Monday 26 July 2010

9:00 – 10:00 pleanary lecture prof. MARTIN GOODMAN “Ancient Temple”

10:00 – 10:30 break

Room 1, SECTION 14 “Contemporary Jewish History”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Silvia Haia Antonucci, The Activities of the DELASEM in the Documents of the Historical Archives of the Jewish Community of Rome

10:50 – 11:10 Daniel Langton, Holocaust Theology and the Use of History

11:10 – 11:30 Yaacov Shavit, From a Secular Literal Reading to a Secular Homiletic Reading – The Bible in Israeli Culture

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Monty Noam Penkower, Topic: The 1939 St. James Conference on Palestine

12:20 – 12:40 Michele Sarfatti, Jews In Albania 1938-1943: From The End Of The Albanian Independent Government To The End Of The Italian Occupation

12:40 – 13:00 Michał Galas, Between Orthodoxy and Assimilation : Varieties of Judaism in Poland in the late 1930ties (before the Holocaust).

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Silvia Guetta, A review of the historical research and studies on the history of Jewish education from the 18th. to the 20th. century

14:50 – 15:10 Brenda Bacon, Alien and American: The Polemics Against Religious Feminism in Israel

15:10 – 15:30 David E. Fishman, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Vilna Jewish Museum, 1944-1949

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Orly C. Meron, Jewish Entrepreneurial Activity in Salonica during the mid-1930s

16:40 – 17:00 Gerben Zaagsma, Jewish migrants and anti-Semitism in Paris and London beforeWWII

17:00 – 17:20 Asaf Yedidya, The Nazis’ Attacks on the Talmud and the Jewish Apologetic Reactions in the 1930's

17:20 – 17:40 Einat Libel-Hass, Female Visibility in the Public Space of an Israeli "Masorti"/ Conservative Community

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 2, SECTION 10 “Modern Jewish History”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Sarah Ljubibratic, Jews and new Christians under the Roman Inquisition. A Maltese variant of marranism?

10:50 – 11:10 Dario Miccoli, Alexandrian Jews and the Alliance Israélite Universelle: histories of a Levantine bourgeoisie 1897-1919

11:10 – 11:30 Francesca Bregoli, “A Second Mother and Most Tender Wet-Nurse”: Jews, Medical Culture and the Public Good in 18th-Century Livorno

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Carmen Dell’Aversano, The Paradoxes of Assimilation: Quotation, Disidentifying and Redemption as Untenable Positions

12:20 – 12:40 Natascia Danieli, Leon Modena’s letters

12:40 – 13:00 Elissa Bemporad, Revolution in Pink: Roles and Images of Jewish Women in Interwar Soviet Russia

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Zohar Shavit, The Hebraization project

14:50 – 15:10 Jan Zouplna, The Initial Phase of Revisionist Zionism, 1922-25:The Non-Jabotinsky Story

15:10 – 15:30 Yosef Salmon, The Shemitta Controversy 1889-1910

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Tatiana Solodukhina, The Jews – former Russian subjects – in the Syro-Palestinian region of the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the 19th century

16:40 – 17:00 Nava Ben Artzey Schieber, The relation to the 'other' as a question of survival: a psychoanalysis perspective

17:00 – 17:20 Simon Mayers, The Anglo-Jewish Press, The Church of Rome, and the Palestine Question, 1900-1922

17:20 – 17:40 Daniel J. Clasby, Luigi Luzzatti’s Jewish Politics: Transnational Debates on the Status of Religious Minorities in Italy and Abroad, 1909-1922

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 3, SECTION 6 “Medieval Jewish History”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Angela Scandaliato, Sicilian Jewish scholars in the Mediterranean society of the Dār al-Islām

10:50 – 11:10 Ursula Ragacs, From Babylonia to Paris: A rabbinical text’s “journey” around the Medieval Mediterranean Sea

11:10 – 11:30 Fred Astren, Jews and the ‘New’ Mediterranean Studies, Sixth-Tenth Centuries

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Simha Goldin, Jewish Medieval Neighborhood; new perspectives

12:20 – 12:40 Katja Vehlow, Why did the twentieth century debate on medieval Jewish historiography exclude the writings of Jews in Islamic lands?

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Alessandra Veronese, "German" and "Italian" Jews in Northern Italy: settlements and relationships.

14:50 – 15:10 Judah D. Galinsky, Communal Charity in 13th Spain: the Evidence of Rabbinic Literature

15:10 – 15:30 Marina Rustow, Jews and the ‘New’ Mediterranean Studies, Tenth-Twelfth Centuries

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Teugels Lieve M., Pigs and Pork as Jewish Identity Markers from Antiquity to Modernity

16:40 – 17:00 Gili Orr, Alpha Beta deBen Sira I: the first wholly parodic Ashkenazi text?

17:00 – 17:20 Ilana Wartenberg, From Castile to Sicily: Isaac ben Solomon Ibn al-Ahdab’s intellectual journey around the Mediterranean Sea

17:20 – 17:50 debate

Room 4, SECTION 5 “Rabbinic Literature”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Dvora Bregman, Moses Zacuto, a Venetian Rabbi and Baroque Poet

10:50 – 11:10 Rivka Shemesh, The usage of the co-agentic dative pronoun in Mishnah and Tosefta

11:10 – 11:30 Elvira Martín-Contreras, Transmitting the bible: a new approach to the role of the rabbinic literature in the textual transmission

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Jordan Rosenblum, The Idol in her Bra: Commensality Intermarriage, and Idolatry in Tannaitic Literature

12:20 – 12:40 Arkady Kovelman, “A Share in the World to Come”: Text and Hypertext of Mishnah Sanhedrin

12:40 – 13:00 Ulrich Berzbach, Through the Looking-Glass of the Yalqut, and What Can Be Found There Concerning Seder Eliyahu Zuta

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Lorena Miralles Maciá, Proselytes and Sympathisers with Judaism in Leviticus Rabbah

14:50 – 15:10 Olga Isabel Ruiz Morell, Another contribution to Tosefta

15:10 – 15:30 Koji Osawa, Jannes and Jambres: Two Magicians in Judaism

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Yehudah Cohn, Protectionism and Resistance in Rabbinic Trade Regulation

16:40 – 17:00 Moshe Lavee, Late Midrsahic Activity across the Mediterranean Sea

17:00 – 17:20 Tamas Turan, Polymorphous Imagery in Ancient Rabbinic God-Talk

17:20 – 17:40 Lennart Lehmhaus, Seder Eliyahu Rabba and Zuta –the discourse of morality as a dialogue in its pluralistic environment of Mediterranean societies.

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 5, SECTION 4 “Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Samuele Rocca, Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Urbs: The Development of the Jewish Communities in Imperial Rome

10:50 – 11:10 Ben Zion Rosenfeld, The Poor Family in Jewish Society in Roman Palestine, 70-400 CE

11:10 – 11:30 Aron Sterk, The Epistola Anne ad Senecam: an early fifth century Latin Jewish protreptic in dialogue with pagan montheism?

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Jacoov Shapira, The Status of Parents: Between the Palestinian Talmud and the Babylon Talmud

12:20 – 12:40 Willem Smelik, Justinian’s Novella 146 and Contemporary Judaism

12:40 – 13:00 Margaret Williams, Symbol and Text in the Jewish Inscriptions of Late Ancient Rome

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Willem Smelik, Justinian’s Novella 146 and Contemporary Judaism

14:50 – 15:10 Görge Hasselhoff, Who are the Jews with whom Jerome communicated?

15:10 – 15:30 Liubov Chernin, The converts of Minorca in 418: circumstances and consequences of baptizing

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Reuven Kiperwasser, The scenario of the Eschatological Feast in Palestina and Babilonia

16:40 – 17:00 Lutz Greisiger, Emperor Heraclius, Near Eastern Apocalyptic and the Conversion of the Jews

17:00 – 17:20 debate

Room 6, SECTION 3 “Second Temple Judaism”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Cinzia Achille, The lack of humanitas of Egyptians and Jews in Juvenal’s satire

10:50 – 11:10 Kenneth Atkinson, Pompey the Great in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Jewish Texts: How the Romans Used Religion to Conquer Jerusalem in 63 B.C.E.

11:10 – 11:30 Michael Avioz, The Character of Jonathan in Josephus’ Antiquities

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Miriam Ben Zeev, Cultural Patterns in Judea in the Second Century BCE

12:20 – 12:40 Katell Berthelot, The Concept of Anathema in Ancient Jewish Literature Written in Greek

12:40 – 13:00 Isaac Oliver, Jubilees and the Rabbis: Forming Jewish Identity By Formulating Legislation for Gentiles

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Edward Dabrowa, The Hasmoneans and Religious Homogeneity of their State

14:50 – 15:10 Giovanni Ibba, L’espressione “Figli di Sadoq” nei manoscritti qumranici

15:10 – 15:30 Silvia Castelli, Allusions to the Jews of Rome in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Pieter W. Van der Horst, Philo and the Problem of God’s Emotions

16:40 – 17:00 Tania Maria Garcia Arévalo, The new messiah of 1qhiii 1:18 (sukenik edition) inthe light of the concept of suffering servant

17:00 – 17:20 Sandra Gambetti, On the Ethnarch again: what if Josephus Was Right?

17:20 – 17:50 debate

Room 7, SECTION 1 “Biblical History and Archaeology”

Morning:

Panel “Archaeological Artifacts Relating to the Biblical World”

10:30 – 10:50 Meir Lubetski, Interpreting Symbols on Pre-Exilic Hebrew Seals

10:50 – 11:10 Martin K. Heide, Redating the Testaments of Isaac and Jacob

11:10 – 11:30 Andre Lemaire, The Moussaieff Collection of Palaeo-Hebrew ostraca revised or The Qumran Community in its Jewish Historical Context

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Claire Gottlieb, Who was bat pharaoh?exodus 2:5

12:20 – 12:40 Matthew Morgenstern, Mediterranean or Mesopotamian?Reflection on some Aramaic magic formulae

12:40 – 13:00 Richard S. Hess, Writing and Recent Discoveries in Iron Age Israel

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 David Meir Feuchtwanger, Ezra’s Neo Conservative Leadership

14:50 – 15:10 Tessel Jonquière, Constructing identity in/through historiography

15:10 – 15:30 debate

Room 8, SECTION 8 “Manuscripts, Codices, and Books”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Dagmara Budzioch, Characteristic features of „Italian” Esther scrolls from 17th c. on the Kraków manuscript (Biblioteka XX. Czartoryskich - nr 2442)

10:50 – 11:10 Francisco Javier Del Barco, Reconstructing the early history of two kabbalistic manuscripts from El Escorial library

11:10 – 11:30 Maria Teresa Ortega-Monasterio, Manuscripts Digitization in CSIC Libraries

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Yael Penkower, The Friedberg Genizah Project

12:20 – 12:40 Lucia Raspe, Yiddish Minhagim Manuscripts from Sixteenth-Century Italy

12:40 – 13:00 Ora Schwarzwald, A Ladino Prayer Book for Women from the Sixteenth Century

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Elodie Attia, Copies of printed books in sixteenth century italian hebrew manuscripts

14:50 – 15:10 Jesús De Prado Plumed, The Italian paradoxes of Alfonso de Zamora (fl. 1516-1545): Abravanel on Latter Prophets from Jewish Italy to Converso Castile

15:10 – 15:30 Israel M. Sandman, Methodological Consciousness and the Scribe of MS JTS-A 2564

15:30 – 16:00 debate

Tuesday 27 July 2010

9:00 – 10:00 plenary lecture prof. KENNETH STOW

Room 1, SECTION 14 “Contemporary Jewish History”

Morning:

panel “The Presence of the she'erit hapletah in Italy: The Relationship between DPs, Authorities and Public Opinion”, chair Arturo Marzano?

10:30 – 10:50 Cinzia Villani, The Italian Government’s Policy towards the arrival of Jewish DPs

10:50 – 11:10 Elena Mazzini, The Italian Public Opinion and the Refugees

11:10 – 11:30 Arturo Marzano, The camps and Haksharotoh in Rome: a case study

11:30 – 11:50 Fabrizio Lelli, Written Memories and Oral Memories in the transit camps: the case of Southern Apulia

11:50 – 12:30 debate

Afternoon:

Panel “Toleration of Variety within Judaism”, chair Martin Goodman

14:30 – 14:50 Simon Levis Sullam, Toleration in the Ghetto of Venice: A Re-Examination of Leon Modena’s Historia de’ Riti Hebraici (1637)

14:50 – 15:10 Corinna Kaiser, Mapping Spaces of Toleration in Contemporary Judaism

15:10 – 15:30 Joseph E. David, Toleration of deviation in medieval halakhah

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

Room 2, SECTION 10 “Modern Jewish History”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Rachel Heuberger, From traditional Zedakah to modern philantropy. The leading role of Jewish patrons in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century

10:50 – 11:10 Rakefet Zalashik, Law and Jewish Lunatics in Mandatory Palestine 11:10 – 11:30 Eleonore Lappin, Trieste – Austria’s Gate to Eretz Israel

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Asher Salah, L’ebraismo come teologia morale: l’opera e la figura di Eliseo Pontremoli

12:20 – 12:40 Victoria Khiterer, Laughing Through Tears: Jewish Kiev in the Writings of Sholom Aleichem

12:40 – 13:00 Gideon Kouts, Ben yehuda, a hebrew journalist in paris, and the « french model » of journalism at the end of the 19th century

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Helen Przibilla, The Zionist Yizkor Book Tradition. Commemorating the Fallen in the Yishuv

14:50 – 15:10 Yaacov Goldstein, The Settlement Ethos In The Jewish And Zionist Thought

15:10 – 15:30 George Yaakov Kohler, Rabbi Max Dienemann’s plans for liberal Judaism in Palestine

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Alessandro Grazi, The passion of a people. Jewish authors on Italian nationalism and Jewish identity in Risorgimento Italy

16:40 – 17:00 Malgorzata Domagalska, The linguistic image of the Jew in the Polish anti-Semitic and conservative press at the turn of the 19th and 20th century

17:00 – 17:20 Agnieszka Friedrich, ‘Rola’ magazine towards the Dreyfus Affair

17:20 – 17:40 Viktor Kelner, Russian Jew Maxim Vinaverì (National Identification of the Russian Jewry and Political Life in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century)

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 3, SECTION 7 “Medieval Jewish Literature”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Mariano Gómez Aranda, Controversies on the Creation of the World in Ibn Ezra’s Comments on Gen. 1:1

10:50 – 11:10 Mordechai Z. Cohen, Maimonides vs. Abraham Ibn Ezra: Two Mediterranean Bible Exegetes

11:10 – 11:30 Arturo Prats Olivan, The Love Poetry of Shelomoh Bonafed

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Mónica Olalla Sánchez, Latin Syntactic Loans Translations In A Hebrew Version Of Lilium Medicinae Of Bernard Of Gordon

12:20 – 12:40 Riikka Tuori, The Hebrew Zemirot of the Lithuanian Karaite scholar Zerah ben Nathan (1578-1663) in the light of poetic guidelines made by the Rabbanite scholar Joseph Solomon Delmedigo of Candia (1591-1655).

12:40 – 13:00 Robert A. Harris, Allegory and Context:  12th Century Rabbinic Commentaries on the Song of Songs

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Joachim Yeshaya, The Introduction of Poetry in the Karaite Liturgy from Moses ben Abraham Dar‛ī until Aaron ben Joseph

14:50 – 15:10 Wout Jac Van Bekkum - Naoya Katsumata, Dictionary of Piyyut, the preliminary presentation of an online database

15:10 – 15:30 Uri Ehrlich, Some Observations on the Prayer Texts in Siddur Rav Saadia Gaon

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 James W. Nelson Novoa, The reception of Seneca among fifteenth century Sephardic Jews

16:40 – 17:00 Arie Schippers, Some Questions of Italian Hebrew Poetics in the Light of the Spanish Hebrew Heritage

17:00 – 17:20 Elisabeth Hollender, Reflecting the Other Christianity in Piyyut

17:20 – 17:40 Kineret Sittig, Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Sabbath Letter: different genres in Ashkenaz and Italy

17:40 – 18:20 debate

ROOM 4, SECTION 5 and 16

Morning: SECTION 5 “Rabbinic Literature”

Panel “The Manchester-Durham Typology of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity”, chair ?

10:30 – 10:50 Alex Samely, A New Approach to the Literary and Textual Features of Ancient Jewish Literature

10:50 – 11:10 Philip S. Alexander, On the Value or Lack of it of Ancient Genre Labels

11:10 – 11:30 Robert Hayward, A Typology of Megillat Ta`anit [or some other Project text]

11:30 – 11:50 Rocco Bernasconi, Overlaps in wording between Mishnah and Tosefta 11:50 – 12:30 debate

Afternoon: SECTION 16 “Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah Magic”

14:30 – 14:50 Annett Martini, Yosef Giqatilla’s Vowel Mysticism as Interpreted by Mordekay Dato

14:50 – 15:10 Susanne Talabardon, Creating a New Identity: The function of Conversional Stories within Emerging Religious Groups

15:10 – 15:30 Mark Zvi, The Contemporary Renassaince of Breslov Hasidism — Ritual, Tikkun and Messianism

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Saar Ortal-Paz, Love magic across the mediterranean: italy and the cairo genizah

16:40 – 17:00 Klaus Herrmann, Throne Images in Judaism. Mystical and Aggadic Traditions about the Throne of God and Salomon as a Mirror of Jewish Life in the Mediterranean Context

17:00 – 17:20 Giacomo Corazzol, The ultimate source of Pico della Mirandola’s Zoroastrian conclusions

17:20 – 17:40 Yoram Bilu, Making the Absent Rabbi Present: Iconophilia and Apparitions among Habad Hasidim in Israel

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 5, SECTION 11 “Modern Jewish Literature”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Glenda Abramson, The Locust Plague in Palestine in 1915

10:50 – 11:10 Helena Rimon, The Quest for Identity in Hebrew Women's Poetry in the Context of the Myth of the Androgyne

11:10 – 11:30 John Champagne, Homosexuality, Fascism, History: Moravia and Bassani

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Refael Vivante Shmuel, Sephardic Man’s Poetry on Sephardic Women’s Experiences During the Holocaust

12:20 – 12:40 Saul Kirschbaum, A. B. Yehoshua’s Mar Mani Revisited

12:40 – 13:00 Berta Waldman, A woman flees the news – David Grossman

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Avidov Lipsker, Abraham .B. Yehoshua – Retrospective: From Metaphysics of Evil to a Local Mediterranean Ethics

14:50 – 15:10 Nancy Rozenchan, When the “other” is a brother: reflections about “Oriental Jew” contemporary representation in the 21st century Hebrew literature

15:10 – 15:30 Dorothea Salzer, Cultural Translation: The Case of German-Jewish Children’s Bibles

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Tamar Wolf-Monzon, The “Orient” as a geographical place and a spiritual-cultural domain in the work of Uri Zvi Grinberg

16:40 – 17:00 Rachel F. Brenner, Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Encountering the Holocaust: The Cases of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska

17:00 – 17:20 Zelda Newman - Noga Rubin, The play’s the thing: kadya molodowsky’s self-reflection in “a hoyz oyf grend strit”  

17:20 – 17:40 Yaniv Hagbi, Judah L. Palache’s Approach to the History of Hebrew Literature

17:40 – 18:20 debate

ROOM 6, SECTION 3 and SECTION 2

Morning: SECTION 3 “Second Temple Judaism”

10:30 – 10:50 Eugeny Eisenberg, Patriarch Photius and the First Jewish History Written By a Gentile

10:50 – 11:10 Caterina Moro, Fragments of Jewish-Egyptian Interpretation of Hebrew Bible

11:10 – 11:30 Meron M. Piotrkowski, Priestly Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt – The Oniad Community of Leontopolis

11:30 – 11:50 Dorit Gordon, “Early Anti-Semitism” Stories on their Classical Background: Josephus in Rome, in Greek, and "The First Blood Libel in History"

11:50 – 12:30 debate

Afternoon: SECTION 2 “Biblical Literature and Language”

14:30 – 14:50 Suzana Chwarts, Israel’s Patriarchal Cycle And The Meaning Of Sterility

14:50 – 15:10 Edith Lubetski, The Art and Science of a Biblical Bibliography

15:10 – 15:30 Anna Angelini, Israel and its neighbours: the divination between permission and prohibition

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Guadalupe Seijas Rios Zarzosa, Preexilic and Postexilic Parallelism in Proto- Isaiah. A Comparative Study

16:40 – 17:00 Michael Terry, Text C bites the dust: another nail in the coffin of the primitive Hebrew Book of Judith

17:00 – 17:20 Luis Vegas-Montaner, Semantic relevance of syndesis and word order in the Psalms: a case study of qatal and yiqtol in parallelism with wayyiqtol

17:20 – 17:40 David Prebor, Property Terms in Classical Hebrew – Semantic Developments

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 7, SECTION 15 “Jewish Philosophy”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Richard Cohen, The Few and the Many: Political Philosophy and Levinas

10:50 – 11:10 Kenneth Seeskin, Maimonides’ on the Days of the Messiah – Restorative or Utopian?

11:10 – 11:30 Miguel Antonio Beltrán Munar, Italian Jewish Philosophers of the Renaissance, Christian Kabbalah, and Herrera’s Puerta del Cielo

11:30 – 11:50 Yehuda Halper, Why were Hebrew Translations Revised? The Case of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics

11:50 – 12:30 debate

Afternoon:

Panel “PESHAT: the Internet vocabulary of scientific & philosophical Hebrew terminology”

14:30 – 14:50 Resianne Smidt van Gelder-Fontaine

14:50 – 15:10 Reimund Leicht

15:10 – 15:30 Gad Freudenthal

15:30 – 15:50 Giuseppe Veltri

15:50 – 16:30 debate

ROOM 8, SECTION 8 “Manuscripts, Codices, and Books”

Morning:

Panel “The European Genizah”

10:30 – 10:50 Andreas Lehnardt, "Genizat Germania" – A Research Project On Hebrew Binding Fragments In Germany.

10:50 – 11:10 Saskia Dönitz, Josephus Torn To Pieces – Fragments Of Sefer Yosippon In Genizat Germania

11:10 – 11:30 Martha Keil, Medieval Hebrew Fragments In Austrian Libraries – A Trailblazer Project In Europe

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Mauro Perani, The Hebrew original leasing deed of Moshe Norsa's lending bank to the Jews Gallico and Forti, Mantua December 17, 1517 from the Italian Genizah

12:20 – 12:40 Esperança Valls I Pujol, The Hebrew Historical Documents Of Girona: A Necessary Comparison With The Crisitian Sources

12:40 – 13:00 Judith Kogel, Talmudic Fragments Discovered In The Colmar Library

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 J. Ramon Magdalena Nom de Deu, The Hebrew Fragments Of The Archives Of Gerona Fragmentos: New Data And Future Research.

14:50 – 15:10 Kirsten a. Fudeman, The Contribution Of The Italian Genizah To The Study Of Glosses In Joseph Kara’s Biblical Commentaries

15:10 – 15:30 Meritxell Blasco Orellana, Los Fragmentos Hebraicos De Gerona: Arxiu Municipal: Estado De La Cuestión.

15:30 – 16:00 debate

Wednesday 28 July 2010

9:00 – 10:00 plenary lecture prof. SHLOMO SIMONSOHN

ROOM 1, SECTION 13 “Jewish Arts”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Kitty Millet, The Danger of Beauty

10:50 – 11:10 Derek Penslar, The Dynamics of Israeli-Diaspora Relations in “Cast a Giant Shadow”

11:10 – 11:30 Artur Kamczycki, Theodor Herzl as Urjüdischer Typus. Anthropology and Esthetics in Zionist argumentations at the beginning of the 20th century

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Astrid Schmetterling, “I am Jussuf of Egypt”: Else Lasker-Schüler’s Orientalist Drawings

12:20 – 12:40 Sasha Lozanova, The jewish cemetery in sofia – past and present

12:40 – 13:00 David De Vries, Diamonds in wartime Palestine

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Shulamit Laderman, Elijah: The Prophet of Fire, Fury and Faith - in Art and Aggada

14:50 – 15:10 Alexander Tamar, The Presentation of Jewish Salonika in Postcards

15:10 – 15:30 Judith Cohen, “Now I forgot the words”: searching for songs on the “Ladinobus” in Turkey 

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Rachel Adelstein, Joining The Stream: Holocaust-Related Music as a Monument of Sacred Time

16:40 – 17:00 Daniel Muñoz Garrido, From Granada to Toledo, a Journey through the Synagogue del Transito

17:00 – 17:20 Nina Spiegel, Dancing to Different Rhythms: Jewish Choreography in the Mediterranean Context and Beyond

17:20 – 17:40 Vilma Gradinskaite, Mark’s Antokolsky’s bas-relief: Inquisition Attacks Jews Celebrating Pesach: inspirers and followers

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 2, SECTION 10 “Modern Jewish History”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Daria Kovaleva, Nišān-i Humājūn (1521 – 1868): the Impact of a Sultan’s Privilege on the Jewish Communal Life in Istanbul

10:50 – 11:10 Tomer Levi, The Formation of a Mediterranean Community: The Jews of Beirut, 1860-1939.

11:10 – 11:30 Lara Rabinovitch, Between Europe and North America: The Romanian Jewish Refugee Crisis and the Transnational Context of Migration, 1900-1902

11:30 – 12:00 debate

Panel “European Jewish Urban Studies”

12:00 – 12:20 Rachel Heuberger, From traditional Zedakah to modern philantropy. The leading role of Jewish patrons in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century.

12:20 – 12:40 Jean-Claude Kuperminc, Paris, capital of the Jewish education. The role of the Ecole normale israélite orientale in shaping the modernization of Oriental Jews

12:40 – 13:00 Zsuzsana Toronyi, Networks in the Synagogue. The case of seat-owners registry of the Dohany street synagogue, Budapest

13:00 – 13:30 debate (with Francois Guesnet, respondent)

Afternoon:

Panel “The ‘Sephardic model of Emancipation and Integration’ in Europe in the 19th and 20th century”

14:30 – 14:50 Karin Hofmeester, The ‘Sephardic model of Emancipation’ and the political integration of Jews in the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th century

14:50 – 15:10 Veerle Vanden Daelen, Minority or sub-minority? Sephardic Jews in early twentieth century Antwerp

15:10 – 15:30 Bart Wallet, Transformation of a Diaspora, the Western Sephardic Diaspora in the Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

15:30 – 16:00 debate

16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Jaap Cohen, The ‘Sephardic model of Emancipation and Integration’ in Europe in the 19th and 20th century

16:40 – 17:00 Julie-Marthe Cohen, The Looting of Ceremonial Objects from Dutch Jewish Synagogues during WW II

17:00 – 17:20 debate

Room 3, SECTION 7 “Medieval Jewish Literature”

Morning:

Panel “Hebrew Liturgical Poetry between Late Antique Palestine and Byzantine Italy”

10:30 – 10:50 Michael Swartz, Segmentation, Style, and Iconography in Early Piyyut

10:50 – 11:10 Laura Lieber, Love and Marriage in Early Piyyut

11:10 – 11:30 Ophir Münz-Manor, Wings of Change: Angels in Palestinian and Italian Piyyut

11:30 – 11:50 Peter sh. Lehnardt, The Valor of the One who Dwells in Firmaments I Shall Elaborate’. Developments in the Rhetoric of the Embodied Proem in the Tradition of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Italy

11:50 – 12:30 debate

12:30 – 12:50 Michela Andreatta, The Philosopher Who Cries and the Philosopher Who Laughs: The Adaptation of a Classical Motif in Immanuel Frances’ Humorous Epitaphs

12:50 – 13:10 Aurora Salvatierra Ossorio, Al- Harizi and 12th-13th Century Didactic Literature

13:10 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Nili Shalev, “Passion Is Awake While Counsel Sleeps”: Reflections on the Relationship between Passion and Reason in Rhymed Epigrams from Twelfth-Century Provence

14:50 – 15:10 Carmen Caballero Navas, Rabbenu Moše on gynaecology. The circulation in Hebrew of the Sixteenth Chapter of Maimonides’ Medical Aphorisms

15:10 – 15:30 Revital Refael-Vivante, The Mishle Shualim (Fox Fables) Book by Rabbi Berechiah Hanakdan: Andalusian Sources and Originality

15:30 – 16:00 debate

16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Maria Kaspina, The Jewish versions of a Universal Fairytale about a Maiden in a Tower (AT 310 and AT 930A)

16:40 – 17:00 Astrid Lembke, Law and Transgression in the Ma’aseh Yerushalmi

17:00 – 17:20 debate

Room 4, SECTION 16

Afternoon: SECTION 16 “Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah Magic”

14:30 – 14:50 Emma Abate, Magic and Cabbala in Abraham Yagel’s “ .” חוסים מושיח

14:50 – 15:10 Joseph Levi, Science and Kabbalah in the Early Modern Period: From Elijah Delmedigo’s Behinat ha-Dat to Yashar of Candia’s Elim and Novlot Hokhmah

15:10 – 15:30 Elke Morlok, R. Nehemia ben Shlomo and his influence on hermeneutic perspectives in Spanish Kabbalah 

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Hartley Lachter, Rational Science and Esoteric Discourse in 13th Century Spanish Kabbalah

16:40 – 17:00 Yoseph Cohen, What induced Hananel Da Foligno to convert to Catholicism, or , New Findings regarding the influence of Kabbalah upon 16th Century Italian Jewry

17:00 – 17:20 Natalia Yakimchuk, The Zoharic understanding of evil, based on passage 34a-35b, and its impact on the Sabbatian antinomianism

17:20 – 17:40 Nimrod Zinger, Magic, Medicine and the Medical World in the Writings of Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo, the “Yashar of Candia”

17:40 – 18:20 debate

Room 5, SECTION 11 “Modern Jewish Literature”

Morning: Panel “Translation and the Art of the Jewish Book”

10:30 – 10:50 Yotam Benziman, The (Un)translatability of Ethical Concepts

10:50 – 11:10 Hana Wirth-Nesher, Translating the Ineffable: the ABC's of Modern Jewish Writing

11:10 – 11:30 Murray Baumgarten, Primo Levi: Thinking in German

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Michal Ginsburg, Madame Bovary in Jerusalem

12:20 – 12:40 Na’ama Rokem, Recreated in Translation: Heine in Hebrew

12:40 – 13:00 Nancy Harrowitz, The Midrashic Levi

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

*14:30 – 14:50 Hillel Weiss, Jaffa in Hebrew Narrative Fiction, from Agnon to Ailon Hilu

14:50 – 15:10 Yael Dekel, Haketza'akatah – on S. Yizhar’s Outcry of Silence

15:10 – 15:30 Laura Quercioli Mincer, Paths of Assimilation in Urke-Nachalnik and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk Prison Memoirs

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Eran Tzelgov, Cross-Dressing and Crossing the Boundaries in Amos Oz’s My Michael

16:40 – 17:00 Michaela Mudure, Virgil Duda and the Jewish-Romanian Identity in the Mediterranean World

17:00 – 17:20 Luisa Banki, The art of storytelling – Walter Benjamin on Ibiza

17:20 – 17:50 debate

Room 6, SECTION 9 “Early Modern History”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 Angela Scandaliato, Sicilian Jewish scholars in the Mediterranean society of the Dār al-Islām

10:50 – 11:10 Ursula Ragacs, From Babylonia to Paris: A rabbinical text’s “journey” around the Medieval Mediterranean Sea 

11:10 – 11:30 Simha Goldin, Jewish Medieval Neighborhood; new perspectives

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Katja Vehlow, Why did the twentieth century debate on medieval Jewish historiography exclude the writings of Jews in Islamic lands?

12:20 – 12:40 Alessandra Veronese, “German” and “Italian” Jews in Northern Italy: settlements and relationships.

12:40 – 13:00 Judah D. Galinsky, Communal Charity in 13th Spain: the Evidence of Rabbinic Literature

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Marina Rustow, Jews and the ‘New’ Mediterranean Studies, Tenth-Twelfth Centuries

14:50 – 15:10 Teugels Lieve M., Pigs and Pork as Jewish Identity Markers from Antiquity to Modernity

15:10 – 15:30 Fred Astren, Jews and the ‘New’ Mediterranean Studies, Sixth-Tenth Centuries

15:30 – 16:00 debate16:00 – 16:20 break

16:20 – 16:40 Gili Orr, Alpha Beta deBen Sira I: the first wholly parodic Ashkenazi text?

16:40 – 17:00 Ilana Wartenberg, From Castile to Sicily: Isaac ben Solomon Ibn al-Ahdab’s intellectual journey around the Mediterranean Sea

17:00 – 17:20 debate

Room 7, SECTION 10 “Modern Jewish History”

Morning: Panel “The Translation of Knowledge: history, pedagogy and ideology in Jewish textbooks”

10:30 – 10:50 Louise Hecht, Modern values - challenged mentalities. Jewish textbooks in the Habsburg Monarchy around 1800: the teachers’ perspective

10:50 – 11:10 Dirk Sadowski, Modern values - challenged mentalities. Jewish textbooks in the Habsburg Monarchy around 1800: the childrens’ perspective

11:10 – 11:30 Simone Lässig, Interpreting “Civil Improvement” and “Educating” Jewish Contemporaries: Reform Sermons as a Means to Teach German Jews about Middle Class Culture

11:30 – 11:50 Irene Zwiep, The representation of Dutch national history in Dutch-Jewish textbooks of the nineteenth century

11:50 – 12:30 debate

Afternoon:

Panel “Jewish Genealogy (????)”

14:30 – 14:50 Maria Jose Surribas-Camps, Connecting with the lives and lineages of medieval Catalan Jews

14:50 – 15:10 Federica Francesconi, An Alternative Path toward Emancipation: Jewish Merchants and their Cross-Cultural Networks in 18th Century Italian Ghettos

15:10 – 15:30 Valts Apinis, Jews in Latvia in 1918-1940: a genealogical perspective

15:30 – 15:50 Neville Y. Lamdan, Village Jews in the 19th Century Minsk Gubernya through a genealogical lens

15:50 – 16:30 debate

Room 8, SECTION 12 “Jewish Languages”

Morning:

10:30 – 10:50 José Martinez Delgado, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Lexicography in al-Andalus (10th-15th centuries)

10:50 – 11:10 Haike Beruriah Wiegand, Contemporary Yiddish Poetry : Recent Publications in Italy and Beyond

11:10 – 11:30 Luba R. Charlap, The Grammatical Thought of the Karaite Yehuda Hadassi: Between East and West

11:30 – 12:00 debate

12:00 – 12:20 Alfonso Carro Esperanza M., An Anonymous Commentary on the Book of Job, Interspersed with Arabic and Castilian Glosses

12:20 – 12:40 María Angeles Gallego, From the Arabic of the Jews to Judeo-Arabic

12:40 – 13:00 Claudia A.L. Rosenzweig, Elye Bokher’s Pashkviln. Some Remarks on Two Yiddish Songs (Venice 1514).

13:00 – 13:30 debate

Afternoon:

14:30 – 14:50 Benjamin Hary, Jewish Languages and Migration: On the Linguistic Connection between Religiolects and Migration

14:50 – 15:10 George Jochnowitz, Parallel Developments: Judeo-Italian and Xiao’erjing (Mandarin of Chinese Muslims)

15:10 – 15:30 Eunate Mirones Lozano, Languages spoken by Jews in Medieval Navarre: Romance, Hebrew, and Basque?

15:30 – 16:00 debate

Thursday 29 July 2010

ROOM 1, SECTION 13 “Jewish Arts”

9:00 – 9:20 Eugeny Kotlyar, The Jerusalem Temple in Italian Art: A Model for Eastern European Synagogues

9:20 – 9:40 Igor Dukhan, Leon Bakst, Jewish style and esprit méditerranéen

9:40 – 10:00 debate10:00 – 10:20 break

Panel “Between Art and Ethnography Judaic Collections in Museum of St. Petersburg”, chair David De Vries

10:20 – 10:40 Alla Sokolova, Sefer Torah: a Souvenir for the Russian Emperor or the Instrument for Antireligious Propaganda

10:40 – 11:00 Tatyana Emelyanenko, History and Distinctive Features of Acquisition of Ethnographic Collections related to Bukharan Jews in the Russian Ethnographic Museum (Saint Petersburg)

11:00 – 11:20 Valery Dymshits, David Goberman as Researcher of East European Jewish Art

11:20 – 11:50 Alexander Ivanov, Collections of Photographs Related to History and Culture of Jews in the Petersburg Russian Ethnographic Museum: Political and Ideological Aspects of their Public Display in post-Perestroika Time

11:50 – 12:30 debate

Room 2, SECTION 10 e 11

Panel “Ashkenazi Daily Life during the 18th Century” SECTION 10 “Modern Jewish History”

9:00 – 9:20 Shmuel Feiner, Pleasures among the Jews in Eighteenth-Century Europe and their Secularizing Meaning

9:20 – 9:40 Marion Aptroot, Whist, knucklebones and golf: ‘Jewish’ pastimes in Yiddish satires

9:40 – 10:00 Shlomo Berger, On Hobbies in Ashkenazi Society during the Eighteenth Century

10:00 – 10:20 Natalie Naimark-Goldberg, Jews in Central European Spas in the 18th Century

10:20 – 11:00 debate11:00 – 11:20 break

Panel “The Ethnographic Eye: Jewish Travellers’ Perspectives on Difference”, SECTION 11 “Modern Jewish Literature”

11:20 – 11:40 Deborah Dash Moore

11:40 – 12:00 Anita Norich

12:00 – 12:20 Gabriella Steindler Moscati

12:20 – 12:50 debate

Room 3, SECTION 10 “Modern Jewish History”

Panel “Moravia. A desert country near the sea (Shakespeare, Winter's Tale)”

9:00 – 9:20 Tamás Visi, Lobele Prostitz and the Shabbatean Movement in Early Eighteenth-Century Moravia

9:20 – 9:40 Louise Hecht, Transfer of Goods – Transfer of Culture The Jewish tobacco monopoly in Bohemia and Moravia

9:40 – 10:00 Marie Crhová, Moravská Ostrava as the Epicenter of Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Czechoslovakia

10:00 – 10:20 Ivana Bednaříková Procházková, The Olomouc Group of Young Jewish Intellectuals at the Beginning of the 20th Century A hotbed of Jewish intellectuals in Moravia

10:20 – 11:00 debate11:00 – 11:20 break

Room 4, SECTION 9 “Early Modern History”

Panel “Baroque Society and Jewish Culture”

9:00 – 9:20 Cristiana Facchini, Jewish Political Narratives and Practices in 17th Century

9:20 – 9:40 Giuseppe Veltri, Principles of Jewish skeptical thought. the case of Simone Luzzatto

9:40 – 10:00 Alessandro Guetta, Translating from Hebrew into Italian

10:00 – 10:20 Gianfranco Miletto, Religion and Knowledge in the Visual Culture at the Time of the Counter-Reformation: The Shilte ha-gibborim of Abraham ben David Portaleone

10:20 – 11:00 debate11:00 – 11:20 break

Panel “The Ethnographic Eye: Jewish Panel “The Papal Inquisition and Professing Jews in Italy”

11:20 – 11:40 Katherine Aron-Beller, The Papal Inquisition in Modena: Jews and the Hiring of Christian Servants

11:40 – 12:00 Kimberly Lynn, The Meanings of Moses: Spanish Clerics, Venetian Printers, and the Question of Jurisdiction over Jews

12:00 – 12:20 Gretchen Starr-Lebeau, Gender and Judaism in the Venetian Inquisition

12:20 – 12:50 debate

Room 5, SECTION 12 “Jewish Languages”

9:00 – 9:20 Esther Szuchman, The Hebrew language: identification / identity and its continuity in the Diaspora.

9:20 – 9:40 Alvina Hovhannisyan, Medieval Hebrew Grammar in the context of Judeo-Arabic Symbiosis

9:40 – 10:00 debate10:00 – 10:20 break

10:20 – 10:40 Daria Semchenkova, Phraseological units with the numerative component in the Hebrew language

10:40 – 11:00 Ronny Vollandt, Capturing form versus meaning: The typology of early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch translations

11:00 – 11:20 11:20 – 12:10 debate