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CU Graduate puts her Jewish Studies Certificate to work in Israel...
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Lindsey Zemler
is a recent graduate from the University of Colorado and the Program in Jewish
Studies. She is currently working abroad at the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies (AIES) in Israel as an Alumni Associate Intern. AIES is a
regional center for environmental leadership. By encouraging environmental
cooperation between peoples, the Arava Institute is working towards peace and
sustainable development on a regional and global scale. Living on a Kibbutz in the
Arava, about 40 minutes North of Eilat, Lindsey keeps busy by assisting with
field trips, classes and participating in peacekeeping seminars. Students have a unique opportunity to study and live together for an extended period of time. By living, learning and exploring together, students form friendships and develop skills that will enable them to lead the region in solving environmental challenges facing the Middle East and beyond through partnership and mutual understanding. Do you have a passion to make a difference?
Contact Kimberly Bowman at the CU Foundation to learn how your gifts can make a difference in the lives of our students. Kimberly can be reached at 303.541.1446 or via email at Kimberly.Bowman@cufund.org Thank you for your support!
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Faculty Updates...
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We are excited to welcome Dina Danon back to campus this fall.  She is teaching HIST/JWST1108 Introduction to Jewish History this semester and enjoying the contributions of a large class (100 students). Currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Stanford University, Danon's main area of research is modern Sephardi Jewry. Her dissertation,
which focuses on class conflict in the Jewish community of Izmir in the
late 19th century, was recently awarded the Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver
Memorial Fellowship through the Foundation for Jewish Culture. During
the summer of 2010, she participated in a research workshop for
emerging scholars on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience during the
Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,
D.C.
She recently delivered a paper at the "Sephardi Itineraries"
Conference at the Sorbonne in Paris, which was entitled "Abraham Danon,
1857-1925: The Life of an Ottoman Maskil."
The paper was published in 2010 in French. Additionally, she has
lectured on Ottoman Jewry at Touro College and the JCC of Manhattan,
and has written about Ladino for The Jewish Week.
Paul Shankman, Professor of Anthropology, recently gave a lecture on Margaret Mead at Elon University in North Carolina. The lecture was titled, "The Trashing of Margaret Mead: How Derek Freeman Fooled us all with an Alleged Hoax." This lecture was based on research conducted for his recent book, The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy, which examines one of the most notorious debates in anthropology.
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| | Movers: Do You Speak Jewish?...
| Movers, the community-wide collaboration, is back with a year-long exploration of Jewish culture and identity through language and literature. Join us throughout the Boulder/Denver area for performances, films, lectures, classes, panels, and more. Visit www.jewishmovers.org for details and calendars.
Movers: Speak Jewish? Teach-In & Launch with  Sarah Benor
Tuesday, September 28 @ 7 PM
University of Colorado
University Memorial Center RM 235
Boulder, CO
Free and open to the public but RSVP's are appreciated as space is limited. Please RSVP at www.jewishmovers.org
Is there such a thing as "American Jewish English"? If so, how does it compare and relate to Jewish languages of the past?
Join us for an interactive investigation of the question of Jewish language and identity with Professor Sarah Benor. Her introductory lecture will focus on the history of Jewish languages and some of their distinctive features. In the facilitated breakout groups that follow, participants will be given quotes and questions for discussion. The concluding session will examine American Jewish diversity, which is reflected and constructed in language.
Benor, Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College,
teaches about the social science of American Jews, as well as about
language and culture. Her research interests include Jewish languages,
American Jewish identity and culture, sociolinguistic variation, the
linguistic construction of identity, language contact, ethnography, and
Orthodox Jews. She is the founder, producer, and editor of the Jewish Language Research Website,
and she is the founder and moderator of the Jewish Languages Mailing
List. Her publications include "Do American Jews Speak a 'Jewish
Language'? A Model of Jewish Linguistic Distinctiveness" (Jewish
Quarterly Review) and "Jewish Languages" (Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics).
Lunch & Learn with Sarah Benor
Tuesday, September 28 @ Noon
CU's Hillel
2795 Colorado Avenue
Boulder, CO
Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required. Please RSVP to hanan@hillelcolorado.org or call 303.442.6571.
Shpiel, Mensch, and Bentsh: Echoes of Yiddish in Contemporary American English
Although
a large percentage of American Jews are descended from Yiddish
speakers, very few can converse in their ancestral language. Even so, the speech of Jews (and non-Jews) in early 21st-century America continues to exhibit significant influence from Yiddish, including words (e.g., bashert, keppie, bentsh, and daven)
and grammatical constructions (e.g., "She's staying by us," "What do I
know from that?"). In this lunch and learn program, Dr. Sarah Bunin
Benor (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles), will discuss these echoes of
Yiddish in American English. You will learn how language use varies
among older Jews, younger Jews, and those involved in religious spheres.
Special attention will be paid to new cultural forms, like Heeb Magazine and the recent film "The Hebrew Hammer." Lunch and beverages will be provided by Hillel, but RSVP's are required.
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| | Movers: Do You Speak Jewish?...Broadway Style
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Theatrical Liberalism: The Backstage Musical as Secular Judaism with Dr. Andrea Most
 Saturday, October 2 @ 7:30 PM
First Congregational Church
1128 Pine Street
Boulder CO
See below for registration details...
The American Music Research Center is presenting
the Sixth Triennial Susan Porter Symposium, October 2 & 3, 2010.
The topic is "Classic Broadway and Those Who Built It: Theatrical Work
of American Jews, African Americans, and First Generation Immigrants in
the 20th Century." Leading scholars in a variety of disciplines will
present papers and lead discussions about this interesting subject. The
keynote address "Theatrical Liberalism: The Backstage Musical as
Secular Judaism," will be presented at 7:30 PM by Andrea Most, Professor of English at University of Toronto. For a complete schedule and more information on registration click here, email lisa.bailey@colorado.edu or call 303.735.0237.
"An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood"
Sunday, October 2 @ 7 PM
Boulder JCC
3800 Kalmia Avenue
Boulder, CO
Cost: $8.00 Please RSVP to www.jewishmovers.org
Join us for a film and discussion on the fundamental irony of Hollywood in the early half of the 20th
century. Movies being produced that portrayed core American
values and ideas, yet run by Jews who themselves did not fit the
American ideal their films so aptly depicted, is the focus of this event. Just as Jews dominated
Broadway, they held a virtual monopoly on Hollywood, where these
immigrants reinvented American culture despite the fact that they felt
that they did not fit into the American mainstream. Based on Neal Gabler's best-selling book about movie moguls such as Paramount's Adolph Zucker, MGM's Louis B. Mayer
and Universal's Carl Laemmle, this documentary features
never-before-seen home movies, extensive clips and interviews with the
Jewish studio executives, theater owners, producers, writers, lawyers
and talent agents who controlled the American film industry until
shortly after WW II.
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| | Yiddish Reading Group Continues...
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Would you like to read some classic Yiddish stories, but don't know Yiddish? Or don't know where to start but would like to read something originally written in Yiddish? Or do you know Yiddish but wish you had someone to discuss it with? Our Yiddish reading group is continuing! Meetings will take place on Wednesday evenings throughout the semester from 6-8 PM in the University Memorial Center (UMC) on the CU-Boulder campus (campus map link):
Wednesday, September 22
UMC room 325
Wednesday, October 6
UMC room 325
Wednesday, October 20
UMC room 335
Wednesday, November 17
UMC room 381
Wednesday, December 15
UMC room 381
Contact Tamara Parker at mataar@earthlink.net for details. Tamara Parker studied Romance Literature at Harvard & Cornell. She has studied Yiddish at DU and the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and led various workshops on Yiddish Poetry from the 1920s.
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CU Art Museum Grand Opening Celebration...
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The CU Art Museum will host the Grand Opening Celebration on September 24. Grand opening ceremonies include open studio and area tours and musical and arts performances on the VAC plaza in conjunction with Arts & Culture week. A formal dedication will occur at 3:30 PM on the VAC plaza followed by the formal opening of the new CU Arts Museum. After the dedication, the College of Arts and Sciences will sponsor a campus community fiesta with food and music by a local salsa band. For more information, visit http://cuartmuseum.colorado.edu
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Events On Campus & Around Town...
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Truman Scholarship Informational Meeting - The Truman foundation is seeking juniors with exceptional leadership potential committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education, or other public service. This prestigious scholarship provides leadership training and up to $30,000 for graduate study. An informational meeting will be held on Sept. 22 @ 3 PM in Norlin S-421.
For details, email
Viles@colorado.edu or call 303.735.6801.
Goldwater Scholarship Informational Meeting -
Students interested in a career in math, natural sciences, or engineering are invited to apply for the Goldwater Scholarship, which pays up to $7,500 toward undergraduate tuition and other educational expenses. Students entering their junior or senior year in 2011-2012 are eligible if they have an excellent academic record and demonstrated research experience. An informational meeting will be held on Sept. 23 @ 3:30 PM in Norlin S-421. For details, email
Viles@colorado.edu or call 303.735.6801.
The Mizel Museum, Jewish Family Service and the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the University of Denver present the annual Babi Yar Memorial on Sunday, September 26 @ 11 AM. This annual memorial event honors the memory of those lost in the Babi
Yar Massacre in Ukraine from 1941-1943. Beautiful Babi Yar Park is the setting for the hour-long memorial, which will include speaker Dr. Sarah Pessin and Dr. Isabella Morozova and a short musical performance by Denise Gentilini. For more information, visit www.mizelmuseum.org or call 303.394.9993 ext. 104.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado will host an all-day Genealogy Seminar with Stephen Morse on Oct. 10 from
9 AM - 4 PM. Come to one lecture or spend the whole day! For more information, visit http://jgsco.org or email info@jgsco.org.
Lessons from the Jewish Concept Hineni is an Enrichment Program Class offered by DU's Center for Judaic Studies on the Jewish ethical notion of Hineni ("Here I am") at the core of the new Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site at DU. Learn what 'Hineni' means in the context of Buber's classic I and Thou philosophy, and learn what 'Hineni' means in Levinas' post-Holocaust teaching about the "infinite responsibility" each one of us has for the other. DU's Enrichment Class will be held on three Tuesdays in October: Oct. 12, Oct. 19, and Oct. 26 from 7-9PM. For more information, visit http://www.du.edu/bridges or call 303.871.2357.
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