BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT

CAMPUS: Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 721 Broadway, 6th floor, New York, NY 10003.

Tel: 212-998-1628

HOME: 231A Bowery, New York, NY 10002-1237.Tel: 212-473-4231 Fax: 212-254-7885

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D. 1972 (Folklore), Indiana UniversityM.A. 1967A.B. 1966 (English Literature), University of California, Berkeley1962-1965 (Honor English Literature), University of Toronto.

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

University Professor, New York University, 2002-Professor (1981- ) and Chairperson (1981-1992) of Performance Studies, New York UniversityAffiliated faculty, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies 1986- , New York UniversityVisiting Professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Auckland, 2000-Adjunct Professor, University of Auckland, 1998Visiting Faculty (1996-), Master's Program in Jewish Art and Material Culture, The Graduate School of the

Jewish Theological Seminary of America and The Jewish Museum.Faculty (1995), Summer Program: History, Culture, and Experience of East European Jews, New York

University and Zaklad Historii i Kultury Zydow w Polsce, Jagiellonian University (Cracow).Visiting Professor of Folklore, International School of America 1983-84. Associate Professor of Folklore and Folklife 1973-80, and Chairperson, Undergraduate Program in

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory 1978-80, University of Pennsylvania.Visiting professor of Yiddish Studies, Department of Linguistics, Columbia University, and Max Weinreich

Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, YIVO, 1972-1992.Visiting Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana University, summer 1976. Assistant Professor of

Anthropology 1970-73 and English 1971-73, University of Texas, AustinAssistant Director 1970-73 and Archivist 1971-73, Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral

History, University of Texas, Austin.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES:

Grants, Painted Memories: A Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, with Mayer Kirshenblatt. Toronto Jewish Arts Council, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, 2005New York University Humanities Council, 2006Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, 2006

Grant, The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, The Posen Foundation, 2005.Fellow, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2001.Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, 1999.University of Auckland Foundation Visitor, New Zealand, 1998.Senior Faculty Development Grant, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1998.Winston Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University (Research Group--Visual Culture and

Modern Jewish Society, organized by Richard Cohen and Ezra Mendelsohn), 1996. Participant, School of American Research (Santa Fe) (Advanced Seminar--Material Culture: Habitats and

Values, organized by Annette Weiner and Fred Myers), 1996.

Getty Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Santa Monica) (Jews as an Anthropological Subject During the Cold War) 1991-92.

Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Conference and Study Center (Performing Culture) 1991.ACLS fellowship in East European Studies (intellectual history of Jewish folkloristics) 1989-90.Guggenheim fellowship (vernacular culture in New York) 1986-87.NYU Humanities Council grant (interdisciplinary curriculum) 1986.Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture grants (intellectual history of Jewish folkloristics) 1989-90, (Jewish

ceremonial art research) 1980-81, (Yiddish folksong documentation) 1973-75.New York Council for the Humanities grants (conferences on the vernacular culture of New York City)

1979, ++80. National Endowment for the Humanities grants (photographic history of Jewish life in Poland, 1864-1939)

1976-77, (Yiddish folksong project) 1973-1975.National Endowment for the Arts grants (Yiddish folksong record) 1976-77.

AWARDS AND HONORS: National Jewish Book Award for Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in honor of Salo W. Baron, 2006Distinguished Humanist, Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State University, 2003.Folklore Fellow, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Helsinki 1990-. Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities 1990-91Fellow, American Anthropological Association.Cited by American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, for one of best folklore recordings of 1986

(Folksongs in the East European Jewish Tradition from the Repertoire of Mariam Nirenberg). Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania 1976.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OFFICES (selected):

Professional SocietiesAmerican Folklore Society, elected president 1988-92, executive board 1976-77, second vice-president

1974-76; American Folklore Society delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies 1998-2006New York Folklore Society, executive board 1985-88, 1980-83Pennsylvania Folklore Society, president 1975-76American Anthropological AssociationAssociation for Jewish Studies Americ Academy of ReligionAmerican Studies Association Association for Jewish StudiesAmerican Association of MuseumsICOM (International Committee on Museums)ICOFOM (International Committee for Museology)College Art AssociationAuthors Guild

Boards

Association for Jewish StudiesVice-President, 2006-Board Member, 2005-Women’s Caucus, board member, 2004-2007

Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, leader of the core exhibition development team, 2006- ; Academic Advisory Committee, 2002- ; Board of Directors, North American Council, MHPJ, 2002

Jewgie Social Networking Platform Jewish Music Festival, San Francisco.Performance Studies International, 1997-2000 Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles), 1997- . World Food Museum, 1992- .

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Living Traditions (New York), 1994- .Institute for History of Mentalities (New Zealand), Executive Committee, 1992- . City Lore: New York Center for Urban Folk Culture, president of the board, 1986-1991, board member,

1991- Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies (YIVO), Executive Board, 1974-.YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, chair, Subcommittee on Research, 1975-82, member of Commission

on Research and Training, 1974-82.

Conference Organizing CommitteesMediating Anne Frank: A Colloquium, Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion, Center for Religion

and Media, New York University, 2005. Co-organizer with Jeffrey Shandler.Centre for Performance Research (Wales)--Performance, Food and Cookery 1994 (Chair), Performance,

Tourism, and Identity 1996 (Chair). New York Folklore Society 50th Anniversary History Project (1992-93).New York Institute for the Humanities, Times Square, The Making of a National Culture 1988-89.Smithsonian Institution and Rockefeller Foundation, The Poetics and Politics of Representation 1987-88.

Advisory and Planning CommitteesMuseum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, leader of the core exhibition development team, 2006- ;

Academic Advisory Committee, 2002- ; Board of Directors, North American Council, MHPJ, 2002- .

Assessing the Impact of Culture and the Arts on Jewish Identity Building, a Research Project for the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal of the UJA-Federation of New York

Reboot Poll: Research project on Jewish youth, New York. 2005-Machon Limudim Mitkadmim, research project on Orthodoxy and media, 2005-Association for Museum History, Steering Committee, 2004Social Science Research Council, Arts Committee, 2002-2004Smithsonian Institution, Advisory Council for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 1992-2006 .Jewish Women’s Archive, Academic Advisory Committee, 1998-Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, Advisory

Committee, 1997-2002 .Central European University, Planning Session for Jewish Studies Program (Budapest), 1996.American Friends of the Medem Library (Paris), Advisory Committee, 1996- .Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (renamed Getty Research Institute), Visiting

Committee, 1995-1999 .Stanford Humanities Center, Advisory Board, 1996-1999, 1999-2002. Arts International's International Explorations Initiative (1995-1996).National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Academic Advisory Committee, 1992- .

Panel, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Jewish Studies Panel, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards Academic Advisory Council, Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in America Advisor, Assessing the Impact of Culture and the Arts on Jewish Identity Building, a Research

Project for the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal of the UJA-Federation of New YorkJewish Book Council, 1992-3,Los Angeles Festival of the Arts, Steering Committee, 1992-1996.UCLA World Arts and Culture Program, Steering Committee, 1992-; External reviewer for UCLA

Interdepartmental Program in Folklore and Mythology, 1993; External reviewer for UCLA Department of Dance, proposal for PhD, 1990.

Cooperative Agreement between Moscow State Historical Archival Institute (USSR), Jewish Theological Seminary, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, academic advisory committee 1990-

Grey Art Gallery Visiting Committee, 1990s.Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana University, 1989, 1990 (chair), 1991.National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Division, panelist 1989.National Endowment for the Humanities, panelist for Museum Division 1987, 1986, Media Division 1980,

Research Division 1980.New York State Council on the Arts, folk arts/museum aid panelist 1981-86.Social Science Research Council, Committee on New York, 1986-87.

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International School of America, Advisory Council, 1984-.

Research ProjectCo-convener, Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion, Center for Religion and Media, New York

University, 2003-

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Journals

Senses & SocietyI (2004-)Museum & Society (2002- )American Ethnologist (1999- )Tourist Studies (1999- ) Corresponding EditorGastronomica (1999- )Journal of the History of Collections (1998- ) International Editorial Advisory BoardJournal of Folklore Research (1997- )TDR The Drama Review: A Journal of Performance Studies, Contributing EditorText and Performance Quarterly, a journal of performance studies (2003- )Cultural Anthropology (1991-1995)Museum Anthropology (1994-1996)Postmodern Culture (electronic journal) (199?-2005)The Digest: A Review for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food, contributing editor (1970s- )Les nouveaux cahiers du CELAT (Laval University)Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, founding editor (1970s- )YIVO AnnualYIVO-bleter Journal of Yiddish Research (Israel) All About Jewish Theatre

Book Series and Encyclopedias

California Studies in Food and Culture (University of California Press)American Cultural Studies (University of North Carolina Press) Judaic Tradition in Literature, Art, and Music (Syracuse University Press)Performance Studies series (Indiana University Press)Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Ethnography (Wayne State University Press)Encyclopedia of Jewish FolkloreJews in Eastern Europe: The YIVO EncyclopediaJewish Cultural Studies Series, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

PUBLICATIONS (selected):

Books

The Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt). University of California Press. In press: June 2007.

Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity. Jerusalem: Melton Center, 2002. With Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman.

Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust. New York: Shocken, 1977. Reissued 1995. With Lucjan Dobroszycki.

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Authoring Lives. Bhubaneswar, India: Mayur Publications, 1992.

Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950. Eds. Susan L. Braunstein and Jenna Weissman Joselit. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. With Irving Howe and Jenna Weissman Joselit.

Code Name Oyneg Shabes: Emanuel Ringelblum's Underground Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943: An Exhibition Essay Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1983. With Lucjan Dobroszycki.

Fabric of Jewish Life: Textiles from the Jewish Museum Collection. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1977. With Cissy Grossman.

Edited books

The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times. With Jonathan Karp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, in press.

Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo Baron. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award.

Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/ Global Transformations. With Ivan Karp, Corinne Kratz, Gustavo Buntinx, Ciraaj Rassool, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Art from Start to Finish. With Howard Becker and Robert Faulkner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

The Field of Yiddish, Studies in Yiddish Language, Folklore, and Literature. Fifth Collection. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press/YIVO (New York), 1993. With David Goldberg, Marvin I. Herzog, and Dan Miron.

The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature. Fourth Collection. Philadelphia: ISHI. 1980. With Marvin I. Herzog, Dan Miron, and Ruth Wisse.

Speech Play: Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.

Special issue of journal

Material Jews, special issue of Material Religion, co-edited with Jeffrey Shandler. In press.

Editorial boards

Jews in Eastern Europe: The YIVO Encyclopedia. Ed. Gershon Hundert. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust. Ed. Jeffrey Shandler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Cultures of the Jews: A New History, 3 vols. Ed. David Biale. New York: Schocken, 2002.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, 3 vols. Eds. Solomon H. Katz and William Woys Weaver. New York: Scribner, 2003.

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Chapters in books:

“From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum.” In Entre Autres / Among Others: Proceedings of SIEF Conference. In press.

“Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, 1939/1940.” In The Art of Being Jewish in Modern TimesI. Eds. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylania Press, in press.

“Introduction,” co-authored with Jonathan Karp.In The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, co-edited with Jonathan Karp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylania Press, in press.

"Making Sense of Food in Performance: The Table and the Stage." The Senses in Performance. Eds. Sally Banes and André Lepecki. London: Routledge, 2007.

“Afterword,” Memories of Philippine Kitchens by Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan. New York: Stuart, Tabori & Chang, 2006.

“Refiguring Museums: An Afterword,” in Die Schau des Fremden: AUsstellungenskonzepte zwischen Kunst, Kommerz und Wissenschat, ed. Cordula Grewe. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.

“World Heritage and Cultural Economics” and “Exhibitionary Complexes,” in Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/ Global Transformations. Eds. Ivan Karp, Corinne Kratz, Gustavo Buntinx, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ciraaj Rassool, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006

"The Moral Sublime: Jewish Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century America." Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. .

"Introduction." Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

“‘This is a Stone from the Endless Beach’: Max Gimblett interviewed by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.” Art from Start to Finish. Eds. Howard Becker, Robert Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

“Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11,” Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York City and Berlin. Eds. Guenter H. Lenz, Friedrich Ulfers, Antje Dallmann. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2006.

"Anthropology at Home." Von Alltagswelt Bis Zwischenraum: Eine Kleine Kulturanthropologische Enzyklopädie, eds Ramona Lenz and Gisela Welz. LIT Verlag: Münster, 2005.

Museums of Tomorrow: An Internet Discussion, ed Maurice Berger. Issues in Cultural Theory, 6. Santa Fe: Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore Country/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2005. Contributor.

"Ties That Bind: A Conversation about Heritage, Authenticity and War Textiles." Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory by Ariel Zeitlin Cooke and Marsha Macdowell, 47-55. East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum with City Lore, Inc. and Vermont Folklife Center, 2005.

"How Do You Know When a Work Is Finished?: Max Gimblett Interviewed by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett." Max Gimblett: The Brush of All Things by Wystan Curnow, Thomas McEvilley, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 57-65. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi to Tōmaki, 2004.

"Einleitung, Refugium Für Utopien? Das Museum." Die Unruhe Der Kultur: Potentiale Des Utopischen. Eds. Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr, and Annelie Ramsbrock, 187-96. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft,

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2004.

"Einer Der Gerechten." Von Einem, Der Auszog... Frederik Hertmann/Hans-Christian Kirsch--Märchen Sammeln, Erzählen, Deuten. Ed. Johannes Fiebig. Königsfurt: Königsfurt Verlag, 2004. Reprint of 1986 essay.

“Foreword,” Culinary Tourism. Ed. Lucy Long. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2003.

"Performance Studies," in The Performance Studies Reader. Ed. Henry Bial. New York: Routledge, 2003.

“Bagel” and “Passover.” Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, 3 vols. Eds. Solomon H. Katz and William Woys Weaver. New York: Scribner, 2003.

“Udder and Other Extremities: Recipes from the Jews of Yemen.” The Wilder Shores of Gastronomy: 20 Years of the Best Food Writing from the Journal Petits Propos Culinaires. Eds. Alan Davidson and Helen Saberi. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2002.

"Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11." Tactical Media Virtual Casebook: 9/11 and After. Eds. Barbara Abrash and Faye Ginsburg. New York: New York University, 2002. http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb

"Learning From Ethnography: Reflections on the Nature and Efficacy of Youth Tours to Israel." The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity. Jerusalem: Melton Center, 2002.

"The Museum as Catalyst." Museum 2000: Confirmation or Challenge? Ed. Per-Uno Ågren. Stockholm: Riksutställningar [Swedish Traveling Exhibitions], Svenska museiföreningen [Swedish Museum Association], 2002.

"Sounds of Sensibility." American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots. Ed. Mark Slobin. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.

“Introduction,” with Michael Stanislawski and Marcus Moseley, Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust. Ed. Jeffrey Shandler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

“Art and Material Culture: A Conversation with Annette Weiner.” The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture, with Fred R. Myers. Ed. Fred R. Myers. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001.

"Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography." Divergent Centers: Shaping Jewish Cultures in Israel and America. Eds. Deborah Dash Moore and Ilan Troen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

"Reflections." The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Ed. Fred R. Myers. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2001.

"Reflections on Spoleto's 'Evoking History,' June 2001." Reflections on Evoking History: Listening across Culture and Communities. Co-curators Mary Jane Jacob and Tumelo Mosaka. Charleston: Spoleto Festival USA, 2001.

"Performing Knowledge." Folklore, Heritage Politics, and Ethnic Diversity: A Festschrift for Barbro Klein. Eds. Pertti J. Anttonen, Anna-Leena Siikala, Stein R. Mathisen, and Leif Magnusson. Botkyrka: Mångkulturellt centrum, 2000.

"Confusing Pleasures." Muntadas: On Translation--The Audience. Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 1999.

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"Objects of Memory." People, Places and Pastimes: Challenging Perspectives of Ipswich. Brisbane: Global Arts Link, 1999.

"Performing the City: Reflections on the Urban Vernacular." Everyday Urbanism. Eds. John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999.

"From Immigrant to Ethnic in a Family's Tales" and "A Penchant for Parable". Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling. Ed. Steven Zeitlin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

"Messages in a Bottle." Kulturanthropologinnen Im Dialog: Ein Buch fuer und mit Ina-Maria Greverus. Eds. Anne Claire Groffman, Beatrice Ploch, Ute Ritschel, and Regina Roemhild. Koenigstein/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 1997.

"The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Cookbook, Denver 1888." Recipes for Reading: The Community Cookbook and Its Stories. Ed. Anne L. Bower. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

"A Place in the World: Jews and the Holy Land at World's Fairs." Encounters with the "Holy Land": Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture. Eds. Jeffrey Shandler and Beth S. Wenger. Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1997.

"The Electronic Vernacular." Connected: Engagements with Media. Ed. George E. Marcus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

"Coming of Age in the Thirties: Max Weinreich, Edward Sapir, and Jewish Social Science." YIVO Annual, ed. Deborah Dash Moore, 1-103 (Detroit: Northwestern University Press, 1996).

“Introduction.” Life Is with People: The Culture of the Shtetl. By Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog. New York: Schocken, 1995.

"Ausblick: Die Krise der Folkloristik." Amerikanische: Eine Einfährung, by Regina Bendix. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1995.

"Confusing Pleasures." The Traffic in Art and Culture. Eds. George Marcus and Fred Myers. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.

“Easter Parade,” “Manteo Sicilian Marionette Theater,” and “Street Life.” Encyclopedia of New York. Ed. Kenneth Jackson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

"From the Paperwork Empire to the Paperless Office: Testing the Limits of the 'Science of Tradition'." Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. Eds. Regina Bendix and Rosemary Levi Zumwalt. Connecticut: Garland, 1995.

"Ordinary People, Everyday Life: Folk Culture in New York City." Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology. Eds. George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1995.

"Times Square: A Pedestrian Perspective." Fields of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Goldstein. Ed. Roger D. Abrahams. Bloomington: Trickster Press, 1995.

"Tourism." Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. Ed. Richard Bauman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

"Vom Kultus Zur Kultur: Jüdisches Auf Weltausstellungen." Jüdische Kultur in Museen und Auststellungen bis 1938. Ed. Bernhard Purin. Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen, 1. Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1994-1995.

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"Foreword." Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older. By Barbara G. Myerhoff. Ed. Mark Kaminski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

“Mistaken dichotomies.” Public folklore. Eds. Nicholas R. Spitzer, and Robert Baron. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1992.

"Performing Diversity." To Make the World Safe for Diversity: Towards an Understanding of Multi-Cultural Societies. Eds. Ake Daun, Billy Ehn, and Billy Klein. Tumba and Stocklholm: Swedish Immigration Institute and Museum and Ethnology Institute, Stockholm University, 1992.

“Objects of Ethnography.” Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display. Eds. Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

"Kitchen Judaism." Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

""Other Times, Other Places." City Play. Eds. Amanda Dargan and Steven Zeitlin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

"Performance of Precepts/Precepts of Performance: Hasidic Celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn." By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual. Eds. Richard Schechner and Willa Appel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

"Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review." Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader. Ed. Elliott Oring. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1989.

"Tourism." International Encyclopedia of Communications. Ed. Erik Barnouw. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

"American Jewish Life: Ethnographic Approaches to Collection, Presentation, and Interpretation in Museums." Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings. Eds. Charlie Seemann, and Patricia Hall. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987.

"The Folk Culture of Jewish Immigrant Communities: Research Paradigms and Directions." The Jews of North America. Ed. Moses Rischin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

"Studying Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore." Handbook of American Folklore. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

"The Cut That Binds: The Western Ashkenazic Torah Binder as Nexus between Circumcision and Torah." Celebration, Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Ed. Victor Witter Turner. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

"Toward a Theory of Proverb Meaning." The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb. Eds.Wolfgang Mieder and Alan Dundes. New York: Garland Pub, 1981.

"Speech Play and Verbal Art." Play and Learning. Ed. Brian Sutton-Smith. New York: Gardner Press, 1979.

"Culture Shock and Narrative Creativity." Folklore in the Modern World. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. The Hague: Mouton, 1978.

"A Parable in Context." Folklore: Performance and Communication. Eds. Dan Ben-Amos, Kenneth S Goldstein. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

"The Concept and Varieties of Narrative in East European Jewish Culture." Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Eds. Richard Bauman, and Joel Sherzer. London and New York:

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Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Articles in journals

"A Necessary Eclecticism: Embodiment, Visual Evidence, and Technologies of Seeing in the Late Work of Franz Boas and His Students." Gesture, accepted for publication.

“The Shtetl Shoe,” Jews and Shoes, ed. Edna Nahshon. Oxford: Berg, forthcoming.

“Jewish Children’s Museum: A Virtual Roundtable” (convener and contributor), Material Religion (special issue: Material Jews), in press.

“A Daughter’s Afterword,” AJS Perspectives, spring 2007.

“Towards a Post-Disciplinary Jewish Subject,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 1, 1:2007.

“Cookbooks.” In Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition. Thomson Gale, 2006.

“The Corporeal Turn,” Jewish Quarterly Review 95, 3 (2005).

“Editor’s Column: What’s Wrong with These Terms? A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Diana Taylor.” PMLA 120, 5 (2005).

"The Modiya Project: an Experiment in ‘Research Centered Pedagogy'." Connect: Information Technology at NYU 15, no. 2 (2005): 27-30, 33. With Jeffrey Shandler.

"Jews/Media/Religion: Mapping a Field, Building a Resource." AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, no. spring (2005): 22-24. With Jeffrey Shandler.

"Participatory Journalism." Sh'ma 35, no. 622 (2005): 1-2.

"The Corporeal Turn." Jewish Quarterly Review 95, no. 5 (2005): 447-61.

"Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production." Museum International 56, no. 1-2 (2004): 52-64.

"Doreen G. Fernandez: A Tribute." Gastronomica 3, no. 1 (2003).

"Messages in a Bottle." Gastronomica 2, no. 1 (2002): 16-22.

"Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11." TDR The Drama Review 47, no. 1 (T177) (2002).

"Current Debate: The Dematerialization of Culture and the De-Accessioning of Museum Collections," with Isabelle Vinson and Bruno S. Frey. Museum International, no. 216 (2002): 58-63.

"Our Beautiful Towers." Samtid & Museer (Sweden) , no. 3-4 (2001): 4-7.

"Destination Culture." Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya 18, no. November (2001): 149-76.

"La Cultura De Les Destinacions: Teoritzar El Patrimoni." Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya 19, no. November (2001): 44-61.

"Opera Gastronomica." Copia 3, no. 1 (2000): 12-14.

"Folklorists in Public: Reflections on Cultural Brokerage in the United States and Germany." Journal of

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Folklore Research 37, no. 1 (2000): 1-21.

"In and Out of the Academy: The Future of Art." The Art Academy of the 21st Century. Eds. Jan Brand, Ritsaert ten Cate, Akki Colenbrander, and Catelijne de Muijnck. Groningen (Netherlands): Profiel, Bedum for Academie Minerva Press, 1999.

"Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium." Performance Research 4, no. 1 (1999): 1-30.

"Sounds of Sensibility." Judaism 47, no. 185 (1998): 49-78.

"A Savage Performance [Couple in the Cage]--A Response to Diana Taylor." TDR The Drama Review 42, no. 2 (1998):.

"La Renaissance Du Klezmer: Réflexions sur un Chronotope Musical." Cahiers de Litterature Orale, no. 44 (1998): 229-62.

"Folklore's Crisis." Journal of American Folklore 111, no. 441 (1998): 281-327.

"Alicia Rios, Tailor of the Body's Interior: an Interview." TDR The Drama Review 41, no. 2 (T154) (1997): 90-110.

"Afterlives." Performance Research 2, no. 2 (1997): 1-9.

"Obituary: Lucjan Dobroszycki." YIVO Annual 23 (1996).

"Performing the City: Reflections on the Urban Vernacular." Proceedings of Symposium, Above, Below and Beside: Urban Design, Urban Theory, and Urban Culture. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 1996.

"Topic Drift: Negotiating the Gap Between Our Field and Our Name." Journal of Folklore Research 33 (1996): 245-54.

"Tourism and Heritage." Traditions and Tourism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Ed. Susan Faine. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian Folklife Association, 1996.

"Museums, 'Heritage,' and Tourism in Terms of a Political Economy of Display." Communicating Cultures: Museums Australia 1995 National Conference Proceedings. Brisbane: 1995.

"Theorizing Heritage." Ethnomusicology 39, no. 3 (1995): 367-80.

"The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Cookbook and Its Fair, Denver 1888." Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Notes 13, no. 1-2 (1995): 1-7.

"Making Difference: Mapping the Discursive Terrain of Multiculturalism." Writings on Dance (Sydney) 13 (1995): 56-61.

"Destination Museum: Heritage, Museums & Tourism." Destination Museum: Issues of Heritage, Museums & Tourism--Seminar Transcript. Wellington, New Zealand: Museum Directors Federation of Aotearoa/New Zealand Inc., 1994.

"Spaces of Dispersal." Cultural Anthropology 9, no. 3 (1994): 339-44.

"Secrecy: African Art That Reveals and Conceals." Journal of American Folklore 107, no. 424 (1994): 306-10.

"On Difference." Journal of American Folklore 107, no. 424 (1994): 233-38.

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"Heritage: A New Mode of Cultural Production." Tourism & Travel Review 3, no. 3 (December) (1994): 8-9.

"Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa." Cultural Anthropology 9, no. 2 (1994): 435-70. With Edward M. Bruner.

"Common Coin." Midwest (New Zealand), no. 3 (1993): 9-11.

"Who's Bad? Accounting for Taste." Artforum 30, no. 3 (November) (1991): 119-25.

"Dragon Cucumber: on Japanese Pickles." The Digest: Newsletter for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food (1991).

"Art and National Identity: a Critics' Symposium." Art in America 79, no. 9 (1991): 81, 142-43.

"From Cult to Culture: Jews on Display at World's Fairs, 1876-1940." Tradition and Modernization, Plenary Papers Read at the 4th International Congress of the Société Internationale D'Ethnologie et de Folklore. Ed. Reimund Kvideland. Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore, 1992.

"Problems in the Early History of Jewish Folkloristics." Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Managing Ed. David Assaf. Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1990.

"Edible Art [on Marinetti's The Futurist Cookbook]." Artforum, November (1989): 20-23.

"Authoring Lives." Life History as Cultural Construction/Performance. Eds. Tamás Hofer and Péter Niedermuller. Budapest: Ethnographic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1988.

"L'Étude du Folklore en Milieu Urbain." Cahiers de Litterature Orale, no. 24 (1988): 13-35.

"Waves: People and Culture on the Lower East Side: An Essay on the Occasion of the Third Wave Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, 1987." Hands On: A Journal for Teachers , no. 31 (1988): 65-70.

"Mistaken Dichotomies." Journal of American Folklore 101, no. 400 (1988): 140-55.

"The Jews of Asia, Hall of Asian Peoples, American Museum of Natural History [Exhibition Review]." Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter 10, no. 2 (1988): 25-27.

"Hebrew Cookery: An Early Jewish Cookbook from the Antipodes." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires, no. 28 (1988): 11-21.

"Udder and Other Extremities: Recipes from the Jews of Yemen." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires, no. 27 (1987): 49-50.

"The Kosher Gourmet in the Nineteenth-Century Kitchen: Three Jewish Cookbooks in Historical Perspective." Journal of Gastronomy 2, no. 4 (1986-1987): 51-89.

"Jüdische Folklore in New York." Die Märchenzeitung, no. 6 (1986): 9.

"Di Folkloristik: A Good Yiddish Word." Journal of American Folklore 98 (1985): 331-34.

"American Jewish Life: Ethnographic Approaches to Collection, Presentation, and Interpretation in Museums." Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Newsletter 7, no. 1-4 (1985): 4-13.

“An Accessible Aesthetic: The Role of Folk Arts and the Folk Artist in the Curriculum.” New York Folklore Quarterly 9, no. 3-4 (1983): 9-18. http://www.carts.org/pdfs/kirshenblatt.pdf

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"The Future of Folklore Studies in America: The Urban Frontier." Folklore Forum 16, no. 2 (1983): 175-234.

"Jewish Cookbooks." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires 24: 59.

"Beans, Water and Flatulence." PPC Petits Propos Culinaires 25: 79.

Interviews

"Performing Live: an Interview with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett," with Adrian Franklin. Tourist Studies 1, no. 3 (2001): 1-22.

"The Aesthetics of Everyday Life." Conversations before the End of Time. Ed. Suzi Gablik. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Translations

Vietnamese“Objects of Ethnography.” Exhibiting cultures: the poetics and politics of museum display. Eds. Ivan Karp

and Steven Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. Forthcoming.

Hebrew "A Parable in Context." Hasifrut.

Image Before My Eyes: Demutam le-neged ‘enai: historyah be-tatslumim shel hayim Yehudiyim be-Polin 1864-1939, with Lucjan Dobroszycki. Tel Aviv: Bet ha-tefutsot ‘al shem Nahum Goldman, 1979. Abridged.

French“Sounds of Sensibility”: "La Renaissance Du Klezmer: Réflexions sur un Chronotope Musical." Cahiers de

Litterature Orale, no. 44 (1998): 229-62.“The Urban Frontier”: L'Étude du Folklore en Milieu Urbain." Cahiers de Litterature Orale, no. 24 (1988):

13-35.

Catalan“Destination Culture”: "Destination Culture." Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya 18, no. November (2001):

149-76.

Italian"Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production." Museum International 56, no. 1-2 (2004): 52-64. To

appear in the journal Lares.

German“Folklore’s Crisis”: “Ausblick: Die Krise der Folkloristik." Amerikanische: Eine Einfährung, by Regina

Bendix. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1995.

“From Cult to Culture: Jewish on Display at World’s Fairs”: "Vom Kultus Zur Kultur: Jüdisches Auf Weltausstellungen." Jüdische Kultur in Museen und Auststellungen bis 1938. Ed. Bernhard Purin. Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen, 1. Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1994-1995.

Image Before My Eyes: Gesichter einer verlorenen Welt: Fotos aus dem Leben des polnischen Judentums, 1864-1939, with Lucjan Dobroszycki. Frankfurt/Main : Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit, 1982. YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research, New York, and Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, Tel Aviv. Abridged.

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DutchImage Before My Eyes: Beelden voor ogen : een fotografisch verslag van het joodse leven in Polen tussen 1864 en 1939. With Lucjan Dobroszycki. Amstelveen Amphora books, 1981.

Spanish“Objects of Ethnography”: “Objetos Etnogaficos," Estudios de Performance. Ed. Diana Taylor and Marcela Fuentas. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2005.

Other Publications

"East of War," Program Notes for the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Fall 1998."

"The Making of a Folklorist." Metafolkloristica: An Informal Anthology of Folklorists' Humor. Eds. Franz Kinder and Boaz the Clown [pseudonyms]. Salt Lake City: Unauthorized Centennial Project for the American Folklore Society's One Hundredth Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1989.

New media

The Modiya Project, Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion, Center for Religion and Media, New York University. http://modiya.nyu.edu

INVITED LECTURES and conference participation (selected):

2007

Deus in Machina: Exploring Religion and Technology in Comparative Perspective, McMaster UniversityPaper: “Social Software and Contemporary Jewish Life”

Bard Graduate Center, New YorkInvited Lecture: “Build It and They Will Come: The Making of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews”

University of TorontoInvited lecture: “Memory in Times of Crisis and Renewal: New Jewish Museums in Post-Holocaust Europe”

Jewish Historical Museum, AmsterdamKeynote: Museums and Memory

2006

Yiddish/Jewish Cultures: Literature, History, and Thought in Eastern European Diasporas, New York UniversityKeynote: “Yiddish Studies: Towards a 21st Century Mandate”

Institute for Jewish Art, New YorkInvited lecture: Exhibiting Judaica

American Association of Religion, Washington, D.C.Paper:

Jewish Renewal and Resistance: The Revitalization of Jewish Culture in post-Holocaust, post-Communist Europe. Case Study: Poland, Graduate Theological Seminary, Berkeley Keynote: “The Postwar Chapter: Reflections from the Museum of the History of Polish Jews,

Warsaw.”

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Magnes Museum, BerkeleyInvited lecture: “They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland

Before the Holocaust.”

Museum Studies Graduate Student Organization, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. January 2006.Invited lecture: “Heritage as a Mode of Cultural Production”

Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program, YIVO and NYUInvited lecture: The Yiddish Cookbook

United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. February 2006. Invited lecture.Invited lecture: “Museum as Catalyst”

Memorial Museum, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. New York. July 2006. Invited lecture.Invited lecture: “Museum as Catalyst”

Center for Jewish History Graduate Seminar, New York. September 2005. Discussant: Edward Portnoy, “Thou Shalt Not Make Graven Images: Cartoons in the American Yiddish Press, 1884-1930.”

American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta. October 2005.Discussant: Panel, Governmentality and Its Discontents: Folklore, Neo-Liberal Rationalities, and Self-RegulationPanelist: Forum, Theorizing Food and Folklore

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 2005.Paper: “Theorizing experience.” Panel: Performance, Tourism and Ethnographic Practice: An Exploration of the Work of Edward M. BrunerDiscussant: Panel, Everything You Wanted to Know about the Heritage Industry but Were Afraid to Ask: The Anthropologist’s Guide to Becoming the Heritage Professional

Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. December 2005.Panelist: Roundtable, Exhibiting Polish Jewish History: Planning the Museum of the History of Polish JewsDiscussant: Panel, From Postcards to Holograms: Jewish Encounters with New MediaChair: Panel, Post-Holocaust Shylocks

ReJewvenation: The Futures of Jewish Culture, University of Toronto. October 2005.Keynote address: “Rebel All You Like… Just Be Jewish.”

Ethnography and Literature. Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. January 2006.Paper: “From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum”

Re-thinking Jewish Communities and Networks in an Age of Looser Connections. Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University. New York. December 2006Paper: “The New Jews: Reflections on Emerging Cultural Practices”

Education Program in Yiddish Culture (EPYC) Educators Seminar. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York. June 2006Introduction and discussion of Image Before My Eyes, a documentary film based on a book of the same title that I co-authored with Lucjan Dobroszycki.

The Power of Yiddish. The Jewish Museum, New York. March 2006Moderator of panel discussion.

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The New Jews. Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. New York. December 2005.Panelist

Sustainable Innovation and Jewish Life. Sh’ma. Drisha Institute. New York. March 2006.Panelist

2004-2005

American Jewish Icons lectures: University of DenverThe Jewish Contemporary Museum, San Francisco“The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair

Twenty-Fifth Annual Jerome Nemer Lecture, University of Southern California, November 2005.“Recipes for Community: A History of the Jewish Kitchen”

Keynote address: “The Arts and the Senses: Jewish Studies and Post-disciplinary Formations.” Conference on Beyond the People of the Book: Visual Culture and Jewish Identity. University of California, Davis.

Concluding remarks, Conference on The Relational Museum, Pitt-Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

“Exhibition concept,” Symposium on “The Exhibition Masterplan” and “Outline of the Historical Program,” Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Hebrew Union College, New York.

“The Search for a Common Language [UNESCO’s intangible heritage initiative],” The Humanities in an Era of Global Comparatism, Graduate Seminar and Speaker Series, Humanities Council, New York University.

“Kitchen Judaism,” Cookbooks and Archives: From Kitchen to Special Collections, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York at the Fales Collection, Bobst Library, New York University.

Distinguished W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture: “From Memory Palace to Performance Space: The Development of the Museum as an Art Practice,” Humboldt University, Berlin.

Lummer Memorial Lecture: “Imagining the Jewish Homeland: American Jews and Zionism in the Twentieth Century,” Center for Jewish Studies, Queens College, New York.

Keynote address: “From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum.” SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore), Marseilles.

“Intangibility: The Future of Ethnographic Museums.” Conference on Les faiseurs de musées, Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

“The Corporeal Turn.” Jews and Performance Faculty Seminar, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York.

American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake CityPanelist (invited): Cultural Property 2: A Call to Folklorists: Advising the World Intellectual Property Organization on Intellectual Property and Cultural HeritagePanelist (invited): The Value of Folklore and Folklorists in Times of CrisisPanelist (invited): Book Discussion (Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality, by Richard Bauman and Charles Briggs)Delegate to ACLS (invited)Member: Fellows of the American Folklore Society (honorary society)

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Member, Steering Committee, Jewish Folklore Section.

Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, ChicagoChair/respondent (invited): History Embodied: The Study of Modern Jewish History and Culture Through Dance Co-Chair and presenter (invited): Jews/Media/Religion:  Mapping a Field, Building a ResourceRespondent (invited): Jews & ShoesBoard member (invited): AJS Women’s Caucus

Chair/respondent (invited): “Eating Words.” PSi Performance Studies International annual meeting, Providence

Speaker (invited): Concluding remarks, Conference on The Relational Museum, Pitt-Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Presenter (invited), Symposium on “The Exhibition Masterplan” and “Outline of the Historical Program,” Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Hebrew Union College, New York.

Panelist (invited): Colloquium on Status of Women and Feminism in Jewish Studies, Dartmouth University

KlezKanada Lecture (invited): “Edible Icon: A Social History of the Bagel”Co-presenter (invited): Growing up Jewish in Eastern Europe

Speaker (invited): “The Search for a Common Language [UNESCO’s intangible heritage initiative],” The Humanities in an Era of Global Comparatism, Graduate Seminar and Speaker Series, Humanities Council, New York University

Presenter (invited), “Kitchen Judaism,” Cookbooks and Archives: From Kitchen to Special Collections, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York at the Fales Collection, Bobst Library, New York University

Mediations of Anne Frank: A Colloquium, Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion, Center for Media and Religion, New York UniversityColloquium co-organizerRespondent: Secrets on Display: Diaries and Hidden Places at the Anne Frank House

Co-Presenter: “Modiya: An Experiment in Research Centered Pedagogy,” Technology & Pedagogy, ITS Faculty Technology Center Open House, New York University

Presenter (invited): Storytelling Across the Disciplines, Storytelling in Performance Workshop, Humanities Council, New York University

Participant (invited): The Cultural Atlantic Seminar Group: New York-London Urban Development, New York University

Participant (invited): World Cultures Report, Expert Consultation, organized by the UCLA Center for Civil Society at the United Nations, New York

Participant (invited): Workshop for preparation of Manual on Festive Events, Rituals, and Social Practices, Intangible Heritage, UNESCO, Paris

Moderator/Commentator (invited): Panel discussion of the Variable City project, Van Alen Institute, New York

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Speaker (invited), Tribute to Chana Mlotek, Workmen’s Circle Gala

Speaker (invited), Tribute to Frédéric Brenner, Jewish Cultural Achievements Awards, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York

Participant, Jewish Art Seminar, The Jewish Museum and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York

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“Museums, World Heritage, and Cultural Economics,” 2002Museums and the Global Public Sphere, Rockfeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy2003University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

“Why Are Museums Controversial?”United States

2000University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program and University of Michigan Museum of Art2002Culinary Institute of America (Carroll F. Dooley Lectures)2003Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College (Distinguished Lecture Series)

“Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11”United States:

2002New York University (Department of Anthropology and Center for Media, Culture, and History) New York University (Project on the Privatization of Culture) Great Small Works PSi Performance Studies International American Folklore Society Council on American Jewish MuseumsDepartment of Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania Americas Society (Conversation Circles)2003Emory University Ohio State University (Thomas and Diann Mann Distinguished Symposium Series) New-York Historical Society Bard College Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics.

New Zealand: 2002University of Auckland Te Papa Tongarewa/Museum of New Zealand; University of Canterbury Victoria University.

Australia: 2002 University of New South Wales

Canada: 2002 KlezKanada

Europe:

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2002 Koning Boudewijnstichting (Belgium: Keynote address)

“Holocaust Hijinks: Mirroring Evil and the Agency of Display”United States

2002American Folklore Society,University of Illinois (Champaigne-Urbana) Association for Jewish Studies2003Emory University

“Edible Icon: A Social History of the Bagel in the United States”Europe

2000Conference on Public Culture, Citizenship, and the Urban Experience (Berlin), Humboldt University and New York UniversityDasArts (Amsterdam)

Vietnam2002Institute for Folklore Studies (Hanoi)

United States1998New School for Social Research2000International Center for Aadvanced Studies, New York University2001University of PennsylvaniaSocial Science Research CouncilNew York University (Feast and Famine Humanities Seminar)Louisiana Folklore Society2002University of Illinois (Champaigne-Urbana) Rutgers University, 2003Emory University, Tenenbaum Distinguished LectureKlezKanada (Quebec)

“Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, 1939/1940”United States

2001Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Yale UniversityAssociation for Jewish Studies2002Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of PennsylvaniaDartmouth Regional Seminar in Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College2003Judaica Americana: Jean S. Moldovan Memorial SymposiumUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis

2000-- Keynote: "Museum as Catalyst," ICOM-Sweden, Vadstena; "Performance Studies," European Science Foundation Research Group, Lewes, England; "Museum as a Technology," University of Amsterdam; "American Folklore Studies," Meertens Institute, Amsterdam; "Museum Theatre: Reflections on the Convergence of Visual and Performance Studies," University of California, Santa Cruz; "Performing Citizenship: New Museums in the South Pacific," University of Michigan (Arts of Citizenship Program) and University of Michigan Museum of Art; "Citizenship, Cities, and Museums," "Rethinking Locality," Conference on Public Culture, Citizenship, and the Urban Experience (Berlin),

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organized by Humboldt University and New York University.

1999—"Knowledge and Experience: The Museum as School for the Senses" and "Museums and the Holocaust," Swedish Association of Museum Curators, Gustavianum Museum, and DIK (Documentation, Information, Culture), Uppsala; "Performance Studies," Department of Theatre Studies, Stockholm University; "The Israel Experience," SCASSS Seminar (Uppsala); "The Agency of Display: Reflections on Museums and Tourism in the South Pacific," Conference on Museums, Nations, and Tourism: Transnational Perspectives (SCASSS, Uppsala); "The Museum Medium" and "The New Generation Museum," Gotland University College (Visby); "Museums and Citizenship: The Case of Te Papa," Department of Ethnology, Lund University; "Citizenship, Transnationalism, and the Museum Medium," Department of Anthropology, Stockholm University; "Black Box/White Cube: The Museum as a Technology," Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities (Los Angeles); "The Agency of Display," 'Race,' Nation, Aesthetics, and the Fabrication of Modernities (UCLA Symposium); "Theorizing Heritage and Cultural Policy," Conference—The Politics of Heritage Making: Archives, Museums, Tourism (NorFA—Nordic Council of Ministers, and SCASSS—Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Tartu University, Estonia); "Museums and Heritage," Institute of Ethnology, Stockholm University; "The New Museology," Department of Ethnologie, Uppsala University; "Performing Heritage in an Industrial Region," International Theatre Academy Ruhr (Bochum, Germany); "Food and Performance," DasArts (Amsterdam).

1998—"Performance Studies and the Arts of Everyday Life," Minerva 2000, The Future of the Art Academy in the 21rst Century (Groningen, Netherlands); "Black Box/White Cube: The Museum as a Technology," Conference--Culture Shocks: The Future of Culture, Te Papa: The Museum of New Zealand (Wellington); "Tourism, Museums, and Heritage," Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland; "Destination Culture: Te Papa, Auckland Museum, and the New Generation Musum," Auckland Art Gallery; "Museums, Heritage, and Tourism," Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University (Brisbane); "Cultural Tourism, Heritage, Museums and Galleries," Museums Australia (Qld) and Regional Galleries Association of Queensland (Brisbane); "Ordinary Pleasures, Rituals, and Taboos," plenary address at Conference on Food: Nature and Culture, New School for Social Research; "The Klezmer Revival," Ohio State University; "Marketing of a Dream: How American Jews Effected the Reality," 32nd Annual Goldenberg Family Lecture, Talmud Torah (Minneapolis); "Race and Gender at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893: Jews, Biblical Antiquities and Oriental Dancers," University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); "Displaying Philanthropy: The Educational Alliance and Its Fair," Conference: Remember the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections, New York University.

1997--Salo Baron Lecture, "The Moral Sublime: Jewish Women and Philanthropy in 19th Century America," The Jewish Museum; Endowed lecture series, "Exhibiting Jews," Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida (Gainesville); "Biblical Antiquities and Oriental Dancers: Exhibiting Jews at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893," Annual Shoshana and Martin Gerstel Lecture in Jewish Studies, Stanford University (Palo Alto); "Claiming Space, Making Place: The Art and Politics of Urban Pageantry in New York City," Saint Louis Urban Forum, Missouri Historical Society (St. Louis).

1996--Series of 5 lectures, Hebrew University (Jerusalem); Keynote address, Israel Folklore Society Conference (Beer Sheva); Keynote address, Tourism and Performance, Center for Performance Research (Cardiff); "Topic Drift: Negotiating the Gap Between Our Name and Our Field," American Folklore Society Annual Meetings (Pittsburgh); "Exhibiting Jews at World's Fairs," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference (Boston).

1995--Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (8 universities, 1995-1997); Keynote address--Museums Australia 1995 (Brisbane); Distinguished Lecturer Series--"The Moral Sublime: Jewish Women and Philanthropy in 19th Century America," University of Maryland at College Park; "The 24-Hour Classroom: Teaching with the Internet," EQUAL (Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Life) Commission and Academic Computing Facility, New York University.

1994--"Coming of Age in the Thirties: Max Weinreich, Interdisciplinary Social Science, and YIVO's Youth Research Project," Conference on The Legacy of Max Weinreich on the 100th Anniversary of His

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Birth, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York); Keynote address, "Destination Museum: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage," Museum Directors Federation (City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand); Lecture, "From Cult to Culture: Jews on Display at World's Fairs," The Jewish Museum of Australia and St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation (Melbourne); Keynote address, "Destination Museum," Conference of Museum Association of New Zealand and Museum Educators Association of New Zealand (Palmerston North); Keynote address, "Heritage Politics in the Context of Tourism," Traditions and Tourism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Australian Folk Trust and Victorian Folklife Association (University of Melbourne, Australia); Paper, "Producing Heritage for Tourists: The Role of Museums and Festivals," International Folklore Studies and Indigenous Peoples, National Library of Australia (Canberra); Annual Charles Seeger Lecture (Actualities, Virtualities, and Other Dilemmas of Display), Society for Ethnomusicology (Milwaukee); Keynote address, Conference on Performance, Food and Cookery, Centre for Performance Research (Cardiff, Wales); Keynote address, Conference on Food and Culture, University of New Hampshire; Paper, "The Electronic Vernacular," Committee on Theory and Culture, New York University; Lecture, "'The Moral Sublime': The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Coookbook. Denver, 1888," Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society (Denver).

1993--Keynote lecture, "Destination Museum: How Tourism Informs Museum Practice and Experience," Symposium: Museums, Nations, Identities, celebrating the centenary of the Art Institute of Chicago; Plenary address, "Making Difference: Multiculturalism and Public Art," Arts International conference: Crossing Cultures, Barcelona; Jewish Studies lecture series, Oberlin College; Lecture, "Ten Types of Multiculturalism," Vassar College; Performance Studies Symposium, Princeton University; Inaugural lecture,"Eating Our Words: Reflections on the Exhibition," No Food in the Library, Harvard University; Closing remarks, "Secrets of Encounter," Symposium: Secrecy, Knowledge, and Art: Approaches to Epistemology in Africa, Museum of African Art, New York; Paper, "Secrets of Encounter and Other Predicaments of Cultural Display," Conference: The Case for Display: Tourism, Museums, and Festivals, UCLA World Arts and Culture; Lecture, "From Cult to Culture: Jews on Display at World's Fairs," UCLA (sponsored by Committee on Jewish Studies and The Folklore and Mythology Program); Paper, "Electronic Vernacular: Testing the Limits of the 'Science of Tradition," Panel: Tradition as Object of Representation and Mode of Production in Folklore, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston; Keynote address, "Folklore, Memory, Technology: Writing as Performance," Winter Conference: NEH Folklore Institute, Bank Street College of Education, New York.

1992--Presidential address, American Folklore Society; Lecture, "Multiculturalism," Greater New York Folklore and Ethnomusicology Seminar; Conference on Pluralism and Its Cultural Expressions, Bellagio Conference Center, Italy (Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Rockefeller Foundation); Parrish Art Museum (A Museum Looks at Itself); Sidore Lecture, Cultural Diversity and the Humanities, University of New Hampshire; Closing address, NEH Summer Seminar on Folk Narrative; Symposium--The Ephemerable and the Memorable: Lore, Performance, and Memory, Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles; American Anthropological Association presidential plenary session on multiculturalism, San Francisco; Conference--Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of Franz Boas, Barnard College and Department of Anthropology.

1991--Conference on Intercultural Performance, Bellagio Conference Center (Italy), Rockefeller Foundation; Conference on New Geographies of Performance, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles; UCLA, Center for the Comparative Study of Folklore and Mythology.

1990--Plenary address, 4th congress of SIEF--Société Internationale d'Ethnolgie et de Folklore, Bergen; Opening address, The Organization of Diversity, Institutet för Folklivsforskning (Stockholm University); Invited speaker, New Perspectives in American Jewish History, Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University; Featured scholar, Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Los Angeles.

1989--Plenary session on Jewish folkloristics, World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem; Inaugural speaker in Jewish Museum's distinguished lecture series, New York; 8th International Conference on Ethnological Food Research, Philadelphia; Inventing Times Square, New York Institute for the Humanities.

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1988--Keynote speaker, Israel Anthropological Society, Haifa; Conference on Exhibiting Culture: Poetics and Politics of Representation, Smithsonian Institution and Rockefeller Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Columbia University in Paris conference on Problematics of Cultural Translation: France and the United States; Yiddish Literature Seminar, University of Paris 7; Conference on Folklore and Social Transformation: A Dialogue of American and German Folklorists, Indiana University; Folk Art and Folklife Traditions, Metropolitan Museum of Art Workshop; Third Annual New York State Folk Arts Roundtable, New York State Council on the Arts; New York Ethnic/Immigrant Music Symposium, World Music Institute, New York; Fife Folklore Conference, Utah State University; Pembroke Center Roundtable, Displaying Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Marketplace, Brown University.

1987--Plenary speaker, 26. Deutscher Volkskunde-Kongress, Frankfurt; III American-Hungarian Folklore Conference, Budapest.

1987 to the present: Lectures, presentations, and panels

Margaret Mead Festival; Workshop at the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen); Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute (New York); Object Worship, Symposium organized by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (New York); Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections (New York University); The Culture of Toys, Conference at Emory University in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution; MassMoca conference on the future of museums of contemporary art, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts); Getty Center for the Study of History of Art and the Humanities, Museum for African Art, Parrish Museum; Evaluation and Planning Conferences for the Los Angeles Festival of the Arts; Performance Studies International (New York); University of Auckland; Indiana University; University of Pennsylvania; Brown University; University of Wisconsin; New York University; Wesleyan University; University of California at Santa Cruz and Los Angeles; University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand); Papers at meetings of Association for the Study of Jewish Civilization (New Zealand); American Folklore Society; American Anthropological Association; Australian-New Zealand Association for American Studies (Melbourne); Australian Symposium of Gastronomy (Sydney); Association for Jewish Studies; Moderator for Symposium, Biotic Exchange (Crosscurrents of Culture, 1492-1992), New York University Humanities Council; Discussant, Society for Cultural Anthropology (Washington, D.C.); Discussant, American Folklore Society (Eugene, Oregon); "The Arts, Culture, and Society: The Challenge of Globalization and Multiculturalism," Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (New York); Los Angeles Festival--official observer and moderator of panel on memory projects; Symposium--New Directions in the Study of Religion and Gender, Princeton University.

CONSULTATIONS (selected): Exhibitions, media projects (including radio),public and academic programs--U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Israel Museum (Jerusalem); Museum of New Zealand; Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand); The Museum for African Art (Shape of Dreams: Baule Art of Ivory Coast), Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum; Modern Languages Association ("Linguistic Diversity in the United States"), Brooklyn Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of American Folk Art, The Jewish Museum, Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, National Museum of American Jewish History, Grey Art Gallery, Delaware County Historical Association, Henry Street Settlement House, City Lore: New York Center for Urban Folk Culture, Yiddish Folk Arts Institute, New Jersey Historical Commission, American Institute of Wine and Food, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, American Folklife Center (Library of Congress), The Museum of Living Jewish Heritage, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Arts Resources for Students and Teachers, Chinatown History Project, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Duchess County Arts Council, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, Baltimore City Foundation, Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Ottawa), Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Beth Hatefutsoth (Tel Aviv), Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles). UCLA--Department of Dance, Center for the Comparative Study of Folklore and Mythology, World Arts and Cultures, Department of Theatre.

Film Consultations: Hell's Kitchen, Style Wars, Paris is Burning, Jumping Night in the Garden of Eden, Image Before My Eyes.

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