tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77659066396565442002023-11-16T10:50:47.063+03:30Salon Jewish Studies/Salon Jüdische Studien - BlogFrank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-39969118178719829002010-11-20T15:13:00.003+03:302010-11-20T15:24:48.234+03:30New Blog for Jewish Studies onlineDear Followers of the Salon Jewish Studies Blog,<br /><br />during the last months we were able to finish the work on our <a href="http://elbogen.org/?L=1">new website of the Ismar Elbogen Network</a> as well as the <a href="http://blog.elbogen.org/">new blog for Jewish Studies</a>.<br /><br />I would like to ask you to change to the <a href="http://blog.elbogen.org/">new Blog</a> to get news updates on Jewish archival and library collections, Jewish Studies events, the status of the working process of <a href="http://jewlib.freebase.com/">Jewlib. Digital Archive-Library</a> etc..<br /><br /><div>You can subscribe to the <a href="http://blog.elbogen.org/feed/">blog via rss</a> as well as via email. Please use the formular on the right bottom for email-subscription.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br /></div><div>f.</div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-56186523208637149942010-01-08T12:51:00.005+03:302010-01-08T13:04:01.448+03:30Call for Articles (PaRDeS 2011) - Ghetto: Space and Borders in Judaism<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/677/"><b>PaRDeS. Journal of the association of Jewish Studies e.V.</b></a> aims at documenting the</div><div style="text-align: justify;">multifaceted culture of Judaism and its connections to diverse areas of research. The journal is meant to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue necessary within the field of Jewish Studies.We hereby warmly welcome articles or essays for our next special issue: Ghetto: On Space and Borders in Judaism, that will be published in spring 2011. Referring to two historical forms of ghettos: the enclosed Jewish living quarters in the modern age and the national socialist ghettos – the ghetto has become the symbol of oppression par excellence. This usage of the term has led to a monotonous research discourse, coloured by the victim-perpetrator-paradigm. More recently however, attempts have been made to change this. Thus, the ghetto as phenomenon has been analyzed with concepts like "Lebenswelt",experience and construction of space, and with an explicit awareness of the ambivalent natureof space and borders. For instance: the positive potential of borders to initiate cultural processes and to preserve culture within the ghetto, has been taken into consideration.A steadily growing interest in the philosophical thinking on ghetto as concept, as well as in the historical notions of ghettos, and how they are reflected in literature and arts, indicates shift of perspective within the research. The more differentiated view, (illustrated above with the problematization of the border concept), have evoked new questions and problems, which resist the scientific tendency to reduce Jewish history and culture to a discourse of oppression and persecution. With this call for articles (and the upcoming issue of <a href="http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/677/">PaRDeS</a>) we support the endeavour to differentiate and improve the scientific discussion of the subject ghetto. Conveying interdiciplinarity: We welcome contributions from various fields of research, that transgress the often narrow discipline borders, and combine different perspectives. The articles should:</div><ul><li>reflect the term ghetto while dealing with the various usage of the term or</li><li>analyze the reflection on ghetto on a cultural, social and/or mental level or</li><li>question theoretical approaches of research on ghetto/s</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Articles in German or English should contain between 15 and 20 standard pages (12pt, 1.5 line spacing). Essays in German or English should contain about 5 standard pages (12pt, 1.5 line spacing). Editorial deadline is the 15th of January 2011; the journal will be published in March 2011. If you are interested in submitting an article or essay please send a synopsis (1- 1½ pages) until the 15th of March 2010. <br /><br />If you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact our Editorial team: Rebekka Denz, denz@bundism.net <br />Grażyna Jurewicz, jurewicz@web.de<br /><br />Please send your application and synopsis (deadline: 15th of March 2010) to both e-mail-addresses: denz@bundism.net, jurewicz@web.de<br /><br />Reviews on different topics of Jewish Studies are published in PaRDeS as well. Please contact Daniel Jütte, who is in charge of the reviews in our journal: daniel.juette@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.<br /><br />Webpage of the Association of Jewish Studies e.V.:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/vereinigungjuedischestudien/"><b>http://sites.google.com/site/vereinigungjuedischestudien/</b></a></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-39606523458541229992009-11-19T14:31:00.002+03:302009-11-19T14:39:25.160+03:30Medaon Issue 5/2009 OnlineThe <a href="http://www.medaon.de/"><b>new Medaon Issue (5/2009)</b></a> is online available now.<div><br /></div><div>Content:</div><div><br /></div><div>Articles</div><div><ul><li>Georg Lilienthal | Jüdische Patienten als Opfer der NS-„Euthanasie“-Verbrechen</li><li>Mathias Berek | Schnittpunkt sozialer Kreise statt völkischer Verwurzelung – Die Entstehung moderner Sozialtheorie aus der deutsch-jüdischen Lebenswelt des 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel Moritz Lazarus</li><li>Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting | „Weil das ebend die Befehle sind“. Jugendliche erklären das Täterhandeln im Holocaust. Empirische Befunde</li><li>Nadja Bennewitz | Zwischen Repression, Resistenz und Migration. Alltag jüdischer Frauen im Nationalsozialismus im Spiegel des Nürnberg-Fürther Gemeindeblattes</li><li>Susanne Blumesberger | Von Giftpilzen, Trödeljakobs und Kartoffelkäfern – Antisemitische Hetze in Kinderbüchern während des Nationalsozialismus</li></ul><div><br />Miscellaneous</div></div><ul><li>“Very much more still needs to be done.” Holocaust Studies: Aspects of research and actual tendencies. An Interview with Yehuda Bauer by Michael Wildt</li><li>Henriette Kunz | Die völkisch-antisemitische Subkultur Dresdens um 1900 – Literaturbericht 1993-2009</li><li>Jana Mikota | Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen – wieder entdeckt: Auguste Hauschner</li></ul><div><br /></div><div>Sources</div><ul><li>Kai Drewes | Leiden am jüdischen Namen. Ein Brief des Fontane-Freundes Georg Friedlaender an den Chef des Preußischen Heroldsamtes</li></ul><div><br /></div><div>and many reviews...</div><div><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-14877864273192453192009-11-05T14:53:00.005+03:302009-11-05T15:34:06.350+03:30Annoucement - Jewlib Digital Archive Library<div style="text-align: justify;">As some of you obviously noticed, there was a break in publishing new posts on the <a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/">Salon Jewish Studies Blog</a> during the last months. The reason is, that we are working on a new project, called <a href="http://jewlib.freebase.com/"><b>Jewlib - Digital Archive Library of Primary Sources for Jewish History and Cultures</b></a>. This project is a work in progress, like the Salon Jewish Studies. The aims of the project are (among others):</div><div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the inter-connection of data on Jewish Studies research collections by embedding the data in a larger context; see: <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/en/build_a_base">http://www.freebase.com/view/en/build_a_base</a></li><li style="text-align: justify;">creation of topic-oriented "views" to, e.g. <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/base/jewlib/views/libraries_archives_museums_and_private_judaica_holders">Judaica-owners</a>, <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/base/jewlib/views/personal_papers">personal paper collections</a> or <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/base/jewlib/views/private_jewish_book_collection">private book collections</a></li><li style="text-align: justify;">creation of topic-oriented platforms on Jewish Studies fields, e.g. <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/base/jewishstudies">Jewish Studies Research</a>, <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/base/jewishpress">Jewish Press </a></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">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 ;) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you also could imagine, the data contribution to <a href="http://jewlib.freebase.com/"><b>Jewlib</b></a> 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.<b> <a href="http://twitter.com/ElbogenNW">Follow us on twitter</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-29254489927177544142009-11-03T01:12:00.010+03:302009-11-03T02:08:57.192+03:30New PaRDeS-issue "100jähriges Jubiläum Tel Avivs"<div style="text-align: justify;">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". </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The issue <a href="http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3460/pdf/pardes15.pdf"><b>PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. [15 (2009)] = 100jähriges Jubiläum Tel Avivs</b></a> includes following articles and essays:</div><div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Anita Shapira - Tel Aviv, a White City on the Sands</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Philipp Messner - Tel Aviv und die Revolution des hebräischen Schriftbilds</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Sarah Wittkopf - Von der Einwanderung der Jekim zu ihrer politischen Partizipation bei den Wahlen zum Tel Aviver Stadtrat im Jahr 1936</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Ulrich Knufinke - Building a Modern Jewish City: Projects of the Architect Wilhelm Zeev Haller in Tel Aviv</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Elvira Grözinger - Tel Aviv in der neueren israelischen Literatur: Von der Weißen Stadt am Meer“ zum „Moloch“</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Nir Mualam - Debating Historic Preservation in Israel: The Case of Tel Aviv </li><li style="text-align: justify;">Yona Ginsberg - Regulating Public Space: The “Religious” Beach of Tel Aviv</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Rick Kuhn - Jüdischer Antizionismus in der sozialistischen Bewegung Galiziens</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Nathanael Riemer - Jüdische Friedhöfe in Europa – Ein Plädoyer für Online-Dokumentationen</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Admiel Kosman - What did Cain say to Abel? </li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore it contains a huge number of reviews.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-5873114196979756732009-07-19T21:38:00.003+04:302009-07-19T22:21:30.166+04:30London Metropolitan University East End Archive: The Paul Trevor Collection<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/EEP/medium/B-187-21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://www.vads.ac.uk/images/EEP/medium/B-187-21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=90604&sos=4">Blooms restaurant</a>, Copyright © 2007 Paul Trevor)<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Photographs from the <a href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/EEP.html">Paul Trevor Collection</a> are available online via <a href="http://www.vads.ac.uk/">VADS</a>: "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.<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-36237011059428345942009-07-10T14:09:00.004+04:302009-07-10T15:10:34.116+04:30New titles in the Historic Jewish Press project<div style="text-align: justify;">In the framework of the <a href="http://jpress.huji.ac.il/view-english.asp">Historic Jewish Press</a> project at the <a href="http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/">JNUL</a> the Jewish newspapers <a href="http://jpress.huji.ac.il/publications/davar-en.asp">Davar</a> (1925-1968), <a href="http://jpress.huji.ac.il/publications/Hazvi-en.asp">Ha-Zvi</a> (1884-1915) and <a href="http://jpress.huji.ac.il/publications/LLB-en.asp">La Liberté / El Horria</a> (1915-1922) have been digitized. Now ten newspapers are available online.<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-31137177704228669202009-06-19T03:45:00.011+04:302009-06-19T04:17:19.797+04:30Literature on Tel-Aviv in the Eliasaf Robinson Collection<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJPpNj7VRitKkvtUUQQtpWA13DusvslGi9FXLBtTw66lCPt1HBBoQPbVkpVOWtl478HWVN6GTleL8DhmNoetmmu79jfw24j6lvGuURhKyiE7BlNO8Y9WVfNWSNBtV08iPp8nqQWXPYFT_/s1600-h/3637700143_b4b01bbb1f(2).jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 108px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJPpNj7VRitKkvtUUQQtpWA13DusvslGi9FXLBtTw66lCPt1HBBoQPbVkpVOWtl478HWVN6GTleL8DhmNoetmmu79jfw24j6lvGuURhKyiE7BlNO8Y9WVfNWSNBtV08iPp8nqQWXPYFT_/s400/3637700143_b4b01bbb1f(2).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348814169940000002" border="0" /></a>The comprehensive <a href="http://lib.stanford.edu/telaviv">Eliasaf Robinson Collectio</a><a href="http://lib.stanford.edu/telaviv">n</a> on the history of Tel-Aviv at Stanford University Libraries includes a number of digitized <a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/telaviv/images/booksAndSerials.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">books, brochures and serials</span> </a> 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:<br /></div><br /><ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Keren Hayesod (ed.), </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6803631&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Tel-Aviv [English]</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Jerusalem 1926.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Jehuda Nedivi, </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6915696&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Tel-Aviv [German]</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Jerusalem 1929.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE"></span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6817937&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Maccabiah 1932: 28. March - 6. April, Tel-Aviv</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Worl Union for Gymnastics & Sport </span></span>"<span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Maccabee</span></span>"<span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE"> (ed.), </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6915686&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>First Maccabiah, Palestine 1932</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">G. Hanoch, </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6796307&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Die jüdische Stadt Tel Aviv</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Jerusalem 1932.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Zionist Information Bureau for Tourists in Palestine (ed.), </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6803618&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Guide to New Palestine</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Jerusalem 1933.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Palestine Union (ed.), </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6827827&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Commercial and Economic Guide of Tel-Aviv, also Jerusalem, with map of Tel-Aviv</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, 1933.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">A. Z. Ben Jischai, </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6914631&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Tel Aviv [German]</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Jerusalem 1936.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE"><i><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6812533&sort=title">The Palestine Review</a>, </i></span><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">1936/37.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">E. Mechner, </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6797893&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>The New Palestine in Pictures: Tel Aviv</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Tel Aviv 1937.</span></span></span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="de-DE">Yehuda Nedivi, Benjamin Maisler, Samuel Yeivin, und Martin Feuchtwanger, </span><a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6800048&sort=title"><span lang="de-DE"><i>Guide to Tel Aviv - Jaffa</i></span></a><span lang="de-DE"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Tel Aviv 1941.</span></span></span></p></li></ul><br />[Picture: Title of <a href="http://collections.stanford.edu/stacks/bin/search/advanced/process?clauseMapped%28catKey%29=6800204&sort=title"><span style="font-style: italic;">ha-Ir Tel-Aviv</span></a>, unknown designer, 1932]pmessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14203918538524239224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-62473742495617994802009-06-04T23:37:00.001+04:302009-06-04T23:38:36.168+04:30EU gives millions to preserve Auschwitz<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="lead">"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." <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1244035001770">Read more in the online version of the Jerusalem Post.</a></span><br /><span class="lead"></span></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-80000092885023107762009-06-04T10:35:00.004+04:302009-06-04T10:40:06.014+04:30Podcast Series - Jews in Business: Myth and Reality<div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.cjs.upenn.edu/">Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania</a> started the public podcast series <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cjs.upenn.edu/public/lectures/phila/2008-2009.htm">Jews in Business: Myth and Reality</a>. Three Podcast are available at the moment:<br /><ol><li>Jonathan Karp - A Head Without a Body? Reconstructing the History of Jews in Business</li><li>Evelyne Oliel-Grausz - Kinship, Commerce, and Trade Networks: The Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora</li><li>Adam Teller - Before Rothschild: Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth Century Eastern Europe</li></ol></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-46601841665911536082009-05-27T22:26:00.002+04:302009-05-27T22:34:22.822+04:30Conference: Jews of Arab Culture, 1948-2009<div style="text-align: justify;">The conference <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.woolfinstitute.cam.ac.uk/cmjr/conference/">Jews of Arab Culture, 1948-2009</a> will be held from 22 - 24 June 2009 at <a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/">Cambridge University</a>. The conference is organized by the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (CMJR) and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.<br /><br />"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.<br />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: </div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li class="style1"> Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) </li><li class="style1"> Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula </li><li class="style1"> Iraq, Syria, Lebanon </li><li class="style1"> Egypt, Libya, Sudan </li><li class="style1"> Israel & Palestine </li><li class="style1"> Hebrew literature in Arabic and Arabic literature<br /> in Hebrew: the ideology behind translations." </li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-11881468717756469462009-05-07T14:13:00.007+04:302009-05-07T14:27:51.415+04:30New Medaon-Issue Online (German)<div style="text-align: justify;">The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.medaon.de/index.html">fourth issue of the online-journal Medaon. Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung</a> is available. The journal is published by Hatikva - Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Sachsen e.V..<br /><br />An <a href="http://www.medaon.de/pdf/Q_Schloeffel-4-2009.pdf">article on Digital Jewish Collections and the "Salon Jewish Studies" project</a> was published in that issue.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Content</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Articles <a href="http://www.medaon.de/artikel.html">http://www.medaon.de/artikel.html</a></span><br /><br />Anja Horstmann | „Judenaufnahmen fürs Archiv“ – Das dokumentarische Filmmaterial „Asien in Mitteleuropa“, 1942<br /><br />Ingo Loose | Die Ambivalenz des Authentischen. Juden, Holocaust und Antisemitismus im deutschen Film nach 1945<br /><br />Sabine Haustein, Anja Waller | Jüdische Settlements in Europa. Ansätze einer transnationalen sozial-, geschlechter- und ideenhistorischen Forschung<br /><br />Victoria Hegner | Wenn Migranten religiös werden – Die „Renaissance“ des Chassidismus und die Rolle der baalai teshuva am Beispiel von Chicago<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Miscellanea <a href="http://www.medaon.de/index.html">http://www.medaon.de/miszellen.html</a></span><a href="http://www.medaon.de/index.html"><br /></a><br />Frank Wolff | Historiography on the General Jewish Labor Bund. Traditions, Tendencies and Expectations<br /><br />Jana Mikota | Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen – wieder entdeckt: Bertha Badt-Strauss auf den Spuren vergessener Jüdinnen in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sources <a href="http://www.medaon.de/quellen.html">http://www.medaon.de/quellen.html</a></span><br /><br />Edgar Bönisch, Birgit Seemann | Jüdische Pflegegeschichte in Frankfurt am Main<br /><br />Frank Schlöffel | Digitale jüdische Quellen und ihre Sammlung im Online-Portal Salon Jüdische Studien<br /><br />Heike Liebsch | „Holocaust and Heroism Memorial House“. Ein kleines Privatmuseum in Ariel wartet auf seine wissenschaftliche Auswertung<br /><br />Peter Ambros | Was am Wichtigsten im Leben ist, geht dich nichts an! – Die Welt der Kinder der Überlebenden<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Education <a href="http://www.medaon.de/bildung.html">http://www.medaon.de/bildung.html</a></span><br /><br />Michaela Baetz | „Wenn Mokkatassen sprechen – Mediale Konzepte gegen Antisemitismus“. Eine Projektbeschreibung oder „Das ist was ganz anderes als ein Geschichtsbuch“<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And reviews <a href="http://www.medaon.de/rezension.html">http://www.medaon.de/rezension.html</a></span><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-77834854218968150422009-05-07T12:14:00.005+04:302009-05-07T12:39:47.285+04:30Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XV<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Help through the cultural heritage protection organization „Blue Shield“</span><br />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.<br />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 <a href="http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5682301/">Archivalia May 4, 2009</a>):<br /><br />"I noticed that German archivists see their job mainly as administration not tradition (store and prepare heritage)…<br />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.<br />The German colleagues did a good job on organizing transport and accommodation for 80 people from abroad.<br />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!"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Archival collections recoverd from the intact archive cellar on April 21, 2009</span><br />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.<br />Among others the personal collections of Wallraf and Schneider-Wessling were recovered intactly from archive cellar:<br />" .... 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.<br />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.<br />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…” (<a href="http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1238966843641.shtml">Koelner Stadtanzeiger</a><a href="http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1238966843641.shtml">, April 21, 2009</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Former Summaries<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html"></a><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/04/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-xiv.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV, Tuesday April 20th 2009</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/04/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-xiii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIII, April 2nd 2009</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-xii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XII, March 24th 2009</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x_21.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XI, March 21th 2009</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse X, March 20th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-ix.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IX, March 18th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-viii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VIII, March 17th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VII, March 15th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VI, March 13th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse V, March 12th 2009</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-vi.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IV, March 11th 2009</a><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-iii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse III, March 10th 2009</a><br /><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse II, March 09th 2009</a><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments-based-on.html"><br /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments-based-on.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse I, March 08 th 2009</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title">SEE ALSO<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/cologne-historical-archive.html">COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/04/ref-cologne-historical-archive.html">International Blue Shield Mission</a><br /></em><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title"></em><br /><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title">GERMAN </em><br /><a href="http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive"><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title">http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive</em></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Solidarity group on facebook</span><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58486607084">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58486607084</a></span><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-38622197760286535372009-04-30T21:29:00.002+04:302009-04-30T21:36:49.675+04:30Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance: Sources and Encounters An international conference at the University of Haifa, May 11-13, 2009<div style="text-align: justify;">The conference <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://research.haifa.ac.il/%7Ehebrnss/index.php">Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance</a>, held from May 11-13, 2009 at <a href="http://www.haifa.ac.il/index_eng.html">Haifa University</a> "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)<br /><br />Timetable:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1</span><br />8:30-9:00<br />Registration and gathering, coffee<br /><br />9:00-9:45<br />Welcome notes<br />Chair: Ilana Zinguer<br />Ambassadeur de France / Attaché Culturel<br />Dean / Rector<br />Ilana Zinguer (Centre de recherche de Civilisation Fran?aise)<br /><br />9:45-10:45<br />Keynote I<br />Chair: Ilana Zinguer<br />Georges Molinié (Président, Sorbonne, Paris IV)<br />Postures et images juives par rapport à la culture baroque<br /><br />Pause-------------------------<br /><br />11:00-12:30<br />Kabbalah I<br />Chair: Bernard Cooperman<br />Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale di Pisa)<br />Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah<br />Roni Weinstein (University of Pisa)<br />Sixteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism as a Catholic Baroque Phenomenon<br />Yossi Chajes (University of Haifa)<br />It's Good to See the King : Toward an Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Jewish Cosmological Cartography<br /><br />12:30<br />Lunch break<br /><br />14:00-15:30<br />Kabbalah II<br />Chair: Lina Bolzoni<br />Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland)<br />Kabbalistic Enthusiasms of a Rabbi for Hire. The Sermons of Isaac di Lattes<br />Sheila Rabin (St. Peter's College)<br />Pico, Astrology, and Kabbalah<br />Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University)<br />Notes on the Poetry of Moses Zacuto<br /><br />Pause-------------------------<br /><br />15:45-17:30<br />Religious Identities and Contexts I<br />Chair: Frank Lestringuant (Paris Sorbonne)<br />Ilana Zinguer (University of Haifa)<br />L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome (Journal de Voyage, Montaigne)<br />Annie Molinié (Sorbonne, Paris IV) and<br />Béatrice Perez (Université de Rennes)<br />Les premiers jésuites d'origine "conversa" (deuxième moitié du XVIe siècle): Diego Lainez, Polanco et les autres<br />Giuseppe Veltri (University of Halle)<br />Defining Jewish “Rituals” in the Early Modern Period: History of a Philosophical-Political Concept<br /><br />17:30-18:00<br />Coffee break-------------------------<br /><br />18:00-19:00<br />Keynote II<br />Chair: Abraham Melamed<br />Joanna Weinberg (Oxford University)<br />Jewish Wisdom and the Limits of Christian Hebraism<br /><br />20:00<br />Reception (Consul de France, Haifa)<br />Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne, Paris IV)<br />Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 2</span><br />8:30-9:00<br />Gathering, coffee<br /><br />9:00-10:30<br />Hebraism, Poetry, and Drama I<br />Chair : Ofir Haivry (The Shalem Center)<br />Lauren Silberman (CUNY)<br />Aaron, The Brother Who Proves the Rule: Typological Negotiations in Titus Andronicus<br />Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto)<br />Ancient Israel in the Religious Theatre of Renaissance Italy<br />Nancy Rosenfeld (University of Haifa)<br />'The Law of Moses as well as the Devil, Death, and Hell': John Bunyan and Christian Kabbalah<br /><br />Pause-------------------------<br /><br />10:45-12:45<br />Hebraism, Poetry, and Drama II<br />Chair: Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University)<br />Elliott Simon (University of Haifa)<br />From Maimonides to Sir Philip Sidney: The Poet’s Prophetic Voice<br />Chanita Goodblatt (Ben Gurion University )<br />"Thy Firmness makes my Circles Just/And makes me end, where I begunne": Abraham Ibn Ezra and John Donne as Poet-Exegetes<br />Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)<br />“Free as the Road”: George Herbert’s Hebraic Texts<br />Philip Ford (Cambridge University)<br />The Place of Hebrew Poetry in the Teaching of Charles Utenhove<br /><br />12:45<br />Lunch break-------------------------<br /><br />14:15-15:45<br />Hebraism and Scholarship I: Antiquarianism and Philology<br />Chair : Philip Ford (Cambridge University)<br />Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute)<br />Biblical Philology at Leiden University<br />Daniel Stein-Kokin (Yale University)<br />Egidio da Viterbo and Christian Hebraism in High Renaissance Rome.<br />Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College Hartford)<br />The Urim and Thumim and Christian Hebraism<br /><br />Pause-------------------------<br /><br />16:00-17:30<br />Hebraism and Scholarship II: Chronology and Geography<br />Chair : Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College Hartford)<br />Avner Ben Zaken (Harvard Society of Fellows)<br />Hebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries, and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context<br />Zur Shalev ( University of Haifa)<br />Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Discoverer<br />Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce)<br />The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno’s Messianic Thought<br /><br />17:30-18:00<br />Coffee break-------------------------<br /><br />18:00-19:15<br />Religious Identities and Contexts II<br />Chair: Myriam Yardeni (University of Haifa)<br />Sina Rauschenbach (University of Halle)<br />Dealing with Jewish Knowledge: Menasseh Ben Israel and the Christian Respublica Litteraria<br />Alessandro Guetta (INALCO – Paris)<br />The Debate on the Immortality of the soul in Early Modern Italy:<br />a symptom of closer Jewish-Christian dialogue?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3</span><br />8:30-9:00<br />Gathering, coffee<br /><br />9:00-10:45<br />The Hebrew Language and Its Practice<br />Chair: Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)<br />Arthur Lesley (Baltimore Hebrew College)<br />Yohanan Alemanno's Formulation of Hebrew Rhetorical Practice.<br />Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa)<br />Negotiating Self-Governance: Hebrew in the Service of Running the Jewish Universit?.<br />Yaacov Deutsch (Hebrew University and Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University)<br />Converting the New Testament: Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period<br /><br />Pause-------------------------<br /><br />11:00-12:30<br />Hebraism and Political Theory I<br />Chair: Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute)<br />Lea Campos Boralevi (University of Florence)<br />The Rise and Fall of the Respublica Hebraeorum as a Political Model in Early Modern Europe<br />Meirav Jones (The Shalem Center)<br />Philo Judaeus and Jewish Harmony in Grotius’ Laws of War and Peace<br />Yitzhak Lifshitz (The Shalem Center)<br />The Revival of the ideas of Medieval Ashkenaz in the 15th Century Political Thought of R. Yisrael Iserlin<br /><br />12:30<br />Lunch break<br /><br />14:00-15:00<br />Hebraism and Political Theory II<br />Chair: Zur Shalev (University of Haifa)<br />Ofir Haivry (The Shalem Center)<br />Jewish Sources of John Selden’s Idea of Church-State Relations<br />Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa)<br />The social reading of the Bible by English thinkers of the mid 17th century<br /><br />Coffee break-------------------------<br /><br />15:15-16:45<br />Isaac Abravanel<br />Chair : Arthur Lesley<br />Cedric Cohen Skalli (Tel Aviv University)<br />Isaac and Yehudah Abravanel on Genesis: A Case of Jewish Reception of Florentine Platonism<br />Vasileios Syros (University of Helsinki)<br />The Political Function of Rhetoric in Don Isaac Abravanel’s Political Thought<br />Abraham Melamed (University of Haifa)<br />The Reception of Abravanel in Early Modern Political Thought<br /><br />16:45-17:15<br />Coffee break-------------------------<br /><br />17:15-18:15<br />Yehudah Abravanel<br />Chair : Georges Molinié (Sorbonne, Paris IV)<br />Tristan Dagron (CNRS-Paris)<br />Giordano Bruno, lecteur des Dialoghi d’amore de Leone Ebreo<br />James W. Nelson Novoa (Villanova University)<br />Leone Ebreo’s Diologhi d’amore as a Pivotal Document of Judeo-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome<br /><br />18:15-17:00<br />Ending Note<br />David Baum (West Texas State A&M University)<br />Anti-Semitism, Race and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-33252585594644675972009-04-30T21:05:00.006+04:302009-04-30T21:28:59.194+04:30Digitized Judaica at the Austrian National Library available online<div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Benutzer:Xarax/Anno">A list of a wikipedia user</a> reveals that (among others) publications of Theodor Herzl and Max Brod are available through the website of the <a href="http://www.onb.ac.at/">Austrian National Library (ÖNB)</a>. Furthermore some <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=jpr">Juedische Presse issues of the year 1938</a> can be found within <a href="http://anno.onb.ac.at/">the huge collection of </a><a href="http://anno.onb.ac.at/">Austrian historical journals and newspapers - ANNO</a>.<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-25387963024316919592009-04-28T20:13:00.003+04:302009-04-28T20:29:18.809+04:30Konrad von Grünenberg: Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem available online<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/virt_images/stpeter_pap32/pictures/050r_k.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 402px;" src="http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/virt_images/stpeter_pap32/pictures/050r_k.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The written work <a href="http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/virt_bib/stpeter_pap32/"><strong>Konrad von Grünenberg: Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem</strong></a> (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 <a href="http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/start.html">Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe</a>. (via Archivalia@Twitter)<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-49801803243868041762009-04-27T11:36:00.002+04:302009-04-27T11:49:34.651+04:30Voices on Antisemitism podcast series - David Pilgrim (Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University)<div style="text-align: justify;">A new podcast <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20090423"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Pilgrim (Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University;</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/">founder of the Jim Crow Museum</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/"> of Racist Memorabilia</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">)</span></span> is available on <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/">U.S. Holcaust Memorial Museum website</a>.<br /><br />DAVID PILGRIM:<br />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.<br />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.<br />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."<br />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.<br />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)<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-29686118430432884822009-04-20T18:27:00.002+04:302009-04-20T18:38:25.179+04:30World Digital Library launched today!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wdl.org/static/c/2662/reference/PAL1001_thumb_item.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 255px;" src="http://www.wdl.org/static/c/2662/reference/PAL1001_thumb_item.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2662/">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</a>; item contained in the <a href="http://www.wdl.org/en/">World Digital Library</a>)<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />"Today, on April 21, 2009, the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wdl.org/en/">World Digital Library</a>, one of the most significant projects refering to digital primary sources on different cultures across the world, was launched.<br /><br />The mission:<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />The principal objectives of the WDL are to:<br /><br />Promote international and intercultural understanding;<br />Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;<br />Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;<br />Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries."<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-28185487177939109352009-04-20T17:01:00.002+04:302009-04-20T17:07:55.325+04:30Hebrew Union College could face closure<div style="text-align: justify;">"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.<br />Advertisement<br />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.<br />'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.'<br />HUC has raised the possibility of closing two of its three U.S. campuses. The others are in New York and Los Angeles.<br />Rabbi Gerry Walter, a 1974 graduate of the Clifton Avenue campus, said closing his alma mater would be a huge blow to American Jewry.<br />'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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />'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.'<br />A group of faculty, alumni and other supporters of the Clifton campus are mobilizing an effort to keep the school open.<br />Leaders of the campus in Los Angeles are rallying to keep their branch afloat, too.<br />They argued, in a Los Angeles Times story, that the best arrangement would be to have campuses on each coast.<br />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.<br />'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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />Staff writer Eric Bradley contributed to this report." (via <a href="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090419/NEWS01/304190033">Cincinnati.com</a>)<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-59317818526496388692009-04-19T21:59:00.003+04:302009-04-19T22:05:27.566+04:30Bund and Borders: German Jewish thinking between Faith and Power<div style="text-align: justify;">The conference <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.leo-baeck-fellows.de/index.html">Bund and Borders: German Jewish thinking between Faith and Powe</a>r will be held from May 17th until May 19th 2009 in the <a href="http://www.jmberlin.de/site/EN/homepage.php">Jewish Museum, Berlin</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Timetable</span><br /><br />May 17<br /><br />18.00 Welcome<br /><br />18.15 Introduction: Mirjam Wenzel (Jewish Museum Berlin)<br /><br />18:30–20:30 Evening Session: A German-Jewish Critique?<br />With: Steven Aschheim (Hebrew Univ.), Amir Eshel (Stanford Univ.), Adi Gordon (Univ. of Wisconsin), Thomas Meyer (Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig)<br /><br />20.30–22.00 Reception<br /><br />May 18<br /><br />10.00–12.00 Morning Session: German-Jewish Intellectual Positions from Mystical Traditions to Radical Politics<br />With: Martin Kavka (Florida State Univ.), Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis Univ.), Christian Wiese (Sussex Univ.), Udi Greenberg (Hebrew Univ.), Cilly Kugelmann (Jewish Museum Berlin)<br /><br />12.00–13.30 Lunch<br /><br />14.00–16.00 Afternoon Session I: A Jewish Political Theology?<br />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)<br /><br />15.00–16.30 Refreshments<br /><br />16.30–18.30 Afternoon Session II: The Impact of German Jews on Political Culture and Constitutional Issues in Israel<br />With: Mordechai Kremnitzer (Institute for Democracy Jerusalem), Itzhak Englard (Hebrew Univ. em.), Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv Univ.), Dieter Grimm (Humboldt Univ. em./Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin)<br /><br />May 19<br /><br />10.00–12.00: Workshops with Students I<br />Politics meets Halakhic and Chassidic traditions (with Menachem Loberbaum)<br />Carl Schmitt and Jacob Taubes (with Martin Treml)<br /><br />12.30–13.30: Lunch<br /><br />14.00–16.00: Workshops with Students II<br />Ethical considerations and aesthetic forms (with Vivian Liska)<br />An Israeli Constitution? (with Mordechai Kremnitzer)<br /><br />17.00–18.30: Round Table Discussion: The End of German-Jewish History?<br />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)<br /><br />19.00–19.15: Concluding Remarks<br /><br />(H-Soz-u-Kult: <a href="http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11323">http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11323</a>)<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-88603386478765650602009-04-19T21:27:00.003+04:302009-04-19T21:41:58.107+04:30Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Invitation for all donors of private collections (</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1238966799357.shtml">KStA </a><span style="font-style: italic;">via </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5635311/">Archivalia</a><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span><br />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.“<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Recovery process already finished at the end of May?</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> (</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1239718856454.shtml">KstA </a><span style="font-style: italic;">via </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5643174/">Archivalia</a><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span><br />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.”<br />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.<br />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.“<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">What do we learn from Cologne Historical Archive's collapse? (</span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.welt.de/die-welt/article3551415/Resignation-kann-und-will-ich-mir-nicht-leisten.html">Die Welt</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> via </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5643330/">Archivalia</a><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span><br />" ..... 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)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Former Summaries<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIV, Tuesday March 20th 2009</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XIII, April 2nd 2009</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-xii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XII, March 24th 2009</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x_21.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse XI, March 21th 2009</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse X, March 20th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-ix.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IX, March 18th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-viii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VIII, March 17th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VII, March 15th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse VI, March 13th 2009</a><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse V, March 12th 2009</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-vi.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse IV, March 11th 2009</a><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-iii.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse III, March 10th 2009</a><br /><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments.html">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse II, March 09th 2009</a><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments-based-on.html"><br /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments-based-on.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Summary Cologne Archive's collapse I, March 08 th 2009</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title">SEE ALSO<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/cologne-historical-archive.html">COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/04/ref-cologne-historical-archive.html">International Blue Shield Mission</a><br /></em><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title"></em><br /><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title">GERMAN </em><br /><a href="http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive"><em class="pressedatum" title="presse_datum_title">http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive</em></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Solidarity group on facebook</span><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58486607084">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58486607084</a><br /></span><br /><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-2655490326314406922009-04-18T12:36:00.003+04:302009-04-18T12:45:59.507+04:30If you can identify anyone in these photos...<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.jewishtimes.com/images/history/0220jmmhist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 224px;" src="http://www.jewishtimes.com/images/history/0220jmmhist.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/history/jt/history/">Undated photo of two unidentified men of the Jewish Museum of Maryland collections</a>)<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />In cooperation with the <a href="http://www.jewishmuseummd.org/">Jewish Museum of Maryland</a> (JMM), the <a href="http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/history/jt/history/">Baltimore Jewish Times</a> is helping to identify unidentified individuals in historical photographs by presenting them on their webpage.<br /><br />"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 <a href="http://jmm.pastperfect-online.com/00005cgi/mweb.exe?request=ks">searchable database to the museum collections</a>.<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-69308051382385301902009-04-18T12:14:00.005+04:302009-04-18T12:33:06.910+04:30Limmud.de festival 2009 at the Werbellinsee in the north of Berlin<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://limmud.de/en/Home.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 110px;" src="http://www.limmud.de/ban/b1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="http://limmud.de/en/Home.html">cover picture of Limmud.de webpage</a>)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://limmud.de/en/Home.html">April 30th until May 3rd 2009 the Limmud.de festival</a> 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."<br /><br />As it is said on Limmud.de webpage:<br /><br />"Limmud.de is a place...<br /></div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li>where Jews of all religious and political backgrounds meet to learn, discuss and celebrate together,</li><li>where you can expect to meet Jews who are different from you,</li><li>where you can learn something new, whether you know nothing about Judaism yet, or you are a rabbi or professor,</li><li>where participants themselves decide what they want to learn, and what they want to teach,</li><li>where you can offer a presentation on any Jewish theme in which you have some expertise,</li><li>where you can attend or offer workshops in German, English or Russian,</li><li>where there is room for the broad diversity of Jewish topics: religion, tradition, politics, society, literature, art, music and more,</li><li>where everyone from the age of 0 to 120 is welcome."</li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://limmud.de/en/Praktisches.html">Everybody who is interested in participating check out the Limmud.de website</a>.<br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-68925093729444441132009-04-18T12:00:00.002+04:302009-04-18T12:11:04.761+04:30The Jewish Art Salon (New York)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio3/s/shoshannah/The_artist_travels-1164675973.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 245px;" src="http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio3/s/shoshannah/The_artist_travels-1164675973.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="http://www.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/your-art.cgi?login=shoshannah&title=The_artist_travels-1164675973t.jpg">The artist travels, 2006 by Shoshannah Brombacher</a>, one of the <a href="http://web.me.com/yvf/JewishArtSalon/Participants.html">participants of the Jewish Art Salon</a>)</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />"The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://web.me.com/yvf/JewishArtSalon/Welcome.html">Jewish Art Salon</a> (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.<br />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.<br />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 <a href="http://www.huc.edu/museums/ny/">HUC-JIR Museum</a>, Richard McBee, visual artist and art critic, and David Wander, visual artist."<br /></div><br />Check the <a href="http://web.me.com/yvf/JewishArtSalon/Upcoming_Events.html">upcoming events and meeting</a>.Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7765906639656544200.post-80943937340122482732009-04-18T11:45:00.004+04:302009-04-18T12:31:50.748+04:30Online publications of the Steinheim Institute, Leipzig (German)<div style="text-align: justify;">From May 2009 two titles edited by the <a href="http://sti1.uni-duisburg.de/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite">Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute</a> (Leipzig) will be published online:<br /><br />1) Die rheinischen Juden im Mittelalter<br />2) Jüdische Friedhöfe in Deutschland – Eine Einführung für Lehrer und Schüler<br /><br />For more information on the titles see section <a href="http://www.steinheim-institut.de/edocs/kalonymos/kalonymos_2009_1.pdf#P.14">Mitteilungen of Kalonymos I, 2009</a><br /></div>Frank.Schloeffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333126888724863477noreply@blogger.com0