Nextbook


	NEXTBOOK FEATURE

	INTERVIEWS Conference Calls A sampling of presentations from the 35th annual Association for Jewish Studies meeting Professors from across the country are gathering in Boston next week at the 35th annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Beyond job interviews and collegial elevator chats, the conference will feature hundreds of presentations and panel discussions on myriad Jewish topics, ancient and contemporary, prosaic and esoteric. Just as attendees will skim the compendious conference program to see which titles will entice them into a Back Bay ballroom, the Nextbook editors glanced at the enormous menu and called a handful of speakers ahead of time to learn a bit about what they plan to discuss, on behalf of those of us who can't be in attendance. American Jews and Marriage Counseling, 1920-1945 "Based on a True Story": Popular Imaginings among American Jews of Gender in Ultra-Orthodox Society Bi'ur Hametz and the Ancient Semitic Magic Confronting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Jewish Studies Classroom Gefilte Fish and Beautiful Shoes: Soviet Jews Describe the Ideal Jewish Woman Jewish Identity at Work Lekhu ve-nelekhah (Come Ye and Let Us Walk): The Jewish Students of Kazimir Malevich Money in Jewish Eyes: Object of Desire or Derision? Mothers' Dreams, Daughters' Choices: Envisioning Mothers of Ba'alot Teshuvah and their Daughters The "Normal'" Mysticism of Jewish Meal Rituals Piracy, Politics, and Product Placement: Hasidic Book and Magazine Publishing Today The Rise of the Ladino Theater in the Ottoman Empire