Pitigliani Kolno'a Festival

Una notizia dal Pitigliani - Centro Ebraico Italiano

Il mistero di S. Nicandro

Il San Diego Italian Film Festival e il San Diego Center for Jewish Culture 24th Annual Jewish Film Festival presentano The Mystery of San Nicandro (Il mistero di S. Nicandro) giovedì il 13 febbraio alle 13:30, al cinema Clairemont Reading Town Square 14, a San Diego, California.

Il dirigente del festivale, Victor Laruccia, presenta questo film documentario affascinante che segue le radici storiche dell'ebraismo nel Mezzogiorno, dall'Inquisizione spagnola al ventennio nero. Racconta l'episodio di una conversione religiosa di massa all'ebraismo nel paese di San Nicandro in Puglia; e il fenomeno attuale di conversione religiosa nel Sud, che attrae anche gli americani cercando le proprie radici.    

Ispirato dal libro di John A. Davis titolato The Jews of San Nicandro, il film è stato girato in Italia, in Israele e in Canada.

Per l'orario e i biglietti visita www.sdjff.org  

Prezzo: $10.75 (un buono sconto: Italian Film Festival Partner discount code ITFF14)

Call for Papers: “Jewish and Non-Jewish Cultures in Contact: New Research Perspectives”

Call for Papers

X Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies

“Jewish and Non-Jewish Cultures in Contact: New Research Perspectives”

As an essential part of its mission to promote academic Jewish Studies in Europe, the European Association for Jewish Studies organises every four years a major Congress devoted to all periods and fields of Jewish Studies. The Xth Congress of the EAJS will take place in Paris from 20th to 24th July 2014. Individual applications and panel proposals in all fields of Jewish Studies are welcome
The keynote theme of the Xth Congress is: “Jewish and Non-Jewish Cultures in Contact: New Research Perspectives”.
To propose a paper or a panel, please go to the Congress website and click on “To Apply”.
The Call for Papers closes on January 1, 2014.

CFP NEMLA 2014 - Anti-Semitism on Film

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted by Susquehanna University

CFP: Anti-Semitism on Film

Even before the release of Harlan’s notorious Anti-Semitic “historical” 1940 film ‘Jud Süß’ (which was reviewed favorably by Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy), many of the images of Jewish life, culture, and traditions put forth by the film industry contributed to the fabrication of a false, misleading, and prejudiced portrait of the Jewish community in all the countries of the Diaspora. Although dozens (if not hundreds) of films have documented the brutality of the Holocaust during the last 70 years, these works have also not been exempt from criticism and controversy on an international scale, nor do they all paint an equally (or entirely) realistic picture of the Shoah. This panel seeks to look beyond the limitations imposed by national and linguistic borders by focusing on the examination of any works of cinema that are either motivated by a desire to spread Anti-Semitic sentiments among their viewers, or those that, on the other hand, look upon Jewish characters favorably while addressing the impact and the effects of Anti-Semitism on the Jewish community. Papers addressing cinematic reflections of Anti-Semitism outside the context of World War II are especially welcome. 

All papers delivered in the course of this session must be authored in English. Quotes in other languages should be translated for the audience, and presenters should make every effort to use film clips with English subtitles if they are available.

Send a 250 word abstract, along with a description of any technological (A/V) needs to:

Philip Balma – philip.balma@uconn.edu

Giovanni Spani – gspani@holycross.edu

Deadline: September 30, 2013
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The NeMLA conference website is here.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.


Philip Balma, PhD
Assistant Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies Affiliated Faculty, Hebrew and Judaic Studies Italian Language Coordinator ECE Italian Faculty Coordinator Department of Literatures, Cultures, & Languages University of Connecticut
(uconn.academia.edu/PhilipBalma) 

Sulla storia degli ebrei italiani: New York, Oregon

Beyond The Ghetto. New Research and Perspectives on the History of the Jews of Italy 

April 12, 2013- 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò | 24 West 12 Street
The seminar is free and intended for students and faculty. Seats may be available to the general public pending availability.
Registration is mandatory: rsvp@primolevicenter.org  

Presented in collaboration with Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Department of Italian and the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at NYU. In association with the Center for Jewish Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, the Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Columbia University and the Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA. 

The Jewish experience in the Italian peninsula, though subject to rules and restrictions, appears as an essential component of the society at large. In Italy, the lack of attention on the intersection and parallelisms between Jewish history and Christian history has meant that the Jews have long been "invisible" from the overall historical narrative. This led historians to neglect the valuable wealth of information that emerges from the analysis of institutions, norms and behaviors related to the Jews, which today prove essential for a deeper comprehension of Italian society from a national and European perspective. Within this interpretative framework, Marina Caffiero will discuss the relationships and exchanges - cultural, social and institutional - between the Jewish minority and the Christian majority.  

Research Seminar on the History and Cultures of Italian Jews: a Multi-Disciplinary Exchange.
April 10, 2–4:30 pm.
University of Oregon, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, room 159
Chair: Deborah Green (University of Oregon) 


Presenters: Monique Balbuena (University of Oregon), Lucia Finotto (Brandeis University and Kalamazoo College), Federica Francesconi (University of Oregon), Dana Katz (Reed College), Scott Lerner (Franklin and Marshall College), and Valerie Wilhite (University of Oregon).
Respondents: Judith Baskin (University of Oregon) and Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa).

2013 Singer Family Lecture"Anxieties in Conflict: The Diary of Anna del Monte"
Kenneth Stow
April 10, 7:30 pm.
University of Oregon, Knight Library Browsing Room
Refreshments will be provided. 


AAIS Conference, Oregon

Clicca qui per il programma del convegno AAIS. Ecco alcuni panels che potrebbero interessarvi:

Voices of Memory from the Ghetto to the Shoah

Organizers: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College

Chair: Lucia Finotto, Brandeis University.

• Sibilla Destefani, University of Zürich, “Il fumo di Birkenau: un affresco femminile dell’antimondo. Descrizione linguistica e tematica di un capolavoro tragico.”
• Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon, “Defining and Defending Boundaries: Jewish Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Ghettos.”
• Michele Sarfatti, Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC, Milano, “Hanno fatto tutto i tedeschi? La Shoah italiana nella storiografia internazionale, 1946-1986.”

From Caesar to the Popes: Boundary Crossings in Rome

Organizer: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College

Chair: Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon

• Miriam Ben Zeev, Ben Gurion University, “Roman Law and the Jews of Rome in the First Century BCE.”
• Serena Di Nepi, Università di Roma, La Sapienza, “Per fiere e per città. Mobilità ebraica nello Stato della Chiesa di età moderna (XVI-XVIII sec.).” 
• L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College, “The Bishop and the Synagogue of Rome."

Italian-Jewish Studies, II: Literary Expression Across the Centuries

Organizers: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College

Chair: Judith Baskin, University of Oregon

• Lucia Finotto, Brandeis University, “Translating Islamic Philosophy in Renaissance Venice: Visible Jews, Christian Patrons and the City.”
• Will Wells, Rhode State College, “Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Poems of Sarra Copia Sulam.”
• Angela Fabris, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, “L’Ottavo Distretto di Budapest nella narrativa di Giorgio Pressburger."

Italian-Jewish Studies, IV: Jews and the Spaces of Italian Culture

Organizers: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College

Chair: L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College

• Cristiana Facchini, Università di Bologna, “The ghetto – lieu de la memoire. An Inquiry into Christian and Jewish Narrative.”
• Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University, “Italian Jews and the Formation of a National Culture in Post-Unification Italy.”
• Roberta K. Waldbaum, University of Denver, “Alice Hallgarten Franchetti: American Pragmatism in a Franciscan Soul.”

NeMLA Italian Studies 2014 Special Issue: The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Italy

Even before his untimely passing in 1987, Primo Levi's contributions to the Italophone literary panorama inspired a significant amount of critical responses. One could argue that his name has become synonymous with contemporary representations of the Italian Jewry, including (but not limited to) artistic reflections of World War II and the Shoah. This volume aims to highlight new or underexplored approaches to the study of the Italkim, but also to properly contextualize and further the extant critical discourse on Italian-speaking, foreign-born authors such as Edith Bruck and Giorgio Pressburger who (among others) have had an undeniable impact on how Italian and European audiences perceive the modern Jewish experience. Contributions will be informed by the most recent scholarship on the subject (Gordon, Salah, Rothberg, Quercioli-Mincer, Serkowska, Speelman, Minuz, Marcus, Sodi, Perra and many others) and will endeavor to move beyond the barriers that all too often have helped create a compartmentalized scholarly inquiry with respect to Jewish artists operating in Italy. Essays exploring the literary and cinematic representations of the Italophone Jewish experience will constitute the principal focus of this issue. Submissions addressing unstudied/understudied artists and themes are especially welcome. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically no later than March 1, 2014.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Male and Female Jewish Identities, Migration, Transationalism and Translingualism, the Shoah, World War II and Fascism, Cinema, Theater.

Submissions can be authored in English or Italian. Authors must comply with MLA standards for citation and documentation of sources.

Articles may not exceed 10,000 words. Book reviews should not exceed 1,200 words.

Editorial communications should be addressed to the editors, preferably via e-mail, or mailed to Simona Wright, Dept. of Modern Languages, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, NJ 08628-0718. Manuscripts should be sent via e-mail attachment (Microsoft Word for PC). Attachments should be marked with the last name of the contributor, followed by the name/subject of the paper (Dunne/Boccaccio - Dunne/Postmodern). All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter/message that includes the author's relevant affiliations, a U.S. or international postal address, and an e-mail address. Contributors need to submit, in order, their name and work affiliation at the end of the article. NeMLA Italian Studies has a blind reader policy and the editorial staff will erase the personal information from the copy sent for evaluation to each of the readers.

NeMLA membership is not required to submit to NIS; however, membership is required for publication. Please consult this webpage for details.

Interested authors should contact the editors by e-mail:

Philip Balma
University of Connecticut
philip.balma@uconn.edu

Simona Wright
The College of New Jersey
simona@tcnj.edu

Non-Christian Identities in the Italian Context

   

MLA 2014 Convention

Non-Christian Identities in the Italian Context
MLA Division: Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
This session welcomes papers that address Atheist, Jewish, Libertine, Muslim, and Protestant identities as expressed and negotiated in Christian and non-Christian texts. Please submit 1 page abstract by 15 March 2013. Organizer/contact: Nathalie Hester (nhester@uoregon.edu).

Congresso AISG 2013, a Ravenna, 22-24 settembre

Cari lettori, eccovi la data definitiva del congresso dell'AISG del settembre 2013, e i termini del call for papers.

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Il Consiglio Direttivo dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG) a deciso il tema e la data del prossimo Congresso AISG 2013, che si terrà a Ravenna, nella solita sede del Dip.to di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, vicolo degli Ariani 1, Ravenna, nei giorni 22-24 settembre 2013. Il tema sarà il seguente:

Strategie e normative per la conversione degli Ebrei
dal Medio Evo all'età contemporanea

È aperto il call for papers fino al 31 marzo 2013. Chi volesse presentare una relazione, solo su materiali nuovi e inediti, può inviare la sua proposta con titolo e un breve abstract. Le proposte saranno valutate dal comitato scientifico che comunicherà l'accettazione o meno entro il 31 maggio 2013.
Per quanto riguarda le spese di viaggio e soggiorno c'è una fondata speranza di poterle rimborsare almeno dall'Italia; più difficile per i voli dall'estero, ossia da Europa, USA e Israele. Chi potesse utilizzare suoi fondi universitari di ricerca, è invitato a farlo.

Le proposte vanno inviate a: mauro.perani@unibo.it & enrica.sagradini@unibo.it
Prof. Mauro Gabriele Perani
Prof. Ordinario di Ebraico, Università di Bologna
Dip.to di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Ravenna Campus
vicolo degli Ariani, 1 - 48121 Ravenna - ITALIA
Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) 
Presidente, AISG