Mirkin honored by Chi Omega for her teaching

Bilha Mirkin

Bilha Mirkin, senior lecturer of Modern Hebrew in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, has been honored by the Chi Omega sorority as an instructor who has had a meaningful and substantial impact on members' education here at the University of Wisconsin. 

This is the fifth time that Bilha has been honored in this way.

Congratulations Bilha!

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New year brings in awards, accolades

Here's a round-up of all of the recent awards and honors to faculty, staff and students in L&S:

• Four L&S faculty receive development grants
• Bement wins Kellet Mid-Career Award
  
• Anderson receives National Ground Water Association Award
• Five classified staff members receive Excellence Awards 
• Four from Hebrew Department receive Teaching Awards
• Schatzberg, Nyhart win scholarly publication awards
• Severn wins 2010 Presidential Honorary Membership for work with DARE
• Hall, von Schneidemessner named Fellows of Dictionary Society 
  

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Four from Hebrew Department receive Teaching Awards

Award recipients Haya Yuchtman, Dr. Troxel and Professors Rosenblum and Brenner.

Four instructors in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies recently received teaching awards:

• Haya Yuchtman (senior lecturer of Modern Hebrew) was honored as an outstanding instructor by Delta Delta Delta. 
  
• Three received Honored Instructors Awards from Chadbourne Residential College:
• Ronald L. Troxel (distinguished senior lecturer of Hebrew Bible)
• Jordan Rosenblum, (the Belzer assistant professor of Classical Judaism)
• Rachel Feldhay Brenner (professor of Modern Hebrew and the Weinstein-Bascom professor of Jewish Studies)

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Feldhay Brenner awarded Weinstein-Bascom Professorship

Rachel Feldhay Brenner has been awarded the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascmo Professorship in Jewish Studies.

Professor Rachel Feldhay Brenner of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies has been awarded the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professorship in Jewish Studies from the Weinstein-Mosse Center for Jewish Studies. 

The Weinstein-Bascom Professorship is designated for a faculty member who has through exemplary teaching and distinguished scholarship or artistic creativity contributed to a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience.

Brenner’s research focuses on literary representations of the search for the coexistence of ethical values with the consciousness of the Holocaust.

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Potter named Director of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies

Pamela M. Potter is named Director of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.

Pamela M. Potter, Professor of Musicology, has been named Director of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, following a term as Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music. 

Potter's research and publications have concentrated primarily on German music and politics in the 19th and 20th centuries, and her work in Jewish Studies includes exploring ways of defining Jewish music and the impact of Jewish immigrants on American musical life and scholarship. 

She has served on a number of committees including: the Arts and Humanities Research Committee, the University Fellowships Committee, the General Education Committee and the L&S Curriculum Committee. 

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Outstanding UW participation at the AIS conference in Israel

UW faculty traveled to the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva for the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) annual meeting in June.

AIS is the only international, interdisciplinary association dedicated to the academic study of modern Israel and it draws scholars from all over the world.  Despite the tenuous political situation in southern Israel, almost three hundred scholars of Israeli Studies participated at what turned out to be an excellent meeting.

The outstanding UW participation included three departments and the Center for Jewish Studies:

• Professor Rachel F. Brenner (Hebrew and Semitic Studies) who serves as the president of AIS. 
  
• Professor Nadav Shelef (Political Science)
• Visiting Professor Miri Talmon-Bohm (Hebrew and Semitic Studies)
  
• Bilha Mirkin (Hebrew and Semitic Studies)
  
• Post-doctoral fellow Sharon Assiskowitch (Political Science)
• Graduate students Assaf Meshulam (Education) and Amnon Cavari (Political Science) 
  

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Hebrew and Semitic Studies using innovative methods to teach Hebrew

Participants in the workshop (left to right): Charles Grebe (Briercrest College), Ray VanLeeuwen (Eastern University), Chris Heard (Pepperdine University), Bob Stallman (Northwest University), Helene Dallaire (Denver Seminary), Eric Tully (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jim Greenberg (Denver Seminary), David Valeta (Colorado University-Boulder), Joab Eichenberg-Eilon (Georgia State University), Paul Overland (Ashland Seminary).

In early June Eric Tully, a graduate student in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies and the Biblical Hebrew TA, attended the Coheleth workshop on the campus Ashland Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. 

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