Fall 2007 EventsAll events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Email for further information. Select Month:
Individual and Collective Justice Professor Suzanne Last Stone, Visiting Professor of Law (from Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University). Tuesday, September 11, 5:00PM, Kabacoff 240A, Silverman Hall, 3400 Chestnut Street The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law on Between Revenge and Reconciliation: Rabbinic Views on Historical Justice 2007-2008 CAJS Fellows Reception '07-'08 theme: Jewish and Other Imperial Cultures in Late Antiquity: Literary, Social, and Material Histories Wednesday, September 19, 5:00PM, Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Dietrich Library Sponsored by The Jewish Studies Program and The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Responsibility, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation Professor Suzanne Last Stone, Visiting Professor of Law (from Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University). Thursday, September 20, 5:00PM, Kabacoff 240A, Silverman Hall, 3400 Chestnut Street The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law on Between Revenge and Reconciliation: Rabbinic Views on Historical Justice The Jews in Fascist Italy: A Reappraisal Professor Paolo Bernardini, Boston University and Universita dell'Insubria Thursday, September 20, 4:30PM, Cherpack Conference and Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall Introduction by Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, Penn's Romance Languages Department, and Center for Italian Studies October In Quest of a Narrative -- An Ethnography in an Israeli Kibbutz Haya Bar-Itzhak, University of Haifa Monday, October 1, 5:00PM, Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House) Dr. Haya Bar-Itzhak will present an aggregate narrative of stories collected in an Israeli Kibbutz. She analyzes the rhetoric of place in the local narrative, explaining the Zionist-Socialist ethos and its key symbol, which contains simultaneous meanings and ambiguities. Bar-Itzhak is the Head of Folklore Studies and Director of the Israeli Folktale Archives at the University of Haifa. She is currently a Fulbright Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. Combining ethnographic and poetic approaches to Jewish folk narrative, she is the author of Israeli Folk Narratives - Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity (2005), Jewish Poland - Legends of Origin, Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (2001), and Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives From Israel (1993). Reception to follow. Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife and the Middle East Center The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 Peter Cole, poet and Hebrew and Arabic translator Monday, October 8, 6:00PM, Arts Cafe at Kelly Writers House Cole has published two collections of poetry, Rift (Station Hill) and Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press); a third volume, What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1989, was recently published by Shearsman Books in the UK. He has also published nine books of translation from Hebrew and Arabic poetry and prose. Cole has received numerous awards for his poetry and translation, including the Modern Language Association-Scaglione Translation Prize for Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (Princeton University Press) and the Times Literary Supplement-Porjes Hebrew Translation Prize for Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol (Princeton). He has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Cole, who makes his living as a translator and editor, has been visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Middlebury College. He lives in Jerusalem. Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Kelly Writers House Placing the Voice: the Personal & Political, Israel 2007 Rachel Tzvia Back, Israeli poet Wednesday, October 10, 7:30PM, Kelly Writers House Tzvia Back is a poet, translator, peace activist and professor of literature who has lived in Israel for the last 27 years. Her work includes the poetry collections Azimuth (Sheep Meadow Press, 2001), The Buffalo Poems (Duration Press, 2003), and On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005 (Shearsman Books, 2007). She is also the author of the critical work Led by Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press, Contemporary & Modern Poetics Series, 2002). Her translations of the poetry of Lea Goldberg -- in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (edited, annotated and introduced by Back, published by Toby Press) were awarded a 2005 Penn Translation Grant. Back works as a senior lecturer in English literature at Oranim College, Haifa, and creative writing instructor in the MA Writing Program at Bar-Ilan University. She has recently completed translating and editing the English version of an anthology of Hebrew protest poetry entitled With an Iron Pen: Hebrew Protest Poetry 1984-2004. She is the mother of three young children, and resides in a small village in the Galilee, in the north of Israel. Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Kelly Writers House Jews, Judaism, and Judaica in the Museum Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Chief curator, Juedisches Museum, Vienna; Curator, Spertus Museum, Chicago Thursday, October 18, 5:00PM, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's) Heimann-Jelinek is an art historian and one of the foremost scholars on museology and Jewish art in Germany and Austria. A few of her books/catalogues can be found at: http://www.bookfinder.com/author/felicitas-heimann-jelinek/ Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Art History Post-Mortem: The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich Tuesday, October 30, 5:00PM, Benjamin Franklin Room, Houston Hall After studies in Heidelberg and Jerusalem, Brenner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and taught at Indiana and Brandeis Universities, and as visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz, Budapest, Haifa, and Stanford. Among his book publications are Propheten des Vergangenen: Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (München: C.H. Beck 2006), Zionism: A Concise History (English 2003, German original 2002, Italian 2003, Korean 2005), The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale UP 1996, German 2000, Hebrew 2003), and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (Princeton UP 1997, originally in German, 1995). He is co-author and assistant editor of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times (Columbia UP, 1996-98; also in German and Hebrew editions). He is also co-editor of several books, among them Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sport in Europe (Nebraska UP 2006), Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (Tübingen 2003), and Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute (München: C.H. Beck, 2002). He serves as chairman of the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland. Jewish Studies Joseph Alexander Colloquium, and co-sponsored by the History department and the Dept of Germanic Languages and Literatures
City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa Adam LeBor, author and journalist Tuesday, November 6, 4:30PM, Golkin Room, Houston Hall Adam LeBor is a British journalist and author based in Budapest, Hungary, who has written widely on Jewish current and historical topics. He writes for The Times of London, the Economist and the New York Times and also contributes to The Nation and the New York Sun. His new book, City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa, is published by WW Norton, and is a uniquely humane account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By recounting the true life stories of six families in Jaffa, three Jewish and three Arab, he brings to life the human drama of a century of conflict and shows us a new perspective on an oft-told story. The book has received wide critical acclaim for its balanced perspective, and was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize in the UK. City of Oranges was an editor's choice in the New York Times. His previous books include: Hitler's Secret Bankers, Milosevic: A Biography and Complicity With Evil: the United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide. Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Middle East Center Jewish Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: From Text to Performance Klaus Hodl, Centrum fur Judische Studien (Centre of Jewish Studies), Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz Wednesday, November 7, 5:00PM, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's) Hoedl's main points of research: History of the Ostjudentums, prejudice research, Jewish identities and memory. A full list of publications can be found at: http://www.uni-graz.at/cjs-graz/publikationen_hoedl.pdf Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Authentic Folklorism: Israeli Folk Dancing in Israel and in America Dina Roginsky, University of Toronto Monday, November 12, 5:00PM, Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
The Israeli folk dance movement was established in the early 1940s by Jewish initiators in Palestine, as a modern tradition of a national invented folklore. Yet, Israeli folk dances were exported abroad right after their first creation, by the national Israeli Folk Dance Section that managed the field. Due to successful efforts made by Zionist organizations both in Israel and in the States, Israeli folk dancing became a popular leisure activity in America. However, apart from the organized institutional side of Israeli folk dancing activities in America, Israeli folk dance instructors who immigrated to the States began to operate on a privatized basis. Whereas in the 1950s and 1960s they focused their activities solely on Israeli folk dance instruction, from the 1970s they also have began to create ?gIsraeli folk dances?h in America, introducing them both to the local Jewish American dancing community and exporting them back to Israel. This development inflamed a severe debate between the institutional departments and the Israeli-American initiators. In this lecture, Dr. Dina Roginsky will discuss this issue, analyzing different attitudes presented by varied actors in the field. Ownership, representation, authenticity, and geographical-cultural borders of national products are the core themes of this debate. Scholar in Residence Marc Shapiro, Scranton University Friday and Saturday, November 15-16, various times, Steinhardt Hall Scholar in Residence Dr. Marc Shapiro, a professor at Scranton University, for the weekend Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the Orthodox Community at Penn. Acts of Assimilation: The Invention of Jewish American Literary History Michael P. Kramer, Director, Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing, Bar Ilan University Monday, November 19, 5:00PM, 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall Kramer is the editor of MAGGID: A Journal of Jewish Literature, and has authored and edited numerous books and essays on Jewish and American literature, including Imagining Language in America, New Essays on Seize the Day, and The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (with Hana Wirth Nesher). He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University and taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Davis, before coming to Israel in 1994. His awards include a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and an Israel Science Foundation Grant. Professor Kramer was a fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in 2005 and last year, organized "Kisufim: The Jerusalem Conference of Jewish Writers." Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by the English department
Autumn Song: Portrait of the Artist as an Older Woman Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, acclaimed Yiddish poet, singer and song writer Thursday, December 13, 7:30PM, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027 Please join us as this renowned artist reflects on her journey in later life through song, poetry and conversation. At 87, she continues to create and share her art. This event is free and open to adults of all ages. Reservations appreciated: e-mail hiddur@rrc.edu or call (215) 576-0800, ext. 152. For more information please visit Hiddurfs site at http://www.hiddur.org. Part of the Jewish Studies Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and co-sponsored by Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College with other organizations in the community.
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