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CO M E AN D LE A R NJewish culture has long recognized the classroom as a specialplace—indeed a sacred place akin to the Temple. When the prophet Ezekiel spoke of a “little sanctuary” among the exiles, explains one rabbinic commentator, he was referring to houses of study. The core ofthe Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program (JSP), its holy of holies as it were, is the classroom. Our facultyis at the cutting edge of humanistic and social scientific research, in fields that include anthropology, linguistics, history,

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literary study, philosophy, and political science. In the classroom, they introduce their students to all these approaches, helping themto come to a deeper and more complex understanding of Jewish culture and experience. While our mission is a secular one, Inonetheless think of what my colleagues and I do in the classroom, the education of our students, as a kind of sacred activity, atremendous responsibility requiring great devotion, vigilance, and care.

What gives me great confidence in our ability to fulfill this responsibility is our outstanding faculty, including long-timeveterans widely recognized for their contributions to scholarship and the university, and new additions to our faculty. To focus onthe latter, in 2003-2004, we welcomed Dr. Mark Roseman as the Pat M. Glazer Chair of JS. Professor Roseman is internationallyrecognized for his scholarship on the Holocaust and post-war Europe, and is a riveting lecturer and engaging teacher, offeringimportant courses on the Holocaust and the history of antisemitism. We are also honored to welcome Dr. Susan Gubar as anadjunct faculty member. Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University (IU), Professor Gubar is renowned for her ground-breaking contributions to literary and feminist criticism, recently bringing her interpretive insight to bear on the Holocaust and theshadow it casts in Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. She is also recognized as one of the best teachersat IU.

Opportunities for our students will expand even more in 2004-2005. We have recently completed the search for the Jayand Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Modern Judaism, and we are delighted to welcome Dr. Shaul Magid to this position. A formerDean of the undergraduate program at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Dr. Magid will be teaching courses on Jewish mysticismand Hasidism, and other topics in religious studies. Also hired through the Department of Religious Studies for a position inmodern Western religious thought, Dr. Nancy Levene, formerly of Williams College, has remarkable expertise in modern Jewishphilosophy and will expand our offerings in this area in exciting ways. Dr. Miryam Segal is joining us as Assistant Professor ofHebrew language and literature. An up-and-coming scholar of Israeli and comparative literature, she will direct our Hebrewprogram and strengthen the literary side of our curriculum. All these scholars are immensely learned, creative, and intellectuallyalive, and their arrival opens up countless new learning opportunities for our students. The breadth and depth of our faculty’sknowledge, the vitality of their scholarship, and their commitment to promoting our student’s intellectual growth make the BornsJSP a dynamic center not just for the study of Jewish culture but for a superior liberal arts education.

Education does not thrive where there is too much self-satisfaction, however, and soeven with all the programs currently offered, I feel it is my obligation as director toremain dissatisfied, to continue to look for new ways to develop and support the learningthat happens here. In addition to putting the best teachers in the classroom, the Borns JSPis working to attract and support excellent students by raising funds for scholarships andinternships. Recognizing the whole world as a classroom, we seek to enrich our students’learning by using new overseas study programs and “service learning” to help them tomove from our lecture halls and seminar tables into the wider world. But while theproject of education requires continuous innovation and adaptation, our most importantfocus is the cultivation of what has always been most essential to great learning:committed teachers, engaged students, and the sacred bond between them.

Sincerely,

Dr. Steven WeitzmanDirectorIrving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and AssociateProfessor of Religious Studies

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Shaul Magid, Nancy Levene,Miryam Segal, Mark RosemanSH A U L MA G I DJay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chairin Modern JudaismShaul Magid, ascholar ofexceptional breathand interpretiveskill, assumed theJay and JeanieSchottensteinChair in ModernJudaism this fall.Professor Magidreceived his Ph.D.from BrandeisUniversity and untilthis year was Associate Professor of Jewishthought at the Jewish Theological Seminary(JTS) where he also served as Dean of theundergraduate program and as Chair of theDepartment of Jewish Philosophy. Dr.Magid’s research and teaching spans Jewishreligious experience and thought from theMiddle Ages to the present, particularlyHasidic Judaism, the subject of his Hasidismon the Margin published by the University ofWisconsin. His research also reaches intoother moments in Jewish history—to 16thcentury Jewish mysticism, the subject of hisnext book, and to modern Jewish theologianslike Mordechai Kaplan and Abraham JoshuaHeschel. Ordained as a rabbi throughYeshivat Ha-Mivtar in Jerusalem, ProfessorMagid has a deep commitment to textually-based reasoning as the source of a vibrantJudaism. He also has a deep engagement ininter-religious dialogue, sympatheticallyengaging Christian and Muslim thought in away that is very helpful at this time ofreligious tension.

We are deeply honored to have anendowed chair in JS in the names of Jay andJeanie Schottenstein. The Schottensteins havedemonstrated an unusually generouscommitment to Jewish education in thiscountry and in Israel and are the benefactorsof numerous schools, academies, anduniversities. Among their many remarkableprojects is the 72 volume SchottensteinEdition of the Babylonian Talmud (Mesorah).

NA N C Y LE V E N E

We warmly welcome Nancy Levene,Associate Professor of Modern Europeanand Jewish Religious Thought in theDepartment of Religious Studies and the JSP. Professor Levene received her Ph.D. fromHarvard University in 2000, and since thattime, has been Assistant Professor atWilliams College. Her research has focusedon the intersection of religion and politicalthought in the work of the great philosopher

Baruch Spinoza.Her most recentpublication isSpinoza’sRevelation:Religion,Democracy, andReason(CambridgeUniversity Press,2004). Futureresearch will

expand to otherfigures also on the border between Jewishand secular thought.

MI RYA M SE G A L

This fall, we are pleased to welcomeProfessor Miryam Segal, Assistant Professorof Modern Hebrew Literature and Languageand Comparative Literature. Dr. Segalreceived her Ph.D. in ComparativeLiterature from the University of Californiaat Berkeley last year. Her research focuseson Hebrew poetry and its interconnectionswith Israeli nationalism. The recipient of aFulbright Scholarship and many otherhonors, she is a highly successful teacher,having taught at the University ofPennsylvania, the Drisha Institute in NewYork, and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.She will be the Director of our HebrewProgram beginning in Fall 2005.

MA R K RO S E M A NHolocaust Historian AssumesPat M. Glazer ChairMark Roseman, a leading scholar ofGerman history and the Holocaust, joinedthe Borns JSP faculty as the Pat M. GlazerChair in JS in January 2004. ProfessorRoseman, who also is a member of theDepartment of History faculty, has emergedas a notable figure in the history of theHolocaust and of German history with thepublication of his two most recent books,which have received international acclaim.

His courses on the history of antisemitismand the Holocaust have already becomesome of the most popular at IU.

Professor Roseman’s appointment ismade possible by a major gift to the JSPfrom Jay and Marsha Glazer of Washington.

GA L A HO N O R S ALV I NRO S E N F E L DRosenfeld Chair in Jewish StudiesEstablishedThe many contributions of Professor AlvinRosenfeld,Director of theBorns JSP for 30years andcurrently Directorof its Institute forJewish Cultureand the Arts, werecelebrated at agala inIndianapolis onMay 17, 2004. Theevening, attended by 180 friends, familymembers, colleagues, and former students,from across the country, began with aperformance by noted chazzan AlbertoMizrahi. Tributes included presentations byRobert Borns, Leonard Goldstein, and DeanKumble Subbaswamy. Marie Harf, aDecember, 2003 graduate spoke on behalf ofProfessor Rosenfeld’s former students.

The evening ended with Professor StevenWeitzman’s announcement of theestablishment of the Alvin H. RosenfeldChair. Co-chairs for the gala were ClaudetteEinhorn and Gale Nichols; cosponsors withthe Borns JSP were Chancellor KennethGros Louis and Dean Kumble Subbaswamy.

Alvin Rosenfeld was also honored atFounders Day in February, 2004, as anexemplary faculty member receiving the W.George Pinnell Award for OutstandingService.

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Shaul Magid Nancy LeveneAlvin Rosenfeld

Establishing the Alvin H.Rosenfeld ChairIn 1999, Marsha and Jay Glazer establishedtwo endowed chairs in JS to honor Jay’sparents, Pat and Irving Glazer. In tribute toAlvin Rosenfeld, they also contributed half ofthe endowment of a third chair in his name,challenging the community to raise the otherhalf. In response, Leonard Goldstein,president of the Borns JSP Advisory Board,formed a committee with Irving Glazerserving as honorary chair. Because of theleadership and tenacity of Irving Glazer andLeonard Goldstein, the hard work ofcommittee members Ruth Feinberg, JuneHerman, Bobbi Kroot, Sybil Mervis, andFrank Newman, the generosity and continuedinitiative of Jay and Marsha Glazer, and thegenerosity of community members, theendowment campaign was completed.

The establishment of the Alvin H.Rosenfeld Chair in JS ensures that ProfessorRosenfeld’s name will always be associatedwith the program he developed. It alsoprovides a very important tool to sustain theexcellence of the program.

We are greatly indebted to Jay andMarsha Glazer, Irving and Pat Glazer, andthe rest of the Glazer family for their vision,generosity, and effort in securing theestablishment of the Rosenfeld Chair.Leading the response to the Glazers’challenge were the following individuals:

Robert and Sandra BornsTheodore Cohn and Dr. Alice Ginott CohnLeonard and Rikki GoldsteinHart and Simona HastenLouis and Sybil MervisGerald and Dorit PaulSara I. Reuben and the Reuben FamilyFoundation, Inc.

Martin and Helen SchwartzCindy Simon Skjodt and Paul SkjodtJeff Smulyan made in memory ofSamuel Smulyan

Natalie Smulyan made in honor ofSamatha Smulyan

Their generosity took us a long waytoward completing the endowment, but itrequired the community as a whole to makethe chair a reality. We are also extremelygrateful to the following individuals and

organizations for their generouscontributions.

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Professor James AckermanLawrence and Carol AdelmanProfessors Robert Agranoff andSusan Klein

Professor Edward andLeah Alexander

Dr. Annette Alpert andProfessor Darrell Haile

Steven and Sorelle AncelProfessor Judith AndersonStephen BackerProfessors Joëlle Bahloul andMarshall Leaffer

Dr. Richard Balaban and Julie BloomEugene and Nancy BateProfessor Robert and Karen BeckerProfessor Joseph and Marge BelthLeonard and Alice Berkowitz Mildred BernSol and Toby BlickmanJoseph and Wilma BorinsteinDrs. Myles and Peg BrandNancy Brand and Eric HolmProfessor Yuri and Lucia BregelDonald and Marilyn BreiterDr. Peter and Susan CahnDr. Louis Calli andAnn Marie Thomson

Thomas Clancy and Dana GreenCharles and Karen CohenRonald and Nancy CohenProfessor Eli and Rachel EbanDr. Charles and Myra EchtProfessor Thomas and Ellen EhrlichDr. Lawrence and Claudette EinhornBenjamin and Sharon EisbartYosh EisbartProfessor Paul and Lana EisenbergJames and Patricia EkArnold* and Dr. Ruth FeinbergProfessor William andHarriet Fierman

Betty FleckFort Wayne Jewish FederationProfessor Steven and Karen FranksProfessor Maurice andBarbara Friedberg

Rabbi Herbert FriedmanDr. Edward and Phyllis GabovitchMichael and Rachel GarmisaProfessor Sheldon and Bakol GellarCynthia GlazerLindsay GlazerWinifred Goldblatt-SilbermanAlan and Caron GoldsteinDrs. Gerald and Marcia GoldstoneHon. Evan and Lynda GoodmanProfessor Jesse Goodman andDona Naeser

Thomas and Janice GoodmanPaula GordonRabbi Irving “Yitz” andBlu Greenberg

Chancellor Kenneth Gros LouisJohn and Rita GrunwaldFrances Hackett

Marie and Jane HarfDr. Robert and Ann HarmanJune HermanStanley HermanMr. and Mrs. Thomas HermanDr. Roger and Francine HurwitzMartha JacobsProfessor Bruce and Lea JaffeeJewish Federation ofGreater Indianapolis

Valerie JosephProfessor Michael Kaganovich andElla Liderman

Professor Irving KatzIrwin KatzProfessor Stephen and Eileen KatzMr. and Mrs. Barton KaufmanProfessor Dov-Ber andRoberta Kerler

Professor Idalene Kesner andPaul Robins

John KingRose KrakovitzThomas and Farah KramerArthur and Bobbi KrootMartin and Natalie KrootSidney and Judy LaikenG. Irving “Bud” LatzCarolyn LeedsProfessor Matthias Lehmann andMiriam Mora-Quilon

Professor Bernard LevinsonSeymour and Betty LichterDr. Carolyn Lipson-Walker andGeorge Walker

Amelia Cook LurveyAndrew and Professor Jane MallorThomas and Flo Mary MantelProfessors Herbert Marks andPerry Hodges

Michael B. and Illene MaurerHerbert and Linda MelroseDrs. John and Daisy MereyDavid and Beth MerkesMerrill Lynch Perry and Nancy MetzJason and Lindsey MintzSidney and Sharon MishkinProfessor Breon and Lynda MitchellMarvin and Susan MitchellShakir Mustafa andNawal Nastrallah

Joan NewFrank and Dorothy NewmanLeonard and Louise NewmanDaniel and Gale NicholsProfessor Mitchell and Judith NovitDr. Bernard and Renee OppenheimProfessor Aviva Orenstein andDavid Szonyi

Professor Eloise Paul and Bill LeeArthur and Sondra PercyDrs. Mark and Ora PescovitzRabbi Aaron PetuchowskiM. Mendel and Frances PiserJoshua and Robyn Plaskoff

Professor Henry and Ingrid RemakDr. Sydney RomeA John and Judith RoseProfessor Mark RosemanProfessor Michael RosenblumProfessor Gavriel Rosenfeld andDr. Erika Banks

Dr. Leonard and Phyllis RosenfeldProfessors Sidney andStella Rosenfeld

Mr. and Mrs. Donald RothbaumMr. and Mrs. Andy RubensteinGordan RubensteinJeffrey and Susan RubensteinDr. and Mrs. Marc RubensteinSidney and Sarah SakowitzProfessor Scott and Ruth SandersRabbis Dennis and Sandy SassoProfessor Phillip andNancy Saunders

Robert and Alice SchlossJack and Sherron SchusterHarry SebelDr. Paul ShapiroDella ShereDr. Reuben and Leona ShevitzNorman SiderDr. Martin SiegelDr. Bruce and Carole SilversteinCurtis and Judy SimicDeborah SimonProfessors Martin and Dina SpechlerProfessor Murray and Anita SperberGary and Anne SteigerwaldMonique StolnitzDyan SublettDr. Lawrence and Sandi TavelProfessor Roger andClaudette Temam

Adam and Sara TennenProfessor Hava Tirosh-SamuelsonJami TrockmanStanley and Sandra TrockmanSidney and Charlene TuchmanProfessor Jeffrey andRebecca Veidlinger

Dr. Myron and Myrna WeinbergerGisela WeiszProfessor Steven Weitzman andRabbi Mira Wasserman

Dr. Mark and Linda WisenWalter and Joan WolfAllen and Roberta WurzmanDaniel and Beth Zweig

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Contributors to the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair

MI C H A E L MO R G A NChancellor’s ProfessorMichael Morgan was named a Chancellor’sProfessor, an award given to faculty memberswho have achieved local, national, andinternational distinction in both teaching andresearch/creative activity. Professor Morgancame to IU in 1975, became Professor ofPhilosophy and JS in 1990, and wasAssociate Dean of the Faculties from1994–1996. He is an historian of philosophyand Jewish religious thought. He haspublished extensively in ancient Greekphilosophy, early modern philosophy, andtwentieth century philosophy and intellectualculture. Professor Morgan is an expert on thework of the late Emil Fackenheim, one of themost important twentieth century Jewishphilosophers and the preeminent post-Holocaust Jewish thinker, and he haspublished extensively on the impact of theHolocaust on Jewish thought, Westernculture, and philosophy. His most recentwork is on the twentieth century Frenchphilosopher Emmanuel Levinas. ProfessorMorgan has written and edited eleven booksand published over one hundred articles andreviews.

HE N RY FI S C H E L’S 90T HBI RT H D AY CE L E B R AT E D

Beloved Emeritus Professor Henry Fischelwas honored with a surprise 90th birthdaycelebration at Meadowood RetirementCommunity on November 20, 2003. Hostedby Henry’s nephew Bob Newhouser and theBorns JSP, the party honored a belovedmember of the JSP’s faculty.

Fischel’s former student Barry Ivker (B.A.1964, Ph.D. 1968) wrote in the IU AlumniMagazine: “Dr. Fischel is a world-renownedscholar—a scholar’s scholar, whose seminarswere frequently attended by professors andchairpersons in associated fields. He wascapable of tracking a metaphor through the

poetry of the entireMediterranean basin or agrammatical irregularitythrough a dozen or morearchaic languages. I was mostimpressed, in the 1960s andupon a recent visit, with hishumility, his thoroughness,his critical mastery of thefield, his quiet wit, hisdevotion to family—his basichumanity.”

INSTITUTE FORJEWISH CULTUREAND ARTS

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The establishment in 2003 of an endowedfaculty position, the Lou and Sybil MervisChair in Jewish Cultural Studies, representsa highly significant moment in the field ofJS, leading the way in the effort to exploreand raise awareness about what Jews havecontributed to American culture, art andentertainment—theater and drama, humor,music, film, literature, radio and television,and the visual arts. The scholar/teacherrecruited for this new faculty position willmake possible an array of new courses forour students that will engage them in thevibrant world of art and culture. It will alsoallow the JSP to develop partnerships withthe outstanding creative arts schools andprograms that exist at IU: one of the world’slargest and best music schools; an excellentschool of fine arts; an admirable artmuseum; a leading department ofethnomusicology; a fine theater and dramadepartment, with a state-of-the-art theaterfacility; and first-rate literature and film

studies departments. Together with theInstitute for Jewish Culture and the Arts andthe highly successful Dorit and Gerald PaulLecture Series in Jewish Culture and theArts, the Mervis Chair in Jewish CulturalStudies will make the Borns JSP a majorcenter for the study and appreciation ofJewish creative expression.

We are very grateful to Lou and SybilMervis for making this exciting opportunitypossible. Lou Mervis, of Danville, Illinois,has been a longtime member of the JSP’sAdvisory Board. A 1956 IU graduate, Louwas a Business major and a member of theBoard of Aeons, Student Senate vicepresident, and a Little 500 Rider. TheMervises have been key figures in the Jewishcommunity and arts community of Danville.Their strong interest in education hasbrought them to support opportunities forstudents who otherwise might not have goneon to higher education.

ST O L L M A N, GO L D S T E I N,AL B E R S T E I N, L I B E S K I N D

The Institute for Jewish Culture and theArts, established by the Borns JSP last yearwith Professor Alvin Rosenfeld as itsdirector, will bring two of the most giftedAmerican Jewish authors of this generationAryeh Lev Stollman and Rebecca Goldsteinand famed Israeli musician Chava Albersteinto IU this year.

ARY E H LE V ST O L L M A N

Aryeh Lev Stollman will be at IU fromMarch 29-31, 2005. Stollman, the firstrecipient of theChaim PotokLiterary Award, isrecognized for hiselegiac prose, hisdeftcharacterizations,and his knowledgeof Jewish cultureand history. Hisfirst novel, TheFar Euphrates isan AmericanLibrary Association

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Aryeh Lev Stollman

Notable Book of 1997 and a Los AngelesTimes Book Review Recommended Book ofthe Year. His second novel, The IlluminatedSoul, was the winner of HadassahMagazine’s 2003 Harold U. Ribalow Prize.

Dr. Stollman is currently a neuroradio-logist at Mount Sinai Medical Center anddivides his time between medicine andwriting fiction.

RE B E C C A GO L D S T E I N

Rebecca Goldstein is the author of fivenovels, including The Mind-Body Problem,and a collection of short stories, StrangeAttractors. Her fourth novel Mazel whichfollows three generations of Jewish women,won the 1995 National Jewish BookAward. Her forthcoming book is on Göedland she is completing another book onSpinoza.

In 1996, Goldstein was named aMacArthur Foundation Fellow. She holds aPh.D. in philosophy from PrincetonUniversity, where her work was concentratedin the philosophy of science. She teaches atTrinity College in Connecticut.

CH AVA AL B E R S T E I N

Israel’s most accomplished singer, ChavaAlberstein, will perform at 7:30 p.m. onTuesday, March 1, 2005, at Bloomington’sBuskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. KirkwoodAvenue. Alberstein has released 40 albums inHebrew, six of which have been awarded theKinor David Prize, Israel’s Grammy. She hasalso released 6 albums in Yiddish. The much-

anticipated concert is sponsored by the JSP’sInstitute for Jewish Culture and the Arts andthe Lotus World Music Festival. Ticketinformation will be available at (812) 336-6599 or www.lotusfest.org.

UN F O R G E T TA B L E EV E N I N GW I T H DA N I E L LI B E S K I N D

Famed architect Daniel Libeskind presentedthe Dorit and Gerald Paul Program in JewishCulture and the Arts, the inaugural event ofthe new Institute for Jewish Culture and theArts of the Borns JSP, to an overflowaudience in Whittenberger Auditorium onMonday, March 1, 2004. Known for hisdesign of the Jewish Museum in Berlin,Libeskind spoke movingly about the“commission of the century”—his design torebuild the World Trade Center sitedestroyed by terrorists on September 11,2001. Libeskind’s plans call for a 1,776 foothigh Freedom Tower, the world’s talleststructure, a memorial site, new streets, a newrail station, a shopping area, and artscenters. The first architect to be given theHiroshima Art Prize for work that promotespeace, he is determined in his vision to createspaces that are positive responses to thebrutalities that surround us all.

A simultaneous webcast of thememorable lecture was broadcast to BallState University, Purdue University, and tothe overflow audience in the GeorgianRoom of the Indiana Memorial Union.

PROGRAMSDENNIS ROSS TO SPEAKOctober 20, 2004Ambassador Dennis Ross will deliver a JSPlecture on the Middle East peace process onthe afternoon of Wednesday, October 20 inBloomington. A highly skilled diplomat,Ambassador Ross played a leading role in

shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle Eastpeace process and in dealing directly with theparties in negotiations in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.

Director and Ziegler DistinguishedFellow at the Washington Institute forNear East Policy, Ambassador Rossworked closely with Secretaries of StateJames Baker, Warren Christopher, andMadeleine Albright. Prior to his serviceas special Middle East coordinator underPresident Clinton, Ross served as directorof the State Department’s Policy Planningoffice in the first Bush administration. Inthat position, he played a prominent rolein developing U.S. policy toward theformer SovietUnion, the

unification ofGermany and itsintegration intoNATO, armscontrolnegotiations, andthe developmentof the 1991 GulfWar coalition.

AmbassadorRoss has publishedextensively on theformer Soviet Union, arms control, and thegreater Middle East. His book, The MissingPeace, a comprehensive look at the MiddleEast peace process, was published this fall.

MI C H A E L BR E N N E RRE T U R N S T O IU2004 Dorit and Gerald Paul LecturerWe welcome back Dr. Michael Brenner todeliver the 2004 Dorit and Gerald PaulProgram for the Study of Germans and theJews. He will speak in Indianapolis onSeptember 7 on “100 Years After Herzl:Zionism asInternationalNationalism,”and, inBloomington, onthe evening ofSeptember 8, on“The SameHistory is Not theSame Story: JewishHistory andJewish Politics”.

A professor ofJewish history and

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(Left to right) Daniel Libeskind, Gerald Paul, Dorit Paul

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culture at the University of Munich, he hastaught at Brandeis University and was avisiting professor at IU in 1993–1994. Hisbooks include After the Holocaust:Rebuilding Jewish Lives in PostwarGermany; The Renaissance of Jewish Culturein Weimar Germany; and the co-editedGerman-Jewish History in Modern Times,winner of the 1997 National Jewish BookAward in Jewish history.

The Paul Program for the Study ofGermans and Jews was established in 1986by Dorit and Gerald Paul of Indianapolis tofoster ongoing scholarly research into thecomplex interrelationships between Germanhistory and Jewish history. Former PaulFellows include Professor Johann N. Schmidtof Hamburg University, Professor MichaelBrocke of the Free University of Berlin,Professor Micha Brumlik of the University ofHeidelberg, Professor Frank Stern ofBen–Gurion University, Professor GertrudKoch of the Ruhr University, Bochum,Professor Dieter Lamping of the JohannesGutenberg University of Mainz, ProfessorAmir Eshel of Stanford University, and AlanBern, musical director of Brave Old World.

The Borns JSP has noted with concern thereemergence of antisemitism in Europe andelsewhere. Some of our programs addressthis troubling phenomenon.

HO L O C A U S T SC H O L A RDE B O R A H LI P S TA D TBlock Scholar in February 2005

ProfessorDeborahLipstadt, theDorot Professorof ModernJewish andHolocaustStudies at EmoryUniversity, willdeliver theEdward A. BlockLecture in JS,“History onTrial: My Daysin Court with

Holocaust Denier David Irving,” onThursday evening, February 24, 2005. TheDirector of the Institute for JS at Emory, shewill speak about winning a decisive libeltrial in London against David Irving whosued her for calling him a Holocaust denier

and right wing extremist. Her book Denyingthe Holocaust: The Growing Assault onTruth and Memory, is the first full-lengthstudy of those who attempt to deny theHolocaust.

Professor Lipstadt serves as historicalconsultant to the U.S. Holocaust MemorialMuseum and helped design the section of themuseum dedicated to the American responseto the Holocaust. Her book Beyond Belief:The American Press and the Coming of theHolocaust examined how the American presscovered the news of the persecution ofEuropean Jews between 1933 and 1945.

Professor Lipstadt continues adistinguished series of Edward A. BlockFellows who have visited the JSP since 1985:Primo Levi, Simon Schama, SaulFriedländer, Arthur Green, Zvi Gitelman,Dan Segre, Robert Alter, Robert Wistrich,Emil Fackenheim, Michael Walzer, ShulamitVolkov, Ezra Mendelsohn, Shaye Cohen,Lawrence Schiffman, and Steven J.Zipperstein.

GO T T F R I E D WA G N E R“From Richard Wagner to Adolf Hitler”Dr. Gottfried Wagner, a writer, composer,music theater director, and great-grandson ofcomposer Richard Wagner, will speak onTuesday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m., about hisgreat-grandfather’s fiercely antisemitic viewsand ways to view Wagner, the composer, inthe future. Gottfried Wagner is the author ofThe Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveilingof a Family’s Legacy. Gottfried Wagner iscurrently working on an opera with YehudaNir, based on Nir’s memoir titled “The LostChildhood.” The work brings together asurvivor of the Holocaust and a Nazidescendant in an attempt to confront theGerman descent into genocide.

“TH E JE W I S H EX P E R I E N C E O FMO D E R N GE R M A N Y”ST U D E N T ST U D Y TO U RBridge of Understanding, May, 2005Fifteen IU JS major and area certificatestudents will accompany Professor MatthiasLehmann to Germany for two weeks in May2005, sponsored by the Bridge ofUnderstanding, the IU Overseas StudyProgram, and the Borns JSP. The goal of theprogram will be to give students a uniqueopportunity to learn about the German-Jewish experience through direct interactionwith Germans, Jewish and non-Jewish.

Prior to the trip, the students will learnabout German–Jewish history in a series ofclassroom meetings with Professor Lehmann.Our students will have an opportunity tomeet and interact with scholars of German–Jewish history during seminars held incooperation with JS programs at Germanuniversities; students will meet represen-tatives of Jewish life in Germany and theirpeers at German universities.

Bridge of Understanding was initiated in1994 by the coordinator for German-American cooperation at the German ForeignOffice and is supported by the GermanForeign and Economic Affairs Ministries.

ST E V E N ZI P P E R S T E I N2003 Block Lecturer“A Passion and a Conception of the World:On Rereading the Protocols of the Elders ofZion” was the theme of Professor StevenZipperstein’s 2003 Edward A. Block Lecturein JS on Monday, November 10, 2003. He isthe Daniel E. Koshland Professor in JewishCulture and History, and Co-Director of theTaube Center for JS at Stanford University. Aprolific scholar, among his most recent booksare Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am; ImaginingRussian Jewry; Origins of Zionism, whichwon the National Jewish Book Award; and,The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History,1794-1881, the winner of the Smilen Awardin Jewish History. He edits (with AronRodrigue) Jewish Social Studies, a journalpublished by IU Press.

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Marci Shore and Steven Zipperstein

AN T O N Y PO L O N S K Y

Antony Polonsky, a distinguished scholar ofthe Holocaust and the history of PolishJewry, spoke about “Poles, Jews, and theProblems of Divided Memory” on March26, 2004. He holds the Albert AbramsonChair of Holocaust Studies, an appointmentheld jointly at Brandeis University and theU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. His visitwas sponsored by the Polish Studies Centerand the Borns JSP.

“TH E NE W AN T I S E M I T I S M”The 11th Joan and Samuel NewInstituteThe well-attended 2004 Joan and SamuelNew Institute for the Study of Judaism andthe Jews on the theme, “The NewAntisemitism” convened at University PlaceConference Center and Hotel on the IUPUIcampus in Indianapolis on Sunday, April 25,2004.

JSP faculty members Joëlle Bahloul,Alvin Rosenfeld, and Jeffrey Veidlingeraddressed the alarming upsurge ofantisemitism in Europe and elsewhere inrecent years. Borns JSP Director StevenWeitzman opened the Institute andmoderated the closing panel discussion.

Through the New Institute, the JSPcontinues its longstanding tradition ofcontributing to ongoing, high-levelcommunity-wide education. As a result of agenerous gift from Joan New, of Elkhart,Indiana and Scottsdale, Arizona, and thelate Samuel New, the JSP regularly offers a

seminar on Judaism and theJews. The New Institute offerscommunity members anopportunity to engage inintensive study of major issuesin Jewish history, thought, andculture with members of theJSP faculty. The next Borns JSPNew Institute in Spring 2006will focus on Jews and the arts.

Recent events have illustrated theimportance of religion in shaping our world.The following programs focus on the role ofreligion in Jewish life, past and present.

NO T R E DA M E’S GA RYAN D E R S O N T O SP E A K

Professor Gary Anderson, Professor ofTheology, Old Testament/Hebrew Bible atthe University of Notre Dame, will deliver alecture “On Seeing the Invisible God: TheTabernacle Furniture TheologicallyConsidered” on March 28, 2005.

Professor Anderson’s research interestsconcern the role of ritual and sacrifice inbiblical religion, the reception of the Bible inearly Judaism and in Christianity, and thetheological task of relating modernapproaches to the study of biblical texts tothe tradition of the church. He has hadparticular interest in the way apocryphaland pseudepigraphic texts, as well as earlyChristian and Jewish art, can be used assources for early biblical commentary. Hehas recently completed a book on earlyJewish and Christian interpretations of the

story of Adam and Eve, The Genesis ofPerfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish andChristian Imagination. He is currentlyworking on a commentary on Leviticus.

LE V I N A S A N D WI T T G E N S T E I NBorns Faculty Research WorkshopTraditionally, Jewish scholarship has been acooperative enterprise, with a strong oral aswell as written dimension. The Borns JSPsees academic scholarship similarly.Individual research can be facilitated andadvanced by consultation and intensivediscussion among experts in a given field.Toward that end, the Robert A. and SandraS. Borns Endowment supports regularfaculty workshops chaired by JSP facultymembers.

“Levinas and Wittgenstein,” a workshopco-sponsored with the Departments ofPhilosophy at IU and the University of NotreDame, was convened on October 26-28,2003, by JSP Professor Michael Morgan andProfessor Paul Franks, of the University ofNotre Dame. The central themes of theworkshop, which brought scholars to IUfrom around the U.S. and from England,focused on ethics, religion, and the limits oflanguage. Presenters included Steven Affeldt,David Cerbone, Alice Crary, SimonCritchley, Simon Glendinning, Gary Gutting,

Jeffrey Kosky, Michael Morgan,Joshua Shaw, Joan Weiner, andEd Witherspoon.

CONFERENCE ON “THERELIGIOUS SELF INANTIQUITY”September, 2003A September 2003 conference on“The Religious Self inAntiquity,” initiated by ProfessorSteven Weitzman, ProfessorDavid Brakke of the Departmentof Religious Studies, and

Professor Michael Satlow of BrownUniversity, featured such widely recognizedscholars in the fields of biblical studies,rabbinics, ancient Christianity, and paganreligions as Georgia Frank, Bert Harrill,

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New Institute faculty and participants

Levinas and Wittgenstein conference participants

“FA I T H A N D PO L I T I C S :EL E C T I O N 2004”Inaugural Julian ProgramExcerpts from the inaugural Bill and FrancesJulian Program for Inter- and Intra-FaithUnderstanding “Faith and Politics: Election2004,” on April 1, 2004, were later aired onNational Public Radio. Frances and the lateBill Julian endowed this annual JS programdesigned to promote dialogue andunderstanding between religious communitiesand among different forms of Judaism.

The Undergraduate Religious StudiesAssociation (URSA) with advisor CarolineDowd-Higgins and the Jewish StudiesStudent Association (JSSA) organized a paneldiscussion which brought together ProfessorDaniel O. Conkle, the Robert H. McKinneyProfessor of Law; JSP alumna LindseyBarton Mintz, Director of GovernmentAffairs for the Indianapolis Jewish

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Esther Menn,Patricia Cox Miller, Saul Olyan, Jonathan Schofer, Alan Segal, Ben Sommer,Guy Stroumsa, Peter Struck, and EdwardWatts. Fourteen papers considered theinterior or subjective religious experience ofancient Jews, Christians, and pagans.Conference essays will be published by IUPress as a book tentatively titled, SeekingSelves in Ancient Religion. The conferencewas supported by the IU Arts andHumanities Initiative and the Robert A. andSandra S. Borns JSP Endowment.

IS A I A H GA F N I DE L I V E R E DHE L E N A N D MA RT I NSC H WA RT Z LE C T U R E S“Past and Present in RabbinicLiterature”Isaiah Gafni, the Sol Rosenbloom Professorof Jewish History at Hebrew University anda noted scholar of the social, political, andreligious history of the Jews in the SecondTemple, Mishnah, and Talmud periods, wasthe eighth in a notable line of speakers in theHelen and Martin Schwartz Lecture Series.He presented two lectures in a series:“Remember the Days of Old: Perceptions ofPast and Present in Rabbinic Literature” onOctober 20th, 2003, and “Reading theRabbis as History” on the followingevening. IU Press will publish a book basedon these lectures.

The Schwartz Lecture Series wasinaugurated in 1993 by Sander Gilman, ofthe University of Chicago, whose Jews inToday’s German Culture (1995) was the firstvolume in the Schwartz series published bythe IU Press. The second Schwartz scholarwas Geoffrey Hartman, of Yale University,whose 1994 Schwartz lectures werepublished in expanded form as The LongestShadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust(1996). Arnold Eisen, of Stanford University,was the third Schwartz lecturer. His book,Taking Hold of Torah, was published by theIU Press in 1997. The 1998 lectures by David

Roskies, of JTS, culminated in The JewishSearch for a Usable Past (1999). TheSchwartz lectures in November 1998 bySamuel Kassow, of Trinity College, willresult in two IU Press books: EmanuelRingelblum and the Oneg Shabbes Archiveand Jewish Vilna and Jewish Warsaw. ThreeJewish Philosophers: Buber, Rosenzweig,Levinas will be the subject of the IU Pressbook by 1999 Fellow Hilary Putnam ofHarvard University. Historian Omer Bartov,of Brown University, delivered the2001–2002 Helen and Martin SchwartzLectures. The Bartov lectures will result in abook focusing on The Jew in Cinema.

An endowment by Helen and MartinSchwartz, residents of Muncie, Indiana, andlongtime friends of the JSP, ensures that theSchwartz Lectures in JS will continue on aregular basis and will subsequently bepublished by the IU Press.

BR O N S T E I N LE C T U R E RPE T E R SC H ÄF E R“The Femininity of God”“The Femininity of God in Jewish Mysticismand in Christianity” was the theme of theThursday, October 16, 2003, Sol and ArleneBronstein Lecture in JS delivered byProfessor Peter Schäfer, the Ronald O.Perelan Professor of JS and Professor ofReligion at Princeton University.

A world-renowned specialist in ancientIsrael, rabbinics, and early Jewish mysticism,he was the 1994 recipient of Germany’scoveted Leibniz prize, granted to thatnation’s most innovative scholars.

The Sol and Arlene Bronstein Lectures inJS are supported through a grant from theSol Bronstein Charitable Trust in Evansville,Indiana. Previous Bronstein lecturers includeMartin Marty, Antony Polonsky, DavidSorkin, Jakob Petuchowski, Julius Lester,Francis E. Peters, Susannah Heschel, TikvaFrymer-Kensky, Ronnie Po–chia Hsia, EgonMayer, James Shapiro, Elisheva Carlebach,Aron Rodrigue, and Norman Stillman.

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Isaiah Gafni

Matthias Lehmann and Peter Schäfer

IN ME M O R I A MJ. William JulianJ. William Julian, who passed away onFebruary 19, 2004, was an important civicleader in Indianapolis and a long-timesupporter of the Borns JSP and IU Press. Agraduate of Yale University, Mr. Julian waspresident of the Gibson Company. Deeplyinvolved in the Jewish community, civicphilanthropy, and interfaith relations, Mr.Julian’s passionate commitment to theideal of religious coexistence based onmutual respect and understanding, led himand his wife Frances to establish the Billand Frances Julian Program for Inter- andIntra-faith Understanding.

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Community Relations Council; ProfessorNazif Shahrani, Chair of the Near EasternLanguages and Cultures Department; andRebecca Jiménez, minister and Director ofthe Center for University Ministries, todiscuss the impact of religion on the politicalprocess in America today. Students JacobFulk and Michelle Steiman were moderators.

The program sponsored by the Borns JSPwas also sponsored by the Department ofReligious Studies, URSA, and the JSSA.

At the core of Jewish Studies is engagementin Jewish languages and literature. The JSPoffers many opportunities in the areas ofHebrew and Yiddish, becoming strongerstill in the light of recent hires.

NU R I T BE N YE H U D AVisiting Hebrew Lecturer

Nurit Ben Yehudajoins the JSP thisfall as a full-timevisiting lecturer inmodern Hebrewlanguage. A nativeIsraeli, Ms.Yehuda receivedher master’s degreefrom HUJ and hastaught Hebrewand ulpan at theRothberg School

for International Students at HUJ and inother settings for more than 17 years. Wewelcome Nurit to Bloomington and the JSP.

LI N G U I S T JO S H U A FI S H M A NVI S I T S

Joshua A. Fishman delivered the George J.Stolnitz Memorial Program, “Yiddish in the21st Century: A Sociolinguistic Perspective,”on Monday, September 15, 2003 on theBloomington campus. DistinguishedUniversity Research Professor Emeritus at

Yeshiva University, Professor Fishman’spublications have shaped and definedmodern scholarly study of bilingualism andmultilingualism, the relation of languageand thought, language spread, and languageand nationalism.

The George J. Stolnitz MemorialProgram, established to honor the memoryof IU Economics Professor George J. Stolnitz(1920-2001), seeks to further theadvancement of education and Yiddishlanguage and culture at IU.

SU M M E R IN T E N S I V E YI D D I S HCO U R S E F O R HO L O C A U S TRE S E A R C H E R S

The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studiesof the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, incooperation with the 2004 IU SummerWorkshop in Slavic,East European, andCentral AsianLanguages, and theRobert A. and SandraS. Borns JSP,sponsored an intensivelanguage course,“Yiddish forHolocaust Research,”on the IU Bloomingtoncampus from June 28to August 6, 2004.

Ten students andscholars were selectedfrom more than fortyapplicants. Participants had an interest inacquiring a reading knowledge of Yiddish inorder to access Jewish source documents andto better understand the Yiddish-speakingJewish communities of Europe that weretargeted by the Nazis. We were pleased thatone of the workshop participants was RuthSchachter (B.A., 2003) currently a graduate

student in Jewish history at the University ofMaryland.

The six-week course, which offeredparticipants the equivalent of a full year(6 credits) of college language instruction,focused primarily on Yiddish grammar andreading skills for use in research. BrukheLang Caplan and Dr. Marc Caplan taughtthe course.

In addition to intensive languageinstruction, seven Holocaust-related eveninglectures, “On the Golden Bridge of Sunset:Jewish Culture and the Holocaust,” openalso to the public, were sponsored by theBorns JSP and the Center for AdvancedHolocaust Studies of the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum. The lectures by IU JSPfaculty members included: “Yiddish Songsand Folk Creativity in the Holocaust,” byProfessor Dov-Ber Kerler; “Antisemitism orObedience? Understanding the Perpetra-tors,” by Professor Mark Roseman;“Literature and the Holocaust,” by ProfessorAlvin Rosenfeld; and “Sutzkever and Singer:Two Strategies for Holocaust Fiction inYiddish,” by Dr. Marc Caplan; and lecturesby Center for Advanced Holocaust Studiesstaff included: “History of the Holocaust: AnOverview,” by Dr. Peter Black; “TheChurches and the Holocaust,” by Dr.Suzanne Brown-Fleming; and “TheHolocaust in Romania,” by Dr. Radu Ioanid.

The cost of the course, books, single-occupancy housing in universitydormitories, and a meal allowance werepaid by the Center for Advanced HolocaustStudies of the U.S. Holocaust MemorialMuseum.

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Monique Stolnitz and Joshua Fishman

Summer Intensive Yiddish course students with Marc Caplan (2nd from left);Brukhe Caplan (3rd from left); and Paul Shapiro (far right), Director of the Centerfor Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Nurit Ben Yehuda

GI L B O A A N D SL O D K I WI NYI D D I S H PR I Z EGeorge and Monique StolnitzYiddish PrizeZvi Gilboa, a graduate student in GermanicStudies and an instructor of Hebrew, andJorie Slodki, an undergraduate minor inYiddish, were awarded the 2004 George andMonique Stolnitz Yiddish Prize.

Zvi, a graduate of the School of Musicand an accomplished pianist, is a student ofYiddish and Yiddish literature working withProfessor Dov-Ber Kerler.

Jorie Slodki, an Honors CollegeScholarship recipient pursuing a doublemajor in Anthropology and Theater and aminor in Yiddish, is co-chair of the HillelJewish Arts Council this year.

An expression of long-time Bloomingtonresidents George and Monique Stolnitz’sstrong commitment to the advancement ofeducation in Yiddish language and culture,the prize is awarded annually to a studentwho shows the greatest promise in the studyof Yiddish language or literature, and/or thehistory in which Yiddish culture took rootand flourished.

2005-2006 YI D D I S H ST U D I E SFE L L O W S H I P CO M P E T I T I O NAN N O U N C E DDeadline: Friday, January 14, 2005The JSP invites applications for the Cohn-Borns Yiddish Studies Graduate Fellowshipfor the 2005-2006 year. The fellowshipprovides a $15,000 stipend and full feeremission and can be tied to a multi-yearpackage of support through fellowships andteaching assistantships. We are interested inhearing from students who show clearpromise of dedicating themselves seriouslyto Yiddish studies. To be eligible for thefellowship, students must be accepted intoan IU graduate program in any of thefollowing departments: ComparativeLiterature, Germanic Studies, or History.For more information, contact the JSP, e-mailiujsp@indiana.edu or go to our website at:http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htm.Application deadline is January 14, 2005.

The Yiddish Studies Fellowship is madepossible by the generosity of Dr. Alice GinottCohn and Theodore Cohn and Sandra andRobert Borns.

HE B R E W NE W S

It is believed that IU’s first president AndrewWylie taught Hebrew language classesbeginning in the year 1829, five years afterthe first courses were taught at theuniversity. In 175 years, thousands ofstudents have studied Hebrew at IU. TheHebrew program continues to grow andthrive. In this past year, enrollments inmodern Hebrew language courses totaled318. Of these students, a growing numbercame to IU as intermediate or advanced inHebrew.

Biblical Hebrew enrollments numbered34. There were 36 students pursuing theHebrew minor during the 2003-2004 year.The weekly Hebrew table attractedhundreds of students throughout the year.Professor Stephen Katz directed the Hebrewlanguage program. Ronnie Be’eri was thefull-time Hebrew instructor.

Yael Asner, Jonathan Bubis, AdamGanson, Isac Jacobovits, Noam Kupchan,Rachel Lubetsky, Philip Sherman, TanirShalhav, Sarah Smiley, Rebecca Tehrani, SariWillis, Alana Zoldan, and graduate studentEmily Zoss were named to the nationalHebrew Honor Society Eta Beta Rho.

LE C T U R E S ,CO-SP O N S O R E DLE C T U R E S A N DEV E N T S

The JSP cooperateswith otherdepartments in co-sponsoring visits tocampus by scholarsand artists whose

areas of research andcreative work are of mutual interest. JSPlectures, co-sponsored lectures, and eventsduring the 2003-2004 academic yearincluded:

Lee Fontanella, Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, “Photographing Terror andLiberation in a Nazi Camp.”

Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College,“Racializing Theology: Nationalism, Nazism,and the Protestant Desire for Dejudaization.”

“Imre Kertész in Perspective: Hungarianand Jewish Culture in the 20th Century”Symposium

Boris Khandros, author and filmmakerfrom Kiev, Ukraine, “Living Traces ofHistory: Tracing the Culture and Fate ofUkranian Jewry.”

Ori Kritz, University of Oklahoma,“Zionist Visions of the New Jew in Art andLiterature.”

Klezmorchestra, Jewish Book Monthperformance at IU Library.

Shaul Magid, JTS, “Judaism, Art, and theModern Reconstruction of Tradition:Abraham Ha-Kohen Kook on the Song ofSongs.”

Miryam Segal, Pardes Institute and theConservative Yeshiva, “Bluvstein’s‘Aftergross’ Poetics.”

Joshua Shanes, University of Wisconsinand Spertus College, “The Nationalization ofJewish Identity: The Case of Galicia.”

Neta Stahl, Yale University, “DeceivingMirrors: The Image of Jesus in Agnon’sStories.”

Peter Stansky, Stanford University, “TheShaping of Two Sassoons - Philip and Sybil:The Nineteenth Century and Beyond.”

Guy Stroumsa, HUJ, “From the Master ofWisdom to the Spiritual Master inLate Antiquity.”

Roman Timenchik, HUJ,“Jewish Components in RussianSilver Age Culture.”

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Modern Hebrew teachers (left to right) Zvi Gilboa, Ronnie Be’eri, and Ofer Levy

GRADUATE STUDENTNEWSNE W GR A D U AT E MA J O R I NJE W I S H HI S T O RY

Graduate students in the Department ofHistory can now major in Jewish history fortheir master’s and doctoral degrees. Historyprofessors Matthias Lehmann, MarkRoseman, Marci Shore, and JeffreyVeidlinger each work primarily within thefield of Jewish history; several other facultywithin the department work in related fields.The department has particular strengths inmodern Jewish European history, includingEastern Europe, Germany, and SephardicEurope. Doctoral candidates pursuing theJewish history major are encouraged tocombine their degree with a doctoral minorin JS, which allows them to take advantageof the wealth of resources and expertiseavailable through the Borns JSP. Four-yearfunding packages including fee remissionsand stipends have also been made availableto eligible incoming graduate students inJewish history.

AM Y SH A P I R O A N DMI C H A E L SC H L I EFriends of the Borns JS ProgramGraduate FellowsAmy Shapiro and Michael Schlie have beenawarded Friends of the Borns JSP GraduateFellowships for the 2004-2005 year. Thisfall, they begin their doctoral studies, Amyin History and Michael in ComparativeLiterature (both minoring in JS.) Thanks tothe continued and generous support of theFriends of the Borns JSP, the fellowshipsprovide stipends and a full fee remission.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of theUniversity of Texas in English, Amycompleted an M.A. in Holocaust Studies atUniversity College London. In the yearsbetween her undergraduate studies inEnglish and her studies in London, Amyspent a year of intensive German languagestudy in Cologne and ten months interningat the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.Amy will continue her study of theHolocaust, with JS faculty members MarkRoseman, Alvin Rosenfeld, Marci Shore,

Jack Bielasiak, and MichaelMorgan. Her particular focusof study will be on history andHolocaust literature andrepresentation.

Michael Schlie graduated summa cumlaude from New York University. Beforebeginning as a full-time instructor ofPhilosophy, Latin, and German for two yearsat East Stroudsburg University, he pursuedgraduate studies in the Humanities at theUniversity of Chicago. With mastery ofGerman, Latin, French, and Hebrew, Michaelplans to continue his study of Paul Celan,including research examining Celan’s appro-priation and use of the rhythms, imagery, andexpectations of the Hebrew Bible, specificallythe Psalms and the Song of Songs.

JS Doctoral Minors Adam Rovner completed his Ph.D. withhighest honors in Comparative Literature.Jill Smith, after completing her doctorate, isvisiting instructor of German at UnionCollege in Schenectady.

In 2003-2004, Ellen Muehlberger taughtbiblical Hebrew. She is teaching 3rd and 4th

semester biblical Hebrew this year. Ellen’spaper “The Representation of Theatricalityin Philo’s Embassy to Gaius” won the awardfor best Religious Studies graduate paper lastyear.

Angela White was selected as a CollegeDissertation Year Research Fellow forresearch on her dissertation, “Jewish Lives inthe Polish Language: The Polish-JewishPress, 1918-1939.”

FR I E N D S O F T H E BO R N S JSPGR A D U AT E FE L L O W S H I PApplication deadline: Friday,January 14, 2005The JSP invites applications for the 2005-2006 Friends of the Borns JSP GraduateFellowship. The fellowship provides a$17,000 stipend and full fee remission andcan be tied to a multi-year package ofsupport through fellowships and teachingassistantships. We are interested in hearingfrom students who show clear promise ofdedicating themselves seriously to scholar-ship within one of the core areas of JS. To beeligible for the fellowship, students must beaccepted into an IU graduate program in anyof the following departments: Anthropology,Comparative Literature, English, GermanicStudies, History, Linguistics, Near EasternLanguages and Cultures, Philosophy,Political Science, Religious Studies, or SlavicLanguages and Literatures. For moreinformation, contact the JSP, e-mailiujsp@indiana.edu or go to our website at:http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/fellowship.htmApplication deadline is January 14, 2005.

JSP ADVISORYBOARD

The dedication of the JSP Advisory Board isvital to the continuation and furtherdevelopment of the JSP. The Advisory Boardplays a leadership role in importantinitiatives like the Rosenfeld ChairEndowment Campaign. We are indebted topresident Leonard Goldstein, vice presidentRuth Feinberg, and our board members fortheir assistance in helping us build andsustain a program of excellence:Lawrence Adelman Ft. WayneSteven Ancel CarmelEugene Bate CarmelNancy Bate CarmelAlice Berkowitz IndianapolisSol Blickman IndianapolisRobert Borns IndianapolisSandra Borns IndianapolisDr. Peter Cahn IndianapolisSusan Cahn IndianapolisDr. Alice Ginott Cohn New YorkTheodore Cohn New YorkEdward Dobrow MuncieClaudette Einhorn IndianapolisBenjamin Eisbart Ft. WayneDr. Ruth Feinberg IndianapolisBetty Fleck MarionIrving Glazer IndianapolisLeonard Goldstein Ft. WayneJanice Goodman Highland Park, ILJune Herman IndianapolisFrancine Hurwitz IndianapolisBobbi Kroot Columbus, INDr. Louis Lemberger CarmelHenry Levinsky Northbrook, ILJudy Liff-Barker Nashville, TNAndrew Mallor BloomingtonFlo Mary Mantel IndianapolisSybil Mervis Danville, ILSidney Mishkin IndianapolisIlene New GrangerJeffrey New GrangerFrank Newman IndianapolisGale Nichols BloomingtonDorit Paul IndianapolisEloise Paul IndianapolisGerald Paul IndianapolisDr. Mark Pescovitz CarmelDr. Ora Pescovitz CarmelM. Mendel Piser South BendDaniel Rifkin Ft. WayneA John Rose BloomingtonJudith Rose Bloomington Jack Schuster Rancho Sante Fe, CA Helen Schwartz MuncieMartin Schwartz MuncieHarry Sebel Dallas, TXNorman Sider IndianapolisSidney Tuchman IndianapolisRobert Walters Ft. WayneSally Zweig Indianapolis

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A DE V E L O P I N G FR I E N D S H I PBecome a Friend of the BornsJewish Studies Program“What is the good way a person shouldfollow? Rabbi Joshua said, ‘Being a goodfriend.’”—Pirke Avot 2:9

The Borns JSP has been able to flourishbecause of the support of communitymembers who recognize the value ofscholarly inquiry and public education.Many of these supporters have elected tojoin the Friends of the Borns JSP. Thecontributions of Friends provide studentsupport, subsidize public lectures and otherspecial programs, and support the costs ofscholarly research and conferences. Forexample, these funds are used to create afellowship that helps us recruit top-notchgraduate students. We also use these moniesto augment our pool of undergraduatescholarship funds and to provide researchsupport for newly-hired faculty.

Becoming a Friend is also a way todevelop one’s own engagement in Jewishlearning and culture. To express itsappreciation, the program offers thefollowing educational opportunities tomembers of the Friends group:

1) The Friends “Gathering.” Each yearthe program hosts a gathering of friends,usually featuring a lecture or presentation byone of our outstanding faculty members.This year’s gathering included a presentationby Professor Mark Roseman, recentlyinstalled as the Pat M. Glazer Chair of JS.

2) Special Access to Events. Every yearthe Borns JSP and the Institute for JewishCulture and the Arts host a number ofspecial events: guest lectures, concerts, andother kinds of programs. Friends will receiveadvanced notice of these events and, inselect cases, guaranteed seating.

3) An Expanded Reading List. For thefirst time, we are able to offer Friends a20% discount on all IU Press books. IUPress is one of the leading academicpublishers, especially in the field of JS.

Invest in the Future of JewishStudies at IU

The generosity of our Friends has beenkey to making IU a major center for Jewishlearning and scholarship, opening upinnumerable doors for our students, scholars,and the larger public. I invite you to becomea member of our community.

You can give at various levels and all willqualify you for the benefits offered by theFriends group:

Benefactor: $1,000 and above

Patron: $500-$999

Patron Associate(for people age 35 and under): $180

Recent JSP Alumni: $36

Please mail your gift (see attachedenvelope), payable to “IUF/Jewish StudiesProgram,” to the address listed below.Friends’ gifts are tax deductible to the extentallowed by law.

If you have any questions about theFriends group or opportunities forestablishing permanent endowments insupport of JS, please call me withouthesitation. You can reach me at the BornsJewish Studies Program, Indiana University,Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 East Third Street,Bloomington, IN 47405-7005, tel: 812-855-8358; sweitzma@indiana.edu.

With much appreciation, Dr. Steven WeitzmanDirector

FR I E N D S ATLI L LYHO U S EI N SU M M E RRosemanPresentsStory ofMarianneEllenbogenOn July 8, 2004,the Friends of the

Borns JSP gatheredat the beautiful

Lilly House, Indianapolis home of IUPresident Adam Herbert, to hear ProfessorMark Roseman’s moving presentation aboutthe life of Marianne Ellenbogen. Roseman’sbook The Past in Hiding: Memory andSurvival in Nazi Germany is a brilliantreconstruction of Marianne’s odyssey throughthe nightmarish world of the Nazis. It wasthe recipient of the 2002 History Prize of theLucas Prize Project jointly sponsored byHarvard University’s Niemann Foundationand the Columbia School of Journalism, theJewish Quarterly’s Wingate Literary Prize,and the Fraenkel Prize for ContemporaryJewish History. It was also named a LosAngeles Times Book of the Year.

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Mark Roseman speaks atFriends “Gathering”

IN ME M O R I A MArnold FeinbergArnold Feinberg, the husband of Dr. RuthFeinberg, Vice-President of the Borns JSPAdvisory Board, died on March 30, 2004.An industrialist and philanthropist, Arniewas a partner in Parts Warehousing andMid Con Corporation. A leader incharitable causes, he served on the boardsof many organizations in both Indianapolisand Cleveland, including the United Way,the Julian Center, the Jewish Federation ofGreater Indianapolis, Indianapolis HebrewCongregation, and the JCC.

IN M E M O R I A MDr. Beatrice MillerDr. Beatrice Miller died in Baltimore onFebruary 8, 2004. She earned three degreesfrom IU, including an education doctoratein nursing. Director of Nursing and theSchool of Nursing at Sinai Hospital inBaltimore, she and her husband Dr. DavidMiller ran Camp Glyndon in southernMaryland, a camp for diabetic children.They established the Borns JSP’s Drs.Beatrice S. and David I. Miller Endowmentfor Jewish Culture and the Arts.

Readers may keep up with news of the JSP throughout the yearvia the internet at the JSP website: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/

E-mail users may contact the JSP via iujsp@indiana.edu

Professors Robert Agranoff and Susan Klein

Dr. Annette Alpert andProfessor Darrell Haile

Ariel AxelrodShirley BackerDr. Stephen and Barbara BailieSylvia BankoffEugene and Nancy BateMr. and Mrs. Robert BatesProfessor Joseph andMarge Belth

Leonard and Alice Berkowitz Mildred BernDr. Ellis BerneMichael and Margery BluesteinJoseph and Wilma BorinsteinEmily BornsRobert and Sandra BornsStephanie BornsElissa BrownDr. Peter and Susan CahnRobert and Shirley CareskyThomas Clancy andDana Green

Ronald and Nancy CohenDr. Alice Ginott Cohn andTheodore Cohn

Melvin and Betty CohnDaniel CookDr. Lawrence andClaudette Einhorn

Benjamin and Sharon EisbartYosh EisbartJames and Patricia EkEli Lilly and CompanyMr. and Mrs. Norman EttingerLinda FalenderMr. and Mrs. Thomas FalenderArnold* and Dr. Ruth FeinbergAlan and Terry FeldbaumDr. Nathan and LeslieFischman

Betty FleckRobert and Bonnie FormanFort Wayne Jewish FederationRichard and Sherry FrenzelHon. Ezra andLinda Friedlander

Dr. Edward andPhyllis Gabovitch

Anne GanzBernard and Jean GlazerIrving and Pat GlazerJay and Marsha GlazerLindsay GlazerEugene and Marilyn GlickFritz and Caroline GoldbachWinifred Goldblatt-SilbermanMrs. Jack Goldman

Roie GoldmanDr. and Mrs. KennethGoldstein

Leonard and Rikki GoldsteinJack and Sondra GrossJohn and Rita GrunwaldGuidant FoundationMr. and Mrs. Earl HarrisDr. Howard and Anita HarrisHart and Simona HastenProfessor Kenneth and AudreyHeller

Dr. Roger and FrancineHurwitz

Dr. Martin and Irene JacobsMr. and Mrs. Jathan JanoveJewish Community Council ofEvansville

Frances JulianIrwin KatzProfessor Idalene Kesner andPaul Robins

Robert and Judith KoorArthur and Bobbi KrootMartin and Natalie KrootShirley KulwinG. Irving LatzDr. Louis and MyrnaLemberger

Herbert and Bernice LevetownMargot LevinMichael and Julie LevineDr. Carolyn Lipson-Walkerand George Walker

Ernest and Ellen LorchAmelia Cook LurveyFrank and Joyce MaidenbergAndrew and Professor JaneMallor

Sophia MarksDr. Robert Matyska, Jr.Tilden and Cathy MendelsonMerrill Lynch and CompanyLouis and Sybil Mervis William and Karen MervisDr. David MillerJason and Lindsey MintzCarol MitchellMarvin and Susan MitchellMr. and Mrs. Robert MoiseJames and Jacqueline MorrisFrances NelsonJeffrey and Ilene NewJoan NewDaniel and Gale NicholsDr. Bernard and ReneeOppenheim

Gerald and Dorit PaulArt and Sandy PercyLisa PercyDrs. Mark and Ora PescovitzM. Mendel and Frances PiserProfessor William and PremaPopkin

Dr. Eric and BonniePrystowsky

Professor Henry and IngridRemak

Sara ReubenMr. and Mrs. Leonard RifkinIrwin RoseJudith and A John Rose IIProfessor Alvin and ErnaRosenfeld

Mr. and Mrs. Harry RothJane RothbaumDr. Marc and HelenRubenstein

Sidney and Sarah SakowitzJoshua SamisRonald and Alvrone SaterGary SchahetRabbi Stacy Schlein andJeremy Sosin

Robert and Alice SchlossJudith SchneiderJay and Jeanie Schottenstein

Jack and Sherron SchusterProfessor Drew SchwartzMartin and Helen SchwartzJonathan and ElizabethShapiro

Dr. Paul ShapiroDr. Reuben and Leona ShevitzDr. Stephen and Caryl ShidelerDr. Robert ShlensNorman SiderDr. Martin SiegelGreg and Renny SilverHoward SocolProfessor Bruce Solomon andSusan Swartz

Nicole SpiegelGary and Anne SteigerwaldMonique StolnitzSarah Strnad

Dr. Lawrence and Sandi TavelJeffrey and Nancy TrockmanStanley and Sandra TrockmanAlberto and Paulina WaksmanDr. Harvey and CarinWeingarten

N. William and Bebe WeinsteinProfessor and Mrs. RobertWeiskopf

Professor Steven Weitzman andRabbi Mira Wasserman

Horst and Margaret WinklerDr. Mark and Linda WisenWalter and Joan WolfAllen and Roberta Wurzman

* Denotes deceased

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DONOR HONOR ROLLThe Borns JSP thanks the following donors for their generosityduring the 2003-2004 year (as of July 30, 2004): Mildred L. Bern

• The Henry A. Bern Memorial EssayCompetition

The Estate of Edward A. Block• The Edward A. Block LectureRobert and Sandra Borns• The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns

Jewish Studies Program EndowmentDr. Alice Ginott Cohn andTheodore Cohn

• The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair inYiddish Studies

• The Dr. Alice Field Cohn Award inYiddish Studies

Melvin and Betty Cohn• The Melvin and Betty Cohn Institute

in Jewish StudiesIrving and Pat Glazer• The Irving M. Glazer ScholarshipsJay and Marsha Glazer• The Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish

Studies• The Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish

Studies• The Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in

Jewish Studies(See page 4 for listing of all donors)

Leonard and Rikki Goldstein• The Leonard M. and Ruth K.

Goldstein Endowment in JewishStudies

John and Rita Grunwald• The Pearl Schwartz Memorial

Program in Judaism and the ArtsJ. William* and Frances Julian• The Julian Endowment in Jewish

StudiesLou and Sybil Mervis• The Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in

Jewish Cultural Studies

Drs. Beatrice* and David Miller• The Drs. Beatrice S. and David I.

Miller Endowment for JewishCulture and the Arts

Samuel* and Joan New• The Joan and Samuel New Institute

for the Study of Judaism and the Jews

Gerald and Dorit Paul• The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program

for the Study of Germans and Jews• The Dorit and Gerald Paul Program

in Jewish Culture and the Arts

Sondra and Art Percy• The Percy Family EndowmentLouis* and Leonore* Piser• The Leonore and Louis Piser Prize

Sara and Albert* Reuben• The Sara and Albert Reuben

Scholarships in Holocaust Studies

Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein• The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein

Chair in Modern Judaism

Martin and Helen Schwartz• The Helen and Martin Schwartz

Scholars Program

Samuel Solotkin*• The Samuel and Lillian Solotkin

Memorial Lecture

George* and Monique Stolnitz• The George and Monique Stolnitz

Yiddish Prize

Stanley and Sandra Trockman• The Sandra and Stanley Trockman

Scholarship

Alberto and Paulina Waksman• The Alberto and Paulina A.Waksman

Scholarships

*Denotes deceased

JE W I S H ST U D I E S PR O G R A M EN D O W M E N T S

STUDENT NEWSThe JSP has grown to have the largestnumber of JS majors of any secularuniversity in the U.S. Among our 86 majors,75 students pursuing the area certificate, and34 pursuing a Hebrew minor in 2003-2004,were outstanding students from across thecountry, including international pastpresidents of B’nai B’rith YouthOrganization, B’nai B’rith Girls, and UnitedSynagogue Youth.

Our education efforts go beyond studentscurrently enrolled at IU. This year, weinitiated an effort to reach out to highschool students.

SO L O T K I N LE C T U R EGO E S CA M P L I N GJeffrey Veidlinger speaks to Avodahniks at Goldman Union CampFor the first time, the Borns JSP’s annualSamuel and Lillian Solotkin MemorialLecture was delivered to the incoming highschool seniors who are participating in thework-study Avodah program at GoldmanUnion Camp Institute in Zionsville, Indiana.Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger presented amultimedia lecture “Recovering the JewishShtetl” on June 22, 2004, and also discussedwith the Avodahniks selecting a college andcollege studies with JS in mind. The camperswere enthusiastic and we hope to continuethis new educational connection to GoldmanUnion Camp.

FO U R HI G H SC H O O L SE N I O R SRE C E I V E $12,500 I NSC H O L A R S H I P S

Scholarships totaling $12,500 were awardedto four incoming JS freshmen for the 2004-2005 year. The third annual Robert A. andSandra S. Borns Scholarship for an IncomingFreshman in JS was awarded to DeanaSussman of Chesterfield, Missouri. The firstplace winner at the Greater St. Louis ScienceFair, Deana has been invited to be a DirectAdmit student to the College of Arts andSciences. A major in JS, she plans to be acongregational rabbi.

The recipients of the 2004-2005 IrvingM. Glazer Student Scholarships forIncoming Freshmen in JS are Jody Gansel ofMarietta, Georgia, and Lauren Berman ofLouisville, Kentucky, who both plan tomajor in JS. Jody is currently the Social

Action Vice-President for the NorthAmerican Federation of Temple Youth’sSouthern Region. She studied for a semesterin Israel on the Eisendrath (EIE) Program,and has attended Panim El PanimWashington Institute for Leadership andValues. She plans to pursue her graduatestudies in Jewish communal service.

Lauren Berman is currently president ofthe Ohio Valley Federation of Temple Youth.Throughout high school, Lauren was onstudent council, served on the principal’sadvisory board, and played varsity soccer,being named honorable mention Kentuckyall-state. She plans to be a rabbi or Jewisheducator.

Rachel Kaplan, from Buffalo Grove,Illinois, the president of the Chicago AreaRegion of the North American Federation ofTemple Youth,received a BornsScholarship. She hasbeen a Union ofReform JudaismMeitav Fellow, afellowship thatincludes social actionwork and intensestudy. She attendedthe EIE semester ofhigh school in Israel. She is a member of theJewish United Chicago Youth LeadershipCouncil. She will major in JS and plans to bea rabbi.

Thanks to the generosity of Irving M.Glazer and his friends and family 15freshmen have received JS scholarships overthe past eight years. Applicants for the2004-2005 Borns and Glazer scholarshipscame from a large pool of outstandingstudents throughout the U.S.

CU R R E N T HI G H SC H O O LSE N I O R S C A N AP P LY F O R 3 JSFR E S H M A N SC H O L A R S H I P STO TA L I N G $11,000Current high school seniors applying to IUand committed to JS may apply for 3freshmen scholarships for the 2005-2006year. One $5,000 Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns Scholarship and 2 $3,000 Irving M.Glazer Scholarships will be awarded tooutstanding incoming freshmen committed topursuing a major or an area certificate in JS.

For information about how to apply forthese scholarships, high school seniors canview details about the application procedureat http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/glazerscholarship.htm.The application deadline for Fall 2005 isFriday, March 4, 2005.

JS FR E S H M A N LI V I N G-LE A R N I N G GR O U P

For the sixth fall, IU freshmen had theoption of living and studying in the JSFreshman Interest Group (FIG). This fall, 14JS FIG students are living together (in thenorthwest neighborhood), engaging instudent-initiated JS activities, taking a onehour course designed to help freshmen makethe academic transition to IU, and takingtwo JS courses together: “Introduction toJewish History” (taught by ProfessorMatthias Lehmann) and “Introduction toOld Testament/Hebrew Bible” (taught byProfessor Steven Weitzman). For the thirdyear, JS student Susan Shirley is the JS FIGPeer Instructor.

There is no additional cost to participatein the JS FIG, nor are there any academicprerequisites. Participants can room with a

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JS FIGs students dine with JS faculty and JSSA officers

non-JS FIG participant. For moreinformation about the JS FIG for Fall 2005,contact (812) 855-5636 or e-mail:housing@indiana.edu.

JS GR A D U AT E SLargest Class of Graduating MajorsOne hundred and fifty one students havegraduated with a B.A. in JS since our majorwas established in 1992. Our thirteenth andlargest graduating class of majors included27 B.A. recipients: Aaron Aft of Springfield,Virginia, Jonathan Azulay of Skokie, Illinois,Dawn Bilobran of Birmingham, Michigan,Daniel Farahan of Carmel, Indiana, JessicaEdelstein of Edina, Minnesota, ElizabethFinn of Olathe, Kansas, Sarina Fogel of WestBloomfield, Michigan, David Fuchs ofWestport, Connecticut, Tamar Gal ofSavannah, Georgia, Marisa Geer ofCleveland, Ohio, Dana Haffner of NewOrleans, Louisiana, Leah Hedrick ofMission, Kansas, Andrew Kaplan ofGahanna, Ohio, Benjamin Lewis ofChicago, Illinois, Jamie Katz of OverlandPark, Kansas, Daniel Kuperstein of Carmel,Indiana, David Lizzo of St. Louis, NatalieNachman of Fairfax, Virginia, MichaelRavenscroft of Wabash, Indiana, Sam Rodinof Northfield, Illinois, Brian Rosenzweig ofBaltimore, Maryland, Calli Schiller of Plano,Texas, Jonathon Schuster of Rancho SantaFe, California, Joshua Taff of Sacramento,California, Hal Ungar of Metairie,Louisiana, Jory Wall of Louisville, Kentucky,and Elizabeth Wood of West Lafayette,Indiana.

Joining the 321 alumni of our JS areacertificate program were graduates Benjamin Anchill of West Bloomfield,Michigan, Rebecca Berzof of Louisville,Kentucky, Emily Eisenberg of Pepper Pike,Ohio, Ellyn Fine of Minneapolis,Minnesota, Darrin Frankovitz ofIndianapolis, Jennifer Gossman ofColumbus, Ohio, Joshua Hamerman ofScotch Plains, New Jersey, Marie Harf ofGranville, Ohio, Molly Kotlen of Houston,Texas, Amy Kuretsky of Minnetonka,Minnesota, Brooke Lipman of WestBloomfield, Michigan, Leah Nahmias of

Greensburg, Indiana, Jonathan Polland ofBellaire, Texas, Andrea Rosenfeld of Skokie,Illinois, Amalia Shifriss of Bloomington,Indiana, Benjamin Sider of Indianapolis,Gabriel Traylor of Princeton, New Jersey,and Emily Walsh of Mason, Ohio.

The second class of students completingthe Hebrew minor in JS were Lili Lahav ofLivingston, New Jersey, Leonid Zelikovichof Carmel, Indiana and JS majors DavidLizzo, Natalie Nachman, and Joshua Taff.

Graduating with departmental honorswere Marie Harf in Political Science, JamieKatz in Psychology, and Amy Kuretsky inArt History.

EL I Z A B E T H WO O D AWA R D E DPI S E R PR I Z EOutstanding JS GraduateElizabeth Wood from West Lafayette,Indiana, a May 2004 graduate with majorsin JS and Political Studies and a minor inPsychology, was awarded the 2004 Leonoreand Louis PiserPrize in JS. Of agraduating class of47 students,Elizabeth wasdeemed the mostoutstandinggraduating JSstudent who plansto pursue a careerrelated to JS.

Graduating PhiBeta Kappa,Elizabeth beganrabbinical schoolat Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute ofReligion in Jerusalem this summer. Elizabethwas assistant head counselor at GoldmanUnion Camp and advisor for two years forthe Bloomington Jewish high school youthgroup.

The recipient of the 2003-2004 FortWayne Jewish Federation Scholarship, sheserved on IU’s august student panel, theBoard of Aeons that meets regularly withthe university president, chancellor, and vicepresidents, to advise on long range planning.For two years, Elizabeth served as a residentassistant at Wright Quadrangle. She wasundergraduate teaching intern for ProfessorDina Spechler for two years.

The $750 Piser Prize is awarded annuallyto an outstanding graduating JS B.A., areacertificate, or Hebrew minor student who is

planning further graduate work in JS and acareer in the field. Through the Piser Prizeand other initiatives, the JSP hopes todemonstrate to our graduating seniors thehigh value we place on their continuededucation and careers in JS. The lateLeonore and Louis Piser, of South Bend,made the award possible.

JSP AWA R D S MO R E TH A N$40,000 I N SC H O L A R S H I P SA N D IN T E R N S H I P S

The JSP was pleased to award 19scholarships and 2 internships, totalingmore than $40,000, to continuing JS major,area certificate, and Hebrew minor studentsfor the 2004-2005 year. The scholarshipsand internships were established through thegenerosity of the Fort Wayne JewishFederation, the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns JS Endowment, Sondra and Art Percyof Matawan, New Jersey, Sandra andStanley Trockman of Evansville, Edward M.Dayan of Indianapolis, and Sara and the lateAlbert Reuben of Indianapolis.

Julie Avchen of Los Alamitos, California,a senior majoring in JS and Sociology and aHebrew and Management minor student,received the Fort Wayne Jewish FederationScholarship. In Spring 2004, she alsoreceived the Jose Rangel Scholarship madepossible by Sidney and Sharon Mishkin ofIndianapolis.

Four students were awarded Robert A.and Sandra S. Borns Merit Scholarships inJS, which recognize truly exceptionalacademic accomplishments. Borns MeritScholarship recipients are: David Fliesher,an Accounting and Finance major and an JSarea certificate student from St. Louis. InFall 2003, he was elected governor ofBriscoe and a member of the Blue RibbonSociety. Margaret O’Connor, a sophomoreJS and Political Science major fromMountlake Terrace, Washington, interned atthe Religious Action Center this summer.She is an Honors College student studyingboth Hebrew and Arabic. Abigail Schachter,a pre-med student from St. Louis majoringin JS and Biology, has been inducted intotwo honor societies, Alpha Epsilon Deltaand Phi Eta Sigma. Danielle Zuber, a JSmajor, was recognized as the mostoutstanding biblical Hebrew student in2003-2004. She serves as the cantor for IUHigh Holy Day services.

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Elizabeth Wood

Nine Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns JSScholarships were awarded. Joanna Blotnerof Chevy Chase, Maryland, a major in JS,International Studies, and Political Science,came to IU last year after completing asummer of intensive Hebrew study in theColumbia University-HUJ ulpan program.Sarah Boughey, a junior from HuntingtonBeach, California, is majoring in ElementaryEducation and pursuing an area certificatein JS. She serves as secretary of the IndianaStudent Education Association. ElizabethLintott, a junior JS major plans to pursue acareer in Jewish education. An HonorsCollege mentor, she teaches at CongregationBeth Shalom and plays on the IU lacrosseteam. She is from Northbrook, Illinois.Derrick Murphy, from Crawfordsville,Indiana, is spending the fall semester atHUJ. He is majoring in JS and NELC.Megan Roberts, a junior from Knoxville,Tennessee, plans a career in Jewisheducation. She is majoring in JS andInternational Studies. Rachel Schonwald ofOklahoma City plans to be a rabbi. She wasa Direct Admit student to the College lastfall. Philip Sherman, a JS major and aHebrew minor, is vice president of Hillel.From Plymouth, Minnesota, he plans acareer in Jewish communal service. StacyWeissman, a senior majoring in Psychologyand pursuing an area certificate in JS, plansa career as a social worker in a Jewishagency. Jennifer Gubitz of Fort Wayne wasawarded a Robert A. and Sandra S. BornsScholarship and the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns Administrative Internship for the2004-2005 year. She studied in the CET JSprogram in Prague in Spring 2004. She willserve as the JSSA president during thecoming year and work as an intern forCarolyn Lipson-Walker.

Meytal Ashkenazi, a junior born andraised in Israel, is the recipient of the Sandra

and Stanley Trockman Scholarship. ABusiness major pursuing an area certificatein JS, she plans to work for a Jewish not-for-profit organization as a fund raiser.

Sonya Weisburd of Indianapolis receivedthe Percy Family Scholarship and theEdward M. Dayan Scholarship. She willserve as the Robert A. and Sandra S. BornsResearch Intern this Fall for ProfessorVeidlinger researching Jewish theater andculture in Russia in the 1920s. Shevolunteered for 7 weeks in Hondurasthrough American Jewish World Service insummer 2003.

JS doctoral minors James Schelble(Central Eurasian Studies) and DanielClasby (History) received the Sara andAlbert Reuben Scholarships for Study of theHolocaust. James is completing his master’sthesis on antisemitism in Hungary. Daniel’sresearch focuses on the Holocaust and Italy.

14T H BE R N ES S AY PR I Z EAWA R D E D T O JO S H U AGA R F I N K E L

Joshua Garfinkel, a junior from Skokie,Illinois, was awarded the 2004 Henry A.Bern Memorial Essay Competition for hispoignant story, “Fresh Baked Bread,” abouta childhood in Holland, a family’s fate inGerman-occupied Austria, and theirimmigration to the U.S. A Hebrew minor,majoring in both English andCommunication and Culture, Josh served asthe international president of the B’naiB’rith Youth Organization.

The annual Bern Essay Competition wasestablished to honor the memory of HenryA. Bern, professor emeritus in the IU Schoolof Education, loyal supporter of the JSP, anda long-time Bloomington resident. The Bernprize aims to stimulate undergraduateexcellence in writing and research in JS.

JE W I S H ST U D I E S ST U D E N TAS S O C I AT I O N’S FU L L YE A RDesserts, Lunches, Film Showing,Weekly Hebrew TableOur students are the centerpiece of ourprogram, and the faculty and staff makespecial efforts to provide students with anoutstandingundergraduateexperience,primarily insidethe classroom, butalso outside.Toward that end,the 2003-2004leadership of theJewish StudiesStudentAssociation (JSSA)—President LeahHedrick, VP Lauren Miller, Secretary RachelWilder, and Treasurer Michelle Steiman—organized a full calendar of student-facultyevents. The year began with a well-attendedfall welcome dessert on September 30 andended on April 21 with the annual galaStudent-Faculty celebration. Every Tuesdayevening during the year, Hebrew speakersconvened over dinner at Hillel’s kosher café.The popular weekly dinner, chaired byMichael Joffe, Michelle Steiman, Josh Taff,and Sonya Weisburd, attracted hundreds ofstudents throughout the year. Joe Bercoviciserved as JSSA’s photographer.

The JSSA and Hillel co-sponsored a freelunch and talk by Professor Mark Roseman,“ ‘Shoot First and Ask QuestionsAfterwards?’: Wannsee and the ‘FinalSolution’” in March, 2004; and a crashcourse in Yiddish, “You Too Can Shmoozein Yiddish” with Brukhe Caplan. The springfilm night was hosted by Noa Wahrman andfeatured Israeli film “Passover Fever”. TheJSSA co-sponsored an evening of comedy“One Jew, One Arab, One Stage . . . Two

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Robert Borns (second row, far left) with Borns Scholarship recipients

Very Funny Guys” with Rabbi Bob Alperand comedian Ahmed Ahmed to raiseawareness of multicultural understandingand tolerance.

Elected JSSA officers for the 2004-2005year are: President Jennifer Gubitz, VPMegan Roberts, Secretary SamanthaLeapman, and Treasurer Ellie Zusstone.

JE W I S H ST U D I E SCA R E E R NI G H T

On November 4, 2003, Amy Wagner ofUnited Jewish Communities, RachelBrumberg of the Jewish Education Service ofNorth America, Naomi Sobel of the JewishCommunity Center Association, and SeanAlpert of Hillel International were thespeakers at the annual JS Career Night. Acareer fair with national representativesfrom the United Jewish Communities, theJewish Education Service of North America,Hillel International, Jewish CommunityCenters of America, JTS, and BaltimoreHebrew University followed. The event wasco-sponsored by the Helene G. Simon HillelCenter.

The IU JSP is one of the foremostundergraduate educators of Jewishcommunal service professionals (see AlumniNews). Mentoring students for careersrelated to JS is a high priority of the JSP. Tosupport our students, the JSP also sends aweekly e-mail newsletter and maintains aresource center with information about JSgraduate programs, the rabbinate andcantorate, scholarships, internships, andcareers.

JSP FU N D S ST U D E N T S ATCO N F E R E N C E S

For the twelfth year, the Borns JSP withsupport from the Robert A. and Sandra S.Borns JSP Endowment, subsidizedconference attendance for students. Threeundergraduate students—Joanna Blotner,Sarina Fogel, and Emily Walsh, and onegraduate student—Jeremy Shere—receivedfunding to attend JS conferences. During the2004- 2005 year, JS students will be eligibleto apply for subsidies to support attendanceat conferences related academically orprofessionally to JS.

ST U D E N T HO N O R S

Benjamin Anchill, Molly Kotlen, LeahNahmias, and Elizabeth Wood were initiatedinto Phi Beta Kappa.

Leah Nahmias and Leah Hedrick wereaccepted into Teach for America

Fifteen JS majors were named to theCollege of Arts and Sciences Spring 2004Dean’s List: Aaron Aft, Jonathan Azulay,Peri Berntsen, Jonathan Bubis, Sarina Fogel,Jonathan Ginburg, Jamie Katz, ElizabethLintott, Natalie Nachman, Jessica Reiter,

Megan Roberts,Abigail Schachter,Netta Schneller,Sonya Weisburd, andElizabeth Wood.Seventeen JS majorswere named to theFall 2003 Dean’s List:Michael Arlen, JulieAvchen, JoannaBlotner, JonathanBubis, Sarina Fogel,Dana Haffner, JamieKatz, DanielKuperstein, DerrickMurphy, NatalieNachman, MichaelRavenscroft, ErielleReshef, PhilipSherman, Susan

Shirley, Laura Siegel, Sonya Weisburd, andElizabeth Wood.

Julie Avchen, Jennifer Gubitz, JamieSnow, and Laura Siegel received Edward L.Hutton International Experience Grantsfrom the Honors College to support studyabroad. Jennifer Gubitz was awarded thePrague CET Scholarship to participate intheir semester program in JS.

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Ten IU JS students participated in the CAJE college program in 2003—(back row,left to right) Miles Roger, Emily Walsh, Leah Hedrick, Drew Kaplan, JamieSistino, Stephanie Clark, Elizabeth Foster; (front row, left to right) Jen Gubitz,Laura Siegel, Jamie Snow

Jeffrey Veidlinger, JSP Associate Director, meets with JSSA officers—(left to right) Michelle Steiman, LaurenMiller, Rachel Wilder, and Leah Hedrick.

ALUMNI NEWSWe are proud of our graduates, so many of

whom now hold important positions at majoreducational and communal organizationsthroughout the country.

Rabbi Debra Reed Blank (1977) was namedAssistant Dean of the Graduate School of JTS.She is the Rabbi Philip R. Alstat Professor ofLiturgy.

Jeffrey Bercovitz (1978) is Director of Juvenileand Family Law for the Indiana Judicial Center.

Dina Elenbogen, (1982) a successful writer,teaches at the University of Chicago’s GrahamSchool.

Judith Fink Ehrenstein (1985) is children’slibrarian at the Montgomery County PublicLibrary in Rockville, Maryland.

Sara Cogdell Bhagwandin (1986) is anattorney with Davis, Wright, Tremaine in Seattle.

Renee Hasten Halevy (1986) teaches computergraphics at Neve Yerushalayim in Israel.

Faith Salesin Becker (1987) is a speechpathologist at Hawthorn Junior High in Illinois.

Peter Malnak (1987) is DevelopmentEconomist at the U.S. Agency of InternationalDevelopment.

Andi Czarlinsky Callam (1988) and JeffCallam welcomed their second child, ClaytonAaron, in October 2003. Andi has beenappointed Groups Services Director at theLouisville JCC.

Shelly Greenwald Malmon (1988) is Directorof Administration for the BJE in Orange County.

Marcus Moir (1988) is the owner of 1st StopTravel Store in Bloomington.

Leslie Kepes Pomerantz (1988) is ExecutiveDirector of the Jewish Volunteer Connection ofBaltimore’s UJC.

Cantor Yael Fischman (1989) is AssistantDirector of the Amkolel Judaic Resource Centerin Rockville, Maryland.

Kevin Zeldin (1989) is Associate Director ofDevelopment at the Jewish Federation of St.Louis.

Leslie Abella Dahan (1990) is an immigrationlawyer in Washington, D.C.

Steven Greenberg (1990) works in marketingfor a software company in Israel.

Beth Levy Merkes (1990) is Director of theCentennial Campaign for the Jewish United Fundof Metropolitan Chicago. She was married toDavid Merkes in January 2004.

Karen Becker Sher (1990) received the 2003Grosberg Award for Leadership Dedication to theJewish community from the St. Louis Federation.

Rabbi Braham David (1991) was ordained byJTS in 2003 and is Rabbi of Temple Shalom inMedford, Massachusetts.

Reverend Scott Fouts (1991) is associate pastorof the First United Presbyterian Church inWoodville, Virginia.

Susan Lipsitz (1991) is Director of Regional

Activities for the University of Chicago.Robyn Schwartz Plaskoff (1991) and husband

Josh are the proud parents of Ryan Isaac Plaskoffborn in 2003.

Nancy Brenowitz (1992) is Director of theUndergraduate Dietetics Program at theUniversity of Maryland.

Rabbi Eli Garfinkel (1993) is a rabbi at AdathIsrael Congregation in Cincinnati.

Cheryl Garson Hays (1993) is a realtor atLong and Foster in Bethesda, Maryland.

Kevin Hovis (1993) practices general and classaction litigation in the Chicago area.

Rabbi Yael Splansky (1993) is Associate Rabbiof Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.

Jessica Bennett Mehlman (1994) isEndowment Associate at the Jewish Federation ofCentral New Jersey.

Karen Givon Feder (1995) and her husbandRabbi David Feder are the parents of twins Ari

and Orli born in October 2002. They live inMorgantown, West Virginia.

Valerie Hirschorn Frank (1995) is DonorRelations Professional at the Jewish CommunityRelations Council in Boston.

Brooke Gardberg (1995) is founder andinstructor of Urban Pilates in San Francisco.

Alexis Gruber (1995) is Program Executive inthe Volunteer and Leadership DevelopmentDivision at the UJA Federation of New York.

Bruce Hoffman (1995) is Assistant Professor ofSociology and Anthropology at Ohio University.

Matt Davidson, (1996) Assistant Director ofthe USC Hillel, produced a Passover documentary“Our Mother’s Recipe” that was aired on PBS.He received the 2004 Guild of Temple MusiciansYoung Composer’s Award for his song-cycle forShabbat.

Arin Frome (1996) is a consultant for CCSFundraising.

Jonathan Greenberg (1996) is a rabbinicalstudent at HUC-JIR.

Meryl Hamerman (1996) is Assistant Editor atHarper Collins Publishing.

Gina Lewald-Fass (1996) is Vice-Principal ofthe Temple Sholom religious school in

Greenwich, CT. She and Jonathan Fass (1996) arethe parents of Michal born July 22, 2002. (Seephoto on this page.)

Beth Udisky (1996) is Director of AdolescentOutpatient Services at Stillwater Associates inCleveland.

Stefanie Kupersmith Albertson (1997) isAssistant Manager of Training Development forTarget Corporation.

Alberta Comer (1997) is Lending ServicesLibrarian at Indiana State University.

Matthew Curran (1997) is an attorney withthe Cincinnati firm Thompson Hine whichspecializes in business litigation.

Jennifer Hedderich Dubinsky (1997) is ateacher at Canty Elementary in Chicago.

Missy Dobbins (1998) is Speciality SalesRepresentative for TAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. inAtlanta.

Bryan Esenberg (1998) is Assistant Director ofPublic Affairs for the Japan External TradeOrganization.

Jamie Harris-Gershon (1998) and her husbandDavid are the proud parents of a baby girl,Mayan. We are so pleased that Jamie hasrecovered from her injuries suffered in theSummer 2001 Hebrew University cafeteriabombing.

Rachel Murov (1998) is the Mid-AtlanticDevelopment Director of AIPAC.

Stefanie Kreitzman Rhodes (1998) is ProgramManager for the Jewish Funders Network inNYC.

Gary Shyken (1998) and his wife Lee are theparents of Shmuel Aaron Shyken, born January16, 2004.

Jared Hershenson (1999) and his wife Jessicaare the parents of Samuel Moshe born January12, 2004. Jared is a resident in pediatrics at JohnsHopkins.

Kate Hirschfeld (1999) is Director ofDevelopment and Helping Hearts coordinator atthe Tree of Knowledge Learning Centers inCleveland.

Libby Katz Hogan, (1999) the co-administrator of Congregation Beth Shalom inBloomington, is the mother of Kobi and Maya.

Elise Kleinman (1999) produces commercialsin Chicago.

David Orensten (1999) is an attorney at Porter,Wright, Morris & Arthur in Columbus, Ohio.

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Gina Lewald-Fass, Jonathon Fass, and baby Michal

Adam Tennen (1999) is with the PlanningDepartment of the Jewish Community Federationof Cleveland.

Caryl Berman Auslander (2000) is the PublicPolicy Specialist for the American Association ofBlood Banks.

Jenny Baumel (2000) is Research Analyst forthe California State University Office of theChancellor.

Kate Breiter (2000) and Eytan Uslan (2001)join a growing number of other Borns JSPcouples. They were married this summer.

Leslie Cohen (2000) completed her graduatedegree from the Drachler Program in JewishCommunal Leadership at the University ofMichigan. She is a clinical social worker at JewishFamily Services in West Bloomfield, Michigan.Leslie and Andy Kastner (2002) will be marriedin December. Andy is spending the year studyingin Israel in preparation for rabbinical school.

Tamara Gilson (2000) is AdministrativeAssistant in Sales and Catering at the WarnerCenter Marriott in Woodland Hills, California.

Lindsay Glazer (2000) is a public defender inBroward County, Florida and is engaged to JasonWarshofsky.

Neil Graf (2000) is production supervisor atIU’s Center for Survey Research.

Allison Gutnik (2000) is Youth Director atWest Suburban Temple in Chicago.

Jennifer Joseph (2000) is news anchor at News24 in Houston.

Shauna Replane Leavey (2000) is AssistantPrincipal of the religious school of BaltimoreHebrew Congregation.

Suzanne Levine (2000) is the AccountExecutive at the Dallas office of Publicis Dialog, anational public relations firm.

David Roth (2000) is a graduate student at JTS.Mike Walter (2000) is the 8th grade program

coordinator at Community Midrasha in Durham.He is also teaching 4th grade Sunday school and5th grade Hebrew School for the Judea ReformCongregation.

Jessica Auerbach (2001) is an Associate ofFinancial Resource Development for the JewishFederation of Greater Washington.

Elissa Brown (2001) is a preschool teacher inLexington, Kentucky.

Karen Cohen (2001) is Online OperationsManager for House of Representatives minorityleader Nancy Pelosi.

Jennifer Grubb (2001) is Research Associate atthe University of Chicago.

Sara LeWinter (2001) is Assistant RegionalDirector of Rocky Mountain BBYO.

Emily Lipp (2001) is Legislative Assistant forRepresentative Baron Hill. She is engaged toDavid Sirota and will be married in January2005.

Emily Malinowski (2001) is Coordinator ofMarketing and Community Relations at theRubin Museum of Art in New York City.

David Reinwald, (2001) a cantorial student atHUC was the featured cantor in the livebroadcast of The Gotham Radio Playerspresentation of “The Battle of the WarsawGhetto” on WBAI in New York City.

Will Smith (2001) is pursuing a master’s degreeat the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Americaseminary.

Jason Vaught (2001) is pursuing a master’sdegree in Central Eurasian Studies at IU. He isspending the year studying in Jerusalem.

Joanne Weingarten (2001) is a doctoral studentin clinical psychology at Phillips GraduateInstitute in California.

Alissa Wise (2001) is a rabbinical student atthe Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary.

Robert Cating (2002) has begun a Ph.D.program in plant medicine at the University ofFlorida.

Raneat Cohen (2002) is a student at the IUOptometry School.

Stefanie Corn (2002) is Assistant Producer forManning Productions in Chicago.

Joel Goldsmith (2002) is a buyer with GeneralMills and Kallah Coordinator at Adath JeshurunSynagogue in Minnesota.

Jill Hibshman (2002) completed her secondyear of medical school at Emory University.

Diana Kogan (2002) is the sole recipient of theprestigious Ralph I. Goldman Fellowship inInternational Jewish Communal Service of theAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.She is a graduate of the Drachler Program inJewish Communal Leadership at the University ofMichigan.

Gabriel Lewin (2002) was drama instructor atCarr Lane Visual and Performing Arts MiddleSchool in St. Louis through Teach for Americalast year and is currently studying at a yeshiva inIsrael.

Jonathan Lipnick, (2002) who is pursuing amaster’s degree in Religious Studies at HUJ, isengaged to Hila Eisenberg.

Jenny Micon (2002) is a PA in the ArtDepartment at Paramount Pictures.

Brant Moriarity (2002) is an AdmissionsAssistant with IU Admissions.

Miriam Pullman (2002) is a graduate studentat Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute ofReligion in Jewish Communal Service.

Josh Samis (2002) is a law student at EmoryUniversity.

Sarah Strnad (2002) is AdministrativeAssistant in the Israel, Zionism, & InternationalAffairs Department of Hadassah.

Scott Zuick (2002) completed his second yearat the IU School of Medicine.

Yuval Asner (2003) is a first year medicalstudent at IU in Indianapolis.

Jen Bell (2003) is a campaign associate withthe Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis.

Mat Bloom, (2003) formerly on staff at theAmerican Jewish Committee in Chicago, is a lawstudent at Kent Law School.

Rachel Conroy (2003) is a student in theDrachler Program for Jewish CommunalLeadership at the University of Michigan.

Asa Fradkin (2003) is a cantorial student at JTS.Traci Geffon (2003) is a graphic designer at

ADX, Inc. in California.Andrea Jury (2003) is youth groups advisor;

religious school and Hebrew teacher at TempleJeremiah in Northfield, Illinois.

Tamilyn Millspaugh (2003) was married to AriLeinwand on August 17, 2003.

Jenni Steinberg (2003) completed her first yearof law school at the New England School of Lawin Boston.

The Borns JSP takes pride in the achievementsof its alumni and is always pleased to hear oftheir personal and professional accomplishments.Please send your news and current mailing and e-mail address to clipsonw@indiana.edu.

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OUR FACULTYJoëlle Bahloul pursued her ethnographic

research on the Jews of France. Her article“Jews in France” will be featured in theEncyclopedia of Diasporas (KluwerAcademic/Plenum Publ., Fall 2004). Thisresearch has also resulted in an article on“Sephardic Diasporas since the 1950s,” tobe published in French in Le MondeSépharade, a volume on Sephardic historyand culture edited by Shmuel Trigano (Paris,2005). Professor Bahloul also contributedthe entry on “Judaism” in the Encyclopediaof Food and Culture (Charles Scribners,2003). The Spanish edition of herethnography of reading in France LecturasPrecarias was published by Fondo deCultura Economica (2003). She gave theYedida Kalfon-Stillman Memorial Lecture atthe University of Oklahoma on “SephardicWomen in France: Gender Emancipationand the Republic.” She also participated inthe Stanford University conference on“Jewish Conceptions of Space and Place”where she spoke on “The Meaning of theOld Jewish Quarter.” At the University ofChicago conference, “Practice of EverydayLife,” she spoke about the collectivememory of the domestic space in theformation of migrants’ identity. In Spring2004, she gave a presentation on“Antisemitism and the Jews of France” forthe JSP’s New Institute.

Jack Bielasiak’s research ondemocratization in the former communiststates led to the publication of“Consolidating Electoral Democracy inPostcommunist States” in Donald R. Kelley,ed. After Communism: Perspectives onDemocracy (University of Arkansas Press,2003), and “Party Competition in EmergingDemocracies: Representation andEffectiveness,” Studies in Public Policy,Center for the Study of Public Policy,University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,November 2003. As a follow up to hiscourses “The Holocaust and Politics” and“The Politics of Tyranny,” he developed anew course on “The Politics of Genocide,” asurvey of the major 20th century genocides.

Professor Bielasiak is the DistinguishedFulbright Chair in East European Studies atWarsaw University in Fall 2004.

Jerome Copulsky earned his Ph.D. fromthe University of Chicago Divinity School inMarch, 2004, completing his dissertation“Between Exile and Redemption: PoliticalTheology and the Shaping of Modern JewishThought.” Dr. Copulsky was a popularteacher during his 3 semesters at IU. Wewish him well as he joins the faculty ofVirginia Tech’s Department of ReligiousStudies.

Susan Gubar spent Spring/Summer 2004on a Bogliosco Fellowship at the LiguriaStudy Center for Artists and Humanists inItaly completing a book In Rooms of OurOwn about the inroads of feminism inhigher education. Her Poetry AfterAuschwitz: Remembering What One NeverKnew was published by IU Press in 2003.She received a fellowship from IU’s Institutefor the Arts and Humanities to work on abook of essays on the ongoing impact of theShoah on contemporary fiction, film, andpoetry.

Stephen Katz published the first of aseries of studies on how modern AmericanHebrew writers represented other minoritygroups to their readers. His article, “To Beas Others: E.E. Lisitzky’s Re-presentation ofNative Americans,” appeared in HebrewUnion College Annual. Research grantsfrom the Memorial Foundation for JewishCulture, the Borns JSP, the Department ofNear Eastern Languages and Cultures, andthe College of Arts and Humanities Institutesupported his research on the representationof Afro-Americans and Native-Americans inmodern Hebrew literature. Professor Katzcontinues as Director of the ModernHebrew language program.

Dov-Ber Kerler edited and publishedvolume 27 of the periodical collection ofYiddish language and culture, YerusholaimerAlmanakh (Jerusalem, 2003) which includedoriginal fiction, poetry, essays and scholarlycontributions by over thirty authors. Hepresented a paper,”Yiddish Cultural Life inMoscow in the 1960s” at a conference“Soviet & Kosher: A Century of Jewish

Culture in Russia” at the University ofToronto. In May 2004 he delivered“Remnants of Prewar East European PurimPlays in Living Memory” at the BerkeleyYiddish Conference at the University ofCalifornia. He continued to publish Yiddishpoetry under the pen-name Boris Karloff inthe Yiddish weekly Forverts; the Tel Avivbimonthly Lebns-fragn; and the ChicagoYIVO Society Newsletter. He developed andmaintains a simple web-portal “YiddishToday,” which offers updated links to onlinesources, resources, and some vitalinformation on contemporary Yiddish press,theater, cultural centers in various citiesthroughout the world, as well as Yiddishmusic, audio, video and texts online(http://www.geocities.com/berkale/).

Matthias B. Lehmann finished work onhis book Ladino Rabbinic Literature andOttoman Sephardic Culture to be publishedby IU Press. He published “Ladino ReligiousLiterature” in Jewish Studies Between theDisciplines (Brill, 2003) and presented a talkat the Association for Jewish Studiesconference. He received research grantsfrom the Borns JSP and the Maurice AmadoFoundation for work on his project,tentatively entitled “Livorno and theSephardi Mediterranean in the EighteenthCentury.” Professor Lehmann offered a newcourse on “Jews, Christians, and Muslims inthe Medieval Near East,” co-taught withProfessor Edward Watts of the Departmentof History. He initiated a new overseasprogram for the JSP, “The Jewish Experienceof Modern Germany.”

Herbert Marks is working on a newedition of the Hebrew Bible in English (to bepublished by W. W. Norton). His essay“Poetry and Memory” will appear in acollection Ars Memoriae: Mémorisation,Remémoration, Oubli, ed. Marie-ChristineLemardeley (Presses Universitaires deFrance). He chaired a panel and gave apaper on “Places, Memories, Citations” atthe annual meeting of the AmericanComparative Literature Association.

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On September 19, 2003, EmilFackenheim died in Jerusalem. MichaelMorgan spoke at the funeral and then thirtydays later, at the memorial service at HolyBlossom Temple in Toronto. ProfessorMorgan’s lecture on Fackenheim and theHolocaust was presented as the featuredpresentation at an event in memory ofFackenheim at the University of Judaism,and he has written essays on Fackenheimthat will appear in Shofar and in YadVashem Studies. He also gave talks at theCollege of William and Mary, in Boston, inMemphis, and in Baltimore, as well as at theColloquium on Ancient Greek Philosophy atthe University of Arizona. Professor Morganorganized and directed a conference at IU onEmmanuel Levinas and Ludwig Wittgenstein,at which he gave a paper on “Levinas,Judaism, and Ritual.” He is the co-editor ofPhilosopher as Witness: Fackenheim andResponses to the Holocaust, to be publishedby SUNY Press, and is editing the CambridgeCompanion to Modern Jewish Philosophy.He is revising a completed book manuscripton the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas andis at work on several invited essays—on theHolocaust and philosophy, genocide,revelation in Judaism and modernist thought,providence and evil, and the work of EmilFackenheim. During the year, Morgan wasnamed as Chancellor’s Professor.

Mark Roseman joined the JSP faculty inJanuary 2004 as the Pat M. Glazer Chair inJS. He was awarded the 2003 GeschwisterScholl Prize for his book In EinemUnbewachten Augenblick which appeared inthe previous year. He co-organized theconference “From Empire to FederalRepublic: Elites, Violence, and Society inGerman History” held in New York inFebruary 2003. The conference volume willbe published by Berghahn Pressin 2005.German History from the Margins, which heis co-editing, will be published in 2005 by IUPress. His article “Ideas, Contexts and thePursuit of Genocide” appeared in the May2003 issue of the Bulletin of the GermanHistorical Institute (London). He completed

a chapter on the Wannsee Conference for anedited collection in honor of the historianJeremy Noakes and another chapter ongeneration conflict in German history thatwill appear in a German collection. He spokeon “Generations as Imagined Communities”at the conference “Generationen,” at theHamburger Institut für Sozialforschung inJune 2003; and “Writing the Biography of aHolocaust Survivor” at “Towards aBiographical Turn,” held at the GermanHistorical Institute in Washington, D.C. inMarch 2004. He presented “BetweenFanaticism and Banality: Understanding thePerpetrators of the Holocaust” at theUniversity of Southampton. In 2003, he wasinvited to join the academic advisory councilof the Haus der Wannsee Konferenz inBerlin.

Alvin Rosenfeld continued to researchand write about Holocaust literature andalso saw into print several publications onpresent-day antisemitism. Podwójna Smiec:Rozwazania O Literaturze Holocaustu, aPolish translation of his book, A DoubleDying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature,appeared in Warsaw (Cyklady, 2004). His“Feeling Alone, Again: The Growing Uneaseamong Germany’s Jews” was reprinted inBest Jewish Writing 2003, ed. ArthurKurzweil. The American Jewish Committeepublished and widely circulated his Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: A NewFrontier of Bigotry and Anti-Zionism inGreat Britain and Beyond: A ‘Respectable’Anti-Semitism? A Hungarian translation ofthe former title appeared in Budapest, andone of his essays on Anne Frank,“Popularisering en herinnering–het gevalAnne-Frank,” was published in theNetherlands. Professor Rosenfeld presenteda paper about Anne Frank at a conference at

the University of Toronto, “The Holocaustin the Netherlands: Comparisons,Assessments, and Significance,” in March.He contributed a paper, “Antisemitism(s):Traditional, Modern, Post-Modern,” at“Global Antisemitism: An InternationalConference,” in Montreal, also in March. InApril he chaired the sessions on Hungarian-Jewish history and literature at the IUconference, “Imre Kertesz in Perspective:Hungarian and Jewish Culture in the 20th

Century,” and in May he gave one of the2004 Taubman Lectures at the University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara: “The Anne FrankWe Remember.” In addition to his activitiesas a member of the Academic Committee ofthe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,Professor Rosenfeld continues to serve as amember of the museum’s governing council.For the sixth year in a row, he chaired thecommittee that selects the winner of theKoret Foundation Jewish Book Award in thecategory of Jewish fiction. He also continueshis long-term work at the IU Press as editorof the IU Press series on Jewish Literatureand Culture and serves as well as theDirector of IU’s newly established Institutefor Jewish Culture and the Arts.

Marci Shore received the Trustee’sTeaching Award in 2004. She presentedseveral papers this year, including “Love inthe Time of Revolution: Intimacy, Betrayaland Marxism” at the workshop “LoveAcross European Borders” at theKulturwissenchaftliches Institut in Essen,Germany; “Children of the Revolution: AWarsaw Family Story” at the seminar series“Borderlands: The Shatter-Zone ofEmpires” at Brown University; and “‘AndThey Didn’t Even Invite Me to Say a FewWords. . . ’: How Warsaw’s Fin-de-siècleGeneration Departed from Marxism” at the

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JS ALUMNI REUNIONPLANNEDSeptember, 2005Many of the more than 500 alumni ofthe JSP will be gathering in Bloomingtonfor the first JSP Alumni Reunion onSeptember 23-25, 2005. To receiveinformation about the reunion, alumnishould log onto the JSP’s website inSpring 2005:http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/.

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Congress of the American Association forthe Advancement of Slavic Studies inToronto. She taught three new courses: anundergraduate seminar on Europeanintellectuals and Marxism; anundergraduate lecture course on EasternEurope under communism; and a graduatecolloquium on cosmopolitanism and theavant-garde in East-Central Europe, 1900-1939. She will be spending the academicyear at the Institut fur Wissenschaften vonMenschen in Vienna.

Dina Spechler presented a paper entitled“Realism or Great Power Activism:Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Since9/11” at the Conference of the InternationalStudies Association and the Central and EastEuropean Studies Association in Budapest,Hungary. She continues working on herstudy of radical innovation in foreign policy,analyzing and comparing several importantcases in the second half of the 20th century,including the decision by Egyptian PresidentSadat to recognize Israel and the decision byIsraeli Prime Minister Rabin to recognize thePLO.

Jeffrey Veidlinger became AssociateDirector of the Borns JSP. He published“Soviet Jewry as a Diaspora Nationality:The ‘Black Years’ Reconsidered” in EastEuropean Jewish Affairs and “TheHistorical and Ethnographic Constructionof Russian Jewry” in Ab Imperio. He gavepresentations at the American Associationfor the Advancement of Slavic Studiesconvention; the “Soviet and Kosher: ACentury of Jewish Life in Russia”conference in Toronto; the Klutznick HarrisSymposium in Omaha; and “The Revolution

of 1905: A Turning Point in Jewish History”conference in Jerusalem. He also presented alecture at the University of Wisconsin as partof the Jewish Heritage Series. He deliveredseveral papers as part of lecture series andseminars on the IU campus, and participatedin the 2004 New Institute. Together withProfessor Dov-Ber Kerler, he continues toparticipate in the IU Yiddish Ethnographic Project to interview the last Yiddish speakersof Ukraine in situ. He is also continuing work on his forthcoming book on Jewishcultural associations in Russia during the interrevolutionary era.

Dror Wahrman spent the year at theNewberry Library, funded by an ACLSBurkhardt Fellowship, working on a projectin part, on what was G-d doing in the 18thcentury. His book The Making of theModern Self was published by YaleUniversity Press in June 2004. He acceptedthe directorship of the newly founded 18th

Century Group on the IU campus. He isspending Fall 2004 in Jerusalem.

Steven Weitzman began the 2003-2004year as the new director of the Borns JSP.The Irving M. Glazer Chair in JS, herecently completed a book entitled SurvivingSacrilege: Cultural Persistence in JewishAntiquity, forthcoming from HarvardUniversity Press in Spring 2005. Otherrecent publications include “King David’sSpin Doctors,” Prooftexts 23 (2003);“Myth, History and Mystery in the CopperScroll,” in The Idea of BiblicalInterpretation, eds., H. Najman and J.Newman (Brill, 2004); and “PlottingAntiochus’s Persecution,” Journal of BiblicalLiterature (2004). Weitzman’s current

projects include co-writing an introductionto Jewish civilization and co-editing acollection of essays on self-formation inJewish, Christian, and pagan antiquity inwhich he has an essay entitled “Self-Reformin Deuteronomy.”

Cover artwork from MS Kaufmann A77 appears bypermission of the Library of the Hungarian Academyof Sciences.

Artwork on page 4 from Ketubah, Oran, Algeria,1847, Ket 268. Courtesy of the Library of the JewishTheological Seminary.

Artwork on page 11 from Haggadah; Scribe: Josephben David Leimpnik, Darmstadt, 1733, ms. 4452a,folio 18r. Courtesy of the Library of the JewishTheological Seminary.

Artwork on page 15 from Mishneh Torah by Mosesben Maimon, Spain, 15th century, ms. R1618.Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary.

Artwork on page 21 from Ketubbah (Marriagecontract), Herat, Afghanistan, 1867, Ket 270.Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary.

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JSP FA C U LT Y

James S. AckermanProfessor (Emeritus), Religious StudiesReligion of Ancient Israel; Bible

Joëlle BahloulAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies andAnthropologySocial and Cultural Anthropology of Judaismand the Jews

Ronnie Be’eriLecturer in Jewish StudiesModern Hebrew

Nurit Ben YehudaVisiting Lecturer in Jewish StudiesModern Hebrew

Jack BielasiakProfessor, Political Science and Russian andEast European InstitutePolitics of the Holocaust

Marc CaplanLecturer in Comparative LiteratureYiddish Literature; African Literature

Jerome CopulskyVisiting Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Lecturerin Judaism, Jewish Studies, and ReligiousStudiesJudaism

Paul D. EisenbergProfessor (Emeritus), PhilosophyJewish Philosophy

Henry FischelProfessor (Emeritus), Near EasternLanguages and CulturesHebrew; Aramaic; Talmud; IntertestamentalLiterature

Susan GubarDistinguished Professor of EnglishHolocaust Literature

Jeffrey IsaacRudy Professor of Political SciencePolitical Theory

Irving KatzProfessor (Emeritus), HistoryAmerican Jewish History

Stephen KatzAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies; Directorof Modern Hebrew Program Hebrew; Israeli Culture; Modern HebrewLiterature

Dov-Ber KerlerDr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies;Jewish Studies and Germanic StudiesYiddish Studies

Matthias LehmannAssistant Professor, Jewish Studies and HistoryJews in Islamic Lands and Medieval Spain;Sephardic Literature; Ottoman-JewishHistory; 19th Century German Jewry

Nancy LeveneAssociate Professor, Religious StudiesModern Jewish and European ReligiousThought

Shaul MagidJay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in JewishStudies; Jewish Studies and Religious StudiesModern Jewish Religious Experience;Hasidism

Herbert J. MarksAssociate Professor, Comparative LiteratureBiblical and Literary Studies

Michael L. MorganChancellor’s Professor, Jewish Studies andPhilosophyJewish Philosophy

Mark RosemanPat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Historyand Jewish StudiesHistory of the Holocaust; History ofAntisemitism; German-Jewish History

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director, Institutefor Jewish Culture and the ArtsProfessor, English and Jewish StudiesLiterature of the Holocaust; American JewishLiterature

Miryam SegalAssistant Professor, Jewish Studies andComparative LiteratureModern Hebrew Literature and Language

Marci ShoreAssistant Professor, HistoryPolish-Jewish History; Jewish Intellectualand Cultural History in Modern Europe

Dina R. SpechlerAssociate Professor, Political ScienceIsraeli Foreign Policy

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Associate Director, JSPAssociate Professor, Jewish Studies and HistoryModern Jewish History; East EuropeanJewish History; Russian History

Dror Wahrman,Associate Professor, HistoryCultural History and History of OttomanPalestine and Israel

Steven Weitzman, Director, JSPIrving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies Bible and Early Judaism

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