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Anniversaries are a time for celebration, stock-taking, decision-making, and renewal. The Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP) atIndiana University (IU) has just reached such a milestone. We turned 30 this past year and have lots to feel good about as we reviewour past accomplishments and also much still to do as we look ahead to the future.

Our program has now reached a level of institutional size and maturity that could not have been envisioned when it wasinaugurated in 1973. Who would have thought that Bloomington, Indiana, an attractive but relatively small midwesterncollege town, would come to house one of this country’s major academic centers of Jewish learning? Probably very few, includingmany at IU itself. As those who have been to Bloomington know, however, and as others who read this newsletter will quickly see,the Borns JSP has grown to be precisely such a center and annually sponsors a range of scholarly and cultural activities that isalmost unmatched in its richness and depth.

It is small wonder, then, that students now come to IU in record numbers—and from 26 different states and several foreigncountries—to do Jewish Studies (JS). This past year, we counted 87 JS majors, 79 JS area certificate students, 16 Hebrew minors,and 11 graduate students with Ph.D. minors in JS. In sum, among the more than 1,700 students at IU who take our courses eachyear, we now have a sizable core devoted to doing concentrated work in JS. And not only are their numbers growing year by year,but so, too, are the seriousness of purpose and potential for achieving real excellence among so many of the young people we nowsee in our classrooms.

Our students are the centerpiece of the Borns JSP, and we make special efforts to provide them with the kinds of educationalopportunities they need and deserve: a curriculum of 50 courses a year taught by a large and talented faculty, including 6 endowedchairs; a first-rate library, which houses an excellent Judaica collection; significant scholarship and fellowship support as well as otherkinds of financial aid; expert academic counseling and mentoring by a full-time and outstanding student advisor; a vibrant academicenvironment, which provides constant intellectual stimulation; an appealing variety of social and cultural opportunities; professionalcareer guidance; and more. To pursue JS at IU, in short, is to be part of a comprehensive and unusually caring program of studies,carefully built over three decades, which encourages students to focus rigorous attention on Judaism and the Jews.

We take pride in the accomplishments of our students during their years on campus and eagerly follow their personal andprofessional activities once they leave IU. It is especially gratifying that large numbers of our alumni continue to pursue JS beyondBloomington or go on to careers in Jewish institutional life in communities throughout the country.

Meeting these students and teaching so many of them over the years has been a joy. And leading the Borns JSP as its directorsince the program’s inception has been a privilege beyond measure. As the program enters its fourth decade, it will now pass into the

capable hands of new leadership. I am confident that my successor, Professor StevenWeitzman, will prove entirely up to the task of sustaining the many strengths of the BornsJSP and also take it in some new and exciting directions in the years to come. Anoutstanding scholar and teacher in his own area of biblical studies, Professor Weitzman,who holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, has knowledge of our field in itsbroadest dimensions. Moreover, he is deeply committed to the flourishing of highereducation in America’s public universities and to the vital role that a vibrant JSP can playin such institutions. My colleagues and I know how fortunate we are to have him at IU andare thrilled that he will be the next director of the Borns JSP. He has our complete trust andfull support as he takes up his new position and progresses with his important work.

As for my own future work, I plan to continue it at IU, in ways that aredescribed elsewhere in this newsletter, and also at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,in Washington, D.C., on whose governing Council I am privileged to serve. Meanwhile, Iwant to offer my heartfelt thanks to the many people at IU and in the broader community

who have generously supported the Borns JSP and given methe honor of guiding the program in its development over thepast thirty years.

Alvin H. RosenfeldDirector

IN TH I S IS S U E

3 New Director/Associate Director4 Institute for Jewish Culture and

the Arts5 New Faculty6 Programs

10 IU Press11 Friends12 JSP Advisory Board12 Donor Honor Roll13 JSP Endowments13 Student News18 Graduate Study18 Alumni News20 Course Offerings21 Faculty News24 Faculty and Staff

Alvin H. Rosenfeld,Outgoing Director

NEW JSP DIRECTORST E V E N WE I T Z M A N

Since the days that Moses turned things overto Joshua, Jewish culture has recognized thatmoments of transition bring both challengesand opportunities. As the Borns JSP beginsits fourth decade, it will be my honor andpleasure to serve as its director. Since myarrival at IU ten years ago, I have feltprivileged to be a member of this program.My research in the fields of biblical and earlyJewish literature has been deepened throughinteraction with colleagues. Thanks towonderful students, I have known many joysas a teacher. I could not ask for a moresupportive staff. The alumni and donors Ihave met are incredibly admirable andindefatigably supportive. And in ProfessorAlvin Rosenfeld, I have a mentor, model, anddear friend. I am both humbled and deeplyhonored to lead such a distinguished andflourishing program.

For the last three decades, the Borns JSPhas benefited from Professor Rosenfeld’svision. He has done a remarkable jobbuilding the program and cultivating thecommunity that sustains it. What will happennow that he is stepping down as director?Professor Rosenfeld’s foresight ensures asmooth transition. Throughout the past year,he has been a generous and wise mentor andwill continue to offer guidance. The programhe has directed is marvelously positioned forthe future, and we will continue to worktogether closely to realize its potential.

The JSP is planning to celebrate AlvinRosenfeld’s many contributions (we will beposting details on our website as our planscrystalize). But that will hardly mark the endof those contributions. I am especially excitedabout his role as the director of a newInstitute for Jewish Culture and the Arts, aninitiative that will foster the understanding,performance, and composition of Jewishmusic, literature, film, and other media ofartistic expression.

Moments of transition are times forreflection and introspection. One of my firstgoals as director is to encourage my colleaguesand the larger community of students, friends,and supporters to reflect about where the JSPshould go from here. Here are some of theissues we need to think about:

Graduate Study: We already have moremajors than any other JS program in thecountry and can match quantity with quality.

Even as we work hard to sustain theexcellence of our undergraduate program,what can we achieve at the graduate level?

Career Development: Many of ourstudents go on to careers in communityservice, education, social work, andleadership. Is there more that we can do toprepare them for these endeavors? At theother end of the curricular spectrum, whatmore can we do to train our students in thestudy of classical Jewish texts? How can wemore closely connect such academic pursuitsto our students’ vocational aspirations?

Broadening our Horizons: In recentyears, our program has emerged as a majorcenter for the study of Yiddish and EastEuropean Jewish culture. We also have realstrength in Sephardic studies, with twofaculty specializing in this area. What ofIsrael and Hebrew studies? How can weensure that Israel remains a vital part of ourcurriculum? What more can we do to fosterunderstanding of the country’s history,culture, and political life? And what ofAmerican Jewish life? We have already takensteps to strengthen these areas, but muchmore needs to be done.

Community Service: The JSP has longplayed a key role in the larger communityof Indiana, serving it with educationalprogramming and public events and linkingit to the national and international Jewishscene. Are there community needs not beingmet or connections yet to be made?

I do not yet know the answers to all thesequestions, but a few things are clear to menow. First, these are questions worth asking.The more vital the JSP is, the better it canserve IU and the state as a catalyst of

scholarly achievement,cultural diversity, andcommunity service.Second, with a stellarfaculty and students, anaccomplished anddedicated staff, and avery supportive Collegeof Arts and Sciences, weare in an excellentposition to pursueanswers to thesequestions. Finally, as weaddress new challengesand develop newopportunities, we willlook to you, our alumniand friends, for support.

You have helped to build this program intowhat it is. We will continue to need that helpas we further develop the program into whatit can be.Sincerely,

Steven WeitzmanDirector

JE F F R E Y VE I D L I N G E RJSP’s New Associate DirectorProfessor Jeffrey Veidlinger, associateprofessor of History, JS, and Russian andEast European Studies, is the new AssociateDirector of the Borns JSP. One of the mostpopular teachers on campus, his first book,The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: JewishCulture on the Soviet Stage, won theNational Jewish Book Award, the BarnardHewitt Award for Outstanding Book inTheater Studies, and was named anOutstanding Academic Title by ChoiceMagazine. With support from the Lucian N.Littauer Foundation, he is completing hisnext book, Collecting Jewish Culture: JewishCultural Association in Russia, 1905-1921,which examines the role that Russian Jewishcultural societies played in defining Jewishnational identity in the period 1905-1921.

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Steven Weitzman, New JSP Director

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INSTITUTE FORJEWISH CULTUREAND ARTSThe Jews have always been an expressivepeople and have developed a varied andvital culture through literature, law,philosophy, religious texts, music, the visualarts, and other media of cultural expression.Most JS programs of any size and substancedevote significant attention to the classicalmodes of Jewish expression, but the culturalarts typically receive scant, if any, coverage.The Borns JSP aims to improve upon thissituation by establishing a new Institute forJewish Culture and the Arts.

The Bloomington campus of IU hasunusually strong resources for the study andperformance of the arts: one of the world’slargest and best music schools; an excellentschool of fine arts; an admirable artmuseum; a leading department ofethnomusicology; a fine theater and dramadepartment, newly enhanced by the openingof a state-of-the-art theater facility; andfirst-rate literature and film studiesdepartments. Add to these a large andthriving JSP, and it becomes clear that IU isideally situated to take a leadership role indeveloping the links between Jewishcreativity and the arts.

The new Institute for Jewish Culture andthe Arts, to be directed by Alvin Rosenfeld,will aim to forge these links in an energeticway through new courses, conferences,performances, exhibitions, and other modesof academic study and artistic display.

As indicated elsewhere in this newsletter,our students, colleagues, and members ofthe broader community have already begunto benefit from this emphasis on the artsthrough a series of musical performancesheld on the Bloomington campus this past

year. We also inaugurated IU’s first courseon the history of Jewish art, ably taught byan Israeli art historian and attended by asizable number of interested students.Distinguished New York Times art criticMichael Kimmelman was a recent guest ofthe Borns JSP and offered two publiclectures on Jewish identity, history, andvisual representation. The contemporaryartist Harvey Breverman was also oncampus to accompany an exhibition of hiswork with a talk entitled “On Being aJewish Artist.” Some works by Indian-Jewish artist Siona Benjamin were ondisplay at the same time. And famedarchitect Daniel Libeskind will be here in thespring to speak about the connections in hisown work between architectural form,historical rupture, and historical memory.These kinds of activities will continue on aregular basis and will be richly augmentedby a range of new courses, guest lectures,performances, art exhibitions, and more.

Major gifts from Dorit and Gerald Paul,Beatrice and David Miller, and John andRita Grunwald and other friends of the latePearl Schwartz will help to provide the basefor developing the Institute in some boldand exciting ways. So, if your interest is inJewish creative expression, keep your eye ondevelopments within the Borns JSP. Theypromise to expose the richness and varietyof Jewish culture in ways that will be bothmeaningful and enjoyable. Or, better yet,plan to be with us in Bloomington as theBorns JSP unfolds in some new andespecially lively directions.

ALV I N RO S E N F E L D HO N O R E DW I T H DI S T I N G U I S H E DSE RV I C E AWA R D

In May of 2003, Alvin Rosenfeld wasawarded the 2003 Distinguished ServiceAward, IU’s most prestigious honor for

service to the university and the largercommunity. The award recognizes hisleadership, dedication, and exceptionalcontributions over the past 30 years asdirector of the Borns JSP. ProfessorRosenfeld has created a program considereda national model.

He has played a key role in developingthe IU Press into one of the leadingacademic publishers in JS as editor of itsseries in Jewish Literature and Culture andas an advisor to other editors. He hassteered to the press outstanding scholars likeSaul Friedländer, Geoffrey Hartman, ArnoldEisen, and Sander Gilman. Of the scores ofIU Press books published with his help, anumber have won the National Jewish Bookaward and many other prestigious prizes.

For many years, he has brought a stellarroster of guest lecturers to IU—realluminaries like Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel,Yigael Yadin, Cynthia Ozick, Irving Howe,Bernard Lewis, Hilary Putnam, and the listgoes on and on. He has organized andsponsored countless scholarly conferencesand cultural events: cantorial concerts andklezmer concerts in cooperation with theSchool of Music, seminars with leadingIsraeli authors like Yehuda Amichai andAmos Oz, art exhibitions in cooperationwith the School of Fine Arts, and more.

Last, but not least, is Professor Rosenfeld’sdecades-long work in Holocaust scholarship,education, and commemoration. His impactin this regard is reflected in his recentPresidential appointment to a five–year termon the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council,capping years of work in this area.

All this would constitute an enormouslysuccessful career on its own merits, butProfessor Rosenfeld has accomplished allthis while remaining impressively productiveas a scholar and writer and maintaining thehighest standards in his own teaching. Heembodies the ideal of service at every level.

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A ME S S A G E F R O MRO B E RT BO R N S

My experienceswith the JSP havebrought meincredible joy andpleasure. I greatlyadmire ProfessorAlvin Rosenfeldand thedistinguishedfaculty he hasassembled at IU.

It has beenexciting to watchthe number of JSstudents grow andgrow. And I am so proud and pleased to seethe high quality of students graduating fromthis world–renowned program and thereaftermaking so many fine contributions tocommunity life across the country.

Professor Rosenfeld’s desire for qualityand a standard of excellence has beeninspiring. He has recruited a remarkablefaculty and encouraged them to blossom intheir research and teaching. One of the greathonors of my life has been working withProfessor Rosenfeld, the extraordinarydirector of the Borns JSP.

Robert A. Borns

NEW FACULTYHO L O C A U S T HI S T O R I A NMA R K RO S E M A N AS S U M E SPAT M. GL A Z E R CH A I R I N JSMark Roseman, a leading scholar ofGerman history and the Holocaust, willassume the Pat M. Glazer Chair in JSbeginning in January 2004. His appointmentas professor of JS and History promises toadd significantly to the teaching, research,and service activities of both the JSP and theDepartment of History.

Professor Roseman has emerged as anotable figure in the history of theHolocaust and of German history with thepublication of his two most recent books,which have received international acclaim.Together they have been published in 13international editions.

The Past in Hiding: Memory and Survivalin Nazi Germany is based upon the uniqueaccount of life in the Third Reich byMarianne Ellenbogen. Original in itsfindings, beautifully written, and

extraordinarily moving, this brilliantreconstruction of one person’s odysseythrough the nightmarish world of the Naziswas the recipient of the 2002 History Prize ofthe Lucas Prize Project jointly sponsored byHarvard University’s Niemann Foundationand the Columbia School of Journalism, theJewish Quarterly’s Wingate Literary Prize,and the Fraenkel Prize for ContemporaryJewish History. It was also named a LosAngeles Times Book of the Year.

The Past in Hiding was followed byanother fine book, an incisive analysis of theorigins and the consequences of theinfamous Wannsee Conference of January1942. The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: TheWannsee Conference and the “FinalSolution” was the best-selling history bookin the United Kingdom in 2002.

A prolific scholar, Professor Roseman’sbooks also includeThree PostwarEras inComparison:Western Europe1918-1945-1989,with Carl Levy(Palgrave 2001)and, as editor,Generations inConflict: YouthRebellion andGenerationFormation inModern Germany1770-1968 (Cambridge University Press,1995). His first book, Recasting the Ruhr,1945-1957: Manpower, Economic Recoveryand Labour Relations (Berg Publishers,1992) successfully illuminated the process ofbuilding a stable post-Nazi society andpolitical system during the 1950s.

At the University of Southampton in theU.K., where he presently is Professor ofModern History, Professor Roseman is alsohead of the Department of History andDirector of the Parkes Institute for Jewish--Non-Jewish Relations. In addition, he is amember of the Board of Directors of theWiener Library. He received his Ph.D. fromWarwick University in 1987 and his B.A.from Cambridge in 1979.

A masterful teacher, Professor Rosemanhas received a number of teaching innovationawards and grants. As the Glazer Chair, hewill offer courses on the history of theHolocaust, the history of antisemitism, and

German-Jewish history. A new course“Antisemitism in Europe since theEnlightenment,” will be a valuable additionto our curriculum and will provide IUstudents an opportunity to study the historyof antisemitism in depth.

Professor Roseman’s appointment as thePat M. Glazer Chair in JS is made possibleby a major gift to the JSP from Jay andMarsha Glazer of Mercer Island,Washington. We are immensely grateful toJay and Marsha Glazer.

MA R C CA P L A NYiddish Literature Specialist JoinsIU FacultyThis fall, Marc Caplan, a specialist onEastern European Yiddish literature, joinedthe Department of Comparative Literature.He recently completed his Ph.D. inComparative Literature from New YorkUniversity. His dissertation examined thedevelopment of nineteenth-century EasternEuropean Yiddish literature in comparisonwith twentieth-century African narratives inEnglish and French. His appointment enablesus to offer a growing number of courses inYiddish Studies. We welcome Marc and hiswife Brukhe, who was a student of the JSP’sProfessor Dov-Ber Kerler when both were atOxford. She is completing her dissertation inYiddish Studies at Columbia University on“Orthodox Yiddish Literature in InterwarPoland.”

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Robert A. Borns

Mark Roseman

PROGRAMSDA N I E L LI B E S K I N D T ODE L I V E R PA U L LE C T U R EArchitect of Jewish Museum Berlinand the World Trade Center SiteDaniel Libeskind, an international figure inarchitectural practice and urban design, willdeliver the Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecture inJewish Culture and the Arts in Bloomingtonon Monday, March 1, 2004. Considered anarchitect’s architect, he was recently awardedwhat some have called the “commission ofthe century”—the rebuilding of the WorldTrade Center site destroyed by terrorists onSeptember 11, 2001. Designer of some of theworld’s most provocative buildings, includinghis first project, the Jewish Museum Berlin,he has virtually reinvented architecture,transforming sand and stone into spiritualstructures that resonate profoundly. The firstarchitect to be given the Hiroshima Art Prizefor work that promotes peace, he isdetermined in his vision to create spaces thatare positive responses to the brutalities thatsurround us all.

Born in postwar Poland in 1946,Libeskind became an American citizen in1965. He studied music in Israel and thenwent on to study architecture receiving hisprofessional architectural degree fromCooper Union in New York in 1970 and apostgraduate degree in history and theory ofarchitecture from the School of ComparativeStudies at Essex University in 1972.

His museum for the city of Osnabrück,Germany, the Felix Nussbaum Museum,opened in July 1998, followed by theImperial War Museum North in Manchester,in 2002. He is presently designing the SpiralExtension to the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, London; “Westside,” an urbanscale entertainment and shopping center inBrünnen, Switzerland; Maurice WohlConvention Centre, Bar Ilan University, TelAviv; Atelier Weil, a private atelier/gallery inMallorca, Spain; the extension to the DenverArt Museum; the Danish Jewish Museum inCopenhagen; a Post-Graduate Centre atLondon Metropolitan University; theextension to the Royal Ontario Museum in

Toronto; and the Military Museum inDresden. He is also designing the sets forWagner’s “Ring” for Covent Garden inLondon.

Libeskind has taught and lectured atmany universities worldwide. Currently. heis a professor at the University ofPennsylvania and the Frank O. Gehry Chairat the University of Toronto. He received the1999 Deutscher Architekturpreis (GermanArchitecture Prize) for the Jewish MuseumBerlin. He has been honored with theGoethe Medallion, the American Academyof Arts and Letters Award for Architecture,and the Berlin Cultural Prize.

ST E V E N ZI P P E R S T E I N A N DDE B O R A H LI P S TA D TTwo Block Scholars to Visit IU“A Passion and a Conception of the World:On Rereading the Protocols of the Elders ofZion” will be the theme of Professor StevenZipperstein’s 2003 Edward A. Block Lecturein JS on Monday, November 10, 2003. TheDaniel E. KoshlandProfessor in Jewish Cultureand History, and Co-Director of the TaubeCenter for JS at StanfordUniversity, Zipperstein wasawarded the Koret Prizefor outstandingcontributions to Jewish life.A prolific scholar, his mostrecent books are ImaginingRussian Jewry: Memory,History, Identity; ElusiveProphet: Ahad Ha’am andthe Origins of Zionism,which won the NationalJewish Book Award; and,

The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History,1794-1881, the winner of the Smilen Awardin Jewish History. He edits (with AronRodrigue) Jewish Social Studies, a journalpublished by IU Press.

PR O F E S S O R DE B O R A H LI P S TA D TSpring 2004 Block LecturerProfessor Deborah Lipstadt, the DorotProfessor of Modern Jewish and HolocaustStudies at Emory University, will deliver theEdward A. Block Lecture in JS in the springof 2004. The director of the Institute for JSat Emory, her book Denying the Holocaust:The Growing Assault on Truth andMemory, is the first full-length study ofthose who attempt to deny the Holocaust.She is widely known for winning a decisivelibel trial in London against David Irvingwho sued her for calling him a Holocaustdenier and right wing extremist.

Professor Lipstadt serves as historicalconsultant to the U.S. Holocaust MemorialMuseum and helped design the section of themuseum dedicated to the American responseto the Holocaust. Her book Beyond Belief:The American Press and the Coming of theHolocaust examined how the American presscovered the news of the persecution ofEuropean Jews between 1933 and 1945.

Professors Zipperstein and Lipstadtcontinue a distinguished series of Edward A.Block Fellows who have visited the JSP since1985: Primo Levi, Simon Schama, SaulFriedländer, Arthur Green, Zvi Gitelman,Dan Segre, Robert Alter, Robert Wistrich,Emil Fackenheim, Michael Walzer, ShulamitVolkov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Shaye Cohen, andLawrence Schiffman.

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Daniel Libeskind

Steven Zipperstein Deborah Lipstadt

CO N F E R E N C E O N“TH E RE L I G I O U S SE L FI N AN T I Q U I T Y”September 7-9, 2003A September 2003 conference on “TheReligious Self in Antiquity,” initiated byProfessor Steven Weitzman, Professor DavidBrakke (of Religious Studies), and ProfessorMichael Satlow (of Brown University), willfeature such widely recognized scholars inthe fields of biblical studies, rabbinics,ancient Christianity, and pagan religions asGeorgia Frank, Bert Harrill, SusanAshbrook Harvey, Esther Menn, PatriciaCox Miller, Saul Olyan, Jonathan Schofer,Alan Segal, Ben Sommer, Guy Stroumsa,Peter Struck, and Edward Watts. Fourteenpapers will consider the interior orsubjective religious experience of ancientJews, Christians, and Pagans—what scholarsrefer to as personal religion or spirituality.Conference essays will be published as abook. The conference is supported by the IUArts and Humanities Initiative and theRobert A. and Sandra S. Borns JSPEndowment.

LE V I N A S A N D WI T T G E N S T E I NBorns Faculty Research WorkshopTraditionally, Jewish scholarship has been acooperative enterprise, with a strong oral aswell as written dimension. The JSP seesacademic scholarship similarly. Individualresearch can be facilitated and advanced byconsultation and intensive discussion amongexperts in a given field. Toward that end, theRobert A. and Sandra S. Borns Endowmentsupports regular faculty workshops chairedby JSP faculty members.

“Levinas and Wittgenstein,” a workshopco-sponsored with the Department ofPhilosophy, will be convened on October 26-28, 2003, by JSP Professor Michael Morganand Professor Paul Franks, of Notre DameUniversity. The central themes of theworkshop, which will bring scholars to IUfrom around the U.S. and from England, willfocus on ethics, religion, and the limits oflanguage.

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“Past and Present in RabbinicLiterature”Isaiah Gafni, the Sol Rosenbloom Professorof Jewish History at Hebrew University inJerusalem and a noted scholar of the social,political, and religious history of the Jews inthe Second Temple, Mishnah, and Talmudperiods, will be the eighth in a notable line ofspeakers in the Helen and Martin SchwartzLecture Series. He will present two lecturesin a seriesentitled “Pastand Present inRabbinicLiterature.”ProfessorGafni willspeak on“Rememberthe Days ofOld:Perceptions ofPast andPresent inRabbinic Literature”(October 20, 2003) and“Reading the Rabbis as History” (October21). IU Press will publish Professor Gafni’sbook based on these lectures.

The Schwartz Lectures Series wasinaugurated in 1993 by Sander Gilman, ofthe University of Chicago, whose Jews inToday’s German Culture (1995) was thefirst volume in the Schwartz series publishedby the IU Press. Our second Schwartzscholar was Geoffrey Hartman, of YaleUniversity, whose 1994 Schwartz lectureswere published in expanded form as TheLongest Shadow: In the Aftermath of theHolocaust (1996). Arnold Eisen, of StanfordUniversity, was our third Schwartz lecturer.His book, Taking Hold of Torah, waspublished by the IU Press in 1997. The 1998lectures by David Roskies, of the JewishTheological Seminary, culminated in TheJewish Search for a Usable Past (1999). TheSchwartz lectures in November 1998 bySamuel Kassow, of Trinity College, willresult in two IU Press books: EmanuelRingelblum and the Oneg Shabbes Archiveand Jewish Vilna and Jewish Warsaw. ThreeJewish Philosophers: Buber, Rosenzweig,Levinas will be the subject of the IU Pressbook by 1999 Fellow Hilary Putnam of

Harvard University. Historian Omer Bartov,of Brown University, delivered the 2001-2002 Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures.The Bartov lectures will result in a bookfocusing on The Jew in Cinema.

An endowment by Helen and MartinSchwartz, residents of Muncie, Indiana, andlongtime friends of the JSP, ensures that theSchwartz Lectures in JS will continue on aregular basis and will subsequently bepublished by the IU Press.

“TH E NE W AN T I S E M I T I S M”The 11th Joan andSamuel New InstituteThe 2004 Joan and Samuel New Institutefor the Study of Judaism and the Jews willfocus on the theme, “The NewAntisemitism.” The one-day Institute willconvene at University Place ConferenceCenter and Hotel on the IUPUI campus inIndianapolis on Sunday, April 25, 2004.

In what promises to be an intellectuallychallenging event, JSP faculty membersJoëlle Bahloul, Alvin Rosenfeld, and JeffreyVeidlinger will address the alarming upsurgeof antisemitism in Europe and elsewhere inrecent years. Is this the same kind ofantisemitism that has bedeviled Jews forcenturies or is there something new about it?Is it a fleeting trend or the sign of somethingmore ominous? The speakers will bring tobear different scholarly perspectives on thesequestions—anthropological, cultural, andhistorical.

Through the New Institute, the JSPcontinues its longstanding tradition ofcontributing to ongoing, high-levelcommunity-wide education. As a result of agenerous gift from Joan New, of Elkhart,Indiana and Scottsdale, Arizona, and thelate Samuel New, the JSP regularly offers aseminar on Judaism and the Jews. The NewInstitute provides participants with anopportunity to engage in intensive study ofmajor issues in Jewish history, thought, andculture with members of the JSP faculty. Formore information about the April 2004Institute, please contact the JSP.

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Isaiah Gafni

BR O N S T E I N LE C T U R E RPE T E R SC H Ä F E R“The Femininity of God”“The Femininity of God in JewishMysticism and in Christianity” will be thetheme of the Thursday, October 16, 2003,Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lecture in JSdelivered by Professor Peter Schäfer, theRonald O. Perelan Professor of JS andProfessor of Religion at PrincetonUniversity. A world-renowned specialist inancient Israel, rabbinics, and early Jewishmysticism, he was the 1994 recipient ofGermany’s coveted Leibniz prize, granted tothat nation’s most innovative scholars.

Professor Schäfer’s publications includeMirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images ofGod from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah(2002); History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World: The Jews of Palestine fromAlexander the Great to the Arab Conquest(2003); and Judeophobia: Attitudes Towardsthe Jews in the Ancient World (1998).

The Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lectures inJS are supported through a grant from theSol Bronstein Charitable Trust in Evansville,Indiana. Previous Bronstein lecturers includeMartin Marty, Antony Polonsky, DavidSorkin, Jakob Petuchowski, Julius Lester,Francis E. Peters, Susannah Heschel, TikvaFrymer-Kensky, Ronnie Po–chia Hsia, EgonMayer, James Shapiro, Elisheva Carlebach,Aron Rodrigue, and Norman Stillman.

JO S H U A FI S H M A N T O LE C T U R EI N SE P T E M B E R

Joshua A. Fishman, a leading sociolinguistwhose work has shaped and defined thestudy of the sociology and social history ofYiddish, will deliver “Yiddish in the 21st

Century: A Sociolinguistic Perspective,” onMonday, September 15th on the Bloomingtoncampus. Distinguished University ResearchProfessor Emeritus at Yeshiva University,Professor Fishman’s most influential booksinclude Studies on Polish Jewry; Never SayDie! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in JewishLife and Letters; and Yiddish: Turning ofLife. His publications have shaped anddefined modern scholarly study ofbilingualism and multilingualism, the relationof language and thought, language spread,and language and nationalism. Professor

Fishman’s lecture continues a tradition ofprogramming in Yiddish language andculture. We are grateful to Monique Stolnitzfor making many of these programs possiblein memory of her husband George.

AN T O N Y PO L O N S K YSpring 2004Antony Polonsky, a distinguished scholar ofthe Holocaust and the history of PolishJewry, will speak about “The JedwabneDebate: Poles, Jews, and the Problems ofDivided Memory” on the Bloomingtoncampus in the spring of 2004. He holds theAlbert Abramson Chair of HolocaustStudies, an appointment held jointly atBrandeis University and the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum. Professor Polonsky isthe author of numerous books, includingPolitics in Independent Poland; The LittleDictators: A History of Eastern Europesince 1918; and The Great Powers and thePolish Question 1941-1945. He editedAbraham Lewin’s A Cup of Tears: A Diaryof the Warsaw Ghetto which was awardedthe Joseph and Edith Sunlight Literary Prizein 1989 and the prize of the Jewish BookCouncil of America. He is editor of POLIN:Studies in Polish Jewry, the winner of the1999 National Jewish Book Award in theEastern European Studies category. His visitwill be sponsored by the Polish StudiesCenter and the JSP.

CH R I S T O P H E R BR O W N I N GWells Scholar Noted historian of the HolocaustChristopher Browning visited campus for aweek in March 2003, as the Visiting Class of1943 Wells Scholar in collaboration with theJSP, the Department of History, and the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum. On theevening of March 4, 2003, Browningdelivered the Wells Scholar Lecture on“Decisions for the Final Solution: TheCurrent State of Research in HolocaustStudies.” Professor Browning’s lecture wasone of five JSP lectures on the Holocaustduring the 2002-2003 year.

The Frank Porter Graham Professor ofHistory at the University of NorthCarolina–Chapel Hill, Browning’spublications include Ordinary Men: ReservePolice Battalions 101 and the Final Solutionin Poland (1992), which received theNational Jewish Book Award in HolocaustStudies; The Path to Genocide (1992); andFateful Months: Essays on the Emergence ofthe Final Solution (1985).

BE R N A R D LE W I S , AC C L A I M E DSC H O L A R O F MI D D L E EA S TSRO Audience for Hasten FellowBernard Lewis, one of the world’s foremostscholars of Islam and author of more thantwo dozen books, visited IU in October 2002as the Simona and Hart Hasten VisitingFellow in JS. Professor Lewis spoke eloquentlyto capacity audiences in both Indianapolis andBloomington on the topic of his celebratedbook: “What Went Wrong? Western Impactand Middle Eastern Response.”

Previous Hasten Visiting Fellows haveincluded Yigael Yadin, Saul Friedländer,Emil Fackenheim, Elie Wiesel, Conor CruiseO’Brien, Claude Lanzmann, Ruth Wisse,Yehuda Z. Blum, and Avivah GottliebZornberg.

TH R E E ME M O R A B L E CO N C E RT SAlberta Mizrahi, Duo Galay, LioraGrodnikaite

Three evenings ofunforgettable Jewishmusic—by notedcantor AlbertoMizrahi; classicalcellist Racheli Galay,pianist and composerDaniel Galay, andclarinetist GregoryBarrett; and Yiddishsinger LioraGrodnikaite—werehighlights of JSP

programming for the 2002-2003 year. Withsupport from IU’s renowned School of Musicand generous gifts from Dorit and GeraldPaul, Monique Stolnitz, and others, the JSPwas able to devote significant attention to thestudy and performance of Jewish music.

The first Dorit and Gerald Paul concert ofthe academic year and the first collaborationof the year with the IU School of Music, inSeptember 2002, featured the gifted Israelifather-daughter Duo Galay with clarinetistGregory Barrett, performing classical musicinfluenced by Jewish music (by Max Bruchand Daniel Galay). Klezmer music composedby Daniel Galay was also part of the livelyperformance.

In February 2003, Greek-born AlbertoMizrahi, one of today’s renowned cantors,performed a magical program of traditionalcantorial pieces, Sephardic andmediterranean folk music, Yiddish theaterpieces, and opera selections to a responsiveand appreciative audience.

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Alberto Mizrahi

Bruce David, artist, “The BiblicalOdyssey of the Jews through the Eyes of aContemporary Artist.”

David Damrosch, Columbia University,“What is World Literature?”

Moshe Garsiel, Bar-Ilan University, “2Women, 1 Living Infant, 3 Riddles, andSolomon’s Judgement.”

Christian Gerlach, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, “War, Economy andPerpetrators: New Perspectives on GermanExtermination Policies.”

Wolf Gruner, Technical University,Berlin, “Berlin or Babenhausen? Rewritingthe History of the Holocaust in NaziGermany.”

Yehuda Koren, Israeli journalist, “TheSeven Dwarfs of Mengele.”

Eilat Negev, Israeli journalist, “TheConnection between the Writers’ Life andTheir Writing in Israeli Literature.”

Shimon Redlich, Ben-Gurion University,“Personal Memory in Historical Context:Together and Apart in Brzezany.”

Mark Roseman, University ofSouthampton, “Beyond Narratives ofRedemption: Survival, Rescue, Memory, andIdentity in Nazi Germany.”

Vered Shemtov, Stanford University,“The Location of Voice: Prosody andLiterary Geography in Hebrew Literature.”

Timothy Snyder, Yale University, “TheCauses of Ukrainian-Polish EthnicCleansing, 1943.”

Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska,“The ‘Antisemitism of Reason’: Researchabout Jews and Judaism in Nazi Germany.”

Ruth Tsoffar, University of Michigan,“Hama’akhelet (The Slaughtering Knife):Exploring the Limits of Discursive Space inHebrew Literature.”

The George J. Stolnitz MemorialProgram, in March 2003, featured anexceptional evening of Yiddish song byLiora Grodnikaite, a mezzo soprano fromVilna, now at the Oberlin Conservatory.This concert honored the memory of GeorgeStolnitz, a faculty member at IU for manyyears, and a devoted friend of the JSP, andsupporter of Yiddish Studies.

Packed houses for all three concerts isproof of both a widespread interest inJewish music, and of the vitality of theJewish arts. The JSP aims to represent therichness and diversity of Jewish culture andthe arts in a variety of forms. As part of thisinitiative, a course “Introduction to JewishArt,” first offered at IU last spring, will betaught again during the spring semester,2004 by Efrat El-Hanany.

PA U L FE L L O W AL A N BE R NSP E A K S AB O U TKlezmer Music and the Portrayal ofJews in German TheaterAlan Bern, the musical director of theJewish music group Brave Old World andthe leading klezmer accordionist and pianisttoday, visited IU in April 2003, as the Doritand Gerald Paul Fellow, delivering twolectures: “Antisemitism and the Portrayal ofJewish Characters in Post-War GermanTheater” (Bloomington) and “That’s Funny,It Doesn’t Sound Jewish: ‘Klezmer’ Music in

Germany” (Indianapolis). A key figure inthe revival of klezmer music, Bern is acomposer and arranger of theater music anddirector of musical productions for thestage. Alan Bern’s lecture on antisemitismwill be published by the JSP.

The Paul Program for the Study ofGermans and Jews was established in 1986by Dorit and Gerald Paul of Indianapolis tofoster ongoing scholarly research into thecomplex interrelationships between Germanhistory and Jewish history. Former Paul

Fellows include Professor Johann N. Schmidtof Hamburg University, Professor MichaelBrocke of the Free University of Berlin,Professor Micha Brumlik of the University ofHeidelberg, Professor Frank Stern ofBen–Gurion University, Professor GertrudKoch of the Ruhr University, Bochum,Professor Dieter Lamping of the JohannesGutenberg University of Mainz, andProfessor Amir Eshel of Stanford University.

NO R M A N ST I L L M A N2003 Bronstein FellowOn February 20, 2003, Edward A.Bronstein Lecturer NormanStillman, the Schusterman-JoseyProfessor of Judaic History at theUniversity of Oklahoma, spoke on“The Judeo-Islamic HistoricalEncounter.” A scholar of the Jewsin Islamic lands, he is the author ofamong other books SephardiReligious Responses to Modernity(1995) and The Jews of ArabLands in Modern Times (1992).

MA RT I N KR A M E R SP E A K SAB O U T T H E MI D D L E EA S T

Martin Kramer, an eminent authority oncontemporary Islam and Arab politics andeditor of the Middle East Quarterly,delivered a lecture at IU Bloomington inJanuary 2003, “Middle Eastern Studies in

America and 9/11: WhatWent Wrong?” The lecturewas sponsored by theOttoman and ModernTurkish Studies Chair andthe JSP, along with theDepartment of CentralEurasian Studies, and theInner Asian and UralicNational Resource Center.Martin Kramer’s most recentbook is Ivory Towers onSand: The Failure of MiddleEastern Studies in America.

LE C T U R E S A N DCO-SP O N S O R E D LE C T U R E S

The JSP cooperates with other departmentsin co-sponsoring visits to campus byscholars and artists whose areas of researchand creative work are of mutual interest. JSPlectures and co-sponsored lectures duringthe 2002-2003 academic year included:

Gideon Avni, Israeli AntiquitiesAuthority, “Archaeology and Politics: TheStruggle Over Jerusalem’s Holy Sites.”

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(Left to right) Dorit Paul, Gerald Paul, Alvin Rosenfeld, and Alan Bern

Chancellor Sharon Stephens Brehm andNorman Stillman

SE C O N D ET H N O G R A P H I CEX P E D I T I O NKerler and Veidlinger InterviewLast Yiddish Speakers in Ukraine In May 2003, the IU Yiddish Language andCulture Project continued its work inUkraine. Professor Dov-Ber Kerler, togetherwith Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, led thesecond Ukrainian expedition to conductvideotaped interviews with the last Yiddishspeakers of Ukraine. This time, theexpedition concentrated on the historicalregions of Volhynia and Galicia. Kerler alsoreturned to Podolia, the focus of last year’sexpedition, to conduct follow-up interviews,and visited the northern border regionaround Chernobyl.

The team collected 123 hours of tape,comprising interviews with about 70individuals in over 20 former shtetls andcities. The interviews, conducted entirely inYiddish, focus on Jewish cultural andreligious life before World War II, Jewishfolklore, the Shoah, and the Yiddishlanguage itself. The project will continuethrough 2005 and will culminate inscholarly publications as well as a video andaudio library of the interviews to be housedon the IU campus. This year’s expeditionwas funded by the IU Arts and HumanitiesInitiative with the help of the Borns JSP andthe Russian and East European Institute.

JSP CO L L O Q U I A

Faculty colloquia, chaired this past year bySteven Weitzman, provide opportunities forJSP faculty and interested graduate studentsto discuss recent or nascent publications.Colloquia during the 2002-2003 yearincluded Joëlle Bahloul’s discussion of“French Jews 2002: The Rocky Road to theRepublic,” and Amelia Glazer’s presentationon “‘Market Speak’ from Produkty toPogroms: Forms of Exchange in PeretzMarkish’s Di Kupe.”

IU PRESSPUBLICATIONS INJEWISH STUDIESIn October 2002, two Indiana UniversityPress books were named finalists forNational Jewish Book Awards: Together andApart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, andUkrainians, 1919-1945, by Israeli historianShimon Redlich, was a finalist in the categoryof Eastern European Studies, while My Lifeas a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirsof a Zionist Feminist in Poland byPuah Rakovsky, edited and introducedby Paula E. Hyman and translatedfrom the Yiddish by Barbara Harshavwith Paula E. Hyman, was a finalistin the category ofAutobiography/Memoir. Togetherand Apart in Brzezany, which wasalso published in Polish and inUkrainian in 2002, was selected fora feature presentation by the authorat the Jewish Genealogical Society’sInternational Conference in July2003.

The first half of 2003 saw theappearance of two important newbooks on representations of theHolocaust. Poetry AfterAuschwitz: Remembering WhatOne Never Knew by IU English professorSusan Gubar explores the ways in whichpoets have served as proxy-witnesses ofevents that they did not experience firsthand.Image and Remembrance: Representationand the Holocaust, edited by ShelleyHornstein and Florence Jacobowitz,examines visual representations of theHolocaust in film,architecture, painting,photography, memorials,and monuments. Thebook includes an essayabout the new JewishMuseum in Berlin by itseminent architect, DanielLibeskind. Also publishedin spring 2003 was JewishLife after the USSR, editedby Zvi Gitelman withMusya Glants and MarshallI. Goldman, an essentialvolume for anyone seeking tounderstand the past, present,and future of post-SovietJewry.

In addition to a new paperback edition ofMy Life as a Radical Jewish Woman by PuahRakowsky, to be issued in fall 2003, five newJS titles will appear during the 2003-2004publishing season. Making Jews Modern:The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russianand Ottoman Empires by Sarah AbrevayaStein, in the Press’s Modern JewishExperience series, focuses on the ways inwhich Jews in the Russian and Ottomanempires responded to the major cultural andsocial transformations that constitutedmodernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi

Jewries. The Texture ofthe Divine:Imagination inMedieval Islamicand JewishThought by AaronW. Hughes exploresthe central role ofthe imagination inthe shared symbolicworlds of medievalIslam and Judaismand reveals theinterconnections notonly betweenMuslims and Jews,but also betweenphilosophy, mysticism,and literature. InLevinas, Judaism, and

the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps ofRebecca, Claire Elise Katz explores the roleof the feminine in the ethical thought of theimportant twentieth-century continental andJewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinasagainst the backdrop of discussions ofwomen in the Bible. A major collection of

original essays edited by HavaTirosh-Samuelson, Womenand Gender in JewishPhilosophy, in the JewishLiterature and Culture series,represents the firstsystematic attempt tointerpret the Jewishphilosophical tradition inlight of feminist philosophyand to engage feministphilosophy from theperspective of Jewishphilosophy. Thecontributions cover theJewish philosophicaltradition from Philo,through Maimonides, toLevinas.

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Intifada Hits the Headlines by Daniel Dorfocuses on reporting by Israeli newspapersduring the second Intifada in the fall of 2000.Analyzing coverage by Israel’s leadingnewspapers, Dor finds a wide gap betweenthe facts as reported by field reporters andthe eventual published accounts as framed byeditors; he investigates the implications ofthis discrepancy for freedom of the press in aliberal democracy.

The IUP Journals Department is pleasedto announce the addition of Nashim: AJournal of Jewish Women’s Studies &Gender Issues to its list of journals in JS as ofJuly 2003. Co-founded in 1998 by theHadassah International Research Institute onJewish Women at Brandeis University and theSchechter Institute of JS in Jerusalem,Nashim provides an international,interdisciplinary academic forum forinnovative work in the field of Jewishwomen’s and gender studies. It regularlyincludes articles on literature, textual studies,anthropology, theology, contemporarythought, sociology, and the arts. Nashim ispublished twice a year; its issues are theme-oriented. Past issues have been devoted toWomen and the Land of Israel; Feeding anIdentity: Gender, Food, and Survival; andWomen, War, and Peace. IUP’s first issue, tobe published in fall 2003, will focus onAutobiography and Memoir; its guest editoris Gershon Bacon.

Nashim joins IUP’s four other JS journals:Prooftexts:A Journalof JewishLiteraryHistory,edited byAlanMintz andDavid G.Roskies(JSPDirectorStevenWeitzmanhas joinedtheeditorialboard);

Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, andSociety, edited by Aron Rodrigue and StevenJ. Zipperstein; Israel Studies, edited by S. IlanTroen; and History & Memory: Studies inRepresentation of the Past, edited by GadiAlgazi. In 2002, Prooftexts devoted a special

issue edited by Joel Rosenberg and Stephen J.Whitfield, to “The Cinema of JewishExperience.” In 2003, Israel Studies broughtout a special issue, edited by Michael Feige,on “Memory and Identity in Israel: NewDirections.”

Readers seeking further information orwishing to order JS books and journals andother IUP titles may visit the IUP website:http://iupress.indiana.edu. Or, readers maycontact the Customer Service Department,IU Press, 601 North Morton Street,Bloomington, IN 47404; 1-800-842-6796;fax 812-855-7931.

JE W I S H ST U D I E S BO O K FU N D

The endowed Jewish Studies Book Fund,established 15 years ago, enables the JSP toannually expand the Judaica collection of theIU library, a necessity for a growing programsuch as ours.

Many JSP supporters have contributed tothe Book Fund by establishing named familyendowments. All books purchased carryspecially designed bookplates that designatethe donor(s) and/or person(s) honored.Those interested in contributing to the BookFund for Judaica may do so by sending theirgifts to Professor Steven Weitzman, Directorof the Borns Jewish Studies Program,Indiana University, Goodbody Hall 326,1011 E. Third Street, Bloomington, IN47405-7005.

FRIENDS“GAT H E R” F O R DA L I N

On May 15, 2003, the Friends of theBorns JSP gathered in Indianapolis atCongregation Beth-El Zedeck to hear RabbiDavid Dalin speak about “The Presidents ofthe United States and the Jews.” Sponsoredby California’s Taube Foundation for JewishLife and Culture, Rabbi Dalin’s livelypresentation chronicled the connectionsbetween Jews and the presidents, a segmentof presidential history that has lain, for themost part, unstudied.

The Friends of the Borns JSP has becomeone of the largest support groups at IU. TheFriends’ goal is to strengthen IU’s alreadystrong JSP and to insure that it continues toflourish as one of the preeminent centers ofJewish learning in America. The Friends ofthe Borns JSP is more than just a “giving”society. Regular “Gatherings” of the Friendsare occasions that combine both social andintellectual activities.

JO I N T H E FR I E N D SO F T H E BO R N SJE W I S H ST U D I E SPR O G R A M

We invite you to become amember of the Friends ofthe Borns Jewish StudiesProgram. Funds raisedannually through theFriends of the Borns JSPprovide scholarships andfellowships foroutstanding students;enable us to bringdistinguished visitorsto Indiana; supportscholarly conferences andpublications; enhanceprograms for ourstudents; aid the JSfaculty; and makepossible a rich variety ofother JSP offerings.Members of the Friendsplay a direct and activerole in sustainingIndiana as a majorcenter for Jewishlearning in this country.

Levels of giving are:Benefactor at$1,000/year, Patron at$500/year, BenefactorAssociate (for people age40 and under) at$360/year, PatronAssociate (for people age 40 and under) at$180/year, and Recent JSP Alumni at$36/year. Please mail your gift, payable to“IUF/Jewish Studies Program,” to BornsJewish Studies Program, Indiana University,Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 East Third Street,Bloomington, IN 47405-7005. Friends’ giftsmay be tax deductible and eligible for thespecial Indiana Colleges Tax Credit.

Please join others by becoming a memberof the Friends of the Borns JSP. Additionalinformation about the Friends group as wellas about opportunities for establishingpermanent endowments in support of JS maybe obtained by contacting Professor StevenWeitzman, Director, at the address listedabove or by telephoning (812) 855-8358.

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JSP ADVISORYBOARD

The dedication of the JSP Advisory Board isvital to the continuation and furtherdevelopment of the JSP. We are indebted topresident Leonard Goldstein, vice presidentRuth Feinberg, and our board members fortheir assistance in helping us build andsustain a program of excellence:

Lawrence Adelman Ft. WayneSteven Ancel CarmelEugene Bate CarmelNancy Bate CarmelAlice Berkowitz IndianapolisSol Blickman IndianapolisRobert Borns IndianapolisSandra Borns IndianapolisDr. Peter Cahn IndianapolisSusan Cahn IndianapolisDr. Alice Ginott Cohn New YorkTheodore Cohn New YorkEdward Dobrow MuncieClaudette Einhorn IndianapolisBenjamin Eisbart Ft. WayneDr. Ruth Feinberg IndianapolisBetty Fleck MarionIrving Glazer IndianapolisLeonard Goldstein Fort WayneJanice Goodman Highland Park, ILJune Herman IndianapolisFrancine Hurwitz IndianapolisJ. William Julian IndianapolisBobbi Kroot Columbus, INHenry Levinsky Northbrook, ILJudy Liff-Barker Nashville, TNFlo Mary Mantel IndianapolisSybil Mervis Danville, ILSidney Mishkin IndianapolisIlene New GrangerJeffrey New GrangerFrank Newman IndianapolisGale Nichols BloomingtonDorit Paul IndianapolisEloise Paul IndianapolisGerald Paul IndianapolisDr. Mark Pescovitz CarmelDr. Ora Pescovitz CarmelM. Mendel Piser South BendA. John Rose BloomingtonJudith Rose Bloomington Jack Schuster Rancho Sante Fe, CAHelen Schwartz MuncieMartin Schwartz MuncieHarry Sebel Dallas, TXNorman Sider IndianapolisSidney Tuchman IndianapolisRobert Walters Fort Wayne

DONORHONORROLLThe Borns JSP thanks thefollowing donors for theirgenerosity during 2002-2003 (as of June 20, 2003):Larry and Carol Adelman Dr. Annette Alpert and Professor

Darrell HaileAriel AxelrodShirley Backer Dr. Stephen and Barbara Bailie Eugene and Nancy Bate Professor Joseph and Margery

Belth Dr. Daniel and Nancy Jo BergLeonard and Alice Berkowitz Caryl BermanMildred Bern Sol and Toby BlickmanMichael and Margery Bluestein Mr. and Mrs. Joseph BorinsteinEmily Sylvian BornsRobert and Sandra BornsStephanie BornsElissa BrownDr. Peter and Susan CahnBob and Shirley CareskeyThomas Clancy and Dana GreenDrs. Marlene Cohen and Jerome

FleischRonald S. and Nancy CohenMelvin and Betty CohnTheodore Cohn and Dr. Alice

Ginott CohnDaniel CookArie and Ida Crown Memorial

FoundationProfessor Jack CummingsDr. Lawrence and Claudette

EinhornBen and Sharon EisbartMr. and Mrs. Joshua EisbartMr. and Mrs. James EkMr. and Mrs. Norman EttingerLinda FalenderDr. Ruth and Arnold FeinbergAlan and Terry FeldbaumBetty FleckBonnie and Bob FormanFort Wayne Jewish FederationRichard and Sherry FrenzelHon. Ezra and Linda FriedlanderProfessor George and Esther GaberDr. Edward and Phyllis GabovitchAnne GanzJan and Jerry GershmanMr. and Mrs. Bernard Glazer

Irving and Pat GlazerJay and Marsha GlazerEugene and Marilyn GlickFritz and Caroline GoldbachMrs. Jack GoldmanDr. and Mrs. Kenneth GoldsteinLeonard and Rikki GoldsteinDrs. Gerald and Marcia GoldstoneJanice GoodmanJack and Sondra GrossRita and John GrunwaldDr. and Mrs. Robert HarmanMr. and Mrs. Earl HarrisHart and Simona HastenProfessor Kenneth and Audrey

HellerJune Herman Mr. and Mrs. Ronald HunterDr. Roger and Francine HurwitzDr. Martin and Irene JacobsJewish Community Council of

EvansvilleJ. William and Frances JulianIrwin and Ann* KatzBarry KayeProfessor Idalene Kesner and Paul

RobinsAllen KetchersidLisa KohnkeRobert and Judith KoorArthur and Bobbi Kroot Martin and Natalie Kroot G. Irving LatzCarolyn LeedsDr. Louis and Myrna Lemberger Bernice and Herbert Levetown Irwin LevinShana and Michael LevinJulie and Michael LevineEli Lilly and CompanyDr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker and

George WalkerErnest and Ellen Lorch Frank and Joyce Maidenberg Mr. and Mrs. William MannFlo Mary and Thomas Mantel Sophia MarksDr. Robert Matyska, Jr.Tilden and Cathy Mendelson Merrill Lynch and CompanySybil and Louis Mervis Drs. Beatrice and David MillerMitch Miller FoundationMr. and Mrs. Wilbert Miller IIIMr. and Mrs. Jerome MillimanLindsey and Jason MintzSidney and Sharon MishkinMarvin MitchellMr. and Mrs. Robert MoiseJames and Jacqueline MorrisSamuel* and Joan New Daniel and Gale Nichols Dr. Bernard and Renee OppenheimDorit and Gerald Paul

Lisa PercySandy and Art Percy Drs. Ora and Mark PescovitzRabbi Aaron PetuchowskiFrances and M. Mendel Piser Professor William and Prema

Popkin Dr. Eric and Bonnie Prystowsky Professor Henry and Ingrid RemakSara and Albert* Reuben Mr. and Mrs. Leonard RifkinBob and Muriel RomerIrwin and Jill RoseJudith and A. John Rose II Professor Alvin and Erna

RosenfeldMr. and Mrs. Harry RothJane RothbaumSidney and Sarah Sakowitz Rabbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso Jill Sater Ronald and Alvrone Sater Robert and Alice Schloss Judith SchneiderJay and Jeanie SchottensteinJack and Sherron Schuster Professor Drew SchwartzMartin and Helen Schwartz Jonathan and Elizabeth Shapiro Dr. Paul ShapiroDr. and Mrs. Reuben Shevitz Dr. Stephen and Caryl ShidelerDr. Robert ShlensNorman Sider Professor Martin SiegelWinnie Goldblatt Silberman and

Marvin Silberman Greg and Renny Silver Professor Bruce Solomon and

Susan SwartzGary and Anne Steigerwald Professor George* and Monique

Stolnitz Sarah StrnadDr. Larry and Sandi TavelProfessor Roger and Claudette

TemamFern Kaye TesslerJeffrey and Nancy Trockman Stanley and Sandra Trockman Sidney and Charlene Tuchman Agnes VogelAlberto and Paulina WaksmanRobert and Irene Walters Dr. Myron and Myrna Weinberger Dr. Harvey and Carin Weingarten Horst and Margaret Winkler Dr. Mark and Linda Wisen Walter and Joan Wolf Allen and Roberta Wurzman Elyce Zimmerman

*Denotes deceased

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STUDENT NEWSJSP AWA R D S M O R E T H A N$30,000 F O R SC H O L A R S H I P SA N D IN T E R N S H I P SFirst Mitch Miller and Dr. RobertShlens Scholarships AwardedThe JSP was pleased to award 14scholarships and 2 internships, totalingmore than $30,000, to JS major and areacertificate students for the 2003-2004academic year. The scholarships andinternships were established through thegenerosity of the Fort Wayne JewishFederation, the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns JS Endowment, Dr. Robert Shlens ofPalos Verdes Peninsula, California, theMitch Miller Foundation, the Arie and IdaCrown Memorial Foundation Scholarship,Sondra and Arthur Percy of Matawan, NewJersey, Sandra and Stanley Trockman ofEvansville, Edward M. Dayan ofIndianapolis, and Sara and the late AlbertReuben of Indianapolis.

Elizabeth Wood of West Lafayette,Indiana, a senior majoring in JS and PoliticalScience, received the Fort Wayne JewishFederation Scholarship. Elizabeth has twiceserved as the undergraduate teaching internfor Professor Dina Spechler. She was selectedas a member of the 8-12 person Board ofAeons, a student committee that advises onlong range planning for the university and isappointed by the University’s Chancellor.Elizabeth plans to be a rabbi.

Elizabeth Lintott of Northbrook, Illinoiswas awarded the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns Merit Scholarship, an award thatrecognizes truly exceptional academicaccomplishment. A sophomore JS major, hernear perfect grade point average wasaccomplished while serving on the HillelFreshman Council, as a Hillel work-study, asFoster Quad’s Hillel representative, andplaying on the IU Club lacrosse team. Sheplans to pursue a career in Jewish education.

Julie Avchen of Los Alamitos, California,Molly Kotlen of Houston, Texas, and StacyWeissman of Wilmette, Illinois, were therecipients of the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns Scholarships in JS. A JS and Sociologymajor, Julie Avchen is the recipient of an IUAlumni Club of Orange County Scholarshipand the California Scholastic Federation’sService Scholarship. She plans a careereducating Jewish teens and college studentsand creating and administering community-based education programs. Molly Kotlen, asenior majoring in Geography and pursuing

an area certificate in JS, has been named tothe Dean’s List each semester and has aperfect 4.0 grade point average. Molly hasbeen the recipient of the Department ofGeography’s Stephen F. Visher Award forAcademic Excellence and has served as aresearch associate for the department. StacyWeissman, a junior majoring in Psychologyand pursuing an area certificate in JS,participated in the JS Freshman InterestGroup. She plans to be a social worker for aJewish agency.

The recipients of the Dr. Robert ShlensScholarships are Jennifer Gubitz of FortWayne, Indiana, Jamie Snow of Louisville,Kentucky, and Ellie Zusstone of Clarksville,Indiana. Jennifer Gubitz, who is pursuingmajors in JS and English, has been the

recipient of an IU Alumni AssociationScholarship and the Barbara Mack andNorman Levine JS Scholarship. Last year,Jen served as treasurer (fall) and the vicepresident (spring) of the Jewish StudiesStudent Association (JSSA). Jamie Snowcame to IU as the recipient of the Irving M.Glazer JS Scholarship for an IncomingFreshman and received the MargaretHamlin Award. A junior Journalism major,

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Mildred L. Bern• The Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay

Competition

The Estate of Edward A. Block• The Edward A. Block Lecture

Robert and Sandra Borns• The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns

Jewish Studies Program Endowment

Dr. Alice Ginott Cohn andTheodore Cohn• The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in

Yiddish Studies

Melvin and Betty Cohn• The Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute

in Jewish Studies

Irving and Pat Glazer• The Irving M. Glazer Scholarships

Jay and Marsha Glazer• The Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish

Studies• The Pat M. Glazer Chair in Modern

Israel Studies• The Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professorship

in Jewish Studies

Leonard and Rikki Goldstein• The Leonard M. and Ruth K. Goldstein

Endowment in Jewish Studies

John and Rita Grunwald• The Pearl Schwartz Memorial

Program in Judaism and the Arts

J. William and Frances Julian• The Julian Endowment in Jewish Studies

Drs. Beatrice and David Miller• The Drs. Beatrice S. and David I.

Miller Endowment for JewishCulture and the Arts

Samuel* and Joan New• The Joan and Samuel New Institute

for the Study of Judaism and the Jews

Gerald and Dorit Paul• The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program

for the Study of Germans and Jews• The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program

in Jewish Culture and the Arts

Sondra and Art Percy• The Percy Family Endowment

Louis* and Leonore* Piser• The Leonore and Louis Piser Prize

Sara and Albert* Reuben• The Sara and Albert Reuben

Scholarships in Holocaust Studies

Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein• The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein

Chair in Modern Judaism

Martin and Helen Schwartz• The Helen and Martin Schwartz

Scholars Program

Samuel Solotkin*• The Samuel and Lillian Solotkin

Memorial Lecture

George* and Monique Stolnitz• The George and Monique Stolnitz

Yiddish Prize

Stanley and Sandra Trockman• The Sandra and Stanley Trockman

Scholarship

Alberto and Paulina Waksman• The Alberto and Paulina A. Waksman

Scholarships

*Denotes deceased

JE W I S H ST U D I E S PR O G R A M EN D O W M E N T SWe express heartfelt thanks to the following families, who have mostgenerously endowed special programs within JS (as of June 30, 2003):

pursuing an area certificate in JS, she teachesreligious school at the local synagogue andis currently the junior youth group advisor.Ellie Zusstone, a sophomore majoring inBusiness and pursuing an area certificate inJS, received the Mary E. YarbroughScholarship. She is vice president of theInternational Business Council.

The first Mitch Miller Scholarship in JSwas awarded to Derrick Murphy, asophomore honors student, fromCrawfordsville, Indiana, pursuing majorsin JS and Near Eastern Languages inpreparation for a career as a Middle Eastlanguage specialist. Many thanks to notedmusician and bandleader Mitch Miller forhis support.

The recipient of the Arie and Ida CrownMemorial Foundation Scholarship is SonyaWeisburd of Indianapolis, a junior HonorsCollege student majoring in JS and PoliticalScience. She has expressed joy in her study ofJudaism and Jewish languages and cultures,opportunities that were denied her parents inthe former Soviet Union. In summer 2002,she attended the International YouthLeadership Conference in Prague.

Meytal Ashkenazi, from Israel, therecipient of the Percy Family Scholarship inJS, came to Indiana three years ago with the

Israeli Scouts to work atthe Indianapolis JCC. Shebegan her studies at IU lastfall and earned a perfect4.0 grade point average inher first semester. She plansto work for a Jewish not-for-profit organization as afund raiser.

Jonathan Bubis fromBexley, Ohio, was awardedboth the Sandra andStanley TrockmanScholarship and theEdward M. DayanScholarship. A participantin the JS Freshman InterestGroup, Jonathan ismajoring in JS. During the summers, heteaches JS and directs drama at campRamah in Wisconsin. He plans to be acantor or a Jewish educator.

Doctoral students Joshua Shaw(Philosophy) and David Worthington(Communication and Culture) received theSara and Albert Reuben Scholarships forStudy of the Holocaust. Joshua is writing hisdissertation on the major Jewish philosopherand religious thinker Emmanuel Levinas andplans to use the Reuben Scholarship to writean independent essay on the role of theHolocaust in Levinas’ thinking. DavidWorthington is completing his dissertation,“Contesting the Rhetoric of ‘AmericanExceptionalism’ in the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum.” David will use theReuben Scholarship to travel to the museumin Washington to work in both thephotographic archives and go through tenyears of “visitor comment” books.

Jennifer Gossman from Westerville,Ohio, a senior Journalism major pursuingan area certificate in JS, will serve as theRobert A. and Sandra S. BornsAdministrative Intern. She is active on theIU campus, serving as a proctor for adisabled student, a member of the UnionBoard committee, and a reporter for theIndiana Daily Student. She studied in Sevilleduring the spring of 2003. She will workwith Carolyn Lipson-Walker.

Jamie Katz, from Overland Park, Kansas,a senior in JS and Psychology, will serve asthe Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns ResearchIntern. A teaching assistant in Psychology,she has already been initiated into Phi BetaKappa. As the Borns Research Intern, shewill work with Professor Joëlle Bahloul ofthe Anthropology Department and JSP, to

conduct research for ProfessorBahloul’s study in progress onFrench Jews.

JS GR A D U AT E SFirst Students CompleteHebrew Minor in JSOne hundred and twenty studentshave graduated with a B.A. in JSsince our major was established in1992. Our twelfth graduating classincluded these B.A. recipients: JulieArgentar of Northbrook, Illinois,Yuval Asner of St. Louis, Missouri,Jennifer Bell of Indianapolis, SethCook of Marion, Ohio, LeslieGarber of San Rafael, California,

Andrea Jury of Arlington Heights, Illinois,Tamilyn Millspaugh of North Vernon,Indiana, Samantha Pearline of St. Louis,Ashley Plotnick of Glenview, Illinois,Miriam Pullman of Alpharetta, Georgia,Ruth Schachter of St. Louis, NaomiShulman of Berlin, Germany, and JenniferSteinberg of Indianapolis.

Asa Fradkin of Baltimore, Maryland,completed a degree in vocal performance inthe School of Music and a major in JS.Debra Powers of Beachwood, Ohio,completed a degree in violin performance inthe School of Music and a major in JS.

Joining the 317 alumni of our JS areacertificate program were graduates TanyaBannwart of Michigan City, Indiana, RachelConroy of West Bloomfield, Michigan, TraciGeffon of Yorba Linda, California, JamieHonigman of Milwaukee, Jessica Peltz ofMinnetonka, Minnesota, BarbaraRosenblatt of Virginia Beach, Virginia,Marisa Schwartz of Cincinnati, EmilyUnikel of Pittsburgh, and Dana Wexler ofHighland Park, Illinois.

The first four students completing the newHebrew minor in JS were Steven Borders ofBloomington, Indiana, Michael York ofArlington Heights, Illinois, and JS majors AsaFradkin and Ashley Plotnick.

Ruth Schachter graduated with honors inJS, completing a thesis, “Memorializing theHolocaust in the Gateway City: A History ofthe St. Louis Holocaust Museum andLearning Center,” directed by Professor AlvinRosenfeld. Graduating with departmentalhonors in English, Naomi Shulman wrote herthesis, “Maternity in Distress: The Impact ofthe Holocaust on the Mother-DaughterRelationship,” under the direction ofProfessor Rosenfeld.

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IN ME M O R I A MAlbert ReubenThe JSP mourns the death of AlbertReuben, a valued friend and loyalsupporter, on December 25, 2002 inIndianapolis. With his wife Sara, Albertestablished the Sara and Albert ReubenScholarships, which allow IU students toengage in research about the Holocaust.We remember Albert with great fondnessand sadness. May his memory be for ablessing.

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We are gratified that many of our recentgraduates choose careers related to JS. YuvalAsner will be the fourth IU JS graduate toparticipate in the Avodah Jewish ServicesCorps in New York. Jen Bell is theIndianapolis Jewish Community RelationsCouncil Legislative Intern. Rachel Conroy isan entering student in the University ofMichigan Drachler Program in JewishLeadership. Ashley Plotnick is beginning herrabbinical studies at the ReconstructionistRabbinical College. Debra Powers is servingas the JCSC Hillel Fellow at the Universityof Rochester. Miriam Pullman, who taught8th grade Judaica and Jewish history at theDay Academy in Atlanta in spring 2003, isthe JCSC Hillel Fellow at the University ofSouthern California where Matt Davidson,another IU JS graduate, is the AssistantDirector. Ruth Schachter is pursuing amaster’s degree in Jewish history at theUniversity of Maryland. With acomprehensive fellowship, Naomi Shulmanis entering the doctoral program incomparative literature at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley to continue her studyof Holocaust literature.

TH R E E HI G H SC H O O L SE N I O R SRE C E I V E $11,000 I NSC H O L A R S H I P S

Scholarships totaling $11,000 were awardedto three incoming JS freshmen for the 2003-2004 year. The second annual Robert A. andSandra S. Borns Scholarship for an IncomingFreshman in JS was awarded to JoannaBlotner of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Shestudied for a semester in high school in Israeland served as an intern at the ReligiousAction Center in Washington. Joanna spent asummer in an intensive Hebrew immersionprogram, and this past summer, she studiedat the Columbia University-HebrewUniversity ulpan. At IU, she plans to majorin JS and International Relations.

The recipients of the 2003-2004 IrvingM. Glazer Student Scholarships forIncoming Freshmen in JS are Melissa Dressof Sharon, Massachusetts, and Adina Sklareof Indianapolis. Melissa, a student in theBrandeis University Genesis program, servedas president of her school’s StudentCoalition Against Hatred and Racism. Sheplans to major in JS and Psychology at IU.

Adina Sklare has been an outstandingHebrew student at North Central HighSchool. At Congregation Beth-El Zedeck,she conducts High Holy Day services formiddle and high school students, plays inthe congregation’s klezmer band, and servesas an assistant in the religious school. Adinaplans to be a rabbi.

Thanks to the generosity of Irving M.Glazer and his friends and family, over thepast seven years, 13 freshmen have receivedJS scholarships. Applicants for the 2003-2004 Borns and Glazer scholarships camefrom a large pool of outstanding studentsthroughout the U.S.

CU R R E N T HI G H SC H O O LSE N I O R S CA N AP P LY F O R 3 JSFR E S H M E N SC H O L A R S H I P STO TA L I N G $11,000Current high school seniors applying to IUand committed to JS may apply for threefreshmen scholarships for the 2004-2005year. One $5,000 Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns Scholarship and two $3,000 Irving M.Glazer Scholarships will be awarded tooutstanding incoming freshmen committed topursuing a major or an area certificate in JS.

For more information about thesescholarships, high school seniors can viewdetails about the application procedure at(www.indiana.edu/~jsp/glazerscholarship.htm).The application deadline for Fall 2004incoming freshmen scholarships is Friday,February 27, 2004.

JS L I V I N G-LE A R N I N G GR O U PMaximum Capacity for Fall 2002For the fifth fall, 15 IU freshmen had theoption of living and studying in the JSFreshman Interest Group (FIG). This fall, JSFIG students are living together, engaging instudent-initiated JS activities, taking a onehour course designed to help freshmen makethe academic transition to IU, and takingtwo JS courses together: “Introduction toJewish History” (taught by Professor JeffreyVeidlinger) and ”Introduction to OldTestament/Hebrew Bible” (taught byProfessor Steven Weitzman).For the second year, JS major Susan Shirleyis the JS FIG Peer Instructor.

There is no additional cost to participatein the JS FIG, nor are there any academicprerequisites. Participants can room with anon-JS FIG participant. For moreinformation about the JS FIG for Fall 2004,contact (812) 855-5636 or e-mail:housing@indiana.edu.

STUDENT HONORS AND AWARDS

Jamie Katz, Ashley Plotnick, MiriamPullman, and Ruth Schachter were initiatedinto Phi Beta Kappa.

Four JS students were awarded Collegeof Arts and Sciences Scholarships: LeahNahmias—Palmer-Brandon Scholarship;Daniel Shapiro—Bartling Lewis Scholarship;Jamie Katz—Hayes Scholarship; and SonyaWeisburd—College Scholarship.

Elizabeth Wood was named to theprestigious Board of Aeons.

Fifteen JS majors were named to theCollege of Arts and Sciences Fall 2002Dean’s List: Jamie Katz, Daniel Kuperstein,Elizabeth Lintott, Tamilyn Millspaugh,Natalie Nachman, Hilary Oleon, AshleyPlotnick, Miriam Pullman, MichaelRavenscroft, Erielle Reshef, Sam Rodin,Naomi Shulman, Jennifer Steinberg, SonyaWeisburd, and Elizabeth Wood. JS majorsYuval Asner, Andrea Jury, Andrew Kaplan,Jamie Katz, Daniel Kuperstein, BenjaminLewis, Elizabeth Lintott, MichaelRavenscroft, Erielle Reshef, Lauren Shideler,Naomi Shulman, Sonya Weisburd, RachelWilder, and Elizabeth Wood were named tothe Spring 2003 Dean’s List.

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Graduates attending the April 16 dinner: (back row—left to right) Yuval Asner, Tanya Bannwart, Rachel Conroy,Marie Harf, Jessica Peltz, Naomi Shulman; (front row—left to right) Ashley Plotnick, Traci Geffon, Jen Bell,Debra Powers, Jamie Honigman, and Samantha Pearline.

Seventeen JS students are serving on the2003-2004 Hillel Student Board: PhilipSherman, vice president; Alana Berland, PeriBerntsen, Joe Brown, Lauren Dragutsky,Jonathan Ginburg, Drew Kaplan, DanielKuperstein, Michael Kushnick, ElizabethLintott, Miles Roger, Elizabeth Rosenberg,Brian Rosenzweig, Laura Siegel, AshleyStern, Sonya Weisburd, and Rachel Wilder.

The following students were inducted intothe Xi, IU Chapter of Eta Beta Rho, theNational Hebrew Scholastic Honor Society:Meytal Ashkenazi, Nurit Blum, StevenBorders, Maya Eshel, Tamar Gal, LaurenHanono, Jordan Huffer, Michael Joffe, LiliLahav, Larissa Privalskaia (graduatestudent), Miriam Pullman, and NetanelYaghoubi. Steven Borders, a Hebrew minorwho graduated in May 2003, was awardedthe B’nai Zion Fraternal Organization’saward for excellence as the most outstandingHebrew student.

TE L BE T H SH E M E S HAR C H A E O L O G I C A L PR O G R A M

In 1995, IU established a partnership withthe Tel Beth Shemesh excavation in Israelthat allows IU students to help excavate thesite of an important border town in thebiblical period. Directed by Dr. ShlomoBunimovitz of Tel Aviv University and Dr.Zvi Lederman, with support from DirectorDr. Steve Weitzman, the dig has made anumber of important discoveries thatillumine the political and economic life ofJudah, the kingdom ruled by David’sdescendants and the focus of the HebrewBible, including possible evidence bearing onits emergence as a state. For most of theprogram’s duration, students have been ableto participate with financial support fromthe Dorot Foundation, which has provided10 travel grants per year.

Although recent violence has preventedIU students from participating in the Tel BethShemesh program, the dig continued in 2003thanks to the involvement of Israeli studentsand with financial support from the JSP. Weplan for our own students to return there assoon as the political situation allows them todo so. If you would like to become involved

in the excavation, or provide it with muchneeded financial support, please contactProfessor Weitzman care of the JSP.

A BU S Y YE A R O F ST U D E N TEV E N T SJSSA Sponsors Dessert, FreshmanMixer, Lunches, Dinners, FilmShowings, Hebrew TableAt the heart of the JSP’s philosophy is acommitment to providing students anoutstanding undergraduate experience,primarily inside the classroom, but alsooutside. Toward that end, the 2002-2003leadership of the Jewish Studies Student

Association—President HalUngar, VPsMiriamPullman andJennifer Gubitz,Secretary YuvalAsner, andTreasurersJennifer Gubitzand MichaelJoffe—organized a fullcalendar ofstudent-facultyevents. The yearbegan with awell-attendedfall welcomedessert onOctober 14 andended on April10 with theannual galastudent-facultydinner. EveryTuesday

evening during the year, Hebrew speakersconvened over dinner at Hillel’s kosher café.The popular weekly dinner attracted 115Hebrew speakers in its first six weeks. Theweekly Hebrew Hour was chaired by YuvalAsner, Michael Joffe, Michelle Steiman, JoshTaff, and Sonya Weisburd. The JSSAsponsored a freshman mixer in October.Thanks to Joe Bercovici who served asJSSA’s photographer.

For the tenth year, the JSSA and Hillelco-sponsored a series of free lunches withthe faculty. The popular lunch talks includedpresentations by Professor MatthiasLehmann, “Sephardic Jews, Zionism, andthe State of Israel,” and Professor MarciShore, “Once Upon aTime in Warsaw: TheStory of a Polish-Jewish FamilyComing of Age.”

The spring filmnight was hosted byJerome Copulsky.Israeli films “Yana’sFriends,” and “Outfor Love . . . Be Back Shortly” were alsoshown in the Spring. The JSSA project onDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day includedtranslating children’s books into Hebrew foran elementary school’s English as a SecondLanguage Program. An educational handoutwas prepared by JSSA member RuthSchachter for the annual campus YomHashoah names reading. The JSSA co-sponsored a Jewish Poetry Slam judged byProfessor Steven Weitzman and JeromeCopulsky.

Elected JSSA officers for the 2003-2004year are: President Leah Hedrick, VP RachelWilder, Secretary Lauren Miller, andTreasurer Michelle Steiman.

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JSSA officers meet with Professor Steven Weitzman. (Left to right) Jennifer Gubitz, Miriam Pullman, Hal Ungar,Yuval Asner, Professor Steven Weitzman.

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PROFESSOR DAVID MERSKY OFBRANDEIS HORNSTEIN PROGRAMCareer Night Speaker“Throughout the years, I’ve noticed thatsome of the most enthusiastic, well-prepared,young Jewish communal professionals, havecome from Indiana University.”Amy Wagner, Recruitment Coordinator andFEREP Scholarship DirectorUnited Jewish Communities

On November 12, 2002, Professor DavidMersky, of the Brandeis Hornstein GraduateProgram in Jewish Communal Service, wasthe keynote speaker at the annual JS CareerNight. A career fair with nationalrepresentatives from the United JewishCommunities, the Jewish Education Serviceof North America, national Hillel, JewishCommunity Centers of America, Hebrew

Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,and the Jewish Theological Seminary,followed Professor Mersky’s presentation.The event was co-sponsored by the Helene G.Simon Hillel Foundation Gesherim Program.

The IU JSP is one of the foremostundergraduate educators of Jewishcommunal service professionals. Mentoringstudents for careers related to JS is a highpriority of the JSP. To support our students,the JSP also sends a weekly e-mail newsletterand maintains a resource center withinformation about JS graduate programs,the rabbinate and cantorate, scholarships,internships, and careers.

AS H L E Y PL O T N I C K AWA R D E DPI S E R PR I Z EOutstanding JS GraduateAshley Plotnick, who graduated in May2003 with majors in JS and ReligiousStudies (RS) and a JS Hebrew minor, wasawarded the 2003 Leonore and Louis PiserPrize in JS. During the spring semester of2002, Ashley served as an intern at theReconstructionist Rabbinical College inPennsylvania. She returned there this fall asa rabbinical student.

During her college summers, Ashleyparticipated in Lishma, a text study programsponsored by the University of Judaism, andserved as the Lewis Summer Intern for theJewish Federation of Chicago. Her honorsinclude membership in Phi Beta Kappa,Theta AlphaKappa RSHonor Society,and Phi EtaSigma HonorSociety.

The $500Piser Prize isawardedannually to anoutstandinggraduating JSB.A. or area certificate student who isplanning further graduate work in JS and acareer in the field. Through the Piser Prizeand other initiatives, the JSP hopes todemonstrate to our graduating seniors thehigh value we place on their continuededucation and careers in JS. The lateLeonore and Louis Piser, of South Bend,made the award possible.

NAOMI SHULMAN AWARDEDSTOLNITZ PRIZE AND BERNESSAY PRIZE

Naomi Shulman, a May 2003 graduate,now pursuing a doctorate at the Universityof California at Berkeley in comparative

literature with a focus on Holocaustliterature, was awarded the 2003 Georgeand Monique Stolnitz Yiddish Prize. Shealso was named the winner of the 2003Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay Competitionfor her essay, “Maternity in Distress: TheImpact of the Holocaust on the Mother-Daughter Relationship.”

Born and educated in Berlin, Naomigraduated with double majors in Englishand JS remaining an extra year to complete

the JS major. Last year, under ProfessorAlvin Rosenfeld’s direction, she wrote anEnglish honors thesis, which passed withdistinction, on the fate of women prisonersin Nazi concentration camps and the effectof the Holocaust on mother-daughterrelationships. She served as ProfessorRosenfeld’s undergraduate assistant for hiscourses on “Literature of the Holocaust”and “American Jewish Writers”. She hasreceived a number of scholarships andprizes, including the Fort Wayne JewishFederation Scholarship, the College of Artsand Sciences’ Palmer-Brandon Award, the IUFaculty Scholarship, the Lilly E. FosbrinkAward, and the Courson-Greeves EssayCompetition Prize.

The annual Bern Essay Competition, inits thirteenth year, was established to honorthe memory of Henry A. Bern, professoremeritus in the School of Education at IU,loyal supporter of the JSP, and a long-timeBloomington resident. The Bern prize of$250 aims to stimulate undergraduateexcellence in writing and research in JS.

An expression of Monique Stolnitz andthe late Professor George Stolnitz’s strongcommitment to the advancement ofeducation in Yiddish language and culture,the $500 Stolnitz Prize is awarded annuallyto a student who shows the greatest promisein the study of Yiddish language orliterature, and/or the history in whichYiddish culture took root and flourished.

JSP FUNDS STUDENTS ATCONFERENCES

For the eleventh year, the JSP subsidizedconference attendance for students. Sixundergraduate students—Jennifer Bell,Marisa Geer, Jennifer Gubitz, MichaelKushnick, Debra Powers, Miriam Pullman,and two graduate students— Adam Rovnerand Jeremy Shere—received funding toattend JS conferences. During the 2003-2004 year, JS students will be eligible toapply for subsidies to support attendance atconferences related academically orprofessionally to JS.

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GRADUATE STUDYVI L N I U S UN I V E R S I T Y ST U D E N TAWA R D E D FI R S T YI D D I S HST U D I E S FE L L O W S H I P

Jolanta Mickute, a Department of Historydoctoral student who will study withProfessors Jeffrey Veidlinger and Dov-BerKerler, is the first recipient of the Cohn-Borns Yiddish Studies Graduate Fellowshipin JS. Shecompleted theB.A. in Englishwith distinctionat the Universityof Klaipeda inLithuania. As agraduate studentat VilniusUniversity, shestudied Yiddishand JudaicStudies, principally with Professor DovidKatz. She completed the Oxford University’sGraduate Diploma Program in JS in springof 2001 and the following June, earned anM.A. in Philology from Vilnius University.In August 2002, she completed theadvanced-level intensive course in Yiddish atthe VYI’s summer program. We welcomeJolanta into our growing Yiddish StudiesProgram. The Yiddish Studies Fellowship ismade possible by the generosity of Dr. AliceGinott Cohn and Theodore Cohn andSandra and Robert Borns.

2004-2005 YI D D I S H ST U D I E SFE L L O W S H I P CO M P E T I T I O NAN N O U N C E DDeadline: Thursday,January 15, 2004The JSP invites applications for the Cohn-Borns Yiddish Studies Graduate Fellowshipfor the 2004-2005 year. The fellowshipprovides a $15,000 stipend and full feeremission and can be tied to a multi-yearpackage of support through fellowships andteaching assistantships. We are interested in

hearing from students who show clearpromise of dedicating themselves seriouslyto Yiddish studies. To be eligible for thefellowship, students must be accepted intoan IU graduate program in any of thefollowing departments: ComparativeLiterature, Germanic Studies, or History.For more information, contact the JSP, e-mailiujsp@indiana.edu or go to our website at:(http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htm).Application deadline is January 15, 2004.

FR I E N D S O F T H E BO R N S JSPGR A D U AT E FE L L O W S H I PApplication deadline: Thursday,January 15, 2004The JSP invites applications for the 2004-2005 Friends of the Borns Jewish StudiesProgram Graduate Fellowship. Thefellowship provides a stipend up to $17,000and full fee remission and can be tied to amulti-year package of support throughfellowships and teaching assistantships. Weare interested in hearing from students whoshow clear promise of dedicating themselvesseriously to scholarship within one of thecore areas of JS. To be eligible for thefellowship, students must be accepted intoan IU graduate program in any of thefollowing departments: Anthropology,Comparative Literature, English, GermanicStudies, History, Linguistics, Near EasternLanguages and Cultures, Philosophy,Political Science, Religious Studies, or SlavicLanguages and Literatures. A special featureof this fellowship is a well developedprogram of mentoring. For moreinformation, contact the JSP. E-mailiujsp@indiana.edu or go to our website at:(http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htm).Application deadline is January 15, 2004.

JS DO C T O R A L MI N O R S

Michah Gottlieb is a visiting assistantprofessor in philosophy at Brown University.Jill Smith is an assistant professor ofGermanic Studies at Union College. KristiaKesler teaches philosophy at FranklinCollege.

Angela White was the recipient of aFulbright-Hays Training Grant for DoctoralDissertation Research in Poland. AdamRovner received the Greenberg-AlbeeDissertation Research Fellowship.

ALUMNI NEWSWe are proud of our graduates, so many

of whom now hold important staff positionsat major educational and communalorganizations throughout the country.

Rabbi Debra Reed Blank (1977) wasnamed the Rabbi Philip R. Alstat AssistantProfessor of Liturgy at the JewishTheological Seminary.

Cantor Janet Roth Krupnick (1981) is acantor at a synagogue in Summit, NJ.

Audrey Krakovitz Sistare (1986) is theadministrator of the Chapel Hill Kehillah, aReconstructionist synagogue in NorthCarolina.

Andy Czarlinsky Callam (1988) is campdirector for the Louisville JCC. Andy’sdaughter Emily Jo was born May 2001.

Rabbi Bruce Elder (1989) is the rabbi ofCongregation Hakafa, Glencoe, Illinois.

Laurie Goldberg (1989) and JamieHarris-Gershon (1998) were two IU JSalumni in the class of ten graduates of thePardes Institute of JS Educators Program inJerusalem. We are especially grateful thatJamie, who was seriously injured in the July2002 bombing at Hebrew University, hasrecovered. Along with her husband David,she was able to complete her degree.

Shira Raviv Schwartz (1994) completedan M.A. at Loyola University and is aHebrew and JS teacher at Bernard ZellAnshe Emet Day School in Chicago.

Jen Zwilling (1994) recently completed aone year fellowship with the Institute forInformal Education at Brandeis University.She is regional youth director for JCCs ofGreater Boston.

Paula Pepperstone (1995) graduatedfrom Jewish Theological Seminary and is thecantor for Keneseth Israel Congregation inLouisville, Kentucky.

Arielle Poster Bigham (1998) completedan M.A. at Baltimore Hebrew University.Currently a rabbinical student at HebrewUnion College she received the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in JewishEducation.

Brad Finkel, (1998) Assistant Director ofCamp Chi, is the father of Blake Adam,born in October 2002.

Stefanie Kreitzman (1998) has served asProgram Director of Sinai Temple in LosAngeles and has recently moved to NewYork City.

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Shana Canter Levin (1998) is Director ofChildren, Youth, & Camping at theColumbus JCC.

Andrea Fram Plotkin (1998) is part ofthe inaugural class of UJA-Federation ofNew York’s 16-month Muehlstein Institutefor Jewish Professional Leadership.

Gary Shyken (1998) is studying atMachon Shlomo yeshiva in Israel.

Brett Pelchovitz Stern (1998), the youthprogram director at Isaac Mayer WiseTemple, is the proud parent of Shoshana,born January 31, 2003, in Cincinnati.

Simon Braune (1999) completed hisM.A. in Near Eastern Languages andCultures at the University of Chicago.

Amanda Borschel Dan, (1999) a writerfor The Jerusalem Post, was married toBarak Dan on April 25, 2003, in theJerusalem Forest. They live in Jerusalem.

Ilene Scholnick (1999) is the Women’sDepartment Associate at The Associated:Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.

Adam Tennen (1999) completed anMSW and MA from the Drachler Programin Jewish Leadership and the School ofSocial Work at the University of Michigan.He is a campaign associate with the JewishCommunity Federation of Cleveland. Hemarried Sarah Bresnick on May 25, 2003.

Adee Weismark (1999) completed hisservice in the Israeli army in summer 2002and is studying at the Pardes Institute of JSEducators Program in Jerusalem.

Caryl Berman (2000) married IUgraduate Steve Auslander in August 2002.Caryl is on Senator Richard Lugar’sWashington staff.

Julia Dosik (2000) teaches first grade atTemple Israel’s Hollywood Day School inLos Angeles while continuing her actingcareer.

Jonah Geffen (2000) is a law student atYeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School.

Lindsay Glazer (2000) graduated fromTulane Law School.

Wendy Gossman Margolin, (2000) areporter for the Jewish United Fund News inChicago, is the mother of Rachel Esther,born in spring 2003.

Rachael Petru (2000) is the SeniorDevelopment Associate for Hadassah’sWestern Area Development Center.

Shauna Replane (2000) completed anM.A. in Jewish education at BaltimoreHebrew University and will be married toMichael Leavey in October 2003.

Robin St. Cyr (2000) is pursuing amaster’s degree in the Brandeis HornsteinProgram in Jewish Communal Service.

Jessica Auerbach (2001) graduated fromthe Brandeis Hornstein Program and is acampaign associate with the JewishFederation of Greater Washington.

Emily Lipp (2001) is a legislativeassistant for Senator Evan Bayh.

Laurie Matzkin (2001) is a first yearrabbinical student at the University ofJudaism.

Rachel Schwartz (2001) teaches at theAmerican Hebrew Academy.

Jami Trockman (2001) is pursuing anMBA in non-profit management and anM.A. in Jewish Communal Studies at theUniversity of Judaism.

Shira Behar (2002) is working for theWeitzman Institute in New York City.

Robert Cating (2002) began graduatestudies in Hebrew and Semitic Studies at theUniversity of Wisconsin Madison this fall.

Jonathan Lipnick (2002) is pursuing anM.A. in Religious Studies at HebrewUniversity.

Amanda Meyer (2002) is the NFTYRegional Director for the Chicago area andnorthern regions.

Sara Newmark (2002) is a campaignassociate for the Women’s Division at theJewish United Fund/Jewish Federation ofMetropolitan Chicago.

Jeff Shyken (2002) is youth activitiesdirector for Beth El Synagogue in Omaha.

Emily Sonenshine (2002) is an assistantteacher at the Day Academy, a Jewish dayschool in Atlanta, and is pursuing a teachingcertificate at Mercer University.

The JSP takes pride in the achievementsof its alumni and is always pleased to hearof their personal and professionalaccomplishments. Please send your newsand current mailing and e-mail address toclipsonw@indiana.edu.

JSP A N D AL U M N I SH A R E JO BOP P O RT U N I T I E S V I A E-MA I L

Seven years ago, as an extension of ourcareer resource center, the JSP established ane-mail job network for JSP alumni. Thenetwork enables our alumni to shareinformation about job openings.Throughout the year, e-mail notes aboutemployment opportunities related to JS aresent to alumni, and alumni, in turn, sharesuch news with the JSP via e-mail.

If you are a JSP alumnus/alumna andwould like to be on this e-mail job list,please e-mail clipsonw@indiana.edu. If youhave been on the list but have recentlychanged your e-mail address, please sendyour new e-mail address toclipsonw@indiana.edu.

CO M M U N I T Y OU T R E A C HJerome Copulsky spoke about Judaism to

the Interart/Graphic Impressions greetingcard company in Bloomington.

Dov-Ber Kerler presented “YiddishToday,” an illustrated talk and discussion ofcontemporary trends in Yiddish language,culture, and literature to the Beit Midrash atCongregation Beth Shalom in Bloomington,in October 2002, and spoke about“YiddishLanguage and Culture in Israel,” to thePurdue University Yiddish Culture Club,West Lafayette in March 2003.

Matthias Lehmann presented talks atHillel and Congregation Beth Shalom inBloomington, the Jewish Federation of FortWayne, and taught a class on modern Jewishhistory for IU’s Mini University.

Carolyn Lipson-Walker served as a judgefor the National Jewish Book Award in anew category—anthologies and collections.

Michael Morgan gave talks atcongregations in Brookline, Massachusettsand Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was on the facultyfor the UAHC Kallah for Adult JewishGrowth at Franklin Pierce College in NewHampshire.

Alvin Rosenfeld (with Albert Wertheim)presented a post-performance discussion atIndianapolis’ Phoenix Theatre after the

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performance of Jeffrey Sweet’s play “TheAction Against Sol Schumann,” in August2002. He taught a 4-part course, “What’s onJewish Minds?” at Congregation BethShalom.

Dina Spechler (with Martin Spechler)presented a Middle East Update at IU’s MiniUniversity.

Steven Weitzman moderated a discussionwith Michael Thomas, a member of theBloomington Muslim community, after ashowing of the documentary “Promises” atthe IU Hillel. JS student Josh Hamerman’sarticle describing this program hosted byIU’s Hillel and Muslim Student Unionappeared in Ha’aretz.

SU M M E R IN T E N S I V EHE B R E W CO U R S E

During the second summer session (June 20-August 15, 2003), Ronnie Be’eri, JSP’sgifted, full-time modern Hebrew instructor,offered an intensive course in elementarymodern Hebrew for both undergraduate andgraduate students. The highly acceleratedeight-week modern Hebrew course whichcombined ulpan with standard languageinstruction techniques, covered a full year ofelementary modern Hebrew in a singlesummer term.

During the fall and spring semesters,Ronnie Be’eri teaches elementary andintermediate Hebrew to the growing numberof IU students studying modern Hebrew. Inthe fall of 2003, 250 students were enrolledin modern Hebrew language courses.Ronnie came to IU from MILAH: TheJerusalem Institute for Education and theRothberg School of Hebrew University,where she taught Hebrew ulpan courses.

HEBREW LANGUAGE IN SUMMERUPWARD BOUND PROGRAM

Sixty high school students learned modernHebrew for 5 weeks this summer during theIU Upward Bound Project, a collegepreparation program for low income, firstgeneration college applicants from 5 Indianacities. Liora Sarfati was the instructor.

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CO U R S E OF F E R I N G SFall 2002–Fall 2003The curriculum of the JSP is both broad and deep and annually lists almost 50 courseswith enrollments of more than 1,700 students. Courses included the following:

ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible—Harvey Goldberg

Ethnic and Religious Identities in Israel—Harvey Goldberg

Life Cycle Celebrations in Judaism—Harvey Goldberg

Israeli Society—Harvey GoldbergJewish Women: Anthropological

Perspectives—BahloulMemory and Culture—BahloulMigrations and Diasporas—BahloulModern Jewish Society and Culture—

BahloulCOLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Genesis and Myth—MarksWho Wrote the Bible?—Marks

COLLINS LIVING-LEARNING CENTER

Tough Jews and Rhetorical Identity—Moscowitz

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Interwar Central Europe: CulturalFlorescence and Apocalyptic Vision—Volková

ENGLISH

American Jewish Writers—RosenfeldBlacks and Jews in the National

Imagination—YowLiterature of the Holocaust—Rosenfeld

FINE ARTS

Introduction to Jewish Art—El-Hanany

GERMANIC STUDIES

Aspects of Modern Yiddish Culture:1880s-1980—Kerler

Beginning Yiddish I and II—KerlerFantasy, Realism, and Fiction: The First

Century of Modern Yiddish Literature(1810-1913)—Kerler

Ghetto, Shtetl, and Beyond: 800 Years ofthe History and Sociology of Yiddish—Kerler

Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies:Language, Literature, Culture—Kerler

HISTORY

European Intellectuals and Marxism—Shore

Introduction to Jewish History: From theBible to the Crusades—Veidlinger andLehmann

Introduction to Jewish History: From theCrusades to the Present—Lehmann

Jews and Cosmopolitanism in ModernEuropean Intellectual History—Shore

Jews in Muslim Lands—LehmannThe Jews of Spain: Sephardic History and

Culture—LehmannModern Jewish History—Lehmann

INTENSIVE FRESHMAN SEMINAR

Popular Representations of theHolocaust—Schilb

JEWISH STUDIES

Advanced Hebrew I and II—S. Katz, SelaBiblical Hebrew I and II—Choo,

MuehlbergerBiblical Themes in Modern Hebrew

Literature—S. KatzElementary Modern Hebrew I and II—

Be’eri, StaffIndividual Readings in Hebrew—S. KatzIntermediate Modern Hebrew I and II—

Be’eri, StaffRecent Hebrew Literature in English—

S. Katz

PHILOSOPHY

Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as FirstPhilosophy—Morgan

Modern Jewish Philosophy—Morgan

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Holocaust, Genocide, and PoliticalResponsibility—Bielasiak

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Introduction to Hebrew Bible—WeitzmanIntroduction to Judaism—CopulskyJudaism in the Making—WeitzmanKing David in Myth and History—

WeitzmanThe Problem of Evil in Jewish Thought—

CopulskyToward a Jewish State: Religion and

Politics in Modern Jewish Thought—Copulsky

WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES

Anne Frank: Her Diary in Perspective—Ham

FACULTY NEWSMA R K S RE C E I V E D PR E S I D E N T’SAWA R D

In spring 2003, Professor Herbert J. Marks,associate professor of ComparativeLiterature and JS, received the IU President’sAward, which recognizes outstandingteaching, research, or service. In his 18 yearsat IU, he has created more than two dozennew courses, including 5 courses on biblicalstudies. He is working on a new edition ofthe Hebrew Bible in English (to be publishedby W.W. Norton in 2004).

PR O F E S S O R PA U L EI S E N B E R GRE T I R E S

The retirement in May 2003, of ProfessorPaul Eisenberg after 37 years on the IUfaculty leaves anotable void inthe JSP. Heoffered judiciousguidance andoutstandingservice to thenumerous JSPcommittees heserved on duringhis many yearsas a member ofthe JSP faculty.

A list of Professor Eisenberg’s serviceactivities in JS and at IU fills several pages.He served as president of the BloomingtonFaculty Council and as co-secretary of theUniversity Faculty Council. Three times, hewas chair of the Department of Philosophy.Professor Eisenberg’s commitment to servicewas recognized by the university with the1998 George W. Pinnell Award.

A leader in promoting racial diversity oncampus and in planning new directions inundergraduate curricula, he was a memberof the University Graduate School’scommittee on Ph.D. requirements, theRacial Incidents Team, the JerusalemOverseas Study Committee, the HonorsCollege faculty, the Dean of Faculties’committee on instructional developmentfellowships, and the Trustees’ Committee onLearning, Teaching, and Scholarship. Heserved as IU’s Grand Marshal.

In 2001, Professor Eisenberg was electedto the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence inTeaching and received the Trustees TeachingAward. In 2002, he received the President’sAward for distinguished teaching. GlennGass, one of the most popular professors oncampus and a former student of ProfessorEisenberg, calls him, “the best teacher I hadwhile I was a student at IU. I have neverbeen required to think quite so much or sohappily in a classroom.”

OUR FACULTYJoëlle Bahloul returned from a sabbatical

leave in France in fall 2002, where shewitnessed the most troubled period in FrenchJewish history since WWII. She presented herresearch on this subject in a JSP colloquiumin October on “The Rocky Road to theRepublic: French Jews 2002.” At theAmerican Anthropological Associationconference, she participated in a paneldiscussion on David Kertzer’s book ThePopes Against the Jews. In February, shedelivered the third Yedida Kalfon StillmanMemorial Lecture at the University ofOklahoma on “Sephardic Women in France:Gender Emancipation and the Republic,”and in May, she presented “The Meaning ofthe Old Jewish Quarter: Paris and Rome atthe End of the Twentieth Century” at aconference at Stanford University. Shepublished an ethnographic study of a Jewishpilgrimage in Eastern Algeria in a volumededicated to the work of Lucette Valensi(Paris, fall 2002). She also wrote the entry on“Judaism” for the Encyclopedia of Food andCulture, published in Scribner Library ofDaily Life. She is completing a piece on“Jews in France,” to be published in theHuman Relations Area Files Encyclopedia ofDiasporas next year.

Jack Bielasiak, who joined the JSP facultyas an associate member, regularly teaches acourse on the “Holocaust and Politics.” In

April 2002, he presented “Exploring thePostcommunist Party Paradox: Party SystemDevelopment in New Democracies” at theMidwest Political Science Associationconference. At the 2003 Midwest PoliticalScience Association convention he chairedand served as a discussant on a panel,“Elections and Party Systems inPostcommunist States.” “Past and Present inTransitional Voting: Electoral Choices inPostcommunist Poland,” appeared in PartyPolitics (September 2002) and“Determinants of Public Opinion Differenceson EU Accession in Poland,” was publishedin Europe-Asia Studies, (December 2002).He has chaired the Vucinich Prize Committeefor Best Book in Slavic Studies for theAmerican Association for the Advancementof Slavic Studies (2001-2003).

Jerome Copulsky was awarded afellowship by the Martin Marty Center at theDivinity School of the University of Chicagoto participate in a research project entitled“Religion and the Democratic Prospect” andwrite a paper on democracy and the problemof political religion. He presented a talk forthe Department of RS entitled “Subjects ofTorah or Citizens of the State?” andpresented the JSSA film night. He taught anew course “The Problem of Evil in JewishThought” in spring 2003.

Paul Eisenberg was interim chair of theDepartment of Philosophy for the fall 2002semester. He retired at the end of thisacademic year, after 37 years on the IUBfaculty (see article on this page). He plans to

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IN ME M O R I A MAlbert WertheimThe JSP mourns the passing of a dearfriend and devoted colleague, AlbertWertheim, on April 16, 2003. ProfessorWertheim’s distinguished career as anaward-winning teacher, scholar, associatedean of the College of Arts and Sciences,associate dean for Research and GraduateStudies, and Professor of English, Theater,and Comparative Literature, includedteaching a popular course on AmericanJewish theater. May his memory be ablessing.

continue with his research, service, and part-time teaching in the years to come.

Harvey Goldberg, a visiting professorduring the 2002-2003 year, presented apaper on teenage educational travel to Israelat the American Anthropological Associationconference. He completedwork on his book JewishPassages: Cycles of JewishLife, which is to bepublished by theUniversity of CaliforniaPress in October 2003.

Jeffrey Isaac’s newbook, The Poverty ofProgressivism: The Futureof American Democracyat a Time of LiberalDecline, was publishedby Rowman andLittlefield. He published numerous articles,including “Hannah Arendt on HumanRights and the Limits of Exposure, or WhyNoam Chomsky is Wrong About Kosovo,”Social Research (2002); “The Limits ofDebunking,” Polity (2002); “Right-WingPatriotism: What William Bennett Doesn’tUnderstand,” Dissent (Spring 2003);“Thinking About Human RightsInterventionism,” Dissent (Winter 2002);“Ends, Means, and Politics,” Dissent (Spring2002); “Rethinking the Cultural Cold War,”Dissent (Summer 2002); and “CivilianCasualties in Afghanistan: The Limits ofMarc Herold’s Comprehensive Accounting,”OpenDemocracy (March 2002). He wasnamed to the editorial board of Dissentmagazine. In Summer 2003, he began aschair of the Department of Political Science.

Stephen Katz continued to teachadvanced Hebrew language and literaturecourses and directed the modern Hebrewlanguage program. His paper, “To Be asOthers: E.E. Lisitzky’s Representation ofNative Americans” will appear in theHebrew Union College Annual. This paperforms one of the central chapters in his studyof the representation of America’s minoritiesin Hebrew literature in the U.S. During thecoming year, he will serve as the

undergraduate advisor for the Near EasternLanguages and Cultures department.

Dov-Ber Kerler delivered the keynotelecture at the 60th anniversary assemblyorganized by the Congress for Jewish Culturein New York to commemorate the Soviet

Yiddish Writers executed on August 12,1952. His article,“The Soviet Yiddish Press:Eynikayt During The War, 1942-1945,”appeared in Why Didn’t the Press Shout?American and International JournalismDuring the Holocaust, edited by Robert M.Shapiro (Yeshiva University Press inassociation with Ktav Publishing House, Inc.)He presented “Fresh from the Field: Reporton the First IU Yiddish EthnographicExpedition to Ukraine,” at the Kiev Instituteof JS, in July 2002. In Spring 2003, prior tohis second expedition to the Ukraine, he gavea paper, “The Last Yiddish Speakers inContemporary Ukraine: Language, Culture,Memory,” at a conference at NorthwesternUniversity. He lectured on “From Cervantes’s‘Don Quixot’e to Kafka’s ‘Trial’—World-Literature in Yiddish” at the Jost G. BlumMemorial Conference; and “Jiddisch undseine Übersetzungen” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, in April2003. He served as an expert assessor ofapplications for Ph.D. grants and researchand cultural and artistic project awards in thefield of Yiddish for the Memorial Foundationfor Jewish Culture. His Yiddish poetry, underthe pen-name ‘Boris Karloff’, appearsregularly in the Yiddish weekly Forverts.

Matthias B. Lehmann completed his firstyear at IU, teaching courses on Jewishhistory, the Jews of Islam, and Ottomanhistory. He published articles on Ladinoreligious literature in Jewish History and in afestschrift in honor of his dissertationadvisor, Peter Schäfer. He contributed anarticle on Sephardic Jewry for the

encyclopedia Religion in Geschichte undGegenwart (Religion in Past and Present)published in German and soon to beavailable in an English translation. Duringthe summer, Matthias Lehmann worked onhis book, Vernacular Rabbis: Ladino

Religious Literature and Ottoman JewishCulture in the Nineteenth Century.

Herbert Marks received the President’sAward for distinguished teaching (see articleon page 21). He continued work on a twovolume critical edition of The English Bibleto be published by W.W. Norton. During thecoming year, he will assume a visitingposition as the Martin-Buber StiftungProfessor in Frankfurt.

Michael Morgan’s book BeyondAuschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thoughtin America was a finalist in the category ofPhilosophy/Thought for the 2002 KoretFoundation Book Awards. He editedSpinoza. Complete Works, published byHackett Publishing (2002) and is the co-editor of Philosopher as Witness:Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust,to be published by SUNY Press. He is editingthe Cambridge Companion to ModernJewish Philosophy. Professor Morganpublished several essays and reviews andpresented papers at two conferences. He iscurrently working on a book on EmmanuelLevinas and is planning, together with PaulFranks of the University of Notre Dame, anOctober conference on Levinas and LudwigWittgenstein (see page 7).

Alvin Rosenfeld, outgoing Director of theBorns JSP, published a number of articles andessays on Holocaust literature andcontemporary affairs, including two in theAmerican Jewish Committee’s InternationalPerspectives Series: “Facing Jedwabne” and“‘Feeling Alone, Again,’: The GrowingUnease of Germany’s Jews” (the latter has

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also appeared in German and Polishtranslations). “Who Killed the Jews?Reflections on a Riddle” appeared in Lessonsand Legacies: The Holocaust and Justice(Northwestern University Press); “DasDeutschland von heute und dieamerikanischen Juden: Notwendigkeit undUnmöglichkeit einer Normalisierung” in Diedeutsch-jüdische Erfahrung. Beiträge zumkulturellen Dialog; and “The Jewish Writerat the End of Time,” in AllgemeineLiteraturwissenschaft, Band 5: Identität undGedächtnis in der jüdischen Literatur nach1945. He spoke on “The Centrality of theHolocaust” at the Lessons and LegaciesConference at the University of Minnesota inNovember and on “Models of Excellence inJS in 21st Century Higher Education” at theAssociation of JS Conference in Los Angelesin December; he also chaired a panel, “In theWake of the Holocaust,” at this sameconference. He was a consultant to the Deanof the College at the University of Minnesotafor the further development of thatuniversity’s JSP; was a member of theexternal review committee for the FrankelCenter for Judaic Studies at the University ofMichigan; and was appointed to theAcademic Council of the David S. WymanInstitute for Holocaust Studies. In additionto serving as a member of the AcademicCommittee of the U.S. Holocaust MemorialMuseum, in Washington, D.C., he is in thesecond year of a 5-year term as a member ofthe museum’s governing Council. For thefifth year in a row, he chaired the committeethat selects the best work of Jewish fictionfor the Koret Foundation Jewish BookAward and also continued as a member ofthe Academic Council of the Center forJewish History, in New York City. He alsocontinues his long-term service at the IUPress as editor of the IU Press Series onJewish Literature and Culture.

Marci Shore spent the summer of 2002doing research in Moscow and Kiev for herbook-in-progress. During the 2002-2003academic year, her first year at IU, she taughttwo JS undergraduate seminars: “TheAnguishes of Neighbors: Polish-JewishRelations in the 20th Century” and “Jewsand Cosmopolitanism in Modern EuropeanIntellectual History”. She presented a paperat the American Association for theAdvancement of Slavic Studies Congress inPittsburgh titled “Café Ziemianska’s Poets:Aleksander Wat’s Generation of Narcissism

and Guilt Revisited.” Her interview withHeda Margolius-Kovaly appeared in Czechand English translation in JednímOkem/One Eye Open (summer 2002); andher article “Czysto Babski: A Women’sFriendship in a Man’s Revolution,” waspublished in East European Politics andSocieties this winter. She also completed atranslation of a Polish Holocaust memoir,which will appear in English as The BlackSeasons (Northwestern University Press).

Dina Spechler completed an articleentitled “Russian Foreign Policy AfterSeptember 11: Understanding and Assessingthe Change,” which she presented to theSpecial Convention of the Centro perL’Europa Oriental e Balcanica in Forli, Italy.She organized and participated in a panel on“The Impact of the War on Terrorism on theFormer Soviet Sphere” at a meeting of theAmerican Association for the Advancementof Slavic Studies. Her paper entitled“Strategic Realignment or TacticalReadjustment? Russia and the West SinceSeptember 11” will be presented at theInternational Studies Association. Shecollaborated with Martin Spechler on apaper, “The False Promise of U.S. Influencein Central Asia,” for a conference onCaspian Sea security.

Jeffrey Veidlinger received tenure and waspromoted to associate professor. He was onleave for the 2002-2003 academic year,working on a new book, tentatively entitledCollecting Jewish Culture: Jewish CulturalAssociation in Russia, 1905-1921. The bookwill look at the proliferation of Jewishcultural groups (theater troupes, literarycircles, music bands, and academicassociations) that flourished in the RussianEmpire during the Revolutionary Era. Hereceived an ACES/SSRC/NEH Internationaland Area Studies Fellowship and an IU Artsand Humanities Institute Fellowship towardresearch for the new book. ProfessorVeidlinger is also continuing his cooperationwith Professor Dov-Ber Kerler on the IUYiddish Language and Culture Project, inwhich capacity he is traveling to the formershtetls of Ukraine to collect videotapedinterviews with the last native Yiddishspeakers of the region. Professor Veidlingeralso wrote several articles on Yiddish theaterin Russia and Poland, and presented papersat the Association for JS convention and atthe “Yiddish: Yesterday, Today andTomorrow” conference in Evanston, Illinois.

On July 1, he assumed his role as theAssociate Director of the JSP.

Dror Wahrman joined the JSP this year asan adjunct faculty member. In winter 2003he gave a series of public lectures inJerusalem, at the Van Leer Institute, on hisforthcoming book The Making of theModern Self (Yale University Press, 2004).

Steven Weitzman begins this year asdirector of the JSP, a challenge he finds bothexhilarating and daunting. He has alsorecently become an associate editor ofProoftexts, a journal of Jewish literaryhistory. A recently completed book,Surviving Sacrilege: Ancient Judaism and theArts of Ritual Persistence, is currently underreview for publication. In the interim,Weitzman has completed several essays:“Myth, History and Mystery in the CopperScroll,” to appear in a festschrift for hisdissertation advisor James Kugel; “KingDavid’s Spin Doctors” forthcoming inProoftexts; and “Josephus on How toSurvive Martyrdom,” which will appear inthe Journal of JS. Together with his colleagueDavid Brakke and former colleague MichaelSatlow, he will be hosting a conferenceSeptember 7-9, 2004 entitled “The ReligiousSelf in Antiquity” featuring papers that willexplore self-formation and the interiorspiritual life of ancient Jews, Christians, andPagans (see page 7).

Cover artwork from MS Kaufmann A77 appears by permission of theLibrary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Artwork on page 4 from Esther Scroll, Italy, 18th century, S37. Courtesyof the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Artwork on page 11 from Rothschild Mahzor (Florence, Italy, 1492),MS 8892, folio 227r. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary.

Artwork on page 14 from The North French Hebrew Miscellany, AddMS 11638 appears courtesy of The British Library.

Artwork on page 19 from The New Work of Our Hands by MaeRockland Tupa (Chilton Book Company, 1994), p. 8.

Artwork on page 21 from Ketubbah (Marriage Contract), Herat, Afghanistan, 1867, Ket 270. Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Back cover from The Ashkenazi Haggadah: A Hebrew Manuscriptof the Mid-15th Century, ADD 14762 f11b appears by permission of The British Library.

Photography—Jane Reeves

Design—IU Office of Publications

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JSP FA C U LT Y

James S. AckermanProfessor (Emeritus), Religious StudiesReligion of Ancient Israel; Bible

Joëlle BahloulAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies andAnthropologySocial and Cultural Anthropology ofJudaism and the Jews

Ronnie Be’eriLecturer in Modern HebrewModern Hebrew

Jack BielasiakProfessor, Political Science and Russianand East European InstitutePolitics of the Holocaust

Marc CaplanLecturer in Comparative LiteratureYiddish Literature; African Literature

Jerome CopulskyVisiting Jay and Jeannie SchottensteinLecturer in Judaism, Jewish Studies, andReligious StudiesJudaism

Paul D. EisenbergProfessor (Emeritus), PhilosophyJewish Philosophy

Henry FischelProfessor (Emeritus), Near EasternLanguages and CulturesHebrew; Aramaic; Talmud;Intertestamental Literature

Harvey GoldbergVisiting Pat M. Glazer Chair in ModernIsrael Studies, Jewish Studies, andAnthropologyAnthropology, Ethnicity, and Religion inIsrael

Jeffrey IsaacRudy Professor of Political SciencePolitical Theory

Stephen KatzAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies;Director of Modern Hebrew ProgramHebrew; Israeli Culture; ModernHebrew Literature

Dov-Ber KerlerDr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in YiddishStudies, Jewish Studies, and GermanicStudiesYiddish Studies

Matthias LehmannAssistant Professor, Jewish Studies andHistoryJews in Islamic Lands and MedievalSpain; Sephardic Literature; Ottoman-Jewish History; 19th Century GermanJewry

Herbert J. MarksAssociate Professor, ComparativeLiteratureBiblical and Literary Studies

Michael L. MorganProfessor, Jewish Studies and PhilosophyJewish Philosophy

Mark RosemanPat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies;HistoryHistory of the Holocaust; History ofAntisemitism; German-Jewish History

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director, Institutefor Jewish Culture and the ArtsProfessor, English and Jewish StudiesLiterature of the Holocaust; AmericanJewish Literature

Marci ShoreAssistant Professor, HistoryPolish-Jewish History; JewishIntellectual and Cultural History inModern Europe

Dina R. SpechlerAssociate Professor, Political ScienceComparative Foreign Policy; American,Russian, and Israeli Foreign Policy

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Associate Director, JSPAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies andHistoryModern Jewish History; East EuropeanJewish History; Russian History

Dror Wahrman,Associate Professor, HistoryJewish History

Steven Weitzman, Director, JSPIrving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies,Associate Professor, Religious StudiesHebrew Bible and Early BiblicalInterpretation

JSP STA F FPatricia EkAssistant Director

Carolyn Lipson-WalkerAssistant Director for Programming,Academic Advisor, Newsletter Editor

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