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Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies • April 2015
Inside
2 Reflections on a Decade:
August 2005–March 2015
4 Spotlight on Studying Israel
6 Meet the Graduates
8 Amanda Fisher: Hail to the Chef
9 Eighteen Hundred Ways to Tell
the Passover Story
10 What’s New at the Frankel Center?
11 Mazel Tov!
12 Give to the Rita Poretsky Fund
202 S. Thayer St. • Suite 2111
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
COVER PHOTO: JudaicStudies@umich.edu
April 2015 | 1
(734) 763-9047
Haggadah Collection at the U-M Library by Luna Anna Archey
FROM THE DIRECTOR
Reflections on a Decade, August
As she steps down from Endelman, the previous director, windows we watch the demise of
doesn’t realize his watch has stopped. Frieze and the rapid rise of North
her directorship this Impatient, nervous, and unwilling to Quad. Cheri Thompson creates a
June, Deborah Dash wait for him, I introduce myself to vital administrative infrastructure
the assembled faculty. As soon as I to sustain Judaic Studies’ growth.
Moore looks back on finish the introductions, Todd arrives. Simultaneously, Anita Norich
her successful tenure. Later that month, I meet a group of
develops procedures to plan and
choose the first group of fellows and
fundraisers at the Frankel Center to
format the Institute’s workshops
discuss support for Judaic Studies.
and colloquia.
Marshall Weinberg subsequently
agrees to host a dinner in New York. SEPTEMBER 2007: The first
fellows arrive. We celebrate their
OCTOBER 2005: My first faculty
presence with a delicious kosher
meeting leaves me bewildered,
dinner, catered by Amanda
bombarded with questions and
Fisher, inaugurating a reputation
demands. I realize I have a lot to learn.
for excellent food. Soon, weekly
I’m told that the Frankel Center needs workshops are running smoothly.
a new logo for the November launch Each Wednesday, I am buoyed by
of the Frankel Institute for Advanced the intellectual excitement generated
Judaic Studies. The new Institute, one around the seminar table. Within
of the exciting innovations that drew the space of two years, confusion
me to U-M, holds the promise of and chaos have yielded to a rich
AUGUST 2005: I stand outside the transforming Jewish studies not only at interdisciplinary milieu of ideas,
Frieze Building on Washington Michigan, but throughout the United debated with vigor.
Avenue, ready to enter the Frankel States and Israel.
Center for Judaic Studies as director Meanwhile, the Frankel Center
for the first time, when a Washtenaw JUNE 2007: What a difference has expanded to accommodate
Jewish News reporter stops me and a short move across the street its growing stature. It acquires
asks: What are you going to do for the makes! Both Center and Institute “enhanced status,” allowing it to
community? Nonplussed, I stammer luxuriate in the fresh, clean space hire and tenure faculty. We wrestle
that Judaic Studies will be offering of the Thayer building. From our with bylaws, trying to hammer out
lectures and other intellectual and
cultural events.
Later that month, I drive with my
husband, MacDonald Moore, to
Bloomfield Hills, joining Dean Terry
and Mary Ann McDonald for dinner
at the home of Stanley and Judy
Frankel. I am impressed with their
warm hospitality and generosity.
SEPTEMBER 2005: The Center
sponsors a lunch to introduce and
welcome back faculty members,
providing an opportunity to meet
my new colleagues. Immersed Inauguration of the Frankel Institute, November 2005. L to R, former LSA Dean Terrence J.
in research at the library, Todd McDonald, Deborah Dash Moore, former U-M President Mary Sue Coleman, and Stanley Frankel.
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2005–March 2015
Photo by Jean-Pierre Jans
By Deborah Dash Moore, Director of the Frankel Center for
Judaic Studies and Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History
relationships that reflect the de facto have been invited for a surprise party
multidisciplinary character of Judaic announcing two generous five-year
Studies. With an enlarged Executive graduate fellowships named in their
Committee, the Center creates a honor. A joint initiative from Terry
graduate certificate program to offer McDonald and Stanley Frankel, I arrived as the Frankel Center for
a coherent course of study to doctoral these fellowships signal the growth Judaic Studies stood poised on
students. As Judaic Studies reaches of the Center’s graduate program in the threshold of dramatic changes
out across campus, wonderful Judaic Studies. that would produce heightened
colleagues affiliate with the Center. visibility and acclaim. Although
DECEMBER 2008: The first issue of
Given our dispersed faculty, Cheri I didn’t realize it as I stumbled
the Frankel Institute Annual appears, through the steep learning curve
posts their pictures on a bulletin with short essays by each fellow.
board outside the Center office, of my first year, these changes
Designed by Hannah Smotrich, had been envisioned, planned
making it easier to connect names the Annual complements the
with faces. Soon our fellows, graduate for, and launched, with Dean
Center’s quarterly newsletter, McDonald’s support, by my
students, and undergrads beam at Frankely Speaking, and the annual colleagues, especially Endelman
us as well. Everyone contributes Belin lecture. News spreads of and Gitelman.
toward shaping an emerging Center exciting scholarship at the Center
and Institute, but given multiple and Institute. Historians always try to relate
allegiances among our constituents, change to continuities, and I am
fostering bonds proves challenging. APRIL 2012: A symposium on no exception. The changes that
We look for opportunities to “Everyday Jews” honors Endelman, were transforming the Frankel
connect through faculty seminars marking the end of an era. His Center when I arrived in 2005 are
and reading groups. former students, now leading noticeable and vibrant: strong
modern Jewish historians, pay ties with many units on campus,
APRIL 2008: Fellows, faculty, and
tribute to his extensive influence. enlightening public programs,
graduate students gather to celebrate
many diverse faculty members,
the publication of nine books in the APRIL 2014: The Frankel Center
and a flourishing Institute for
past year. A new tradition is born: an celebrates its first 25 years with panels
Advanced Judaic Studies—the
end-of-year book party. about its founding and the roles of
only one at a public university. Yet
Jews in American higher education.
OCTOBER 2008: Stanley Frankel joins significant continuities endure:
Alums from as far back as the late
the second group of fellows on a among them, a commitment
blue U-M bus for what will become 1940s return to reflect upon their to intellectual excellence and
an annual tour of Jewish Detroit. It experiences as Jews at U-M. inter-disciplinary dialogue,
is a warm, sunny day; the bus lacks Even as the Frankel Center says a willingness to experiment,
air conditioning, and soon Stanley goodbye to Endelman, Stephanie readiness to take on both the risks
has shed his jacket and rolled up his Siegmund, Jessica Marglin, and and burdens of leadership, and
shirtsleeves as he guides us through Vera Szabo, it welcomes Rachel vital ongoing support of friends
the Motor City. and colleagues who share a
Neis, Ryan Szpiech, Maya Barzilai,
common vision of ensuring that
NOVEMBER 2008: Faculty, friends, Devi Mays, Jeffrey Veidlinger, and
the Frankel Center stands at the
and family members crowd into Alexandra Hoffman. The decade also
forefront of Judaic Studies. I have
the Humanities Institute’s lounge witnesses promotions and honors,
been fortunate to be part of this
awaiting the arrival of Todd with Norich and Veidlinger receiving
significant endeavor. ■
Endelman and Zvi Gitelman. They collegiate professorships. ■
April 2015 | 3
ACADEMICS
SPOTLIGHT ON Studying Israel
To paraphrase the medieval poet Yehuda HaLevi, the University of Michigan may be in the Midwest, but
many of our professors’ hearts are in the Middle East. Students, too, can follow their hearts and focus on Israeli
history, culture, sociology, and literature, under the guidance of outstanding faculty members such as Haya
Bar-Itzhak, Ruth Tzoffar, and others, who hail from a variety of departments. Read on for a taste of who’s who.
Photo by DC Goings
Photo by DC Goings
Maya Barzilai is an Assistant Victor Lieberman is the Raoul Shachar Pinsker is Associate
Professor of Modern Hebrew and Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of Hebrew Literature and
Jewish Culture in the Department Professor of History. His course Culture in the Department of Near
of Near Eastern Studies and the on the history of the Arab-Israeli Eastern Studies and the Frankel
Frankel Center. Her courses examine conflict is among the most popular Center. His courses illuminate many
Israeli literature and Jewish visual in the university, regularly attracting aspects of Israeli history, literature,
culture, particularly cinema and hundreds of students. Last year, they and culture, and his course on Tel
comics. Her book manuscript, The enthusiastically nominated him Aviv and Jerusalem culminates in a
Golem Condition: Jewish Creation for U-M’s Golden Apple Award for trip to Israel. In addition to his many
in an Age of Destruction, explores teaching. His many published works published articles, he is the author
20th-century versions of the tale include The Hundred-Year Struggle of Literary Passports: The Making of
about a magical being created from for Israel and Palestine: An Analytic Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe,
clay, showing how the Golem served History and Reader; and Strange which won the AJS’ Jordan Schnitzer
as a metaphor for war technologies Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Book Award. He has also co-edited
and their dangerous capacities. Her Context, c. 800–1830, which was Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity, and
research on the development of described by the American Historical is editor of two forthcoming volumes:
Hebrew literature in relationship to Review as “the most important Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American
German culture has culminated in work of history produced so far this Shores and an anthology of Israeli
articles about the Hebrew writers century.” His forthcoming book Yiddish short stories in Hebrew
S. Y. Agnon, Avraham Ben Yitzhak, is Why Was Nationalism European? translation. He is currently working
and Yoel Hoffmann. She is currently Political Ethnicity in Southeast Asia on two books: one a look at urban
co-authoring an article on Hebrew and Europe c. 1450–1840. n cafés and modern Jewish culture, and
translations and adaptations of the other an exploration of Yiddish in
the German-language writer Israeli literature. n
Franz Kafka. n
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Not only do regular faculty members teach courses on
Israel, but the Frankel Center also sponsors a diverse
array of events each year that engage aspects of
Israeli politics, culture, and society. Recent Frankel
Center Israel events from 2014–15 include:
Rachel Tzvia Back, Israeli Poet
“From Holocaust to Protest: The Poetry and Poetics of Tuvia
Ruebner” (September)
Sayed Kashua, Author and Journalist
“The Foreign Mother Tongue: Living and Writing as a Palestinian
in Israel” (September)
Joshua Cole, Shachar Pinsker, May Seikali, Khalil Shikaki,
and Mark Tessler
“Thinking and Talking about Conflict: Perspectives on Gaza and
Israel” (October)
Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, and Khalil Shikaki
“The Gaza War: A Different Approach to Understanding the
Mark Tessler is the Samuel Arab-Israeli Conflict” (November)
J. Eldersveld Professor of Political
Science at U-M, where he has Alon Tal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
also served as Vice Provost for “All the Trees of the Forest: The Extraordinary Story of Israel’s
International Affairs. He, too, teaches Woodlands” (January)
a course on the Arab-Israeli conflict
as well as a graduate seminar on Dafna Hirsch, Open University of Israel
Middle East politics. He has authored
“My Hummus is Bigger Than Your Hummus: On Food and Politics in
13 books, including Public Opinion
in the Middle East: Survey Research Israel” (January)
and the Political Orientations of
Ordinary Citizens, and A History of Esti Kenan-Ofri, Singer and Composer
the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, which “Traveling Melodies: Beyond Israel and the Mediterranean” (January)
was named a “Notable Book of the
Year” by The New York Times. His Eitan Bar-Yosef, Frankel Fellow
newest book is Islam and Politics “The African Journey in Israeli Literature and Culture” (February)
in the Middle East: Explaining the
Views of Ordinary Citizens. Tessler
Wieseneck Family Israel Symposium
is co-director of the Arab Barometer
Survey Project, which has conducted “Jews, Arabs, and Colonialism” (March)
29 nationally representative political The Wiesenecks have supported a symposium on Israel for the
attitude surveys in 14 Arab countries past two years. This year’s event looked at the Jewish experience
since 2006. n in Mandate Palestine and the state of Israel in a broader colonial
framework by exploring the complexity of social and cultural
relationships between Jews and Arabs in the French and the British
imperial contexts. n
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STUDENTS
Meet the Graduates
This year’s diverse Undergraduate Students
group of Frankel Center
Photo by Brittin Jones
Photo by Brittin Jones
graduates just goes to
prove that the typical
Judaic Studies student
is anything but typical.
Name: Rebecca David Name: Adam Gorman
From: Brookline, MA From: Commerce, MI
Majors: Judaic Studies and Biology Major: Computer Science
Plans After Graduation: Dental school Minors: Judaic Studies and
Biochemistry
In Her Words:
Plans After Graduation: Medical school
“I decided to double major in Judaic
Studies and Biology because these In His Words:
are my two passions. I’ve always “The diversity of my studies represents
loved science and health, and knew just my simple curiosity for different
I wanted to pursue a career that fields. I have always been extremely
required research and problem interested in natural science. At the
solving in the ways that are so beginning of my sophomore year, I
intertwined with understanding became really interested in medicine,
biological systems. As for Judaic and later, in computer science. I also
Studies, I grew up in a home gravitated to the Judaic Studies courses
speaking Yiddish and felt very because I have always loved learning
connected from a young age to about my religion.
Ashkenazi-Jewish culture.
“I have often noticed that the
“I see the two topics as related in pre-med curriculum focuses on the
the sense that biology and Judaism sciences but does not delve into other
both aim to explore the roots of who important aspects of medicine. Judaic
we are as humans. I find beauty in Studies courses, where I developed
the natural inclinations of humans my analytical and critical-thinking
to understand ourselves through skills, helped fill this void for
many facets, especially science and me. They also helped me gain a
religion. While biology involves better understanding and respect for
a myriad of mechanical human other cultures in courses about the
elements, Judaism supplements Arab-Israeli conflict, among others. I
this understanding of the took a class called ‘Judaism and the
human experience in many Body,’ and I feel it will help me be a
powerful ways.” n better physician because it helped me
gain a new perspective and respect
for the human body.” n
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The Judaic Studies
Class of 2015
Graduate Students Undergraduates
Majors
Photo by DC Goings
Photo by DC Goings
Ari Cicurel
Rebecca David
Ellen Farber
Michele Freed
Julie Goldfaden
Molly Mardit
Name: Beth Dwoskin Name: Matt Van Zile
Ari Mendelsohn
From: Detroit, MI From: Toledo, OH
Plans After Graduation: Plans After Graduation: Minors
Translating Yiddish works and writing Pursuing doctorate in Judaic Studies Amanda Balakirsky
other subjects In His Words: Hanna Berlin
In Her Words: “My interest in Judaic Studies started Jonah Brandhandler
“I worked as a librarian at ProQuest in high school after I began taking
for 25 years and I began my master’s violin lessons from a woman whose Kelsey Dunn
in Judaic Studies after I retired. family had emigrated from Russia Molly Gilinsky
My first two jobs as a professional in the late 1980s. Her passion for Andrea Goldwasser
librarian were in synagogue libraries, music was fused with a love of Jewish Adam Gorman
where I developed an interest in culture. The experience inspired me
Jewish literature, music, art, and to explore other aspects of Jewish Jordyn Kay
history. Later, I worked in New York, culture including history, literature, Jesse Moehlman
where I experienced the klezmer and religion. Shira Moskowitz
revival, and that music has been my
guide to the Ashkenazic culture of my “The master’s program at the Frankel Lauren Nemerovski
ancestors. I began singing in college, Center is fantastic, and the eclectic Brendan Rand
and in New York I attended informal mix of subjects and disciplines in Kaitlin Schuler
singing events of all types and learned this program really fits my
personality. I have enjoyed the Esther Shachar-Hill
to leyn at the West Side Minyan.
faculty, staff, and scholars who Ezekiel Silverstein
“Singing Jewish music led to my visit here. They all have different
interest in the role of women as
vocalists in Jewish history, and the
techniques and approaches which
make learning quite dynamic. I feel
Graduates
paradox of their presence despite
the ban on them. Even as a librarian,
well prepared to tackle the next stage Master’s
in my academic career, and this
I knew that my research skills in program has certainly given me the Beth Dwoskin
Judaica were not adequate for this Matt Van Zile
edge I needed to advance further. I
subject, and I was eager to plunge
am thankful to all the people at
back into the academic world. The Graduate Certificates
Michigan who have invested their
master’s program has provided me
time and energy in helping students Joshua Friedman
with the background to write my
like me succeed.” n
thesis on women as prayer leaders in Jason Zurwaski
Jewish Eastern Europe.” n
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PEOPLE
Amanda Fisher: Hail to the Chef
Fast Facts I f scrumptious food is being served
at a Frankel Center event, then
chances are that Chef Amanda Fisher
FS: What do you like about your job?
FISHER: With other jobs, you can
Photo by Luna Anna Archey
is working behind the scenes making do something and you don’t quite
sure that every dish is perfect. know what the outcome will be. With
catering, it’s instantaneous. I put a lot
FRANKELY SPEAKING: How did you of love into my cooking, and I always
become interested in catering? hope it shows.
FISHER: My mother was born in FS: What are some of the challenges
Egypt, and I grew up in a very you face in your job?
food-oriented home. It was always
Name: Amanda Fisher the connector; everyone got together FISHER: I try to keep my business
and ate. That was the start. I began as personal as possible because I
Title: Executive Chef and
my career in Jerusalem, and later want every aspect to be as good as
Owner, Amanda’s Kitchen,
amandaskitchencatering.com
Photos by Lin Goings
Experience: Worked for Paula Le Duc
(San Francisco); Cesar (Berkeley); The
Catered Affair, Salamander (Boston);
Te’enim, Tmol Shilshom (Jerusalem);
Herbert Samuel, and Messa (Tel Aviv).
Current Favorite Cookbook: Plenty:
Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from
London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
worked in Berkeley, Boston, and Tel it can be. I do the menu planning,
Notable Recipe: “Once I created a dish
Aviv in really great restaurants and the meetings with the clients, the
I named War and Peace because it was
exclusive catering companies. I started contracts, and the food. Each menu
so large and complex, hardly anyone
my own company 10 years ago. is custom-made to fit my clients’
could finish it.”
personalities. It’s very rewarding,
FS: What cuisines do you draw upon
From our Fellows: to create your dishes?
but it takes a lot. I do a lot of bar and
bat mitzvahs, and when you do life
“Of all the remarkable things about
FISHER: My food is influenced by my events, it can be pretty stressful. But I
being a Fellow at the Frankel Institute,
own Egyptian background, but also meet all these great people. It’s never
the most enjoyable has to be
some Californian cuisine and Asian boring, and I really enjoy it. I never
Amanda’s Wednesday lunches:
influences. I like all my food to be know what’s going to happen from
fresh and creative, highly
fresh, healthy, and tasty. one week to the next.
sophisticated and yet offering that
sweet sensation associated with the FS: Do you use a cookbook or do you FS: What do you like about working
best home cooking.” create your own recipes? with the Frankel Center?
— Eitan Bar-Yosef
FISHER: Both. I have the most FISHER: I’ve been working at the
“I’m grateful for Amanda’s delicious extensive cookbook collection—it Center for many years, and I really
contributions to our Wednesday fills two bookcases. I’m always buying enjoy meeting all the faculty and
workshops. Even when her creations more, because there’s always something graduate students. But what I really
are not all vegetarian, she ensures more to learn. I feed the Fellows almost like is that sense of community. I am
that there are vegetarian alternatives every week and I like to experiment, an outsider looking in, but I do feel
for those of us who need them.” and I’m lucky that they let me! I always that I’m part of that community. I
— Sara Feldman try to prepare something new. think it’s a very special place. ■
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LIBRARY
Eighteen Hundred
Ways to Tell the
The Kalderon Artistic Passover Haggadah by Asher Kalderon depicts a
passage describing how the Egyptians experienced hundreds of plagues
at the Red Sea.
Passover Story
T he Haggadah relates how several great rabbis sat down
one Passover eve to discuss the Exodus from Egypt.
The conversation continued as the hours slipped by, until a
student finally interrupted to announce that it was time for
the morning prayers.
Which raises the question: how is it possible to spend an
entire night recounting a story that has been told so many
times before?
The late Irwin Alterman—whose extensive Haggadah
collection was recently acquired by the University of
The Jerusalem Haggadah by Shmuel Bonneh (L) and The Agam Haggadah Michigan—undoubtedly knew the answer. His 1,800-plus
by Yaakov Agam (R) Haggadahs attest to what those rabbis understood on that
Passover eve long ago: there is more than one way to tell
a story.
“Irwin appreciated the Haggadahs on many different
levels,” recalled his widow, Marilyn McCall Alterman,
who donated the collection. “He liked them intellectually,
artistically, and philosophically. This was aside from the
fact that he loved Passover; he was so emotionally attached
to that holiday. It was a collection that started small and
got larger and larger.”
The vast collection is a treasure trove of Haggadahs large
and small, ancient and modern, illustrated by renowned
artists, and written in many different languages.
The Moss Haggadah by David Moss invites readers to look in mirrors in “The sheer volume and the variety of types of Haggadahs
order to literally see themselves as participants in the Exodus.
from a number of countries in numerous languages
make this a very comprehensive collection,” noted Elliot
H. Gertel, who is Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica
in the University Library. “It will be of value to scholars
in religious texts, philosophy, art and design, history,
languages, Jewish culture and tradition, and many
other fields.”
Marilyn sees this gift to U-M as a fitting way to honor her
husband’s memory. “I think,” she said, “that he would hope
people would see there are ways to not just tell the story,
but to appreciate the way the story was told.” n
Photos by Luna Anna Archey
The Koren Bird’s Head Haggada is based on a 13th-century Haggadah
published in Germany. April 2015 | 9
HAPPENINGS
What’s New at the Frankel Center?
Yiddish Studies Minor New Dissertation Award could have come home earlier, but he
stayed for the formal signing to make
At long last, the Yiddish Studies A new dissertation award has been sure there were no hitches.”
minor is official! The new minor created in memory of Michael S.
provides a unique opportunity for Bernstein, who was killed at the age Bernstein is survived by his wife,
students to focus on study of the of 36 in the bombing of Pan Am 103 Stephanie—whom he met while they
Yiddish language and explore its over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. were both U-M undergraduates—his
culture from perspectives of various children Sara and Joseph, and his
disciplines, including English, Bernstein graduated from U-M with mother, Janet.
history, American culture, political honors and earned advanced degrees
from Johns Hopkins University “It is particularly appropriate to
science, comparative literature, name this dissertation prize in
and German and Slavic studies. and the University of Chicago Law
memory of Michael S. Bernstein,”
Students of Yiddish gain access School. He went on to join the Office
said Deborah Dash Moore,
to entire worlds of Jewish culture of Special Investigations (OSI),
director of the Frankel Center.
that are otherwise obscure, from the Nazi-hunting unit of the US
“He understood and valued the
folk songs and memoirs to literary Department of Justice, where he was
importance of research to uncover
criticism, mystical literature, and appointed Assistant Deputy Director the past and shape the future.”
historiography. in 1988. He was responsible for the
deportations of seven former Nazis, who Judaic Studies on Twitter
“The Yiddish minor is a bold step all entered the United States illegally.
towards creating a more tightly The Frankel Center is now on Twitter!
knit community of undergraduate In a column for The New York Follow us on @UMJudaicStudies
Yiddish scholars at the university,” Times, David Margolick wrote that for the latest on our events, faculty,
said senior Jamie Nadel. “It is Bernstein died “at a moment of fellows, and students.
exciting to see U-M officially triumph. He was returning from
encouraging such a community Vienna, where he had persuaded New Judaic Studies Motif
to develop. It speaks to an the reluctant Austrians to take back
some native sons they would rather Inspired by the magnificent Spanish
understanding that knowledge of
Synagogue in Prague (below left), new
Yiddish language and culture is forget, beginning with an Auschwitz
papercut art (shown below) will soon
integral to Judaic Studies.” SS Guard, Josef Eckert. Mr. Bernstein
adorn the Frankel Center’s front door,
nameplates, and bulletin boards. n
10 | Frankely SpeakingMILESTONES
MAZ EL TOV!
Graduate Students Kenneth Wald was named “The Memorable Metropolis and the
the Shoshana Shier Distinguished Forgettable Field: Between Rabbinic
Beth Dwoskin was awarded the Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at and Roman Spatial Mnemonics.”
Fall 2014 Simeon Brinberg Prize. the University of Toronto.
Katie Rosenblatt’s article, Kalman Weiser received an Faculty
“‘Selma’ Got it Right By Leaving Out SSHRC Insight Development Deborah Dash Moore
Jews,” appeared in The Jewish Daily Grant from the Social Sciences published an article, “How a
Forward in January. and Humanities Research Council Kosher Meat Boycott Brought
of Canada. Jewish Women’s History into
Past Fellows the Mainstream: An Historical
Current Fellows Appreciation,” that paid tribute to
Anthony Bale was named
Paula Hyman, z”l, and inaugurated
Distinguished International Visiting Reuven Kiperwasser has
a new feature, Signposts: Reflections
Fellow at the University of Melbourne received two fellowships for next
on Articles from the Journal’s Archive,
by the Australian Research Council. year: one from the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation at in American Jewish History 99:1
His recently published book is a
the Free University of Berlin, and (January 2015), pp. 79–91.
new translation of The Book of
Margery Kempe (Oxford University the second from the Humanities Todd Endelman’s latest book
Press, 2015). Center for Advanced Studies in is Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion
Hamburg. His latest articles are and Radical Assimilation in Modern
Shlomo Berger is the convener “Encounters Between the Iranian Jewish History (Princeton University
of the Oxford advanced research Myth and Rabbinic Mythmakers Press, 2015).
seminar in Jewish Studies (January in the Babylonian Talmud,” which
2015–June 2015) on “Jewish Books appeared in Encounters by the Rivers Andrea Siegal’s book chapter,
in Amsterdam 1600–1850: Authors, of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations “A Literary Perspective: Domestic
Producers, and Readers and the Between Jews, Iranians, and Violence, the ‘Woman Question’, and
Construction of Jewish Worlds.” He Babylonians in Antiquity (Mohr the ‘Arab Question’ in Early Zionism,”
was also recently elected visiting Siebeck, 2015), edited by Uri Gabbay appeared in Gender in Judaism and
fellow of Brasenose College at the and Shai Secunda; and “A Bizarre Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon
University of Oxford. Invitation to the King’s Banquet: Heritage (NYU Press, 2014), edited
The Metamorphosis of a Parable by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and
Marc Caplan’s article,
Tradition and the Transformation of past Institute Fellow Beth S. Wenger.
“Literary Studies,” appeared in The
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary an Eschatological Idea,” in Prooftexts, Jeffrey Veidlinger published
Jewish Cultures (Routledge, 2014). 33:2 (2014). “One Doesn’t Make Out Much With
Madeline Kochen’s newest Gil Klein’s article, “Spatial Furs in Palestine: the Migration of
Struggle: Intercity Relations and Jewish Displaced Persons, 1945–7,”
book is Organ Donation and the
the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic in East European Jewish Affairs
Divine Lien in Talmudic Law
Competition,” appeared in Religious (December 2014). He also delivered
(Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Competition in the Third Century public talks at the University of
Veerle Vanden Daelen’s CE: Jews, Christians, and the Toronto and the University of
article, “Heropbouw en herinnering Greco-Roman World (Vandenhoeck & California, Irvine, and spoke at
in de joodse gemeenschap te Ruprecht, 2014), edited by Nathaniel the national conventions of the
Antwerpen,” appeared in Bijdragen P. DesRosiers, Jordan D. Rosenblum, Association for Slavic, East European,
tot de Eigentijdse Herinnering/Cahiers and Lily C. Vuong. He also recently and Eurasian Studies, and the
de la Mémoire Contemporaine (2014). spoke at Notre Dame University on Association for Jewish Studies. n
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University of Michigan
Michael J. Behm, Grand Blanc
Mark J. Bernstein, Ann Arbor
Laurence B. Deitch, Bloomfield Hills Give to the Rita Poretsky Fund for Yiddish Challenge Grant
Shauna Ryder Diggs, Grosse Pointe
Denise Ilitch, Bingham Farms
Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor
Andrew C. Richner, Grosse Pointe Park The Rita Poretsky Fund for Yiddish Challenge Grant was recently
Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor established to benefit Yiddish Studies at U-M. Gifts of any size will be
Mark S. Schlissel (ex officio)
matched dollar for dollar up to $150,000. The matching program ends
Frankel Institute for January 31, 2019.
Advanced Judaic Studies
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