14 Mar 90 JUDAIC STUDIES #35 17 Adar 50 BS"D To send a note to this listserv on any issue of common interest, address it to judaica@taunivm Edited by Y. Greenbaum CONTENTS 1) LC Subject Headings 2) Women and Religion in Society 3) Lectures 4) Jewish Information and Communication Services 1) LC Subject Headings From: Joseph Galron-Goldschlager Date: Fri, 09 Mar 90 20:53:46 EST At this opportunity I would like to introduce my latest work for all the Judaica librarians that are on the mailing list: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS IN JEWISH STUDIES, 1st edition (Dec. 1989). You can get a copy by contacting me (TS4132@OHSTVMA). Yossi Galron. 2) Women and Religion in Society From: ALLENS@ANNENRES.BITNET Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 11:07 EDT ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1990-91 Research Theme Women in Religion and Society NAME AREA OF RESEARCH BADRAN, Margot Egyptian Women in Late- Ford Foundation 20th Century Feminist and Cairo Fundamentalist Movements BAUER, Yehuda (S) Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, Hebrew Univ. 1933-1945 BOYARIN, Daniel Sexuality and Textuality: Bar-Ilan Univ. Woman and the Body in Talmudic Literature CASTELLI, Elizabeth The Gendered Body in Religious College of Wooster Ideology and Practice of Early Christianity DONESON, Judith The Jew as Female Figure in Hebrew Univ. Holocaust Films DOTAN, Aron (S) Saadia's Grammatical Works Tel-Aviv Univ. FRIEDMAN, Mordechai Polygyny in the Medieval Tel- Aviv Univ. Jewish Society within the Arab World FRYMER-KENSKY, Tikva Goddess Worship in the Ancient Reconstructionist Near East: An Analysis of Rabbinical College Sumerian and Akkadian Hymns GILMAN, Sander Shaping Psychoanalytic Theory: Cornell Univ. Racist Models of the Jew in the late 19th-Century and and Freud's Response JOSELIT, Jenna (S) Social History of Domestic YIVO Institute Culture of American Jewish Women, 1880-1950 KATZ, Steven (F) Comparative Study of Women Cornell Univ. in Situations of Persecution and Mass Murder, with par- ticular reference to the Holocaust MELAMMED, Renee (F) The Development of Converso Ben-Gurion Univ. Society: The Religion of Crypto-Jewish Women in 16th-Century Spain SHATZMILLER, Maya Social and Economic Activity Univ. of Western Ontario of Women and Jews in the Medieval Muslim West STEWART, Frank The Role of Women in Customary Ben-Gurion Univ. Law of the Sinai Bedouin WEISSLER, Chava Ashkenazic Women as seen Lehigh University through Tkhines literature _________________________ (F) = Fall semester only (S) = Spring semester only ------------------------- 3) Lectures 15 Mar 20:00 Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History (with the Jerusalem Municipality Dept of Cultural Affairs) held at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Prof. Lee-Shai Weissbach U of Louisville, Kentucky Unexplored Terrain: The Small Jewish Communities of France and America in the Modern Era Chair: Dr. Richard I. Cohen The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities guest lectures by members of the delegation from The Institute of Oriental Studies, Leningrad The USSR Academy of Sciences 15 Mar The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Givat Ram) The Institute of Advanced Studies (Hall 130) 16:00 Prof. M. A. Dandamayev Head, Dept of the Ancient Orient, IOS Ethnic Minorities and Religious Pluralism in Achaemenid Babylonia Chair: Prof. H. Tadmor (English) 17:00 Prof. Yu. A. Petrosyan Director, IOS Textological and Cultural Studies of the Manuscript Collections of the Institute of Oriental Studies Chair: Prof. Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (Russian, with English trans) 18:00 Dr. S. M. Yakerson Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Len The Jewish Book and its Role in the Development of Printing in the 15th Century Chair: Prof. M. Beit-Arie (Hebrew) 18 Mar 11:00 Haifa University Chair: Prof. G. Ben-Dor, Rector (Mt. Carmel, Senate Room, Eshkol Tower, Floor 29) Dr. I. Sh. Schiffman Senior Research Fellow, IOS Phoenician Society: Its Economy, Social Stratification, and Political System (Hebrew) Dr. V. L. Uspensky Secretary for International Relations, IOS The Struggle of the Mongols for Domination in Palestine in the 13th Century (English) From: "Lewis M. Barth" Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 15:21:56 PST 18 Mar 20:00 Jewish Studies Association of Southern California Steven Lowenstein University of Judaism "Does Religious Liberalism Lead to Assimilation? - The Crisis of Berlin Jewry 1770 - 1830" at home of Leila Bronner, 180 N. Las Palmas, Los Angeles. For further information call Bruce Zuckerman (213) 541-4573 or contact Lewis M. Barth, BARTH@USCVM. 4) Jewish Information and Communication Services From 29 Mar thru 15 Apr, Avrum Goodblatt will be visiting the US (East Coast), London and Paris, under the auspices of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (directed by Daniel Elazar), in order to research the future of Jewish Information and Communication Services. He will also be representing He'Asif, the project which includes this newsletter, now formalising a permanent relationship with an institution which will house it in the US. Among other functions, the institution will become the archive of the texts, information and software collected, and will lend its name to efforts to obtain support. Institutions or individuals who wish to be involved or who have suggestions are invited to contact Avrum and to arrange to speak with him or meet with him. Avrum can be reached currently at the following addresses: wwrmk@hujivm1.bitnet or avrum@ilncrd.bitnet