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Welcome to the Jewish Studies Program at the University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences |
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Columbia Jewish Federation Event
Save the date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Dan Senor
Adjunct Senior Fellow,
Council on Foreign Relations
Co-Author, Start-Up Nation
"Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle"
7:00 p.m. ~ Dessert Reception
7:30 p.m. ~ Community Briefing
Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center on the
Gerry Sue & Norman Arnold Jewish Community Campus
306 Flora Drive, Columbia, SC
For additional information or RSVP, please contact
Seth Baron, AIPAC Southern States Area Director
at (770) 541-7610 or sbaron@aipac.org
The first 100 families to RSVP will receive a FREE copy of Start-Up Nation.
Dan Senor will be signing books at the conclusion of his remarks.
NO GIFT REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT ~ PLEASE BRING A FRIEND
OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY ~ DIETARY LAWS OBSERVED
About Dan Senor
Dan Senor, adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations, has long been involved in policy, politics and business in the Middle East.
As a senior foreign policy advisor to the U.S. Government, he was one of the longestserving
civilian officials in Iraq, for which he was awarded the highest civilian honor by
the Pentagon. Senor’s analytical pieces are frequently published by the Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and Time.
"Start-up Nation"
... addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1
million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state
of war since its founding, with no natural resources - produces more start-up
companies than large peaceful and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?
Link to publicity flyer
JEWISH STUDIES NEWS (December 2009):
Jewish Studies Faculty to present at
the 2009 meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies
Saskia Coenen Snyder and
Katja Vehlow
will both be presenting at the
41st annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Professor Vehlow will be a discussant on a five-person panel titled
"Teaching Judaic Studies in a Non-Jewish Setting"
on Sunday, December 20.
Professor Coenen Snyder will present a paper titled
"Space for Reflection:
Urban Environments, Synagogues, and Methodological Approaches to Jewish History"
in a panel on
"Space and Place in Jewish Studies"
on Monday, December 21.
Solomon-Tenenbaum Lectureship in Jewish Studies 2009-2010 Committee
The selection committee for the Solomon-Tenenbaum Lectureship in Jewish Studies
has been expanded to include rabbis representing Columbia's three Jewish congregations.
They join Samuel Tenenbaum, Stanley Dubinsky (director of Jewish Studies), and the three
core faculty in Jewish Studies to create a selection committee of eight.
The committee for 2009-2010 consists of:
Stanley Dubinsky (Committee Chair, Jewish Studies/English),
Rabbi Jonathan Case (Beth Shalom Synagogue),
Federica Clementi (Jewish Studies/English),
Rabbi Hesh Epstein (Beit Midrash Synagogue),
Rabbi Daniel Sherman (Tree of Life Congregation),
Saskia Coenen Snyder (Jewish Studies/History),
Samuel Tenenbaum (President, Palmetto Health Foundation), and
Katja Vehlow (Jewish Studies/Religious Studies).
Announcements about next year's speaker will be coming early in 2010.
Federica Clementi is recipient of the
2009 Josephine Abney Fellowship for Research in Women’s & Gender Studies
Federica Clementi's project, Entr’actes: Sarah Kofman’s Art of Memory, has been selected
to receive the
Josephine Abney Fellowship for Research in Women’s and Gender Studies for 2009.
The award is for $5,000. Clementi's reading of the text, Rue Ordener, Rue Labat,
is seen as not only important autobiography, but also as resistance to the anti-feminist writings
of the “great fathers” of Western civilization, and is a project of special significance to
South Carolina and to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at USC.
The award will be presented at at this year’s awards luncheon, March 26th, and Clementi
will present her research at the Abney lecture at next year’s Women’s and Gender Studies Conference
(or at another venue during the coming year).
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Jewish Studies Mission Statement:
Judaism has been central to Western culture from antiquity to the present.
Its contributions to Western civilization are deeply interwoven into both Jewish and non-Jewish
Western cultural history, contributing significantly to art, language, law, literature, medicine,
philosophy and political thought. Jewish Studies is thus an important component of the larger
liberal arts curriculum. Its focus on important issues of group and national identity, Diaspora,
genocide and cultural survival gives Jewish Studies particular relevance not merely to those who
seek a richer understanding of the Jewish experience but also to scholars of other dispossessed or minority groups.
Fundamentally interdisciplinary in its approach and international in its focus, the University
of South Carolina’s Jewish Studies Progam seeks to add an important new dimension to the scholarly work
being done in Jewish Studies in South Carolina. The academic program to be established will enhance our knowledge of Judaism’s
role on the world stage and help students and scholars forge connections between Judaism in South Carolina and this
larger context. Such a focus is a natural outgrowth of current programming in Jewish Studies at the University,
such as the annual Solomon-Tenenbaum lecture series, which brings in internationally renowned scholars and
authors to speak on topics related to Jewish life and history.
The program plans to initially offer an undergraduate minor in
Jewish Studies major and a graduate certificate in Jewish Studies.
College of Arts and Sciences Jewish Studies Program Charter |
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