H-JewishRhetorics is the scholarly network for Klal Rhetorica, a community of scholars working in the overlapping areas of Rhetoric and Jewish Studies.
Below you will find the latest books published in Jewish Studies, including new titles streaming from the H-Net Book Channel and new book announcements posted to H-JewishRhetorics. You will also find announcements and discussion shared among subscribers to H-JewishRhetorics. Pertinent CFPs can be found in a link on the right hand side of the page.
H-JewishRhetorics is always looking for contributors, bloggers, discussants, resources gatherers, etc. Please join the Network and help us build an active online community! If you have questions or ideas about how you'd like to contribute to H-JewishRhetorics, please contact the network editor, Brandon Katzir, at brandon.katzir@gmail.com.
Recent posts
USHMM CFP: 2019 Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust Faculty Seminar
INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THE HOLOCAUST: NEW RESEARCH, NEW CONVERSATIONS, co-taught by Drs.Mehnaz Afridi and Victoria Barnett
July 15-19, 2019
Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2019
2019 Jonathan Safran Foer Virtual Classroom Visit
Dear H-JewishRhetorics Members,
Please see the letter below for information on the 2019 Jonathan Safran Foer Virtual Classroom Visit, a webinar event where Foer discusses issues in environmental, animal, and food ethics in relation to his Jewish identity and heritage. Many members of this list have taken part with their students or organizations in the past, and it would be great to have even more participation in 2019. Please get in touch with any questions, and thank you for your consideration.
Joey Tuminello
New Books in Jewish Studies
New Book - The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion
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Author: Steven R. Weisman Title: The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 8/20/2019 ISBN: 9781416573272 Trade Paperback (English) |
New Book - What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust
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Author: Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar Title: What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 8/2/2018 ISBN: 9780813941943 Paperback (English) |
New Book - Signatures of Struggle: The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction (Suny Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)
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Author: ʻOded Nir Title: Signatures of Struggle: The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction (Suny Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture) Publisher: SUNY Press Publication Date: 10/1/2018 ISBN: 9781438472430 Hardcover (English) |
New Book - Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry (SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)
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Author: Zohar Weiman-Kelman Title: Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry (SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture) Publisher: SUNY Press Publication Date: 12/1/2018 ISBN: 9781438472232 Hardcover (English) |
New Book - The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism (SUNY series, Philosophy and Race)
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Author: Lars Rensmann Title: The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism (SUNY series, Philosophy and Race) Publisher: SUNY Press Publication Date: 7/2/2018 ISBN: 9781438465944 Trade Paperback (English) |
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Announcements
USHMM CFP: 2019 Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust Faculty Seminar
INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THE HOLOCAUST: NEW RESEARCH, NEW CONVERSATIONS, co-taught by Drs.Mehnaz Afridi and Victoria Barnett
July 15-19, 2019
Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2019
Re: Introductions!!!
1) who you are, your rank/institutional affiliation: Janice R. Levi, PhD Candidate, UCLA.
2)what research questions connected you to Klal Rhetorica: I am interested in the notion of rhetoric and how it is tethered to identity construction, maintenance, and performance.
3) what you’re working on, The history of Jewish presence in West Africa.
4) what you hope to get from the community: At this stage, I think learning more about the role of rhetoric in Judaism, recommended reading, and theorizing is instructive.
Introductions and a topic of discussion
Dear Colleagues:
I hope we might see some more introductions from individuals subscribed to the list, so that we might better think together how this group can serve those who are part of it....
Re: Introductions!!!
Thanks for starting us off, Jan. To (re-)introduce myself to the Klal, my name's Michael Bernard-Donals, and I'm a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I teach in the rhetoric program and currently serving as the Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff. When Jan invited me to become a member of the Klal when it was founded I agreed because there just weren't spaces in the field where discussions about Jewish matters, well, mattered.
Introductions!!!
Dear Klal Rhetorica/H-Jewishrhetorics members:
I hope this note finds you well and enjoying the summer. I'm writing to follow-up on some of the suggestions made at our RSA meeting in May and to kick-off introductions. For those of you who want a prompt--please tell us
1) who you are, your rank/institutional affiliation
2)what research questions connected you to Klal Rhetorica
3) what you’re working on,
4) what you hope to get from the community
5) what you can bring/contribute to it
Here's my attempt: