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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:59:38 -0500
From: bd498-AT-freenet.buffalo.edu (Kizer Walker)
Subject: conference announcement




Dear e-list moderator,
Please share the following announcement with your subscribers:


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

JEWRIES AT THE FRONTIER

The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research
at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, will be hosting an
international conference "JEWRIES AT THE FRONTIER" at the University of
Cape  [ATown from 11-13 August 1996.


The conference co-ordinators, Milton Shain (University of Cape Town) and
Sander L. Gilman (University of Chicago), are calling for papers which will
explore the Jewish experience in frontier settings.  The emphasis will be
on Jews as a minority within a minority with hegemonic power in colonial
and post colonial settings.

Thus the conference will examine in an interdisciplinary manner South
African Jewry; Anglophone Indian  Jewry; Canadian Jewry with a focus on
Quebec Jewry and Jewry in the Northern Territories;  American Jewry of the
colonial period and American Jewry with a focus on the South
(French-speaking Louisiana) and the Spanish-speaking Southwest; early
Australian and New Zealand Jewry;  German Jewry (Haskalah and
post-Haskalah) in the Baltic, Central,  and Eastern Europe including the
non-German speaking areas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;  Jewry at the
geographic margins in Latin and South America;  Ukrainian Jewry in the 18th
and 19th centuries; and any other communities that fit the parameters of
the conference.

Abstracts of presentations are required before 31 January 1996.
Presentations will be in English. There is a limited amount of
subsidy for accommodation in Cape Town. For further information
please contact either:

     Milton Shain, Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies,  University of
Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town,7700, South Africa.
E-mail:  Shain-AT-beattie.uct.ac.za

    Sander L Gilman, Wieboldt Hall 411, The University of Chicago, 1050
East 59th Street, Chicago IL 60637-1512., FAX: 312-702-9861
Department 'Phone:  312-702-8494e-mail: slgilman-AT-midway.uchicago.edu
 

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