Jewish Studies Advisory Board
Marc Bernstein's
Stories of Joseph:
Migrations between Judaism and
Islam
explores the historical interdependence of the Hebraic and
Arabic literary traditions and will be published by Wayne State
University Press in October 2005. Marc's analysis focuses on a 19
th
century Judeo-Arabic manuscript,
The Story of Our Master Joseph--
a
Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype extending back
to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry,
separation, and struggle for communal existence
.
Kirsten Fermaglich is preparing her important manuscript
American
Dreams and Nazi Nightmares
for Brandeis University Press. The book
focuses on the uses made by American intellectuals during the late
1950s and 1960s of analogies and metaphors to Nazi institutions and
processes in offering a liberal critique of aspects of American society
during the civil rights and Vietnam eras.
Steve Gold will present on "
Israeli Emigration since the Al Aksa
Intifada,"
at a conference on "Middle Eastern Diasporas" at Yale in
March and has submitted a chapter on "
Israeli Emigration,"
to appear
in
The Place of Israel in Diaspora Jewish Identity,
edited by Zohar
Segev.
Joyce Ladenson presented on "Marge Piercy's Jewish-Feminist Vision
of the Future:
He, She, and It,"
at the University of Michigan in
October.
Mary Juzwik presented at the Association of Jewish Studies in
December on "
Narrative Voices and Collectively Remembering in a
Middle School Classroom
," and is at work on a manuscript on the
rhetoric of teaching middle school students about the Holocaust.
Michael Koppisch has received IRGP funding for his project
"Occupation, Vichy, Holocaust: French Writers Remember."
How did
French writers confront wartime Vichy and the Holocaust?
George Peters presented at the Association of Jewish Studies on
"Teaching About Jews in German Class: Achieving Normalcy,"
and is
currently researching Russian Jews in contemporary Germany.
Keely Stauter-Halsted is preparing a panel next fall at the Association
of Slavic Studies on "Fantasies of Anti-Semitism," and will present on
"Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the Sex Trade in Nineteenth Century
Poland."
Keely will be at Indiana University in late March to speak on
"Women About Whom One Does Not Speak,"
based on her work in
turn-of-the century white slavery in Poland.
Steve Weiland presented at the Association of Jewish Studies on
"Autobiography, the Vernacular, and Jewish-American Generations,"
and is completing his work on Jewish biography and autobiography.
Ken Waltzer will present papers on
"Jewish Rescue In Poland"
on a
panel about "Jews Rescuing Jews" at the Annual Scholars Conference
on the Holocaust in Philadelphia in March and on
"The Rescue of
Children at Buchenwald"
at the Midwest Scholars Colloquium in
Detroit in late May.
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