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John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoVertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.
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John MacKay deposited The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist and Newsreel Matrices (1916-18) in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoVertov in 1917, and an investigation of some of his shaping contexts: musical practice, Futurist poetry, early non-fiction filmmaking, and Marxism.
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John MacKay deposited Social Immortality: David Kaufman at the Psychoneurological Institute (1914-1916) in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoDziga Vertov’s education during the early years of World War: his changing personal situation as a war refugee, the connections he made at the Institute, the ideas that exerted an influence.
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John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoOn Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions—In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Holocaust literature and historiography in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper examines Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces (2007) in the context of Holocaust literature and historiography. It begins with an introduction to the genre of Holocaust literature and the problematic nature of ‘survivor’ testimony. Michaels’ work is then contextualized within this body of literature. The essay goes on to examine the means t…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
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Helene Meyers deposited “Woman in Gold” in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoFilm review of Woman in Gold (2015) as a cinematic rendering of the material turn in Holocaust memory.
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Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoI am one of those “brave souls” that Benjamin Schreier dared to throw their hat in the ring for membership to the Executive Committee, so here goes. I’m a US-born, UK-educated, and French-inclined academic currently based at Durham University. No, that is not a generic college near Duke, but rather the UK’s third oldest university that you’ve…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Laura Leibman started the topic Call for Papers Special Issue of American Jewish History dedicated to Material C in the forum
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers Special Issue of American Jewish History dedicated to Material Culture
American Jewish History is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on material culture, guest-edited by Laura Leibman (Reed College). The journal offers articles on every aspect of the American Jewish experience and is the most widely recognized…[Read more]
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Saul Zaritt started the topic Call for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies in the forum
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCall for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies
We are proud to announce In geveb, a new online journal of Yiddish Studies. In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the presentation of digitized archival documents, the exchange of…[Read more] -
Benjamin Schreier started the topic MLA 2015 panels in the forum
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCome one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called] at this year’s MLA, starting this week:
275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)
Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish C…[Read more]
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Benjamin Schreier started the topic MLA 2015 panels in the forum
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCome one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called]:
275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)
Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural Studies and the Discussion Group on J…[Read more] -
Benjamin Schreier started the topic Executive Committee membership in the forum
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAny brave souls want to put their names up–or put someone else’s name up–for election to the Jewish Cultural Studies executive board? The term is five years, starting at the close of this year’s MLA: thus, the lucky winner will serve starting with MLA 2016 and running through MLA 2020, serving as Secretary for MLA 2019 and Grand Dragon for MLA 2…[Read more]
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