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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.
Happy New Year from the Program in Jewish Studies!!
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Faculty Updates...
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Caryn Aviv, the Posen Lecturer in Secular Jewish Culture at DU's Center for Judaic Studies, will be serving as a Visiting Lecturer of Sociology and Israel Studies at CU this semester. She will be teaching Introduction to Jewish Culture. To learn more about the courses being offered this term, please visit our course listings on our website at www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies.
Naomi Gale, our visiting Schusterman Scholar, will be instructing a three-week companion class to the Women in the Muslim World program being presented by the Boulder JCC. This series begins January 31. To learn more, contact kathryn@boulderjcc.org
Due to popular demand for our Introduction to Jewish Culture course, Zilla Goodman, Senior Instructor of Hebrew and Coordinator of the Hebrew Language and Literature Program, will be teaching this during the summer session. This is one of the courses required to complete the Certificate in Jewish Studies. Interested in adding a Certificate in Jewish Studies to your degree? Visit our website for details at www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/courses.html
David Shneer was part of the educational team at the recent Limmud UK Winter Conference. Based in the UK, Limmud is a global leader in innovative, inclusive
Jewish education. Founded over 25 years ago, Limmud
provides high quality, innovative Jewish educational events for
thousands of Jews from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all
lifestyles, and all ages. Limmud Colorado returns Memorial Day Weekend 2009! To learn more, visit www.limmudcolorado.org.
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The Inaugural Goldberger Week of Jewish Culture is here...
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Please join us for a week of exciting, entertaining, and engaging events! With generous support from the Goldberger Fund, in tribute to Rabbi Daniel and Ida Goldberger, all events are free and open to the public but RSVP's are requested as space is limited. Please RSVP to Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu 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.
Professor Merwin will also be presenting a two-day Rimon Master Class in Jewish Studies at the University of Denver on January 21 and 22 entitled Breaking the (Stained) Glass: Intermarriage in American Jewish Comedy. For more information or to register for this Rimon class, visit www.du.edu/cjs or call 303.871.3020.
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 and a visiting professor of Sociology and Israel Studies at CU this semester. 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 presented in conjunction with Menorah at the Boulder JCC and DU's Center for Judaic Studies.
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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First faculty hire in Jewish Studies...
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Join the Program in Jewish Studies as we hear lecturers from two candidates for our first faculty hire as part of our open search for an Assistant Professor in Jewish Literature. These lectures will be held at 3 p.m. on January 21 and January 28. Both lectures will be held in the Atlas Building Room 229 on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus located at 1125 18th Street. Questions? Please contact Jamie Polliard at Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143.
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What's happening around town...
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The Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver welcomes poet, author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Peter Cole for a poetry workshop and public reading on January 15. Professor Cole's prize-winning translations of the Hebrew Golden Age poets have helped to recreate for contemporary readers the multifacted world of medieval Spain, in which Jewish artistic and intellectual communities flourished under Islamc rule. For more information, please visit www.du.edu/cjs.
Congregation Nevei Kodesh, Congregation Bonai Shalom, the Yesod Foundation and Menorah at the Boulder JCC are presenting an extraordinary celebration of spirit with pianist, songwriter and ethno-musicologist Richard Kaplan on Saturday, January 17 at 7:30 p.m. Richard's teachings and music include Turkish and Moroccan chantes, Sephardic melodies, Yiddish and Hasidic sacred songs and "Kabbalistic rap." To register or for more information, contact Kathryn Bernheiner at kathryn@boulderjcc.org or visit www.neveikodesh.org.
The Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver is accepting applications for the 2009 Dr. Irwin E. Vinnik Fellowship for Advanced Study in Israel. This scholarship provides fund to individuals who would benefit from educational travel and research in Israel. Applications must be received by February 13, 2009. For application requirements and additional details, visit www.du.edu/cjs
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