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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 1860s. 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 spoke on Israel education on campus at the Program in Jewish Studies salon on Thursday, June 4. The event was graciously hosted by Kathryn Bernheimer and Stan Kreis and provoked a lively conversation about the place of Israel education in the Jewish Studies curriculum. In addition to teaching an Anthropology course in the fall, Dr. Gale will be serving as a scholar in residence at CU's School of Law, teaching a course on Judaism and the law.
Zilla Goodman finished a successful Maymester course, Introduction to Jewish Culture and is currently working on a book manuscript on Jewish literature in diaspora. Goodman will be launching a new course in the fall titled, Women, Gender and Sexuality in Judaism, a key component to the Jewish Studies curriculum.
Robert Schulzinger joins the growing list of affiliated faculty in the Program in Jewish Studies. Named Professor of Distinction in the Department of History, he received his B.A. degree magna cum laude from Columbia University, and his Ph.D., from Yale University. He also studied at the London School of Economics. He has taught at CU since 1977. Bob is the author or co-author of twelve books and over sixty articles on the history of U.S. foreign relations and recent American history. Among his books are The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs: The History of the Council on Foreign Relation, Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975, and Present Tense: The United States since 1945. His book, A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War was recently published by Oxford University Press. Bob is a past-president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He has been the editor-in-chief of SHAFR's journal Diplomatic History since 2001. He was a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation from 1996 to 2005. He can be reached at Robert.Schulzinger@colorado.edu.
David Shneer will
be giving the keynote address, "Seeing the Holocaust from the Other
Side: Soviet Jewish Photographers, War and the Holocaust," at the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum's Belfer Next Steps conference, organized by
Carrie Olson and hosted at the University of Denver on Sunday, June 28
at 7 p.m. He will also be a scholar-in-residence June 14-26 at the
National Yiddish Book Center (www.yiddishbookcenter.org) teaching a course on Yiddish culture.
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Mid-summer nights events...
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Join the Program in Jewish Studies for special summer evenings with the Boulder JCC, the Colorado Music Festival, Maya Productions and the Curious Theatre.
Thursday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m.
The Colorado Music Festival presents
Jazz and the Orchestra
Bernstein:
Prelude, Fuge and Riffs
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess,
"A Symphonic Picture"
Copland: Symphony No. 3
Chautauqua Auditorium
900 Baseline Road
Boulder, CO 80302
David Shneer joins the Colorado Music Festival for a pre-concert lecture about the history of Jews and American music. Join Menorah at the Boulder JCC for a special post-concert reception. Tickets for the lecture, concert and reception are $54. Contact the Boulder JCC at 303-988-0121 or email kathryn@boulderjcc.org. Additional information available at www.coloradomusicfest.org
Thursday, July 9 at 7:30 p.m.Conviction
 Winner of the TheatreNetto Festival Prize in Tel Aviv
Curious Theatre Company1080 Acoma Street
Denver, CO 80204
Prior to its off-Broadway debut, Conviction will play a limited engagement in Denver. Directed by Jeremy Cole and Ami Dayan and featuring performances by Ami Dayan, Michael Shalhoub, Julie Rada and Robert Ham, Conviction is a true story of faith and forbidden love in the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition. In Franco's 1960s Madrid, an Israeli scholar is detained and questioned by a Spanish official for stealing a confidential Inquisition file. Together, the interrogator and the interrogated become drawn to the file's wrinkled yellow pages and unravel the ill-fated love affair between the converted Spainsh priest, Andres Gonzales (1456-1485) and his Jewish wife, Isabel.
Join Professor Shneer on Thursday, July 9 for a talk back on the play around issues of forbidden love and closeted identities. This performance is supported by the Program in Jewish Studies and Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
David Shneer will also participate in a panel on interfaith dialogue and the issues raised by the play on Saturday, July 11.
Conviction runs from June 25 through July 12. Tickets are available by calling The Curious Theatre at 303.623.0524 or on the web at www.curioustheatre.org. Additional information about this production is available at www.convictiononstage.com.
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Matching Fund Challenge Successful...
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Thank you to all the donors who helped us complete our matching funds challenge. We successfully raised $25,000 which was matched 100% by a generous anonymous donor. Special thanks to Richard and Eileen Greenberg for making the final gift that completed the challenge.
This $50,000 will be used to help bring our next visiting Israel studies scholar, Zach Levey, to develop Sephardic studies as part of the Jewish Studies curriculum at CU and to support our faculty's research in these times of university-wide budget cuts.
Thank you for helping us continue to build CU's Jewish Studies Program into a high-powered, internationally recognized program!
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Community Events...
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Join the Program in Jewish Studies at the 15th Annual Boulder Jewish Festival Sunday, June 7 from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. on the Courthouse Lawn and Pearl Street Mall. A one-day celebration of Jewish culture featuring community organizations, ethinic food, live entertainment and activities for all ages. Visit our booth and learn more about fall courses and our community collaboration for the 2009-2010 academic year, Radical Jews! For more information, visit www.boulderjewishfestival.org
 The Colorado Music Festival welcomes Galeet Dardashti & Divahn on July 28 at 7:30 p.m. Divahn's innovative all-female Middle Eastern ensemble infuses traditional and original Jewish songs with sophisticated harmonies, entrancing improvisations, nd funky arrangements. The Boulder JCC is hosting a pre-show catered Middle Eastern picnic dinner at 6 p.m. Tickets for dinner and the concert are $38 for reserved seating and $28 for general admission. Contact the Boulder JCC at 303.998.1021 or email kathryn@boulderjcc.org. Additional information about the Colorado Music Festival is available at www.coloradomusicfest.org.
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