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2 “YEAR IN REVIEW” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 interest in our American Jewish Studies area of concentration, and looks forward with excitement to the coming year. Thanks to the generosity of the late Samuel Stroum and Althea Stroum, we expect to launch a nationwide search for the new Samuel and Althea Stroum Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies, whose world will focus on the study of Jews in the United States. The appointment of Marina Rustow to the 2002–2003 Hazel D. Cole Fellow enhanced our course offerings and public programming concerning Jews and Arabs and Medieval Jewish History. We congratulate her on her postdoc at the Center for Advanced Jewish Studies in Philadelphia and her appointment as assistant professor at Emory University in the Department of History beginning in the fall of 2003. For the coming year we are fortunate to welcome Alisa Braun from the University of Michigan who will teach a course and deliver public lectures on Yiddish Culture in America. Thanks to the generosity and hard work of the Jewish Studies Visiting Committee together with Rochelle Roseman, Jewish Studies Program Development and Outreach Coordinator, the Program was able to offer two newly created scholarships for excellent students with a serious ongoing Kathie Friedman THE JEWISH STUDIES VISITING COMMITTEE BECOMES A TEAM The Jewish Studies Visiting Committee first came together, formally, in November 2002. Since then, it has begun to share its enthusiasm and interest in Jewish Studies to connect the Program with the greater Seattle Jewish community for mutual benefit. The committee has been working to bring increased awareness, understanding and appreciation of the achievements of the Jewish Studies Program. One important objective of the committee is to foster an understanding of the value the Program offers the region with its comprehensive examination of all aspects of Jewish experience. Another is to raise public awareness in the broader community of the research and teaching excellence of the Program scholars and to encourage alliances that make use of these talents. A major objective of the committee, also, is to contribute to the Jewish Studies Program’s fundraising efforts through personal contributions and donor cultivation. Rochelle Roseman “…I wish to thank all the Friends of Jewish Studies upon whom we depend so heavily for financial support and for links to the broader community. …(and) the outstanding faculty… for tireless donations of their time both to the Program and to the community….” interest in Jewish Studies. The Jewish Studies Program is fortunate to have a dedicated Visiting Committee, which has become an important force behind the Program’s development campaign. It will continue to be key to its success. With its help, we intend to establish two endowed scholarships in Jewish Studies to ensure future opportunities for outstanding students. The 2002–2003 academic year was my final year as Chair of the Program, and in closing I wish to thank all the Friends of Jewish Studies upon whom we depend so heavily for financial support and for links to the broader community. I especially want to express my gratitude to the outstanding faculty in Jewish Studies over the past two years for tireless donations of their time both to the Program and to the community in terms of developing many new courses and delivering countless public lectures. With the beginning of the new academic year and the new Jewish year, I would like to extend my greetings to our students, alumni, faculty, colleagues, and friends with hopes for a year of growing wisdom and peace to all. ~ Kathie Friedman former Chair Jewish Studies An example of its success has been the new student scholarships (see article on page 9). In a short time, the committee was able to fund the first two scholarships for this academic year. Going forward, it endeavors to continue funding them through the creation of an endowment. The Program is grateful to the visiting committee and appreciates its continued support. Current members are Dorothy and Jerry Becker, Timmie Faghin, Linda Gould, Al and Jeannie Maimon, Ann Nieder, Herb and Lucy Pruzan, Betty Ann Richmond, Gil and Miriam Roth, Sam and Sue Tarica, and Ina Willner. Honorary members are Rabbi Dan Bridge and Carol Starin. Back, left to right: Timmie Faghin, Jack Faghin z”l, Sue Tarica, Ernie Michael, Gil Roth, Betty Ann Richmond, Al Maimon, Sam Tarica Center: Kathie Friedman, Linda Gould, Ina Willner, Dorothy Becker Front: Ann Neider, Miriam Roth. Not pictured: Lucy and Herb Pruzan To know more about the Jewish Studies Visiting Committee or to be a part of this special group, get in touch with Rochelle Roseman. Call 206.543.0138 or e-mail roseman@u.washington.edu
JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM FACULTY 2003–2004 Jere Bacharach, Ph.D., University of Michigan (1967); Professor, History; Jews under Islam Paul Burstein, Chair, Ph.D., Harvard (1974); Professor, Sociology; The American Jewish Community Joseph Butwin, Ph.D., Harvard (1971); Associate Professor, English; Jews in the literature of England, Jewish American immigrant literature Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Ph.D., University of Washington (1996); Visiting Scholar; American Jewish history Kathie Friedman, Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton (1991); Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Adjunct, Sociology and Women Studies; comparative immigration and ethnicity, contemporary Jewish American identities; Jewish women in contemporary America Hillel Gamoran, D.H.L., Spertus College (1966); Visiting Lecturer; Rabbinic literature Susan A. Glenn, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1983); Professor, History; Jews and Blacks Martin S. Jaffee, Ph.D., Brown (1980); Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Adjunct, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Judaism Deborah Kerdeman, Ph.D., Stanford (1991); Associate Professor, Education; philosophy of education, Jewish education Levis A. Kochin, Ph.D., Chicago (1975); Associate Professor, Economics; Israeli economics FACULTY NEWS Professor Jere L. Bacharach served as director of the American Research Center in Egypt since mid-December, stepping down at the end of June with the appointment of a long-term ARCE director. While Professor Bacharach felt safe in Egypt, family and friends in the U.S. were understandably concerned, particularly during the period of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. As director, Professor Bacharach dealt with a wide variety of Egyptians and Americans, from officials, ambassadors and ministers, to workmen who removed dirt from excavation sites. Last fall he presented a successful five-part series of lectures for the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities on the history and culture of the Islamic Middle East through the fifteenth century. This coming fall will be his last as a regular member of the UW faculty. He plans to retire during this coming academic year. Professor Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg presented “The Young Adventurers“ at the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference in Seattle, WA in March 2003. Drawn from her dissertation, this paper tells the story of Washington Territory’s young Jewish men and women entrepreneurs who, with an adventurous spirit and against the backdrop of a raw new territory, capably created business models that differed from those seen elsewhere in America. It also acknowledges the contributions they made to the growth of what would become Washington State’s many Jewish communities. Professor Kathie Friedman served as the chair of the Jewish Studies Program for the past two academic years. She, along with Professor Katharyne Mitchell (Geography), has been awarded a Curriculum Transformation Grant, which will focus on The Comparative Diaspora. It is the first of its kind to be granted for Jewish Studies. Professor Friedman Joel S. Migdal, Ph.D., Harvard (1972); Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Adjunct, Political Science; Arabs and Jews in Israel and Palestine Scott Noegel, Ph.D., Cornell (1995); Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern languages and literature Michael A. Rosenthal, Ph.D., University of Chicago (1996); Associate Professor, philosophy; Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy Naomi B. Sokoloff, Ph.D., Princeton (1980); Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Adjunct, Women Studies; Hebrew language and literature; The Holocaust and Literature Robert Stacey, Ph.D., Yale (1983); Professor, History; Medieval Jewish history Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Ph.D., Stanford (1999); Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and History; Modern Jewish History, Eastern European Jewry; Sephardic Studies Joan Ullman, Ph.D.,Bryn Mawr (1963); Professor Emeritus; History; Jews in the History of Spain Brannon Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Chicago (1993); Associate Professor, Near East Languages and Civilization; Islamic Studies, History of the Study of Religion, Jewish Languages Hazel D. Cole Fellow 2003–04 Alisa Braun, University of Michigan and husband, Professor Resat Kasaba, welcomed daughter, Melis, into their home in March. Professor Hillel Gamoran delivered “How the Rishonim Met the Clash Between Credit Sales and the Law Against Usury” at the Jewish Law Association conference in Jerusalem. He is the editor of The Jewish Law Association Studies, Volume XIV, which covered the Jerusalem conference proceedings. His most recent publication is Talmud for Everyday Living: Insights into Buying and Selling, designed for synagogue adult education classes. In addition, he taught “Issues of Life and Death in the Talmud” at the Temple Beth Am mini-University, and spoke, along with his son Saul, at UW Hillel on “Jewish Business Ethics.” He serves as chair of the Hebrew Literacy Task Force of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Professor Martin S. Jaffee, acting chair of the Comparative Religion Program, served as a respondent to a series of papers on “Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity” in recognition of his ongoing research in rabbinic oral tradition, and will be published in Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism. Also, commissioned entries, “Discipleship” and “Oral Torah” will appear in the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion. Professor Jaffee continues to serve on the board of editors for Religious Studies Review and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. In January 2003, he, along with friend and colleague, Hillel Kieval (Washington University), accepted co-editorship of the AJS Review, the Association for Jewish Studies journal and leading international forum for scholarship in Judaism and Jewish civilizations. During the year, speaking engagements took him to the University of Alabama and Notre Dame. Topics included, “Self-Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 3
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