Jewish Studies Program
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Indiana University faculty members Dov-Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger $267,000 to preserve and annotate oral histories they collected from Yiddish-speaking residents of Eastern Europe and make the material available to scholars, educators and the public.
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Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences has selected two students as winners of its 2009 Palmer-Brandon Prize: Aren Wilson-Wright, a junior majoring in Jewish studies, religious studies and mathematics, and Clara Mitchell, a junior majoring in English and art history, will each receive $20,000. The Palmer-Brandon Prize is given annually to outstanding full-time students who are majoring in the humanities.
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The November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, stunned the world and provided a dramatic reminder of its modern-day dangers. In response, faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington have organized a symposium to address the problem of terrorism from the perspective of three countries hit hard by violence: India, Israel and Turkey.
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Several academic programs at Indiana University Bloomington will collaborate with Cardinal Stage Company on the Bloomington theater group's production of The Diary of Anne Frank, which runsSept. 12-28. Also planned are a public conversation with experts on Anne Frank and the Holocaust Sept. 16 and a workshop for teachers Sept. 17.
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Selections in this issue include books about a 1932 uprising in El Salvador, the "burdens of perfection" described in Victorian literature, a new generation of Jewish writers in America and the present and future of electric power technologies.
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Indiana University President Michael McRobbie will join a delegation of American university leaders on a trip to Israel, June 29 to July 7, to explore closer academic and research ties between the two nations.
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