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I'm forwarding this on behalf of the UC Santa Cruz's Center for Jewish Studies. -- Lee Jaffe, UCSC Library -------- Original Message -------- Dear friends, We begin our work this year with our newly established major in Jewish Studies -- and continue with the minor. Our teaching will be enriched by our ongoing research: we begin the quarter with two visiting scholars -- * * **Ruth Ellen Gruber: **Sauerkraut Cowboys and Klezmer Cafes: Europe's Real Imaginary Spaces** Tuesday, October 5, 2010 12-1 pm Humanities 1, Room 210 * * Ruth Ellen Gruber discusses "new authenticities" -- and "real imaginary spaces," in contemporary Europe. These coincide often with the creation of new local traditions, definitions and cultural components. These two European trends are analogous phenomena: the "virtually Jewish scene" and codification of what "Jewish" means in physical, mass cultural, and touristic contexts, and the parallel, multi-faceted, "Imaginary Wild West," which also deals with myth, stereotype, physical space, and performativity. In both, questions of ownership, appropriation and "authenticity" are central, and longing and lost (sometimes mythical) landscapes play a role. You can find an image of her on her web site and other images connected with this talk -- her web site is http://web.mac.com/ruthellengruber/general_site/Home.html Do look at her prizewinning book Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe -- Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, UCSC, with funding from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. And *Anna Sapir Abulafia (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge): "Doing the King's Service: The Jews in Medieval England"* Thursday, October 7, 2010 5-6 pm Humanities 1, Room 202 Reception to follow at the Stevenson College Provost House Dr. Anna Sapir Abulafia is a specialist in Jewish-Christian relations in the European Middle Ages. Her publications include: Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Routledge, 1995); Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in the West (c. 1000-1150) (Ashgate, 1998); and an edited volume, Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots, Modern Perspectives (Palgrave, 2002). Her latest book, Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000-1300. Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom, will be published by Longman later this year. Sponsored by the Center for Mediterranean Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies. With support from the David B. Gold Foundation and from Stevenson College. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. May this year of beginnings be a year of blessings for us all. Murray Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch Co-Directors, Center for Jewish Studies, UCSC http://cjs.ucsc.edu/ --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
