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Sunday, December 19, 1:00–2:30 pm, Superior A
New Resources in Biblical Studies for Jewish Studies
(Pedagogy)
Alison Joseph, Jonathan Klawans, and Erin Galgay Walsh will offer three new resources in biblical studies that should be considered for their contributions to the broader teaching of Jewish Studies. Those resources are The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE (Yale University Press) and the accompanying Posen Digital Library, The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (Oxford University Press), and the Ancient Jew Review web journal.
- Alison L. Joseph, The Posen Library, “Integrating the Biblical Period in Jewish Culture and Civilization”
- Jonathan Klawans, Boston University, “A Jewish Apocrypha? Pedagogical and Moral Questions Arising from the Jewish Annotated Apocrypha”
- Erin Galgay Walsh, The University of Chicago, “Crowdsourcing Ancient Judaism: Pedagogy and Publications”
Respondents:
Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois at Chicago
Naomi Brenner, The Ohio State University
Cosponsors:
Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity
Sunday, December 19, 4:45–6:15 pm, Missouri
1943: A Pivotal Year
Deborah Dash Moore, Shira Kohn, Liat Alon, and Amanda Ruppenthal Stein explore 5703/1943, a year of radical, unprecedented choices for Jews: between rhetoric and rescue, diplomacy and activism, resistance and passivity, past and future, redemption and apocalypse. The divide between one calendar and another was the distance between wartime and what came next. None of the existing Jewish master narratives anticipated a world war against the Jews. Join these scholars working in diverse areas of Jewish culture as they explore Jewish responses during the transformative year of 1943.
- Chair: Samuel Kassow, Trinity College, co-editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973
- Shira Kohn, The Dalton School, “America, 1943: Bearing the Burden of Witness and War”
- Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan, “Pictures of Home Away from Home: Esther Bubley’s Wartime Family Album”
- Liat Alon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “1943: A Transformative Year?”
- Amanda Ruppenthal Stein, Carroll University, “Creativity and Conflict: Jewish Composers and Music-Making in an Age of Crisis”
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