PROGRAM FOR SJHS CONFERENCE
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 11/9-11/12/06

Thursday, November 9 (Optional)

Bus will leave at approximately 9:00 a.m. from the Peabody Hotel on Thursday morning and return at 3:30. Tour of Jewish Hot Springs Arkansas led by Jewish leaders of that beautiful historic town, with lunch provided by the Congregation.

4:00 P.M. at the Darragh Center of the Main Library

Marcie Cohen Ferris Matzoh Ball Gumbo Food Experience. This will include a multimedia presentation and foodfest jointly promoted and sponsored by the Central Arkansas Library System.

Friday, Nov. 10

Arkansas History Museum

1 pm - 2pm - "Arkansas Travelers: The Winter Family of Alabama and Arkansas, A Case Study in Researching Jewish Family History" - Karen Franklin, Director Family Research Program, Leo Baeck Institute.

2:15-3:30 - Voices of Moderation: Jewish Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Karla Goldman, Jewish Women's Archive - moderator/commentator
Laura Miller, Central High School National Park Museum - "The Women's Emergency Committee in Little Rock"
Holly Cowan Shulman, University of Virginia - "Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women's Work"

Jerome Gumenick Lecture:
Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan - "Ours to Fight For:” GI Jews in WWII

Saturday, Nov. 11

Peabody Hotel Conference Center

9 - 10:15 – Fact & Fiction: Writing the Story of Southern Jews
Leonard Rogoff, Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina – moderator/commentator
Adam Mendelson, Brandeis University - "A Struggle which Has Ended So Beneficently”: A Century of Jewish Historical Writing about the Civil War"
Bryan Stone, Del Mar College - "Cowboys and Indigents: A History of Texas-Jewish Fiction"

10:30 - 12:00- Panel Discussion – “The SJHS at 30: Envisioning the Future of Southern Jewish History”
Eli Evans, author of The Provincials
Dale Rosengarten - Jewish Heritage Collection, College of Charleston
Dana Greene - Appalachian State University
Stuart Rockoff, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life - moderator

12:15 - 1:45 - Lunch

Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College, Hartford, CT - “But is it good for the Jews?”: The early years of the Southern Civil Rights movement.

2:00 - 3:15 – “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah:” Jewish Camping in the South

Marcie Cohen Ferris, UNC Chapel Hill - "God First, You Second, Me Third”: An Exploration of Quiet Jewishness at Camp Wah-Kon-Dah, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Stuart Rockoff, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life - "The Key to a Living Judaism”: Creating the Henry S. Jacobs Camp
Gary Zola, Hebrew Union College/American Jewish Archives - "Jewish Camping and its relationship to the Organized Camping Movement in America"

3:45 - 5:00 – He Said, She Said: Rabbinic Pioneers Ira Sanders and Paula Ackerman
Mark Bauman - moderator/commentator
James Moses, Arkansas Tech University - "Like a Mighty Stream: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Arkansas" –
Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University - "Paula Ackerman: First 'Lady Rabbi' of the American South"

Bornblum:
Evening Program - Clinton Presidential Library
Stuart Eizenstat, diplomat and advisor to Presidents Carter and Clinton – “Imperfect Justice: U.S. Negotiations over Holocaust Restitution”

Sunday, November 12

9:00 - 10:15 - Panel Discussion: Hurricane Katrina as History
Jayne Guberman, Jewish Women's Archive, Boston
Cathy Kahn, Touro Infirmary Archives, New Orleans
Irwin Lachoff, Xavier University Archives, New Orleans
Barry Stiefel - Tulane University, New Orleans

10:30-11:45 Meet the Authors
Hollace Weiner, Moderator
Eric Goldstein: "The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity"
Deborah Weiner: "Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History"
C.S. Monaco: "Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer"