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208 SHOFAR Winter 2000 Vol. 18, No.2 News and Information Conferences The Reappearing American Jew Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute ofReligion and the USC Institute for the Study of Jews in American Life announce a scholarly conference, "The Reappearing American Jew: Identity and Continuity," Sunday and Monday, February 6 and 7, 2000, Los Angeles. The conference will explore American Jewish identity in historical, geographical, and multicultural contexts, as well as the impact of intermarriage on the American Jewish community. Conference co-organizers: David Ellenson (HUC-JIR) and Barry Glassner (USC). To register please contact Jeremy Schoenberg at 213-7403405 or . Limitedtravel grants are available for graduate students. Jewish Concepts of Time in the Middle Ages In the framework of the International Medieval Congress 2000, the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds is organizing a one-day symposium, 10 July 2000, at the University of Leeds, on the cultural history of time in Judaism/Jewish culture during the Middle Ages. Particularly welcome are contributions which engage with the links in mentalities between Jews and non-Jews, as well as areas of conflict over the meaning of time. Papers are invited on aspects such as the time of the synagogue and the time ofthe church, time and liturgy, building time in space, time and the life cycle, men's time and women's time, time and memory, etc. Papers should be 20 minutes long, to be followed by 10 minutes discussion per paper. Please send a brief abstract (max. 250 words, preferably bye-mail) to: Eva Frojmovic or Hyam Maccoby, Re: ZEMAN, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK LS2 9JT; fax: (113) 245-1977; e-mail: or . Fellowships and Grants Maurice Amado Foundation The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies in the UCLA College of Letters and Science announces the creation ofthe Maurice Amado Foundation Research Fund in Sephardic Studies. The purpose ofthis fund is to support innovative and important research in the News and Information 209 many diverse areas of Sephardic studies, which include history, language, literature, anthropology, sociology, and musicology. The Research Fund is open to faculty and graduate students. For more information, contact the Fellowship Coordinator, Centerfor Jewish Studies, 302 Royce Hall, UCLA, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404; phone: 310/825-5387; fax: 310-825-9049; e-mail: ; website: . Newberry Library Fellowships The Newberry Library announces 2000-01 Fellowships in the Humanities. Long-term fellowships of six to eleven months and short-term fellowships of one week to two months are available to support residential research in the Newberry Library's collections. Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars and to Ph.D. candidates at the dissertation phase. The Newberry's holdings number more than 1.5 million volumes and 5 million manuscript pages. The collections focus on Western Europe and the Americas from the late Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. More information and application forms are available on the World Wide Web at . Information is also available bye-mailing , calling 312-255-3666, or writing to the Committee on Awards, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton St.,Chicago, IL 60610. u.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellowships The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies ofthe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fosters research in Holocaust and genocide studies, broadly defined. Its fellowship program is designed for scholars at all stages of their academic careers. Fields of inquiry include, but are not limited to, historiography and documentation of the Holocaust, ethics and the Holocaust, comparative genocide studies, and the impact ofthe Holocaust on contemporary society and culture. The Center welcomes a variety ofapproaches by scholars in history, political science, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, psychology, and other disciplines. In particular, it encourages scholarly work that utilizes the substantial archival materials the Museum has collected throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. For specific information, please contact the Visiting Fellows Director, or visit the Web site at . u.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum Summer Research Workshops The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies ofthe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum invites proposals from teams of six to ten scholars to conduct two-week research workshops at the Museum during July and August 2000. The objectives of the 210...