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Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations Directors: Murray Baumgarten, University of California, Santa Cruz and Shaul Bassi, University of Venice News: We are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities has invited us to conduct the Institute on "Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations" again next summer. The Institute will be held in Venice from June 16–July 18, 2008. The application deadline is March 3, 2008. College and university teachers of American undergraduate students are invited to apply. Qualified independent scholars and those employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and other organizations may be eligible for consideration as well, provided they can effectively advance the teaching and research goals of the institute. Participants will receive a stipend from the NEH towards their expenses. Brief Description: College and University teachers are invited to participate in this five-week, inter-disciplinary institute exploring the cultural, intellectual, and historic experience of Venetian Jewry. Participants will receive a stipend from the NEH towards their expenses. Our primary focus will be the Ghetto of Venice, which gave its name to all such subsequent ethnic enclosures. We will explore the history of the Ghetto of Venice as built environment, cultural text, and symbolic site. Together we will examine various artistic materials representing Italian and Venetian Jewish life, including literary, artistic, and dramatic works.This will make it possible for us to reinhabit the Ghetto through the eras of its existence. The Institute will begin with the Renaissance, while emphasizing the modern experience of Venetian Jewry, a paradigmatic Italian Jewish community. The program is designed to benefit scholars in various fields, including European culture, literature, art, and history, Holocaust studies, Italian studies, and Jewish studies. For more information, read the Director's Letter for the NEH Venice Institute or see NEH Institute 2008. Paul Howard Hamburg Librarian for the Judaica Collection 438 Doe Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Tel: (510) 643-3353 Fax: (510) 643-6650 Cell: (510) 387-5827 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/judaica/ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
