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Annoucement - Jewlib Digital Archive Library

2009-11-05T14:53:00.005+03:30

As some of you obviously noticed, there was a break in publishing new posts on the Salon Jewish Studies Blog during the last months. The reason is, that we are working on a new project, called Jewlib - Digital Archive Library of Primary Sources for Jewish History and Cultures. This project is a work in progress, like the Salon Jewish Studies. The aims of the project are (among others):

the inter-connection of data on Jewish Studies research collections by embedding the data in a larger context; see: http://www.freebase.com/view/en/build_a_base
creation of topic-oriented "views" to, e.g. Judaica-owners, personal paper collections or private book collections
creation of topic-oriented platforms on Jewish Studies fields, e.g. Jewish Studies Research, Jewish Press

Please notice, that some parts of the project have just started. For this reason there are a few content-related gaps. But, we are working on it ;)

As you also could imagine, the data contribution to Jewlib takes a lot of time and we cannot publish news frequently to this Blog. For this reason we decided to change to micro-blogging service Twitter in the long term. Follow us on twitter.

New PaRDeS-issue "100jähriges Jubiläum Tel Avivs"

2009-11-03T01:12:00.010+03:30

On the occasion of Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary also the journal Pardes which is published yearly by the Vereinigung Jüdische Studien e.V., presents a vivid view on "white city on the sands".

The issue PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. [15 (2009)] = 100jähriges Jubiläum Tel Avivs includes following articles and essays:

Anita Shapira - Tel Aviv, a White City on the Sands
Philipp Messner - Tel Aviv und die Revolution des hebräischen Schriftbilds
Sarah Wittkopf - Von der Einwanderung der Jekim zu ihrer politischen Partizipation bei den Wahlen zum Tel Aviver Stadtrat im Jahr 1936
Ulrich Knufinke - Building a Modern Jewish City: Projects of the Architect Wilhelm Zeev Haller in Tel Aviv
Elvira Grözinger - Tel Aviv in der neueren israelischen Literatur: Von der Weißen Stadt am Meer“ zum „Moloch“
Nir Mualam - Debating Historic Preservation in Israel: The Case of Tel Aviv
Yona Ginsberg - Regulating Public Space: The “Religious” Beach of Tel Aviv
Rick Kuhn - Jüdischer Antizionismus in der sozialistischen Bewegung Galiziens
Nathanael Riemer - Jüdische Friedhöfe in Europa – Ein Plädoyer für Online-Dokumentationen
Admiel Kosman - What did Cain say to Abel?

Furthermore it contains a huge number of reviews.

London Metropolitan University East End Archive: The Paul Trevor Collection

2009-07-19T21:38:00.003+04:30

Photographs from the Paul Trevor Collection are available online via VADS: "Academics and artists at London Metropolitan University worked with photographer Paul Trevor to make a selection of his images of East London digitally available to artists, students and researchers. The Collection includes 500 images (chosen from a total of 120,000) of the Spitalfields area from the 1970s to the 1990s, a period of rapid social and physical change." The online collection contains a few pictures documenting Jewish daily life in the area.

New titles in the Historic Jewish Press project

2009-07-10T14:09:00.004+04:30

In the framework of the Historic Jewish Press project at the JNUL the Jewish newspapers Davar (1925-1968), Ha-Zvi (1884-1915) and La Liberté / El Horria (1915-1922) have been digitized. Now ten newspapers are available online.

Literature on Tel-Aviv in the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

2009-06-19T03:45:00.011+04:30

The comprehensive Eliasaf Robinson Collectio n on the history of Tel-Aviv at Stanford University Libraries includes a number of digitized books, brochures and serials that are now available online. The quality of the material in general is rather good. Some of it is "grey literature" that is hard to find in libraries. Most of the texts are in Hebrew, some in Yiddish. There are some German and English titles too. Some examples:

Keren Hayesod (ed.), Tel-Aviv [English], Jerusalem 1926.
Jehuda Nedivi, Tel-Aviv [German], Jerusalem 1929.
Maccabiah 1932: 28. March - 6. April, Tel-Aviv.
Worl Union for Gymnastics & Sport "Maccabee" (ed.), First Maccabiah, Palestine 1932.
G. Hanoch, Die jüdische Stadt Tel Aviv, Jerusalem 1932.
Zionist Information Bureau for Tourists in Palestine (ed.), Guide to New Palestine, Jerusalem 1933.
Palestine Union (ed.), Commercial and Economic Guide of Tel-Aviv, also Jerusalem, with map of Tel-Aviv, 1933.
A. Z. Ben Jischai, Tel Aviv [German], Jerusalem 1936.
The Palestine Review, 1936/37.
E. Mechner, The New Palestine in Pictures: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 1937.
Yehuda Nedivi, Benjamin Maisler, Samuel Yeivin, und Martin Feuchtwanger, Guide to Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Tel Aviv 1941.

[Picture: Title of ha-Ir Tel-Aviv, unknown designer, 1932]

EU gives millions to preserve Auschwitz

2009-06-04T23:37:00.001+04:30

"The European Union will give €4.2 million ($5.9 million) to help preserve Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp which more than six decades after the World War II is in a state of serious disrepair." Read more in the online version of the Jerusalem Post.

Podcast Series - Jews in Business: Myth and Reality

2009-06-04T10:35:00.004+04:30

The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania started the public podcast series Jews in Business: Myth and Reality. Three Podcast are available at the moment:

Jonathan Karp - A Head Without a Body? Reconstructing the History of Jews in Business
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz - Kinship, Commerce, and Trade Networks: The Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora
Adam Teller - Before Rothschild: Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth Century Eastern Europe

Conference: Jews of Arab Culture, 1948-2009

2009-05-27T22:26:00.002+04:30

The conference Jews of Arab Culture, 1948-2009 will be held from 22 - 24 June 2009 at Cambridge University. The conference is organized by the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (CMJR) and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.

"While the study of medieval and early modern Judaeo-Arabic culture & literature is a comparatively well established field in Western academia, there exists so far no comprehensive study of the more recent Arabic literature written by Jews. Central aspects of the last sixty years of Jewish-Arabic culture and literature have not yet been systematically surveyed and studied.
The conference will attempt to fill this gap and explore various aspects of the process of 'De-Arabization' of the literary culture of "Arab Jews" since the 1940s. How did Jews (Jewish writers) who emigrated to Israel from different parts of the Arab world react or even resist this transformational process and how did it impact on the Palestinian literature? The conference will consist of six sessions, five of which will be dedicated to a specific region in the Arab world and explore the literature and culture within the respective Jewish community:

Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)
Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
Egypt, Libya, Sudan
Israel & Palestine
Hebrew literature in Arabic and Arabic literature
in Hebrew: the ideology behind translations."

New Medaon-Issue Online (German)

2009-05-07T14:13:00.007+04:30

The fourth issue of the online-journal Medaon. Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung is available. The journal is published by Hatikva - Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Sachsen e.V..

An article on Digital Jewish Collections and the "Salon Jewish Studies" project was published in that issue.

Content

Articles http://www.medaon.de/artikel.html

Anja Horstmann | „Judenaufnahmen fürs Archiv“ – Das dokumentarische Filmmaterial „Asien in Mitteleuropa“, 1942

Ingo Loose | Die Ambivalenz des Authentischen. Juden, Holocaust und Antisemitismus im deutschen Film nach 1945

Sabine Haustein, Anja Waller | Jüdische Settlements in Europa. Ansätze einer transnationalen sozial-, geschlechter- und ideenhistorischen Forschung

Victoria Hegner | Wenn Migranten religiös werden – Die „Renaissance“ des Chassidismus und die Rolle der baalai teshuva am Beispiel von Chicago

Miscellanea http://www.medaon.de/miszellen.html

Frank Wolff | Historiography on the General Jewish Labor Bund. Traditions, Tendencies and Expectations

Jana Mikota | Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen – wieder entdeckt: Bertha Badt-Strauss auf den Spuren vergessener Jüdinnen in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren

Sources http://www.medaon.de/quellen.html

Edgar Bönisch, Birgit Seemann | Jüdische Pflegegeschichte in Frankfurt am Main

Frank Schlöffel | Digitale jüdische Quellen und ihre Sammlung im Online-Portal Salon Jüdische Studien

Heike Liebsch | „Holocaust and Heroism Memorial House“. Ein kleines Privatmuseum in Ariel wartet auf seine wissenschaftliche Auswertung

Peter Ambros | Was am Wichtigsten im Leben ist, geht dich nichts an! – Die Welt der Kinder der Überlebenden

Education http://www.medaon.de/bildung.html

Michaela Baetz | „Wenn Mokkatassen sprechen – Mediale Konzepte gegen Antisemitismus“. Eine Projektbeschreibung oder „Das ist was ganz anderes als ein Geschichtsbuch“

And reviews http://www.medaon.de/rezension.html

Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XV

2009-05-07T12:14:00.005+04:30

Help through the cultural heritage protection organization „Blue Shield“
A bus full of archivists and conservators left Den Haag on April 26, 2009 morning to support the recovery and rescue of material at the collapsed Cologne Historical Archive (CHA). 75 experts from France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and America will help for a week.
On May 5, 2009 it was reported that in four days nearly 2 (shelf)km were processed. Besides compliments, some supportes at the scene also express critical points (extract from Archivalia May 4, 2009):

"I noticed that German archivists see their job mainly as administration not tradition (store and prepare heritage)…
Double or not relevant material is not separated from the inventory, so the collections are unorganized and confus. In Germany not much of the material is assorted and rearranged, many documents are in original packages (as they came) and rivets and clips are not removed systematically.
The German colleagues did a good job on organizing transport and accommodation for 80 people from abroad.
More supervision during the work was needed. Some of the volunteers had no experiences in archival work and were confused by the registration of the documents. Nobody checked our work, it seemed that the organization focuses on speed. This was successful in any case, in four days, nearly 2 (shelf)km processed!"

Archival collections recoverd from the intact archive cellar on April 21, 2009
The fire department recovered 850 (shelf) m of inventory from the intact archive cellar of the collapsed building – mostly newspapers but also parts of private papers and collections.
Among others the personal collections of Wallraf and Schneider-Wessling were recovered intactly from archive cellar:
" .... The rescued material is in proper condition, the speaker of the fire department Daniel Leupold announced. The ceiling of the room was able to bear the weight while other parts collapsed. The fire department recovered the material through the back of the building with the help of a seven meter ramp and rolling containers.
The complete collections of the architect Prof. Erich Schneider-Wessling and the author Günter Wallraf were stored in this cellar. Wallraf received the message that his 200 boxes with material were recovered while arguing with lawyers. ‘Today, I celebrate my second birthday’ Wallraf announced. Wallraf calls it lucky because he just needed a part of his material for a current project.
Schneider-Wessling is also happy that his work from the last 50 years is accessible again, originals of plans, competition papers, sketches and much more…” (Koelner Stadtanzeiger , April 21, 2009)

Former Summaries
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV, Tuesday April 20th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIII, April 2nd 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XII, March 24th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XI, March 21th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse X, March 20th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IX, March 18th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VIII, March 17th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VII, March 15th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VI, March 13th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse V, March 12th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IV, March 11th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse III, March 10th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse II, March 09th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse I, March 08 th 2009

SEE ALSO
COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP
International Blue Shield Mission

GERMAN
http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive

Solidarity group on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58486607084

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance: Sources and Encounters An international conference at the University of Haifa, May 11-13, 2009

2009-04-30T21:29:00.002+04:30

The conference Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance, held from May 11-13, 2009 at Haifa University "will explore the rich and multifaceted interactions of Jewish and Hebraic culture with the Renaissance world, roughly during the period 1350 to 1650. Following several fruitful RSA panels devoted to the theme, we now hope to bring the subject into sharper focus." (via H-Judaic)

Timetable:

Day 1
8:30-9:00
Registration and gathering, coffee

9:00-9:45
Welcome notes
Chair: Ilana Zinguer
Ambassadeur de France / Attaché Culturel
Dean / Rector
Ilana Zinguer (Centre de recherche de Civilisation Fran?aise)

9:45-10:45
Keynote I
Chair: Ilana Zinguer
Georges Molinié (Président, Sorbonne, Paris IV)
Postures et images juives par rapport à la culture baroque

Pause-------------------------

11:00-12:30
Kabbalah I
Chair: Bernard Cooperman
Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale di Pisa)
Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah
Roni Weinstein (University of Pisa)
Sixteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism as a Catholic Baroque Phenomenon
Yossi Chajes (University of Haifa)
It's Good to See the King : Toward an Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Jewish Cosmological Cartography

12:30
Lunch break

14:00-15:30
Kabbalah II
Chair: Lina Bolzoni
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland)
Kabbalistic Enthusiasms of a Rabbi for Hire. The Sermons of Isaac di Lattes
Sheila Rabin (St. Peter's College)
Pico, Astrology, and Kabbalah
Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University)
Notes on the Poetry of Moses Zacuto

Pause-------------------------

15:45-17:30
Religious Identities and Contexts I
Chair: Frank Lestringuant (Paris Sorbonne)
Ilana Zinguer (University of Haifa)
L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome (Journal de Voyage, Montaigne)
Annie Molinié (Sorbonne, Paris IV) and
Béatrice Perez (Université de Rennes)
Les premiers jésuites d'origine "conversa" (deuxième moitié du XVIe siècle): Diego Lainez, Polanco et les autres
Giuseppe Veltri (University of Halle)
Defining Jewish “Rituals” in the Early Modern Period: History of a Philosophical-Political Concept

17:30-18:00
Coffee break-------------------------

18:00-19:00
Keynote II
Chair: Abraham Melamed
Joanna Weinberg (Oxford University)
Jewish Wisdom and the Limits of Christian Hebraism

20:00
Reception (Consul de France, Haifa)
Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre

Day 2
8:30-9:00
Gathering, coffee

9:00-10:30
Hebraism, Poetry, and Drama I
Chair : Ofir Haivry (The Shalem Center)
Lauren Silberman (CUNY)
Aaron, The Brother Who Proves the Rule: Typological Negotiations in Titus Andronicus
Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto)
Ancient Israel in the Religious Theatre of Renaissance Italy
Nancy Rosenfeld (University of Haifa)
'The Law of Moses as well as the Devil, Death, and Hell': John Bunyan and Christian Kabbalah

Pause-------------------------

10:45-12:45
Hebraism, Poetry, and Drama II
Chair: Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University)
Elliott Simon (University of Haifa)
From Maimonides to Sir Philip Sidney: The Poet’s Prophetic Voice
Chanita Goodblatt (Ben Gurion University )
"Thy Firmness makes my Circles Just/And makes me end, where I begunne": Abraham Ibn Ezra and John Donne as Poet-Exegetes
Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)
“Free as the Road”: George Herbert’s Hebraic Texts
Philip Ford (Cambridge University)
The Place of Hebrew Poetry in the Teaching of Charles Utenhove

12:45
Lunch break-------------------------

14:15-15:45
Hebraism and Scholarship I: Antiquarianism and Philology
Chair : Philip Ford (Cambridge University)
Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute)
Biblical Philology at Leiden University
Daniel Stein-Kokin (Yale University)
Egidio da Viterbo and Christian Hebraism in High Renaissance Rome.
Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College Hartford)
The Urim and Thumim and Christian Hebraism

Pause-------------------------

16:00-17:30
Hebraism and Scholarship II: Chronology and Geography
Chair : Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College Hartford)
Avner Ben Zaken (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Hebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries, and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context
Zur Shalev ( University of Haifa)
Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Discoverer
Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce)
The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno’s Messianic Thought

17:30-18:00
Coffee break-------------------------

18:00-19:15
Religious Identities and Contexts II
Chair: Myriam Yardeni (University of Haifa)
Sina Rauschenbach (University of Halle)
Dealing with Jewish Knowledge: Menasseh Ben Israel and the Christian Respublica Litteraria
Alessandro Guetta (INALCO – Paris)
The Debate on the Immortality of the soul in Early Modern Italy:
a symptom of closer Jewish-Christian dialogue?

Day 3
8:30-9:00
Gathering, coffee

9:00-10:45
The Hebrew Language and Its Practice
Chair: Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)
Arthur Lesley (Baltimore Hebrew College)
Yohanan Alemanno's Formulation of Hebrew Rhetorical Practice.
Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa)
Negotiating Self-Governance: Hebrew in the Service of Running the Jewish Universit?.
Yaacov Deutsch (Hebrew University and Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University)
Converting the New Testament: Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period

Pause-------------------------

11:00-12:30
Hebraism and Political Theory I
Chair: Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute)
Lea Campos Boralevi (University of Florence)
The Rise and Fall of the Respublica Hebraeorum as a Political Model in Early Modern Europe
Meirav Jones (The Shalem Center)
Philo Judaeus and Jewish Harmony in Grotius’ Laws of War and Peace
Yitzhak Lifshitz (The Shalem Center)
The Revival of the ideas of Medieval Ashkenaz in the 15th Century Political Thought of R. Yisrael Iserlin

12:30
Lunch break

14:00-15:00
Hebraism and Political Theory II
Chair: Zur Shalev (University of Haifa)
Ofir Haivry (The Shalem Center)
Jewish Sources of John Selden’s Idea of Church-State Relations
Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa)
The social reading of the Bible by English thinkers of the mid 17th century

Coffee break-------------------------

15:15-16:45
Isaac Abravanel
Chair : Arthur Lesley
Cedric Cohen Skalli (Tel Aviv University)
Isaac and Yehudah Abravanel on Genesis: A Case of Jewish Reception of Florentine Platonism
Vasileios Syros (University of Helsinki)
The Political Function of Rhetoric in Don Isaac Abravanel’s Political Thought
Abraham Melamed (University of Haifa)
The Reception of Abravanel in Early Modern Political Thought

16:45-17:15
Coffee break-------------------------

17:15-18:15
Yehudah Abravanel
Chair : Georges Molinié (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
Tristan Dagron (CNRS-Paris)
Giordano Bruno, lecteur des Dialoghi d’amore de Leone Ebreo
James W. Nelson Novoa (Villanova University)
Leone Ebreo’s Diologhi d’amore as a Pivotal Document of Judeo-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome

18:15-17:00
Ending Note
David Baum (West Texas State A&M University)
Anti-Semitism, Race and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy

Digitized Judaica at the Austrian National Library available online

2009-04-30T21:05:00.006+04:30

A list of a wikipedia user reveals that (among others) publications of Theodor Herzl and Max Brod are available through the website of the Austrian National Library (ÖNB). Furthermore some Juedische Presse issues of the year 1938 can be found within the huge collection of Austrian historical journals and newspapers - ANNO.

Konrad von Grünenberg: Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem available online

2009-04-28T20:13:00.003+04:30

The written work Konrad von Grünenberg: Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem (1487) describes a typical journey of a society of pilgrims during the 15th century. Besides beautiful hand drawings the book reveals many topographic details of the holy land. The book was digitized by the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe. (via Archivalia@Twitter)

Voices on Antisemitism podcast series - David Pilgrim (Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University)

2009-04-27T11:36:00.002+04:30

A new podcast David Pilgrim (Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University; founder of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia) is available on U.S. Holcaust Memorial Museum website.

DAVID PILGRIM:
The Jim Crow Museum is a collection of anti-black, civil rights, and segregation memorabilia. I was the original donor. People ask me, "When did you start collecting and why?" And I've always collected what I call "contemptible collectibles." I collected objects that I thought would demonstrate how those racist ideas permeated our culture. And so you would have an ashtray for example with an image of an African American in the middle of it with fire, red lips and wild, darting eyes and mismanaged hair, kind of a crazed look. But I hesitate to give you that characterization because there are so many caricatures of African Americans. So, for example, the so-called tragic mulatto imagery would look very different from the Tom or the Sambo or the mammy or the pickaninny. So it's a little bit disingenuous to describe a so-called typical piece, because there's just so many ways that the features, the physical features of African Americans are distorted on everyday objects.
If you had to come up with one word to describe the objects that we have and similar objects, that word would be propaganda. When I used to think of propaganda I thought of it as leaflets and posters. And then it hit me one day that an ashtray with a caricatured image of a member of an ethnic group can be as much propaganda as a leaflet or poster or print. And I think the most effective propaganda is when people don't realize that that is what is going on, when they think they're just playing a game or just using an ashtray. When you reduce hatred to game playing, you give a level of legitimacy to it that is mind boggling. So when you turn and you look at that detergent box or you look at that game, that toy, that ashtray—these everyday objects with a function—they become everyday ways to convince people that a racial hierarchy made sense.
You know, the hardest thing for me is to figure out how to present the material to people when they come in. What you discover is, is that people looking at the same thing come up with very, very, very different interpretations of what it is they're seeing. And so the one person when he looks at Little Black Sambo says, "You know, that's a cute, clever little boy. And reading that story just reminds me of wholesome, good times with my father and oatmeal." And then someone else looks at that and they says, "Well, that reminds me of a vestige of segregation and slavery. And it hurts me."
So what we try to do is to get people talking. Now, why is that hard for me? It's hard for me because when people walk in there I want to tell them what they see. So when a person starts talking about "Oh, why should you be offended at that?" There's a part of me that wants to scream, "How could you not see the offense?" But I don't. And I've gotten much better over the years in finding where people are, trying to understand where they are, and then allowing people at different places and different points in their journey to explain where they are, and so you have meaningful dialogue. My fear is not that people won't think the way I do or agree with my values; it is that they won't talk about these things at all, that they'll just keep muddling along as if everything's fine.
I think that systematically disseminating information that defames and belittles others actually belittles and degrades our entire society. As corny and trite as that sounds, I think that antisemitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia…I think those things undermine democracy. I think they make of democracy a lie. I mean as long as we have these "us versus thems," and as long as people are hurt in our society and others think that's their problem, then we undermine this nation. So the trick is, is to figure out a way to get people that are not themselves directly hurt to believe that they are a part of the same "We." And that for me has been I guess the thrust of what it is I've spent my life trying to do; trying to make the "We" bigger. (fragment of the transcript)

World Digital Library launched today!

2009-04-20T18:27:00.002+04:30

(Division of the Land of Israel Within its Borders: Copied from the Great Luminary, the Famous and Pious Gaon, Our Teacher and Rabbi, Rabbi Eliyahu from Vilna, the Capital; item contained in the World Digital Library)

"Today, on April 21, 2009, the World Digital Library, one of the most significant projects refering to digital primary sources on different cultures across the world, was launched.

The mission:

"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to:

Promote international and intercultural understanding;
Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries."

Hebrew Union College could face closure

2009-04-20T17:01:00.002+04:30

"Tough economic times and multimillion-dollar debt might force Hebrew Union College, the nation’s oldest Jewish educational institution, to shut down its Clifton campus.
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The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is facing an $8 million debt – in part because of flat fundraising, pension liabilities, and endowment and other revenue declines that have hit the institute harder than at any other time in its history, Rabbi David Ellenson, the college-institute’s president, told stakeholders in an e-mail.
'I wish with all my heart and soul that this were not so,” he wrote. “Yet, all the wishing in the world cannot alter the reality we face.'
HUC has raised the possibility of closing two of its three U.S. campuses. The others are in New York and Los Angeles.
Rabbi Gerry Walter, a 1974 graduate of the Clifton Avenue campus, said closing his alma mater would be a huge blow to American Jewry.
'This is the heart of Reform Judaism and we very much want to see it remain here,' said Walter, rabbi at Temple Sholom in Amberley Village.
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise founded the college in 1875, hoping to guarantee the survival of Judaism in America. The rabbinical school moved to its current campus in 1912, becoming an institution in Clifton.
The Klau Library and the American Jewish Archives – a massive collection of history that local supporters say is matched only by resources in Israel – hold a physical connection to Jewish history.
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center houses the archives, which boast more than 15 million documents on Jewish life. The nearby library holds hundreds of thousands of volumes. That collection includes everything from rare books and ancient scrolls to Bibles, cookbooks and Jewish songs.
'There’s no other place like it in the world,Ä said Brian Jaffee, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Cincinnati. 'There are books and other materials that were rescued from Nazi Europe. As someone who cares very much about our Jewish story, it’s impossible for me to imagine the library and archives not being here in Cincinnati.'
A group of faculty, alumni and other supporters of the Clifton campus are mobilizing an effort to keep the school open.
Leaders of the campus in Los Angeles are rallying to keep their branch afloat, too.
They argued, in a Los Angeles Times story, that the best arrangement would be to have campuses on each coast.
They pointed to an agreement with the University of Southern California that pays the institute $1.9 million to teach Jewish studies courses. They also alluded to the possibility of USC buying or leasing some of the institute’s property.
'I still think a presence in Los Angeles is essential to the survival and growth of the [Reform] movement in America because L.A. is the second-largest center of Jewish life demographically … and because it’s emerging as an important laboratory of Jewish innovation,' David N. Myers, head of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, told the Times.
Other reorganization efforts might allow more than one campus to remain open. A fourth campus in Jerusalem has not been mentioned in the potential closure talks.
The scenarios will be discussed in more detail when the Board of Governors meets next month in New York. A final decision will be made during a special June 23 board meeting.
Staff writer Eric Bradley contributed to this report." (via Cincinnati.com)

Bund and Borders: German Jewish thinking between Faith and Power

2009-04-19T21:59:00.003+04:30

The conference Bund and Borders: German Jewish thinking between Faith and Power will be held from May 17th until May 19th 2009 in the Jewish Museum, Berlin.

Timetable

May 17

18.00 Welcome

18.15 Introduction: Mirjam Wenzel (Jewish Museum Berlin)

18:30–20:30 Evening Session: A German-Jewish Critique?
With: Steven Aschheim (Hebrew Univ.), Amir Eshel (Stanford Univ.), Adi Gordon (Univ. of Wisconsin), Thomas Meyer (Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig)

20.30–22.00 Reception

May 18

10.00–12.00 Morning Session: German-Jewish Intellectual Positions from Mystical Traditions to Radical Politics
With: Martin Kavka (Florida State Univ.), Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis Univ.), Christian Wiese (Sussex Univ.), Udi Greenberg (Hebrew Univ.), Cilly Kugelmann (Jewish Museum Berlin)

12.00–13.30 Lunch

14.00–16.00 Afternoon Session I: A Jewish Political Theology?
With: Vivian Liska (Univ. of Antwerp), Menachem Lorberbaum (Tel Aviv Univ.), Nitzan Lebovic (Tel Aviv Univ.), Martin Treml (Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin)

15.00–16.30 Refreshments

16.30–18.30 Afternoon Session II: The Impact of German Jews on Political Culture and Constitutional Issues in Israel
With: Mordechai Kremnitzer (Institute for Democracy Jerusalem), Itzhak Englard (Hebrew Univ. em.), Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv Univ.), Dieter Grimm (Humboldt Univ. em./Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin)

May 19

10.00–12.00: Workshops with Students I
Politics meets Halakhic and Chassidic traditions (with Menachem Loberbaum)
Carl Schmitt and Jacob Taubes (with Martin Treml)

12.30–13.30: Lunch

14.00–16.00: Workshops with Students II
Ethical considerations and aesthetic forms (with Vivian Liska)
An Israeli Constitution? (with Mordechai Kremnitzer)

17.00–18.30: Round Table Discussion: The End of German-Jewish History?
With: Steven Aschheim (Hebrew Univ), Raphael Gross (LBI London, Jewish Museum/Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt a.M.), Martin Kavka (Florida State Univ.), Nitzan Lebovic (Tel Aviv Univ.),Vivian Liska (Univ. of Antwerp), Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Hamburg Univ.), Mirjam Wenzel (Jewish Museum Berlin)

19.00–19.15: Concluding Remarks

(H-Soz-u-Kult: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11323)

Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV

2009-04-19T21:27:00.003+04:30

Invitation for all donors of private collections (KStA via Archivalia)
The City of Cologne will invite all donors of private collections and depositaries to the Piazetta in the City Hall on May 11th. The head of the department, Gisela Fleckenstein explains the late date with the task to organize 10 (shelf) m of contracts to find out what the archive holds (held) and who are the depositaries. Fleckenstein says: „In case we forgot somebody, please feel invited.“

Recovery process already finished at the end of May? (KstA via Archivalia)
After a short Easter break, the fire department Cologne and the Federal Agency for Technical Relief continue their work at the collapsed building in Severinstraße. This week the volunteer fire department Aachen is helping. The mountain of rubble decreases every day. “It could be possible that we will be finished at the end of May” notes the speaker of the fire department, Günter Weber, but he also limits: “We do not know exactly how further it goes into the depth.”
A special driller, that transports rock specimens from up to 50 m depth, was used to examine the condition of the ground. “This way you can find out if there is more rubble in the depth“, reports Weber. In the meantime, exvacators pull down the backside of the former CHA building, remains of the reading room and the offices.
Nearly half of the former 30 (shelf) km have been recovered in different conditions. “It will take years to restore and sort the documents“, said Gisela Fleckenstein. “Die several papers and collections are one big mess.“

What do we learn from Cologne Historical Archive's collapse? (Die Welt via Archivalia)
" ..... that we must deal with our history more careful. This is not about a building in Cologne that collapsed but about our historical memory. Therefore this collapse is a societal problem, in which the politics has got more involved. Knowledge and concepts exist, only financing is missing. In general, we need a wider awareness of our archives, for they store our history and make it researchable…” , said Jochen Hermel (Institute for History, University of Bonn; Hermel works on his PhD thesis about integration of migrants to the City of Cologne in the 16th and the beginning 17th century)

Former Summaries
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV, Tuesday March 20th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIII, April 2nd 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XII, March 24th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XI, March 21th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse X, March 20th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IX, March 18th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VIII, March 17th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VII, March 15th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VI, March 13th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse V, March 12th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IV, March 11th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse III, March 10th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse II, March 09th 2009
Summary Cologne Archive's collapse I, March 08 th 2009

SEE ALSO
COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP
International Blue Shield Mission

GERMAN
http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive

Solidarity group on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58486607084

If you can identify anyone in these photos...

2009-04-18T12:36:00.003+04:30

(Undated photo of two unidentified men of the Jewish Museum of Maryland collections)

In cooperation with the Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM), the Baltimore Jewish Times is helping to identify unidentified individuals in historical photographs by presenting them on their webpage.

"The Jewish Museum of Maryland has the largest single collection of regional Jewish Americana in the U.S. Our collections include works of art, historical photographs, clothing, ceremonial items, rare books, everyday objects, documents, oral histories, and memorabilia. The collections embody the story of Jewish life in Maryland - immigration, family history, business, congregational and organizational life, leisure, consumption, and contemporary culture." The JMM hosts a searchable database to the museum collections.

Limmud.de festival 2009 at the Werbellinsee in the north of Berlin

2009-04-18T12:14:00.005+04:30

(cover picture of Limmud.de webpage)

From April 30th until May 3rd 2009 the Limmud.de festival will take place for the second time in Germany. "The Festival is to take place in Werbellinsee, north of Berlin, in a large hostel-type facility in a picturesque landscape. The location offers lodging for several hundred participants and many seminar rooms, making it an ideal location for a comprehensive program. The site was founded as a getaway for Young Pioneers (in communist East Germany) and since 1989 has gradually been modified into a vacation and conference centre."

As it is said on Limmud.de webpage:

"Limmud.de is a place...

where Jews of all religious and political backgrounds meet to learn, discuss and celebrate together,
where you can expect to meet Jews who are different from you,
where you can learn something new, whether you know nothing about Judaism yet, or you are a rabbi or professor,
where participants themselves decide what they want to learn, and what they want to teach,
where you can offer a presentation on any Jewish theme in which you have some expertise,
where you can attend or offer workshops in German, English or Russian,
where there is room for the broad diversity of Jewish topics: religion, tradition, politics, society, literature, art, music and more,
where everyone from the age of 0 to 120 is welcome."

Everybody who is interested in participating check out the Limmud.de website.

The Jewish Art Salon (New York)

2009-04-18T12:00:00.002+04:30

(The artist travels, 2006 by Shoshannah Brombacher, one of the participants of the Jewish Art Salon)

"The Jewish Art Salon (New York) is an open and unique inter-disciplinary group of artists. We meet informally once every four weeks to discuss our work, life, the Jewish themes inherent in our work and the multiplicity of impetus and inspiration for our work. We engage in interactive dialogues that address important and provocative issues facing our society.
We are dedicated to the preservation of an open forum where all opinions and viewpoints are listened to and respected. Together, we are working to create a Jewish art community where work and issues are discussed and information and resources are shared.
Seeing a need for such a forum, Yona Verwer, visual artist, and Holly Wolf, writer, convened the group along with co-founders Laura Kruger, curator of the HUC-JIR Museum, Richard McBee, visual artist and art critic, and David Wander, visual artist."

Check the upcoming events and meeting.

Online publications of the Steinheim Institute, Leipzig (German)

2009-04-18T11:45:00.004+04:30

From May 2009 two titles edited by the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute (Leipzig) will be published online:

1) Die rheinischen Juden im Mittelalter
2) Jüdische Friedhöfe in Deutschland – Eine Einführung für Lehrer und Schüler

For more information on the titles see section Mitteilungen of Kalonymos I, 2009

Kedem auctions complete catalog online

2009-04-18T11:39:00.003+04:30

A PDF-version of the Kedem Auction House is available online. It includes not only a list of the 529 titles for sale but also an index and front covers of selected items.

"Kedem Auction House was established in 2008 by Meron Eren, Avishay Geller and Eran Reiss. The owners have been dealing for many years with antique Jewish books and manuscripts, and items related to the history and culture of the Jewish people. Avishay specialized in Religious books (Sifrei Kodesh) and rabbinical manuscripts, while Meron and Eran specialized in modern day Jewish history and culture." (Kedem Auction House website)

European Jewry: A New Jewish Centre in the Making?

2009-04-18T11:16:00.002+04:30

From 5th until 12th May 2009 the conference European Jewry: A New Jewish Centre in the Making? will be held in the Mendelssohn-Remise (Berlin). The conference is organized by the Moses Mendelssohn Centre (Potsdam) in cooperation with Klal Israel Project (Tel Aviv University).

Timetable:

Sunday, May 10th 2009

19:00 Greetings
Charlotte Knobloch, Vice President
of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and President
of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Dr. Thomas Lackmann, Head of the Mendelssohn Forum
Prof. Dr. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Klal Yisrael Tel Aviv
Prof. Dr. Yosef Gorny, Klal Yisrael Tel Aviv

19:45 Opening Lecture
Existiert ein europäisches Judentum? Zwischen demographischer Stagnation und „jüdischer Renaissance"
Prof. Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam

Monday, May 11th 2009

Session I
Demographic developments and socio-cultural challenges in today's European Jewry
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv

10:00 Recent Demographic Trends
in the European Jewish Population
Prof. Dr. Sergio DellaPergola, Jerusalem

10:30 New Developments in the Jewish Diaspora
Prof. Dr. Gabi Sheffer, Jerusalem

11:00 Reading between the Lines: Assertion
and Reassertion in European Jewish Life
Tony Lerman, former director JPR London

Session II
European Jewish Insights
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Andras Kovacs, Budapest

12:00 Jewish Community and Identities
in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Vladimir Zeev Khanin, Tel Aviv

12:30 About Dialectics of Reform Judaism in Europe
Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik, Frankfurt am Main

13:00 Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present:
New and Old 'Others' in Contemporary Spain
Prof. Dr. Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv

Session III
Discussing a New European Jewish Self-Conception
Moderation: Dr. Aharon Zajdenberg, Tel Aviv

15:30 From Universalism to Jewishness?
French Intellectuals in Contemporary France
Prof. Dr. Pierre Birnbaum, Paris

16:00 The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora.
New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989
Prof. Dr. Michal Y. Bodemann, Toronto/Berlin

16:30 Is there a Need for a Legal Definition of the Relationship
between Israel and World Jewry?
Prof. Dr. Claude Klein, Jerusalem

Tuesday, May 12th 2009

Session IV
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Politics
Moderation: Dr. Gideon Botsch, Potsdam

10:00 "Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!"
-Is the »East« still different?
Dr. Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv

10:30 Hate against 'The Others' and its Psychosocial Mechanisms
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gergely, Brussels

11:00 From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Anti-Semitism?
The post-Communist Case
Prof. Dr. Andras Kovacs, Budapest

Session V
European Jewry and World Jewry
Moderation: Olaf Glöckner, Potsdam

12.00 On Centers, Peripheries and Frontiers.
The Changing Profile of Latin American Jewry
in a Comparative Perspective
Prof. Dr. Judit Bokser Liwerant, Mexico City

12:30 Cultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option
for Jewish Solidarity
Dr. Ofer Schiff, Beer Sheva

13:00 Permanence and Dominance of Diaspora Jewry:
Past, Present, Future
Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn, Munich

Session VI
European Jewry and Israel
Moderation: Dr. Alexandra Nocke, Berlin

15:30 Does European Jewry need an Ethnic Umbrella?
Prof. Dr. Yosef Gorny, Tel Aviv

16:00 Divergence and Convergence of Jewishness:
Israel, the US and Europe
Prof. Dr. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv

16:30 A Mediterranean Bridge over Troubled Water
Prof. Dr. David Ohana, Beer Sheva

19:30 Roundtable Discussion: The Future of European Jewry

(via H-Soz-u-Kult: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11320)

Ref. Cologne Historical Archive: International Blue Shield mission

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International Blue Shield mission: 27 APRIL TO 1 MAY
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 09:09
http://www.ancbs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:international-blue-shield-mission-27-april-to-1-may-&catid=14:past-news&Itemid=29

EVERY ARCHIVIST, RESTORER OR HERITAGE PROFESSIONAL WHO IS WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MISSION IS KINDLY BUT URGENTLY REQUESTED TO RESPOND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BY SENDING A REPLY EMAIL TO CONTACT@ANCBS.ORGThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it WITH THE CONTACT DETAILS REQUESTED BELOW.

International Blue Shield mission: 27 APRIL TO 1 MAY

Dear Colleagues,

The new Blue Shield international coordination center in The Hague received a request for support from Cologne, which we distributed among our relations and Dutch Archive institutes and professionals. We have received many responses from those who want to help.

Together with the National Archive and the Dutch Branch organization of Archive institutes (BRAIN) we made an inventory of people and institutes willing to help. Their offers keep coming in. We have received many responses from The Netherlands, but also from Belgium, France, the United States and the Czech Republic. In the first week of April a delegation went to Cologne to see how best to coordinate offers of assistance. The staff in Cologne gave us a warm welcome and we obtained detailed information and a thorough impression of the work that is in progress.

The delegation was very much impressed by the work that has been done so far. The process of searching and finding the material is taking place under extremely dangerous and difficult circumstances. It is therefore a tremendous achievement to have made such progress. It has not only surprised us it has also surprised the staff and volunteers of the Archive. The planning has been revised several times and has greatly progressed. The prognoses are that the first phase of the recovery process (separating material, storage, registration, first aid to the objects like cleaning and drying or preparing for further treatment) needs one more month, so this will end even before the summer holidays.

The delegation was also very impressed by the determination and the motivation of everyone at work. After a month of stress and extremely long working hours spirits seem unbroken, though the fatigue is showing. Firemen are still the only ones working on the slope, because of the dangerous conditions. They have a whole team working day in day out and they will stay until the slope is gone.

A coordinated mission is needed as soon as possible. It will be most helpful in this first phase of the recovery process if several teams work at the same time and on the same location. In accordance with the staff in Cologne we therefore decided to reschule schedule our mission for 27 APRIL TO 1 MAY. A coordinated mission will save time and energy for the Archive staff,who must make the necessary arrangements for each individual volunteer, including booking the accommodation, introduction, transport, etc.)

To prepare the mission we needed some time. We are fully aware that all professionals who indicated their willingness to help will need some time too and may have difficulty matching a busy agenda with this unforeseen early departure. Because of this we hereby call on every professional, whether they have already indicated their interest to join us or are deciding to do so, to support our hardworking colleagues of Cologne and make this first international Blue Shield mission a success.

International Blue Shield mission: 27 APRIL TO 1 MAYApplication:

send a completed (see below) reply email to the Blue Shield coordination Center in The Hague: contact@ancbs.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Date: Monday, 27 April to 1 May (Note: 1 May is a holiday).

Tasks: Sorting material (rubble/collection), select dry and wet materials, clean, register, dry partly wet material and prepare other material for freeze-drying at other locations.

Transport to Cologne: A touring car will depart from The Hague on Monday morning, the 27th of April and will return on the 1st of May. All participants are welcome to join us, since there will be no charge for this. This service will not be beneficial to all participants (f.e. from other countries), whom we regret must arrange and pay for their own transport.

Transport within Cologne: Transport by shuttle bus from accomodation to the work locations will be arranged free of charge by the city of Cologne.

Accommodation: The city of Cologne offers all volunteers free accomodation, food, and beverages. May 1st is a holiday for the Archive. The touring car will return to The Hague in the afternoon to enable participants to visit Cologne.

Insurance: The city of Cologne has provided the Archive with insurance for all volunteers.More information: Please visit our website http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.ancbs.org or attend our presentations (see below), in which we will provide you with more info about the actual situation in Cologne, the working conditions, tasks and facilities for the volunteers.

Monday April 20: The Hague, Nationaal Archief, Auditorium, 16.00 - 17.30 hrs.

Tuesday April 21: Nijmegen, Regionaal Archief Nijmegen,16.00 -17.30 hrs.

Saturday April 25 :s Hertogenbosch, Restauratiebeurs, 12.00 -13.00 hrs. the big theater----------------------------------------------------------------
Please fill in and send by return email to contact@ancbs.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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YES / NO Participate in the Blue Shield meeting at the Nationaal Archief
YES / NO Participate in the Blue Shield meeting at the Regionaal Archief Nijmegen
YES / NO Participate in the Blue Shield meeting at the Restauration fair in 's HertogenboschInstitution
Institution (Please send only one application form with all the names, if several members of your institute will join the mission):

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Contact details: .........................................................................................................

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Marjan Otter
Secretary ANCBS
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Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS)
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