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4 “FACULTY NEWS” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Mission of the Public University.” Professor Jaffee augmented his range of courses with two new offerings: NE 496 “Rabbinic Oral-Traditional Literature” and SIS 498 “Monotheism and the Political Order.” With the help of a course development grant from the International Studies Center, he designed a new course, “Antisemitism as a Cultural System” during the summer of 2003. Professor Joel Migdal spent 2002–03 on sabbatical leave, during which time he was a visiting professor at The School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at Sciences-Pol in Paris. He also served as the Lady Davis Fellow at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. While he was away, he presented seminars in Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Uppsala, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Paris, and all the universities in Israel. In March 2003, the paperback edition of The Palestinian People: A History, co-authored with Baruch Kimmerling, (Harvard University Press 2003) was published. Professor Migdal has recently been elected president of the (International) Association for Israel Studies for a two-year term. Professor Scott Noegel offered many scholarly, university, and community lectures this year. Among them: “Word Play in the Hebrew Bible,” “Relics in the Ancient Near East,” “The Power of ‘Magic’ in Ancient Egypt,” “Shibboleths, Politics, and Literary Flare: Dialects and the Hebrew Bible,” and “The Ark of the Covenant in the Light of Ancient Egypt.” He also has been engaged in a number of publishing projects including “Dreaming and the Ideology of Mantics: Homer and Ancient Near Eastern Oneiromancy” (MELAMMU, 3; Helsinki: Neo- Assyrian Text Corpus Project), “From an Ancient Egyptian Love Lyric” (Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature), and “Mesopotamian Epic” (The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic). His most recent article, now in consideration by a classics journal, is entitled “Apollonius’ Argonautika and Egyptian Solar Mythology.” Noegel’s recent monograph “Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East” will appear later this year in the American Oriental Series (New Haven, CT). Soon to be on the shelves: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, co-edited with Joel Walker and Brannon Wheeler (Magic in History Series, Penn State University Press). The Linguistic Cycle: Selected Writings of Carleton T. Hodge (CDL Press), co-edited with Dr. Alan Kaye, also will appear later this year. His most current project, now in progress, is a book entitled Magic and the Bible (Routledge Press). Professor Noegel completed his first term as President of the American Research Center of Egypt, Northwest Chapter, an appointment that complements his work on the “Digital Egypt” project, for which he received a University Curriculum Development Award. The “Digital Egypt” project, now under construction, will enable him to create a technology-based, co-taught course on the subject of Egypt from early antiquity to the rise of Islam. Professor Michael Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Philosophy, has recently joined the Jewish Studies Program faculty. Widely published, samples of his articles that will appear this year are: “Persuasive Passions:␣ Rhetoric and the Interpretation of Spinoza’s Theological- Political Treatise,” forthcoming in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, volume 3, 2003; and “The ‘Black, Scabby Brazilian’: Some Thoughts on Race and Early Modern Philosophy,” forthcoming Professor Rosenthal in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2003). He was invited to give papers at the American Academy of Religion Meeting in Toronto (November 2002) and at a conference sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on “‘Light against Darkness’: An International Symposium on Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World,” (June 2003). Fall 2003, Professor Rosenthal will speak␣ at two symposiums organized by Jewish Studies programs: Second Shoshana Shier Symposium on Judaism and Modernity, University of Toronto, September 2003; and “Philosophers and the Bible” conference, sponsored by the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, November 2003. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Persuasive Passions: Spinoza and Religious Tolerance.␣ Much, though not all, of his recent work is connected to that project. Professor Marina Rustow, the Hazel D. Cole Fellow for 2002– 03, will be joining the faculty of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University as assistant professor, beginning spring 2004. Fall term 2003, she will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Naomi Sokoloff, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, participated in conferences at Cambridge University, “The World of Aharon Appelfeld,” where she presented a paper on multilingualism in Appelfeld’s writing and at William and Mary, where she presented a paper on “The Holocaust and the Encyclopedic Imagination”. The essays prepared for the latter will be published in a volume edited by Marc Raphael. In October 2002 she spoke on the topic, “Gail Hareven’s ‘Healing’: Translation as Theme and Challenge” at a symposium in honor of Edna Amir Coffin at Washington University. Professor Sokoloff’s recent writings include an essay on Gila Almagor in Holocaust Literature, edited by S. Lillian Kremer (Routledge, 2002), as well as an essay on Aharon Appelfeld for a new volume of The Dictionary of Literary Biography (The Holocaust Novel). Her co-edited volume, Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies: Books on Israel 6 (SUNY Press), appeared in print in December 2002. “The Jewish Presence in Children’s Literature,” a special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Johns Hopkins UP) edited by Suzanne Rahn and Naomi Sokoloff, is being published Autumn 2003. Also appearing in print this past year: an article on Savyon Liebrecht in History and Literature (Brown Judaic Studies, 2002), and an article on Agnon in Reading Hebrew Literature (University Press of New England, 2002). In addition, she gave several public lectures on Israel as part of the Limmud CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 The zodiac and four seasons, from 6 th century Byzantine floor mosaic in a Galilean synagogue
“FACULTY NEWS” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 NW program and served as Graduate Program Advisor in the Near East Department. Professor Robert Stacey finished his five-year term as Chair of the History Department in July 2002. During the past year, he has been on leave, returning to his study of ritual crucifixion stories in medieval England, and preparing a revised edition of his western civilization textbook. Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein taught a new graduate course entitled “Topics in Modern European Jewish History” and, for the second time, taught an undergraduate lecture course “The Jewish Twentieth Century in Film.” During this academic year, she will co-teach three new courses, two with Dr. Uta Poiger on the history of the Holocaust. Professor Stein addressed the wider Seattle community several times in recent months, including a talk given as part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Her most recent work appears in the journals Pe’amim, Studies in the Cultural Heritage of Oriental Jewry and Slavic Review, and in various edited volumes, among them Boundaries and Belonging (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Oxford University Press, 2002). Professor Stein is currently co-editing, with Dr. Resat Kasaba, a volume entitled Coexistence and Conflict in Ottoman Society. Her book, Making Jews Modern: Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, is being published this year by Indiana University Press. She is currently at work on a new book project that explores European Jews’ role in the colonization of sub Saharan Africa. Professor Brannon Wheeler, with Scott Noegel and Joel Walker, edited the papers for publication, presented at the UW conference on “Prayer, Magic and the Stars” (Penn State Press). His book, Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis (Curzon Routledge) was published last summer; his edited volume, Teaching Islam (Oxford), appeared in January 2003. His work appears in the published volumes of the Encyclopaedia of the Quran (E. J. Brill), the Oxford Dictionary of Islam (Oxford), and an article is forthcoming in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan). In addition to several published articles, he contributed a paper to a conference on Islamic Law and Sufism in Murcia, Spain. Professor Wheeler concludes his second three-year term as editor for Religious Studies Review, and has plans to launch a new journal in Comparative Islamic Studies to be published by Leicester University Press. He also continues work on the editing of the Dictionary of Muslim Biographies (Continuum), and his book-length manuscript on “Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam.” During the summer and fall 2003, he will be a Fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and a visiting scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Professor Wheeler received a Senior Fellowship at the American Centers for Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan for 2004, and will also be conducting research on the Arab Prophets of the Quran and Bible with a Fulbright research Fellowship in Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia during that same time. This coincides with his chairmanship of a new section in the Society of Biblical Literature, “On the Quran and Biblical Literature.” Visiting Faculty The Jewish Studies Program is very pleased to have two visiting faculty for the 2003–2004 academic year. The program welcomes Hazel D. Cole Fellow, Alisa Braun (see article page 8), and Shlomo Chertok. Shlomo Chertok received an M.A. in Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought in Modern Jewish Intellectual History at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In addition, he has broad training in the History of Jewish Biblical Interpretation and the Jewish Philosophical Tradition. Chertok will be teaching “The Jews in Western Civilization,” Winter 2004, and Beginning Modern Hebrew through UW Extension beginning Fall 2003. Joel Migdal Becomes President of AIS Professor Joel Migdal has made the UW the center for two important undertakings. In May, he became the two-year president of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS). AIS, an international organization of academics and others researching and teaching on Israel, has members in North America, Europe, and Israel. The website is http://www.gc.cuny. edu/directories/faculty/S.htm. Professor Migdal Migdal also has been appointed the first editor of a new book series, Studies on Israel, to be published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He expects the first books in the series to appear in late 2004 or 2005. How to Find UW Courses in Jewish Studies “Where do I find Jewish Studies courses?” This is a commonly asked question. Not every course related to Jewish Studies is listed under “Jewish Studies” in the time schedule. Courses in Hebrew language, Jewish History, Judaism (religion), and the Bible, for instance, are offered through other departments and programs. The faculty members offering these courses have, since the founding of the Jewish Studies Program, volunteered many administrative hours to coordinate the Jewish Studies curriculum. It is comprised primarily of courses in Near East Languages and Civilization, Comparative Religion, History, English and, occasionally, programs such as International Studies. Therefore, to find courses directly related to Jewish Studies, it is imperative to check the UW Time Schedule for the following rubrics: NE, HSTAM, HSTAA, RELIG, HEBR, HIST, ENGL. 5
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