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News and Information NEWS AND INFORMATION Educational Opportunities Hebraica and Judaica Cataloging 225 The Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research announcesa summer course on Hebraica and Judaica Cataloging. Taught by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg, Consulting librarian for the YIVO Institute and Professor in the Divisionof library and Information Science at St. John's University, the course is scheduled for May 30-June 16, 1995 and will comprise 12 sessions. Topics to be covered include Romanization, formation of headings for Hebrew and Yiddish authors, catalOging of liturgical works, Judaica subject headings and classification schemes, and multiscript authority files. Hebraica cataloging on RUN will be integrated into the lectures. Tuition for the course is $500, and-the deadline for registration is April 30, 1995. For more information, please contact: Ms. Sarabinh levyBrightman , Assistant to the Dean, Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 555 West 57th St., Suite 1100, New York, NY 10019; phone: 212-246-6080, ext. 153. Jewish Italy The American University of Washington, DC, will hold a new summer institute from June 12 to June 30, 1995, at the American University in Rome. Jewish Italy will examine the historical experience of the Jews in Italy from Roman times through the post-Holocaust period. The threeweek , six-credit-hour institute also has a non-credit option available. In addition to lectures and discussions, local experts will meet with students at key ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish sites throughout Rome. In addition, students will visit the Ghetto of Venice. For more information, please contact: Office of Summer Sessions, Asbury 309, The American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC, 20016; phone: 202-885-2421; fax: 202-885-1072. 226 University ofJudaism SHOFAR Winter 1995 Vol. 13, No.2 The University ofJudaism announces two fellowships in any area of Jewish Studies but geared primarily for dissertation writers and early postdoctorates . The fellowship award includes room and board in Los Angeles and a $10,000 stipend. Contact: Hanan Alexander, Vice-President for AcademicAffairs, University ofJudaism, 15600 Mulholland Dr., losAngeles, CA 90077. Golding Distinguished Scholars Program Yeshiva University offers fellowships of $20,000 to exceptionally well qualified students who enroll in one of its six graduate and professional schools, including the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Benjamin Cardozo School of law, the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, the Bernard Revel Graduate School, the Wurzweiler School ofSocial Work, and the David J. Azrieli Graduate Institute. Funding for the fellowships is derived from a benefaction by the late Rachel Golding. For more information, write to the Samuel H. and Rachel Golding Distinguished Scholars Program, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva University, 500 West 185th St., New York, NY 10033-3201. Graduate Work at Vanderbilt University The Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University announces a new graduate program in History and Critical Theories of Religion. The program utilizes methods drawn from the social sciences and other disciplines to examine how religious communities understand and appropriate tradition into their institutions, literatures, myths, rituals, values, and so forth. Religious traditions currently available in the program are Islam, Japanese religions, Judaism, Native Religions of the Americas, and African-American religions (with an emphasis on the appropriation of African traditions). For more information contact Professor Peter Haas, Box 1556-B, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. Temple University Research Fellowship The Center for American Jewish History, in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee, announces a summer fellowship to support research in American Jewish History. The grant of $2,500 is available to News and Information 227 graduate students and untenured faculty members at any American or Canadian university. The Center has a special interest in research that focuses on Philadelphia Jewish history, but it will consider all appropriate subjects in making its awards. Candidates should submit proposals of no more than five (5) typewritten, double-spaced pages, along with a letter of support from the graduate student's research director, or a collea~e familiar with the applicant's qualifications to undertake the project, by April 14, 1995. In addition, the Center is announcing a program of ongoing fellowships for 1995 to support...