100
‫חטיבה‬: The Bible and Its World
The Bible and its World
The Assyrian Impact on Israel and the Bible
Chair: Shalom Paul
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718
Aren Maeir
(E)
Assyrians and their Influence: Back to Basics
Kenneth Lawson Younger, Jr.
(E)
The Assyrian Impact on the West: The Assyriological Perspective
Nili Wazana
(E)
The Voices of the Vanquished: Reactions to Assyrian Power in the Bible
Elnathan Weissert
(H)
The King as Intermediary between Heaven and Earth: “Maliku amelu” in Assyria
and “pele yoetz” in Isaiah
101
Qumran and the Bible: Continuity, Innovation and Interpretation
Chair: Menahem Kister
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718
Gary A. Anderson
(E)
Changing Conceptions of the Torah in the Second Temple Period
Devorah Dimant
(E)
From Jeremiah to Baruch in Qumranic Perspective
James Kugel
(E)
Human Sinfulness at Qumran and in the "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs"
102
Biblical Interpretation: Between Classical and Postmodern
Chair: Meira Polliack
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: Senate Hall
Steven D. Fraade
(E)
Early Rabbinic Midrash between Philo and Qumran
Adele Berlin
(E)
Medieval Answers to Modern Questions: Medieval Jewish Interpreters of
Psalms
Ed Greenstein
(E)
The Postmodern Study of the Bible and Jewish Hermeneutics
Diana Lipton
(E)
Response
110
Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory
Chair: Benjamin Sommer
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503
Bernard M. Levinson
(E)
Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic
Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe
Dalit Rom-Shiloni
(E)
Intertwining Priestly and Deuteronomic References in Jeremiah
Baruch J. Schwartz
(E)
How Much Intentionality Can the (Neo-) Documentary Hypothesis Attribute to
the Compiler of the Torah?
111
Story and Law in the Torah Literature
Chair: Shimon Gesundheit
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503
Dov Samet
(H)
The Connections of the Abimelech and Sarah Story (Genesis 20) with
Deuteronomy
Oren Biderman
(H)
“And Joseph Made it a Statute until this Day in the Land of Egypt”
Yairah Amit
(H)
The Marah Episode (Exodus 15: 22–26) and the Art of Editing
Assnat Bartor
(H)
The Poetics of Biblical Law and other Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections
112
Literature of the Torah
Chair: Baruch J. Schwartz
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720
Idan Dershowitz
(E)
Of the Reeds: Was the Moses Nativity Story Written for an Egyptian Audience?
George Savran
(H)
The Structure of the Abraham Cycle
Zvi Shimon
(H)
The Significance of Writing Torah on the Rocks in Shechem
Reuven Kimelman
(H)
What is the Purpose of the Rethematization of the First Section of the Shema
(Deuteronomy 6:5–9) in the Second (Deuteronomy 11:13–24)
113
Ritual and Law in the Bible
Chair: Gershon Brin
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Shaul Bar
(E)
The Punishment of Burning in the Hebrew Bible
Yitzhaq Feder
(E)
Purity and Impurity Terminology in Biblical Hebrew, Akkadian, and Hittite: A
Comparative Cognitive Semantic Analysis
Naphtali Meshel
(H)
The Form and Function of a Biblical Blood Ritual
Shalom E. Holtz
(H)
Aspects of Law in Biblical Prayer
114
Biblical Legal Literature
Chair: Shalom E. Holtz
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503
Leah Jacobsen
(H)
The Mother’s Legal Authority over her Daughter's Marriage according to
Deuteronomy 22:13–21
Ariel Kopilovitz
(H)
The Legislation of War: A Study of the Story of the Israelite War against Midian
(Numbers 31)
Yehoshua Reiss
(H)
The Holiness Chapters in Leviticus: Structure and Meaning
115
The Biblical Story
Chair: Yairah Amit
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503
Galy Dinnur
(H)
The Story of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1–16): The Supreme Value of Human Life
Tamar Werdiger
(H)
Multifocal Group Perception in Biblical Narrative
Yisca Zimran
(H)
The Biblical Genre of “Sibling Rivalry”: Its Existence, Significance, and
Contribution
Yoshi Fargeon
(H)
Prostitution and Plot: A Dynamic Reading of the Story of Baal Peor (Numberss
25; 31)
116
Literary Conventions in the Bible
Chair: Alexander Rofé
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503
Shira Golani
(H)
“On the Doubling of Lists”: Reoccurring Lists of Persons in the Hebrew Bible
Gabriel Barzilai
(H)
"Forty Years": A Literal Reading of a Typological Time Frame
Marcus Hubner
(E)
Numbers in the Hebrew Bible
117
The Former Prophets
Chair: Hava Guy
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720
Robb Young
(E)
A New Source Division for 2 Kings 18:17–19:37/Isaiah 36–37
Amos Frisch
(H)
Structure and Meaning in the Former Prophets
Zvi Motsan
(H)
The Death of Saul
Uriel Simon
(H)
The Enthronement of Solomon and the Will of David as Closure of What Began
with Bathsheva and Uriah
118
The Book of Ruth
Chair: Lea Mazor
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503
Jonathan Grossman
(H)
The Element of Surprise in the Exposition of the Book of Ruth
Yitzhak Peleg
(H)
Why Did Ruth the Moabitess Not Raise her Child?
Yael Ziegler
(E)
Alienation and Recognition: An Intertextual Analysis of Ruth and the Story of
the Concubine of Gibeah
Robert L. Cohn
(E)
Ruth as Counter-History: Otherness and Israelite Identity
119
Prophecy in the Bible
Chair: Shmuel Vargon
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720
Yosefa Rachaman
(H)
". . . And . . . Samuel also was Lying in the Temple of Yahweh Where the Ark of
God Was" (1 Samuel 3:3)
Micha Roi
(H)
The Discrepancy between Form and Content as a Rhetorical Tool in Amos's Fifth
Vision (Amos 9:1–4)
Amichai Nachshon
(H)
God's Attitude towards Egypt in the Prophecies Concerning the End of Days
Yair Hoffman
(H)
A Delicate Balance: Eschatology in the Book of Micah
120
Biblical Wisdom Literature
Chair: Yair Hoffman
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713
Theodore Perry
(E)
The Love of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Love: Song of Songs as a Wisdom Text
Jonathan Ben-Dov
(H)
The Unity of Oppositions: Nature in the Book of Job
Nili Samet
(H)
Philosophical Terms in the Book of Qohelet
Nili Shupak
(H)
Egyptian and Biblical Wisdom: New Insights through Comparative Study
121
The Book of Chronicles
Chair: Michael Avioz
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505
Julie B. Deluty
(E)
Divine Invocation and the Levitical Singers: Reinterpreting the Role of the
Prophet in Chronicles
Yitzhak Berger
(E)
Interpreting Chronicles: Literary Structure, Theology, and Purpose
Meir Lubetski
(E)
Puzzling Personal Names in Chronicles
Asher Grossberg
(H)
Biblical Text and Archaeology: “The Stream that Flowed through the Midst of
the Land” (2 Chronicles 32:4) and “The Upper Outlet of the Waters of Gihon” (2
Chronicles 32:30)
122
Language, Narrative, and Gender in the Bible
Chair: Yael Shemesh
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503
Hagit Taragan
(H)
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow: The Story of Merab the Daughter of Saul
Orly Keren
(H)
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow: The Story of Merab the Daughter of Saul
Lea Mazor
(H)
Feminine Aspects in Relation to Joseph - the Phenomenon and its Theological
Significance
Haviva Youlia Yehudai (H)
God as Masculine and Feminine: A New Language to Express This Truth
Naama Zahavi-Ely
(H)
Tamar through the Eyes of Lucius
123
Literature and Dialogue
Chair: Isaac Gottlieb
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716
Davida Charney
(E)
Restoring the Deleted Expletive in Psalm 62
Sarah Schwartz
(H)
The Isaac Narrative: Its Boundaries, Coherence, and Meaning
Talia Sutskover
(H)
The Concept of the Part and the Whole in Genesis 13–14–15
Osnat Singer
(H)
Joseph and his Father Jacob
124
Postmodern Inquiries in the Bible
Chair: Athalya Brenner
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717
Itzhak Benyamini
(H)
Interpellations of the Reader in the Bible
Orit Avnery
(H)
A Matter of Perspective: Three Women Peering Out a Window
Ora Brison
(H)
"Eshet Midianim" (Proverbs 21: 9): A Contentious Woman or a Cult
Functionary?
Meir Bar Mymon
(H)
The Theater of Masochism in the Book of Ezekiel
125
Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Chair: Daniel Vainstub
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718
Amnon Altman
(H)
Territorial Claims in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
David Elgavish
(H)
Departures and Meetings after Departures: A Consideration of Literary Patterns
in the Bible and in Ancient Near East
Miri Brumer
(H)
Healing Agents in Olive Oil in Israel and the Ancient World
Shirly Natan-Yulzary
(H)
How is Ilu Afraid? An Investigation of the Anat–Ilu Conflict
Raanan Eichler
(E)
What Are Cherubim?
126
Comparative Elements in Biblical Studies 1
Chair: Carl Ehrlich
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503
Carly Crouch
(E)
Kingship, Creation and Yhwh's Battle against Chaos
Jonathan Stökl
(E)
Holy Hierarchies
Sol Cohen
(E)
On Ezekiel's Ḥayot and Ophanim but Not on Ma'ase Merkavah
Robert Miller
The Baals of Bashan
(E)
127
Historical Aspects of Biblical Studies
Chair: Nili Wazana
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503
Hava Guy
(H)
Biblical Surveys of Israelite History: Sources, Significance, and Function
Chris Lombaard
(E)
Jacob Come Lately? Hosea 12 and the Problem of Dating the Patriarchs of
Ancient Israel
Dan'el Kahn
(E)
Revisiting the Historical Setting of Isaiah 11:11–16
William Yarchin
(E)
Is There an Authoritative Shape for Sefer Tehillim? Profiling the Manuscripts of
the Hebrew Psalter
128
Anthropological Aspects of Biblical Studies
Chair: Assnat Bartor
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503
Carl Ehrlich
(E)
Biblical Gentilics and Ethnic Identity
Yael Shemesh
(H)
Mourning in the Bible: Coping with Loss
Shoshana Arbeli
(H)
The Queen-Mother in Israel: An Important Figure in the Kingdom of Judah in its
Last Era
Johnathan Yogev
(H)
"Go up, thou Baldhead; Go up, thou Baldhead!" (2 Kgs 2:23): The Meaning of
Body Hair in Biblical Literature
129
Biblical Thought 1
Chair: David Frankel
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503
David Lambert
(E)
Knowledge as Performance in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond
Alexandru Mihaila
(E)
The Pilgrimage of the Nations to Jerusalem: A Nonmilitary Holy War Ideology?
Job Jindo
(H)
On the Personhood of the Biblical God
David M. Feuchtwanger (H)
“And the LORD said in His Heart . . .”: God's Internal Dialogue as a Basis for
Jewish Political Thought
130
Biblical Thought 2
Chair:
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Naava Cohen
(H)
The Issue of “Natural Reward” and the Issue of Divine Retribution: A Key to
Understanding the Formal Design of Ecclesiastes
Shlomo Bahar
(H)
"Coming Up," "Looking Out," and "Leaning On": Three Modes of One Figure in
the Song of Songs
Yu Takeuchi
(E)
Even the Disobedient Ones Live—and Only the Just One Lives? Jonah and Noah,
a Comparative Study
Hennie A. J. Kruger
(E)
Laughter in the Bible: Humor or Mockery?
131
Israel and the Land in Biblical Theology
Chair: George Savran
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2606
David Frankel
(E)
Israelites and Non-Israelites in the Land of Promise: The Use of Biblical Models
in the Construction of a Jewish Theology of Coexistence
Marvin A. Sweeney
(E)
Is the Conditional Covenant Really Conditional?
Benjamin Sommer
(E)
Can an Academic Field of Biblical Theology Exist, and If So, What Might it Look
Like? Land as a Methodological Lens
Esther Menn
(E)
Christian Views from Pisgah
132
Archaeology and Epigraphy
Chair: Nili Wazana
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605
Liat Naeh
(H)
Ivories and the Lifestyle of Rulers in the Land of Israel during the Second
Millenium BC
David Shapira
(H)
Egyptian Elements of Solomon's Palace
Zecharia Kallai
(E)
Historical Research and the Biblical Narrative
Bezalel Porten
(E)
Establishing a Database for the Idumean Ostraca
133
New Studies on the Judean Shephelah 1
Chair: Oded Lipschits
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Zvi Lederman
(E)
Canaanites, Philistines, and Judahites: Cultural Dynamics in the Iron Age I
Shephelah
Shlomo Bunimovitz
(E)
Canaanites, Philistines, and Judahites: Cultural Dynamics in the Iron Age I
Shephelah
Samuel Wolff
(E)
Gezer: Gateway to Jerusalem
Steven Ortiz
(E)
Gezer: Gateway to Jerusalem
Itzick Shai
(E)
The Late Bronze and Iron Age Remains at Tel Burna
Amit Dagan
(E)
With One Foot on eEach Side of the Fence: Tel es-Safi/Gath, on the Border
between the Shephelah and Philistia during the Iron Age
134
New Studies on the Judean Shephelah 2
Chair: Aren Maeir
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Oded Lipschits
(E)
Tel Azekah during the Bronze and Iron Ages: A Preliminary Evaluation
Ron Tappy
(E)
The Archaeology and History of Tel Zayit: A Record of Liminal Life
Yosef Garfinkel
(E)
Khirbet Qeiyafa and the Dawn of the Judean Kingdom
140
Studies in the Literature of the Second Temple Period 1
Chair: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505
Atar Livneh
(E)
"A Question of Honor": The Interpretation of Exodus 20:12 in Jubilees
Ariel Feldman
(E)
On Kings and Prophets: Rewriting Former Prophets at Qumran
Paul Heger
(E)
Women's Obligation to Fulfill Precepts: Scriptural, Qumranic, and Rabbinic
Attitudes
Moshe J. Bernstein
(E)
Reflecting on Genre at Qumran: The Case of 4Q252 (Commentary on Genesis A)
141
Studies in the Literature of the Second Temple Period 2
Chair: Gary A. Anderson
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605
David (Dmitry) Kopeliovich (H)
Jeremiah as a Prototype of the Persecuted Prophet in the Jewish Literature of
the Second Temple Period and Following 70 CE
Michael Segal
(E)
Introducing the Book of Daniel
Alastair Hunter
(E)
Psalms and Ceremonies in Hasmonean and Herodian Judah: What Can the
Sources Tell Us?
Michael Avioz
(E)
Problematic Narratives of King David in Josephus's Rewriting
142
Studies in the Literature of the Second Temple Period 3
Chair: Jonathan Ben-Dov
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818
Stephanie Binder
(H)
Josephus's Description of the Dead Sea
Oren Ableman
(H)
“It is said that Rome is Edom”: The Origins of the Identification of the Last
Kingdom in 4 Ezra
Tzuriel Cohen
(H)
Levi the Priest, the Elect of God, in Aramaic Writings from Qumran and in
Associated Literature from the Second Temple Period
143
The Thought of the Scrolls
Chair: Michael Segal
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718
Miryam T. Brand
(E)
Sin and Free Will at Qumran: Flexibility and Genre in Second Temple Texts
Liora Goldman
(H)
A New Look at the Development of Sectarianism during the Second Temple
Period in Light of the Damascus Document
Eyal Regev
(H)
Sin, Atonement, and Israelite Identity in the Words of the Luminaries
150
New Directions in the Research of Medieval Jewish Bible Exegesis
Chair: Eliezer Schlossberg
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2606
Gershon Brin
(H)
Selected Issues in Byzantine Exegesis from the Tenth Century and Onward
Ilana Sasson
(H)
Gender Equality in the Commentary of Yefet ben Eli and in Karaite Law
Yair Zoran
(H)
The Commentary of Yefet ben Eli the Karaite on the Book of Chronicles
Nechamit Peri
(H)
Dialogical Aspects of the Book of Job in the Commentaries of Saadiah and Yefet
151
The Schools of Medieval Jewish Bible Exegesis in the Islamic and Christian
Worlds
Chair: Sara Japhet
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2606
Miriam Goldstein
(H)
“Spirantized Peh in the Ishmaelite Language” in the Exegesis of Abraham b. Ezra
Itamar Kislev
(H)
“Spirantized Peh in the Ishmaelite Language” in the Exegesis of Abraham b. Ezra
Marzena Zawanowska (E)
Who Wrote the Torah? The Question of the Authorship of the Pentateuch
according to Medieval Karaite Exegetes
Jonathan Jacobs
(H)
The Leqah Tov on the Song of Songs: R. Toviah ben Eliezer between Peshat and
Derash
Naomi Grunhaus
(H)
Radak's Sefer ha-Shorashim and his Biblical Commentaries: A Comparison
152
Rashi's Illustrations and Their Influence
Chair: Mayer Gruber
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2606
Eli Genauer
(E)
Did Rashi Draw the Diagrams Found in His Commentary on the Talmud?
Amy Phillips
(E)
The Cartography of Redemption
Rehav Rubin
(H)
Traces of Rashi’s Commentary in the Sixteenth-Century Mantua Map
David Shneor
(H)
Rashi's Commentators in Relation to the Map of Israel's Borders as Stated in
Parshat Masei
153
Rashi and Rashbam
Chair: Robert A. Harris
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2606
Lisa Fredman
(E)
The Jewish–Christian Polemics in Rashi's Commentary on Proverbs
Ephraim Sand
(H)
What is the Literary Context according to Rashi?
Mordechai Cohen
(H)
A Problem in Rashbam’s Hermeneutical System Resolved by Maimonides
Aryeh Strikovsky
(H)
Rashi's Concealed Play: Song of Songs as a Prophetic Midrash
154
Literary Aspects of Medieval Bible Commentary in Ashkenaz
Chair: Mordechai Cohen
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603
Isaac Gottlieb
(E)
Rupert of Deutz and Joseph Bekhor Shor
Robert A. Harris
(H)
”The Lord is a Man of War”: The Motif of the “Divine Warrior” in Medieval
Biblical Exegesis
Amos Geula
(H)
A New Commentary on the Pentateuch from the Vatican Library
Baruch Alster
(H)
Narrativity in the Book of Ruth According to a Medieval French Commentary
155
Midrash and Commentary in the Middle Ages
Chair: Itamar Kislev
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2606
Karina Shalem
(H)
The Motif of the Four Kingdoms in Salmon ben Yeruḥam's Commentary on the
Book of Psalms
Yoav Barzilay
(H)
The Torah Commentary in the Manuscript of Midrash Hachamim
Martin Lockshin
(H)
The Use of and Attitude to Bereshit Rabbah in Medieval Jewish Bible
Commentaries
156
Literary Aspects of the Commentary of Ibn Ezra and the Nachmanides
Chair: Uriel Simon
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722
Ayala Mishaly
(H)
"At That Time the Wise Man Shall Acknowledge his Ignorance": On the Writing
Style of R. Abraham ibn Ezra
Ayelet Seidler
(H)
Ibn Ezra's Approach towards Linguistic Similarities in Psalms and Prophecy
Yosef Ofer
(H)
Nahmanides' Attitude towards Embarrassing Interpretations Included in the
Early Version of his Torah Commentary
Michelle J. Levine
(H)
The Art and Meaning of Biblical Poetry in Ramban's Biblical Commentary
157
Aspects of the Commentaries of France and Spain
Chair: Yosef Ofer
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503
Bruria Aran
(H)
Female Abuse in Naḥmanies’ Commentary
Yosef Priel
(H)
Psychological Sensitivity in the Interpretations of Ḥizquni (Ḥezekiah ben
Manoaḥ)
Yohanan Kapah
(H)
Close Reading in the Exegesis of R. Joseph Hayoun
Yechiel Tzeitkin
(H)
The Meaning of the Book of Proverbs in the Writings of Rabbi Menachem HaMeiri and Ralbag
158
Features of Renaissance and Premodern Commentary
Chair: Amos Frisch
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722
Jair Haas
(H)
Isaac Abarbanel's Division of the Biblical Books according to the Time of Their
Writing
Moshe Rachimi
(H)
Sforno's Polemic Interpretations of the Halakhic Components of the Torah
Michal Dell
(H)
The Malbim's Approach to Non-Halakhic Midrash and its Use in his Commentary
Orly Kolodni
(H)
R. Yehuda Lev Shapira Frankfurter's Exegetical Method in Light of his
Commentary on the Torah, Ha-Rekhasim Lebiq`ah
159
Studies in Bible Translations
Chair: Moshe J. Bernstein
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2606
Alena Barysevich
(H)
The Transformation of Biblical Realia in Slavonic Translations of Genesis
Jacob Garzon
(H)
Tendentious Rewriting of the Source Text in the Vulgate's Translation of the
Commandment of Circumcision (Genesis 17:9–14)
Ruth Fidler
(H)
The Story of a Chair: Exegesis, Folklore, and Tendenz in the Midrash on
Ahasuerus' Throne
Leeor Gottlieb
(H)
The Legends in the Targum to Chronicles and their Ties to the Babylonian
Talmud
Leonard Greenspoon
(E)
Jewish Bible Translations: Why They Should Be Studied
144
Studies in the Dead Sea Desert Scrolls
Chair: Liora Goldman
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505
Aharon Shemesh
(H)
Did Qumran Halakhah Allow Different Legitimate Halakhic Norms?
Clarisse Ferreira
(E)
Women's Family Life according to the Damascus Document
Lawrence H. Schiffman (E)
The Mikhbar in the Temple Scroll
‫חטיבה‬:
Jewish History - Ancient Period
201
Borderlines of Jewish Identity in Antiquity: A Session Organized by the
Program “Jewish Culture in the Ancient World”
Chair: Jonathan Ben-Dov
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818
Sylvie Honigman
(E)
The Seleucid Empire vs. the “Ancient Near East”: Contextualizing the History of
Judea in Hellenistic Times
Steven Fine
(E)
The Arch of Titus and the Hybridity of Identity from Flavian Rome to Modern
Historiography
David Vanderhooft
(E)
The Precursors of Jewish Script in the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Contexts
Albert Baumgarten
(E)
Response
202
Philology and Politics in the Hellenistic Age
Chair: Devorah Dimant
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716
Kenneth Atkinson
(E)
John Hyrcanus's Unknown Eastern Alliance
Eli Borukhov
(H)
The Hellenistic Government and the Development of the Sects
Yoel Elitzur
(H)
The Abba Cave: Unpublished Findings and a New Proposal Regarding Abba’s
Identity
Noah Hacham
(H)
LXX Zephaniah 3:20: Gathering Exiles or Captives?
203
Cult as Literature in Second Temple Judaism
Chair: Ithamar Gruenwald
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2734
Anne Katrine Gudme
(E)
Dyed Yarns and Dolphin Skins: Temple Texts as Cultural Memory in the Hebrew
Bible
Line Christensen
(E)
Liturgical Rituals in Nehemiah 8: The Importance of Literacy
Søren Holst
(E)
Provisional, Primordial, and Preexistent Temples in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Martin Friis
(E)
Aaron . . . the More Deserving of Us”? Josephus on the High-Priestly Office in
the Third to Fourth Books of the Antiquities of the Jews
204
Perspectives on the Writings of Philo
Chair: Maren Niehoff
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605
Yochanan Cohen-Yashar (H)
Philo's Works in Hebrew Translation
Naomi Cohen
(E)
Psalms and Hymns in the Septuagint and Philo
Koji Yamashiro
(E)
Philo of Alexandria's Sources for his Conception of the Heavenly Man
Jacobus Cornelis de Vos (E)
Two, Ten, or “613”? The Decalogue and Summary of the Law in Antiquity
Finn Damgaard
(E)
Moses the All-Wise in Philo's De Vita Mosis
205
Studies on the Writings of Josephus Flavius 1
Chair: Lee I. Levine
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2606
Hanan Birenboim
(H)
Vitalius in Jerusalem and the Sources of Josephus
Meron Piotrkowski
(H)
Josephus the Author: On Jews and Samaritans in Egypt and Multiple Temples
Samuel Rocca
(E)
Josephus in Rome: Searching for the Primary Sources of Antiquities
Yinon Shivtiel
(H)
Cliffside Shelters: Defense Strategies Used by Josephus in the Galilee during the
Great Revolt
206
Studies on the Writings of Josephus Flavius 2
Chair: Albert Baumgarten
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2735
Etka Liebowitz
(E)
Pious and Beloved Queens: Alexandra, Esther, and Helene in Josephus’ Writings
Jonathan Klawans
(E)
Josephus on the Dangers of Illegitimate Jewish Beliefs
Dorit Gordon
(E)
Josephus, Porphyry, and Theophrastus: Jewish Sacrificial Practices and Early
Antisemitism
Eran Almagor
(E)
Biblical Persia in Josephus's Account (Antiquities 11)
207
Daily Life in Ancient Times
Chair: Joshua Schwartz
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2735
Hagith Sivan
(E)
Matters of Maintenance: Rabbinic Configurations of Familial Obligations
Susan Weingarten
(E)
The Rabbi and the Emperors: Artichokes and Cucumbers as Symbols of Status in
Talmudic Literature
Meir Bar-Ilan
(E)
Socialized Literacy among Jews in Antiquity
Youval Rotman
(H)
Collective and Individual Asceticism in Late Antique Mesopotamia
208
Between Jews and Romans in Antiquity
Chair: Aharon Oppenheimer
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2502
Miriam Ben Zeev
(E)
Roman Policy and Roman Jews in the Time of the Republic
Yair Furstenberg
(H)
The Roman Form of Jewish Citizenship: The Mishnah in an Imperial Context
Oded Bar
(H)
Rabbi Simeon Ben Yochai's Mission to Rome
Ronit Porat
(H)
The Transfer of Jewish Institutions to Tiberias
209
The Land of Israel in Judaism and Christianity
Chair: Moshe-David Herr
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818
Tziona Grossmark
(H)
“I Myself Saw this Place”: Talmudic Pilgrimage
Eyal Ben-Eliyahu
(H)
Did the Sages Ignore Nazareth, Cana, Chorazin, Kursi, and Bethsaida?
Hillel Newman
(H)
Bishops in Exile in the Land of Israel
Oded Irshai
(H)
Blood, Sanctity and Politics in Eusebius of Caesarea's Martyrs of Palestine
210
Jews and Non Jews in Ancient History
Chair: Yair Furstenberg
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505
David Brodsky
(E)
Getting Away with Murder: Xenophobia in Rabbinic Babylonia and Zoroastrian
Persia
Yifat Monnickendam
(H)
Legal Traditions vs. Exegetical Traditions: Preservation, Adaptation and
Rejection of Jewish Traditions in Ephrem's Commentary on Genesis
Shaye J. D. Cohen
(H)
Jewish Observance of the Sabbath in Bardaiṣan’s Book of the Laws of Countries
Yaakov Teppler
(H)
Judas Cyriacus of Jerusalem: Another Aspect of the Christian Myth of "Judas"
211
Jews and Christians in the Ancient Period
Chair: Hagith Sivan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2735
Serge Ruzer
(E)
The Gospel of John as an Early Witness to the Rabbinic Motif, “The Last
Redeemer is like the First One”
Rivka Nir
(H)
A Reliable Witness: John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel
Ari Geiger
(H)
The Christian Attitude towards Jewish Legends in Light of Christian–Pagan
Polemic Concerning Biblical Tales
213
On Changes in Translation over the Years
Chair: Elisabeth Hollender
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2735
Saskia Doenitz
(E)
Revival by Translation: The Medieval Hebrew Version of 1 Maccabees
Goerge K. Hasselhoff
(E)
The Latin Translations of Rashi in Ms Paris, BnF lat. 16558
Sarah J. Pearce
(E)
“It Is Mostly a Lie”: Falsifying the Translation History of the Maimonidean
Corpus
Reimund Leicht
(E)
Johannes Reuchlin's Polemical Manuscript and the Archetype of the Sefer
Nizzahon Vetus
214
Gendered Justice: Women in Jewish Courts, a Cross-Cultural Comparison
Chair: Jay R. Berkovitz
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Rachel Furst
(H)
Limited Liability: Women in the Courts of Medieval Ashkenaz
Oded Zinger
(H)
“I do not Accept This:” Women in front of Geniza Courts
Noa Shashar
(H)
Marital Conflicts before the Jewish Courts, 1750–1800
Sarah Ifft
(E)
Facets of Women's Moneylending in the Jewish Community of Castelló
d’Empúries, 1260–1300
215
Daily Life in Medieval Ashkenaz
Chair: Simha Goldin
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722
Merav Schnitzer
(H)
Women, Jewelry and What it Covers: Medieval Ashkenaz
Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
(H)
Sailing on the Rhine: The Jewish Community at the Height of the Middle Ages
Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig(H)
In Search of the Patron: On an Illuminated Manuscript from the Early Modern
Period
Nathanel Barak
(H)
The Figure of the Jew through the Lens of Medieval German Chronicles
216
Popular Religion in Medieval Europe: Minhag, Polemic, and the Religiosity of
the Masses
Chair: Elisheva Baumgarten
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718
Katelyn Mesler
(E)
From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines
in the Middle Ages
Simcha Emanuel
(H)
The Niddah in the Synagogue: New Sources and their Historical Significance
Avraham (Rami) Reiner (H)
On the Practice of Circumcising Miscarried Fetuses: Between Halakhah and
Aggadah, Between Custom and Popular Belief
Ephraim Kanarfogel
(H)
The Observance of Mitzvot among the Jewish Population in Europe during the
Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
217
Charity and Social Welfare in the Medieval World: Courts, Community, and
the Individual
Chair: Aviad Hacohen
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817
Judah D. Galinsky
(H)
Charity in the Medieval Ashkenazi Synagogue
Elisheva Baumgarten
(H)
Charity and Memory in Medieval Nürnberg: A Comparative Perspective
Eve Krakowski
(E)
At the Margins of Communal Charity: The Beit Din as "Father of Orphans" in
Medieval Egypt
218
Talmud and Halakhah in Medieval Southern France
Chair: Ram Ben-Shalom
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605
Elodie Attia
(H)
The Library of Salomon Bellaut of Trets in Provence, according to the Inventary
after his Death (1419)
Batsheva Goldman-Ida (H)
Material Culture in the South of France in the Medieval Period and Responsa
Literature
Pinchas Roth
(H)
Rabbinic Judges in Thirteenth-Century Southern France
Daniel Katz
(H)
The Halakhic Works of R. Asher ben R. Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel: A New
Review
219
Halakhah and Minhag in Medieval Ashkenaz
Chair: Edward Fram
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718
Eric Zimmer
(H)
At What Occasion was a Talit during Prayer Initiated: Bar-Mitzvah or Marriage?
Haym Soloveitchik
(E)
The Origins of the Halakhic Culture of Ashkenaz: A Proposal
David Berger
(E)
Response
220
Who Protected the Jews in the Middle Ages, and Why? Relations between
Jews and Bishops in Comparative Perspective 1
Chair: Israel Yuval
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818
Alfred Haverkamp
(E)
Relations between Bishops and Jews in the German Kingdom (Tenth Century to
c. 1090)
Eva Haverkamp
(E)
Bishops (hegmonim) in Jewish Chronicles of Ashkenaz: Changing Perceptions
Gerd Mentgen
(E)
England's Bishops and the Jews in the Middle Ages
221
Who Protected the Jews in the Middle Ages, and Why? Relations between
Jews and Bishops in Comparative Perspective 2
Chair: Christoph Cluse
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818
Lukas Clemens
(E)
Bishops and Jews in Southern Italy
Lucy Pick
(E)
Toledo and Beyond: Bishops and Jews in Medieval Iberia
Jörg Müller
(E)
Bishops and Jews in the West of Germany (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries)
222
Who Protected the Jews in the Middle Ages, and Why? Relations between
Jews and Bishops in Comparative Perspective 3
Chair: Israel Yuval
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818
Birgit Wiedl
(E)
Jewish Existence in the Archbishopric of Salzburg, the Thirteenth to the
Fifteenth Centuries
David Schnur
(E)
The Archbishops of Mainz and the Jews of Frankfurt in the Late Fourteenth
Century
Christoph Cluse
(E)
Ecclesiastical Courts and the Issue of "Usury" in the Fifteenth Century
223
Medieval Ashkenaz : Transgressing Borders.
Chair: David Malkiel
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718
Elisabeth Hollender
(E)
When Poetry Passes Borders: Sephardic Qinot and their Successors in Ashkenaz
Ivan G. Marcus
(E)
The Historical Meaning of Sefer Ḥasidim and Ḥasidei Ashkenaz: A New Look
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (E)
Criminal Margins Indeed? Larceny, Extortion, and Jewish–Christian Criminal
Ventures in Early Ashkenaz
Rainer Josef Barzen
(E)
Between France and Germany: French Ordinances and their German Adoption
in the Middle Ages
224
Astrolabes in Medieval Jewish Culture
Chair: Reimund Leicht
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818
Stephen Johnston
(E)
The Universal and the Particular in the History of the Medieval Astrolabe
Charles Burnett
(E)
Beziers as an Astronomical Centre for Jews and Christians in the Mid-Twelfth
Century
Josefina Rodriguez
(E)
Jewish Astrolabes: The Objects vis–à–vis the Manuscripts
225
Science and Mysticism in the Middle Ages
Chair: Katelyn Mesler
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715
Alessia Bellusci
(E)
Magic Handbooks and “Finished Products”: A Recipe for She’elat Ḥalom from
the Cairo Genizah
David Shyovitz
(E)
Science in Medieval Ashkenaz: Towards a Reassessment
Shmuel Shepkaru
(E)
The Impact of the Crusades on the Ashkenazic View of the Afterlife
Yaakov Lattes
(H)
The Fantastic World of Gedaliah Ibn Yachia, author of The Chain of Tradition
226
Notarial Culture and Textual Discourse in Aragon and Catalonia
Chair: Ora Limor
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Chaim (Harvey) Hames (E)
The Four Gospels Translated into Hebrew from Catalan
Pere Casanellas
(E)
The Four Gospels Translated into Hebrew from Catalan
Javier Castaño
(E)
Doña Astruga’s Last Will: Jews, Deathbed Bequests, and Patterns of Inheritance
in Fifteenth-Century Aragon
Asunción Blasco Martínez (E)
The Long Road from the Scribe to the Notary among Jews in Aragon
Ram Ben-Shalom
(E)
The Network of Activities and Duties of a Jewish Communal Scribe in
Montalbán, Aragon
227
Jewish Thought in Christian Spain
Chair: Ram Ben-Shalom
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Eric Lawee
(E)
Son of Spain and “Servant of Solomon”: R. Moshe ibn Gabbai and his
Supercommentary on Rashi
Aviram Ravitsky
(H)
Jewish Law and Science in the School of R. Nissim of Girona: R. Isaac bar
Sheshet and R. Hasdai Crescas
Claude B. Stuczynski
(E)
Thinking Exception in 'Purity of Blood' Argumentation: The Conversion of
Salomon Halevi/Pablo de Santa Maria
228
On Iberian Converso Identities: New Approaches
Chair: Claude B. Stuczynski
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Ronnie Perelis
(E)
Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of
Judaizing Activism
Jose Alberto Rodrigues Da-Silva Tavim
(E)
Sabbatai Zevi and the Conversos: New Approaches
Carsten Wilke
(E)
Conversion Theology among Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Jews: Protestant
and Islamic Subtexts
David L Graizbord
(E)
"Self-Hatred”: A Useful Concept in the Study of Early Modern Conversos and
New Jews?
229
Conversos and their Lives
Chair: Renee Levine Melammed
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503
Natalie Oeltjen
(E)
Late Fifteenth-Century Converso Prayers and Blessings in Majorca
Ahuva Ho
(E)
Alfonso de Samora's Poetry Revisited
Yocheved Beeri
(H)
The Family in Portuguese New Christian Society in Early Seventeenth-Century
Castile
Aliza Moreno
(H)
The Conversos in Cartagena de Indias during the Seventeenth Century and their
Social and Economic Impact
Pinhas Bibelnik
(H)
Women in the Crypto-Jewish Community in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
230
Communal Life in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Chair: Natalie Oeltjen
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505
Mariuccia Krasner
(H)
The Ancient Political Systems of the Jewish Communities and Government
Interventions in Sicily and in Sardinia throughout the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries
Joseph Rapoport
(H)
Crime and Violence in the Jewish Communities of the Kingdom of Navarre
before the Expulsion
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld (E)
Honen Dalim or Lombardo Judaico: A Portuguese Jewish Pawnshop in Early
Modern Amsterdam
Jeffrey Callen
(E)
The Ramah on the Financing of a Medieval Town Wall
231
Jews in the Middle Eastern and Eastern World of the Middle Ages
Chair: Dotan Arad
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720
Ulrike Christiane Lintz (E)
A Survey of Judaeo-Persian Inscriptions from Central Afghanistan
Renee Levine Melammed (E)
Jewish Women in Mediterranean Society: A Preliminary Appraisal
Alex Khamray
(H)
Jewish Manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic from the Vernadsky Library
in Kiev
Elinoar Bareket
(H)
A Holy Community: The Terminology and its Usage According to Genizah Letters
from the Eleventh Century
232
Jews in the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages
Chair: Yaron Ben Naeh
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818
Shimon Shtober
(H)
Islam and Sabbatianism in " Sefer Divrei Yosef"
Eyal Davidson
(H)
Kosher Coffee? Attitudes of the Sixteenth-Century Sages of Eretz Israel towards
Relationships between Jews and Non-Jews
Dotan Arad
(H)
Educational Frameworks in Musta'rib Communities during the Late Mameluk
Period and the Early Ottoman Period
233
Places and Spaces of Ashkenazic Jews in the Middle Ages: Multidisciplinary
Approaches
Chair: Debra Kaplan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605
Jorn Roland Christophersen
(E)
Jewish Cemeteries and Territorial Organization in the Margraviate of
Brandenburg (the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Roman Grabolle
(E)
The Archaeology of Judaism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Markus J. Wenninger
(E)
Place Names and other Phenomena as Indicators of Jewish Trading Activity in
the East of the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires
Daniel Stein Kokin
(E)
Symbolic Entry? The Jericho Labyrinth and Early Modern Holy-Land Pilgrimage
235
Jews and Christians in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods - Comparative
Perspectives
Chair: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Jonathan Seif
(E)
Discrimination in Charitable Giving during the High Middle Ages: Jewish and
Christian Approaches
Ethan Zadoff
(E)
Child Marriage in Medieval Ashkenaz in Comparative Perspective
Moti Benmelech
(H)
Counter-Messianism: Christian Models, Jewish Messianism
236
The Jews of Italy in the Early Modern Period
Chair: David Malkiel
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605
Yosef Cohen
(H)
New Findings regarding the Influence of Kabbalah upon Sixteenth-Century
Italian Jewry
Lea Naomi Vogelmann Goldfeld (H)
Irving Markus
(E)
Taxation of the Jewish Community in Padua in the Pre-Ghetto Period
237
Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period
Chair: Miriam Bodian
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2502
Schulamith Halevy
(E)
Blood in the Church
Michael Korey
(E)
Replica Synagogues and 18th-Century Collections of Judaica
Anat Vaturi
(E)
Interreligious Encounters: Jews and Protestants in Early Modern Cracow
Sid Z. Leiman
(E)
The Ger Tzedek of Vilna: Real or Imaginary?
238
Ashkenaz in the Early Modern Period
Chair: Rachel L. Greenblatt
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818
Andreas Lehnardt
(E)
Newly Discovered Genizot in Germany
Birgit Klein
(E)
Joseph S. Oppenheimer ("Jud Suess") and Other Blended Families in Early
Modern Ashkenaz
Tali Berner
(H)
Food and Eating in Early Modern Ashkenaz
Nimrod Zinger
(H)
Exorcism among Ashkenazi Jews in the Early Modern Period
239
Metropoles et peripheries dans les communautes sefarades et orientales—
nouvelles perspectives
Chair: Orly Miron
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz
(E)
Revisiting the Caribbean Connection: Amsterdam and Curaçao in the Eighteenth
Century
Moshe Terdman
(H)
La communaute juive a Aden au Moyen Age: Entre metropole et peripherie
Nimrod Gaatone
(H)
La communaute juive de Bayonne: Metropole juive dans l'espace Atlantique au
18ieme siecle
Moshe Ovadia
(H)
First Names in Gittin : The Approach of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Moroccan Rabbis to the Writing of First Names in Certificates of Divorce
Mordechai Assayag
(H)
Port Jews: Social and Economic Development of the Jewish Community of
Tetuan, 1859–1912
Gérard Nahon
(H)
Response
254
Jewish History Since Gender: A Roundtable
Chair: Deborah Dash Moore
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713
Elisheva Baumgarten
(E)
Jewish History Since Gender: A Roundtable
Deborah Dash Moore (E)
Jewish History Since Gender : A Roundtable
Dalia Ofer
(E)
Jewish History Since Gender: A Roundtable
Rebecca Kobrin
(E)
Jewish History Since Gender: A Roundtable
240
Living Together, Apart? Everyday Interactions: Jews and Gentiles in Early
Modern Europe
Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817
Katherine Aron-Beller (E)
Microhistory: The Levels of Integration between Jews and Non-Jews in Early
Modern Italy
Dean Bell
(E)
The Great Fire of 1711: The Jewish Ghetto and Jewish–Christian Relations in
Frankfurt am Main
Maria Ciesla
(E)
Karczma: A Jewish–Christian Meeting Place in the Early Modern Polish
Lithuanian Commonwealth
Sarah Cramsey
(E)
A True Polish Jew: Reading Ber of Bolechow, the Council of Four Lands, and the
Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth
241
Living Together, Apart? Delineating Jewishness: Integration, Acculturation,
Assimilation?
Chair: Sarah Cramsey
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817
Benjamin Baader
(E)
Beyond Integration: New Readings of the German Jewish Experience, 1813–
1871
Nathan Marcus
(E)
Jewish Football in Weimar Germany and Interwar Austria
Olga Kirschbaum
(E)
Hannah Arendt and her Jewish Phase
Rachel Rothstein
(E)
Citizenship Lost and Found: Polish Jews after 1968
242
Living Together, Apart? Europeans of the Mosaic Faith?
Chair: Laura Brade
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817
Shira Klein
(E)
Integrated but different: Jews in Post-Emancipation Italy
Martin Sean
(E)
School Prayer: Maintaining Faith and Identity in Poland's Public Schools
Ruth Langer
(E)
Reconceptions of the Birkat Ha-Minim as a Measuring Rod for Jewish
Integration into Modern European Society
Dov Levitan
(H)
Anatomy of Assimilation: The Immigration and Absorption of the de Meza
family in Denmark in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
243
Living Together, Apart? Consequences of Otherness in Times of Crisis
Chair: Jason Wittenberg
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817
Laura Brade
(E)
Integration through Emigration: The Cooperation of Jewish and Non-Jewish
Relief Organizations in Facilitating Flight from the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia, 1939–1941
Andrew Kornbluth
(E)
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Wars: Wartime Crimes against Jews and Postwar Polish
Justice 1946–1949
Jason Wittenberg
Response
(E)
244
Living Together, Apart? Producing the Public: Theater, Print and Song
Chair: Rachel Rothstein
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817
Klaus Hoedl
(E)
Jews in Viennese Popular Culture: Negotiating Jewish Difference
David Meola
(E)
Integration and Exclusion of German Jews in Local German Newspapers from
1815–1848
Sarah Zarrow
(E)
Preserving the Past and Creating the Future: Jewish Collectors in Dialogue in
Interwar Poland
Lara Lempert
(E)
Some Lithuanian-Jewish correlation in the search of "authentic folk culture" in
the 1st half of the 20th century
245
Demographic and Communal Histories of Early Modern Eastern European
Jewry
Chair: Shaul Stampfer
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818
Arvydas Maciulevičius (E)
When the Minority Turns into the Majority: The Jews in the Domains of the
Radziwiłł Family in the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Dovile Troskovaite
(E)
Karaites in the Jewish Censuses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Social and
Demographical Picture of the Community in the Eighteenth Century
Jurgita Verbickiene
(E)
The Communities of Va’ad Medinat Lita: The Social, Professional and
Demographic Structure of Brest, Grodno, Pinsk, Sluck, and Vilnius Communities
at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Tamara Bairasauskaite (E)
The Vilna Jewish Community in the General Population Census
246
Christian Politics towards Jews in the Region of Frankfurt/Main and Mainz in
Early Modern Times
Chair: Friedrich Battenberg
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817
Ulrich Hausmann
(E)
Johann Philipp von Schönborn as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz
Gabriela Schlick
(E)
Jewish Brokers at the Frankfurt Exchange: Between Market and Politics, 1585 to
1806
Peter Behr
(E)
1801: The Last Advocate of a Body Tax for Jews?
Andreas Göller
(E)
Social and Economic Aspects of Jewish Life in Early Modern Germany: The Case
of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley
Verena Kasper-Marienberg(E)
Criminal History and Jewish Daily Life: A Murder Case
in Eighteenth Century Frankfurt/Main
247
Printing, Censoring, Collecting: Hebrew Books in Habsburg Lands
Chair: Moshe Rosman
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720
Rachel L. Greenblatt
(E)
“Apologia—Why this is Written in the German Language”: Print, Language and
Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Descriptions of Jewish Processions in Prague and
Frankfurt (1678, 1716)
Pavel Sladek
(E)
Early Modern Hebrew Printing and the “Paratexts”: The Case of Prague
Rachel Manekin
(H)
Posthumous Notes: The Austrian Censor in Joseph Perl's Library
Michael L. Miller
(E)
Book Smugglers and Book Censors in Eighteenth-Century Moravia
248
Revisiting Jewish Modernity: From Early Modern to Modern Times
Chair: Chava Turniansky
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817
Yosef Kaplan
(H)
The Early Modern Period: Continuity, Change, and Crisis
Gershon David Hundert (E)
Modernity Again: The Terrors of Taxonomy—Problems Raised by Microhistory
Israel Bartal
(H)
1772: The Beginning of Modern Times?
Yaron Tsur
(H)
Jews and the New Empires: On Modern Change in the Jewish Communities in
the Lands of Islam
249
Ethnicity, Race, and the Construction of Identity in Modern Jewish Culture 1:
The Early Modern Period
Chair: Elliot Horowitz
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817
Limor Mintz-Manor
(H)
Ethnicity, Otherness, and the Construction of Identity in the Western Sephardi
Diaspora: The Mikveh Israel of Menashe ben Israel, Amsterdam 1650
Asher Salah
(H)
Between East and West: Marco Navarra’s Fictional Correspondence between a
Persian and a Syrian Jew—On Eighteenth-Century Orientalism
Iris Idelson-Shein
(H)
"Have We not All One Father?" The Haskalah and the Emergence of Race
250
Ethnicity, Race and the Construction of Identity in Modern Jewish Culture 2:
The Modern Period
Chair: Iris Idelson-Shein
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817
Hanan Harif
(H)
The “New Semitic Jew”: Colonialism, Trans-Nationalism and Jewish–Arab
Fraternity in the Thought of Rabbi Binyamin
Orit Bashkin
(H)
Jews, Jewish Arabs, Migrants, and Blacks: On Color and Race Among Iraqi Jewry
1921–1967
Vered Madar
(H)
"We" and "They": Ethnicity and Otherness in Memoirs of Jews from Yemen
Dimitry Shumsky
Response
(H)
251
Boundaries of Jewish Neighborhoods: The Urban Eruv from the Medieval
European Town to New York City
Chair: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2602
Simha Goldin
(E)
Eruv as a Test of Jewish–Christian Relations in the Medieval Christian Town
Boaz Hutterer
(H)
The Wall and the Eruv: The Halakhic Perspective on City Walls Serving as an
Eruv in European Cities, from the Middle Ages till the Beginning of Modern
Times
Adam Mintz
(E)
Modern Boundaries: The Eruv in New York City in 1905
252
The Will to Give: Charity and Philanthropy in the Modern Period
Chair: Joshua Teplitzky
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2734
Debra Kaplan
(E)
Communal Opportunities for Giving in Early Modern Worms
Edward Fram
(E)
Women and Wills in Early Modern Frankfurt
Jay R. Berkovitz
(E)
Charity in Life and Death in Early Modern Metz
Haim Sperber
(H)
From Charity to Philanthropy: Philanthropy and Social Control among
Nineteenth Century English Jews
253
The Reception of Josephus in Jewish Tradition
Chair: Zuleika Rodgers
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818
Martin D. Goodman
(E)
The Reception of Josephus in the Modern World: Problems and Issues
Andrea Schatz
(E)
The Jewish Reception of Josephus in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
in Western Europe
Tessa Rajak
(E)
The Reception of Josephus up to 1750
255
Toward a New History of Hasidism
Chair: David Biale
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715
Ada Rapoport-Albert
(E)
How Hasidism Became a Movement: The Eighteenth Century
Marcin Wodzinski
(E)
The Golden Age of Hasidism: The Nineteenth Century
Samuel Heilman
(E)
Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth Century
256
The Library of the Haskalah in the 18th Century: Cultural Encounters and
Confrontations
Chair: Shmuel Feiner
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818
Tal Kogman
(H)
Haskamot in the Battle between Maskilim and Rabbis
Stefan Litt
(E)
Developments and Changes in the Jewish Book Trade of the Eighteenth Century
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg (H)
Salomon Pappenheim and his German Writings: Maskil, Rabbi, Aufklärer?
Shmuel Feiner
(H)
Sefer Haberit Reads the Library of the Haskalah: The Negation of the
Enlightenment in the Late Eighteenth Century
257
From East to West: Jewish Modernity and the Secularization Thesis
Chair: Jonatan Meir
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Andrea Schatz
(E)
Jewish Modernity and the “East”
Eliyahu Stern
(E)
Catholic Judaism: Tradition and Enlightenment among Nineteenth-Century
Eastern European Jewry
Maoz Kahana
(H)
East vs. West: The Ḥatam Sofer’s Relation to the Hasidic Movement
Dan Schwartz
(E)
The Contemporary Spinoza Revival and Its Historical Antecedents
261
The Great War: Reflections and Experiences of German Jews (1914–1918)
Chair: Dieter Josef Hecht
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817
Madleen Podewski
(E)
The German-Jewish magazine "Ost und West" and World War I
Ulrich Wyrwa
(E)
Jewish Experiences in World War I: The Western Front
Carsten Schapkow
(E)
Debates about Jews and Judaism during the Great War
262
Perspectives on the Ukrainian-Jewish Relationship: What is Changing?
Chair: Berel Rodal
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Alti Rodal
(E)
In Search of an Inclusive, Shared Historical Narrative of the Ukrainian-Jewish
Encounter over the Centuries
Liudmila Hrynevych
(E)
Contemporary Ukrainian Perspectives on the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
Shimon Redlich
(E)
A Case in Point: The Matter of Andrei Sheptytsky
Wolf Moskovich
(E)
Evolving Scholarly, Political, and Popular Perspectives on the Ukrainian-Jewish
Encounter
263
Odessa as a Jewish Cultural Space
Chair: Scott Ury
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817
Mirja Lecke
(E)
The Street: A Spatial Paradigm in Odessan Literature
Efraim Sicher
(E)
Isaak Babel and the Odessa Myth
Svetlana Natkovich
(E)
Odessa Time: Representing History in the Literature of Odessa
Brian Horowitz
(E)
Odessa and the Jewish Paradigm: Individualism and Collectivism, Utopia and
Dystopia
264
Jews of the Eastern Caucasus
Chair: Karina Shalem
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2715
Maysarat Musaeva
(E)
The Ethnography of Childhood: The Traditional Practices of Birthing and Related
Rtuals among the Mountain Jews in Daghestan
Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov (E)
Kaitags and Mountain Jews of Dagestan: A Co-history of Cultures
Vitaly Shalem
(H)
In Judeo-Tat There is No Word for “love: How a Dying Language is Murdered
Liya Mikdash-Shamailov (H)
Analysis of the Research Work "The Mountain Jews" by Feliks Lvovich Shapiro
265
Jews in the Russian Empire
Chair: Shaul Stampfer
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817
Galina Eliasberg
(E)
I. Teneromo (Feinerman) as a Jewish Correspondent of Count Leo Tolstoy: New
Materials Concerning the History of their Private Relationship
Ekaterina Norkina
(E)
Power and the Jews in the Cossacks' Areas of the Russian Empire at the End of
the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries
Michael Beizer
(E)
Circumstances of the Emergence of the Jewish Healthcare Society (OZE) in 1912
Arkady Levin
(E)
Religion and Ethnicity in Russian Identity Papers and in Social Realities, 1869–
1997
266
Jews in the Russian Empire in the approaches of intellectuals
Chair: Elissa Bemporad
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505
Alex Valdman
(E)
Elite in the Making: Jewish Students at the University of Dorpat
Benyamin Lukin
(H)
The Wars of Napoleon (1805–1815) in the Collective Memory of Russian Jewry
Dan Haruv
(H)
Simon Dubnov's Picture of the Biblical Past (1894–1904)
267
Russian Jews and Borders: Far Eastern Perspectives, 1910s-1930s
Chair: David Wolff
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817
David Wolff
(E)
A River Runs Between: Comparing Tolerance Towards the Jewish Community in
Harbin and Vladivostok, 1910–1912
Taro Tsurumi
(E)
Rossiiskii Zionism in Siberia: In Search of a Democratic Multinational State
during the Civil War
Chizuko Takao
(E)
The Siberian Intervention and the Reception of the Protocols of Zion in Japan
Takeshi Nakashima
(E)
The Kaspe Affair and the Japanese Consulate in Harbin, 1933–1937
268
Jewish Life under Soviet Rule
Chair: Michael Beizer
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Elissa Bemporad
(E)
Proletarian Kosher Butchers: Challenging State and Religious Authorities in the
Interwar Soviet Union
Alla Sokolova
(E)
Sefer Torah: A Souvenir for the Emperor and an Instrument of Anti-Religious
Propaganda
Alexander Ivanov
(E)
The Exhibition "Jews in Tsarist Russia and in the USSR" and the Soviet Jewish
Modernization Project
Mikhail Mitsel
(E)
Destruction of the Agro–Joint Program as a Case Study of the “Great Terror” in
the USSR
269
Pogroms in Central/Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Michael L. Miller
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720
Artur Markowski
(E)
Visual Histories of Pogroms: The Photographs of the Pogroms of Jews in Russia,
1903–1906
Konrad Zielinski
(E)
The Antisemitic Riots in the Kingdom of Poland, 1918–1919
August Grabski
(E)
The Polish Workers’ Movement against Antisemitic Violence (1935–1937)
Witold Medykowski
(E)
The Pogroms of Summer 1941 in the Former Soviet Occupation Zone
270
Polish Jews in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chair: Gershon Bacon
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2734
Leonid Katsis
(E)
Zeev Jabotinsky and Poland 1906–1908: New Materials
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (E)
The Polish–Jewish Frontier in the Years 1918–1939
Shimon Redlich
(E)
Autobiography in Historical Context
Irith Cherniavsky
(H)
The Emigration and Aliyah of Polish Jews in the 1930s
271
The Jewish Medical Services in Poland in the Interwar Period and their
Challenges in the Face of the Holocaust
Chair: Dan Michman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2735
Avi Ohry
(H)
Z.L.R.P, The Polish Jewish Medical Association (Związek Lekarzy Rzeczypospolitej
Polskiej): The Source of its Growth, its Activities, and its Contribution
Miriam Offer
(H)
The Jewish Medical Services in the Ghettos of Poland during the Holocaust:
Unique Characteristics and Historical Contexts
Rakefet Zalashik
(H)
Women on the Jewish Medical Frontier in Poland
Nadav Davidovitch
(H)
T.O.Z : The Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population in
Poland: Policies, Activities, and Achievements
272
Cultural Identity in the Time of Modernism: Jewish Culture and Cultural
Politics in Interwar Poland
Chair: Gershon Bacon
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Kamil Kijek
(E)
National Core or Polysystem? Language and Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland
Rona Yona
(H)
Yiddish-Speaking Hebrews: A Social History of Heḥalutz Press in Interwar Poland
Marcos Silber
(E)
Narrowing the Third Space: Yiddish Cinema in Interwar Poland and its Polish
(Ethno-)Linguistic Context
Gershon Bacon
(E)
Response
273
Religious and Political Switching
Chair: Rachel Manekin
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715
Paola Ferruta
(E)
Between Judaism and Christianity: Conversions in Habsburg Vienna, Trieste, and
Gorizia
Dominika Rank
(E)
Between Austrian Liberalism and Polish Federalism
Sharon Gordon
(E)
Three Answers in Forty Years: Fritz Mauthner on Jewish Conversion to
Christianity
Jolanta Kruszniewska (E)
Implications of the Term Assimilation in Ojczyzna (a Jewish Polish-Language
Periodical from Galicia)
274
Outliers and the Shaping of the Jewish-American Experience
Chair: Jonathan Karp
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Gary Phillip Zola
(E)
Philosemites and their Fascination with the History of Jewish Life in America
Shira Wolosky
(E)
Pnina Moise's Mixed American Discourses
Pamela Nadell
(E)
“The Call of the Sister": The Founding of the Women of Reform Judaism
Jonathan D. Sarna
(E)
Reform Jewish "Missionaries" for Judaism: Barbara Goodman and the
Committee on Religion of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
(1913–1933)
275
The Jews of North America
Chair: Lee Shai Weissbach
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2734
Shari Rabin
(E)
Searching for Another Fatherland: Mobility and America in Modern Jewish
History
Lillooet Nordlinger
(E)
Lumbering into Canada: Leon Koerner and Jewish Assimilation in British
Columbia, 1939–1972
Herbert Rosenblum
(E)
New York City: The Other Lower East Side
276
The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism
Chair: Eli Lederhendler
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2734
Jonathan Karp
(E)
The Unity Principle: An American Jewish Theory of Capitalism
Rebecca Kobrin
(E)
Creative Destroyers: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, Financial Failure, and the
Reshaping of American Commercial Banking, 1914–1930
Michael Cohen
(E)
Cotton and Capital: Jewish Economic Networks in the Nineteenth-Century
American South
278
Reflections on Twentieth-Century German Jewry
Chair: Sharon Gordon
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503
Luis S. Krausz
(E)
Süßkind von Trimberg: An Early Paradigm of the German-Jewish Question
Amy Hill Shevitz
(E)
Mother, Wife, Lover: Three Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig
Martina Steer
(E)
A Jewish Memory without Jews: How Germans Took Over the Mendelssohn
Myth after 1945
Isak Gath
(H)
Contemporary Trends in Jewish-German Historiography
279
From World War I to the Aftermath of the Holocaust in Germany: Personal
and Local Histories
Chair: Guy Miron
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Stefanie Ebenritter
(E)
The German Rabbi Bruno Italiener (1881–1956) and the Failure of Jewish
Emancipation
Anne Holtmann-Mares (E)
From Jewish Emancipation to Shoah: The Example of Griesheim near Darmstadt
Volker Hoffmann
(E)
The Prosecution of Nazi Criminality during the Pogrom in South Hesse
Geiger Wolfgang
(E)
Doomed to Fail? The Weimar Republic in Retrospect, from the Point of View of
Jewish Periodicals
280
Negotiating Home: German-Jewish Constructions of Origin and Belonging in
the Twentieth Century
Chair:
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2502
Jens Kugele
(E)
Theorizing Home Perspectives on German-Jewish Concepts of Belonging around
1900
Bjoern Siegel
(E)
The Long Way Home: Arnold Bernstein's Changing German-Jewish SelfConception
Andrea Sinn
(E)
Redefining Home: Jewish Returnees and the Re-Creation of Jewish Identity in
Post–1945 Germany
281
Leo Beck Institute Roundtable: Who owns the German-Jewish Heritage?
Chair: Rachel Freudenthal
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713
Galili Shahar
(H)
Roundtable: To Whom Does the German-Jewish Legacy Belong?
Amos Morris-Reich
()
Roundtable: To Whom Does the German-Jewish Legacy Belong?
Michael A. Meyer
(E)
Roundtable: To Whom Does the German-Jewish Legacy Belong?
Shmuel Feiner
(H)
Roundtable: To Whom Does the German-Jewish Legacy Belong?
Moshe Zimmermann
(H)
Roundtable: To Whom Does the German-Jewish Legacy Belong?
282
History and Memory of the Jews of North Africa in the Second World War
Chair: Norman A. Stillman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722
Haim Saadoun
(H)
Diaries and Memories from the German Occupation of Tunisia
Michal Ben Ya‘akov
(H)
European Refugees in Morocco during World War II: A View from the Local
Jewish Communities
Nadine Schilli
(H)
How the German Anti-Jewish Policy in Tunisia Affected the Interactions
between Jews: The Reality in Tunisia and in the Bizerte Forced Labor Camp
Ariel Danan
(H)
Between Hope and Anxiety: Moroccan Jewry after the Allied Landing
283
Shadarim (Emissaries) and other messengers in the Jewish Orient
Chair: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720
Lilac Torgeman
(H)
Rabbi Nathan Amram of Hebron’s Ḥagigat ha-Regel, and the Controversy over
the Yom Tov Sheni shel Galuyot
Smadar Cohen
(H)
Messenger in Disguise: Shmuel Yavnieli in Yemen
Yochai Ben-Ghedalia
(H)
The Shadar in Light of Marcel Mauss's The Gift
Noah Gerber
(H)
An Emissary, a Convert, and the Conquest of Souls in the Nineteenth Century
284
The Jewish Community of Saloniki: Modernization, Nationalism, and Aliyah to
Eretz Israel
Chair: Yitzhak Cytrin
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Nitsa Dori
(H)
The Reflection of Zionist Trends in El Maccabeo, the Ladino Periodical of Saloniki
Jews
Yitzhak Cytrin
(H)
The Attitudes of the Jews of Saloniki toward Eretz Israel, Aliyah, and Settlement,
between the Two World Wars: Illusion and Reality
Yitzhak Recanati
(H)
Merging Internationalism and Religion in the Political Ethics of Abraham
Recanati
Jacob Haguel
(H)
The Ladino-Speaking Sephardic-Jewish Community in Jerusalem in the Second
Half of the Ninteenth Century
285
The Hebrew Press in Times of Crisis: News and History
Chair: Moshe Pelli
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Gideon Kouts
(H)
The "Invention" of Foreign News in the Hebrew Press in Europe: The Revolution
of Ha-Magid
Oozi Elyada
(H)
Crises in the Commercial Hebrew Press in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine:
From Ha-Zvi to Doar Ha-Yom
Bilha Hartuv
(H)
Jewish Identity in Israeli Journalism
286
Local Newspapers in Haifa in the Mandate Period and Early Years of the State
of Israel
Chair: Mordchai Naor
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2734
Yair Safran
(H)
The Pioneer of Israeli Elections Newspapers: Hagalil (1927).
Yehiel Limor
(H)
The First Hebrew Daily Newspaper in Haifa: Hakarmel and Hed Hakarmel (1940–
1942)
Amir Gilat
(H)
The Rise of Local Newspapers in Haifa (1950–1975)
288
Modern Antisemitism
Chair: Robert S. Wistrich
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Nitai Shinan
(H)
On Antisemitism and Philosemitism: Emilio Castelar as a Case Study
Amedeo Spagnoletto
(H)
The Sefer Torah of Addis Ababa – Political and Ritual Aspects on the Eve of
Racial Laws
Itzhak Sergio Minerbi (E)
Pius XII and the Roundup of the Jews of Rome on October 16, 1943
289
The Language of Destruction: Two Thousand Years of Hate—The Church
Fathers, Inquisition, Nazism
Chair: Maria Diemling
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817
Lina Gorenstein
(E)
The Bloody Jew: From Shylock to La Guardia
Daniela Levy
(E)
The Shining of Diamonds and the Failure of an Illusion: The "Eldorado" Myth
Anita Waingort Novinsky (E)
The Language of Destruction—Canon Law, Inquisitorial Regimens and the
Nuremberg Laws: Some Parallels
Miriam Oelsner
(E)
Antisemitism in Germany at the End of the Nineteenth Century and the
Beginning of the Twentieth Century
290
Antisemitism and the Public in Eastern and Northern Europe
Chair: Robert S. Wistrich
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2506
Malgorzata Domagalska (E)
Warsaw under Jewish Rule: The Futuristic Image of Warsaw in the Polish
Antisemitic Novel of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Darius Staliūnas
(E)
How Insulted Religious Feelings Turned into Pogroms: Lithuania in 1900
Miriam Turkinies
(E)
The Beilis Trial and Russian Society
Carl Henrik Carlsson
(E)
Governmental Antisemitism in Sweden, 1860–1945: Continuity or
Discontinuity?
291
The Politics and Philosophy of Jewish Orthodoxy
Chair: Kimmy Caplan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2506
Judith Bleich
(E)
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Response to Reform: Stealing the Opponent's
Thunder
Valerie Mast
(E)
Religious Dissent and Nation-Building among the Ultra-Orthodox in NineteenthCentury Hungary
Daniel Mahla
(E)
Divisive Holiness: Palestine in the Politics of Orthodox Jewry during the 1920s
William Kolbrener
(E)
“What's Love Got to Do With It?” Love as Epistemological Category in Joseph B.
Soloveitchik and Jonathan Lear
292
Rabbinic Thought and Its Historical Implications
Chair: Shaul Stampfer
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2502
Michael A. Meyer
(E)
Image and Self-Image of the Modern Rabbi
Yossef Charvit
(H)
Hokhmat Israel in France in the Twentieth Century: Between Berlin and
Jerusalem
Eliezer Sariel
(H)
The Vanished Century: How Historical Halakhic Inquiry Impacts Our
Understanding of Central Developments in Eighteenth-Century European Jewish
Society
Moshe Samet
(H)
Rabbi Saul Berlin and his Book of Responsa, Besamim Rosh
293
Genealogical Perspectives on Jewish Family History
Chair: Michael Silber
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Louise Hecht
(E)
Jewish Families and the Tobacco Monopoly
Erzsbet Mislovics
(E)
Family models of Munk and Goldzieher Family
Judith Kalik
(E)
Village Jews in the Gubernya of Nineteenth-Century Minsk
Aaron Demsky
(E)
The Names Sara and Israel in the Time of the Holocaust
295
Ego-Documents: Personal Writing between Literature and History
Chair: Zeev Gries
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714
Rotem Preger-Wagner (H)
Mendele Mocher Sfarim and the Jewish Child
Uriel Gellman
(H)
Between Horodna and Frankfurt: The Wandering Authorship
Ariel Levinson
(H)
The Evolution and Revolution of Hebrew Autobiography: Modena, Emden and
Ginzburg
Avriel Bar-Levav
(H)
Ego-Documents and Secularization
296
Session Marking Forty Years of the Zalman Shazar Center for the History of the
Jewish People
Chair: Zvi Yekutiel
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817
Efraim Halevi
(H)
Greetings
Avraham Elqayam
(H)
“Thus Saith the Lord”: A Profile of Abraham Benjamin Ashkenazi as a Prophet
Anita Shapira
(H)
Ben Gurion's Changing Images
Israel Bartal
(H)
Zalman Shazar: A Zionist Historian
605
Jewish Life in Pre-State Israel
Chair: Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2735
Ruth Kark
()
Gender Perspectives on the Western Wall Photographs, 1850-1948
Lavi Shay
(H)
Gender Perspectives on the Western Wall Photographs, 1850-1948
Galia Hasharoni
(H)
“For a Small Sum of Money”: Working Children in Eretz Israel 1882–1914
Dorit Yosef
(H)
From "Yeke" to "Zionist": Narrative Strategies in the Life Stories of GermanJewish Women in Eretz-Israel
639
Israel and the World
Chair: Na'ama Sheffi
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2606
Guilherme Casarões
(E)
The Place of Israel in Brazilian Foreign Policy
Tullo Vigevani
(E)
The Place of Israel in Brazilian Foreign Policy
Natan Aridan
(E)
Who Speaks on Behalf of World Jewry, and by Whose Authority? A
Retrospective on Israel–Diaspora Relations
Yossi Goldstein
(H)
The Six-Year War: Between the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War—A
Second War for Independence?
Yigal Bin-Nun
()
Did Israel aim to cause the sinking of the “Egoz” ship of illegal immigrants from
Morocco?
‫חטיבה‬:
Rabbinic Literature
303
The Subject in Rabbinic Literature: Intentions, Thoughts, and Actions
Chair: Joshua Levinson
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
(H)
The Mishnah and the Invention of the Subject in Late Antiquity
Mira Balberg
(H)
Self-Reflection and Self-Examination in Tannaitic Purity Laws
Yonatan Sagiv
(H)
The State of the Soul: Proposal for the Reconstruction of States of Mind in
Tannaitic Literature
Joshua Levinson
(H)
Response
304
Editing in the Mishnah and Talmud
Chair: Menachem Katz
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2506
Tamar Meir
(H)
Chapter Three of Tractate Ta’anit: Structure, Context, and Deep Patterns
Yaron Silverstein
(H)
Introductions to a Critical Edition: Y. Rosh Hashanah
Harry Fox (LeBeit Yoreh) (H)
Name Changes in the Babylonian Talmud
Yoel Binnun
(H)
How was the Mishnah Compiled?
305
A Feminist Commentary on the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud: Interim
Report
Chair: Tal Ilan
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718
Dalia Marx
(H)
Through the Threads of the Curtain: Women's Religiosity as Reflected in
Tractate Tamid
Moshe Lavee
(H)
As Pleasing to her Lover as a Gazelle whose Womb is Narrow: Talmudic
Gynecology in Tractate Bekhorot
Anat Israeli
(H)
Forbidden Seclusions at the end of Tractate Qiddushin in the Mishnah, the
Tosefta
306
Redaction and Meaning in Talmudic Compilations
Chair: Amos Geula
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2602
Avraham Walfish
(H)
The Interweaving of Literary and Conceptual Elements in the Redaction of the
Mishnah
Menachem Katz
(H)
Literary Redaction in the Jerusalem Talmud: Phenomena and their Meanings
Yinnon Leiter
(H)
Hidden Numbers as Formative Factors in the Redaction of the Mishnah
Ory Lifshitz
(H)
Redaction and Meaning in B. Baba Kamma Chapter 8: Heavenly and Human
Judgment
307
The Story in the Babylonian Talmud and its Cultural World 1
Chair: Galit Hasan-Rokem
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2506
Tali Artman
(H)
The Poetics and Ethics of Salvation from Prostitution: From the Babylonian
Talmud to Eastern Christianity
Amram Tropper
(H)
On the Foundation of the Sura Academy according to Rav Sherira Gaon
Reuven Kiperwasser
(H)
Temptations and Roadside Hazards: Notes About the Topology of the
Babylonian Story
308
The Story in the Babylonian Talmud and its Cultural World 2
Chair: Reuven Kiperwasser
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2602
Noa Walden
(H)
On Those Who Acquire Their World in One Hour: R. Chanina Ben Teradyon and
the Weeping of Rebbi in Tractate Avodah Zarah
Yoel Kretzmer-Raziel
(H)
The Dead, Impurity, and Muktzeh in Amoraic Literature
David Sabato
(H)
Jerusalem and Babylonia: The Great Debate on the Leap Year
Moshe Simon-Shoshan (H)
Performance, Textuality, and Hermeneutics in the Story of R. Joshua and R.
Gamliel (y. Berakhot 4:1 and b. Berakhot 26a–27b)
309
Studies in Rabbinic Literature
Chair: Evyatar Marienberg
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2506
Elchanan Adler
(E)
‘Ayin Hara’: The Evil Eye in Talmudic, Rabbinic, and Halakhic Literature
Ariel Ram Pasternak
(H)
The "Better" Proverb in Rabbinic Literature
Assaf Libster Gamzou (H)
Mix and Match: On the Structuring of Purim in the Babylonian Talmud
312
Literary Research in the Talmud and Midrash
Chair: Paul Mandel
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2506
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
(H)
Tahapukhot Hemmah: The Story of Kidor and the Sages as a Test Case for the
Poetics of the Story in the Talmudic Sugya
Chen Marx
(H)
Akathriel and the Poetics of the Babylonian Talmud
Gilad Shapira
(H)
From Semiotics towards Poetics in Midrash Ha-gadol
Michal Shir-El
(H)
The Daughter of Rav Hisda—Dialogue, Criticism and Love: The Emergence of the
Subject in the Babylonian Talmud
313
Halakhic Midrash
Chair: Menachem Hirshman
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720
Menachem Kahana
(H)
Citations from the Mekhilta on Deuteronomy in Derash hamazhir
Abraham Shammah
(H)
Derashot Debe-Rabbi Yishmael on Leviticus, Embedded in the Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael on Exodus
Azzan Yadin-Israel
(H)
On the Multiplicity of Ribbuyim in the Sifra
Mordechai Sabato
(H)
Are "Mi-Kan Ameru” Derashot Foreign Bodies in the Halakhic Midrashim?
315
Reality and Archaeology
Chair: Uri Zur
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2506
Marton Ribary
(E)
Shifting Borders of the Land and People of Israel in the Mishnah and Tosefta
Joseph Patrich
(H)
The Thirteen Gates in the Latticed Railing / Soreg (On the End of m. Middot 2: 6)
Shimon Fogel
(H)
Entering the Academy: From Tannaitic Texts to Babylonian Texts
316
Reality and Archaeology: Material Culture
Chair: Joseph Patrich
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2506
Yehuda Ashkenazi
(H)
R. Gamliel`s Tube: The Measurement of Distance in the Mishnaic Period
Uri Zur
(H)
R. Gamliel`s Tube: The Measurement of Distance in the Mishnaic Period
Nahum Ben Yehuda
(H)
Flax in the Talmud: Production Methods and Product Characteristics
Chaim Oelbaum
(H)
Genizah Fragments of a Hebrew-Arabic Glossary for Seder Zera'im from the
Region of Eretz Israel
318
Rabbinic Literature in the Light of Neighboring Cultures
Chair: Hillel Newman
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2602
Misgav Har-Peled
(E)
“Squeals of Swine Come Around the Kalends”: The Fall of the Tyrant and the
Killing of the Pig in Midrash Esther Rabbah and in the Byzantine Life of Saint
Symeon
Yakir Paz
(H)
From Scribes to Scholars: The Rabbis and Homeric Scholarship
Brachi Elitzur
(H)
Marriage and Reproduction in Rabbinic Homilies on Miriam the Prophetess and
the Jewish–Christian Polemic
319
Jewish Midrash and Early Christian Literature
Chair: Daniel Maoz
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2602
Daniel Maoz
(E)
Opening
David Bossman
(E)
Aggadic Midrash: A Christian Theological Response
Timothy Hegedus
(E)
Aggadic Midrash: Patristic Perspectives
Ira Robinson
(E)
Aggadic Midrash: A Modern Orthodox Jewish Perspective
320
Josephus and the Rabbis: The Lost Legends of the Second Temple Era
Chair: Albert Baumgarten
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720
Vered Noam
(H)
Josephus, the Rabbis and the Lost Literature of the Second Temple Era
Tal Ilan
(H)
Josephus, the Rabbis, and the Lost Literature of the Second Temple Era
Yael Fisch
(H)
“The Torah of the Alexandrians”: The Evolution of the Legend of the Septuagint
Daphne Baratz
(H)
Phineas of Ḥabta: From Following the Plough to the High Priesthood
Meir Ben Shahar
(H)
The High Priest Alexander and the Samaritans: From a Temple Legend to a
Political Tale
321
The Aggadic Midrashim: Between Ancient and Late 1
Chair: Jacob Elbaum
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2602
Marc Bregman
(H)
Is the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature a Late Midrash?
Tamar Kadari
(H)
The Song of Songs and Rabbinic Exegesis on the Destruction and Subjugation of
the Kingdoms
Rachel Adelman
(E)
The Fate of the First Clothing: From Exegesis to Narrative in Pirqe de-Rabbi
Eliezer
Arnon Atzmon
(H)
Pesikta Material in Tanḥuma Literature on Numbers
322
The Aggadic Midrashim: Between Ancient and Late 2
Chair: David Stern
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2602
Gila Vachman
(H)
“Figs and Spice and All Things Nice: The Tanḥuma's Method of Processing
Stories
Paul Mandel
(H)
Between Late and Later: A Comparison of the Redaction of Earlier Midrashim in
Lamentations Rabbati and Midrash Tanḥuma
Rivka Ulmer
(E)
A Text-Linguistic Analysis of Pesiqta Rabbati
Lennart Lehmhaus
(E)
Seder Eliyahu`s Discourse: Facing New Challenges and Chances
323
New Research in Midrashic Literature
Chair: Arnon Atzmon
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505
Inbar Raveh
(H)
The redactor art in Shemot Rabba: The Midwives at a Political Crossroads
Menachem Hirshman (H)
Midrash Qohelet: Preliminary Conclusions
Myron Lerner
(H)
Novel Midrashic Interpretations of Ruth, Chapter 3
324
Midrash and Aggadah: Methodoloy
Chair: Paul Mandel
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2506
Ulrich Berzbach
(E)
How to Do Things with Quotes: Intertexts and Contexts in Seder Eliyahu
Alexander Dubrau
(H)
The Precedence of the Sifre Zuta Traditions to their Parallels in the Mishnah
Hanan Mazeh
(H)
Midrashic Dramatization: The Creation of Dialogues in Biblical Passages
Assaf Rosen-Zvi
(H)
Citation as Hermeneutics: The Incipit and Scriptural Quotations in the Tannaitic
Midrashim
325
Biblical Figures in Rabbinic Thought
Chair: Gilad Sasson
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603
Etsuko Katsumata
(E)
Images of Prophets in the Rabbinic Age and in Wissenschaft des Judentums
Adiel Kadari
(H)
"I Am Not Pleased With Your Prophesying": Why Did the Rabbis Criticize Elijah?
Rafael B. Posen
(H)
Balaam in Light of the Targumim: Magician or Prophet?
Azaria Baitner
(H)
Midrashic Exegesis as the Ground of Seemingly Non-Midrashic Elaborations on
the Biblical Narrative
326
Rabbinic Figures
Chair:
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2602
Liat Mendelbaum
(H)
The Woman Most Frequently Mentioned in the Talmud, Who is She? Traditions
Concerning the Mother of Abbaye in the Babylonian Talmud
Yonatan Feintuch
(H)
The Aggadah of R. Adda b. Abba Reconsidered
Barak S. Cohen
(H)
Was There Really a Rava II?
Arkady Kovelman
(E)
R. Me’ir as a Messiah
327
Refiguring Jewish Spatial Relations in Late Antiquity
Chair: Amram Tropper
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
(E)
Evil and Benevolent Neighbors in Bavel and Eretz Israel: The Eruv Hatzerot as a
Tool for Negotiating Shared Space
Rachel Neis
(E)
From the Face of God to the Face of One's Teacher: The Rabbinization of
Temple Pilgrimage in b. Ḥagigah
Gil Klein
(E)
Memorable Metropoleis, Forgettable Fields: Ars Memoria and the Mechanisms
of Rabbinic Space
Ra‘anan Boustan
(E)
The Spaces of Religion in Late Antiquity: From Locative to Utopian and Back
Again
328
The Reception of Aggadic Midrash as Reflected in the Genizah Documents
Chair: Moshe Lavee
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2602
Yachin Epstein
(H)
The Conflation of Aggadic Traditions from Palestine and Babylon
Yehonatan Wormser
(H)
Linguistic Distinctions between the Different Editions of the Tanḥuma,
According to Manuscripts and Genizah Fragments
Oded Rosenblum
(H)
The Contribution of the Genizah to the Assessment of the Authenticiy of
Unknown Tanḥuma Sections
329
New Gender Perspectives on Midrash, History, and Halakhah
Chair: Eyal Levinson
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2602
Channa Pinchasi
(H)
The Roles of Gender in Biblical Interpretation in Eichah Rabbah
Avital Davidovich-Eshed (H)
From Betulah to Beulah: Ritual Defloration and the Concept of Virginity in
Medieval Jewish Culture
Ronit Irshai
(H)
The Crime of Rape in Maimonides’ Halakhic Thinking
Noga Cohen
(H)
From Exclusion to Acceptance: The Inclusion of the “Judith Story” in Jewish
Tradition
330
Sexuality, Body, Space and Personal Status: Reading Gender in Jewish Sources
Chair: Ronit Irshai
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722
Esther Fisher
(H)
Between the Prohibition of “the Gaze” and the Obligation to Conceal: Gendered
Constructions of Sexuality in Rabbinic Literature
Eyal Levinson
(H)
Body, Fornication, and Mortification: The Conceptualization of the Male Body in
Sefer Hasidim
Rachel Keren
(H)
“Daughter of Perverse Rebellion": Divorces Initiated by Women
Alieza Salzberg
(E)
Testing the Virgin: Gender Construction in Talmudic Discourse on Virginity
331
Emotions in Jewish Culture
Chair: Judith Hauptman
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713
Mordechai Pachter
(H)
Between Solitude and Seclusion
Zeev Gries
(H)
Joy in Hasidism: Its History and Source Material
Shulamit Valler
(H)
Why and under What Circumstances Did the Sages Sink into Deep Sorrow?
333
Rabbinic Thought 1
Chair: Azaria Baitner
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718
Shoshana Vinberger
(H)
Fate and Free Choice in Dialogues between the Angel of Death and the Sages
Dror Ehrlich
(H)
The Justification of Hell in Rabbinic Thought
Joe Sakurai
(H)
Conversion as Symbolic Birth: The Invention of Fictive Descent
Shoval Shafat
(H)
Why Repentance Influences Divine Punishment and Not Human Punishment?
335
Studies in Gaonic Literature
Chair: Haggai Ben-Shammai
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503
Nissim Sabato
(H)
Sa'adia’s Book of Commandments: Methodological and Legal Aspects
Uzi Fuks
(H)
Rabbi Sa’adia Gaon’s Interpretation of the Mishnah: Discovery of the First
Interpretation of the Mishnah
Roni Shweka
(H)
The Derasha in the She’iltot of R. Ahai: A Contribution to the Study of the
Ancient She’ilta
Nahem Ilan
(H)
One Thousand Years of Saadya's Tafsir: Towards a Critical Edition of Rabbi
Amram Korah's Neve Shalom
336
The Development of Halakhah 1
Chair: Shmuel Glick
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505
Jonathan Milgram
(H)
Tannaitic Inheritance Law in its Legal and Social Contexts
Alona Lisitsa
(H)
The First of Nisan and the First of Tishrei: A Hidden Competition or Parallel
Sources?
Ephraim-Bezalel Halivni (H)
Who Instituted the Multiple Shofar Blasts on Rosh Hashanah?
Michael Rotenberg
(H)
The Taste that Gives Taste
337
The Development of Halakhah 2
Chair: Michael Rotenberg
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2735
Naftali Cohn
(E)
A Public Spectacle for All of Israel: Temple Rituals in the Mishnah
Chanan Yitzchaki
(H)
Studies in Pitchei Teshuvah
Amnon Hever
(H)
On the Origins of the Customs of the Jews of Yemen
Yosi Ziv
(H)
Ethiopian Halakhah: Documentation and Research
310
Textual Criticism
Chair: Harry Fox (LeBeit Yoreh)
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2606
Yoav Rosenthal
(H)
From Textual Research to the Study of Redaction and Formation in Talmudic
Literature
Rabin Shushtri
(H)
The Textual Version of the Babylonian Talmud in the She’iltot and its
Contribution to the Modern Text
Robert Brody
(H)
The Stemmatic Evaluation of the Manuscripts of the Tosefta
Binyamin Katzoff
(H)
The Hire of Donkeys and Camels: Reconstruction of the Sources of the Sugya
311
Rabbinic Literature : Inquiry into Problems and Terms
Chair: Avinoam Cohen
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2506
Yuval Blankovsky
(H)
The Expression “Averah Lishmah” in Talmudic Literature
Alex Tal
(H)
Between Uncertainty and Majority/Minority: A Study of the Concept of
Probability in Talmudic Literature
David Golinkin
(H)
Ba'al Ha-ḥotem is Wanted
Avraham Yoskovich
(H)
Keroth Hagever (Cock-Crow): The Meaning of a Tannaitic Term
314
Issues in Talmud
Chair: David Golinkin
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2506
Avishalom Westreich
(H)
How an Amoraic Statement was Born
Avinoam Cohen
(H)
Talmudic Rules Missing from the Books of Talmudic Terminology
Itzhak Brand
(H)
Talmudic Research as an Halakhic Tool: On the Issue, Davar she'lo ba la'olam
Michael Chernick
(H)
From Halakhic Case to Well-Known Aggadah
317
The Intertextuality of Talmudic and Christian Texts
Chair: Yaakov Teppler
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505
Yael Wilfand
(H)
What Do Rabbinic Texts Tell Us about Christian Charity?
Dan Jaffe
(H)
Jesus ben Pantera and Jesus of Nazareth, or: How does the Talmud Represent
Jesus? A Philological and Historical Analysis
Menacham Ben Shalom (H)
Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, from God-fearing Hasid to Holy Man and Miracle
Worker, in Light of Talmudic Tradition
332
Law and Its Limits in Rabbinic Thought
Chair: Suzanne Stone Last
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2506
Yitzhak Ben David
(H)
Authority, Dissent, and Normative Pluralism: A New Look at the Relationship
between the Rebellious Elder and Mishnah Horayot
Ayelet Libson
(H)
“The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness”: Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Law
Suzanne Stone Last
Response
(E)
334
Rabbinic Thought 2
Chair: Barak S. Cohen
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2506
Michael Miller
(E)
Creation through the Name: A Reassessment of the Concept in Early Rabbinic
Literature
Jay Rovner
(E)
Bat Qol Reports in Context in Tosefta Sota 13
Dvora Bregman
(H)
From Echo to Bat Qol
Gilad Sasson
(H)
How the Amoraim of the Land of Israel Coped with the Problem of Collective
Punishment
338
Interpretation and Halakhic Ruling
Chair: Uzi Fuks
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2506
Yishai Kiel
(H)
The Apostate in Geonic and Pahlavi Legal Literature
Dan Greenberger
(H)
Rav Sherira Gaon’s Commentary on Tractate Shabbat in the Babylonian Talmud
Yoel Florsheim
(H)
Rashi's Change of Mind in his Talmudic Commentary
Michael Gross
(H)
The Place of the Aggadah in the Teaching of Rabbi Yoseph Haym of Bagdad
302
What are the Differences between Jewish Studies, Law, and Jewish Law?
Chair: Aviad Hacohen
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium
(Rabin Building)
Aharon Barak
(H)
The Values of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State in the Rulings
of Menachem Elon
Moshe Halbertal
(H)
Menachem Elon, Jewish Law, and the Origins of Halakchah
Aviad Hacohen
(H)
Professor Menachem and Justice Elon: Between Jewish Studies and Legal
Studies
Gabriela Shalev
(H)
Judge Elon and Cotract Law: Judaism and Liberalism
350
The Philosophy of Jewish Law
Chair: Ron S. Kleinman
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603
Bernard S. Jackson
(E)
The Concepts of Truth and Trust in Secular and Religious Law
Shai Wozner
(H)
On Punishments and Payments: An Analysis of Two Concepts of Obligation
Benny Porat
(H)
The Contribution of the Philosophy of Law to the Philosophy of the Halakhah
Hanina Ben Menahem (H)
Dworkin and Jewish Law
351
Halakhic Judgments and Legal Norms
Chair: Benny Porat
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603
Moshe Drori
(H)
The First Trial in Biblical History: God v. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent—A Judge's
Perspective
Nechemia Avnery
(H)
“Lo Titgodedu”: Local Legal Pluralism
Itay Lipschutz
(H)
Decision by Majority vs. Deciding Unanimously
J. David Bleich
(E)
Property: Do the Deceased Have Property Rights?
352
Family Law
Chair: Michael Corinaldi
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2502
Tehilla Alon
(H)
Tau't Claim Due to the Mere Tendency toward an Illness or a Defect
Israel Zvi Gilat
(H)
The Radical Decision of Rav Kook in a Custodial Dispute in
Yaacov Shapira
(H)
Place of Residence: Society, Religion, and Halakhah
353
The Status of Women
Chair: Tali Berner
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2506
Aliza Bazak
(H)
Women in Judicial Capacities: Analysis of the Sources of the Law on Dayyanut
and Women in Official Positions in LIght of Halakhic Decision-Making through
the Ages
Ayelet Segal
(H)
A Five hundred year old Precedent for The Agreement for Mutual Respect?
Yael Levine
(H)
The Customs of Washing the Hair and Cleaning the Home on Tisha Be'Av
Mimi (Miriam Sara) Feigelson
(H)
The Disappearance of Jewish Women from Burial Rites
354
Modernization and the Land of Israel in Halakhah
Chair: Yaacov Shapira
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2735
Michael Corinaldi
(H)
The Enigma of Jewish Identity: Matrilineal Descent and the Presumption of
Jewish Identity
Gabriel Wasserman
(H)
Scrolls and Codices of Scripture in Halakhic Discussion and in Synagogue Life
Yitzchak Avi Roness
(H)
The Laws of the State and Torat Eretz Yisrael: A Study of the Halakhic Legacy of
Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli
Erel Segal Halevi
(H)
Land Division and Jubilee Since the Advent of Zionism
355
The Attitudes of Poskim and Dayyanim to the Laws of the State of Israel
Chair: Ron S. Kleinman
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603
Isaac Hershkowitz
(H)
Religious Zionism and the Israeli State Law from 1974 To Date: A Critical Review
Ron S. Kleinman
(H)
"The Tears of the Oppressed": The Attitude of the Israeli State Rabbinical Courts
to a Worker Waiving his Rights
Sinay Levy
(H)
The Attitude of Israeli Halakhic Authorities to Building Laws and to the Laws of
Condominium Housing
356
Halakhah and History
Chair: Yitzchak Avi Roness
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2506
Naomi Liran
(H)
This Etrog is Given to You as a Gift, on the Condition that You Return it to Me
Tanhum Yoreh
(H)
Bal Tashḥit: From Fruit Trees to an Environmental Concept
Shmuel Glick
(H)
On Responsa of Ottoman Empire Sages Found in the Cairo Genizah
Elimelech (Melech) Westreich
(H)
Jewish Law in Morocco in the Twentieth Century and the Challenge of Human
Rights for Women
358
Themes in Halakhah and Medicine
Chair: Charles Foster
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603
Tirzah Meacham (LeBeit Yoreh)
(H)
Physicians and Stringencies in the History of the Laws of Purity and Impurity
Amir Mashiach
(H)
Subjective Ruling on Bioethical Issues in the Works of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman
Auerbach
Daniel Sinclair
(E)
Contemporary Israeli Biomedical Legislation in the Light of Jewish Law
359
The Context and Practice of Jewish Medical Ethics
Chair: Amir Mashiach
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603
Kenneth Collins
(E)
The Context and Practice of Jewish Medical Ethics
Michael Weingarten
(E)
Education for Ethics in the New Bar-Ilan Faculty of Medicine
Charles Foster
(E)
Dignity in Bioethics: The Contribution of the Jewish Conception of the Imago Dei
300
Social Justice in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought
Chair: Rachel Elior
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2715
Yehoyada Amir
(H)
"For the Poor Will Never Cease": Thoughts on Hermann's Religious-Social
Humanism
Yossi (Joseph) Turner
(H)
Education and Politics in the Concept of Social Justice in the Writings of A. D.
Gordon and Nahman Syrkin
Dani Gutwein
(H)
The Zionist Demand for Social Justice as Part of the Rebellion against Jewish
Tradition
Eliezer Schweid
(H)
The Difference between a Social-Democratic and a Neo-Capitalist Israel
301
The Research Enterprise of the Late Prof. E. E. Urbach on the One Hundredth
Anniversary of his Birth
Chair: Moshe-David Herr
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium
(Rabin Building)
Avraham Grossman
(H)
Urbach's Work on the Study of Medieval History
Jacob Elbaum
(H)
E. E Urbach: A Researcher of Aggadah, Midrash, and Jewish Thought
Menahem Kister
(H)
The Sages: Their Concepts and Beliefs and Jewish–Christian Polemic
Moshe-David Herr
(H)
Orbach's Work on the Study of the History of Halacha and Jewish Studies in
General
357
Interpretation, Ruling, Scholarliness
Chair: Avraham (Rami) Reiner
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717
Tirza Kelman
(H)
Containment and Processing: Rabbi Israel Isserlein's Writings on Rabbi Joseph
Karo's Beit Yosef
Yechezkel Feiglin
(H)
Rabbi Shabtai Cohen and the Siftei Cohen
Noam Samet
(H)
A Transformation of Focus: The Commentators of the Shulḥan-‘Arukh between
Halakhah and Erudition
Yehoshua Mayerson
(H)
Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua Falk's Pnei Yehoshua and the Return to the Talmud
360
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages 1
Chair: Abraham Melamed
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603
Amira Eran
(H)
Divine Love
Masahiro Shida
(H)
Nahmanides on Jewish Messianism
Adiel Zimran
(H)
Scientific Knowledge and its Limitations in the Philosophy of Ibn Latif
Yishai Glasner
(H)
Israel and the Nations in Judah Halevi's Thought
361
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages 2
Chair: Abraham Melamed
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603
Michael Engel
(E)
Delmedigo's Critique of Gersonides' Philosophy
Uri Gershowitz
(H)
The Approach of Medieval Jewish Aristotelians to Poetics and to the
Philosophical Exegesis of the Song of Songs
Yehuda Halper
(E)
Biblical Allusion in Bibago's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Ottfried Fraisse
(E)
Ignác Goldziher's Idiosyncratic Outline of the History of Medieval Muslim and
Jewish Philosophy
362
Contemporary Research on the Rambam
Chair: Menachem Kellner
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717
Hannah Kasher
(H)
Ze'ev Harvey
(H)
Interpretations of the Guide of the Perplexed in the Last Half-Century
Shalom Rosenberg
(H)
The Guide of the Perplexed: Close Reading, the Flight of the Theories and the
Labyrinth of the Riddles
363
The Rambam and His Interpreters
Chair: Shalom Rosenberg
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720
Charles H. Manekin
(H)
Maimonides' Reservations about Naturalism in his Post-Guide Writings
Rebecca Kneller-Rowe (H)
Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Criticism of Maimonides’ Interpretation of the Merkhavah:
Do Their Interpretations Really Conflict?
Esti Eisenmann
(H)
Scientific Aspects of Mordechai Comtino's Commentary on the Guide of the
Perplexed
Eli Gurfinkel
(H)
Did Maimonides Really Forget an Explicit Torah law? A Peculiar Problem in the
Guide of the Perplexed
364
The Rambam: Comparative Studies
Chair: Hannah Kasher
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503
David Lemler
(E)
Josef Ibn Shem Tov's Commentary on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, I,
68, and his Critique of Crescas
Katja Vehlow
(E)
Maimonides on Hermaphrodites
Ari Ackerman
(E)
Hasdai Crescas on the Philosophic Foundation of Codification
Ken Seeskin
(E)
Monotheism at Bay: The Gods of Maimonides and Spinoza
365
Gersonides: Science, Philosophy, and Biblical Interpretation
Chair: Haim Kreisel
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720
Shalom Sadik
(H)
The Psychological Process of Choice in the Thought of Gersonides
Ofer Elior
(H)
They Have Ears, But They Hear Not? Gersonides on the Limits of Human Hearing
Sara Klein-Braslavy
(H)
The Application of Aristotle's Concept of Chance in Gersonides' Biblical
Interpretations
Ahuva Gaziel
(H)
Cross-Fertilization of Scientific and Religious Knowledge: Gersonides on Matters
of Reproduction and Heredity
366
Mysticism in the Thirteenth Century
Chair: Ronit Meroz
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717
Uri Melammed
(H)
Islamic Influences on the Zohar according to R. Shemuel Dhāhirī’s Sefer ha–
Mabbaṭ (The Book of Observation)
Shifra Asulin
(H)
Parashat Bereshit in the Zohar: Issues of Editing and Content
Roee Goldschmidt
(H)
“Whether There Is Wood Therein, Or Not”: Rabbi Menahem Recanati’s Exegesis
of the Zohar
Naama Ben Shachar
(H)
Rabbi Avigdor, the “Unique Cherub” Circle, and the Circle of Rabbi Nehemiah
the Prophet
367
The Transformation of the Zoharic Homilies, from Rabbinic Literature to the
Lurianic Kabbalah
Chair: Yehuda Liebes
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Oded Yisraeli
(H)
The Mezuzah as Amulet: From Rabbinic Literature to the Zohar
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (H)
“Mystical Union of Fire”: The Death of Nadav and Avihu from Philo and Ḥazal to
the Zohar and its First Commentators
Jonatan Benarroch
(H)
"The Son of an Israelite Woman" (Leviticus 24: 10–16): The Zoharic Homilies on
the “Blasphemer,” from Toledot Yeshu to Lurianic Kabbalah
Biti Roi
(H)
From the Zoharic Homily to the Hermeneutics of Tiqqunei Zohar: The Attitude
of the Author of Tiqqunei Zohar to Ḥibura-Qadmaah
368
The Kabbalah of Tzefat and Its Development
Chair: Bracha Sack
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717
Mor Altshuler
(H)
Rabbi Joseph Karo's Visions of the Celestial Sanhedrin
Andrea Gondos
(E)
Shorter is Better? The Role of Abridgements in Popularizing Kabbalah in the
Early Modern Period
Uri Safrai
(H)
Magnet , Chain, Shadow: Three Images for Prayer in the Kabbalah of the
Sixteenth Century
Yoed Kadary
(H)
Wrestling With the Angels: Angelologic Interpretations of the Struggle of Jacob
and the Angel
369
Intersecting Discourses: The Languages of Kabbalah and Science in Early
Modern Jewish Culture
Chair: Boaz Huss
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717
J. H. Chajes
(E)
Between Anatomy and Astronomy: Modes of Visualization and Representation
in Seventeenth-Century Kabbalah
Assaf Tamari
(H)
"Without His Will": On the Concept of Action in Lurianic Kabbalah
Elke Morlok
(E)
Lurianic, Philosophic, and Scientific Discourse on the
Creation in R. Izhak of Satanov's “Imrei Binah ”
Eliezer Baumgarten
(H)
The Language of R. Joseph Delmedigo: Kabbalah and Science
370
Late Mysticism
Chair:
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722
Shinichi Yamamoto
(E)
The Doctrine of Shemitot in the Writings of Nathan of Gaza
Riikka Tuori
(E)
Popular Kabbalah in Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century Eastern Europe: The
Case of the Polish–Lithuanian Karaites and their Paraliturgical Poetry (Zemirot)
Avital Sharon
(H)
Kabbalah and Halakhah in the Writings of the Ḥida
Micha Ankori
(H)
Kabbalah and Alchemy
371
The Writings of the Luzzatto Family
Chair: Tova Cohen
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605
Shelly Goldberg
(H)
The Secret of the Poem that Generates Prophecy in the Study by Rabbi Moshe
Chaim Luzzatto
Michela Torbidoni
(E)
The Usage of Classical Sources in Simone Luzzatto's Socrate
Giuseppe Veltri
(E)
Jewish Skepticism: The Case of Simone Luzzatto
Anna Lissa
(E)
Politico-literary Strategies in Simone Luzzatto's Discorso
372
Studies in Hasidism
Chair: Immanuel Etkes
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717
Igor Turov
(H)
The Historiosophy of Early Hasidism
Roee Horen
(H)
Nuances in Hasidut's Treatment of the Ari's Kabbalah: Between Self-Effacement
and Arrogance
Gad Sagiv
(H)
Tekhelet in Kabbalah and Hasidism: A Prolegomenon
Tsippi Kauffman
(H)
Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa: A Comparison of Ecclesiastes and Song of
Songs
373
Where Is the Chabad Movement Going?
Chair: Chaim I. Waxman
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717
Yitzchak Kraus
(H)
Messianists and Non-Messianists in the Chabad Movement after the Third of
Tamuz
Yoram Bilu
(H)
"With Us More than Ever": Popular Messianism in Chabad
Ariel Roth
(H)
Creation and Thought After the Passing of the Leader
Assaf Turgeman
(H)
The Messianic Myth in the Chabad Movement after the Third of Tamuz, 1994:
Between Optimistic Vision and Political Violence
374
The Hasidic Movement and Its Reflections in the Ninteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
Chair: Nicham Ross
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605
Zvi Mark
(H)
The Likutei Moharan Manuscripts: Differing Versions and Missing Text
Amira Liwer
(H)
“Order” and “Opposites”: Between the Maharal and R. Zadok ha-Kohen of
Lublin
Zeev Kitsis
(H)
The Hasidic Hagiography Publishing Project of Rabbi Zvi Yechezkel Michelson
and his Circle
Rivka Dvir Goldberg
(H)
The Dybbuk, the Mountain and the Spring: S. An-sky and Breslov Hasidism
Pinchas Giller
(H)
"The Secret of the Act": The Mystique of Religious Practice for a Minor Tzaddik
of the Interwar Period
375
Spirituality and Meditation in the Neo-Hasidic Revival
Chair: Mor Altshuler
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722
Tomer Persico
(H)
"Jewish Meditation": The Development of a Modern Form of Spiritual Practice
in Contemporary Judaism
Daniel Reiser
(H)
Guided Imagery Techniques from Kabbalah to Neo-Hasidism
Zvi Leshem
(H)
Flipping into Eternity: Hasidic Somersaults as a Mystical Technique
Natan Ophir (Offenbacher) (H)
Neo-Hasidism: Nusach Carlebach
376
Approaches to Hasidic Homiletics: Hermeneutical, Literary, and Cultural
Dimensions
Chair: Nicham Ross
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2606
Ora Wiskind-Elper
(H)
From Biblical Hermeneutics to Life as Midrash: The Art of Hasidic Exegesis
Ariel Evan Mayse
(H)
“However They May be Written, It Will be for the Good”: Language, Orality, and
the Power of Speech in the Derashot of R. Dov Baer of Mezritch
Elie Holzer
(H)
Reading the Sefat Emet's Homiletics as "Event"
Nehemia Polen
(E)
Beyond Exegesis and Eisegesis: Hasidic Hermeneutics as Illuminated
Engagement with Living Texts
377
The Conception of the Midrash and the Torah in Modern Thought
Chair: Yehudah Mirsky
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605
Miriam Feldmann Kaye (E)
Deconstructionism Meets Torah min Hashamayim: The Theology of Harav
Shagar
James A. Diamond
(E)
For the Love of God: Contending with Maimonides in Volozhin
David Zori
(H)
Rashi and Late Rabbinic Homiletics: The Case of Noah and Abraham
Judah Levine
(E)
Talmud Torah in Modern Jewish Thought: Buber and Rosenzweig
Nicham Ross
(H)
Midrashic Methodology and Modern Theologians: The Conscious Distortion of
the Tradition
378
Nachman Krochmal - New Perspectives
Chair: Yehoyada Amir
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722
Jonathan Cohen
(E)
The Implicit Educational Philosophy of Rabbi Nachman Krochmal
Lawrence Kaplan
(E)
R. Nahman Krochmal's “Moreh Nevukhe ha-Zeman” and the "Anxiety of
Influence"
David Levine
(H)
Krochmal on Destruction and Regeneration
Yehoyada Amir
(H)
Response
379
The Notion of Jewish Universalism among Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Thinkers
Chair: Hanoch Ben-Pazi
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2606
Yehuda Bitty
(H)
Oral Hebrew Logic or Traditional Universal Wisdom? Remarks Concerning the
Theoretical Teaching of the Rav Ha-Nazir
Dov Berger
(H)
The Universal Aspects of Rabbi Abraham Itzhak Ha-Cohen Kook’s Approach to
Evolutionary Theory
Hadad Eliezer
(H)
Hermann Cohen's Critique of Universal Ethics and its Solution in "The Religion of
Reason"
Yaacov Rozenberg
(H)
The Notions of Particularism and Universalism in the Theories of Rabbi Elie
Benamozegh and Emmanuel Levinas
380
The Thought of Rav Kook
Chair: Semadar Cherlow
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605
Uriel Barak
(H)
Rabbi A. I. Kook's Kabbalistic View of Christianity
Amihai Radzyner
(H)
Mishpat Cohen: Initial Thoughts on the Legal Conceptualization of R. A. I. Kook
Reuven Gerber
(H)
An Israeli Spiritual Way in Light of the Teachings of A. D. Gordon and Rabbi A. I.
Kook
Yehudah Mirsky
(H)
From Eudaemonia to Subjectivity: Rav Kook After 1904
381
The Philosophy and Halakhic Thought of Rabbi M. A. Amiel (Poland and TelAviv; 1882-1946)
Chair: Oded Yisraeli
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2606
Amnon Shapira
(H)
Religion and State in the Thought of Rabbi M. A. Amiel
Yehuda Brandes
(H)
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's Approach to Gemara Learning
Hanan Mozes
(H)
Individualism, Nationalism, and Universalism in the Thought of Rabbi Moshe
Avigdor Amiel and Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg
382
Buber's Thought: New Perspectives
Chair: Matan Oram
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605
Orr Scharf
(E)
“If One Translates a Verse Literally, He is a Liar": On Dual Loyalties in the Buber–
Rosenzweig Translation of the Bible
Martina Urban
(E)
Spatial Ambiguities in Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology
Matan Oram
(H)
Dialogue and Communicative Action: Buber and Habermas
383
New Perspectives on Jewish Philosophical and Ideological Questions
Chair: Ronit Irshai
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2502
Naum Berkovich
(E)
Deconstructionist Methodology in Jewish Philosophy
David Patterson
(E)
What Makes Jewish Thought Jewish?
Assaf Malach
(H)
The Kingdom of Heaven as the Key Concept of Jewish Political Thought
Avinoam Rosenak
(H)
“The Torah of the King”: Pseudo-Formalistic Halakhacization in a Time of
Ideological Crisis
384
Thinking Religious Truth in Relation to Historical Precedents: Classical and
Philosophical Resources
Chair: Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605
Cass Fisher
(E)
Divine Perfection and Religious Language: What Do We Mean by Truth Claims?
Steve Copeland
(E)
Pluralist Inclusiveness in Jewish Sources as Potential Openness to Truth in Other
Religious Traditions
Michael Fagenblat
(E)
Religious Truth: A Phenomenology of Religious Experience
385
Truth, Reason and Religious Experience: Hasidic Resources
Chair: Nehama Verbin
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605
Alon Goshen-Gottstein (E)
Beyond Creedal Statements, beyond Historical Facts: The Existential Totality of
Religious Truth
Rose Or
(E)
“One Thing I Ask of God...”: Revelation and the Limits of Human Knowing in
Early Hasidism
386
Jewish Philosophy: Between Old and New
Chair: Alexander Even-Chen
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717
Neria Guttel
(H)
Traditional Ideological Frameworks that Address Verses Authored by Moses
Alan Levenson
(E)
In Search of Aḥad Ha’am’s Bible
Zachary Braiterman
(E)
Interface or Enclave? The Technological Thought of Joseph Soloveitchik
George Y. Kohler
(E)
David Joel and the Religious Philosophy of the Zohar
387
Corresponding with Germany: Letters between Gershom Scholem and German
Intellectuals
Chair: Itta Shedletzky
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605
Mirjam Zadoff
(E)
A Dialogue between "Two Adventurous Hearts"? Gershom Scholem and Ernst
Juenger
Matthias Morgenstern (E)
Gershom Scholem and Otto Michel: Letters after the Shoah
Noam Zadoff
(E)
A Jewish, German-Jewish Dialogue: Gershom Scholem's Correspondence with
Margarete Susman
Martin Treml
(E)
The Correspondence of Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes
388
Theology after the Holocaust: A Jewish–Christian Discourse
Chair: Zachary Braiterman
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605
Michael Fagenblat
(E)
The Passion of Israel: Levinas’s Judaeo–Christian Midrash
Nehama Verbin
(H)
Theologies of Protest after the Holocaust
Barbara U. Meyer
(E)
Jewish and Christian Post-Shoah Deliberations: Communication and
Disappointment
Hanoch Ben-Pazi
(H)
Covenant and Election in the Light of the Holocaust
390
Modern Jewish Thought
Chair: Hanoch Ben-Pazi
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505
Cass Fisher
(E)
The Posthumous Conversion of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Jewish Theology and the
Allure of the Language Game
Richard L. Claman
(E)
Robert Nozick as a Jewish Meta-Theologian
Shmuel Wygoda
(H)
Jewish Intuitions in the Philosophical Thought of Lev Shastov
Yoel Wachtel
(H)
The Theological Response Among Religious Thinkers to the Historical Events
that Led to the War of Independence and the Establishment of the State of
Israel
Alexander Even-Chen (H)
Poetry, Doubt, and Faith in the Poems of Abraham Joshua Heschel
391
Jewish and Indian Spirituality and Nationalism in the 20th Century: Encounters
and Parallels
Chair: J. H. Chajes
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605
Carmit Rosen
(H)
Revive in a New Body: Body Projects and Gender in the Indian and Jewish
National Movements
Shimon Lev
(H)
The Cultural Encounter between Indians and Jews in the Contexts of the Growth
of their Respective National Movements: Mahatma Gandhi, Tagore, and the
Jews
Boaz Huss
(H)
Jews in the Ashram: The Activities of Jews in Indian Ashrams in the First Half of
the Twentieth Century
392
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein: Thought, Scholarship, and Cultural Impact
Chair: Avraham (Rami) Reiner
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 6837 (Hendeles Zwig
Auditorium)
Yehuda Brandes
(H)
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's approach to Gmara Learning
Dov Schwartz
(H)
Rav Lichtenstein's Philosophical and Educational Revolution
Shlomo Fischer
(H)
Do Ideas Travel? “Torah and Science” and Modern Orthodoxy, between
America and Israel
394
Prayer Books of the Land of Israel, sponsored by the Ben-Zvi Institute
Chair: Yaron Harel
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718
Joseph Tabory
(H)
Nusach Ashkenaz in Modern Times: Between Israel and the Exile
Reuven Gafni
(H)
Eretz Israel Siddurim from the Late Nineteenth Century to the British Mandate
Period
Nissim Leon
(H)
Nationalist Liturgy in Contemporary Ethnic Prayer-Books in Israel
Rachel Werczberger
(H)
The “Disorganized” Siddur of Jewish Renewal
395
Jewish Liturgy Throughout the Ages
Chair: Uri Ehrlich
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503
Tsur Shafir
(H)
“Berikh shmei”: Comparing the Zohar and the Ari
Vered Raziel-Kretzmer (H)
The Eretz Israel Morning Benedictions: Essence and Performance
Hananel Mack
(H)
Ha-nerot Halalu and the Passover Haggadah
393
Shades and moves, "Prushim" and dissidents in Jewish worlds as they appear
in Heillal Ben-Haim books, Hakibbutz Hameuchad publishing house
Chair: Yehuda Friedlander
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713
Yoram Erder
(H)
On the Early Karaite Peshat Understanding of the Commandments and the
Biblical Stories
Shlomi Doron
(H)
Shuttling Between Two Worlds: Coming to and Defecting from Ultra-Orthodox
Judaism in Israeli Society
Jonatan Meir
(H)
Notes on the Hasidic Hagiographical Literature
Shulamit Valler
(H)
On the book "Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud
‫חטיבה‬:
Medieval Literature
403
Jewish and Muslim Literature in the Middle Ages: Contacts and Cycles
Chair: Meira Polliack
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505
Miriam Frenkel
(H)
Akhbar Baghdad and Muslim Historiography
Michael Ebstein
(E)
Drama in Heaven: “Emanation from the Left” in Kabbalah and an Interesting
Cosmogonic Myth in Ismaili Literature
Gad Freudenthal
(H)
The Inception of Hebrew Scientific Literature in the Twelfth Century: New
Perspectives
404
The Hebrew Story in the Middle Ages 1
Chair: Joseph Dan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818
Eli Yassif
(H)
New Perspectives on the Medieval Hebrew Story: The “One Hundred Tales”
Cycle [Ms. Brill] and Its Context
David Rotman
(H)
The Passion for Purity: The Politics of the Wondrous in Medieval Ashkenazi
Narratives
Rella Kushelevsky
(H)
The Poetics of "Hybridity" in Sefer Ha-ma'asim (Northern France, Thirteenth
Century)
405
The Hebrew Story in the Middle Ages 2
Chair: David Rotman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818
Ronit Meroz
(H)
Literary Strategies Used by the Zohar to Cope with the Tension between
Tradition and Innovation
Petter Sh. Lehnardt
(H)
Text and Trauma: Reflections of the Persecutions during the First Crusade in
Hebrew Liturgical Poetry
Josef Bamberger
(H)
Cherchez la femme: Medieval Legends as Polemical Texts
406
Ancient Poetry
Chair: Yehoshua Granat
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717
Wout Jac van Bekkum (E)
Playful Pleasantries in Piyyut: Quadriliterals in Language, Liturgy, and Lyrics
Michael Rand
(H)
The Use of Aramaic in Classical Piyyut
Avi Shmidman
(H)
Qerovot Eighteen for Fast Days from the Cairo Genizah
Shulamit Elizur
(H)
The Ancient Qedushta—New Discoveries
Ophir Münz-Manor
(H)
The Birth of the Author: Piyyut, Rabbinic Literature, and the Question of
Authorship
407
Poetry in Medieval Christian Europe
Chair: Ariel Zinder
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503
Ester Gueta
(H)
The Literary Competition in Sefer Hameshalim of Yaakov Ben Elazar
Matti Huss
(H)
The Ninth Gate in Jacob ben Elazar's Sefer Hameshalim and the Tales of King
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Nili Shalev
(H)
“Ass of the Mill Stricken in the Feet”: On the Maxims of Choice of Pearls as
Adapted in Joseph Qimẖi's Sheqel Ha-Qodesh
Uriah Kfir
(H)
Center and Periphery: A New Perspective on the Map of Medieval Hebrew
Poetry
408
Poetry of "the Golden Age" and its Transformation
Chair: Tamar Lavi
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605
Meret Gutmann-Grun (E)
The Interplay of Torah and Israel as Female Personifications in the Qinah
Abdallah Tarabeih
(H)
The “Istisrākh ” (“Outcry for Redemption”): A Comparative Study of Hebrew and
Arabic Poetry
Yehoshua Granat
(H)
“Daughters of My People, Sing”: Women's Singing in Medieval Iberia, the
Evidence of Hebrew Nuptial Poetry
Ariel Zinder
(H)
Individual and Community in Andalusian Seliḥot
409
Poetry in the East
Chair: Abdallah Tarabeih
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603
Friederike Ruth Winkler (E)
Genizah Fragments in Sephardic Script from the Erzherzog Rainer Collection in
Vienna
Joachim Yeshaya
(E)
The Biblical Story of Noah and the Flood in Karaite Poetry
Tova Beeri
(H)
Poetical Forms and Themes in Najara's She’erit Yisrael
Meyer Nezrit
(H)
Ketubbot Poems for Shavuot
410
Poetry from North Africa
Chair: Uri Melammed
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717
Rut Bitan-Cohen
(H)
Maskiyot Kesef: The Ibn Kaspi Family and its Ties to the Rabbanim of Algeria
during the Fifteenth Century
Rachel Hittin-Mashiah (H)
From Terror to Salvation: Poems about the Reign of Yazid "HaMezid", Morocco
1790–1792
Tamar Lavi
(H)
Prayers for Rain in Moroccan Rabbis Poetry (Piyyutim)
Yossi Ben-Shabat
(H)
"LeDavid Samaḥti": R. David Buzaglo's Last Poem?
411
Haskalah Literature 1
Chair: Amir Banbaji
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713
Jonatan Meir
(H)
The Jewish Enlightenment and Mesmerism
Tova Cohen
(H)
Poetic Dialogues and Dialogues about Poetry: On Connections between Poets in
the Luzzatto Family
Michal Cohen
(H)
The Autonomous Maskilic Female Protagonist: Finalia Adelberg in “Love of the
Righteous: Or, the Persecuted Families,” by Sarah Feiga Meinkin
Moshe Pelli
(H)
Zion (1840/1, 1842/3): “A New Treasure for the Scholars of Israel”
412
Haskalah Literature
Chair: Shmuel Feiner
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722
Amir Banbaji
(H)
Can We Write the History of the Haskalah without Relying on the Secularization
Thesis? A Reconsideration of Early Maskilic Literary Theory
Lucian-Zeev Herscovici (E)
Jacob Chayym Korn's Pedagogical Activity: A Chapter in the History of the
Haskalah Movement in Romania
Ephraim Chamiel
(H)
"The Simple Meaning of the Text (Peshat) is One Because There is Only One
Truth": Luzzatto between Philosophy and Commentary
Yotam Cohen
(H)
The Jews and the Classical World: On the Maskilic Dual Perception of Modern
Jewish Identity
402
Bialik's Sefer Ha-Aggadah
Chair: Menachem Brinker
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium
(Rabin Building)
Menachem Brinker
(H)
Berdichevsky's Anthologies as a Challenge to Bialik and Rabnitsky’s Sefer HaAggadah
Shmuel Avneri
(H)
On the National Foundations of Sefer Ha-Aggadah
Tsafi Sebba-Elran
(H)
“Why Was the Land Destroyed?” Zionism from the Perspective of Sefer HaAgaddah
Avigdor Shinan
(H)
Towards a New Edition of Sefer Ha-Aggadah
413
Literature: Readings from the East
Chair: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717
Hadas Shabat-Nadir
(H)
Translation as "Jewish Poetic": Crossing Boundaries between Minorities—Avot
yeshurun , Dan Pagis, and Erez Biton
Poriya Gets
(H)
Confessions of Passage and Transformation in Hebrew Literature: Between
Tradition and Secularization
Shelley Elkayam
(H)
Tracing the Spread of the Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara
414
Jews and Arabs in Literature and Cinema
Chair: Dinah Stillman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713
Tzvi Tal
(H)
The Representation of Jews and Palestinians in Latin-American Film
Alexandra Preitschopf (E)
"Muslim" Antisemitism Expressed in Rap and Hip-Hop Lyrics in France and Great
Britain: A Comparison
Helga Embacher
(E)
“Muslim” Antisemitism Expressed in Rap and Hip-Hop Lyrics in France and Great
Britain: A Comparison
Sadia Agsous
(E)
The Representation of Israeli Jews in Sayed Kashua's Novels: From
Inaccessibility to Familiarity
Talila Kosh-Zohar
(H)
The Structure of the Universe in the Book of Enoch: A Flat and Square Earth
415
Agnon 1
Chair: Rivka Maoz
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713
Dan Laor
(H)
"Ve-Haya he-Akov le-Mishor": A Century Later
Hillel Weiss
(H)
An Academic Edition of Sefer Hama’asim by S. Y Agnon
Laura Wiseman
(E)
”Peace Everlasting” by S. Y. Agnon: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Jeffrey Saks
(H)
Social Protest and the Place of the Individual in Agnon's 'Ir uMelo'ah
416
Agnon 2
Chair: Hillel Weiss
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713
Rivka Maoz
(H)
S. Y Agnon and Peretz Smolenskin: An Intertextual Analysis
Miriam Jacoby
(H)
Flying Mountains in a Clear Blue Sky and the Burial of the Poor in Byzantium
Michal Peles-Almagor (H)
Theatre and Drama in Sipur Pashut by Agnon: Reading Through Action
Tal Karabelnikov-Itzhaky (H)
Benefactor or Injurer? An Analysis of the Demonic Source in "MehamatHamatzik," in Hachnasat-Kallah of Agnon
417
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Chair: Chanita Goodblatt
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713
Nogah Duchovni-Tamir (H)
Same Event, Different Experiences in a Poetic Dialogue between Uri Zvi
Greenberg and his Wife, A. Tur-Malka
Avishay Munk
(H)
“My Soul, be Ready for the Prayer of Berites Henrikes”: The Medieval Sources of
Sefer Hakitrug Ve–Haemuna by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Eliya Bartal
(H)
Dionysus Drinks with the "Peyot-Jews": Is it Possible?
418
Uri Zvi Greenberg: New Scholarly Trends
Chair: Tamar Wolf Monzon
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713
Baruch Falach
(H)
Uri Zvi Greenberg: Prophet, Mystic and Spiritual Leader
Chanita Goodblatt
(H)
The Figure of the Woman in Greenberg's Volumes on World War I: Maiden,
Mother, Whore
Sivan Har-Shefi
(H)
The Thought of the Editor in Streets of the River
Tamar Wolf Monzon
(H)
Response
419
Biblical, Christian, and Folkloristic Resources in the Works of Haim Be'er
Chair: Nitza Ben Dov
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713
Haim Weiss
(H)
Haim Be'er and the Jewish Bookshelf
Yitzhak Harari
(H)
“Agnus Dei Weeps": Haim Be'er's Dialogue with the New Testament
Haim Beer
(H)
Response
420
That Great Loss: A Reading of War Narratives in Modern Hebrew Literature
Chair: Zvi Mark
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722
Rachel Ofer
(H)
Biblical Hagar in Modern Hebrew Literature: Feminine Aspects of the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict
Eden HaCohen
(H)
Between Ben Yehuda Street and the St. Simon Monastery: A Study of War
Stories by Father and Son—The Gabriel Tirosh Affair by Itzhak Shalev and A
Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
Esther Horovitz
(H)
One People, Three Narratives: Literary Reflections on the Yom Kippur War
Harav Haim Sabbato
(H)
Writing the Book Adjusting Sights: Inspiration, Reality and Fiction
421
The Image of Woman: Multiple Appearances and Identities
Chair: Ester Adivi-Shoshan
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713
Malka Shaked
(H)
The Feminist Poem of Saul Tchernichovsky: The Story of Dinah
Israela Weiss
(H)
The Discourse of Women in the Novels of A. B. Yehoshua
Nitza Keren
(H)
Eve and Lilith: The Double Face of the Woman Poet in Hebrew Literature
Ilana Szobel
(H)
Prostitution, Power, and Weakness in the Literature of Hatḥiya Generation
422
Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Literature 1
Chair: Elchanan Shilo
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722
Esther Azulay
(H)
The Paintings of Marc Chagall and Vincent Van Gogh as Mirrored in the Poetry
of Natan Alterman
Talia Horowitz
(H)
The Affinity of a Liturgical Piyyut and a Modern Sonnet to the Book of Jonah
Naama Shalem
(H)
Intertextuality as a Window on Interpretation in Zelda's Poems
Omer Naor
(H)
Miriam Markel Mosessohns' Futuristic Utopia
423
Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Literature 2
Chair: Omer Naor
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722
Ruth Adler
(E)
Talmudic Motifs in the Works of Y. L. Peretz
Elchanan Shilo
(H)
Berdyczewski: Between Revolutionary Declarations and Cultural Continuity
Muki Tsur
(H)
Itzjak Katzenelson: An Educator, a Poet, and a Spiritual Leader Facing the Jewish
Community before and during the Holocaust
Aviva Mahalo
(H)
The Kibbutz as a Microcosmos in the Stories of Zvi Luz
424
Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Literature 3
Chair: Elazar Elhanan
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713
Sharon Meir
(H)
Freudian Delusion: The Intimidating Twin in the Novel Our Wedding (1999) by
Dorit Rabinyan
Orna Baziz
(H)
Realism and Surrealism in Uziel Hazan's works
Helena Rimon
(H)
Magic, Science and Religion in the Literary Plot: The Genres of the Israeli
Fantasy
Orna Levin
(H)
“I Wrote this Book in Memory of Days Gone By”: What did Agnon Write and
Why did he Erase It?
425
Identities 1
Chair:
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2602
Nitza Ben Dov
(H)
Voices of War (milḥamah), Illness (maḥalah), and Dream (ḥalom) in the Novel,
To the End of the Land, by David Grossman
Ester Adivi-Shoshan
(H)
Momik, Between Motel and Elik: Portrait of a Ripped Child
Lilian Dabby-Joury
(H)
Between Realities and Identities in the Work of Almog-Behar
Yael Balaban
(H)
"European Eyes": Identity and Foreignness in the Prose of Shulamith Hareven
426
Identities 2
Chair: Lilian Dabby-Joury
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2606
Rina Lapidus
(H)
Jewish Poets in the Soviet Union in the Period of the Second World War
Adi Mahalel
(E)
Ambiguous Relations: I. L. Peretz and the Hebrew New Wave
Orit Rabkin
(E)
How Abraham Cahan Invented the Jewish-American Writer
Tsippy Levin Byron
(H)
Threads of Jewish Identity Intertwined in the Writings of Natalia Ginzburg
427
Identities 3
Chair: Orit Rabkin
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2602
Dina Berdichevsky
(H)
Y. H. Brenner and the Birth of the Literary Self-Portrait in Hebrew Literature
Miriam Neiger
(H)
“My Two Souls”: The Formation of the Young Avigdor Hameiri's Hybrid Identity
in a Multinational State and its Expression in his Poetry
Marlyn Vinig
(H)
The Figure of Benedict de Spinoza and his Comprehension of Ethical Reflection
in Judaism of our Time—A Consideration of the Play “Solo ” by Joshua Sobol
432
Jewish Book Culture 1
Chair: Dan Haruv
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716
Adam Shear
(E)
Early Modern Jewish Broadsides: A Research Agenda
Laurence Roth
(E)
Networks of Jewish Literature: Jewish Bookstores Online
Gil Weissblei
(H)
"Measured and Clean": The Birth of Hebrew Bibliophile Books in Weimar
Germany
429
Discourses of Love in Literary and Medical Sources in the Pre-Modern Period
Chair: Rella Kushelevsky
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505
Tovi Bibring
(H)
The Many-Faceted Discourse of Love in Jacob Ben Elazar's Love Stories
Revital Refael-Vivante (H)
Between Man and Woman: Echoes from Late Thirteenth-Century Castilian
Hebrew Poetry and Prose
Michal Altbauer-Rudnik (H)
"How May Lovesickness be Cured?": The Medical Discussion of Lovesickness in
Jacob Zahalon's Treasure of Life
Joseph Yahalom
(H)
A Maqama of Romance
430
Printed Jewish Literary Anthologies in Italy and Germany: Sixteenth–
Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Lucia Raspe
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505
Vered Tohar
(H)
Ḥibur Ha-ma’asiot Ve-hamidrashot Ve-hahaggadot: A Literary Hebrew
Anthology from the Sixteenth Century
Noga Rubin
(H)
From Sefer Middot to Orchot Zaddikim and Back: The Transformations of a Book
of Ethics in Yiddish and Hebrew
Itamar Drori
(H)
Rabbi Israel Costa's Mikweh Yisrael: The First Hebrew Anthology for Jewish
Schoolchildren
431
New Perspectives on Non-Hebrew Jewish Literature
Chair: Tsippy Levin Byron
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2502
Maria Diemling
(E)
Food and Identity in Anglo-Jewish Literature
Marcelo Maghidman
(E)
Mosseh Rephael d'Aguilar: The Origins of Jewish Literature in Portuguese in
Dutch Brazil
Mireille Herr
(H)
Jewish Presence in Contemporary French Literature: The Unique Case of Liliane
Atlan
440
Between Magic and Folklore
Chair: James Nathan Ford
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717
Ortal-Paz Saar
(E)
Society, Religion, and Babylonian Incantation Bowls: A New Textual Typology
Gideon Bohak
(H)
Recipes to Encourage Religious Devotion in the Jewish Magical Tradition
Lital Lieberman-Avital (H)
“Healing with Salt”: A Traditional Women’s Magical Practice in a New and
Renewing Environment
Yuval Harari
(H)
Practical Kabbalah Online
441
Witchcraft and Magic in Rabbinic Literature
Chair: Gideon Bohak
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2506
Sara Ronis
(E)
Babylonian Rabbis and the Demonic in the Laws of the Babylonian Talmud
Bar Belinitzky
(H)
Excommunication in Late Antique Babylonia
James Nathan Ford
(E)
On Two Parallels between the Babylonian Incantation Bowls and the Magical
Texts from the Cairo Genizah
442
Early Mysticism and Magic through the Ages
Chair: Yuval Harari
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722
Shraga Bar-On
(H)
On Three who Entered Pardes and on Three who Ascended to the Heights: The
Rabbinic Argument Concerning Early Jewish Mysticism
Valery Merlin
(E)
Golem and Abracadabra: Rabbinic Scripturality Revisited
Annelies Kuyt
(E)
Technical Terminology in the Hekhalot Literature: A Tool for the Determination
of the Boundaries of the Corpus?
Matt Goldish
(E)
The Supernatural in Rabbinic Responsa: Preliminary Remarks
443
The “Wandering Jew” towards Modernity and Beyond: Folklore, Space, and
Identity in the Age of Nationalism 2
Chair: Haim Weiss
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716
Galit Hasan-Rokem
(E)
Where Wandering Ends? The Eternal Jew in Modernity
Edan Dekel
(E)
Shelley's Esemplastic “Wandering Jew”
Gurley Gantt
(E)
Hans Christian Andersen and the Transatlantic Wanderer
444
The “Wandering Jew” towards Modernity and Beyond: Folklore, Space, and
Identity in the Age of Nationalism 1
Chair: Vered Madar
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716
Tuvia Singer
(H)
The Elastic Jew: The Ideological Discourse regarding the Wandering Jew in the
Second Half of the Nineteenth Century in Germany and Austria
Dani Schrire
(H)
Shifting Sands: Transformations in the Ethnographic Field in Jewish Folkloristics
1898–1948
Shimrit Peled
(H)
The Wandering Jew Settles—or Does He?—In Zion and in Modern Hebrew
Literature
Richard Cohen
(E)
The "Wandering Jew" in an Age of Instability: Images and Self-Images
445
Folklore and Its Preservation
Chair: Dani Schrire
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Ron Bartour
(H)
Female Preaching for the Holy Land and for Women’s Rights in NineteenthCentury Communications
Daniel Dratwa
(E)
The Certificate of Religious Education: Iconographic and Sociocultural Analysis
from 1842 till Today
Volodymyr Lyubchenko (E)
Dreidel as an Element of Traditional Ashkenazic Culture: History, Typology,
Regional Peculiarities (on Materials from Ukraine)
446
Folklore of Every Day Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Chair: Haya Bar-Itzhak
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Anna Lebet-Minakowska(E)
Clothing and Oppression in the Polish Lands in the Nineteenth Century
Maria Kaspina
(E)
Fieldwork and Items from the Moscow Jewish Museum
Svetlana Amosova
(E)
"Jewish Town" as Seen by the Old Believers
Marina Hakkarainen
(E)
Where has Jewish Money Gone? The Transformation of Meanings and the
Meaning of Transformations of Jewish Values in the Context of Local Traditions
in the Former Pale of Settlement (Ukraine)
447
Jewish Humor: Fruit of the Main?
Chair: Miriam Sivan
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Julia David
(E)
On Irony in the Jewish World
Peter Schulman
(E)
Golems, Frozen Rabbis, and Dybbuks: Steve Stern's Mystical Humor
Sam W. Bloom
(E)
The Elusiveness of Jewish Humor
450
Surveys of Research in Hebrew Language
Chair: Ora Schwarzwald
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714
Tamar Zewi
(H)
The Study of Hebrew Syntax
Zohar Livnat
(H)
The Study of Hebrew Discourse
Yosef Tobi
(H)
Research into the Language of Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Aharon Maman
(H)
The Study of Hebrew in Jewish Languages
451
The Scientific Activity of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
Chair: Moshe Bar-Asher
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714
Chanan Ariel
(H)
The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language
Nurit Shoval-Dudai
(H)
Greek and Latin Loanwords in the Historical Dictionary
Ariel Shaveh
(H)
Vocalized Forms in Manuscripts of Rashi's Commentary to the Pentateuch
Tamar Katz
(H)
Obscure Words and Their Paths into Modern Hebrew
452
Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Theoretical and Historical Linguistics A1:
Historical Linguistics
Chair: Steven Fassberg
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714
Tania Notarius
(E)
The Second Person Jussive in an Affirmative Sentence in Archaic Hebrew and
Ancient Northwest Semitic Languages
Uri Mor
(E)
The Development of Predicates with Prepositional Subjects in Hebrew
Yigal Bloch
(E)
"Late" Linguistic Features in Hebrew Inscriptions of the Eighth–Sixth Centuries
B.C.E.: Between Diachrony and Diglossia
453
Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Theoretical and Historical Linguistics A2:
Historical Linguistics
Chair: Avi Hurvitz
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714
Aaron Hornkohl
(E)
The Standard Diachronic Approach to Biblical Hebrew: Some Recent
Counterarguments
Christian Stadel
(E)
The Syntagm “kl + Indef. Pl. Noun Phrase” in Biblical Hebrew
Chaim Cohen
(E)
The Reduplicated Primary Noun Pattern, BH / Ug. qdqd = Akk. Qaqqadu: A New
Interpretation
William Schniedewind (E)
The Linguistics of Writing Systems and the Gap in the Hebrew Scribal Tradition
454
Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Theoretical and Historical Linguistics B1 - Syntax
and Pragmatics
Chair: Adina Moshavi
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714
Jacobus Naudé
(E)
The Scope of Negation Inside and Outside of the Biblical Hebrew Prepositional
Phrase
Cynthia L Miller-Naudé (E)
The Scope of Negation Inside and Outside of the Biblical Hebrew Prepositional
Phrase
Keren Dubnov
(E)
Locative Alternations in Biblical Hebrew
W. Randall Garr
(E)
On the Alternation Between asher and sh- in Qohelet
455
Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Theoretical and Historical Linguistics B2: Syntax
and Pragmatics
Chair: Tamar Zewi
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714
Galia Hatav
(H)
Topicalization of Events in Biblical Hebrew
Lina Petersson
(E)
The Syntactic Pattern, imp. → w-yiqtol and the Expression of Indirect Command
in Biblical Hebrew
Adina Moshavi
(E)
On Rhetorical Questions that Receive Answers in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
(E)
The Strategy of Linking Non-Main Clauses- in Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry
456
Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Theoretical and Historical Linguistics C:
Discourse and Applied Linguistics
Chair: Galia Hatav
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714
David Toshio Tsumura (E)
“Verticality” in Biblical Hebrew Parallelism
Frank Polak
(E)
Participant Tracking: Dialogue Structure and the Pragmatics of Positioning in
Biblical Narrative
Gregor Geiger
(E)
Waw Introducing Nominal Clauses From a Text-Linguistic Viewpoint
Nicolai Winther-Nielsen (E)
Automated Verb Decomposition for PLOTLearner
457
The Language of the Bible 1
Chair: James Nathan Ford
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714
Alexey (Eliyahu) Yuditsky (H)
On the Grammar of the Hebrew of Jerome's Transcriptions With Respect to
Other Traditions of Hebrew
Daniel Vainstub
(H)
What Do ’adirey hatzon (Jeremiah 25) and gefen ’aderet (Ezekiel 17) Have in
Common?
Adam Bin Noon
(H)
Babylonian Remnants in the Yemenite Reading Tradition of the Bible
458
The Language of the Bible 2
Chair: Keren Dubnov
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714
Nathalie Akun
(H)
How did the Jews of Morocco read the words '‫ 'קדשים‬and '‫?'שרשים‬
Miriam Kahana
(H)
The Translation as derivative of the role of the word in the verse in Targum
Jonathan to the prophets
Haim Dihi
(H)
The Contribution of the Language of the Book of Ben Sira to Biblical Hebrew
Philology
459
Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew Grammar
Chair: Aron Dotan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714
Moshe Bar-Asher
(H)
On the Morphology of the Noun in Mishnaic Hebrew
Chaim E. Cohen
(H)
Some Topics in the Morphology of the Noun in Mishnaic Hebrew
Michael Ryzhik
(H)
Remarks on the Grammar of the Noun in the Mishnah
460
The Language of the Rabbis 1
Chair: Rivka Shemesh-Raiskin
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714
Doron Ya'akov
(H)
The Yemenite Tradition of Rabbinic Hebrew: An Oral Tradition?
Esther Haber
(H)
The Unbound Genitive Construction and the Double Genitive Construction in
Mishnaic Hebrew
Emmanuel Mastéy
(H)
Nearly Extinct Linguistic Forms in MS Kaufmann of the Mishnah
461
The Language of the Rabbis 2
Chair: Esther Haber
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714
Meirav Tubul Kahana (H)
Questions in the Mishnah
Avi Shveka
(H)
The Unspecified Subject in Mishnaic Hebrew
Shai Heijmans
(H)
Two Phenomena concerning the Vocalization of Greek Loanwords in the
Mishnah
Rivka Shemesh-Raiskin (H)
From Biblical Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew: The Usage of the Cognate Object
462
Studies in Medieval Hebrew Grammar
Chair: Michael Ryzhik
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714
Luba Charlap
(H)
The Grammatical Thought of the Karaite Yehuda Hadassi: Between East and
West
Esther Gamliel Barak
(H)
David Ben Avraham Al-Fasi: An Innovative Lexicographer and Pedagogue
Chanoch Gamliel
(H)
Different Types of Medieval Hebrew
Dror Ben-Arié
(H)
Miqneh Abram, by Abraham de Balmes: A Bilingual Hebrew Grammar of the
Sixteenth Century
463
Contemporary Hebrew 1
Chair: Einat Gonen
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714
Anna Inbar
(H)
The Conjunction və in Contemporary Spoken Hebrew
Rakefet Dilmon
(H)
Finding "Suspicious Utterances" in an Interview by Using Linguistic Analysis
Ruth Burstein
(H)
Negative Yes–No Questions in Contemporary Hebrew
464
Contemporary Hebrew 2
Chair: Ruth Burstein
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714
Michal Shaket
(H)
The Eloquent Silence as a Means of Expression in Selected Israeli Memorial
Songs
Adina Abadi
(H)
Source Domains and Semantic Shifts of Metaphors in Economic Discourse
Orly Albeck
(H)
Selecting Syntactical Alternatives Based on Linguistic Logic
Arye Olman
(H)
Attributes that Precede their Head Noun in Hebrew: Shared Syntax, Shared
Semantics
465
The Use of Hebrew among Bilingual Speakers
Chair: Malka Muchnik
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714
Rinat Golan
(H)
Language and Identity among Russian Speakers in Israel
Revital Shadmi
(H)
Hebrew–Spanish Bilingualism among Immigrants and Israelis
Malka Muchnik
(H)
Hebrew–Spanish Bilingualism on Kibbutzim and in Urban Centers
Adel Shakour
(H)
The Influence of Arabic Syntax on the Hebrew of Arab Writers in Israel
466
Investigating Colloquial Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary Reports 1
Chair: Ora Schwarzwald
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714
Shlomo Izre'el
(H)
Units of Language: A View from Spoken Israeli Hebrew
Vered Silber-Varod
(H)
The Prosody-Syntax Interface: Hesitation Disfluencies and other Prosodic
Boundaries
Sol Azuelos-Atias
(H)
Levels of Comprehension and Ways of Representing the Subject in Spoken
Hebrew
Smadar Cohen
(H)
The Person Markers System in Spontaneous Israeli Hebrew
467
Investigating Colloquial Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary Reports 2
Chair: Shlomo Izre'el
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714
Nimrod Shatil
(H)
Construct States in Colloquial Hebrew, Specified as Definite by the Article ha-
Doron Rubinstein
(H)
Numerals in Spoken Hebrew
Einat Gonen
(H)
Numerals in Spoken Hebrew
Judith Hanshke
(H)
Ganavah or Ganevet: On the "Other" Hebrew in Israel
468
Hebrew and Other Languages
Chair: Adina Abadi
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714
Rivka Bliboim
(H)
Cultural and Linguistic Changes as Reflected in Translations of Children's Books
Daria Semchenkova
(H)
Culturally Significant Numbers in Hebrew and Russian Phraseology
Yaffa Israeli
(H)
Joseph and His Brothers: A Bilingual, Midrashic, Epic Poem in Hebrew and NeoJewish Aramaic
Yitzhak Hilman
(H)
The G-Stem in Hebrew and Aramaic: A Comparative Study
470
Old Yiddish Literature in Past and Present Scholarship
Chair: Shlomo Berger
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603
Ruth von Bernuth
(E)
Moments of Wonder: Perceptions of Old Yiddish Literature in NineteenthCentury German Studies
Aya Elyada
(E)
Old Yiddish Literature in German-Jewish Scholarship
Zehavit Stern
(E)
The Spielmann Theory and the Invention of the Jewish Bard
Marion Aptroot
(E)
Current Scholarship and Max Weinreich's Research on Old Yiddish Literature
471
Old Yiddish Literature
Chair:
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603
Simon Neuberg
(Y)
A Fresh look at Old Tkhines
Claudia Rosenzweig
(E)
A Yiddish Version of Corcos’ Memoriale (1740?)
Oren Roman
(E)
Echoes of Oral Literature in Old Yiddish Works
472
Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust through the Prisms of its Literature
Chair: Hagit Lavsky
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603
Ella Florsheim
(H)
The Pursuit of Yiddish Culture in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany after
the Holocaust (1945–1950) and its Social Significance
Diego Rotman
(H)
From Silence to Speech: The Role of Yiddish in the Resurrection of Jewish
Culture after the Holocaust, in the Work of Dzigan and Szumacher
Gali Drucker Bar-Am
(H)
Between Rehabilitation and Revival: Israeli-Yiddish Prose (1948–1968)
Avraham Novershtern (H)
Response
473
Functions of Reading Yiddish through the Ages: Manuscripts, Books and
Newspapers
Chair: Claudia Rosenzweig
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603
Shalhevet Dotan-Ofir
(H)
A Reinvestigation of the Target Audience for the Books that were Printed in
Yiddish in Amsterdam
Lucia Raspe
(E)
Towards a Social History of Reading Yiddish in Italy, 1450–1600
Shlomo Berger
(E)
The Sociology of Print: Early Modern Yiddish Books and their Anonymous
Readership
Rachel Rojanski
(E)
"Everyone Read a Yiddish Paper": The Yiddish Press and the Immigrant
Community
474
Yiddish: Cultural and Linguistic Aspects
Chair:
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603
Hagit Cohen
(H)
The Yiddish Cultural Center in Chicago in Light of the Literary Activity of L. M.
Stein Publishing House and the Yiddish Culture Society, 1928–1940
Leizer Burko
(Y)
Max Weinreich's Unwritten History of the Yiddish Language
Astrid Starck-Adler
(E)
Alsatian Yiddish in Israel
Valentina Fedchenko
(E)
Passive-Perfect Constructions in Yiddish: A Typological Approach
475
Women's Liberation in the Yiddish Writing of Women from the First Half of
the Twentieth Century
Chair: Eli Lederhendler
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603
Nathan Cohen
(H)
The Experience of Reading as Reflected in Jewish Women’s Memoirs in Yiddish
Nurit Orchan
(H)
The Predicament of the Woman within her Family in the Stories of Rochel
Broches
Judith Levin
(H)
The Struggle for Woman's Liberation and the Disappointment of Its Failure
within Marriage and Family Life in the Stories of Rachel Feinberg
Miriam Szamet
(H)
Puah Rakovsky's Outlook on the Nature of Jewish Women's Liberation
476
Modern Yiddish Literature 1
Chair: Avraham Novershtern
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603
Rakhmiel Peltz
(Y)
Educational Restitution: Where Have the Yiddish Language and Culture of PreWorld War II Jewry Gone?
Kathryn Hellerstein
(E)
China Comes to Warsaw: Melekh Ravitsh's Travel Poems and Journals
Efrat Gal-Ed
(E)
Itzik Manger as Translator
Yaniv Goldberg
(H)
“You Are Not My Groom”: A Feminist Reading of S. An-sky's Play, “The Dybbuk”
477
Modern Yiddish Literature 2
Chair: Yaniv Goldberg
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603
Aviva Berlinski-Tal
(H)
Longing for the Sublime: YIddish Love Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Aviv Livnat
(H)
Dvoyre Fogel: Yiddish and Synthetic Cubism
Adina Bar-El
(H)
The Yiddish Writings of Eliezer Shindler for Religious and Secular Children
481
Judeo-Spanish Linguistics
Chair: Ora Schwarzwald
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: Senate Hall
Yaakov Bentolila
(S)
Towards a Standardized Orthography of haketía -- transliteration (En búsqueda
de una grafía estándar para la ḥaketía)
Ivana Vucina Simovic
(E)
The Loss and Death of Balkan Judeo-Spanish (La pérdida y muerte del judeoespañol)
Rafael Arnold
(E)
Judaeo-Spanish Lexicology - Historical Lexicography – Digitalization of Old
Spanish Data – Diccionario del Español Medieval (DEM)
482
Sephardic Studies: Trends, Tendencies, and Prospects
Chair: Tamar Alexander
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: Senate Hall
Yizhak Navon
(L)
Greetings
Fernando Carderera Soler (S)
Greetings
Boaz Gaon
(E)
Greetings
Eliezer Papo
(E)
Between Rabbis and Women, Between Prikantes and Leḥashim: Sephardim and
their Magic Traditions
Aldina Quintana
(S)
El judeo-español ante los retos de la lingüística del siglo XXI
Yaron Ben Naeh
(H)
From Old Stories to New Histories
482
Judeo-Spanish Culture: History and Society
Chair: Alisa Meyuhas-Ginio
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: Senate Hall
Libia Nancy Velásquez (E)
The Letters, the Jews of Bordeaux and Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Ricardo Muñoz Solla
(S)
“Those Turks of the Paralelo”: Some Remarks about the Charitable Sephardic
Society Agudat Aḥim of Barcelona (1926–1939)
Julia R. Lieberman
(E)
The London Shaar Ashamaim Community in the Eighteenth Century and its
Poor
Michael Studemunt-Halévy
(E)
Shumen, civdad sefardita: Autores, livros, i teatro
483
Judeo-Spanish Literature
Chair: Eliezer Papo
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: Senate Hall
Katja Šmid
(E)
Manuals of Practical Halakhah in Ladino
Rachel Wolfe
(E)
Patria en el Luminar Otomano: Advocacy of Civic Integration of the Sephardim
in Turkey during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Susy Gruss
(S)
Qué fue escrito en ydish sobre los judíos sefardíes?
484
Art and Music
Chair: Mirjam Rajner
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: Senate Hall
Svetlana Smolčić Makuljević
(E)
The Jews in Christian Visual Culture of the Ottoman Balkans (FIfteenth to
Sixteenth Century)
Vuk Dautović
(E)
Jewish Funerary Culture: Central European Yahrzeit Plaques in the Serbian
Jewish Community around 1900
Nenad Makuljevic
(E)
“Joseph’s Dream” and “The Eternal Jew”: Private and Collective Identity in Leon
Kojen’s Paintings
Judith R. Cohen
(E)
The "Bulbul of Sarajevo" among the Mohawks
485
Folkloristic Elements in the Study of Judeo-Spanish Culture (A Joint Session of
the Ladino and Folklore Sections)
Chair: Galit Hasan-Rokem
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: Senate Hall
Nina Pinto-Abecasis
(H)
De abuela a nieto—Anécdotas judeo-españolas: Emigración, acomodación
cultural y mantenimiento de la legua
Michal Held
(E)
"Lavrando el bastidor": Reflections of Women's Textiled World in the Judeo –
Spanish Oral and Written Tradition
Rivka Havassy
(E)
Remnants of Ladino Poetry in Hebrew Manuscripts
Tamar Alexander
(E)
When Elijah met Lilith: Sephardic Magic Incantations
486
Ladino Culture: Education and Tradition
Chair: Yaakov Bentolila
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: Senate Hall
Avner Perez
(H)
Treasure of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Language Throughout the Generations: A
Comprehensive Historical Dictionary
Tina Rivlin
(H)
The Ashkenazi Maskilim: Ladino-speaking Rabbis in Bulgaria at the Times of
Westernization and Secularization
Gila Hadar
(H)
Rabbi Itzhak Shaki’s Midrash on the Song of Songs : Nationalism, Redemption,
and the Ladino Language at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Ora Schwarzwald
(H)
Comparison of Jewish Laws in Two Ladino Books from the 16th Century
487
Ladino as a Living Culture Today
Chair: Moshe Shaul
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: Senate Hall
Jagoda Večerina
(S)
Laura Papo Bohoreta: La primera feminista sefardi
Matilda Koen-Sarano
(L)
El nasimiento i la muerte en el kuento popular djudeo-espanyol
Djordje Konforti
(L)
Reconstruction of Judeo-Espanyol
488
Assembly of Sephardic Studies Section
Chair: Tamar Alexander
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: Senate Hall
Eliezer Papo
(H)
Moderator
400
Ad fontem in Modern Jewish Culture
Chair: Katrin Kogman-Appel
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin
Building)
Ziva Shamir
(H)
Hebrew Culture and Jewish Studies 1897–1913
James Loeffler
(E)
One Revolution or Two? The Jewish Musical Renaissance, Then and Now
Ziva Amishai-Maisels
(E)
Jewish Written Sources in Twentieth-Century Art
433
Jewish Book Culture 2
Chair: Katrin Kogman-Appel
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716
Sarit Shalev-Eyni
(E)
The Maḥzor as a Calendar: Astrology in Medieval Ashkenaz
Rachel Zohn Mincer
(E)
Liturgical Minhagim Books: The Increasing Reliance on Written Texts in Late
Medieval Ashkenaz
Dalia-Ruth Halperin
(E)
A Correspondence across Generations
434
Jewish Book Culture 3
Chair: David Stern
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716
Moshe Rosman
(E)
What Books Did an Early Modern Jewish Library Contain?
Evelyn Cohen
(E)
Charlotte Rothschild's Illuminated Haggadah of 1842
Javier Del Barco
(E)
Books in Motion: Some Manuscripts from the Library
of Natan ben Sa’adiah ha-Cohen Shulel
435
The Hamburg Miscellany MS: An Interdisciplinary View
Chair: Judah D. Galinsky
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716
Zsofia Buda
(E)
The Illustration Program of the Hamburg Miscellany
Israel Peles
(H)
Two Disciples of the Maharil: Similarities and Differences
Michal Sternthal
(H)
The Ulm Workshop for Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fifteenth Century
Jeffrey Woolf
(E)
The Hamburg Miscellany in its Cultural Context
500
Jewish Art in Late Antiquity
Chair: Shulamit Laderman
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716
Lidia Chakovskaya
(E)
The Iconography of the Aron ha-Qodesh in the Dura-Europos Synagogue: Some
Observations
Yoel Fixler
(H)
The Appearance of the Menorah Base in the Time of the Second Temple
Noa Yuval-Hacham
(H)
Daniel in the Lion's Den: The Transformation of a Motif in Ancient Jewish Art
Ido Noy
(H)
Representations of Head Decorations on Ancient Jewish Coins
501
Designing Daily Life: Decoration and Cultural Identity among Ancient Jewish
Populations
Chair: Lee I. Levine
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716
Karen Stern
(E)
Decoration as Commemoration: Pictorial Graffiti in the Beit Shearim Necropolis
Orit Peleg-Barkat
(E)
Interpreting the Uninterpreted: Art as Means of Expressing Identity in Early
Roman Judaea
Naama Vilozny
(H)
The Evil Eye among Jews in Late Antiquity: Textual and Visual Aspects
Aliza Steinberg
(H)
Garments and their Accessories as Presented in the Synagogue Mosaics of Eretz
Israel during Late Antiquity
502
Jewish and Christian Iconography
Chair: Elisheva Revel-Neher
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716
Rachel Sarfati
(H)
The "Absent Presence" of the Holy Ark in Representations of Tabernacle
Implements in Manuscripts from the Land of Israel
Yaffa Englard
(E)
"Ishmael's Sins" in Two Weltchronik Manuscripts
Shulamit Laderman
(E)
God’s Blueprint of Creation as Expressed in Art
503
Inventing Identities in Jewish Art and Architecture
Chair: Rachel Sukman
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716
Ilia Rodov
(E)
What Did Rabbi Moses Isserles Look Like?
Sara Offenberg
(E)
Up in Arms: The Imagined Identity of Jewish Warriors in Ashkenazic Illuminated
Manuscripts
Sergey Kravtsov
(E)
Synagogue Architecture between Jewish and Polish Narratives
Mirjam Rajner
(E)
Moša Pijade's Fluctuating Identities: From Sephardic Jew, to Serbian Artist, to
Yugoslav Communist Leader
504
Synagogues in Europe
Chair: Ilia Rodov
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716
Tamar Shadmi
(H)
The Liturgical Inscriptions on the Walls of the Bechhofen Synagogue and their
Historical Significance
Vladimir Levin
(E)
The Eastern European Synagogue as a Social Institution
David M. Cassuto
(E)
The Interior Design and Layout of Synagogues in the Iberian Peninsula
Bracha Yaniv
(E)
The Ceiling of the Chodorow Synagogue: Towards a Comprehensive
Iconography
505
Polish-Jewish Discourse: Modern Art and the Politics of Representation
Chair: Mirjam Rajner
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716
Eleonora Jedlinska
(E)
Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990): His Art and his Memory of the Holocaust
Natasza Styrna
(E)
Jews and the Cracow Avant-Garde in the Thirties
Artur Tanikowski
(E)
On the Duty of Narration: The Visual Arts in the Postwar Gallery, the Museum of
the History of Polish Jews
506
Israeli Art
Chair: Ziva Amishai-Maisels
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716
Ronit Steinberg
(E)
Marks in the Sand: Micha Ullman's "Wedding" Artwork
Sharon Weiser Ferguson (H)
Forging Ahead: Gumbel and Wolpert—Israeli Silversmiths for the Modern Age
Noa-Lea Cohn
(E)
Looking for the Messiah: A Unique Glance at the Art of Israeli Orthodox Artist
Baruch Nachshon
Ronit Sorek
(H)
Four Artists–One God: Seeking for God in the Works of Anna Ticho, Aviva Uri,
Michal Na'aman, and Zoya Cherkassky
507
Modern Jewish Art 1
Chair: Evelyn Cohen
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716
Aviva Winter
(H)
Expressions of Jewish Spirituality in the Art of Tuvia Katz
Monika Czekanowska (E)
Challenging Christian Iconography of Esther: Portrayals of Esther in Jewish Art of
the Early Twentieth Century (Ephraim Moses Lilien, Wilhelm Wachtel, Maurycy
Minkowski)
Susan Nashman Fraiman (E)
Jewish Texts in the Works of Moritz Oppenheim
Klein Rudolf
(E)
Architect Béla Lajta and his Double Cultural Identity
508
Modern Jewish Art 2: Eastern Europe
Chair: Bracha Yaniv
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716
Magdalena Czesniak-Zielinska
(E)
Remarks on the Jewish Art Colony in Kazimierz Dolny
Ruth Apter-Gabriel
(E)
On the Threshold of the Communist Era: Farewell to Jewish Art
Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia
(E)
Heinrich Tischler, a Jewish Expressionist from Breslau
Rachel Sukman
(H)
Georges Foldes (1926–1993): An Artist who Overcame his Destiny
509
Jerusalem: Myth and Politics
Chair: Yossi Katz
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817
Yehiel Leket
(H)
Greetings
Cristina Rattigheiri
(E)
Jerusalem Elsewhere: The Replica of the Holy Sepulchre and the Stations of the
Via Crucis in San Girolamo, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky (H)
The Jerusalem Municipality: Between Local and High Politics
Na'ama Frostig - Derman (H)
Shanghai and Jerusalem: Jerusalem as Perceived in “Israel's Messenger”
Dotan Goren
(H)
Identifying the Historical Location of Shefech Hadeshen: A Vanished Sacred Site
520
Ashkenaz at the Synagogue, on Stage, and at Home 1
Chair: Ruth Hacohen
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715
Amalia Kedem
(E)
Forging Israeli Ashkenazi Identity through Synagogue Music
Amit Klein
(E)
Is There Such a Thing as Contemporary Ḥazzanut?
Naomi Cohn Zentner
(E)
The Culture of Zemirot Shabbat among Ashkenazim in Israel
Boaz Tarsi
(E)
Trans-Repertory Motifs in the Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition
521
Ashkenaz at the Synagogue, on Stage and at Home 2: An Encounter with
Jewish Art Music in Russia
Chair:
Monday (29/7/2013) Room: 2715
Rita Flomenboim
(H)
The Composer Mikhail (Moses) Milner: "I'm Writing Posthumous Works"
522
Jews and Music in the Nineteenth Century: Expanding the Picture
Chair: Edwin Seroussi
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715
Mark Kligman
(E)
The Musical Style of Early Synagogue Music from Manuscripts of Israel Lovy
Steven Cahn
(E)
From the Birnbaum Collection: Psalms in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Leipzig
Halina Goldberg
(E)
"On the Wings of the Beautiful Towards the Radiant Spheres of the Infinite":
Maskilic Views on Liturgical Music in Nineteenth-Century Warsaw
Judah M. Cohen
(E)
Zimrath Yah : Nineteenth Century Jewish Musical Reform as a Transatlantic
Conversation
523
Paul Ben-Haim: New Documentation
Chair: Yosef Goldenberg
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715
Malcolm B. B. Miller
(E)
Letters from the Front: Paul (Ben-Haim) Frankenburger's Early Unpublished
Correspondence with Otto E. Crusius (1892–1965)
Liran Gurkiewicz
(E)
Paul Ben-Haim and the Aesthetics of Israeli Music
524
Yehezkel Braun: An Assessment at Ninety
Chair: André Hajdu
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715
Jehoash Hirshberg
(E)
"I Write What I Hear": Yehezkel Braun's Creative World
Rotem Luz
(E)
Yehezkel Braun: An Assessment at Ninety
525
The Israeli Soundscape: Past and Present
Chair: Gila Flam
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715
Nathan Shahar
(H)
Russian Melodies in Hebrew Song
Merav Meron
(H)
The Road Songs of Shem-Tov Levi
Abigail Wood
(E)
Sounds of Prayer, Sounds of Conflict: Sharing Sonic Space at the Western Wall
526
Schoenberg in the Intersections of Modernity
Chair: Francesco Spagnolo
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715
Klara Moricz
(E)
The Presentness of the Past, or: Looking at Pre-Holocaust European Jewish
History with its Side Shadows
Yoel Greenberg
(E)
"These are your Gods, Oh Israel": Schoenberg's “Moses und Aron” and
Antisemitic Imagery
David Schaum
(E)
Arnold Schoenberg: Crises of Faith and Art
527
Representations of Israeliness and Jewishness in Modern Music
Chair: Jehoash Hirshberg
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715
Ronit Seter
(E)
Of Ideological Stereotypes, Biases, and Israelism in Steve Reich's Tehillim
Timothy Freeze
(E)
Becoming Klezmer: Stylistic References and the Posthumous Reception of
Mahler's First Symphony
Yosef Goldenberg
(E)
"Israeli" Moments in Foreign Music
Naphtapli Wagner
(H)
Yiddle Mitn Fiddle and his Literary Journey to Eretz Israel
528
Joachim Stutchewsky: Jewish Music and Nation Building
Chair:
Wednesday (31/7/2013) Room: 2715
Racheli Galay
(H)
Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky (1891–1982): Composer, Cellist, and
Researcher—The Role of Jewish Music in Building a Nation
529
Jewish Composers and Researchers in Context from the Renaissance to the
Present
Chair: Eliyahu Schleifer
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715
Don Harran
(E)
Allegro Porto, A Relatively “New” Jewish Art Music Composer
Karin Wagner
(E)
Hugo Kauder's Unexpressed Philosophical Concept: Schelling's Transcendence,
Nietzsche's Visions, and Buber's Israel
Francesco Spagnolo
(E)
On the Politics of Musicology: Israel Adler and Jewish Music Research in
Postwar Europe
530
Yiddish and Ladino Voices: Past and Present
Chair: Susana Weich-Shahak
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715
Michael Lukin
(E)
“Ver veys dray?” The Image of the Universe in Yiddish Serial Folksongs
Gila Flam
(E)
"Raisins and Almonds": A Yiddish Song as a Metaphor for Yiddish Folk Culture
Marion Maeder
(E)
Cultural Memory and the Glocalization of Jewish Music
540
The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Theater. The Vision of the Founding Fathers:
Abraham Goldfaden, Nahum Zemach, Solomon Mikhoels, Emmanuel Luftglass
Chair: Vassili Schedrin
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Orna Ben-Meir
(E)
What Kind of Art is Stage Design? The Case of Emmanuel Luftglass and his
Pioneering Work in Hebrew Theater
Elena Tartakovsky
(E)
Nahum David Zemach: The Rise and Fall of the Founder of the Hebrew Theater
Sarit Cofman-Simhon (E)
Two Theater Start-ups in Iaşi (Romania) in the Nineteenth Century: The Plays of
Vasile Alecsandri and Avraham Goldfaden
Vassili Schedrin
(E)
Towers and Their Builders: “The Master Builder” by Henrik Ibsen and “The
Builder ” by Solomon Mikhoels
541
The Performing Arts in Pre-Statehood Israel 1: Histories of Theatrical
Institutions
Chair: Edna Nahshon
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Dorit Yerushalmi
(H)
Building an “Ohel” (Tent) in Tel Aviv: Towards a New History of the “Workers’
Theater of Palestine”
Olga Levitan
(H)
Artistic Identity through a Personal Lens: The “Habima” Story (1928–1938)
Shelly Zer Zion
(H)
“Ha-Matateh”: The Performance of Local Urban Culture
Liora Malka Yellin
(H)
Baruch Agadati: Jewish Avant-garde and Hebrew Dance
Ruthie Abeliovich
(H)
The Vocal Body of the “Mother of the Nation”: Hanna Rovina as an Acoustic
Icon
542
The Performing Arts in Pre-Statehood Israel 2: Repertoire
Chair: Dorit Yerushalmi
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Edna Nahshon
(H)
Yoshe Kalb in Tel Aviv
Yair Lipshitz
(H)
Performances of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Repertoire of the Early
Twentieth Century
Jan Kühne
(E)
“King Salomon and Shalmai the Cobbler": Genealogy of a Classic
Dan Laor
(H)
Response
543
Biblical, Mystical, and Israeli Themes in the Performing Arts
Chair: Shelly Zer Zion
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Einav Rosenblit
(H)
A Local Body: Questions of Place and Identity in Contemporary Israeli Dance
Dorit Glasser
(H)
Between Two Dybbuks: A Cultural Crossroads in Israeli Theater
Ben-Ami Feingold
(H)
The Bible in Hebrew Drama: Themes, Forms, and Messages
544
From Page to Stage: Transferring Memory through Performing Arts
Chair: André Boers
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718
Rinne Groff
(E)
The Diary of Anne Frank in the Theater and in the Theatrical Imagination
Klaas A. D. Smelik
(E)
Etty Hillesum and her Concept of God
Reina Rutlinger-Reiner (E)
“Out of Hiding”: Reina Spier De Vries and her Letters (1945-1946)
545
Jewish and Israeli Cinema: Contacts and Conflicts
Chair: Hava Aldouby
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716
Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (E)
Left Out of the Frame: Eastern Jewry Has No Room on the Screen
Rami N. Kimchi
(H)
A Shtetl in Disguise: Israeli “Bourekas” Films and their Origins in Yiddish Classical
Literature
Shai Biderman
(E)
“A Night at the Opera” and Talmudic Reasoning: The "Jewishness" of Jewish
Cinema
546
The Aesthetics and Politics of Holocaust Films
Chair: Shai Biderman
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716
Hava Aldouby
(E)
The Body Restored in Celluloid: Phil Solomon’s Psalm Series (1999–2002)
Eyal Boers
(E)
Black Book: Dutch Prototype or Jewish Outsider
Dinah Stillman
(E)
Combining the Themes of Jewish–Muslim Relations and the Holocaust in
Contemporary French Cinema
401
The End of the Holocaust?
Chair: Ilan Avisar
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium
(Rabin Building)
Robert S. Wistrich
(E)
Holocaust Denial and the Politics of Perfidy
Dina Porat
(E)
The End of the Holocaust? Today's Culture of Memory
Alvin Rosenfeld
(E)
Holocaust Memory in the Twenty-first Century: Between Consolidation and
Erosion
Ilan Avisar
(E)
Response
436
Roundtable: The Jewish Book Trade and Book Circulation: Defining a Research
Agenda
Chair: Adam Shear
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Marjorie Lehman
(E)
Roundtable: Moderator and Participant
Adam Shear
(E)
Roundtable: Moderator and Participant
Nathan Cohen
(E)
Roundtable Participant
Avriel Bar-Levav
(E)
Roundtable Participant
Stefan Litt
(E)
Roundtable Participant
603
608
‫חטיבה‬:
Contemporary Jewish Society
The Role of Ideology in Times of Crisis in the History of the Kibbutz Since the
Establishment of Israel
Chair: Aviva Halamish
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2734
Alon Pauker
(H)
Between Ideology and Crisis: The Role of Ideology in the Kibbutz for Coping with
Crisis
Doron Nadiv
(H)
The Kibbutz Harel Affair, 1952– 1955: A Struggle for Control
Ofer Boord
(H)
Mordechai Oren’s Arrest and the Attitude of Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Artzi to the USSR in
the 1950s
Tal Elmaliach
(H)
Mapam in the 60s: The Conflict over its Collective Ideology
Women's Roles in Israeli Society
Chair: Margalit Shilo
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2734
Oliver Glatz
(E)
“The Messiah, for Me, Means that I Will Be in the Home”: Women’s Roles in the
National-Religious Settler Movement
Julie Grimmeisen
(E)
Ḥalutzah or Beauty Queen? Images of Women in Israel after 1948
Galit Yanay-Ventura
(H)
Between Two Worlds and into a New World: Orthodox Feminism in Israel
Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern (H)
Struggles for the Equality of Women in Israel
609
The Land of Israel under the British Mandate: New Insights
Chair: Ruth Kark
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505
Ruth Kark
(H)
The First World War in Palestine through the Eyes of the Local Population
Eyal Berelovich
(H)
The First World War in Palestine through the Eyes of the Local Population
Rachel Silko
(H)
The Attitude towards the NILI Spy Group (1917–1948)
Orit Manor
(H)
Competing Narratives in Palestine: Life in a Dual Society?
Esther Yankelevitch
(H)
The Jewish Community in Tiberias: Between Continuity and Crisis
610
The Many Faces of Tel-Aviv
Chair: Aviva Halamish
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)
Tamir Goren
(H)
Tel-Aviv and the Question of Separation from Jaffa, 1929–1936
Ilan Shchori
(H)
The Special Relationship between Meir Dizengoff and Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Eran Eldar
(H)
The Urban Development of Tel Aviv during the Changeover from the Mandate
to the State
Einat Libel-Hass
(H)
Is It Really a New Synagogue Model?: Liberal Jewish Congregations in Tel-Aviv
612
New Studies on Menahem Begin
Chair: Arye Naor
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720
Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky (H)
Menachem Begin and the Jewish Diaspora
Kobi Dvir
(H)
Begin's Path to Political Reversal: The Elimination of Jabotinsky's Seclusions
Moshe Fuksman-Shahl (H)
Menachem Begin, the Socioeconomic Alternative for the State of Israel
613
Consumption and Identity in Israel
Chair: Orit Rozin
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722
Carmel Chiswick
(E)
The Jewish State and State Judaism: An Economic Perspective
Hizky Shoham
(H)
Children as Consumers in the Totzeret Ha'aretz Campaigns in British Mandatory
Palestine
Hemi Sheinblat
(H)
The Supermarket Makes Aliyah: The Israeli Retail Revolution, 1958–1968
Lee Cahaner
(H)
Economy in an "Enclave": The Characteristics of In-House Selling in the Ultra
Orthodox Community
614
Historical Biography: The Mutual Relations between the Protagonist, the
Biographer and the Reader
Chair: Jacob Barnai
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722
Aviva Halamish
(H)
The Biographic Era in Israeli Historiography
Motti Golani
(H)
History, Figure, and Image in the Biographies of Herzl, Weizmann, and Ben
Gurion
Ze’ev Tzahor
(H)
The Biographer Bridges the Gaps: The Limits of Imagination in Academic
Biography
Anita Shapira
(H)
Response
615
Israeli Identity: Formation and Changes
Chair: Avi Picard
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718
David Mittelberg
(H)
What's "In" and What's "Out" in the Perception of Jewish Identity among Young
Israelis
Dinah Laron
(H)
What's "In" and What's "Out" in the Perception of Jewish Identity among Young
Israelis
Hilda Nissimi
(H)
“Israel Museum Presents”: Memory, Land, Nation
Shlomit Levy
(H)
Jewish Components in Shaping the Israeli Identity of Israeli Jews
616
History of the Jews of East and North Africa
Chair: Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817
Rosemary Eshel
(E)
Transforming Memories: Activities of a Mercantile Family between North Africa
and Europe
Malka Katz
(H)
Yemenite Jews in Right Wing Movements in Pre-State Israel
Miriam Guez-Avigal
(H)
The Phenomenon of Synagogue Inscriptions Featuring the Names of Baptized
Women
Aviva Klein Franke
(H)
The Jewish Community in Raida, Yemen: Its Development and the Causes of its
Destruction
617
An Orientalist View and an Eastern View: Immigration, Diasporas, and Self
Portrayals
Chair: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2735
Aviad Moreno
(H)
Interactive Orientalism and its Agents: The Case of the AIU in Tangier
Amos Noy
(H)
From Avraham Danon to Avraham Elmaleh: The Construction of a JewishSephardic Diaspora as Ethnographic Subject
Menashe Anzi
(H)
David Arusi, A Jewish Photographer in Early Twentieth-Century Yemen:
Migration and Orientalism
620
Contemporary Jewish Believers in Yeshua (Jesus): Trends and Turns after
World War I
Chair: Serge Ruzer
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2735
Hanna Rucks
(E)
"New Voices": The Russian Contribution to Messianic Jewish Theology in Israel
Gershon Nerel
(E)
A Jewish Church: The Debate over the Establishment of a Hebrew Christian
Denomination between the World Wars
Richard S Harvey
(E)
The Conversion of Non-Jews to Messianic Judaism: A Test Case for Membership
and Identity in a New Religious Movement
Yaakov Ariel
(E)
Walking Together, Walking Apart: Evangelical Christianity and Messianic
Judaism
621
The Varied Nuances of Ultra-Orthodoxy
Chair: Yosef Salmon
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2606
Yosef Salmon
(H)
Opening Remarks
Benjamin Brown
(H)
Leadership as Power and as Symbol: The Brisker Rav as a Case Study
Iris Brown
(H)
Ultra-Orthodoxy, Language, and Identity: The Haredi Protest against Hebrew
Levi Cooper
(H)
Ultra-Orthodox Pluralism: Defending Non-Normative Practices of Hasidic
Masters
622
Haredi Society
Chair: Kimmy Caplan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718
Daniel Schiffman
(H)
The Poalei Agudat Yisrael Movement: A Model for Today's "New Charedim"?
Aharon Kampinsky
(H)
The Poalei Agudat Yisrael Movement: A Model for Today's "New Charedim"?
Yair Halevy
(H)
The Role of "The Brother and Sister Affair" in the Formation of Contemporary
Haredism
Naftali Loewenthal
(E)
Psychotherapy, Hasidic Teachings, and Haredi Jews
Marta Francisca Topel (E)
In Search of Questions: The Difficult Journey of Israeli Yotzim Li´She’elah
623
Israeli (E)migration and Identities: Between Homeland and Host Land
Chair: Ofir Rubin
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2735
Avi Picard
(H)
"Compulsory Discrimination": Institutional Preferences in the Absorption of East
European Immigrants in the Second Half of the 1950's
Vika Shteiman
(E)
Identity, Identification, and Cultural Integration among Russian-Speaking Young
Adult Immigrants: A Comparison of Israel and North America
Lilach Lev Ari
(E)
Diasporic and Transnational Identities among the Offspring of Israeli Immigrants
in North America
Nir Cohen
(E)
Israeli Emigrants as Agents of Development: Maintain Identity or Return Home?
624
In Search of a Unique Jewish Identity
Chair: Shlomit Levy
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)
Yoel Cohen
(E)
Jewish Religious Holiday Editorial Content in Israel
Kate Miriam Loewenthal (E)
The Perceived Impact of Sabbath Observance on Well-being
Steven E Silvern
(E)
Place, Identity, and the New Jewish Food Movement
Geula Paran
(H)
The Development of Sports for Disabled People in Israel
625
Approaches to the Army and War in Jewish Thought and Behavior: Past and
Present
Chair: Stuart Cohen
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817
Robert Eisen
(E)
Approaches to “Discretionary War” in Contemporary Halakhah
Boaz Cohen
(H)
The “Praying Israeli Soldier” as a Cultural Icon in Contemporary Jewish and
Israeli Society
Stuart Cohen
(E)
Towards a Taxonomy of Contemporary Halakhic Strategies Respecting War
Ronen Luvitch
(H)
War and Ethics in the Ideology of the Religious Zionist Rabbis
626
In Search of a Collective Jewish Subject
Chair: Rakefet Zalashik
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2606
Yuval Kremnitzer
(H)
“Only Angels May Laugh this Way”: Laughter and Jewish Subjectivity in the
Writings of Kafka
Dan Tsahor
(H)
Zionist Objectivity: Hebrew Encyclopedias, Palestine, and the Authority of Truth
Tamar Novick
(H)
Getting Their Goat: On the Changing Relationship between Goats, Jews, and the
"Holy Land" in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Elazar Elhanan
(E)
A Hymn for the Future: The Hebrew Subject and the Question of Aesthetic
Education in the Poetry of Yaakov Steinberg
627
Demography and Jewish Identity in the Twenty First Century
Chair: Uzi Rebhun
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2602
Mark Tolts
(E)
Post-Soviet Jewish Demographic Dynamics: An Analysis of Recent Trends
Hannah Kliger
(E)
Pathways to Pluralistic Identities in Contemporary Urban America:
Reconceptualizing Community-Sponsored Educational Partnerships in New York
Mervin Verbit
(E)
The Inner Structures of Jewish Identity
Morton Weinfeld
(E)
Challenges to Canadian Jewish Demography from the Revised Canadian Census
of 2011
628
Diverse Experiences: Jews around the World
Chair: Nurit Novis-Deutsch
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2735
Julien Bauer
(E)
State Decentralization and Community Centralization: The Canadian Paradox
Kathrin Pieren
(E)
The Social and Cultural Role of Jewish Museums since the 1950s: The Case of
Britain
Bruce Phillips
(E)
The Jewish Geography of Intermarriage: A Tale of Five Cities
629
Contemporary Religious Switching and Religious Revival
Chair: Bruce Phillips
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2735
Alexander Lvov
(E)
The New Judaizers’ Community in Trans-Carpathia: Written, Oral, and Internet
Sources of Jewish Knowledge in the Process of Conversion from “Imagined” to
“Real” Judaism
Nadia Beider
(E)
Denominational Switching among Israeli Jews
Dzmitry Shavialiou
(E)
The Jewish Revival in Moldova, 1990–2000
630
The Present and Future Situation of the Jewish Diaspora
Chair: Gabriel Sheffer
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2502
Ofir Rubin
(E)
Is There a Distinct Israeli Diaspora? The Impact of Temporal Sociopolitical
Circumstances on the Formation of Diaspora Groups
Chaim I. Waxman
(E)
Is American Jewry Experiencing an “Explosive” Growth of the Hasidic and Other
Orthodox Communities?
Eliezer Ben Rafael
(E)
Diaspora–Israel Differences Today: Are New Relations both Inevitable and
Possible?
Gabriel Sheffer
(H)
Response
631
Stduying Jewish Demography: What Did We Learn These Last 50 Years?
Chair: Uzi Rebhun
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718
Judith Bokser Liwerant (E)
roundtable participant
Eliezer Ben Rafael
(E)
roundtable participant
Sergio Della Pergola
(E)
roundtable participant
Leonard Saxe
(E)
roundtable participant
632
Diaspora and Transnationalism: Shifting Grounds among European and Latin
American Jewry
Chair: Sergio Della Pergola
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817
Judith Bokser Liwerant (E)
Latin American Jewish Life: New Paths of Interaction and New Worlds of
Identities
Leonardo Senkman
(E)
Transnational Migration and the New Diasporic Experience among Jewish
Intellectuals outside Latin America
Eric Cohen
(E)
European Jews Today
Luis Roniger
(E)
New Transnational Alliances, Communities, and Networks
633
American Jews: Cultural Perspectives
Chair: Jonathan D. Sarna
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2734
Anna Novikov
(E)
“We be of One Blood, Ye and I”: The Assistance of B’nai Brith to German Jewry
1933–1938
Yael Ohad Karny
(H)
On the Reception of Cinema among Jews in the United States Prior to 1927
Omri Asscher
(H)
"America is our Zion": The Translation of Hebrew Literature in America, 1910–
1940
634
Identity Challenges: American Jews between Inclusive Pluralism and
Assimilation
Chair: Ari Engelberg
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605
Patricia Keer Munro
(E)
Inclusion and Exclusion: The Problem of Pluralism in Bay Area Synagogues
Nurit Novis-Deutsch
(E)
God Concepts among Bay Area Religious Jews and their Relationship to
Pluralistic Thought
Leonard Saxe
(E)
Who Are the Jews of the United States?
Ari Engelberg
(E)
Response
635
American Jewish Secularism in the Twenty-first Century
Chair: Barry Kosmin
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722
Ariela Keysar
(E)
The Demography of American Jews and Secular Jewish Society
Jesse Tisch
(E)
Secular Jewish Culture Is Alive and Well in the United States
Barry Kosmin
(E)
The Jewish Secularization Thesis and the Revival of Jewish Secularism
636
Boundary-work: Defining Jewish and Israeli Identity in a Multicultural
Environment
Chair: Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718
Ruth Kark
(H)
Bedouin Cemeteries in Israel: Islam, Culture, and Society
Emir Galilee
(H)
Bedouin Cemeteries in Israel: Islam, Culture, and Society
Orit Ramon
(H)
Boundaries of Jewish Identity in a Multi-Confessional Society: The Maharal's
Discussion of “Gentile Wine”
Roni Be'er-Marx
(H)
On the Borders of Zionist Identity and the Settlement of Eretz Israel: Rabbi
Mordechai Gimpel Yaffe as a Case Study
Varda Wasserman
(H)
Israel “Made in China”: National Identity in the International Arena
637
Jews of the World: Cultural and Intergenerational Challenges
Chair:
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2602
Zehavit Gross
(E)
Intergenerational Challenges in Australian Jewish Education
Suzanne D. Rutland
(E)
Intergenerational Challenges in Australian Jewish School Education
Ezequiel Erdei
(E)
Exogamy in Context: Ethnographic Studies in Argentina and in Europe, a
Comparative Perspective
Marcelo Dimentstein
(E)
Exogamy in Context: Ethnographic Studies in Argentina and in Europe, a
Comparative Perspective
Joan Roland
(E)
Forging Identity: Being Jewish and Indian in America
Barry Chiswick
(E)
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the American Community Survey (2005–2009)
638
Between Israel and the World
Chair: Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2735
Yitzhak Conforti
(H)
State or Diaspora in Light of Jewish Nationalist Historiography
Aharon Kedar
(H)
The Vienna Revolt of February 1934: Reactions of the Labor Movement in Eretz
Israel
Alexander Alon
(E)
Love and Science in the Age of Zionism: "Der Talmudbauer" by Heinrich YorkSteiner
640
Antisemitism and Anti-Israel
Chair: Mervin Verbit
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718
Susanne Urban
(E)
Recent Antisemitism in Germany: Is Holocaust Education an Appropriate Tool
for Consolidating Democratic Values?
Manfred Gerstenfeld
(E)
Fallacies Used in the De-Legitimization of Israel
Johannes Houwink ten Cate
(E)
The Current State and the Future of Post-Holocaust Studies
641
Politics, Law and Authority in Israel
Chair: Eliezer Ben Rafael
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505
Orna Cohen
(H)
1948–1949: Arab Citizens in the Israeli Political System
Anat Stern
(H)
On Looting and Habeas Corpus: Legal Precedents in Jaffa, 1948
Allon Gal
(H)
In the Democratic Way: On the Historical Roots of Israeli Democracy
Jacob Reuveny
(H)
S. N. Eisenstadt’s Views on the Problem of Authority in Jewish Societyy
642
Leaders and Leadership in Jewish History
Chair: Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2734
Rachel Sharaby
(H)
Ethiopian Rabbis in Israel: Between the Rabbinical Establishment and the Ethnic
Community
Michal Sadan
(H)
Leaders as Shepherds in Jewish Culture
Joseph Dana
(H)
Hacham Yoseph Dana: One of the Last Popular Preachers in Damascus
643
Methodological Problems of Oral History
Chair: Nancy Isserman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720
Rachel Mizrahi
(E)
Jewish Shoah Refugees from North Africa in Brazil
Katharina Hoba
(E)
The Homecoming of German Jews to Israel
Mark Zaurov
(E)
Against Audism in Interviews with Deaf Holocaust Survivors
Judith Reifen-Ronen
(E)
The Significance of Oral History when Interviewing a Political Figure: Golda Meir
as a Case Study
Marilia Levi Freidenson (E)
Call to Brazil
644
Transnational Sephardic Diasporas
Chair: Eva Fogelman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720
Margalit Bejarano
(E)
Transnationalism and Ethnic Identity: Cuban and Latino Sephardim in Miami
Bea Lewkowicz
(E)
The Making of an Oral History Archive of British Jews from North Africa and the
Middle East
Henry A. Green
(E)
“Sephardi Voices”—Constructing an Audio-Visual Library: Challenges,
Achievements, and Vision
Esther Schely-Newman (E)
Boeing Aliyah: Reflections on Recent Migrations of French Jews to Israel
660
Secularization and Education
Chair: Yuval Jobani
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718
Ela Bauer
(H)
Polish Jewry and Education in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century
Dvora Ledreman-Danieli (H)
”Moses the Buberian” as a Model for Dialogical Education
Yuval Jobani
(H)
Secularization and Education: A Philosophical Perspective
Dov Elbaum
(H)
Tikkun of Readers : Reading the Bible as a Model for Tikkun
389
Halakhah and Theology in the Wake of the Holocaust
Chair: Hanoch Ben-Pazi
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718
Gershon Greenberg
(E)
R. Areleh Roth's Shomer Emunim (1941/42): A Hasidic Response during the
Holocaust
Adam Ferziger
(E)
Cremation and Jewish Law after the Holocaust
Miri Freud-Kandel
(E)
The Influence of the Shoah on the Theology of Louis Jacobs
Marc B. Shapiro
(E)
Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy and Its Post-World War II Halakhic Legacy: The Case
of Rabbi Menashe Klein
600
Antisemitism in Recent Decades: Scholarship, Ideology, and Politics
Chair: Dina Porat
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718
Ester Webman
(H)
The Study of Arab Antisemitism: Challenges and Trends
Haim Fireberg
(H)
New Antisemitism as a Delegitimization of Israel: The Clash of Narratives
Raphael Vago
(H)
Between “Brown” and “Red”: The Polarization of the Discourse on Antisemitism
in Eastern Europe
Roni Stauber
(H)
Response
645
Re-examining "The Last Witness": New Research on the Kestenberg Archive of
Child Survivor Interviews
Chair: Sharon Kangisser-Cohen
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720
Eva Fogelman
(E)
The Judith Kestenberg Child Survivor Archive
Beth Cohen
(E)
Starting Over: Reconstituted Families after the Holocaust
Nancy Isserman
(E)
How Family-of-Origin Relationships Influence Postwar Survivor Attitudes
towards Perpetrators?
Christina Isabel Brüning (E)
Analyzing Frau Z’s Interview: The Use of Perpetrators’ Narratives in Teaching
646
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Poland
Chair: Dalia Ofer
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603
Yitzchak Kerem
(E)
German Mass Executions of Jews before the Wansee Declaration
Idit Gil
(H)
Nazi Labor Policies and Jewish Workers in Radom (1942–1943)
Haim Avni
(H)
The Spanish "Blue Division" of the Nazi Wehrmacht in the USSR and the
Holocaust
Victoria Khiterer
(E)
Suppressed Memory: The Long Road to the Commemoration of the Victims of
the Holocaust in Babi Yar (Kiev)
647
Sexual Violence Against Jewish Children and Women during the Shoah
Chair: Rochelle G. Saidel
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720
Rochelle G. Saidel
(E)
Victims of Sexual Violence during the Shoah
Nava Semel
(E)
A Legacy of Pain and Fear: Can the Rat Keep Laughing?
Sonja Hedgepeth
(E)
Holocaust Testimonies About Rape: Why Do They Matter?
648
Women in the Holocaust—Between the Particular and the General: Fates and
Responses
Chair: Lily Halpert-Zamir
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722
Keren Bebtzuck-Harazi (H)
Stefania (Stefa) Wilczyńska: A Forgotten Educator
Kim Wünschmann
(E)
Jewish Women in the Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939
Dalia Ofer
(H)
Women's Reactions to the Holocaust: A New Model
Sharon Geva
(H)
The Weekly La-Isha as Fashioner of Holocaust Consciousness in Israel: The Case
of “Miss Israel”
Lily Halpert-Zamir
(H)
The Unique Fate of Women in the Holocaust: Dilemmas and Methods of
Presentation
649
Rescue and Resistance During World War II
Chair: Dan Michman
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818
Efraim Zadoff
(H)
The Participation of Latin American Consulates in Rescue Attempts of Jews via
Switzerland in Conquered Europe, 1942–1945
Alicia Gojman de Backal (E)
The Anti-Nazi Movement in Mexico, Acción Democrática Internacional (1941–
1945)
Hava Eshkoli
(H)
The Plan To Settle Jewish Refugees in the Dominican Republic: A Zionist Failure?
Daphna BenYosef
(H)
Romantic Relationships between Non-Jewish Rescuers and Holocaust Survivors
after World War II
650
Studies on the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Chair: Idit Gil
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720
Dan Michman
(H)
The Economic Persecutions of the Jews in the Third Reich: The Changing Place
of the Persecutions among the Overall Antisemitic Aims of the Nazi Regime
Michal Shaul
(H)
Holocaust Evaders: Evading Destiny but not Memory
David Fishman
(E)
Jewish Slave Labor Scholarship in the Vilna Ghetto
Tehila Malka
(H)
The “Search Bureau for Missing Relatives” as a Test Case for the Question of
Missing Persons following the Shoah
651
The Holocaust: Literature and Memorialization
Chair: Michal Shaul
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2734
Gila Prebor
(H)
Personal Testimony: Memorializing the Holocaust in Hebrew Print
Mor Presiado
(E)
Mother–Daughter Relationships and the Maternal Figure in the Works of
Daughters of Holocaust Survivors
Rachel Perry
(E)
Holocaust Hospitality at Yad Vashem: Michal Rovner's Living Landscape
Ari Joskowicz
(E)
Jews and the Romani (Gypsy) Holocaust, 1944–1972
652
Representations of Memory and Trauma: Holocaust Remembrance Day in the
Israeli Media
Chair:
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715
Eyal Zandberg
(H)
The Right to Tell the (Right) Story: Cultural Authority and the Shaping of
Memory in Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day Newspapers
Motti Neiger
(H)
Songs to Remember: Identity, Collective Memory, and Radio Broadcasts on
Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day
Oren Meyers
(H)
Prime Time Commemoration: Television Broadcasts on Israel's Holocaust
Remembrance Day
653
The Role of the Holocaust and the Revival in the Formation of Contemporary
Jewish Identity
Chair: Nitza Davidovitch
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2734
Nitza Davidovitch
(H)
The Role of Holocaust Remembrance and the Journey to Poland in the
Consolidation of Jewish Identity
Amir Haskel
(H)
The Formative Role of the Holocaust and National Revival in Contemporary
Jewish Identity
Dan Soen
(H)
Holocaust and stimulating experience - Are they compatible?
654
Antisemitism: A Useful Category of Analysis?
Chair: Scott Ury
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720
David Feldman
(E)
When Antisemitism came to Britain
Amos Morris-Reich
(E)
Belief and Disposition: Examples from the German Context
Dimitry Shumsky
(E)
A Useful Category of Analysis? The Place of Antisemitism in the Study of Stalin's
Jewish Policies
Stefanie Schuler-Springorum
(E)
Response
655
Jewish Responses to Persecution: Vienna, 1938–1945
Chair: Israel Yuval
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720
Dieter Josef Hecht
(E)
Jewish Youth in Vienna, 1938–1945
Michaela Raggam-Blesch (E)
Non-Jewish Welfare Organizations and their Help for People Defined as
"Jewish" by Nazi Laws, Vienna 1938–1945
Heidemarie Uhl
(E)
Response
601
Jewish Identity in the Kibbutz
Chair: Alon Gan
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722
Alon Gan
(H)
Jewish identity in the Kibbutz Movement from a Generational Perspective
Rina Hevlin
(H)
Returning to Tradition
Moshe Shner
(H)
The Kibbutz and Judaism Dialogue – What are We Talking About?
602
Kibbutz, Judaism, and Culture
Chair: Yuval Dror
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717
Shula Keshet
(H)
Man and Society in a World "Without God": On the Spiritual Search of David
Maletz in the Novel The Closed Gate
Nurit Feinstein
(H)
The Kibbutzim Holiday Ceremonies: Their Characteristics and Contribution to
Israeli Society in the Work of Matityahu Shalem
Yuval Dror
(H)
Response
604
"In a Word, Who are We?" The Writing of Women Pioneers as a Stimulus for
Change
Chair: Margalit Shilo
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605
Tamar Shechter
(H)
Memoires of Pioneer Women: Propaganda or Life Books?
Smadar Sinai
(H)
The Commemoration of the Hashomer Heritage: To Where did the Hashomer
Women Disappear?
Tammi Kaminsky
(H)
The Voice of the Women of Ein Harod as a Reflection of Their Ever-Changing
Place in Collective Society
Esther Carmel-Hakim
(H)
Female Journalists Writing About Israel
606
Social History as Gender History: A New Look at the History of the Yishuv
Chair: Deborah Bernstein
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715
Tammy Razi
(H)
Good Neighbors: Daily Life in the Mixed Cities during the Mandate Period from
a Gendered Perspective
Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman
(H)
Abortions as a Reflection of the Yishuv's Complexity
Margalit Shilo
(H)
Social History as Gender History: Theory and Practice
Deborah Bernstein
(H)
Organizations of Jewish and Palestinian Women during the British Mandate:
Potential Relations which Did Not Materialize
607
Gender Relations in the Yishuv: Discourse and Practice
Chair: Deborah Bernstein
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2734
Orit Yaal
(H)
“Why Do I Hate Women?” Misogynic Expressions in Hebrew Journalism during
the Yishuv Period
Talia Pfefferman
(H)
Domestic Businesses, National Homes: Women-owned Businesses and Familial
Life in the Urban Yishuv
Viola Rautenberg-Alianov (E)
"How to Cook in Palestine?" German-Jewish Homemakers in Palestine in the
1930s and 1940s
Mira Yungman
(H)
A New Light on the Beginnings of Social work as a Profession in the Yishuv
A New Light on the Beginnings of Social work as a Profession in the Yishuv
611
Chaim Weizmann: New Perspectives
Chair: Motti Golani
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720
Na'ama Sheffi
(H)
"Something Close to Miserable Love": Weizmann and German Jewry
Uri Cohen
(H)
From Sieff Research Institute to Weizmann Institute of Science, 1934–1949
Nurit Cohen-Levinovsky (H)
Between Two Presidents: Truman and Weizmann during the Beginning of the
War of Independence
Meir Chazan
(H)
Israel's First President
618
Middle Eastern Jewry in Transition from Ottomanism to Nationalism: New
Perspectives
Chair: Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2506
Yaron Harel
(H)
Syrian Jewry between Ottomanism, Arab Nationalism, and Zionism
Yaron Ran
(H)
The Younger Generation in the Damascus Jewish Community: From Ottomanism
to Nationalism
Bracha Guy
(H)
The Jews of Beirut between Lebanese Nationalism, Pan-Arabism–Syrianism, and
Zionism
619
Israeli Democracy during the First Decade
Chair: Dani Gutwein
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713
Orit Rozin
(H)
The Concept of Voice in a Fledgling Democracy
Paula Kabalo
(H)
Voluntary Associations and the Shaping of Israeli Democracy
Nir Kedar
(H)
Forging a Living Constitution in the Absence of a Written Constitutional
Document
Avi Bareli
(H)
Early Israeli Political Culture and Its Origins
661
Hebrew Teachers and Nation-Building
Chair: Esther Yankelevitch
Sunday (28/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505
Tali Tadmor-Shimoni
(H)
Teachers as Socialization Agents for the State
Nirit Raichel
(H)
Teacher Training and Hebrew Culture Formation, 1904–1948
Yair Seltenreich
(H)
Reciprocal Images of Teachers and Farmers in Galilean Moshavot of the Yishuv
Era
662
Jewish and Hebrew Education in the Diaspora and Israel
Chair: Brenda Socachevsky Bacon
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2502
Aliza Rishevitz
(H)
Language and Discourse at the First Hebrew Teachers' Seminar, in the Name of
A. L. Levinsky
Tamar Salmon-Mack
(H)
Designing the Training of Teachers in the "Hebrew Institute for Teachers"
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll (H)
Transnationality and Informal Jewish Education: The Case of Maccabi Buenos
Aires
Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein (H)
Educación y educadores judíos latinoamericanos transnacionales: La
construcción de una diáspora de conocimientos en un mundo globalizado
663
Jewish Education Between Tradition and Modernity
Chair: Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2734
Moshe Sokolow
(E)
The Place of Hermeneutics in the Teaching of the Bible
Lily Glasner
(H)
Which Blessing Do We Make Over Ice Cream?
David Resnick
(H)
Making a Place for Shame in Modern Jewish Education
664
Education and Language
Chair: Tamar Salmon-Mack
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605
Naama Sabar-Ben Yehoshua
(H)
Matriculation Examinations in the Talmud as a Window onto the Teaching of
Talmud in the Yeshivot and Ulpanot
Avichai Kellerman
(H)
Matriculation Examinations in the Talmud as a Window onto the Teaching of
Talmud in the Yeshivot and Ulpanot
Rita Sever
(E)
Ten Years Later: The Contextual Use of Languages by Young Adult Olim
Einat Baram Eshel
(H)
Power and Economics in Janusz Korczak’s Prose: The Case of Little Jack
665
Jewish Study in Action: Studies in Classroom Discourse and Identity Formation
Chair: Aliza Segal
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718
Deena Sigel
(E)
Prayer and Adolescence: Can Formal Instruction Make a Difference?
Aliza Segal
(E)
Who is a Talmud Learner? Identity Formation via Othering
Brenda Socachevsky Bacon (E)
The Evolution of Oral Torah Curricula on Marriage and Family in Israeli Religious
Girls’ High Schools
Moshe Krakowski
(E)
Rediscovering Authenticity: Investigative Learning in Talmud Study
666
Roundtable: Teaching the Bible in the State of Israel
Chair: Hannan Alexander
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717
Iris Yaniv
(H)
Teaching Bible in the State of Israel
Hannan Alexander
(H)
Teaching Bible in the State of Israel
Yairah Amit
(H)
Teaching Bible in the State of Israel
Yehoshua Gitay
(H)
Panel: Teaching Bible in the State of Israel
Noya Sagiv
(H)
Teaching Bible in the State of Israel
Tsafrir Goldberg
(H)
Teaching Bible in the State of Israel
‫חטיבה‬:
705
Computer Science Applied to Jewish Studies
Chair: Nachum Dershowitz
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818
Idan Dershowitz
(E)
Statistical Analysis of Biblical Orthography
Hasid Tomer
(E)
Statistical Analysis of Biblical Orthography
Amnon Ta-Shma
(E)
Statistical Analysis of Biblical Orthography
Ingo Kottsieper
(E)
Qumran Studies in the Digital Age: The Göttingen Database of the Qumran
Dictionary Project
Noam Mizrahi
(E)
Qumran Studies in the Digital Age: The Göttingen Database of the Qumran
Dictionary Project
Moshe Koppel
(E)
Authorship Attribution Software for Biblical and Rabbinic Texts
Lior Wolf
(E)
Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts
700
The Friedberg Genizah Project: Three Startups
Chair: Haggai Ben-Shammai
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722
Yaacov Choueka
(H)
The Friedberg Project for Variant Readings of The Babylonian Talmud
Roni Shweka
(H)
A Computerized System for Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah
Collections
David Sklare
(H)
The Friedberg Project for a Computerized Corpus of Judeo-Arabic Texts
Yaacov Choueka
(H)
The Friedberg Project on Variant Readings of the Babylonian Talmud
701
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW1) and Its Impact
Chair: Maurits van den Boogert
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
(E)
The EJIW1: Unlocking the Medieval World
Vera B. Moreen
(E)
Persian and Central Asian Jewish Studies in the EJIW1
Norman A. Stillman
(E)
The Executive Editor's Perspective on the EJIW1's Success and the Ongoing
Challenges
Meira Polliack
(E)
Bible exegesis and Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Literature : links and features
702
The Expanding Online Edition of The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
(EJIW2): New Themes, New Directions, New Horizons
Chair: Norman A. Stillman
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717
Rachel Simon
(E)
The EJIW2: From the Perspective of an Editor and an Academic Librarian
Ofra Tirosh-Becker
(E)
The EJIW2: Expanding the Linguistic Dimension
Maurits van den Boogert (E)
The EJIW2 as an Advanced Twenty-first-Century Research Tool
Edwin Seroussi
(E)
Music of the Jews of Islam: Future Challenges for Research
703
Judaica Europeana for Digital Humanities
Chair: Jonathan D. Sarna
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818
Dov Winer
(E)
Bringing Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts to the European Digital Library
Rachel Heuberger
(E)
The Haskalah Library Database: Entry into the Modern Jewish Republic of
Letters
Thomas Kollatz
(E)
“Epidat”: An Epigraphical Database and Archive of Jewish Cemeteries,
Inscriptions, and Tombstones
Nathanja Huettenmeister (E)
The eHumanities Project, "Spatial Relations": Visualization of Small(est)
Topographic Structures
704
"Historical Jewish Press" (www.Jpress.org.il): Soon to be the Largest Database
on Modern Jewry
Chair: Avraham Novershtern
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818
Elhanan Adler
(H)
The Place of Jpress in the Evolution of Israeli Digitized Information Projects
Jonathan D. Sarna
(H)
The Digitization of the American Jewish Press: The Ideal and the Real
Jean-Claude Kuperminc (E)
French Jewish Press: A Major Source for Jewish History
Yaron Tsur
(H)
Digitization as the Second Press Revolution
437
Association of Jewish Libraries 1: Collections, Physical and Virtual
Chair: Ya'akov Aronson
Thursday (1/8/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2734
Veronica Belling
(E)
The Past and Future of the Jewish Studies Library and its Archives at the
University of Cape Town
Yoram Bitton
(E)
A Survey of Jewish Liturgical Music Materials in Libraries
Tina Weiss
(E)
Passover Kashrut Manuals
Rachel Misrati
(E)
A National Jewish Collection for a Jewish National Library: Avraham
Schwadron's Autograph Collection
438
Association of Jewish Libraries 2: Resources and Catalogs
Chair: Chaim Seymour
Thursday (1/8/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2734
Sonia Smith
(E)
Student Difficulties in Looking for Transliterated Access Points in the Library
Catalogue
Kathe Pinchuck
(E)
Off the Derekh and Onto the Page
Nachum Zitter
(E)
Library Classification Schemes as Sources for Library Data
Edith Lubetski
(E)
Online Resources for Jewish Women's Studies
‫חטיבה‬:
Latin American Jewry
800
Democracia, comunidades y refugiados
Chair: Efraim Zadoff
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712
Carlos Escudé (Najmán ben Abraham Avinu)
(S)
Carlos Escudé (Najmán ben Abraham Avinu)
(S)
Reflexiones en torno del atentado a la AMIA a casi d veinte años de su
perpetración
Jessica Pauker
(S)
Nosotros los condenados? Reconstrucción de la experiencia judía en Bolivia
Edith Marsiglia
(S)
Las expresiones culturales producto de las diásporas de los exiliados judíos
italianos entre los años 1938 y 1950 en Argentina y Uruguay
801
Shoa
Chair: Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712
Efraim Zadoff
(S)
Participación de cónsules latinoamericanos en los intentos de salvamento desde
Suiza de judíos en la Europa conquistada por Alemania (1942–1945)
Daniela Gleizer
(S)
La gestión del cónsul mexicano Gilberto Bosques en Marsella (1939-1942):
nuevos hallazgos
David Velázquez Seiferheld
(S)
El Paraguay ante el Holocausto y la situación de los judíos en Europa
David Telias
(S)
La Shoá en la educación de los jóvenes judíos uruguayos
802
Identidades sefaradíes: Entre lo colectivo y lo individual
Chair: Naomi Lindstrom
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712
Adriana Brodsky
(S)
La juventud sefaradí en la Argentina y en Israel, 1956–1976
Silvina Schammah Gesser (S)
Cultura subersiva y etnicidad: En torno a la (in)visibilidad y esencialización de las
nuevas generaciones de argentinos judíos de origen meso-oriental
Margalit Bejarano
(S)
Sionismo sefaradí transnacional: Salomón Garazi y FESELA de Miami
803
Época colonial y colonización
Chair: Mordechai Arbell
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712
Luz del Rocío Bermúdez Hernández
(S)
Música “criminal”: La comparación de indios y judíos desde la disidencia,
Chiapas (México), siglos XVI–XIX
Michael Rom
(E)
The Jew as a Chameleon: Jewish–Indigenous Relations in Colonial Surinam
Yehuda Levin
(S)
Del rabino Samuel Halphon hasta el rabino Hirsch Aschkenazi: La vida religiosa
en las colonias judías de Argentina, 1904–1913
Silvio Gric
(S)
Interacciones entre protagonistas centrales en la colonia Narcisse Leven y su
repercusión en la cooperativa "El Progreso"
804
Demografía, alyah y transiciones
Chair: Sergio Della Pergola
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712
Yaacov Rubel
(S)
El perfil socio-demográfico y el origen geográfico de la población judía de todo
la República Argentina de acuerdo al Censo Nacional de 1895: Confirmaciones,
discrepancias y hallazgos impensados
Paulette Kershenovich Schuster (S)
Perspectivas transculturales de mujeres judeo–mexicanas viviendo en Israel,
1980–2012
Deby Babis
(S)
Antiguos y nuevos rumbos: La comunidad judia de Cochabamba (Bolivia) en el
siglo XXI
Sebastián Klor
(S)
La Aliyah de Argentina al Estado de Israel, 1948–1967
805
Pertinencias, lenguas, religiosidades y legados
Chair: Carlos Escudé (Najmán ben Abraham Avinu)
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712
Batia Siebzehner
(S)
Ultra ortodoxia y etnicidad: Redefinición de las fronteras de pertenencia en
México y Panamá
Daniel Spitalnik
(E)
Sephardic Liturgical Chant: Interviewing a Cantor in Rio de Janeiro
Ari Bursztein
(S)
De Odessa a Mendoza: La fundación de la comunidad judía de Mendoza a través
de los ojos del hebraísta y educador Isaac Spivacoff (1874–1968)
806
Arte y documentación
Chair: Silvina Schammah Gesser
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712
Alicia Segal
(S)
Ser judía, ciudadana y fotógrafa mujer
Alejandro Meter
(E)
Dreams of Victory: Soccer and the Shaping of the Nation in Brazilian Jewish Film
Moshe Nes-El
(S)
Historia de la prensa judía en Chile, 1919–1945
807
Literatura 1
Chair: Nancy Rozenchan
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712
Florinda F. Goldberg
(S)
Pérdida y reconstrucción del espacio identitario en la literatura (judeo)latinoamericana
Naomi Lindstrom
(S)
El discurso de los personajes visionarios en la narrativa de Moacyr Scliar
Regina Igel
(P)
O incurável judeu errante como personagem literario latino – americano
Moacir Amancio
(P)
O cristão novo na literatura brasileira atual
808
Literatura 2
Chair: Batia Siebzehner
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712
Alexandru V. Lefter
(E)
"Siempre les quedará la literatura”: Autoría, intertextualidad y juego
(auto)biográfico en "La música de Julia" de Alicia Steimberg
Corinna Deppner
(S)
Oscilaciones entre magia y logos, entre letra y número: El pensamiento
cabalístico en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges
Gabriela Jonas Aharoni (S)
La identidad judía en la ficción televisiva de Argentina
809
América latina: Guerra, tragédia, e humor
Chair: Berta Waldman
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712
Berta Waldman
(P)
Jorge Amado: As crônicas da II Guerra
Lyslei Nascimento
(P)
A miniaturização do mundo em "A Guerra no Bom Fim", de Moacyr Scliar
Saul Kirschbaum
(P)
O ponto cego em "Brasil, País do futuro"
Nancy Rozenchan
(P)
"Tres mosqueteros," de Marcelo Birmajer, e o humor judaico
810
Judaísmo nos Trópicos: A língua idish como reforço identitário na América
Latina do século XX
Chair: Helena Lewin
Tuesday (30/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712
Helena Lewin
(P)
A política demográfica no Brasil e a inserção do imigrante judeu
Dina Lida Kinoshita
(P)
A literatura iídiche no Brasil
Esther Kuperman
(P)
ICUF: A esquerda judaica no Brasil
811
Prácticas transnacionales, globalización y nuevas diásporas de judíos
latinoamericanos
Chair: Anita Weinstein
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712
Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein (S)
Educación y educadores judíos latinoamericanos transnacionales
Marcelo Dorfsman
(S)
Educador judío transnacional: Nuevas perspectivas para su formación y
actualización en contextos globalizados
Yael Siman
(S)
Entre las teorías sobre transnacionalismo y los estudios empíricos: nuevos
criterios de medición para explicar la vida judía latinoamericana en el siglo XXI
812
Nuevas miradas transnacionales sobre experiencias de los judíos de – en
América Latina: abordajes conceptuales y metodológicos
Chair: Judith Bokser Liwerant
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712
Perla Aizencang Kane (S)
La presencia de israelíes en México: ¿Un nuevo espacio social transnacional?
Maya Shorer Kaplan
(E)
Patterns and Trends in Jewish Latin-American Migration: Uruguayan Jews in
Uruguay, in Israel, and in the World
Bertha (Betty) Mendlovic Pasol
(S)
Museización de la Shoá en México como construcción de una memoria cultural:
El momento transnacional en un contexto nacional
Leonel Levy
(S)
Una mirada transnacional al fenómeno religioso: Transformaciones en la vida
judía comunitaria a comienzos del siglo veintiuno. Estudio sobre una comunidad
judía emergente en México, Distrito Federal
813
Nuevos enfoques en el cine judío iberoamericano contemporáneo
Chair: Florinda F. Goldberg
Wednesday (31/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712
Tzvi Tal
(S)
Judíos y Palestinos en cine Iberoamericano
Graciela Michelotti
(S)
La cámara oscura: Salir de la sombra
Nora Glickman
(S)
Cine judeo-argentino: Inmigración, tango y prostitución
814
Sionismo e Israel
Chair: Yosef Rozen
Thursday (1/8/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712
Graciela Ben-Dror
(S)
El movimiento sionista-socialista en Uruguay: el caso del "Movimiento Mordejai
Anilevich", desde una perspectiva transnacional, 1953 – 1973
Irene Stoliar
(S)
Historia del movimiento Hashomer Hatzair en Cuba
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll (S)
Transnacionalismo y educación judía no-formal: El caso de Macabi Buenos Aires
Tullo Vigevani
(P)
O lugar de Israel na política exterior do Brasil
Guilherme Casarões
(P)
O lugar de Israel na política exterior do Brasil
815
Identidades políticas y religiosas
Chair: Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
Thursday (1/8/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712
Eva Alterman Blay
(P)
Encruzilhadas da Identidade: Comunismo X Sionsmo
Valeria Navarro
(S)
Comunista y judio: el caso de Carlos Berger
Daniel Bargman
(S)
Topografías judaicas y redes transnacionales: Una aproximación antropológica a
las religiosidades judías en Buenos Aires
‫חטיבה‬:
Jewish Names
820
Names in the Bible
Chair: Yigal Levin
Monday (29/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713
Pavel Čech (Czech)
(E)
David, King of the Philistines
Yoel Elitzur
(H)
The Origin and Development of the Divine Name A–D–N–Y: Implications for the
Dates of the Composition of the Books of the Hebrew Bible
Mitka R. Golub
(H)
The Names on the Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah
Sara Friedman
(H)
Biblical Names in the Translation of Fiction into Hebrew
821
Names Through the Ages
Chair: Aaron Demsky
Monday (29/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713
Helene Friesen
(E)
Female Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible and in Rabbinic Literature
Lisa Radding
(E)
Marketing Software: The Complications of Jewish Names
Moshe Ovadia
(H)
First Names in Gittin: The Moroccan Rabbis’ Approach—The Approach of the
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Moroccan Rabbis to the Writing of First
Names in Certificates of Divorce
Yosef Rivlin
(H)
Shortened Names and Nicknames: Implications for Writing a Bill of Divorce and
for Giving Personal Names
822
Names in Jewish Communities
Chair: Gershon Bacon
Monday (29/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713
Kalman Weiser
(E)
“Kopel not Filaret, Sore not Solomea”: Debates about Jewish Naming Practices
in Pre-World War II Poland
Erzsbet Mislovics
(E)
Changes of Names in the Munk Family
Ruven Enoch
(H)
The Last Names of Georgian Jews
Margalit Ovadia
(H)
Each Person Has a Nickname that Characterizes Him
823
Linguistics and Society
Chair: Tsvi (Tsuguya) Sadan (Sasaki)
Monday (29/7/2013) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713
Nissim Dana
(H)
Jewish–Druze Cultural Assimilation: The Adoption of Jewish Names by Druze
Reut Green
(H)
The Naming of Children as a Means of Expressing and Forming Nationality in the
Settlements of the First and Second Aliyahs (1882–1914)
Shlomit Landman
(H)
Onomastical Periods for in the Jewish Sector during 1948–2007
Tsvi (Tsuguya) Sadan (Sasaki)
(H)
The Place of Proper Names in Modern Hebrew Lexicography
‫חטיבה‬:
Masoretic Studies
830
Research in the Masorah 1
Chair: Aron Dotan
Sunday (28/7/2013) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717
Aron Dotan
(H)
Opening Remarks
Yosef Ofer
(H)
The Writing of Prophets and Hagiographa Scrolls according to the Aleppo
Codex: New Evidence
Joseph Peretz
(H)
Writing Traditions for Open and Closed Parashot in Ashkenaz
Mordekhai Weintraub (H)
The List of Open and Closed Parashot as Part of Sefer Tagei
Lea Himmelfarb
(H)
The Connection between Cases of Double Accentuation and Interreligious
Polemic
831
Research in the Masorah 2
Chair: Yosef Ofer
Sunday (28/7/2013) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717
Rachel Hittin-Mashiah (H)
The Accentuation of "‫ "כי‬in Three-Word-Clauses Terminating with Atnach or
Silluq
Nurit Reich
(H)
Solution of an Enigmatic Mnemonic Device in a Masorah Note
Ephraim-Bezalel Halivni (H)
Biblical Accentuation Incompatible with Syntactic Division
Jose Martinez Delgado (E)
The Making of Accumulative Lists in Mahberet Menahem ben Saruq
832
Masora Research 3
Chair: Rachel Hittin-Mashiah
Sunday (28/7/2013) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717
Hanna Liss
(E)
Scholarly Knowledge,-Drollery, or Esotericism? Initial Considerations of the
Micrographic Images of the Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in the High Middle
Ages
Elodie Attia
(E)
One Scribe, Two Masorot? The Masora Figurata of Elijah ben Berekhia haNaqdan
Kay Joe Petzold
(E)
The Earliest Manuscripts of the Pentateuch Commentary of Rav Salomo ben
Isaac (Rashi) and the Use of the Masorah
Christopher Dost
(E)
Sub Loco Notes and Textual Criticism
Jordan S. Penkower
(H)
A CompleteA Complete Eastern Torah Scroll from the end of the Twelfth to the
Beginning of the Thirteenth Century