harvard Library’s Judaica Division over the last fifty years are now available online (see link below).They include catalogs of exhibitions from Harvard’s Judaica Collection, lectures and articles related to aspects of the Judaica Collection, proceedings of library conferences held by the Judaica Division, catalogs of segments of the Judaica Collection,

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Call for Proposals for articles for volume 32 of Polin: Studies in Polish-Jewry on “Jewish Musicians and Jewish Music-Making on the Polish Lands”Philip Bohlman argues in Jewish Music and Modernity that “the contemporary dilemma confronting the modern study of Jewish music [is] that it has become a field trapped in a discursive space between Jewish Studies, cultural studies, and the anthropology

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The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) has accepted $500,000 from philanthropic leaders Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky to build a state-of-the-art digitization lab and make high-quality images of precious manuscripts available online.For many scholars, profound connection with their subjects and essential moments of great insight occur when they study original

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Survey SaysS. An-sky created a survey—never completed—on shtetl life in the 1910s. Its 2,087 questions offer a fascinating window on the Pale of Settlement.Is there a custom to place a cat, pieces of cake, or something else in the crib before one lays the child in it? Is biting off the protuberance at the end of an etrog considered a protection for a pregnant woman? If two zaddikim quarreled in

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The Association of Jewish Libraries' new AJL Reviews is out and I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to highlight some of the reviewed titles we've added to the collection recently.Jelen, Sheila E., Michael P. Kramer and L. Scott Lerner, editors. Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Jewish Culture and Contexts), 2011. 368 pp.

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November 14, 2011 7:00 - 9:00 pmStevenson Event CenterUC Santa CruzUCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places.Gershom’s previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the

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November 16, 2011 1:300 - 2:30 pm (note new time)202 Humanities 1UC Santa CruzGenerous support provided by the David B. Gold Foundation. One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event

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The University of Nebraska Press and The Jewish Publication Society Announce Collaborative Publishing AgreementSeptember 13, 2011The University of Nebraska Press will soon begin handling the publication, distribution and marketing of books released by The Jewish Publication Society.The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska approved purchase of JPS inventory during its Sept. 9 meeting.

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Dead Sea Scrolls Go Digital on New Interactive Website Created by the Israel Museum and GoogleUltra Hi-Res Imagery and Google Technology Enable Users Worldwide to Explore Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript as Never Before September 26, 2011 Jerusalem, Israel – The Israel Museum launches today its Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these ancient manuscripts from

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Debra Olin - Images Nathaniel Deutsch - Text September 27 - October 11, 2011 Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Univ of CA at Santa Cruz Gallery hours: 11am - 4pm, Tu-Su For more information call: 831-459-2953 - Wheelchair accessible Opening reception: Tuesday, September 27, 4-7pm Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of

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Jewish Studies conference set for UC Santa Cruz on May 22-24Preview panel discussion to take place at Museo Italo-Americano in San Francisco A conference designed to highlight the role women have played in the forging of Italian Jewish identity will take place May 22-24, on the UC Santa Cruz campus.Titled “Women, Jews, Venetians,” the event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies of the

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By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Pressvia Salon.comFrom the White House to the Schein house, Passover is good to the last drop thanks to the Maxwell House Haggadah, lovingly passed down through generations, red wine splotches and gravy smears marking nearly 80 years of service at American Seder tables.The coffee company's version of the text used at the holiday meal has been offered free at

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By Sam DolnickNew York Times, March 7, 2011In 1932, as the Nazis rose to power in Germany, a Jewish librarian in Frankfurt published a catalog of 15,000 books he had painstakingly collected for decades. It listed the key texts of a groundbreaking field called the Science of Judaism, in which scholars analyzed the religion’s philosophy and culture as they would study those of ancient Greece or

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Marcelo Dimentstein and Alejandro Dujovne"A Fragmented Tradition: Jewish Studies in Argentina"4-6pm, February 1, 2011UCSC Humanities 1 Room 210Compared with other Jewish Communities in the diaspora, the Argentine Jewish community presents a remarkable paradox: Although it is the largest, most plural and probably the most highly institutionalized Jewish community in Latin America, it has lacked a

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http://about.jstor.org/hebrew-journals-pilot-project"This project is first and foremost a collaboration between the University of Haifa, the National Library of Israel and JSTOR to meet the needs of scholars working throughout the world in Hebrew language scholarship. By collaborating, the University of Haifa will gain expertise in creating digital content, and JSTOR will gain vital knowledge as

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TONY MICHELS: THE ROOTS OF JEWISH SOCIALISM: FROM NEW YORK TO RUSSIA AND BACKTuesday, January 11, 201112 - 1 pmHumanities 1, Room 210In the late nineteenth century, a socialist workers’ movement burst onto the scene in New York City’s immigrant Jewish “ghetto.” Over subsequent decades and in cities around the country, hundreds of thousands of men and women participated in this Jewish labor

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How many professors in chemistry can give you even a ballpark estimate of the cost of a year’s subscription to Tetrahedron (currently $39,082)? Who in medical schools has the foggiest notion of the price of The Journal of Comparative Neurology ($27,465)? What physicist can come up with a reasonable guess about the average price of a journal in physics ($3,368), and who in the humanities can

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presented by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies Thursday, December 2, 2010, 2-3 pmHumanities 1, Room 620University of California, Santa CruzEthan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial roster of writers, including a young Jewish

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HebrewBooks.org is pleased to announce a new website dedicated to making Hebrew Manuscripts available online for free. HebrewManuscripts.org, has so far scanned and placed online over 1,000 Manuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. It provides free and instant access to images digitized from microfilms of Hebrew manuscripts and other rare

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The Special Collections Research Center of the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library at The George Washington University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Kiev Judaica Collection Research Fellowships.Dr. Jonathan Skolnik, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst is the first recipient of the newly created fellowship. Professor Skolnik will utilize the

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Join the thinkers and doers of the new Jewish Food Movement, where contemporary food conversations meet Jewish traditions.December 9th-12th, 2010Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat CenterFalls Village, CTDecember 23rd-26th, 2010Walker Creek RanchSonoma, CAThe Hazon Food Conference is the only place where farmers and rabbis, nutritionists and chefs, vegans and omnivores come together to explore the

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Columbia Libraries Receive $4 Million for Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studieshttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2010/20101027.alexander.htmlNEW YORK, October 27, 2010 - The Columbia University Libraries have received a gift of $4 million to establish the Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies which will include three new endowments: a Jewish Studies Librarian, the

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Ruth Ellen Gruber: Sauerkraut Cowboys and Klezmer Cafes: Europe's Real Imaginary SpacesTuesday, October 5, 2010, 12-1 pmHumanities 1, Room 210Ruth Ellen Gruber discusses “new authenticities” -- and “real imaginary spaces,” in contemporary Europe. These coincide often with the creation of new local traditions, definitions and cultural components. These two European trends are analogous phenomena:

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All of the following events will take place at the Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center14855 Oka Rd Los Gatos CA. 95032Professor Daniel Matt, Sunday October 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm at the APJCCDaniel Matt is one of the world’s leading authorities on Kabbalah. He has published over ten books, including The Essential Kabbalah (translated into six languages), Zohar: Annotated and Explained, and God

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A Digital Archive for Theatre in Israel in the Haifa University Library, IsraelSharon Shapira-GlaubachEmail: Shapira@univ.haifa.ac.ilThe Digital Theatre Archive for Theatre in Israel is a cultural heritage database aiming to digitally preserve and document Israel's rich theatrical heritage as preserved in Israel's theaters archives and to make it accessible via the internet to the contemporary

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Back issues of 60 Hebrew-language research journals will be scanned into an online archive that will be accessible to professors and students both in Israel and abroad. By Asaf Shtull-Trauring Haaretz June 30, 2010Israel's academic journals are embarking on a large-scale digitization project: In the coming months, back issues of 60 Hebrew-language research journals will be scanned into an online

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UC Santa Cruz approves new major in Jewish Studieshttp://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3899By Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp@ucsc.edu Jewish Studies at UCSC had its origins in the mid-1980s after a campus visit by Schindler’s List survivor Leopold Page--nearly a decade before Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film. “He came to a conference on the 40th anniversary of the

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"The only resource of its kind, this encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. This Web site makes accurate, reliable, scholarly information about East European Jewish life accessible to everyone."http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/

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from The Cambridge Inter-Faith ProgrammeCambridge University Library has announced visionary plans to become a digital library for the world - following a £1.5m lead gift pledged by Dr Leonard Polonsky.Home to more than seven million books and some of the greatest collections in existence, including those of Newton and Darwin, the Library will begin digitising its priceless treasures to launch

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The First Hebrew ePub Online Store – Hebrew e-Books at Mendele He-Booksfrom TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home blogBy Paul BibaSurprising as you might find it, despite the high percentage of readers and the great popularity of books among Hebrew speakers, there are no e-Books in Hebrew (He-Books). At least there were none until recently. It is rather incredible with Israelis known as gadget lovers

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The National Library of IsraelIsraeli Book Statistic – Hebrew Book Week 2010The Hebrew Book Week 2010 will take place in Israel between the 2nd of June until the 12th of June. Towards this event the National Library of Israel reports annual data about books published in Israel during 2009. The National Library of Israel is the deposit library of Israel, and receives, according to the "Books Act",

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Next deadline: July 1, 2010The Journal of Religious & Theological Information invites submissions for its Fall 2010 issue. JRTI is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge and focused on the selection, organization, dissemination, digitization, and preservation of information within the context of religious studies and related fields. By "information" we refer to both print and

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The UCSC Center for Jewish Studies presents David Biale, the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, will deliver a public lecture entitled: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.” Professor Biale will discuss Zionism as a movement of Jewish secularism and its roots in the tradition of Jewish secular thought going back to

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Dear LEE,We would like to thank you for becoming a charter subscriber to the Jewish Review of Books. Your paid subscription will begin with the 2nd issue, appearing this summer. In the meantime, we are sending you a copy of our inaugural issue (Spring 2010). This means you will have a complete set of what we believe is a significant and exciting new venture in Jewish intellectual life.We would

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Dear Hasafran Readers,I am pleased to announce the publication of Segula magazine, a new Jewish and Israeli History monthly magazine. This unique magazine will cover events and characters within Jewish history from the time of the second Temple to the early 20th century, as well as the history of mandatory Palestine and the modern state of Israel from the early 20th Century to modern times. The

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May 3, 2010; 5:00 - 6:00 pm; Humanities 1, Room 210, UC Santa CruzThis talk will deal with a number of issues related to the theme of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust. Firstly, what has been the changing nature of Jewish life since 1945? Secondly, how has the community been viewed by the perpetrators and their children, and how has this perception changed over time? Professor Lapp begin with a

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YIISA: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of AntisemitismandThe International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)CALL FOR PAPERSFor The Upcoming Conference"Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity"Monday, August 23rd – Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Yale University, New Haven, CTThe International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) is a newly formed

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The Department of Literature, UC Santa Cruzcordially invites you to a talk byDorian BellAssistant Professor of FrenchDepartment of French and ItalianUniversity of California, Irvine“Colonial Conspiracies: Literature, Empire, and the Fashioning of French Anti-Semitism”3:30 p.m.Wednesday, February 24, 2010Room 210, Humanities Building 1University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Bell’s research

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... announced via the Jewish Faculty RoundtableJUEDISCHE LITERATURGESCHICHTEWHAT IT ISCompact Memory - Deutsch-jüdische Literaturgeschichte im Web[Explanation found at primary-sources.eui.eu][A] project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft which aimsto make the most important German-Jewish periodicals from the 19thand 20th century, until the Nazi rise to power in 1933, accessibleon the

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Dear friends,We would like to invite you to the upcoming events organized by the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies. JANUARY 27, 5:00 pm, Humanities Lecture HallREBECCA GOLDSTEIN, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God and other works of fiction, including The Mind-Body Problem, Mazel, and Properties of Light.FEBRUARY 1, 11-12:10, Jack Baskin Auditorium, Room 101"The Popularization of the

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Given the recent intense interest in tracking down copies of the TaNaKh (the Jewish Bible) fueled by Dr. Baumgarten's Winter 2010 class, I thought I'd share some links to online editions I've discovered.A couple of quick notes to start. First, the word "TaNaKh" is formed from the first letter of the Hebrew names of the three parts of the Jewish Bible: Torah, Neviim (Prophets), and Ketuvim (

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JPS has created an audio edition of the Tanakh, with different readers voicing their 1985 translation. The whole of the Tanakh will be available for sale on CD but the weekly parashat is available online for free. Click on the > play button in the box above to listen to the current parashat. See http://www.jewishpub.org/books/audiobible/ for further information.

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A recent posting about an issue addressed in a blog had me looking back at some of the Jewish Studies sites I'd encountered. There were enough substantial sites that I thought as sampling would be useful.Kol Safran קול ספרן : Comments on books, librarianship, and libraries that don't get the full article treatmentthetakeaway@jtslibrary: answers to questions from The Jewish Theological Seminary's

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A special concert of Sephardic music will be presented at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center next Thursday, Nov. 12th. Kat Parra and the Sephardic Music Experience will be presenting a concert in celebration of their new CD, Dos Amantes. This is a CD of entirely Sephardic melodies rearranged for a more modern world music audience. They hope you will join us as we celebrate this beautiful music in Santa

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Fred Astren, Chair of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, holds degrees in Medieval History (Minnesota), Arabic (UC Berkeley), and Near Eastern Studies (UC Berkeley). His interests include minority/sectarian history and sacred history in the Mediterranean Middle Ages, with special focus on Jewish history under Islam, Jewish-Muslim relations, and the Karaite Jewish sect. Among his

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I had the great pleasure this week to visit the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco for the first time. What finally prompted me to make the trip was As It Is Written: Project 304,805. This exhibit features soferet Julie Seltzer, a professionally trained scribe, who will write a Sefer Torah in public over the next year or so. Ms. Seltzer's involvement takes on special significance

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Call for Papers: Journal of Religious & Theological InformationThe Journal of Religious & Theological Information is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge and focused on the selection, organization, dissemination, digitization, and preservation of information within the context of religious studies and related fields. By "information" we refer to both print and electronic, and both

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Where: Humanities 1 room 202, UC Santa CruzWhen: Monday, May 18 at 4:00pmA visitor to the last standing Jewish day-school in Syria, the Maimonides Madrasah, will notice the logo of the Syrian Arab Republic's Ministry of Education proudly chiseled above the entrance. The secular state stakes out an overt presence in many other Jewish sites in Damascus. The very centerpiece of the Syrian National

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GHETTO: JEWS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AND THE URBAN IMAGINARY A Dialogue With: Nathaniel Deutsch, UC Santa CruzMitchell Duneier, Princeton UniversitySudhir Venkatesh, Columbia UniversityModerated by Eric Porter, UC Santa Cruz Where: Humanities 1 room 210, UC Santa CruzWhen: Tuesday, May 19, at 4:00pm Since its inception in sixteenth century Venice, the term “ghetto” has been applied to Jewish urban

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“Jewish Studies at Santa Cruz: On the Cutting Edge of Tradition”UCSC Jewish Studies Alumni Conference and CelebrationApril 26, 200912:00–1:00 p.m. Buffet lunch1:00–3:30 p.m. ConferenceHumanities 1, Room 210Please join us for a unique conference that brings together UCSC Jewish Studies alumni, current students and faculty, and members of the broader Santa Cruz community to discuss Jewish

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The Helen Diller Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture: "Stages of Memory in Berlin and New York," James E. Young, Professor of English and Judaic Studies, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWhen: Friday, April 24, 2009. 11am-12:10pmWhere: Media Theater - Theater Arts Center, M110James E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has

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Stevenson College Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series Jonathan Kirsch, "Harlots, Holy Books, and History: Confessions of a Vulgarizer"04/16/2009 Thursday 4:00 PM to 5:30 PMFireside Lounge, Stevenson CollegeOpen to Public / FreeSponsored by UCSC Alumni Association and the Institute for Humanities ResearchJonathan Kirsch – a journalist and book critic by training and trade – is the author of seven

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The Minsk Ghetto 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet InternationalismA Reading and Talk by Barbara EpsteinWednesday, April 22 7:30pmBJE Jewish Community Library1835 Ellis Street, San FranciscoLittle has been written about the Minsk ghetto, the underground, the Communist-led resistance, and the local population's cooperation with the Jews in German-occupied Byelorussia. Drawing on interviews

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It's here! The Jewish Women's Archive is proud to announce the launch of the online version of Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, originally published by Alice and Moshe Shalvi of Shalvi Publishing Ltd., and edited by Professors Paula Hyman of Yale University and Dalia Ofer of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.The Encyclopedia is now available for FREE at http://jwa.org/

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Bay Area Academic Consortium Spring ProgramYIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern EuropeThe Bay Area Academic Consortium invites you to save the date for its spring program for faculty and graduate students in Jewish Studies: a panel discussion of the two-volume YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (Yale University Press).WHEN AND WHERESunday, March 15, 200912:00 pm - 4:00 pmLunch will be

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Beginning March 21, 2009, all future Interlibrary Loan requests will be held at the Circulation desks of the McHenry and the Science & Engineering Libraries for pickup. The Document Delivery service and campus delivery of Interlibrary Loan items will no longer be available. UCSC-owned serials and books will be available for library patrons to pull from the stacks.We regret having to end a service

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Professor Yossi Chajes of the University of Haifa will present a talk entitled: "Entzauberung (De-Magic-ing) and Jewish Modernity."Monday, February 2, from 5:00- 6:45 in Room 222 of Oakes College, UC Santa CruzModern identity was forged, in large part, through a self-conscious distancing from a past construed as magical. Until the late nineteenth-century, to be modern meant to have "faith" in "

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January 24 – 26, 2009click image for program schedule

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The 24th Jewish Music Festival, March 21-29, 2009 A program of the JCC of the East Bay with concerts throughout the Bay Area.This local cultural gem showcases artists from Germany, New York, Toronto and the Bay Area. The Festival Week opens Saturday night, March21st, with Kosher Gospel featuring *Joshua Nelson and the OaklandInterfaith Gospel Choir*. Highlights include America's First Lady

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The day after posting the following item, my wife read me an article about the Magnes Museum's Jewish Digital Archives posted on flickr.com. Since this is not maintained as a group (and doesn't have the word "Jewish" in its title) it didn't turn up in the search I did earlier. In fact I found it by Googling "Magnes flickr."That sent off looking for other Jewish collections in flickr. By

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Hollywood Legend Tony CurtisIn conversation with Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle Movie CriticBorn Bernard Schwartz to immigrant parents in the Bronx, Tony Curtis rose to stardom at the height of Hollywood's Golden Age. He made comedy history with Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot and carried on notorious romances with such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh and Natalie Wood. In his new

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Hanukkah in Venice: Music and Traditions of the Italian JewsItalian Dinner and PresentationA Dinner and Presentation with Francesco Spagnolo and Sharon BernsteinVenice, a cradle of Jewish modernity, was home to the first ghetto in history. Since the early 16th century, Jews and non-Jews lived in close proximity. This presentation brings to life compelling historical evidence about daily life,

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December 2, 2008UCSC receives $150,000 grant for Jewish Studies programBy Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp@ucsc.eduUC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the David B. Gold Foundation to support a new project in the campus's Jewish Studies Program.Titled "Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges," the project will integrate contemporary issues that are most important to students

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I've rarely used this space to express an opinion or to take on a controversial issue. Therefore I hope readers will allow me an occasional license to highlight the following issue. Members of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) were alerted a couple of months ago about an article entitled "Zionism" in The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan, 2007). The notion of including an

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Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festivalhttp://www.svjff.org/October 26-November 19, 2008Jewish Book MonthContra Costa JCChttp://63.151.43.13/bookfest2008/index.htmlOctober 23-November 3San Francisco JCChttp://www.jccsf.org/bookfest/Sunday, November 2, 11:00-6:30Author events: 11:00 am - 6:30 pmFilm screening: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmPeninsula JCChttp://www.pjcc.org/arts/jewish-authors.htmlSunday, October 26

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Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities: 1516 - 1870Museo ItaloAmericano, San FranciscoSeptember 25, 2008 to February 15, 2009Consistent with its mission of preserving the heritage of Italian Americans, the Museo is pleased to present this new exhibit and related community programs to educate the general public about this little known dimension of Italian culture.An original documentary

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"After a two year hiatus, the Journal of Religious & Theological Information (JRTI) is now being published by Taylor & Francis. As the new editor, I welcome submissions for upcoming issues. I'm especially interested in ideas, nominations, and submissions for a special issue of JRTI that is planned on the topic of Emerging Trends in Religious and Theological Information. Please contact me if

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Jewish Literature: Identity & ImaginationA Reading and Discussion SeriesDemons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish ImaginationThe series will be facilitated by Murray Baumgarten and held at the Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main Street, Suite 100The dates and books to be discussed are as follows: Wednesday, September 24, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Extracted from the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies ...The Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Nathaniel Deutsch has joined the ranks of Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz!Dr. Deutsch was recently appointed as a Professor of Literature and History and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and comes to UC from Swarthmore College, where he was instrumental in building that

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Rabbi Jacob Grossman and his Wife Rashi Return to Santa Cruz! The Grossmans, who have been coming to Santa Cruz for two weeks during the last few summers, will be returning this year. Their focus, once again, is on celebrating Shabbat, commemorating Tisha B'Av and spending one week of nighttime learning concentrating on one of the basic mitzvot of Judaism. The learning is done in a chavruta

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Saturday, August 16, 7:30 PM, at Temple Beth ElComing to Santa Cruz after their sold out concert at theSkirball Cultural Museum in LA, internationally acclaimedmusicians Yair Dalal, Dror Sinai, Naser Musa, and SouhailKaspar, will be here for one night only.The two Israeli and two Palestinian musicians weave togethera deep, beautiful journey of music for peace.Tickets are $15, cash or check only

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There are some amazing Israeli films this year that are a must see! Some of our favorites are listed below, but for a full list of award-winning films, check outhttp://sfjff.org/festival_2008/.This year, the Festival runs from July 24 to August 11, and will be screening films in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and San Rafael.

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July is looking to be a slow month around here (unless you are firefighter, I'm afraid) so I thought I'd use this space to highlight some more of the items coming to me through the HaSafran mailing list of the Association of Jewish Libraries. To see more of the links (or past items) I've collected see http://del.icio.us/ldjaffe/ajlibHistoric Jewish Press - contains a collection of Jewish

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Israel in the GardensYerba Buena Park, SFJune 1, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.The premier celebration of Israel and the Jewish community in the Bay Area is ready for lift off. Over 20,000 people will converge on Yerba Buena Gardens for the hottest and freshest in Israeli music, food, film and more. This massive party is not to be missed. World-renowned musician Idan Raichel, whose enchanting blend of

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Another installment in an irregular series of useful and interesting items gleaned from the Association of Jewish Libraries's HaSafran mailing list ...New Vilna Review is a new Jewish journal based out of Boston.The Shengold Judaism Wiki is a new Jewish version of Wikipedia, already featuring 1,461 articles in English.To commemorate Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, Jacob Richman

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... and other mysteries of the new McHenry Library Addition.These first few months in the new library addition are going to be an adventure as we learn to find our way the new space. There are many new and strange points of interest presented by the building that we'll all be discovering as we go. Much of the building is actually well-organized and easy to navigate. For instance, most of

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WIZO's Dance Party for AdultsConcert and live music with Hapittot local Israeli rock bandWednesday, May 7, 8:00 pmIsrael @ 60 Educational Symposium. Arts, Diversity, ConflictThe Jewish Community Relations Council presents a day of learning dedicated to educating the community about multiple aspects of life in Israel. Keynote lectures by Alan Kaufman and Steven Spiegel.Thursday, May 8, 10:00 am-6:

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Two exciting events in May from the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz:“Russia, Jews and The Arts”A one-day conference on Sunday, May 4, 2008 brings together scholars from UCSC, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Dartmouth University, The University of Illinois, and the Magnes Museum to order to address the question of Jewish contributions to Russian literature, theater and visual culture. and to

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If you've read my previous post, you'll know that UCSC's McHenry Library moved at the end of March and you may extrapolate that I've been busy working on the move. This is a back-hand way of apologizing for being late with posting April events. Here's a start and I'll be adding new entries as soon as I can.Pianist Gila Goldstein in ConcertIsrael in the Bay event - celebrating Israel's 60th

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I don't usually post chatty notes but it has been awhile since I've updated this blog (don't most blog entries begin with an apology for being lax in posting?) and I thought I'd take this opportunity to update campus and local community users with recent developments in the McHenry building project. If you weren't already aware, for the past couple of years access to the south side of the

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Dr. Andrei Markovits to deliver seventh Gold Distinguished Lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year. The Center for Jewish Studies is proud to Present Dr. Andrei Markovits as our seventh Gold Foundation Distinguished Lecturer of the 2007-2008 academic Year. Dr. Markovits will delivere a lecture entitled “Sports Culture and Jewish Identity in Europe and the U.S.” on Monday, April 7thHumanities I

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Dr. Mitchell Cohen to deliver fifth Gold Distinguished Lecture of 2007-2008 academic year. The Center for Jewish Studies is proud to Present Dr. Mitchell Cohen as our sixth Gold Foundation Distinguished Lecturer of the 2007-2008 academic Year. Dr. Cohen will deliver a lecture entitled “Israel, Anti-Semitism and the Left”Monday March 10th5:00-7:00PM • Stevenson 150Is there a "Jewish Problem" on

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February 19, 2008YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchNew York, NYUnited StatesDear Friends,The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is establishing a Worldwide Shoah Memoirs Collection in electronic form of previously unpublished or unavailable memoirs written by survivors of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is serving as Honorary Chairman for this program. Joining in

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The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary now offers the digital library, an online resource that provides global access to some of Jewish history's most outstanding treasures. The initiative was made possible by the Rebell Family Foundation and members of The Library, whose generous support funded the purchase of the underlying software (DigiTool).The first collection made available through

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I recently joined ha-Safran, the mailing list of the Association of Jewish Libraries. The following are some of the brief items of possible interest that have been announced over the past month or so. • Jewesses with Attitude, Jewish Women's Archives blog http://jwablog.jwa.org/• International Tracing Service Archive @ US Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/

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The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy is pleased to invite proposals for ground-breaking research in six preferred areas of Jewish Genealogy, to be carried out in the academic year 2008- 09. Successful applicants will be awarded grants of up to $10,000The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31 May, 2008, for adjudication by the highest standards of academic excellence, by 31

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Highlights from the Israel Antiquities Authority:The Dead Sea Scrolls and 5,000 Years of TreasuresLegion of Honor, Lincoln Park, 34th Avenue and Clement Street, San FranciscoExhibiton: February 16, 2008 — August 10, 2008 (Closed Mondays)The Fifth Annual Bible by the BayKeynote Speaker: Professor Judith Plaskow"Texts We Love to Hate: Reading the Bible in the 21st Century"JCC San Francisco, 3200

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8th Annual Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival continuedTemple Beth El, AptosFebruary 2-3Gold Foundation Distinguished Lecture “Jews Among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps During the Great War”Dr. Margaret Olin, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of ChicagoDuring World War One, German anthropologists regarded POW camps as small worlds

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"Human Rights Before, During, and After World War II," FOCUS on Global Resources Newsletter 27: 2 (Winter 2007-08)The following are a few selected microform sources held by CRL dealing with human rights violations in Europe before and during World War II. The list also includes resources concerning the aftermath of the war in Europe, Asia, and Israel, such as the Nuremberg and Far East war crimes

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2007-2008 Hellen Diller Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture"The Forbidden Fork, the Cell-Phone Holocaust, and Other Ultra Orthodox Encounters with Technology"co-sponsored by the Department of HistoryDr. Nathaniel DeutschJanuary 24th, 2008, 4:00PM Humanities 1 Room 202What can the relationship of Ultra Orthodox Jews to technology teach us about the broader encounter between religion and

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The Science & Engineering Library and McHenry Library, as well as most of the campus, will be closed December 22, 2007 through January 1, 2008. The Library's electronic services will continue to be available (barring any unplanned power or network problems), so users should have uninterrupted access to the online resources during the break.

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"Shelf life: Discovering the treasures of Berkeley, Stanford Judaica libraries." J. (111:49) Dec. 14, 2007, p.30a-31a.The cover story in this week's J. magazine features Berkeley's and Stanford's Judaica library collections, and their librarians, Paul Hamburg and Zachary Baker. It's a good overview, highlighting items from the collections and introducing Hamburg and Baker, local stars in the

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Illuminating Dialogues: What Solutions are Realistic and Possible? - update• Speakers: Daniel Levy and Ghaith al-OmariDaniel and Ghaith are veteran Israeli and Palestinian negotiators from the Oslo and Taba Talks. They were the chief drafters of the Geneva Accords and were both participants in the Annapolis talks last week• Moderated by California State Senator Joe SimitianColleges 9 & 10

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Topics in Jewish and Israel Studies: Center for Research Librariesfrom CRL Focus Newsletter Summer 2007, Volume 26, Number 4One way in which CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is by acquiring special collections identified by librarians and scholars at member institutions through the annual Purchase Proposal Program. In 2006, University of

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updated 11/6/2007I don't mean to rush the calendar with October not yet halfway through, but there are some items coming early in November that you don't want to miss.Again at the top of the list is this campus's Fall Lecture series, ILLUMINATING DIALOGUES: PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVES IN A TIME OF CRISIS third installment:The Role of Politics and Culture in Shaping the Conflict•

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(updated 10/15/07)October is shaping up to be a remarkable the month for Jewish studies related events. See the many items and updates listed below...First and perhaps foremost is the launch of the Fall 2007 lecture series ILLUMINATING DIALOGUES: PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVES IN A TIME OF CRISIS. The two sessions this month are:"Palestinian and Israeli Historical Narratives"Wednesday,

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If you haven't been around campus during the summer, you've missed some excitement (and a lot of dust) as the McHenry Library addition and renovation project rolls along. As we prepare for our planned move from the current space into the addition this winter, more things will change to accommodate the relocation. Some of you may notice one change right away when you try to delve into the

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As if the beginning of the school year and the High Holidays weren't enough excitement, there are some interesting Jewish events planned in the region for September. Sorry if some of them are very sort notice.Book Launch: They Called Me Mayer JulyMemories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the HolocaustMayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Jewish Community Center, San

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