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"When you investigate, you see that there's more than blood and tears, that there are real achievements, not on- ly in the cultural sphere — that it's not only persecutions in the past, although there certainly was persecution." Jewish achievements can be seen at Beit Hatefutsot — The Museum of the Diaspora — in Israel. "When you go to a • place like Beit Hatefutsot in Israel, which is really a museum of Jewish history, it's a very upbeat place," Rosman says. "I think that shows something. There's something in Jewish history that you can be proud of and learn from and it's not only the story of persecution." Prof. Rosman, senior lec- turer in the department of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, will seek to clarify what he calls misperceptions about Jewish history when he lectures this spring as the fourth Bargman scholar-in- residence of the Midrasha- College of Jewish Studies. • (The lecture series is nam- ed for the late Theodore and Mina Bargman, longtime Jewish communal leaders and philanthropists. The childless couple left a fund to benefit Jewish causes, among them the Midrasha scholar- in-residence program. Their involvements included the Allied Jewish Campaign, Jewish Vocational Service, Jewish Community Center, Hadassah, Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Jewish Fami- ly Service, Jewish Welfare Federation, Sinai Hospital and Temple Beth El, among others.) A native of Chicago, Ill., Rosman will spend a semester in Detroit, beginn- ing next week and running through July, giving public lectures, teaching graduate courses and conducting classes for teens. Rosman, whose in-laws reside in Detroit, was selected due to his "versatility in terms of his background in history," ex- plains Renee Wohl, instructor and curriculum writer for the Midrasha. Rosman chose Jewish history with a concentration on Polish Jewry as his special- ty because of his desire to go into some aspect of Jewish communal service and the fact he was attracted to history in general. He also found studying history helped him unders- tand his place as a Jew in the modern world. "In order to understand your own life, your own times, you have to put them in context. So for me, it's important to unders- tand my own history, and I think it's important for other people." But, Rosman cautions, there is a danger that Jewish historians face, "that their commitment to Jewish life, the Jewish community, the -- Jewish religion can interfere with their commitment to the canons of scholarship," he ex- plains. "My goal is to live a life of passionate commitment with dispassionate scholar- ship, but it's an ideal that's not always easy to attain." He avoids that danger by trying "to be honest and recognize my biases, and then trying to look at things from other points of view and challenge my interpretation of documents and sources to see if it's me talking or the source talking," he asserts. "I'm always trying to balance the demands of scholarship with my personal com- mitments; it's something that's always been on my mind." Rosman's career as a Jewish history specialist has its roots at the Jewish Theological Seminary, from which he earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. He also holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. He has been an adjunct lec-