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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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Caryn Aviv, our adjunct professor teaching Introduction to Jewish Culture this semester, was recently featured in The Forward, New York's The Jewish Week and the on-line blog Jewschool.com regarding the results of a recent survey she co-authored with Steven M. Cohen on LGBT inclusion and diversity in North American synagogues. In addition to teaching both at CU-Boulder and the University of Denver, Dr. Aviv serves as the Director of Research for Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity.
Naomi Gale, our visiting Israeli Schusterman scholar, has been busy delivering lectures and presentations about the political structure and recent election results in Israel. She will be leading the final class of the Boulder JCC series Women in the Muslim World this Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. The final film in this series is Kandahar. For more information, visit www.boulderjcc.org.
David Shneer presented Liberators: Soviet Jewish Photojournalists Confront WWII and the Holocaust at Ohio University on February 25. This lecture is based on his upcoming book that will be released Fall 2010.
He will also be a featured presenter at "Germany of All Places! Jewish-Russian Immigration to the Federal Republic" a conference presented by the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt on March 21-24. He will be presenting some of his recent research on global Russian speaking Jewry and the re-emergence of Jewish life in Berlin. To learn more about the conference, visit www.juedischesmuseum.de Read a recently published article in Pakn Treger on this subject matter, a publication of the National Yiddish Book Center, entitled "Doing Jewish in Today's Berlin."
David Valeta, instructor of Religious Studies, just released his new book, Lions and Ovens and Visions: A Satirical Reading of Daniel 1-6, available on Amazon.com.
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The Program in Jewish Studies Welcomes Sarah Pessin, the Emil & Eva Hecht Chair in Judaic Studies at DU...
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 Hineni, Here I Am: Jewish Notions of the Self with Professor Sarah Pessin
Thursday, March 12 at 4 p.m.
CU-Boulder Campus
University Memorial Center Rm. 247
The Program in Jewish Studies welcomes Sarah Pessin, the Emil & Eva Hecht Chair in Judaic Studies and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver for an engaging multi-media examination of the nature of self. Drawing upon writings of such prominent thinkers as Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Moses Maimonides, Professor Pessin examines the nature of the sacred core of self in God and in ethical encounters across Biblical source texts and medieval theological poetry.
Professor Pessin joined DU's Department of Philosophy and the Center for Judaic Studies in Fall 2004. In addition to serving as the current director for the Center for Judaic Studies, Sarah directs the new Holocaust project at DU which aims to re-invent Holocaust memorialization through the broadly humanist theme of "Tikkun Olam" (Repairing the World). Her research covers various topics in Jewish and Islamic philosophy, mysticism and poetry, Neoplatonisms, medieval philosophy, comparative philosophies of religion, as well as topics in health and healing and cross-cultural dialogue. She is interested in the nature of the sacred and its relation to inter-human engagement and response. She also is interested in the relationship between meditative and anxious modes of religious encounter, and existential issues related to the theme of humor.
RSVP's are appreciated, please email Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143.
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The Program in Jewish Studies Welcomes New Faculty...
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 The Program in Jewish Studies is honored to have been awarded a grant from The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise to support the appointment of Zach Levey as our Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Professor Levey received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1994. He has taught courses in international relations at the University of Haifa since 1997, and specializes in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli foreign policy and Great Power involvement in the Middle East. Professor Levey will be teaching courses in conjunction with the Program in Jewish Studies, the Department of Political Science and International Affairs throughout the upcoming academic year. He looks forward to exploring Boulder and Colorado with his wife and young son.
We are also excited to announce our first joint hire in conjunction with the department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literature, Robert Adler Peckerar. Professor Adler Peckerar  joins CU from the University of California at Berkeley where he earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. He concentrated on Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature and completed course work in Modern Standard and Levantine Arabic. He is a translator of Yiddish and Hebrew short fiction and poetry and also an avid watcher of television and film! Originally from Washington D.C., Professor Adler is looking forward to learning about Boulder with his partner Naomi and their five-year old son, Tomek.
Professor Adler Peckerar will be teaching Introduction to Jewish History (HIST1108/JWST1108-200) this summer (Session B , M-F 11-12:35 pm). His Fall 2009 line-up includes Introduction to Jewish Culture (HEBR2350/JWST2350-001) and a new course, The Heart of Europe: Filmmakers & Writers in 20th Century Central Europe (GSLL3401/JWST3401-001). Registration begins March 16 - watch our website for course information, www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies.
We look forward to welcoming both Professor Levey and Professor Adler Peckerar to Boulder this summer. Watch our emails and website for details.
Thank you to the many donors who have contributed to the $25,000 Challenge Grant that has helped make bringing the above faculty to the University of Colorado at Boulder a reality. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, every dollar donated to the Program in Jewish Studies is matched 100% up to $25,000.
To help grow this fund and support future faculty appointments in the Program in Jewish Studies, on-line donations can be made at www.cufund.org. Please specify "The Program in Jewish Studies" in the comment box. For questions or additional information on supporting the Program in Jewish Studies, contact Mary.McGee@cufund.org.
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Deadline for Sue & Barry Baer Scholarship March 13...
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The Program in Jewish Studies is accepting applications for the 2009 Baer Scholarship in Jewish Studies. $1000 is awarded annually to a student enrolled in the Certificate in Jewish Studies program. Application deadline is Friday, March 13, 2009. Visit our website, www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies, for complete application requirements or contact our offices at 303.492.7143.
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