News and Information

204 NEWS AND INFORMATION Forthcoming Special Issues of Shofar SHOFAR The following special issues are planned: Spring 1992: Rabbinics Summer 1992: Sephardim Since 1492 Spring 1993: Jews of the Ottoman Empire Fall 1993: Literary Approaches to the Hebrew Bible (see call for papers on pagel) Spring 1994: Black-Jewish relations Fellowships Hazel D. Cole Fellowship . A new fellowship has been created for Jewish Studies with a gift of $200,000 from Samuel and AltheaStroum in memory of Mrs. Stroum's sister, Hazel D. Cole. This gift has been matched by the Graduate School of the University of Washington. Income from the new endowment will provide financial assistance to deserving doctoral and/or postdoctoral fellows in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For further information about the Hazel D. Cole Fellowship and applications, write to Dorothy Becker, Program Coordinator, Jewish Studies DR-OS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. Ray D. Wolfe Programme The Jewish Studies Programme at the University of Toronto administers the Ray D. Wolfe Fellows Programme, designed to assist young scholars who are planning to pursue academic careers iq. some area of Jewish Studies. Fellowships are awarded both to candidates working on doctoral dissertations and to post-doctoral applicants. Ray D. Wolfe Fellows will be expected to teach one course in each of the two semesters of the academic year and to complete their dissertation by the end of their term as fellows. Applicants must be engaged in research related to the history, culture, literature, religion, or thought of the Jewish people. Applications from all north American and foreign universities are welcome. VoLume 10, No.1 FaLL 1991 205 Inquiries should be addressed to: Professor Arthur M. Kruger, Acting Director, Jewish Studies Programme, do Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S lAl, Canada. Conferences 1992 NAPH Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) is convening its tenth annual conference on university teaching of Hebrew language and literature at York University, Toronto, on May 31-June 2, 1992. The NAPH conferences bring together Hebrew scholars and educators from universities, colleges, and seminaries across the country for an exchange of knowledge and information related to teaching in all areas of Hebrew language and literature. There are also sessions devoted to current scholarship and research on Hebrew language and linguistics, modern Hebrew literature, and biblical and post-biblical language and literature. The conference is open to educators who are not members of NAPH. For further information contact: Professor Gilead Morahg, University of Wisconsin, 1346 Van Hise Hall, Madison, Wi 53706. Phone: (608) 262-3204. Jews and the Encounter with the New World 1492/1992 Five weekend conferences at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor will observe the SOOth anniversary of the Jews from Spain and the Columbus Quincentenary. One conference was held in October; the others are March 28-29: "1492: Watershed in World History," featuring the Waverly Consort in music from the Sephardic repertoire; September 12-13: "Jews and Conversos in the Encounter"; November 8-9: "Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition in the New World"; and December 6: "Legacies." Related events include a recital of Sephardic songs in February, and "Maps and the Columbian Encounter," an exhibition of historic maps dating from the time of Europe's discovery of the New World, at the Clements Library on the Ann Arbor campus from August 15 to September 15. Write to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 for details. A Voice for Our Time "A Voice for Our Time: The Legacy of Cantor Salomon Sulzer," an international conference on Jewish music, liturgy, and cantorial art and the intellectual, social, cultural, and religious milieu of Vienna Jewry 1826-1938, 206 SHOFAR is being held in various cities through June 1992. Programs have been held in New York City, Boston, and London and are planned for Los Angeles (University of Judaism, May 28-June 30), Jerusalem (Hebrew Union College, February 4), and Ramat Aviv (Jewish Music Center, April 15). Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890) was Vienna's first Oberkantor and the first truly "modern cantor," who brought Jewish music and c'antorial practice into the...