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Featured Student
Kara Zucker
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Kara Zucker is from Phoenix, Arizona. She is a political science major, and will graduate in 2010.
Kara was excited to learn about the Certificate in Jewish Studies as she was "eagerly looking for educational opportunities that would allow me to learn about Jewish culture and contribute to my long-term personal and professional goals. I have always been interested in both the historical and cultural
aspects of Judaism and enjoy learning from the wide array of classes the Jewish Studies certificate has to offer."
Inspired by concepts of Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), Kara aspires to use her education to make the world a better place. This perhaps involves working in politics or for a non-profit organization - perhaps D.C. is in her future!
Consider a donation to the Program in Jewish Studies to ensure we can continue to help students like Kara achieve their goals.
Donations can be made online through the CU Foundation at
www.cufund.org/giveonline/other.php.
Be sure to specify Jewish Studies, thank you!
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Kol Mevaser - The Voice of Jewish Studies at CU-Boulder!
Kol Mevaser ('The Herald' in Hebrew and Yiddish) is named after the first regularly appearing Yiddish newspaper in Odessa, Russia in the 1860's. We aspire to live up to this name by bringing you the latest news in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado and beyond.
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Faculty Updates...
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Naomi Gale, our visiting Schusterman Scholar, will be serving as a FIRST scholar at the CU-Boulder Law School this summer. She will be teaching a course in Comparative Law: US & Israeli Legal Systems. To learn more about this program, please visit www.colorado.edu/law.
Janet Jacobs, Professor of Sociology and member of the Jewish Studies executive committee, recently presented a paper entitled Women, Violence and Memory: The Ethics of Feminist Ethnography in Holocaust Research. For more information, click here.
David Shneer, was recently quoted in an article by The Forward about the next US House of Representatives and the election of Jared Polis. To read more, visit www.forward.com/articles/14581.
The Program in Jewish Studies is proud to have its largest contingent attending the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference in the university's history. Zilla Goodman, Davide Stimilli, Janet Jacobs, David Shneer, and our program assistant Jamie Polliard will be presenting papers, networking with colleagues, and bringing the newest ideas back to Boulder. In addition, with the University of Illinois and Temple University, CU is co-hosting a blow-out bash at the conference, a "Yes We Can" party, at which Obama memorabilia will be auctioned off to raise money for graduate student fellowships for our respective programs. To learn more about the Association for Jewish Studies annual conference, visit www.ajsnet.org
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Jewish Studies Grows with Challenge Grant and You...
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The Program in Jewish Studies has recently been the recipient of a generous $25,000 Challenge Grant from an anonymous donor. For every dollar you donate, it will be matched 100% up to $25,000. This $50,000 will go directly to supporting our students and their education efforts by:
(1) helping us create new courses for our curriculum
(2) supporting students financially through scholarships and jobs
(3) supporting graduate students which will allow CU to compete with the highest ranked programs nationally like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton, and
(4) create new public education opportunities that provide an opportunity for the community to engage in the highest level of Jewish Studies.
This exciting challenge grant allows you to double the effect of your donation and will also reinforce CU-Boulder's commitment to building Jewish Studies into a high-powered, internationally recognized program.
Donations can be mailed to:
The CU Foundation
Attn: Mary McGee
1305 University
Boulder, CO 80302
Please indicate that you are giving in response to the Jewish Studies Challenge Grant. For questions, please contact Mary McGee at 303.541.1470 or via email at [email protected]
Watch for updates on our progress in upcoming newsletters...and thank you for helping us build Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder!
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Chancellor's Lecture Series welcomes Holocaust Survivor, Author, and Academy Award Winner, Gerda Weissman Klein...
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The Chancellor's Lecture series is proud to host Ms. Gerda Weissman Klein on Monday, December 8 at 10 a.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center (NE corner of Broadway and Euclid).
 Gerda Weissman Klein's lecture is based on a 1995 Emmy and Academy Award-winning documentary about her life. She will speak about her harrowing ordeal in Nazi labor camps and the love affair with the American G.I. whose heart she captured during the 1945 liberation of war prisoners.
This event is free and open to the public but carpooling is encouraged as parking is limited.
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Save these dates for the Inaugural Goldberger Week of Jewish Culture...
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The Program in Jewish Studies will host the inaugural week of Jewish Culture this coming January. Please join us for a week of events that is generously supported by the Goldberger Fund, in tribute to Rabbi Daniel and Ida Goldberger. All events are free and open to the public but RSVP's are required as space is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected] or at 303.492.7143.
 Wednesday, January 14 at 7:30 p.m.
1000 Years of Yiddish Performance: An Evening of Yiddish Culture with Jalda Rebling
The B-Side Lounge, 2017 13th Street, Boulder
Jalda Rebling is a Yiddish theatre actress and specialist in European Jewish music from the middle ages to the present. A cantor in the Renewal Judaism movement, she is the founder of Ohel Ha-Hidush in Berlin. Join us for an engaging evening of story and music with a modern Maggid!
Thursday, January 15 at 2 p.m.
Jewish Life in Today's Berlin
CU-Boulder Campus University Memorial Center Room 247
Jalda Rebling and Anna Adam (Berlin-based freelance artist and stage designer working on issues of German/Jewish coexistence) together with Professor David Shneer discuss Jewish life and culture in current day Berlin.
Tuesday, January 20 at 4 p.m.
**Jazz Age Jewish Vaudeville: Entertainment and Humor  with Ted Merwin
CU-Boulder Campus University Memorial Center Room 247
Ted Merwin directs the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life at Dickinson College and is the author of the critically acclaimed "In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture." Join Professor Merwin for a multimedia presentation about the birth of American Jewish pop culture during the Jazz Age. The Yiddish accented epicenter of New York City hosted such vaudeville greats as Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, and George Jewel who not only helped make Jews into Americans but also set the stage for today's outrageously funny Jewish entertainers like Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David and Jon Stewart. Professor Merwin's new book will be available for purchase at this event.
Saturday, January 24 at 7 p.m.
 **Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
CU-Boulder campus, ATLAS Center Auditorium, 1125 18th Street
Join us for a special film screening and discussion with Professor Caryn Aviv, Posen Lecturer in Secular Jewish Culture at DU's Center for Judaic Studies. While Jewish humor is part of the story of comedy in America, the contribution of Jewish women to laughter is less  widely acknowledged. Filmmaker Rachel Talbot sets the record straight in this documentary as four noted funny ladies - Judy Gold, Jackie Hofman, Cory Kahaney, and Jessica Kirson - chat about their craft and lend a framework to a celebration of iconic women in Jewish comedy and the influence of Jewish culture in American humor. This program is also presented in conjunction with Menorah at the Boulder JCC.
Sunday, January 25 at 4:30 p.m.
**An evening with Art Spiegelman, cartoonist for The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Maus
Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado - Boulder
Art Spiegelman is recognized as one of the most influential artists in the world of underground comics and graphic arts. His Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel, Maus, ushered in a period of change for the comics' genre with its masterful Holocaust narrative. This program is presented in conjunction with CU's Department of English and their exhibition Graphia: Comics, Graphic Novels, and the Humanities on the Front Range on display in the art gallery at the UMC from January 12-February 13. For more information on the exhibit, visit www.colorado.edu/umc/artgallery.
**Indicates events presented in conjunction with the year-long series Seriously Funny: Jews and Humor - a joint production of CU's Program in Jewish Studies and DU's Center for Judaic Studies. Presented with support from Rose Community Foundation and the Roots and Branches Foundation.
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What's happening around town...
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The National Jewish Yiddish Book
Center announces opportunities to live and learn Yiddish for six weeks this summer! The
Steiner Yiddish Summer Program runs from June 14-July 24, 2009 at the
National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
Intensive beginning and intermediate
Yiddish-language classes available.
Full-time
undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Each student
receives free tuition and credit for two undergraduate courses. Application Deadline: February 2,
2009
For more information visit, www.yiddishsummer.org.
Editors Wanted For New Activist Journal - a new activist journal on the CU campus is looking for students to serve as assistant editors with a background in editing, journalism/
writing/English majors, or persons interested in activist issues. They will be expected to contribute approximately two to four hours a week, which includes meetings. The managing editor can be contacted at [email protected]
ISIME, the Mizel Museum and the Boulder JCC are presenting Light from the Desert: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Concert with Yair Dalal, Naser Musa and Ty Burhoe. Concerts will be in Boulder on Saturday, December 6 at 8 p.m. (Old Main Chapel - CU Campus) and in Denver on Sunday, December 7 at
6:30 p.m.(Newman Center). For more information, visit www.isime.org.
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