LL-L: "Landless languages" LOWLANDS-L, 22.DEC.2000 (03) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Landless languages

The following announcement, just received from the Mendele Yiddish language
forum (http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/,
http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/mendele.html), may be of interest to some
Lowlands-L readers, since it deals with "Yiddish historical literature,
composed in the Northern Netherlands in the late seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries."  Maybe there is even a subscriber of LL-L who wants to apply for
the position.

Best regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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From: berger at hum.uva.nl
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 04:09:49 EST
Subject: position in Amsterdam

The Menasseh ben Israel Institute for Jewish Social and Cultural Studies and
the Department for Yiddish Culture, Language and Literature of the Heinrich
Heine University Duesseldorf are conducting a research program on "Yiddish
in the Netherlands: an expression of Ashkenazic culture".

For one of the research projects within the framework of this program,
entitled "YIDDISH CHRONICLES AND HISTORY BOOKS IN THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS
AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY" the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research will provide means for the position of
junior researcher in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of
Amsterdam. A junior researcher will be engaged in research and take courses,
working towards a Ph.D. degree (the project will result in a doctoral thesis
to be published in book form).

The aim of the proposed research is an investigation of the nature, content
and influence of Yiddish historical literature, composed in the Northern
Netherlands in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Following a
detailed study and classification of the various compositions, attention
will be paid to the relative position of these writings within the larger
framework of the Jewish tradition of historical writing, re-assessing its
role as a possible missing link between medieval chronicles and modern,
critical historiography.

The researcher must have a degree in history and a good command of Yiddish
and Dutch and must be able to read secondary literature in Hebrew. The
application should be accompanied by a CV, a list of publications (if any),
and letters of recommendation and should reach us before 15 January 2001. A
decision will be made around 7 February 2001, the researcher will start to
work on 1 March 2001.

Send your application to Drs. Paul Koopman, Institute for Culture and
History, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For further
information contact: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, Dr. Emile G.L.
Schrijver, PO Box 16737, NL-1001 RE Amsterdam; tel.: + 31 (0)20 626 9945;
fax: + 31 (0)20 624 1721; e-mail: <jerams at xs4all.nl>, Prof. Irene E. Zwiep
(Universiteit van Amsterdam); tel.: + 31 (0)20 525 2353; e-mail:
i.zwiep at hum.uva.nl or Prof. Marion J. Aptroot (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet,
Duesseldorf); + 49 (0)211 811 3228; e-mail:
<aptroot at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>.

Shlomo Berger
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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