MLA Commons | LLC Jewish American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Jewish American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:45:30 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ab0f0d54d4026d3da9dc3f0b5ebc53d3 Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/steven-zipperstein-on-beginning-a-biography-of-philip-roth-march-15-2021-7pm-3/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:26:13 -0500 University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program:

“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

Steven J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
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]]> 0 68b5a70baefb2b4e27aee3c77941226e Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic "On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth" March 15: Steven Zipperstein (UPenn Silvers Visiting Scholar) in the discussion LLC Jewish American via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/on-beginning-a-biography-of-philip-roth-march-15-steven-zipperstein-upenn-silvers-visiting-scholar/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:24:03 -0500 *UPCOMING EVENT*

*”On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”*

Steve J. Zipperstein

March 15, 2021
7:00 PM EST

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]]> 0 c121f3b5c4d3ea1967d940790a01a3b1 Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/steven-zipperstein-on-beginning-a-biography-of-philip-roth-march-15-2021-7pm-2/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:20:52 -0500 “On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

Steven J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
Registration Required:  Click here to register

More information on the Jewish Studies Program website.

]]> 0 ea08532dd651c219f5f1b784a644c908 Kathryn Ann Hellerstein started the topic Steven Zipperstein, On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth, March 15, 2021 7PM in the discussion LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/steven-zipperstein-on-beginning-a-biography-of-philip-roth-march-15-2021-7pm/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:18:48 -0500 UPCOMING EVENT

“On Beginning a Biography of Philip Roth”

Steve J. Zipperstein
March 15, 2021 7:00 PM EST
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Steve J. Zipperstein
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]]> 0 fa89eccb141a256796619022add6470d Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews   in the discussion LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/mla-2022-llc-jewish-american-forum-panel-jewish-myths-mythic-jews/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:49:20 -0500 MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews

We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]

]]> 0 a17b77f6d1696b7610698bd8854d43ed Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2022-llc-jewish-american-panel-soviet-jewish-writers-in-the-americas/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:43:36 -0500 MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas

We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd30ab1798e8c3d50bd76e387cd6e130 Jodi Eichler-Levine deposited Jews and the Broadway Musical in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1616346/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:25:59 -0400 The history of American musical theater is deeply interwoven with the history of American Jews. This course examines how Jews have taken part in musical theater on multiple levels-as composers, lyricists, producers, and performers, among other roles. It also examines how Jews are depicted in Broadway musicals, with particular attention to gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 b69f5d7d78ae7fab30bf281a4413e8b7 Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.'s eXistence. from LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599829/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:03:49 -0500 0 2f70a06c2604d5caa12c7886b48c06e6 Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585076/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:11:52 -0400 A B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more]

]]> 0 68c9c26176c781eec3ad8d4321a55055 Laurence D. Roth started the topic CFP: American Jews and Music: Assembling New Canons and Contexts in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-jews-and-music-assembling-new-canons-and-contexts/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:05:51 -0400 Special Issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature

Guest editors: Jonathan Freedman and Laurence Roth

If the first major waves of popular interest in, philanthropic funding of, and scholarship on contemporary Jewish music and songwriters in the U.S. have finally receded, they’ve left a treasure in their wake. From Orthodox popular music and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c19cb099e3a89fda9172394771ab97ac Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-jewishness-and-postcoloniality-in-literature-culture-and-theory-3/#post-1014491 Sat, 17 Jun 2017 16:36:50 -0400 Thank you so much!  I’m certain they will be.

–Veronica

]]> 0 0e611070f2c8b693a738cc7a04a135db Sarah P. Casteel replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-jewishness-and-postcoloniality-in-literature-culture-and-theory-3/#post-1014488 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:31:07 -0400 Dear Veronica,

Thanks very much for your interest in our cfp. Below are the references you requested–I hope they are helpful!

All the best,

Sarah

 

Boyarin, Jonathan. Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.

Cheyette, Bryan. Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the N…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e755b47016afcbefe329c35a262c286 Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-jewishness-and-postcoloniality-in-literature-culture-and-theory-3/#post-1014442 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 15:25:12 -0400 I’m sorry to show my ignorance, but these topics sound really important to a project I’m working on, and I don’t know the sources you are citing.  I’d love to look them up.  Would you be able to give me the citations you reference in the parentheses?  Thank you so much.  Again, I apologize if I should already know this.

–Veronica Schanoes

]]> 0 890a86adfdac13aec53bc28f099e44f9 Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-jewishness-and-postcoloniality-in-literature-culture-and-theory-3/ Sat, 27 May 2017 20:07:25 -0400 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
Similarities between Jewish and colonial subjects i…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d264c8ecbe95ee6564a35760571ba3d Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka as "the Modern Man" = = "K." in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/kafka-as-the-modern-man-k/#post-1012475 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:12:50 -0500 From Walter Sokel’s famous Kafka Study – Fr. K. Tragik & Ironie:

“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the ho…[Read more]

]]> 0 4253a8bd40fa459ae8ef18b275ff70c3 Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.'s eXistence. from LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1554523/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:54:06 -0500 0 a0279b171f3cce878122e08523478d11 Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/gender-and-sexuality-in-jewish-latin-american-cultural-production-2/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:10:28 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 b36f5e2796bc4aa5b62b3964fca6ebce Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions: In geveb, A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/second-annual-call-for-submissions-in-geveb-a-journal-of-yiddish-studies-3/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:24:55 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 fba51d83c8fbbffef0a3fa6847be5ecb Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-february-15th-mla-teaching-options-in-jewish-american-literature/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:12:45 -0500  

MLA Call For Proposals:

Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature

Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]

]]> 0 9599b23ac1791dd88220e0cdd1335a17 Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539255/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:49:26 -0500 Art Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b1866e5480066564884e0c06d6e2479 Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539251/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:45:12 -0500 Art Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]

]]> 0 50d5ffa55461b637791292c44948104c Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538863/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:06:01 -0500 Argues 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
but pernicious forms of supersessionism.

]]> 0 8c441d62f825a93ddcfd3fc575e9c696 Helene Meyers deposited "Woman in Gold" in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538606/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:14:16 -0500 Film review of Woman in Gold (2015) as a cinematic rendering of the material turn in Holocaust memory.

]]> 0 694ec5695cf7c2643a95e7782d313fc9 Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Join a dinner discussion group at MLA in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american/forum/topic/join-a-dinner-discussion-group-at-mla/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:19:55 -0500 I’d like to find a small group interested in going to dinner on Friday or Saturday nights. If interested, please write back to Roberta Rosenberg at rrosenb@cnu.edu

]]> 0 056958b1af24981bcc1ae7caa5a7bc08 Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/536815/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:45:40 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 85e38551e874e7865cca97477ed14fe5 Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group LLC Jewish American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532757/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:49:50 -0400 Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e9c9375efb204fa72e3f495d092ebb2 Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion Jewish American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/jewish-american-literature/forum/topic/cfp-acla-caribbeanjewish-intersections-2/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:58:45 -0400 CFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures

We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla&hellip;[Read more]

]]> 0 df9036baac2bd29c7cde5ff89c3a4d9a Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group LLC Jewish American: Dear Colleagues, Joyce Meier of Michigan State University […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/270555/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:40:34 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.

As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c1e5c871d123601a77c788c4d287fc6 Laurence D. Roth posted an update in the group LLC Jewish American: Dear Members, As we approach the upcoming convention, I […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/52472/ Fri, 27 Dec 2013 18:31:27 -0500 Dear Members,

As we approach the upcoming convention, I want to urge all of you who’ll be in Chicago to attend our discussion group’s panel, “Jewish American or Jewish Americas?,” which will run on Sunday, January 12 at 12:00 noon at the Marriott in the Great America room (yes, oddly appropriate isn’t it).

To whet your appetite for our four…[Read more]

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