From LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu Mon Nov 4 19:41:36 1996 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 01:00:09 -0400 From: Automatic digest processor Reply-To: H-NET Jewish Studies List To: Recipients of H-JUDAIC digests Subject: H-JUDAIC Digest - to 12 Jul 1996 There are 9 messages totalling 181 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. No Classes on Yomim Narayim (Katz) 2. Miron Sima - B.Lerner`s query (Almog) 3. Sephardic Women (Schoenfeld) 4. Jewish Heroines (Sherman) 5. Reply to Stephen Fruitman - was antisemitism (Frank) 6. Scholem in the _TLS_ - was antisemitism (Brocke) 7. How central is antisemitism? (Chiswick) 8. University of Chicago (Toren) 9. a view from Hebrew U - was Wolitz's Chicago (Cohen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:42:59 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Re: No Classes on Yomim Narayim (Katz) From: Bernard Katz Subject: Re: No Classes on Yomim Narayim My son is a graduate student at SUNY - Stony Brook on Long Island and tells me that regular classes are suspended for the High Holy Days. Martin Lockshin at York Univ. might wish to contact David Ebin in the Math Dept. at Stony Brook (ebin@math.sunysb.edu I think) for faculty confirmation of this. "Ebin" might be "Ebbin" - I'm not sure of the spelling. Bernard Katz, U of Guelph ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:43:10 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Miron Sima - B.Lerner`s query (Almog) From: Shmuel Almog Subject: Miron Sima - B.Lerner`s query He was born in Proskurov, Russia, in 1902,still living in Jerusalem. A nice write-up on him appears in the Hebrew Lexicon "Personalities in Eretz Israel", edited by Yaacov Shavit et al., published in 1983 by Am Oved, Tel Aviv. Shmuel Almog ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:43:18 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Sephardic Women (Schoenfeld) From: STUART SCHOENFELD Subject: Sephardic Women re: Sephardi women, music Judith Cohen in Toronto (formerly of Montreal) is an ethnomusicologist with expertise in sephardic music. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:43:32 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Jewish Heroines (Sherman) From: ShermaBanZ@aol.com Subject: Jewish Heroines I am assisting a Bat Mitzvah Program prepare research on Jewish Heroines - Modern/Biblical. Ideally, I would like to find a list of women with a brief biography of each from which the students can select several to research. Any assistance with recommended references appropriate for this level would be welcome. Erma ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:47:40 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Reply to Stephen Fruitman - was antisemitism (Frank) Via: h-antis@uicvm.cc.uic.edu From: Dan Frank, U Kentuky Subject: Reply to Stephen Fruitman it sounds rather isolated and lonely in sweden, but i just wanted to write to say i agree completely with your assessment about the centrality of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in jewish studies, and the negative consequences of this. the centrality of these subjects betokens i think a kind of voyeurism of all involved, certainly a lack of commitment to jewish culture, and in its own way, as you suggest a la fackenheim, a posthumous victory for hitler. perhaps you should make this point explicitly in your courses, tho' i guess you take a chance of no enrollment! a book that may be of interest is: michael goldberg, "why should Jews survive" (?) - sorry, both author and title may be slightly off. it is an Oxford UP book of a couple of years ago i think shabbat shalom dan frank director of judaic studies program and professor of philosophy university of kentucky ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:47:26 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Scholem in the _TLS_ - was antisemitism (Brocke) Via: H-antis@uicvm.uic.edu From: Michael Brocke Subject: TLS "Jewish Studies" I just read your quote from a letter of David H. Aaron, Wellesley College, in reaction to the special number of the TLS on "Jewish Studies". I heartily concur with Aarons critique and it is a faint consolation only to read that the phenomenon is not confined to Germany only (whre one may expect it to be rather frequent) ... I wonder, however, why the letter to the TLS includes Gershom Scholem falsely stating that Scholem is "a child of the exodus of Jews from Germany"? How can one lamenting the preponderance of subjects as antisemitism and Shoah when speaking of "Jewish Studies" then include Scholem? Scholem was since age 13/14 an ardent Zionist, in opposition to his rather bourgeois assimilated background and made aliyyah in September 1923, together with Fritz (Shlomo Dov) Goitein... Dr Michael Brocke, Institut fuer Judaistik Freie Universitaet Berlin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:55:19 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: Re: How central is antisemitism? (Chiswick) From: Carmel U. Chiswick Subject: Re: How central is antisemitism? It sometimes seems as though an undercurrent of public interest in the Holocaust is a Christian belief (of some) that Judaism can no longer (since Jesus, that is) have anything positive to contribute to the world. Focussing on the death of Jews in Europe contributes to this perception in part by blocking out all the really interesting stuff of modern Jewish civilization. There may also be some idea of death as a means of redemption, perhaps lessenning any guilt which may arise from the introduction of Jewish history into the European curriculum. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:55:41 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: University of Chicago (Toren) From: RSToren@aol.com Subject: University of Chicago I have only a superficial knowledge of American intellectual history during the 50's, but enough to know the pivotal role the Leo Strauss played in those circles. How does Strauss' central role in the intellectual culture of U. of Chicago (if I'm not mistaken) jive with Strauss' profound interest in and prolific writings about Maimonides, his essay discussing reason's relationship with revelation in "Athens and Jerusalem," etc? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:55:58 -0400 From: J S Online Subject: a view from Hebrew U - was Wolitz's Chicago (Cohen) From: MARSHA B COHEN Subject: a view from Hebrew U - was Wolitz's Chicago I would like to comment on Seth Wolitz's comments on the University of Chicago's "...vision of universalism which was not in fact so for the absence of Maimonides, for example, in the undergraduate curriculum or dealing with themes of emancipation (which) carefully eschewed Jews and the Jewish contribution to world civilization." As a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem (BA in Philosophy 1970), I was amazed that there were no opportunties whatsoever in the Philosophy department to study thinkers such as Maimonides or Martin Buber. Medieval philosophy dealt with William of Ockham and Nicholas of Autrecourt and Thomas Aquinas; modern philosophy with Kant (that was as modern as it got in those days). Spinoza squeaked in under Political Philosophy, no doubt because of Yermiyahu Yovel's interest in the subject, but being excommunicated by the Jewish community of Amsterdam didn't hurt either. Maimonides and Buber could be found only in the "Jewish Thought" department, off limits to a philosophy major. Go figure it...! Marsha B Cohen Florida Int'l University ------------------------------ End of H-JUDAIC Digest - to 12 Jul 1996 ****************************************************