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Faculty in the News
Paul B. Miller: New Article in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies July 17, 2012
Robert Barsky: New Books in Language March 7, 2012
Allison Schachter: Diasporic Modernisms Review in Forward March 2, 2012
Amy-Jill Levine: The Jewish Annotated New Testiment Review in the New York Times November 25, 2011
Phil Lieberman quoted in MyVU May 4, 2011
Shaul Kelner's Book Wins Award January 21, 2011
Shaul Kelner quoted in Forward April 30, 2010
Shaul Kelner quoted in New York Jewish Week May 12, 2010
Shaul Kelner quoted in MyVU about Israel Tours June 2, 2010
Shaul Kelner quoted in Jerusalem Post June 27, 2010
Shaul Kelner continues to get fine reviews of his recent book, Tours That Bind:
Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism June 24, 2010
Shaul Kelner: Ties That Bind Review in Forward July 14, 2010
Shaul Kelner: Ties That Bind Review in The Observer August 6, 2010
Exclusive interview with Douglas Knight about his forthcoming book, Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel
Upcoming Events
Announcements
COMMUNITY CAN AUDIT JEWISH STUDIES COURSES
Many have expressed interest in furthering their informal education in Jewish Studies, but haven’t wanted to take the GRE exams and register for a formal MA degree. The Program in Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University is pleased to announce that we are opening our courses to the community on a limited basis. With the instructor’s permission, you are welcome to audit courses of special interest to you. You will not get academic credit for the course and it will not appear on a transcript. Imagine the possibilities – learning without papers and exams!
For further information, please contact Lindsey Bunt at jewishstudies@vanderbilt.edu or call 615-322-5029
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowships
Shaul Kelner and Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman have been selected as two of the eight recipients of Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowships from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. This award is designed for faculty with a genuine interest in teaching at all levels and provides Fellows with research money and a forum of workshops and other events for the development and sharing of effective pedagogical techniques. July 19, 2010
Heard Library Acquires Patterson Collection (lower article), July 1, 2010
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Phil with the senior editor Norman A. Stillman |
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman recently celebrated the completion of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, for which he has been an active contributor and member of the editorial board.
May, 2010
Ackerman-Lieberman has also received final word that his Fulbright in Egypt for next summer has been approved. The project is entitled "An Important Manuscript of Islamic Partnership Law", and his sponsor is al-Azhar University in Cairo. The project involves surveying two heretofore unpublished legal works on partnerships located in the Egyptian National Library in Cairo --the Kitab al-Shirka of the Kitab al-Asl of Muhammad b.al-Hasan al-Shaybani (d.805 CE) and the corresponding section in the Kitab al-Kafi of Hakim al-Shahid (d.945 CE). The intent is to contextualize the development of partnership law from Shaybani to its apogee in the Kitab al-Mabsut in Shams al-Aimma al-Sarakhsi (d.1106 CE) in terms of the economic and demographic changes taking place during the "commercial revolution" of the Middle Ages. June 25, 2010
Julia Cohen has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations grant for The Sephardic Studies Reader, 1730-1950, a documentary history to be co-edited with Sarah Abrevaya Stein of UCLA. June 24, 2010
Allison Schachter has just completed her book manuscript: Diasporic Modernism: Hebrew and Yiddish in the Twentieth Century. The book traces the historical arc of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism from the tail end of the Russian empire in the 1890s to New York in the 1970s. June 25, 2010
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