ACJC News
ACJC News, Second Semester 2011
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2000 people came to hear Amos Oz deliver the Monash Israel Oration
Listen to the talk here online:
Amos Oz - Israel: War, Peace & Storytelling - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas
Professor Andrew Markus: One of Australia's Most Influential Jews
Professor Andrew Markus, ACJC's Chair of Jewish Civilisation and author of the Gen08 Research Study, has been named in the Australian Jewish News as one of "The 50 most influential Australian Jews".
ACJC welcomes new staff members for Semester 2
The ACJC has appointed Karen Auerbach from an international field of candidates for a 3-year lectureship in Jewish studies beginning second semester 2011. Karen is an historian who works in the area of Polish-Jewish history. Her doctorate from Brandeis studied the Jewish families of an apartment block in postwar communist Poland and she is currently writing a cultural history of Warsaw through the prism of nineteenth and twentieth century Jewish booksellers and publishers. Karen comes to ACJC after completing a fellowship at the University of Michigan and a teaching post at the University of Southampton in England.
David Slucki has been appointed for 3 years to our Centre as an Early Career Monash Fellow. David recently completed his doctorate with us and his book comparing the Bund in a transnational framework will be published by Rutgers Uni Press. He is proposing a new research project studying Holocaust survivors in the 50s in comparative urban settings.
These appointments strengthen the ACJC in history and also in our Holocaust and Genocide studies program.
Professor Andrew Markus leads the Jewish Population Study
Professor Andrew Markus, ACJC's Pratt Foundation Professor of Jewish Civilisation, is the principal researcher and author behind three reports released in 2011: Jewish Continuity, Older Jewish Australians and Antisemitism. For more details and downloadable pdfs of these reports, please visit The Australian and New Zealand Jewish Population Study.
Seeking Justice: Rwanda and South Africa
ACJC Director Mark Baker is currently leading a group of Monash students on the Seeking Justice: Rwanda and South Africa unit as part of Monash Studies Abroad. The group will be travelling in South Africa and Rwanda from Friday 1 June until Sunday 17 July. This unit will bring together students from Monash campuses in Australia and South Africa to study the contemporary histories of post-genocide and post-conflict societies, through two specific cases: the South African approach after apartheid; and local and global responses to the Rwandan genocide. Held in the winter semester as a two-week intensive, students will spend a week in Johannesburg and a week in Rwanda exploring public debates on memory and justice through visits to memorial sites and museums. Places to be explored include Soweto, the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill, the Murambi genocide memorial and a Gacaca village trial.
2010 ACJC Prize winners
The 2010 ACJC Prize winners [pdf 73kB] have been announced.
Leah Garrett's literary review in The Age
Professor Leah Garrett, the ACJC Loti Smorgon Chair in Jewish Culture and Life, recently had a literary review published in The Age.Yiddish Melbourne website launched
The Yiddish Melbourne website is part of a major project undertaken within the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, by Professor Andrew Markus and his research team, to document and record a comprehensive history of the way of life and institutions of the Yiddish speaking immigrants who settled in Melbourne, and the values and outlook of their descendants.