CURRICULUM VITAE
Name:
Rachel
Feldhay Brenner
Address:
1354 Van Hise Hall
Dept. of Hebrew and
Semitic Studies
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Tel. (608) 262-6102
(office)
(608)
233-5782 (home)
Email: brenner@wisc.edu
Academic
Degrees:
1965-1968
B.A. Hebrew University, Israel
English Literature
Civilisation Française
1969-1976
M.A. Tel Aviv University, Israel
English Literature
1980-1986
Ph.D York University, Toronto,
English Department Dissertation: The Formative Influence of The
Holocaust in
the Writing of Mordecai Richler,
Thesis Director: Prof. Eli
Mandel
University
teaching:
2001
Full Professor
Summer 1997
Visiting Faculty, The Jewish
Theological Seminary
June 1996
Visiting Professor, The Institute on
the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University
1996-2001
Associate
Professor with tenure
1992-1996
Assistant Professor, Department of
Hebrew and Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1980-1992
Lecturer, York University, Toronto
Professional
Qualifications:
1977-1980
-
Diploma in Translation: English/French; French/English, University of
Toronto
- Certified Instructor in
English as a Second Language (ESL), Ontario Ministry of EducationCourses:
Summer 1971
-
University of London, England Advanced course in English Language and
Literature
Summer 1967
-
La Sorbonne, Paris, France Advanced course of Civilisation Française pour les Etudiants Etrangers
Languages:
English,
French, Hebrew, Polish
Scholarships,
Fellowships,
Honors, and Awards:
Spring
2004
The
George Mosse Faculty Exchange Award
Summer 2003
Summer
Grant, Graduate School
Summer 2002
Summer
Grant, Graduate School
Spring 2001
NEH
Fellowship
Summer 2000-2002
Vilas Associate Award
Spring
2000
Skirball
Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies
Summer
1999
Summer
Grant, Graduate School
Summer
1998
Summer
Grant, Graduate School
Summer 1997
Summer
Grant, Graduate School
1996-1997
Canadian
Studies Research Grant awarded by
the
Government of Canada
1995-1996
Research
grant awarded by the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture
Fall
1995
Wisconsin/Hilldale
Undergraduate/Faculty
Research Award for directing senior
thesis
Summer
1995
Summer
Grant, Graduate School
Spring
1996
Resident
fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities,
University
of Wisconsin-Madison
1993
A
grant awarded by the Holocaust Educational Foundation towards
development of a
course on Holocaust literature
1992
The
Book Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto Literary
Scholarship
Award for A.M. Klein, The Father of Canadian Jewish Literature:
Essays in
the Poetics of Humanistic Passion
1990-1993
Canada
Research Fellowship awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research
Council of Canada (three years tenure), Centre for Jewish Studies, York
University
1990-1992
Standard
Research Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council
of Canada - two years tenure. (Declined)
1989-1990
Post-Doctoral
Fellowship Renewal
1988-1989
Post-Doctoral
Fellowship awarded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of
Canada. Center for Religious Studies, University of Toronto
1988
York
University, Part-time Faculty Research Award
1984
Ontario
Graduate Scholarship
1971
The
S.A. Hornby Scholarship awarded by British Council, Tel Aviv
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
Assimilation
and Assertion: The
Response to the
Holocaust in Mordecai Richler's Writing. New York: Peter Lang
Publishing,
American University Series, 1989.
A.M.
Klein, The Father of
Canadian Jewish Literature: Essays in the Poetics of Humanistic Passion. Lewiston: The Edwin
Mellen Press, 1990.
Writing
as Resistance:
Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne
Frank, and
Etty Hillesum. Penn State
University Press, 1997.
Inextricably Bonded--Israeli Jewish and Arab
Writers
Re-Visioning Culture. Wisconsin University Press, 2003.
Work
in Progress:
A
Monograph on Ruth Almog,
a leading Israeli woman writer. For the book series of “Genders,”
Hakibbutz
Hameuchad Publishers (Israel).
CHAPTERS
- A>The Almost Meeting:= the Quest for the
Holocaust in Canadian Jewish Fiction.@ Methodology in the Academic Teaching
of
the Holocaust. Ed. Zev Garber. Lanham: University Press of
America, Studies
in Judaism, 1988, 191-213.A
- “A.M.
Klein, The
Second Scroll: The Poetics of Post-Holocaust Consciousness,@ Literature and the
Bible. ed. David Bevan. Perspectives on Modern Literature, vol. 9
Amsterdam: Rodopi, l993: 151-179.
- AThe Reception of Holocaust
Testimony in Israeli Literature: Shulamith Hareven=s >The Witness= and >Twilight=,@ ed. Leon I. Yudkin Hebrew
Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust. Rutherford: Fairleigh
Dickinson
University Press, 1993: 108-125.
- AThe Intellectual As a True
Ohev Israel [Lover of Israel]: A.M. Klein's Cultural Zionism.@ The Other New York
Jewish Intellectuals, ed. Carole Kessner. New York University
Press, 1994:
268-291.
- AEthical Convergence in
Religious Conversion.” The Unnecessary Problem of Edith Stein.
ed. Harry
James Cargas. University Press of America, 1994: 77-103
- AA. M. Klein's The
Rocking Chair: A Revision of Quebec.” Renewing Our Days:
Montreal Jews
in the Twentieth Century. ed. Ira Robinson and Mervin Butovsky.
Montrיal: Véhicule Press, 1995:
132-149.
ADie Frau im Denken Edith
Steins: In Auseinandersetzung mit Sigmund Freud, Edith Stein
Jarhbuch: Das
Judentum, Band 3. Echter Warzburg, 1997: 349-367.
-Story
of Sodom and
Gomorrah in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, Peace, In Deed. eds.
Zev
Garber and Richard Libowitz. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1998: 71-83.
-“Writing
Herself Against
History: Anne Frank=s Self-Portrait as a Young Artist.” Anne
Frank: Reflections on Her Life Legacy, eds. Hyman A. Enzer and
Sandra
Solotaroff-Enzer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000). [The
article
first appeared in Modern Judaism].
-“Zeugnis
ablegenBZeichen setzen:
Pedagogische Probleme universitהrer
Holocaust-Lecture.” Kulturelle Reprasententationen des Holocaust in
Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, Eds. Klaus L. Berghahn,
Jrgen Fohrmann, and Helmut J. Schneider (Frankfurt am Main: Peter
Lang,
2002). In German. The article appeared in English in Holocaust
Education.
-“Etty
Hillesum:
Self-Search as a Writer in the Hell of Westerbork.” Woment in the
Holocaust:
Responses, Insights and Perspectives. Ed. Marcia Sachs Littell.
Merion
Station: Merion Westfield Press International, 2001: 97-103.
-“The
Second Generation
and the Problematics of Tikkun: A Reading of Alan Berger’s Children
of Job. Ed. Ronald Smelser. Evanston: Northwestern University
Press, 2002:
359-370.
-“An
‘Unfinished
Business:’ some Reflections on ‘Jewish Poland’ Today.” The
Continuing Agony:
From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz. Eds. Alan
L.
Berger, Harry J. Cargas, Susan E. Nowak. Binghampton: Academic Studies
in the
History of Judaism, Global Publications, 2002: 159-205.
- “The
Holocaust and Its
Fifty-Year-Old Commemoration: Have We Reached the Limit?” Books on
Israel
volume VI. Eds. Laura Z. Eisenberg, Neil Caplan, and Naomi Sokoloff,
and
Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Albany: Sunny, 2003:43-67.
Forthcoming: “Writing Herself Against
History: Anne Frank’s Self-Portrait as a Young Artist.” Reprinted from Modern
Judaism in the anthology, The Many Faces of Anne Frank:
Perspectives on
the Phenomenon. De Prom Publishers (fall 2003)
ARTICLES
- “The
Canadian Jew and
the State of Israel.” Viewpoints: The Canadian Jewish Periodical.
Vol.
XV, No. V (1987): 1-2.
- “The
Left-Wing Jew and
the State of Israel: Exploring Four Canadian Jewish Writers.” Midstream:
A
Monthly Jewish Review. Vol. XXXIV, No.4 (May 1988): 47-50.
-
“Henry Kreisel -
European Experience and Canadian Reality: A State of Mind.” World
Literature
Written in English, volume 28, No. 2 (autumn 1988): 260-286.
- “A.M.
Klein and Mordecai
Richler: Canadian Responses to the Holocaust.” Journal of Canadian
Studies,
vol. 24, no.2 (Summer 1989): 65-78.
- “The
Reader as a Private
Eye: Rediscovering the Author in Helen Weinzweig's Basic Black with
Pearls.”
Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 20,
No. 2
(April 1989): 21-38.
-
“Representations of
Jerusalem in A.B. Yehoshua's Three Days and a Child: An
Approach to
Teaching Modern Hebrew Literature.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew
Education,
Vol 3, Number 1-2, Spring 1989, pp. 35-39. Reprinted in Hebrew
translation in
Hadoar: Hebrew Weekly in U.S.A., Jan. 20, 1989, Vol.
LXVIII, No.11
(1989): 14-16.
- “A.M.
Klein's Hath
Not a Jew: In Search of Vision.” Canadian Poetry. No. 26
(Spring/Summer 1990): 54-69.
- “The
Holocaust Survivor
as `Other' and the Discourse of Ideology in Hebrew Literature.” Bulletin
of
Higher Hebrew Education, Vol. 4, Number 1, Fall 1989, 37-42.
Reprinted in
Hebrew translation: Hadoar: Hebrew Weekly in U.S.A., Oct. 27,
Vol.
LXVIII, No. 40 (1989): 16-17.
- “The
Anatomy of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Universalism and Particularism in David
Grossman's The Yellow Wind.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal
of Jewish
Studies. Vol. 8, No. 3 (Spring 1990): 30-38.
- “A.M.
Klein's The
Rocking Chair: Toward the Redefinition of the Poet's Function.” Studies
in Canadian Literature. Vol. 15, No. 1 (1990): 94-116.
- “A.M.
Klein and Mordecai
Richler: The Poetics of the Search for Providence in the Post-Holocaust
World.”
Studies in Religion. Vol. 19, No.2 (1990): 207-221. Reprinted in
Bearing
Witness to the Holocaust: 1939-1989. Ed. Alan L. Berger. Symposium
Series,
vol. 31 (1991): 237-255.
- “A.M.
Klein's The
Hitleriad: Against the Silence of the Apocalypse.” Studies in
American
Jewish Literature. Vol. 9, No.2 (1990): 228-242.
-“Discourses
of Mourning
and Rebirth in Post-Holocaust Israeli Literature: Leah Goldberg, Lady
of the
Castle and Shulamith Hareven, `The Witness.’” Hebrew Studies.
Vol.
XXXI (1990): 71-87. repr. in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary
Journal,
vol 3:1. (http://www.women-in-judaism.com).
-
“Sholem Aleichem's Shir
Ha-Shirim: A Self-Portrait of the Artist.” Bulletin of Higher
Hebrew
Education. Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 1991): 58-64.
-
“Edith Stein, The Jew
and the Christian: An Impossible Synthesis.” Grail: An Ecumenical
Journal,
vol.7:4 (December 1991): 70-81.
-“Mordecai
Richler's
Canada: The Country of the Jewish Artiste Manqué.” Open
Letter.
Eighth Series. No .2 (Winter 1992): 39-57.
-“Simone
Weil:
Philosopher, Socialist and Christian-Mystic - A Jew and a Woman Despite
Herself.” The Netherland and Nazi Genocide: Papers of the 21st
Annual
Scholars' Conference. Eds. G. Jan Colijn and Marcia S. Littell.
Symposium
Series Vol. 32. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press (1992): 259-305.
-“Genealogy
and Identity:
Excavating the Self in Canadian and Australian Jewish Auto/Fictional
Writing.” Australian
and New Zealand Studies in Canada, Issue 7: Literature and History
(June
1992): 63-80.
-“The
Israeli Arab Artist
in Search of Identity: Anton Shammas's Arabesques.” PMLA.
Vol.
108 no. 3 (May 1993): 431-445.
-“Edith
Stein: A Reading
of Her Feminist Thought, Studies in Religion.” vol. 23, no. 1
(1994):
43-57.
-“Sholom
Aleichem's Shir
Ha-Shirim: The Portrait of a Self-Conscious Artist.” Yiddish: A
Quarterly Journal Devoted to Yiddish and Yiddish Literature. vol.
9, no. 2:
12-30.
-“Rewriting
the Torah
after the Holocaust.” The Jewish Quarterly. vol. 41, no. 2
(154),
(Summer 1994): 29-35.
- “The
Grammar of the
Portrait: The Construct of the Artist in David Grossman, The Book
of
Internal Grammar and James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young
Man.” Comparative Literature Studies. vol. 31, no. 3
(1994):
270-291.
-
“Reflections on/of
Zionism in Recent Israeli Fiction: Aharon Megged's Foiglman and
Ruth
Almog's Dangling Roots.” Shofar: Interdisciplinary Journal
of Jewish
Studies. vol. 13 No. 1 (Fall 1994): 68-90.
- “A
Self-Portrait
Portrait of a Maskilic Artist: Sholem Aleichem's Shir Ha-Shirim.
YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research Annual.” vol. 22: 229-253.
-
“Between Identity and
Anonymity: Art and History in Aharon Megged's Foiglman.” AJS
[Association of Jewish Studies] Review. Fall 1995. vol. XX, no. 2
(1995):
359-379.
-
“Writing Herself Against
History: Anne Frank's Self-Portrait as a Young Artist.” Modern
Judaism.
16 (1966): 105-134.
- “Back
to the Future:
Toward the A/Teleological in Recent Israeli Fiction.” Discourse.
19.1
(Fall 1996): 81-105.
- AEdith Stein - Znaczenie zydowskiej
przeszlosci i chrzescijanskiej
teraןniejszoci@ Warsaw: Midrash
(Feb 1998): 32-37.(in Polish).
- AMother=s Curse or Cursed Mother:
Forgotten Stories in Forbidden Languages in Meir Shalev=s Isau.”
Jewish
Studies Quarterly, vol 4,
no. 4 (1997): 380-400.
- A>Unsealing the Letters= The Making of the Artist
in David Grossman=s The Book of Intimate Grammar.” Critique,
vol. 40, no. 3 (Spring 1999): 203-215.
- AWalter Benjamin=s Angels of History and
the Post-Holocaust Quest for Redemption in Israeli Fiction: David
Grossman=s See Under: Love
and Michal Goverin=s The Name.” With my interview
with
Michal Govrin (edited by Judith Miller). Graven Images: A Journal
of
Culture, Law, and the Sacred, vol. 4 (1998): 37-50. In Hebrew: ASh=tei opciot shel g=ulah: ayien erech ahava v=ha-shem@ [Two Options of
Redemption: See Under Love and The Name] Alpayim, 20
(2000): 149-168.
- ACanadian Jews and Their
Story: The Making of Canadian Jewish Literature.@ Prooftexts, 18
(1998): 281-297.
- AAlways Out of Place: Exile
as a State of Mind.” Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing,
no. 7 (1998-99): 48-59 (part I).
-“Back
to the Future:
Toward the A/Teleological in Recent Israeli Fiction.” Discourse.
19.1
(Fall 1996): 81-105.
- “‘Hidden Transcripts’ Made Public:
Israeli Arab Fiction and Its Reception.” Critical Inquiry,
vol. 26 (Autumn 1999):
85-108).
- AAlways Out of
Place: A State of Mind.”
Parchment:
Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing, no. 8 (1999-2000): 104-111 (part II)
- ATeaching the Holocaust in
the Academic Setting: Educational Mission(s) and Pedagogical
Approaches.”Remembering
for the Future, eds. John K. Roth and Elizabeth Maxwell, vol. 3,
(Houndmills: Pelgrave, 2001), 562-577. Repr. The Journal of
Holocaust
Education, vol. 8, n. 9 (Autumn 1999): 1-27.
-AThe World in Language:
Repetition and Renewal in The Making of the Sea, A Chronicle of
Exegesis
by Michal Govrin.” Resling vol. 8 (Fall 2001): 99-103. (In Hebrew)
- AThe Hebrew Language and
the Search for Identity in Israeli Arab Fiction: Atallah Mansour, Emile
Habibi,
and Anton Shammas,” Israel Studies vol. 6, no. 3 (Fall 2001):
91-113.
-
@Anna Frank i Etty Hillesum,” Midrash No. 2 (58); 6-9 [in
Polish]
AThe Terror of Barbarism
and the Return to History: Between the Text and the Performance of Murder
by Hanoch Levin.” A Symposium on Hanoch Levin=s Play, Murder. Hebrew
Studies vol. XLII, 2002: 153-187.
Forthcoming: “The Artist as a Mother and
the Birth of Terrible Beauty in the Post-Holocaust World: Ruth Almog’s The
Inner Lake.” AJS Review.
“Ha-imahut
sh’b’omanut:
Huledet ha-yofi ha-nora b’olam sh’l’ahar ha’shoah.” Hebrew version of
the above
article. Mikan: Journal of Literary Studies
Entries
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Contemporary Jewish
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PAPERS
PRESENTED
- The
theme of the
Holocaust in Canadian Fiction. Mid-Atlantic Conference for Canadian
Studies,
New York, Spring 1988.
- _The
Reader as a Private
Eye: Rediscovering the Author in Helen Weinzweig's Basic Black with
Pearls.
Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Learned Societies
Conference,
University of Windsor, London, Ontario, Spring 1988.
_-
Representations of
Jerusalem in A.B. Yehoshua's Three Days and a Child, National
Association of Professors of Hebrew, 1988 Conference. CULA, California
Spring
1988.
- _A.M.
Klein and Mordecai
Richler: Canadian Responses to the Holocaust. The American Council for
Quebec
Studies Sixth Biennial Conference, Quebec City, Fall 1988.
-
_Education and
Self-Education in Post-Holocaust Literature. The 19th Annual Scholars'
Conference on the Holocaust, Philadelphia, Winter 1989.
-
_Survival and Rescue in
Post-Holocaust Hebrew Literature. National Association of Professors of
Hebrew
Annual Conference, Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, Spring 1989.
- _The
Quest for the
Holocaust in Canadian Jewish Fiction. Canadian Comparative Literature
Association, Learned Societies Conference, Laval University, Quebec
City,
Spring
1989.
- _A.M.
Klein's The
Hitleriad: Against the Silence of the Apocalypse. Association for
Jewish
Studies, Twenty-First Annual Conference, Boston, Winter 1989.
-
_Edith Stein, the Jew
and the Christian: An Impossible(?) Synthesis.
The 20th Anniversary Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and
the
Churches. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Winter 1990.
-
_Henry Kreisel, The
Holocaust Refugee Writer in a New Land: The Language as a Parameter of
the
State of Mind. American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting. The
Pennsylvania State University, Spring, 1990.
- _A.M.
Klein's The
Second Scroll: The Poetics of Post-Holocaust Consciousness.
Narrative
Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, Spring 1990.
-
Learned Societies
Conference, Victoria, Spring 1990:
_The Poetics of Humanistic
Politics in Israeli Literature. Canadian Comparative Literature
Association.
_Edith Stein: The
Phenomenological Ethics in Her Religious Conversion. The Canadian
Society for
the Study of Religion.
-
_Sholem Aleichem's Shir
Ha-Shirim: A Self-Portrait of the Artist. The International
Conference on
University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, Yeshiva
University, New
York, Spring 1990.
- _The
Anatomy of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: David Grossman's The Yellow Wind.
Association for Israel Studies, Gratz College, Philadelphia, Spring
1990.
-
_Representations of the
Holocaust in Israeli Literature: Two Stories by Shulamit Hareven. The
Annual
Meeting of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish
Civilization, Jerusalem, Summer 1990.
- _The
Representations of
the Holocaust in Canadian Fiction. The Holocaust in the Arts: The First
International Scientific Conference Organized by the Institute of
Theory of Art
of the Janus Pannonius University, Pיcs,
Hungary, Summer 1990.
- _A.M.
Klein's Hath
Not a Jew: In Search of Vision. The Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Religious Studies, New Orleans, Fall 1990.
-
_Mordecai Richler and
His Canadian-Jewish Perspective. Association of Jewish Studies,
Twenty-Second
Annual Conference, Boston, Fall 1990.
-
_Simone Weil:
Philosopher, Social Thinker, and Christian Mystic: A Jew and a Woman
Despite
Herself. The 21 Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the
Churches,
Stockton State College, Pomona, Winter, 1991.
-
Learned Societies
Conference, Queen's University, Kingston, Spring 1991:
Simone Weil: Her
Philosophy and Mysticism as a Reaction to Jewishness and Womanhood.
Canadian
Society for Studies in Religion.
_Mordecai Richler's
Canada: The Country of the Jewish Artiste Manque.”
Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures.
_An Israeli Arab Artist in
Search for Identity: Anton Shammas's Arabesques.Canadian
Comparative
Literature Association.
- _Anne
Frank's
Self-Portrait as a Young Artist: A Rereading of Her Diary. The 22nd
Scholars'
Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Seattle, University of
Washington, Winter 1992.
-
Rewriting the Torah in
the Wake of the Holocaust. NEMLA, Buffalo, Spring, 1992.
- _A.M.
Klein's The
Rocking Chair: A Revision of Quebec. Tur Malka: THe Jewish
Experience in
Montreal. Spring, 1992.
-
_Edith Stein: A
Contemporary Perspective on Her Feminist Thought. The Canadian Society
for the
Study of Religion Annual Meeting. The Learned Societies Conference. The
University
of Prince Edward Island. Spring 1992.
-
_David Grossman's The
Book of Internal Grammar and James Joyce's A Portrait of the
Artist as a
Young Man: A Comparative Study. The Annual Meeting of the
International
Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. Jerusalem,
Summer 1992.
-
_Geneology and Identity
in Canadian and Australian Jewish Auto/Fictional Writings. The Annual
Meetings
of American Academy of Religion. San Francisco, Fall 1992.
-
_Between Identity and
Anonymity: The Historical and the A-Historical in Aharon Megged's Foiglman_.
Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Boston,
Fall 1992.
-
_Unsealing the Letters:
The Making of the Artist in David Grossman's The Book of Internal
Grammar.
NAPH. Ann Arbor, June 1993.
- _The
Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Woman in Ruth Almog's Dangling Roots. AJS
Conference,
Boston, Fall 1993.
-
_Between Art and
History: New Perspectives in Israeli Literature. MLA Convention,
Toronto, Fall
1993.
-
_Women Confronting the
Holocaust. Remembering for the Future II, International Conference,
Humbolt
University, Berlin, Germany, March 1994.
-
_Reflections of/on
Zionism in Recent Israeli Fiction. NAPH, Berkeley, Spring 1994.
-
_Thinking Tradition
Anew: A New Reading of Genesis 18 and Matthew 10. Annual Scholars'
Conference
on the the Holocaust and the Churches. Bringham Young University,
Provo, Utah.
Spring 1995.
- _The
Holocaust and the
Search for Self. The American Catholic Historical Association Spring
Meeting.
1995.
- _Is
It Mother's Curse or
Blessing? Forgotten and Forbidden Languages in Meir Shalev's Esau.
National Association of Professors of Hebrew Conference. University of
Central
Florida, Orlando. Spring 1995.
-
_Where Patriarchal and
National Narratives Meet: Death and Consciousness in Meir Shalev's Esau.
Association of Israeli Studies Annual Meeting. Baltimore Hebrew
University,
Baltimore. Spring 1995.
-
_Toward the
A/Teleological in Recent Israeli Fiction. National Association of
Professors of
Hebrew Annual Conference. Memphis, Spring 1996.
- _The
Making of Canadian
Jewish Literature. Midwest Association
for Canadian Studies Seventh Biennial Meeting. Madison, Fall 1996.
- _The
Angels of History
and Redemption in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. The 28th Conference
of the Association
for Jewish Studies. Boston, Winter 1996.
- _Etty
Hillesum:
Self-Search as a Writer in the Hell of Westerbork. The 27th Annual
Scholars'
Conference on the Holocaust and Churches. Tempa, Spring 1997.
-
_Politics and Poetics at
the Israeli-Palestinian Crossroads. 20th Burdick-Vary Symposium
_Contact and
Power. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1997.
-
Teaching Contemporary
Israeli Literature of the Holocaust.
Conference on Remembrance and Responsibility: Legacies of the
Holocaust.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 1997.
-
Religious and Ethnic
Responses to the Holocaust in Recent Hebrew Literature. International
Conference: Genocide, Religion, and Modernity, United States Holocaust
Memorial
Museum, Washington, DC, May 1997.
- On
the Crossroads of
Israeli Politics: Emile Habiby=s Oeuvre. NAPH, Los Angeles, June
1997.
- The
Humane Survival of
the Holocaust: Representations in Modern Hebrew Literature. The Twelfth
World
Jewish Congress. Jerusalem. July-August 1997.
-
Holocaust Testimony in Class.
A Symposium of the DAAD/ACLS Cooperation Project between the German
Departments
of The University of Bonn and The University of Wisconsin-Madison: The
Representation and Reception of the Holocaust in Germany and the United
States,
October 1997.
-Other
Voices of the
Holocaust. AJS Annual Meeting. Boston, December 1997.
- AA Historical Entrapment:
The Post-Zionist (?) Plot in Israeli Bi-National Writing.@ NAPH, New York, June
1998.
-
Shifting Horizons of
Culture and Identity in Israeli Arab Fiction. International Conference AHebrew Literature - The
Text and Its Context,@ The Institute of Jewish Studies,
University
College London, London, England, June 1998.
-
Growing Writers at the
Time of the Holocaust: Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum. European
Association for
Jewish Studies,@ Toledo, Spain, July 1998.
- The
Second Generation
and the Problematics of Tikkun: A Reading of Alan Berger=s Children of Job.
Lessons and Legacies V. International Conference on the Holocaust.
Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton. November, 1998.
-
History and the
Holocaust in Israeli Fiction. Fifth Annual Conference of the Western
Jewish
Studies Association.@ University of Washington, Seattle. March
1999.
- The >Hidden Transcripts= of Israeli Arab
Literature in Hebrew. Association for Israeli Studies. American
University,
Washington D.C. May 1999.
- My
Unfinished Business
of Exile. Global Diasporas: Communities of Exile and Migration.
Conference of
The Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle. University of
Wisconsin-Madison, October, 1999.
-
Herzl, Brenner, and the
Colonial Conundrum. Association of Jewish Studies Meeting, Chicago,
Dec. 1999.
-
Teaching the
Holocaust:Educational Missions. Remembering for the Future, 2000. An
International Conference. Oxford, Summer 2000.
- The
Importance of the
Word in The Making of the Sea, A Chronicle of Exegesis by
Michal Govrin.
(In Hebrew) Association of Jewish
Studies Meeting. Boston, Dec. 2000.
- In Aa Room of Her Own: The
Terrible Beauty of Artistic Freedom in Ruth Almog=s The Inner Lake.
Association of Jewish Studies Meeting, Washington, Dec. 2001.
- H.Y. Brenner=s Last Message: A Blueprint of the
Arab-Zionist Conflict. Conference on AIsraeli Literature: Politics and Nation.@ Minneapolis Jewish
Community Center, Minneapolis, April 7-8, 2002.
- Survival in the World of
Evil: The Issue of the Holocaust in Ruth Almog=s Exile. NAPH, Beer
Sheva, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, July 2-4, 2002.
- “Can the Holocaust Story
Be Told?” Association for Jewish Studies Meeting. Los Angeles,
December, 2002.
- “Hanoch Levin’s Murder:
Between Text and Performance.” Association of Israel Studies. San
Diego, 2003.
- “Beyond the
Canon:
Israeli Arab and Jewish Writers in Dialogue.” Yearly Symposium in
Memory of
Prof. David Semach, Haifa University, Israel, 2003.
PUBLIC
LECTURES
Spring 1991
Confronting
the Holocaust in Israeli Literature. Princeton University, Department
of Near
Eastern Studies.
Spring 1991
Assimilation
and Assertion: The Response to the Holocaust in Mordecai Richler's
Writing. The
Paul Trepman Memorial Lecture, Montreal Jewish Public Library.
Winter 1992
Women
Confronting History: The Response of Simone Weil, Edith Stein and Anne
Frank.
Vanier College, York University.
Winter 1992
Women
Confronting History: In the Shadow of the Holocaust.McMaster University
Women's
Issues Group and Women's Studies Programme.
Fall
1994
Four Women Resisting the Nazi Terror: The Intellectual
and Ethical
Responses
of Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty
Hillesum._ Toronto, The Holocaust Education
Week. Sponsored by
Jewish Feminist Anti- Fascist League
Spring
1996
Shindler's List... And What Next? Images of the Holocaust and
the
Future._ The Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning 1996
Annual
Spring Meeting. Milwaukee.
April
1966
New Trends in Recent Israeli Fiction. The Jewish Campus Ministry
at
Marquette. Milwaukee.
April
1997
The Emerging
Consciousness of American Jewish Women. A
Symposium
on Women and Judaism, Madison.
August
1997
Scholar in Residence. Forty-Eight
Annual B=nai B=rith Institute of
Judaism.
Wisconsin Dells, Lake Delton, Wisconsin. Threee Lectures on
Holocaust, Jewish Women in
Literature, and Jerusalem.
Fall
1997
Writing at
the Time of the Holocaust.@ Holocaust Education Week.
Toronto.
January
1988
Edith Stein:
Her Life and Work@ (in Polish). Warsaw, The Institute of
Jewish-Christian Dialogue.
March
1998
As the Diary Tells It: Anne Frank=s Self-Portrait@ The Dorothy
Stuzane Lecture on Women and
Judaism. The Lipinsky Institute for
Judaic
Studies. San Diego State University.
April
1998
The Anne
Frank We Don=t Know.@ The 1998 David and Sarah Rabin
Memorial
Lecture. Jewish Studies Program Annual Commemoration of
the
Holocaust.
Michigan State University.
April 2000
Writing as Resistance,@ University of Cambridge, Faculty of
Divinity
May 2000
Reconsideration of Current Israeli Fiction,@ University of
Cambridge, Faculty of
Oriental
Studies.
April 2002
Edith Stein: The Jew and the Christian: An Impossible(?)
Convergence. The Center for the Study of
Christianity and
Culture and Hillel. Loyola
University, Chicago.
COLLOQUIA
and SYMPOSIA
_Montreal
Jewish
Writers, Symposium on Jewish Experience
in Quebec, University of Toronto, Centre for Religious Studies, Winter
1988.
_A.M.
Klein's Response to
the Hitlerian Terror, The University of Toronto, Centre for Religious
Studies,
Fall 1988.
_Response
to the Holocaust
Survivor in Israeli Literature, The Canadian Seminar on Zionist
Thought,
Canadian Zionist Federation, Toronto, October 1990.
_Edith
Stein and Simone
Weil: Two Portraits, Colloquium, Religious Studies, University of
Windsor,
February, 1991.
_Back
to the Future:
Toward the A/Teleological in Recent Israeli Fiction. A Seminar at the
Institute
for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Winter, 1996.
ADefining Womanhood in the
Reality of the Final Solution. Department of Women=s Studies. San Diego State
University Feminist Research Colloquium. Spring 1998.
A>Unfinished Business: Some
Reflections of Jews in Poland Today. Jewish Studies Program Faculty
Seminar.
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 1998.
“A loud
Warning Voice of
the Holocaust,” panelist at the Symposium in honor of Reverend Royden
B. Davis,
S.J on the Cross of Auschwitz. Georgetown College, February, 2003.
EDITORIAL
POSITIONS
Reader
for Hebrew
Studies: A Journal Devoted to Hebrew Language and Literature.
Reader
for Canadian
Review of Comparative Literature.
Reader
for Comparative
Literature Studies
Reader
for Shofar
Fall
1997- Associate
Editor, Hebrew Studies.
Reader
for University of
Wisconsin Press
DEPARTMENT
SERVICE
Winter 1994
Undergraduate
Advisor (acting)
1994-present
International
Studies Advisor
1997-
2000
Untenured
Faculty Member Mentor
1998
Chair
of Search Committee
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE:
1992-1994
Jewish
Lectures Subcommittee
1992-
Jewish Studies Center, Executive Committee
1993-
Individual Major Adviser
1994-1995
Member
of Faculty Senate
1994-1995
Member
of Letters and Science Senate
Fall
1995
Academic
Adviser, Letters and Science
Summer
1996
Acting
Chair
1996-1998
Religious
Studies Program Committee member
1997-
Middle
East Studies Program Executive Committee member
1997-2001
L&S
Faculty Appeals Committee member
1997-
Departmental
Review Committee member - English Dept.
1999-2002
Executive Committee of the Humanities Division
1999 - Lectures Committee Member, Center for Jewish Studies
2001-
2002
Chair
MLA - Hebrew Literature Discussion Group
2000
-
Board Member B
Association of Israel
Studies
2001-
Departmental
Review Committee Member - Scandinavian Studies
2002 - Committee on Honorary Degrees
2002- Search committee – Middle Eastern Studies
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COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Course: Hasidic Literature, Youth Academy, Temple Sinai, Toronto, Winter 1983.
- Workshop: Teaching Bible and Prayer in Supplementary Schools, CAJE conference, San Antonio, Texas, Summer 1983.
- Course: Canadian Jewish Writers, Temple Sinai Sisterhood, Toronto, Spring 1983.
- Lecture:_The Street by Mordecai Richler - Growing up in the Montreal Ghetto,Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, Spring 1983.
- Lecture: Diaspora and Israel in Canadian Writing, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, Spring 1987.
- _The, Author, the Narrator, and the Message in Literary Text. Inter-School Professional Development Day for Day School Teachers, Board of Jewish Education, Toronto, Winter 1989.
- _The `Other' in David Grossman's The Yellow Wind. Modern Hebrew Literature Study Group, Jewish Library, Toronto, Spring 1989.
- _The Post-Modernist Mode in Ruth Almog's Dangling Roots. Modern Hebrew Literature Study Group, Jewish Library, Toronto, Fall 1989.
- _Love, Betrayal and the Hebrew Language in Anton Schammas's Arabesques. Modern Hebrew Literature Study Group, Jewish Library, Toronto, Winter 1990.
- _History and Historiography in Aharon Megged's Foiglman. Modern Hebrew Literature Study Group, Jewish Library, Toronto, Winter 1991.
- _Overview of Canadian Jewish Literature - The Jewish Authors' Identity and Response to Jewish Issues. Department for Jewish Living, Holy Blossom Temple, Spring 1991.
- _The Portrait of a Young Artist in David Grossman's The Book of Internal Grammar, Modern Hebrew Literature Study Group, Jewish Library, Toronto, Fall 1991.
- _Historiographical Determinism in A.B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani, Modern Hebrew Literature Library, Toronto, Winter 1992.
- _The Autobiographical Component in Anzia Yezierska Writings. Presented at Hadassah Women Shabbat Tea. Madison, Winter, 1993.
- _Women Confronting the Holocaust. 3 Lectures. The Madison Lehrhaus: Community Center for Adult Jewish Learning. February 1994.
- Coordinator of lecture series The Holocaust in History, Philosophy, Drama, and Literature.
Lecture: The Meanings of Resistance in the Holocaust. The Madison Lehrhaus. Fall 1994.
- Coordinator of lecture series: Gener, Identity and Vocation - Issues in Modern Jewish Life.
Course: The `JAP' Syndrome: Its Roots and Aftermath in Literary Representations. The Madison Lehrhaus. Fall 1995.
- Lecture and Workshop: The Uniqueness of the Holocaust and Its Ethical and Theological Signification. Madison Diocese Religious Educator's Organization. April 1996.
- Lecture and Workshop: Jerusalem in Classical and Modern Literature.Teachers' College at the Board of Jewish Education, Toronto. May 1996.
- Lecture and Discussion: Jerusalem in the Midrash and modern Israeli Poetry.Beth Israel Center. Madison, May 1996.
- Lecturer. The National Havurah Institute. Hook College. August 1996.
- 1995- Member- Lehraus Planning Committee
- 1996-1998 Member - Board of Directors,
Madison Jewish Community Council
- The Status of Zionism Today. Lecture for Beth El Breakfast Club. February 1999.
- Is Post-Zionism a New Phenomenon. Lecture for The Political Awareness Group for the Women=s Division, Milwaukee Jewish Federation, April, 1999.
- Women Writers Resisting the Holocaust. Jewish Thinkers Series, Radio Lecture-Interview. University of the Air, A Service of Wisconsin Public Radio, April 1999.
- AWitnessing and Remembering,@ Readings by UW-Madison faculty and students,
in commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001. Oct. 25, 2001.
- “Teaching the Holocaust in American Academic Setting. Holocaust and Humanity in the 21stc. Mellon Workshops in the Humanities. University of Wisconsin.
- “The Zionist Settlement in Eretz Israel and the Pioneering Women’s Perspective,” Hadassah Shabbat Tea, April 2003.
High
School teaching and teachers= supervision:
1985-1991 Hebrew Literature and Language teacher, Upper Division, Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.
1978-1985 Department Head, Hebrew School Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto.
1970-1976
English as a Second Language
teacher, Upper Division, High School Blich. Israel.
