Publications

Mosaics in Taking Root by Marjorie Agosin
(Ohio University Press, 2003)

We are running in To Mend the World by Marjorie Agosin and Betty Jean Craige
(White Pine Press, 2002)

Muted Testimony: Rape and Gendered Violence during the Holocaust. Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, P.A.

Jewish Women in Global Perspective: a Film Festival. Jewish Women in Global Perspective was founded in 2007 by graduate students Devorah Shubowitz and Jessica Alpert, of the IU Anthropology and History departments respectively, to foster a pluralistic conversation about Jewish women’s identity and agency among academics, activists, and artists in the Jewish community and beyond. The organization is home to a student-initiated, two-day film festival slated for October 11-13, 2008, which will assemble a cadre of filmmakers and commentators from around the country and the Indiana University community. The films will focus on Jewish women from around the world and the ways in which they negotiate, struggle with, assume, and manage authority in all aspects of life, from health, reproduction, and beautifying their bodies, to work, money, and relationships. As a forum for scholarly and cultural exchange, the film festival includes eight to ten documentaries, followed by carefully assembled discussion panels. Attracting students, faculty, and film aficionados from Southern Indiana and beyond, the festival has already received seed money and scholarly support from the Indiana University Borns Jewish Studies program, as well as the Center for the Study of Global Change, the Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI), and the Sociology and History departments.

Kindly visit the website for Jewish Women in Global Perspective: A Film Festival .

The Storylistener
During her Fulbright year in El Salvador, Jessica kept a daily blog of her research and personal experiences, transcripts from many oral history interviews can be found here.