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Featured Student
Dorothy Fournet
Dorothy Fournet comes to CU from Cookeville, Tennessee and is pursuing a double major in English and Germanic Studies and hopes to graduate Spring 2011. Dorothy transferred from American University in D.C. and has found CU to be the "University experience I was looking for!" After graduation, she hopes to go on to law school after spending a year "seeing the world."
Dorothy decided to pursue a Certificate in Jewish Studies after she completed the Introduction to Jewish History class last semester. "I was enthralled and wanted to learn more about Jewish culture, society and religion."
"The are so many hard working, dedicated people associated with this program. I feel fortunate to be able to work with them and add this to my academic experience at CU."
Dorothy plans to spend next year studying abroad and specifically sought out a program at Freie University in Berlin because it offers Jewish studies courses. "I feel the Program in Jewish Studies really works to help students connect with similar programs around the world, making it an invaluable part of my University experience."
Consider a tax-deductible gift to the Program in Jewish Studies to ensure we can continue to support students like Dorothy achieve their goals.
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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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Best wishes from all of us in the Program in Jewish Studies for Passover.
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Faculty Updates...
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Naomi Gale, our visiting Israeli Schusterman scholar, has been busy delivering lectures and presentations about the political structure in Israel. She lead an after film discussion of a recent screening of the film, The Case for Israel, which was presented as part of CU's World Affairs Conference on April 6.
David Shneer will be moderating "A New Political Context for the Middle East" as part of the World Affairs Conference at CU on Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium. Panelists include Wendy Chamberlin, James Glanz, Azmat Hassan, Saad Ibrahim. For more information on the 61st Annual World Affairs Conference, visit www.colorado.edu/cwa.
An article David co-authored with Olga Gershenson, assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, entitled "From Russia with Lessons in Transnational Jewish Identity-Building" was featured in a recent issue of The Forward. Read the complete article here...
Professor Shneer also wrote an article entitled "Probing the Limits of Documentation: Writing About the Holocaust in the Soviet Union" that was recently published in Kritika: Studies in Russian and Eurasian History. Visit our website at www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies to read the complete article.
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The Program in Jewish Studies Hosts a week of events to Commemorate Yom HaShoah...
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Please join us together with the CU Art Museum, the Russian Department, Students for Israel, Hillel and the Boulder JCC for a week of events that commemorates Yom HaShoah or Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura (Remembrance Day for the Holocaust and Heroism). Yom HaShoah falls on April 21 this year and is recognized around the world as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945. We are excited to be able to host Alexandra Ilf, Russian scholar, editor and daughter of the famous Soviet writer Ilya Ilf, for two special lectures and visual presentations as part of this week.
The Other Side of Stalin's Moscow: The Private Life of Ilya Ilf and His Friends as Told by their Cameras
(in Russian - co-presented with the Russian Department at CU-Boulder)
Tuesday, April 21 at 5 p.m.
CU-Boulder Campus
Humanities 190
Russian photography of the 1920's and 1930's is most often seen either as exemplars of radical modernism or of staid socialist realism. But few have examined photography taken without the intention of publication. What does intimate space look like at a time when an entire country was being mobilized for the "building of socialism"? In this talk, Alexandra Ilf, independent scholar and daughter of the famous Russian writer, Ilya Ilf, will show what private life looked life for Ilya Ilf and a circle of influential Soviet intellectuals, many of whom were Jewish, as told through the eyes of their cameras.
Alexandra Ilf is a professional editor and translator. She has spent her life studying Ilf's and Petrov's literary archives for many years. Her published works include the complete text of Ilya Ilf's Notebooks (Text, 2002) and restored authors' versions of The Twelve Chairs (Text, 2001) and The Golden Calf (Text, 2002). She complied and prefaced One-Storied American and Letters from America (Text, 2003, 2004) and a book of correspondence, Ilya Ilf or Love Letters (Text, 2004). Her most recent works uncover the life story and work of her uncle, Aleksandr Fazini, who grew up in an Odessan Jewish milieu, moved to Paris to join the famous art circles of interwar France, and died in 1944 when much of French Jewry was sent to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Alexandra lives in Moscow and has a son who lives in Israel.
Aleksandr Fazini: Artist of the Paris School
(b. Odessa, 1893 - d. Auschwitz, 1944)
(in Russian with simultaneous English translation - co-presented by the CU Art Museum)
Thursday, April 23 at 6 p.m.
University of Colorado at Boulder campus
Fleming Law Building
Lindsley Memorial Courtroom, Room 155
Aleksandr (Saul) Finesilberg was part of a family of famous Russian Jewish intellectuals, who scattered across Europe in the interwar period. His brother Ilya Ilf became one of the most famous writers in Communist Moscow. Finesilberg changed his name in 1911, moved from his birthplace of Odessa to Paris in 1922, and joined the surrealist circle of Pablo Picasso. In this talk and visual presentation, Alexandra Ilf, his niece, will present the life and work of this little known Russian Jewish French modernist artist, who died in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Funding for this lecture is generously provided in part by the Goldberger Fund for Jewish Culture, the CU Art Museum Members and Benefactors, and the Arts and Culture Enrichment Fees (ACE Fees). For more information about this and other programs at the CU Art Museum, visit www.colorado.edu/cuartmuseum
Zev Weiss of the Holocaust Educational Foundation
Thursday, April 23 at 12:30 p.m.
University of Colorado-Boulder
Atlas 100
CU Professor Paul Shankman welcomes Zev Weiss, founder and president of the Holocaust Educational Foundation to his Spring 2009 anthropology course, The Holocaust. As a teenager Zev Weiss survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. He came to Canada after World War II, and eventually to the United States, where he has had a distinguished career as an educator. The Holocaust Educational Foundation is a private, non-profit organization established in 1980 by survivors, their children, and their friends in order to preserve and promote awareness of the reality of the Holocaust. Very limited seats are available for those not in this course - please RSVP to Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu
Screening of the film, Unsettled
with after-film discussion led by Professor David Shneer Thursday, April 23 at 8 p.m.
University of Colorado - Boulder
Hellems 252
The Program in Jewish Studies joins Students for Israel, Hillel and the Boulder JCC in a special on-campus screening of Unsettled, a story about religion and democracy, soldiers and civilians, and the kids on the front lines of a battle where there is no enemy.
When the Israeli government announces that it will withdraw from the Gaza Strip, it means lifeguards Lior, 21, and Meir, 27, will be forced to leave their home - Gaza's "Palm Beach" - forever. They and their surf posse could be characters on MTV's The Real World, but in the blink of an eye it becomes obvious that the danger is all too real. For Neta, 20, a religious filmmaker, the pullout plan sets off a desperate struggle to convince Israelis and the world that the withdrawal is a crime against God. Soldiers Yuval, 21, and Tamar, 20, must prepare for a mission against other Israelis, putting aside their own emotions to face angry protestors and the prospect of attacks. Ye'ela, 21, joins a cross-country tour in support of the withdrawal, even as she mourns a sister. For young Israelis, the summer of 2005 will change the meaning - and for some the very location - of home. David Shneer, director of the Program in Jewish Studies will lead a talk-back after the film.
All events are free and open to the public. For questions, please email Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143.
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New Course for Fall 2009...
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The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to be offering several new courses in conjunction with other CU academic departments for the Fall 2009:
The Heart of Europe: Filmmakers & Writers in the 20th Century
(GSLL/JWST33401-001)
Women, Gender and Sexuality in Judaism
(HEBR/JWST 3202-001)
Biblical Hebrew
(HEBR/JWST1030-001)
Jews Under Islam
(HIST/JWST4348-001)
Modern European Jewish History
(HIST/JWST4803-001)
Rosenzweig Seminar
(PHIL4800-002)
Visit our website, www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies, for the entire line-up of Jewish Studies courses for Fall 2009.
We are also offering both core Jewish Studies courses for the Summer term. Introduction to Jewish Culture (HEBR/JWST2350) is being taught during Maymester (May 11- May 29) and Introduction to Jewish History will be offered during session B (July 7 - Aug 7). Complete details are available on our website, www.colorado.edu/jewishstudiesInterested in auditing Jewish Studies courses? Please check with the professor for the class you are interested in auditing during the first week of class. Please also review our Auditing Policy at www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies. Questions? Contact Jamie.Polliard@colorado.edu or our offices at 303.492.7143. |
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Events Around Town..
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CU's 61st Annual Conference on World Affairs is underway, April 6-10. All events are free and open to the public, view the schedule at www.colorado.edu/cwa
Hillel at CU-Boulder is hosting a Passover Seder on Wednesday, April 8th at 6:30 p.m.. RSVP's are required - please visit www.hillelcolorado.org for more information.
Join Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and Hillel of Colorado for Colorado's Queer Seder on April 13th at 6 p.m. at the Merage & Allon Hillel Center at DU (2390 S. Race Street). RSVP required by noon Thursday, April 9th at events@jewishmosaic.org or call Jewish Mosaic at 303.691.3562 for more information.
The 8th Annual Chidush Awards - celebrating Boulder's Jewish Educators - is Sunday, April 19th at 7:30 p.m. The evening features Dr. Gabe Goldman, grandfather of Eco-Judaism and director of Jewish Experiential Education and Service Learning at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. To learn more, visit www.18pomegranates.org.
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