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90 Jewish Studies Today: Secularization and Religion, Criticism and Identity (Congress Plenary Session) Chairperson: Shmuel Feiner Tuesday (4/8/2009) 20:00 - 22:00 Room: Atzmaut-Mexico Hall

Michael A. Meyer (H) Research and Religion: Conflicting or Complementary? David Biale (H) Between Religious Tradition and Modern Secularism: Jewish Studies and the Dialectic of Secularization Menachem Brinker (H) The Uniqeness of Jewish Secularism Eliezer Schweid (H) Jewish Studies and Secular Jewish Culture

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91 Ephraim E. Urbach International Fellowship Winners 1 Chairperson: Ora Limor Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Michael Segal (E) Daniel as a Second Jeremiah: A Reassessment of the “Seventy Weeks” Motif in Daniel 9 Geoffrey Herman (H) Persia in the Tents of Shem: Royal Persian Themes adapted by the Babylonian Amoraim Aviram Ravitsky (H) Mezukak Shiv’ataim as a Rabbinic-Philosophical Encyclopedia: A Chapter in the History of 14th Century Jewry in Provence Yaacov Deutsch (H) Bastard and Son of the Menstruant: The Reception of Toldot Yeshu in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

92 Ephraim E. Urbach International Fellowship Winners 2 Chairperson: Lee I. Levine Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Semion Goldin (H) “The Jewish Question” in Conceptions of Russian and Polish Nationalists at the Beginning of the 20th Century Amos Morris-Reich (H) Type and the Racial Characteristics of Jews: Arthur Ruppin and Hans F. K. Guenther Compared

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Amos Goldberg (H) The History of the Jews during the Holocaust: a Cultural Perspective Tammy Razi (H) Gender and Modernization: Supervising Working Girls in Mandate Palestine, a Comparative Approach

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DIVISION A:

THE BIBLE AND ITS WORLD

100 Israel, Aram and Assyria: Between Bible and Archaeology (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Mordechai Cogan Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Tallay Ornan (E) Northern Inspiration: Aramean and Neo-Hittite Finds in Ninth–Eighth Century BCE Israel Aren Maeir (E) Hazael in Southern Israel: The Campaign to Philistia and the Conquest of Philistine Gath Amihai Mazar (E) Israel, the Arameans and Assyria: A View from Tel Beth-Shean and Tel Rehov Doron Ben Ami and Nili Wazana (E) Enemy at the Gates: The Phenomenon of Fortifications in Israel and Judea Reexamined

101 New Perspectives in the Study of the Persian Period (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Shalom Paul Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Israel Eph‘al (E) The Epigraphy of the Judeans and Their Land in the Persian Period: The Present State of Research Oded Lipschits (E) A New Look at the History and Archeology of Judah under Achaemenid Rule Gary Knoppers (E) Samaria and Yehud in the Achaemenid Era: New Developments in Historical Research Relating to Old Theological Questions Lisbeth S. Fried (E) The Contribution of Written Artifacts to Understanding the Role of the Governor in the Persian Empire

102 The Hebrew Bible and the Psalmodic Literature from Qumran (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Devorah Dimant Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

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Reinhard Gregor Kratz (E) “Blessed be the Lord and Blessed be His Name Forever”: Psalm 145 in the Hebrew Bible and in the Psalms Scroll (11QPsa) Eileen Schuller (E) New Pespectives on the Hodayot Peter W. Flint (E) The Apocryphal Psalms Found with Biblical Psalms in Several Scrolls from Qumran Bilha Nitzan (E) Angelic and Human Liturgy in the Qumran Writings

103 Changing Approaches to the Composition and Redaction of the Pentateuch (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Baruch J. Schwartz Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Joel S. Baden (E) “All the King’s Horses”? Fragmentation and Methodological Problems in the Composition of the Torah Erhard Blum (E) The Need for an Alternative to the J/E-Hypothesis Simeon Chavel (E) “A Kingdom of Priests” and “an Earthen Altar”: Meaning and Context Konrad Schmid (E) The Priestly Connection Between Genesis and Exodus

104 Methodological Aspects in the Research of the Bible and its World: Perry Foundation Session Chairperson: Marvin Sweeney Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714

Aharon Maman (E) Greetings Emanuel Tov (E) The Relevance of Textual Theories for the Study of the Biblical Text Zecharia Kallai (E) Biblical Narrative and Historical Method Joel S. Burnett (E) Archaeology, Lab Testing, and Iron Age Religion Aaron Koller (E) Lexicography of Biblical Realia: Methodical Considerations

105 Biblical Literature: Tecnique and Literary Means Chairperson: Leah Mazor Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2714

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Jonathan Grossman (H) The ‘Disappearing Character’ in the Biblical Narrative: A Study in Hatakh’s Role Galy Dinnur (H) The Place of the Altar of the Two-and-a-Half Tribes (Josh 22:9–34): The Tendency of Ambiguity George Savran (H) Multivocal Group Speech in Biblical Narrative Nava Gutman (H) Relations Between Men and Women in the Bible and Second Temple Post Biblical Literature: The Schematic Tale and the Genre of the Biblical Story

106 Bible and Gender Chairperson: Tova Forti Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714

Yael Shemesh (H) Achsah, from Object to Subject: A Story about a Wise Woman, a Field, and Water (Judges 1:10–15) Tarja Philip (H) “Blessings of the Breasts and of the Womb” (Gen 49:25): Gendering Fertility Blessings in the Bible Pnina (Galpaz) Feller (E) The Widow in the Bible and in Ancient Egypt Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (E) Was Judith an Eshet Chayil?

107 Justice and Wisdom in the Bible and in the Ancient Near East Chairperson: Ed Greenstein Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2717

Tova Forti (H) Wisdom and the Fear of God in the Eden Narrative and in the Book of Proverbs Nili Shupak (H) The Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of the Egyptian Sources Yitzhaq Feder (H) The Mechanics of Retribution in the Bible in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels Shirly Natan-Yulzary (H) Divine Justice or Poetic Justice? The Transgression and Punishment of the Goddess Anath in the “Aqhat Story”: A Literary Perspective

108 Biblical Narratives in Light of the Ancient Near East Chairperson: Victor Hurowitz

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Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2717

Abraham Winitzer (E) Etana in Eden Sol Cohen (E) The Cain and Abel Narrative in Light of the History of the Ancient Near East and its Literature Baruch Alster (E) The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18–19) in Light of the Flood Traditions Jona Schellekens (E) The Role of Mordecai in the Book of Esther

109 Law and Economics in the Bible and the Ancient Near East Chairperson: Nili Wazana Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2717

Avraham Faust (H) The Economy of the Land of Israel in the Seventh Century BCE: Between Assyria and the Mediterranean Hayah Katz (H) International Commerce in the Judean Kingdom: Myth and Reality Ayala Mishaly (H) Guarantors and Guarantees in the Neo-Assyrian Judicial System: Novel Solutions Ada Taggar-Cohen (H) The Biblical Covenant Reviewed in Light of the Hittite išḫiul

110 Relogion and Ritual in the Bible and the Ancient Near East Chairperson: Nili Shupak Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718

Victor Hurowitz (E) The Return of the Ark (1 Samuel 6) and Impetrated Ox Omens (STT 73:100–140) William S. Morrow (E) Neo-Assyrian Influence on the Religion of Judah: Comparative Evidence from Ekron Jonathan Stokl (E) Miriam’s Mothers, Miriam and Miriam’s Daughters: A Critical Reading of Recent Scholarship of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Women Prophets/Prophetesses Nili Samet (H) The Sumerian City Laments and the Book of Lamentations: A Comparative Theological View

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111 Historical Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East Chairperson: Oded Lipschits Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717

Dan'el Kahn (H) Revisiting the Date of the Death of Josiah and its Historical Background Gershon Galil (H) Solomon’s Temple: Fiction or Reality? Joram Mayshar (E) Who was the Toshav: A New Suggestion Leonid Dreyer (E) Building Terminology in the Biblical Texts

112 Law and Legislation in the Bible and the Ancient Near East Chairperson: Gershon Galil Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717

David Elgavish (H) Letters of Accreditation and Passports in the Ancient Near East Amnon Altman (H) The Different Traditions of Treaty Formulation in the Ancient Near East Joseph Fleishman (H) Some Postulates of Biblical Family Law Assnat Bartor (H) Representation of Time-Space Experience in Biblical Law

113 Israel and its Neighbors: Geography and Society Chairperson: David Elgavish Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605

David Ben-Gad Hacohen (H) Yam Suf, Yam Sof and Another Sea: A Sail on the Rough Waters of Biblical Geography Yoel Elitzur (H) The Identification of KIR, the Native Land of the Aramaeans: Some New Considerations Daniel Vainstub (H) The Governmental Institution Am haAretz in the Judean Kingdom: A New Evaluation

114 Studies in the Bible 1 Chairperson: Erhard Blum Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503

Marvin A. Sweeney (E)

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Samuel’s Institutional Identity in the Deuteronomistic History Hagith Sivan (E) To Whom Was the Decalogue Addressed? Suzana Chwarts (E) Jacob Dejarrete

115 Studies in the Bible 2 Chairperson: Yairah Amit Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714

David Frankel (H) Biblical Polemics on the Death of Moses Amos Frisch (H) Human Action and Divine Providence in the Former Prophets Noach Hayut (H) Collective and Personal Reward and Punishment in the Book of Kings Amir Eitan (H) The Influence of Oral Transmission and Public Reading on the Invigoration of the Biblical Text

116 Studies in the Bible 3 Chairperson: Hagith Sivan Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714

Yitzhak Peleg (H) Terah and Lot as Secondary Figures Yairah Amit (H) The story of Tamar and Judah: Meaning, Context and Provenance Yonina Dor (H) Joshua’s Conquests: A Suggestion for a Critical Reading Yehoshua Reiss (H) Organization and Structure of the Settlement Units in the Book of Joshua

117 Studies in the Book of Samuel Chairperson: Shmuel Ahituv Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605

Orly Keren (H) Saul and Jonathan: From Love to Hate Hezi Cohen (H) Jonathan’s Lot: A Literary and Theological Study Hava Guy (H) The Biblical Portrayal of the Deaths of Saul and Abimelech: A Comparison

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118 Studies in the Book of Ruth Chairperson: Gershon Brin Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714

Talia Sutskover-Stadler (H) The Theme of the Book of Ruth Reconsidered Ruth Fidler (H) The Threshing-floor Scene (Ruth 3): Meaning and raison d’être Yosefa Rachaman (H) Ruth and Elisha: Common Features and Differences Orit Avnery (H) Ruth: Between Text and Context, Between Acceptance and Rejection

119 Morals, Ideology and Theology 1 Chairperson: Jacob L. Kadouri (Kugel) Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605

Yitzhak Berger (E) Allusions in Ruth to Davidic Sin Narratives Yongsik Cho (E) How is it Possible for a Bribe to be a Subtle Way to a Better Life in the Book of Proverbs? Miryam Brand (E) The Evil Inclination and Free Will in Second Temple Literature Jonathan Klawans (E) Theology and Crisis in the Study of Ancient Judaism

120 Morals, Ideology and Theology 2 Chairperson: Frank Polak Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605

Naphtali S. Meshel (H) “Zoemics” and “Praxemics” in the Israelite Sacrificial System Rony Goldstein (H) A New Approach to 2 Kings 17:7–23 Dmitri Slivniak (H) Ruth and Abraham: Paradoxes of the Israelite Identity Amichai Nachshon (H) Laws Pertaining to the Suffering of Animals: Ideology and Practice in the Bible

121 Prophetic Literature Chairperson: Gary A. Anderson Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714

Daniel A. Frese (E)

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Lessons from the Potter’s Workshop: A New Look at Jeremiah 18:1–11 Hennie A. J. Kruger (E) Isaiah: A Cursory Overview of Some Recent Attempts to Understand the Book Dalit Rom-Shiloni (H) From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: Continuity and Transformation in the Babylonian-Exilic Ideology Tova Ganzel (H) The Fast of Gedaliah: Its Continued Observance and Significance in the Restoration Period (a new look at Zachariah 8–9)

122 Biblical Exegesis in Second Temple Literature Chairperson: Jacob L. Wright Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714

Gary A. Anderson (E) The Exegesis of Leviticus 26 in the Second Temple Period David Andrew Teeter (E) Interpretive Strategies in the Scribal Transmission of Biblical Law in the Second Temple Period Kenneth Hanson (E) ‘Hesed’ As a Term of Particularity in Ancient Israelite Self-Conception David Lambert (E) The Archeology of š-w-b: How We Read “Repentance” into the Bible

123 The Dead Sea Scrolls 1 Chairperson: Michael Segal Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817

Jonathan Ben-Dov (H) Did Enoch Speak Aramaic? Reflections on the Jubilees and the Aramaic Texts from Qumran Livneh Atar (H) The Reworking of the Bible in Pseudo-Jubilees Shlomit Kendi-Harel (H) Yom Hakippurim in the Book of Jubilees Liora Goldman (H) Clusters of Pesharim in the Damascus Document

124 The Dead Sea Scrolls 2 Chairperson: Moshe J. Bernstein Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817

Ariel Feldman (H) The Revelation at Sinai and the Wanderings in the Desert according to 4QApocryphal Pentateuch B (4Q377)

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Aryeh Amihay (H) The Names of God in the Dead Sea Scrolls Lea Mazor (H) The List of False Prophets (4Q339) Eyal Regev (H) How Many Sects Were in (the scrolls of) Qumran?

125 The Dead Sea Scrolls 3 Chairperson: Emanuel Tov Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718

Moshe J. Bernstein (E) Narrator and Narrative in the Genesis Apocryphon Shani Tzoref (E) 4Q252 and the Heavenly Tablets Russell Fuller (E) The Identification of Biblical Citations and their Use in the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible Rachel Elior (H) Farewell to the Essene Theory

126 Psalmody, Hymnody, and Exegesis in Judaism and Christianity Chairperson: Reinhard Gregor Kratz Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722

Wout van Bekkum (E) Psalms and Piyyut in Qumran and Early Judaism Hermut Loehr (E) What Do We Know About the Beginnings of Christian Hymnody? Goerge K. Hasselhoff (E) Jerome on Psalms: Are There Influences of Jewish Exegesis? Gordon John Wenham (E) The Psalter: An Anthology Designed for Memorization

127 Biblical Exegesis: Between Jews and Christians Chairperson: Mordechai Cohen Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722

Jacob Garzon (H) Implicit and Sharp Anti-Christological Criticism in the Medieval Jewish Exegesis on Genesis Ari Geiger (H) Exegetical Hierarchy in the Eyes of Jewish and Christian Literal Exegetes Moshe Rachimi (H)

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Concealed Anti-Christian Polemic in the Commentary of Rav Ovadia Sforno on Psalms Johanna Maria Tanja (E) A Jewish Targum in a Christian World: Targum Samuel in Sefarad

128 Bible Translations Chairperson: Michael Segal Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605

Daniel O'Hare (E) Uncircumcised in Heart and Flesh: Foreigners in the Septuagint Translation of Ezekiel 40–48 Hector M. Patmore (E) The Transformation of the King of Tyre in the Targum to Ezekiel 28:12–19 Alberdina Houtman (E) Is there a System to the Variant Targumic Readings in Codex Reuchlin? Leeor Gottlieb (E) The Targum of Chronicles: Preliminary Findings

129 Biblical Exegesis 1 Chairperson: Yeshayahu Maori Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2714

Hazoniel Touitou (H) The Exegetical Method of Rabbi Yehuda ben Elazar in his Biblical Commentary Minḥat Yehuda Isaac Gottlieb (H) Bible Interpretation in the writings of the Rishonim on the Talmud Eran Viezel (H) Between Syag La-Mikra and Et Sheker Soferim: Textual Criticism of the Bible in the Rabbinic Research of Eastern Europe through the Enlightment Period Juliette Hassine (H) Jewish Culture and the Bible in the Works of Marcel Proust

130 Biblical Exegesis 2 Chairperson: Uriel Simon Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722

Naomi Grunhaus (E) Radak’s Reliance on Rabbinic Interpretation: Its Place in Shorashim vs. its Place in his Exegetical Works Jair Haas (H) Isaac Abarbanel’s Understanding of the Prophets as Historians Mordechai Cohen (H)

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Resolving a Conundrum: How Did Maimonides Understand the Maxim אין ?(”Scripture Does Not Leave the Hands of its Peshat“) מקרא יוצא מידי פשוטוSara Klein-Braslavy (H) Gersonides’ Interpretation of the Miracle of the Retrograde Shadow Performed for Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:8–11)

131 Biblical Exegesis 3 Chairperson: Robert A. Harris Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2405

Marzena Zawanowska (E) The Exegete: His Role, Guiding Principles and Aims in Biblical Interpretation According to Yefet ben Eli Rafael B. Posen (H) Ibn Ezra’s Atittude Towards Targum Onkelos Itamar Kislev (H) The Effect of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Years in France on his Transformed Position Regarding Peshat and Halakhah in the Exegesis of Scripture Uriel Simon (H) The Four Ways in which Ibn Ezra’s Super-Commentaries Decipher his “Secret of the Twelve”

132 Biblical Exegesis 4 Chairperson: Isaac Gottlieb Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714

Michael Avioz (H) The Concept of Miracles in the Works of Flavius Josephus Julija Oleneva (E) The Interpretations of the Concept of Hebel in Jewish Sources (Midrash Qohelet Rabbah) and in the Commentaries of Church Fathers (Didymus of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa and Jerome) Gershon Brin (H) The Exegetical Methods of the Byzantine Exegetes in Comparison with those of the well-known Medieval Exegetes (Rashi, Ibn Ezra and others) Shimon Shtober (H) The Andalusian Linguists in the Commentary of R. Yitzhak b. Shmuel on the Book of Samuel

133 The Peshat School in Northern France 1 Chairperson: Martin Lockshin Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2405

Marla Frankel (H)

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The Study of Rashi’s Prooftexts as a Key to the Study of Rashi’s Torah Commentary Chanoch Gamliel (H) Was there Real Affinity Between Rashi and Menahem ben Saruq? Yeshayahu Maori (H) “Rashi Exelled in his Clear and Simple Style”: Why, then, did so Many Disagree on How to Understand his Commentaries and his Methods? Jonathan Jacobs (H) Literary Aspects in R. Joseph Bechor-Shor’s Commentary on the Pentateuch

134 The Peshat School in Northern France 2 Chairperson: Jordan S. Penkower Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2405

Aharon Mondschein (H) Regarding the “Lost Commentary” of Rashbam on the Book of Psalms Martin Lockshin (H) Attitudes to Rashbam in the Period of the Enlightenment Robert A. Harris (H) The Reception of Ezekiel among Twelfth Century Northern French Rabbinic Exegetes Ayelet Seidler (H) The Role of the Exposition in Medieval Eexegesis in North France and Provence

See also sessions

300: Qumran and the Rabbinic Literature, p. 000

306: The Attitude Towards Women in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature,

p. 000

313: The Sages Reading the Bible through a Contemporary Prism, p. 000

326: Nachmanides’ Library, p. 000

418: Hebrew Literature and the Bible, p. 000

439: Biblical Hebrew 1, p. 000

440: Biblical Hebrew 2, p. 000

441: Biblical Hebrew 3, p. 000

442: Biblical Hebrew 4: Diachronic Studies, p. 000

443: Developments in Hebrew, p.000

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458: Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Literature, p. 000

702: The Friedberg Genizah Project: Objectives and Accomplishments, p. 000

713: From the Qumran Scrolls to the “Seventh Column”, p. 000

822: Different Sources of Personal Names, p. 000

828: Masoretic Studies – Session 2, p. 000

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DIVISION B:

HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

200 Menachem Stern’s Contributions to Research: Twenty Years after His Death (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Aharon Oppenheimer Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Hannah M. Cotton (H) Menahem Stern: A Classical Philologist and Editor of Texts Albert Baumgarten (H) Menahem Stern as a Historian of the Second Temple Period in the Land of Israel and the Diaspora Isaiah Gafni (H) Menahem Stern’s Contribution to Research on the Period of the Mishnah and Talmud Moshe-David Herr (H) Menahem Stern’s Place in Jewish Studies and in the Humanities in General

201 Meeting Places (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Elliot Horowitz Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Amnon Cohen (H) Jews in the Moslem Religious Court of Jerusalem Claudia Ulbrich (E) Sharing Streets and Places in Eighteenth Century Germany Robert Liberles (E) “If Only He had Worn his Coquarde”: Coffeehouses as a Barometer of Jewish Social Integration in Early Modern Germany

202 Studies in The History of Tel-Aviv (A Joint Plenary Session of The History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewish Society) Chairperson: Hagit Lavski Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 6837 (Hendeles Zwig Auditorium)

Deborah Bernstein (H) Tel-Aviv during the British Mandate as a Society of Immigrants Tamir Goren (H)

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As Captives: The Jaffa Jews during the British Mandate Hizky Shoham (H) How has Haman been Beaten in the Streets of Tel-Aviv? Maoz Azaryahu (H) The Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Hebrew City

203 Contemporary Religious Fanaticism (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Israel Yuval Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Gershon Greenberg (H) Pentecostalism: Between Holy Land and Holocaust Kimmy Caplan (H) Haredi Zealotry: Between Rhetoric and Reality Meir Litvak (H) Violence in Radical Islam: Text or Context? Gideon Aran (H) The Legacy of Religious Fanaticism: Characteristics and Questions

204 Spiritual Life in the Late Second Temple Period Chairperson: Hannah M. Cotton Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713

Rivka Nir (H) What do We Really Know about the Historical Image of John the Baptist? Yochanan Cohen-Yashar (H) Explicit Evidence of Philo’s Jewish Education Naomi G. Cohen (E) The Passover Seder Eve in Philo’s Writings Martin D. Goodman (E) Tolerance of Variety within Judaism in the Late Second Temple Period

205 The Temple in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Albert Baumgarten Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Louis H. Feldman (E) Philo’s Attitude Toward the Temple in Jerusalem Michael Tuval (E) From Temple to Torah: On the Development of Josephus’ Religion Jan Willem van Henten (E) The Demolition of Herod’s Eagle Joseph Patrich (H) The Chambers of the South and of the North: (m. Middot 5:3–4 vis-à-vis b. Yoma 19a): The Contribution of Arcaeology to the Clarification of the Text

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206 The Jews in the Hasmonean and Herodian Periods Chairperson: Daniel Schwartz Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2503

Nadav Sharon (E) The Title Ethnarch during the Second Temple Period Etka Liebowitz (E) The Influence of Hellenism and Roman Society in Josephus’ Portrayal of Queen Salome Alexandra Yoel Fixler (H) The Location of the Battle Field Between the Hasmoneans and Seleucids near Kidron Fortress Samuel Rocca (H) The Jews of Rome and the Politics of the Late Republic

207 Jews and Gentiles in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Martin D. Goodman Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715

Hanan Birenboim (H) Intermarriage Between Jews and Gentiles in the Hellenistic Period Dorit Gordon (H) Josephus on Apollonius Molon: Anti-Semitic Counterhistory? About Flood, Witchcraft, Temple, and Mitzvot Noah Hacham (H) How Did Esau Die? On Jewish-Gentile Relations in Pseudepigraphy and Rabbinic Literature Sacha Stern (E) Non Jewish Wine Revisited: The Myth of Compulsive Libation

208 Space and Place in Antiquity Chairperson: Moshe-David Herr Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Meir Ben-Shahar (H) Eretz Israel Romance and Babylonian Satire: The Period of Restoration in Rabbinic Literature Yuval Shahar (H) Between “Gentile Land” and Abroad Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (H) The Place and Status of Syria in the World of the Sages Eli Borukhov (H) Estimates of the Population in Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period

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209 Leadership in the Talmudic Period Chairperson: Avraham (Rami) Reiner Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Gilad Sasson (H) Homilies about the Kings from the House of David in the Sages’ Literature as an Expression of their Attitude Towards the Institution of the Patriarchate David Levine (H) The Palestinian Talmud and the Patriarchate in the Fourth Century Haim Shapira (H) Ordination and Authority in Talmudic Babylon Avinoam Cohen (H) Did Mar Zutra, the Amora, Serve as an Exilarch? A Re-examination of Rav Sherira Gaon’s Tradition in His Two Epistles

210 The Time of the Mishnah and the Talmud Period: Social and Economic Aspects Chairperson: Isaiah Gafni Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722

Ruti Alster (H) The Tanna’im’s Attitude Towards Amme ha’Aretz in Light of the Tithe Laws Haim Perlmutter and Ben-Zion Rosenfeld (H) Signs of the Existence of “Middle Classes” in the Land of Israel in the Time of the Mishnah Tziona Grossmark (H) In Quest of Talmudic Reality: The Manufacture of Glass in Rabbinic Literature Susan Sorek (E) “I Hereby Pledge”: The Evidence for Sponsorship within the Synagogue Communities of Late Antique Palestine

211 Rome and Christianity in Jewish Historiography and Apocalyptic of Late Antiquity Chairperson: Oded Irshai Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Hillel Newman (E) The Figure of Armilus in Jewish Apocalyptic of Late Antiquity Ra‘anan Boustan and Oded Irshai (E) The Foundation of Rome in Rabbinic Eyes: Synchronizing the Histories of Jews and Romans in Late Antiquity Martha Himmelfarb (E) Sefer Zerubbabel and Popular Religion

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301 How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 1 vis-à-vis the Archaeological Evidence (A Joint Session of The History of the Jewish People and Rabbinic Litereature) Chairperson: Lee I. Levine Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713

Lee I. Levine (H) Introductory Remarks: The Status of the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature in Modern Research Zeev Weiss (H) Is Rabbinic Literature a Valid Tool for Analyzing Archeological Finds? Lee I. Levine (H) How Relevant is Rabbinic Literature to the Study of Jewish Art in Antiquity? Steven D. Fraade (E) Language Mix and Multilingualism in Ancient Palestine: Literary and Inscriptional Evidence

302 How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 2 vis-à-vis the Other Genres and the Epigraphical Evidence (A Joint Session of The History of the Jewish People and Rabbinic Litereature) Chairperson: Steven D. Fraade Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713

Ophir Münz-Manor (H) Poet, Priest, Rabbi: Reflections on the Status of Piyyut in Late Antique Jewish Culture Ra‘anan Boustan (E) Heikhalot Literature and the Boundaries of Rabbinic Culture Haim Lapin (E) Once Again the “Epigraphical Rabbis”

303 How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 3 vis-à-vis the Internal Rabbinic Evidence (A Joint Session of The History of the Jewish People and Rabbinic Litereature) Chairperson: Ithamar Gruenwald Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713

David Levine (H) Talmudic Traditions and Rabbinic Authority Emmanuel Friedheim (H) Halakhic Attitudes to Graeco-Roman Culture and the Question of the Place of the Rabbis in Jewish Society in the Time of the Mishnah and Talmud Ithamar Gruenwald (H) “Make a Fence” for Normativism

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212 Jews and the East: The East and the Jews Chairperson: Haggai Ben-Shammai Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603

Arye Olman (H) What is the Meaning of “Distortion of the Torah” in the Qu’ran? Nissim Dana (H) The Boundaries of Eretz Israel According to the Qur’an and Several Commentators Gregor Schwarb (E) Karaite Jews, Samaritans and Twelver Shīites in Palestine during the Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: The Context of some Hitherto Unexplored Intertextualities Na‛ama O. Arnon (H) No Fear: Jewish Views of the Mongols

213 Women, Converts, and Scholars in Medieval Ashkenaz and France Chairperson: David Berger Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Ephraim Kanarfogel (H) The Debate in Thirteenth-Century Ashkenaz as to Whether an Apostate Must Perform Halitzah, and its Historical Implications Elisheva Baumgarten (H) Women, Men and Time-Bound Commandments in Medieval Germany and Northern France: A Reassessment Simcha Emanuel (H) The Sages of Germany in the Thirteenth-Century: Continuity and Change Yehuda D. Galinski (H) Halakha and Society: The Uniqueness of Thirteenth-Century Halakhic Literature in Northern France David Berger (E) Respondent

214 Medieval Ashkenaz Beliefs Chairperson: Ephraim Kanarfogel Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817

Jeffrey R. Woolf (H) “And I Will Dwell in their Midst”: Divine Immanence in Medieval Ashkenazic Law and Lore Matania J. Ben-Ghedalia (H) Martyrdom in the Doctrines of Rabbi Judah he-Hasid and his Circle: A Reconsideration Simha Goldin (H)

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Piyyut and Piyyut Commentary as a Vehicle for Socialization in Medieval Ashkenaz Anat Kutner (H) Demons and Ghosts in the Night in Medieval Ashkenaz

215 Jewish Centers in Medieval Western Europe Chairperson: Chaim (Harvey) Hames Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2722

Katja Vehlow (E) A Universal History in the Middle ages: Abraham Ibn Daud’s Historical Enterprise Joseph Rapoport (H) The Leadership of the Jewish Community in the Kingdom of Navarre Before the Expulsion Bernard Rosensweig (E) Did the Rabbis Play a Central Role in the Ashkenazic Communities after the Black Death? Yosef Hacker (H) Charles the Eighth, the Conquest of Italy and Hispano-Jewish Messianic Aspirations on the Eve of the Sixteenth Century

216 Relationships Between Jews and Christians in Medieval Ashkenaz Chairperson: Johannes E. Heil Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603

Eveline Brugger (E) Treasuring Jews: Ducal Protection of Austrian Jewry in the Fourteenth Century Birgit Wiedl (E) Everyday Interaction of the Church and the Jews in Late-Medieval Austria Markus J. Wenninger (E) The Participation of Christians in Jewish Festivals in the Middle Ages Gundula Grebner (E) The Range of Jewish Medical Incantations in the Middle Ages: Formulas and Contexts

217 Religious Polemics and Conversion in the Middle Ages Chairperson: Ram Ben-Shalom Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503

Anastasia Keshman (E) St. Stephen’s Hand in the Wrong Hands: On a Little-Known Anti-Jewish Account from Medieval France Luis Cortest (E)

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Isidore of Seville, Thomas Aquinas, and Alonso de Cartagena on Forced Conversion Ahuva Ho (E) Alfonso de Zamora: an Apostate in the Service of the Church Ricardo Muñoz Solla (S) Conversos burgaleses: Historia de una silenciosa presencia (siglos XV-XVI)

218 Jewish and Christian Polemics in Spain in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Chairperson: Ora Limor Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503

Claude B. Stuczynski (H) Humanist and Inquisitor: The Anti-Rabbinic Polemics of Antonio de Guevara Ram Ben-Shalom (H) The Foundation of Christianity in the Historical Perceptions of the Spanish Jews according to the Anonymous MS “Various Elements on the Topic of Christian Faith” Jeremy Cohen (H) Interreligious Polemic in Solomon ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah Chaim (Harvey) Hames (H) Friar Paul and Alfonso de Valladolid: Delineating Medieval Christian Polemicists

219 Conversion in a Social and Gender-Related Context in Europe from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Chairperson: Birgit A. Klein Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818

Birgit A. Klein (E) Introduction Johannes E. Heil (E) Abraham ben Abraham ha-Ger, or: The Friar as Jew Annekathrin Helbig (E) Jewish Conversion in the Eighteenth Century in the Dukedom of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Rotraud Ries (E) Looking for Change: Conversion as an Individualsitic Option for Action since the Eighteenth Century

220 “House of Catechumens”: Patterns of Conversion in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Italy Chairperson: Jeffrey R. Woolf Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603

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Samuela Marconcini (E) Tolerance and Anti-Judaism: the Politics of Conversion to Catholicism in Tuscany Between the Seventeenth and the Nineteenth Centuries Matteo Al Kalak (E) The “House of Catechumens” in Modena Between Dukes and Popes (1583–1797) Ilaria Pavan (E) The “House of Catechumens” in Modena during the Emancipation Age (1804–1941)

221 Reconsidering the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Nation Chairperson: Yosef Hacker Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603

Yosef Kaplan (H) The Building of Sephardic Communities in the “Confessionalization Era”: A Comparative Approach Anita Waingort Novinsky (E) A Critical Approach to Sepharadic Historiography: The Forgotten Marranos of America Jose Alberto Rodrigues Da-Silva Tavim (E) A Troublesome Theme: The Jews and the Intelligence Networks in Portugal’s Asian Empire in the Sixteenth Century Schulamith C. Halevy (E) Los Treviño, a “Tribe of Sefarditas” in El Nuevo Reino de León District

222 The Jews and the New World: First Encounters Chairperson: Yosef Kaplan Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713

Assaf Ashkenazi (H) “Historia general de las Indias”: Issues in the Poetics of Translation Limor Münz-Manor (H) “The Old World and the New”: The Jewish Discourse on America in Sixteenth-Century Italy Claude B. Stuczynski (H) Jews and Judaism in the Juridical Debates on Amerindians in Sixteenth-Century Spanish-America

223 Overlapping Spheres: Jews and Chrisrians in Early Modern Germany Chairperson: Robert Liberles Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605

Debra Kaplan (E) The Home as an Overlapping Sphere

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Elliot Horowitz (E) Jewish Faces and Christian Faces in Early Modern Germany Rachel L. Greenblatt (E) Christian-Jewish Polemic in Public Space Nimrod Zinger (H) “I was Forced to Become Wise and Heal Myself”: The Medical World from the Perspective of German Jewish Patients in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

224 The Jews of Vienna and the Austrian State in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Chairperson: Martha Keil Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603

Martha Keil (E) The Institute for Jewish History in Austria: Twenty Years of Reconsidering Austria’s Jewish Past Barbara Staudinger (E) Privileges and Internal Networks: Vienna’s Court Jews in the Seventeenth Century Peter Rauscher (E) For the Benefit of the State: Jews in Eighteenth-Century Vienna Wolfgang Gasser (E) Revolution Experienced: The Life of Viennese Jews 1848–49 Based on a Diary

225 Women and Children in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity Chairperson: Elisheva Baumgarten Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Avital Davidovich-Eshed (H) Sanctified God, Desecrated Woman: The Female Body as a Site of Cultural Conflict in the Middle-Ages Ora Molad-Vaza (H) “Learn and I will Buy you a Garment”: A Look Towards Childhood Education in Light of the Cairo Genizah Documents Tali Berner (H) Children and Synagogue Customs Orit Ramon (H) “That Every Man should be Ruler over his Own Houshold”: Women and Gender in Maharal’s Commentary on the Book of Esther

226 Widows and Agunot in Jewish Society in Modern Times Chairperson: Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714

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Tirtsah Levie-Bernfeld (E) Sephardi Widows in Early Modern Amsterdam Haim Sperber (H) The Agunot Phenomenon in Eastern European Jewish Society 1857–1896, as reflected in the Jewish Press Ruth Lamdan (H) Widows, Old and Respected Women in Ottoman Jewish Society Michal Ben Ya‘akov (H) From Marginality to Opportunity: Widows in Nineteenth-Century Eretz Israel

227 Hebrew Bibliography in Early Modern Europe Chairperson: Zeev Gries Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605

Adam Shear (E) Reuchlin and the Categorization of Jewish Literature circa 1500 Gila Prebor (H) Sefer HaZiquq as a Source for Hebrew Bibliography Stephen G. Burnett (E) Jean Plantavit de la Pause’s Bibliotheca Rabbinica (1645) and Seventeenth-Century Jewish Bibliography Seth Jerchower (E) Theories of Bibliographic Classification, the Organization of Knowledge, and the Sha’ar ha-Hitsoni in the Sifte Yeshenim of Shabbetai Bass

228 The Attitude Towards the Other in Italy (in cooperation with ASSEI: The Israeli Association for the Study of History of Italian Jews) Chairperson: Yaakov Lattes Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603

Silvia Cappelletti (E) The Expulsions of the Jews from Rome under Tiberius and Claudius: A Juridical Study Yosef A. Cohen (H) The Place of the Apostate Alessandro Franceschi in the Jesuit Mission to Italian Jewry in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century Francesco Spagnolo (E) Participants-Observers: Christian Presences in Italian Synagogue Life Itzhak Sergio Minerbi (H) Pope Benedict XVI and the Jews

229 Jewish Thought and Society in Italy (in cooperation with ASSEI: The Israeli Association for the Study of History of Italian Jews) Chairperson: Nadia Zeldes Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603

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Pier Gabriele Mancuso (E) Sefer Yetzirah: Early Jewish Mysticism Lea Naomi Vogelmann Goldfeld (H) Mordechai Shmuel Ghirondi, Rabbi of Padova, Scholar and Kabbalist Asher Salah (E) From Odessa to Florence: Elena Comparetti Raffalovich and Jewish Russian Intellectuals in Post-Risorgimento Italy Cristina Michal Bettin (E) Jewish Youth in Italy: Between Integrations and Assimilation, 1861–1938

230 Jews and Christians in Eastern Europe Chairperson: Michael L. Miller Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503

Golda Akhiezer (H) The Polemical Treatise Against Judaism: “The True Messiah” (1669) by Joaniki Galiatovski Daniel Boušek (E) Renaissance Bohemian Travel Books and the Pictures of Jews in them Agnieszka Jagodzinska (E) Conversion and Strategies of Religious Disputes: The case of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews and its Missions in Poland in the Nineteenth Century Saime Selenga Gökgöz (E) Jewry from the Viewpoint of the Missionaries: Evfimii Malov, the Khazan Jewish Community, and Conversion Policies in Late Imperial Russia

231 Identity and Society in Eastern Europe Chairperson: Agnieszka Jagodzinska Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2722

Alexander Lvov (E) Plough and Pentateuch: Genesis and the Spread of the Russian Judaizers (Subbotniks) Movement in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Viktor E. Kelner (E) The Last Attempt: The Conference in Kovno of 1909 Marina Hakkarainen (E) Jewish Entrepreneurship in Ukrainian Townships: Artisans and Traders during the Soviet Era Alla Sokolova (E) The Shtetl House as an Architectural Monument to Jewish “Antiquity”

232 New Sources for the Study of Eastern European Jewry Chairperson:

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Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817

Boris Khaimovich (H) “Communal Libraries” in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe: An Attempt at Reconstruction Benjamin Lukin (H) The 1812 War in the History of Russian Jewry and its Historiography Shimon Iakirson (H) New Discoveries of “Genizat Krim” within the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg Emunah Nachmany Gafny (H) Presentation of Research Concerning the Cemetery of Sobienie Jeziory, Poland

233 Shaping Jewish Nationalism Chairperson: Yosef Salmon Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503

Jacques Halbronn (H) The Influence of the “Jewish Question” in Rumania upon Herzl’s Zionism Dan Haruv (H) Between Nationalist and Scholar: The Zionist Biblical Historian Menahem Soloveichik in the Russian period (1883–1918) Ariel Feldestein (H) “Our Herzel”: The Structuring of Theodor Herzl’s Image in the Collective Memory of Israel and Diaspora Yitzhak Conforti (H) History and Utopia: Awareness of the Past and Shaping of the Future in Zionism

234 Enlightenment and Mysticism in Early Modernity Chairperson: Yitzhak Y. Melamed Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718

Matt Goldish (E) Hakham David Nieto’s Failed Skepticism in his Argument from Acoustic Delusion Sharon Flatto (E) Ecstatic Encounters on the Danube: Enlightenment and Mysticism Maoz Kahana (H) Holy Books or Heretical Documents? Religious and Literary Limits in the Wake of the Frankist Outburst Moshe Samet (H) Besamim Rosh and the Eighteenth-Century Jewish Enlightenment Movement

235 Hasidism: Social Aspects Chairperson: Moshe Rosman

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Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718

Ada Rapoport-Albert (E) Is/Was Hasidism a Sect? Shaul Stampfer (H) What were Some of the Dynamics Behind the Spread of Hasidism? Uriel Gellman (H) Who is a Student? The Question of Inter-Generational Relations in the Hasidic Movement Gad Sagiv (H) Differentiating Hasidic Dynasties: The Case of Inter-Dynastic Marriage

236 Ninteenth-Century Jewish Ortodoxy Chairperson: Rachel Menekin Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 4809

Judith Bleich (E) Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Response to Reform: Stealing the Opponent’s Thunder Asaf Yedidya (H) Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and the Breslau School Yosef Salmon (H) Chapter no. 104 in the Responsa Book, Mareh Yehezkel Larisa Lempertiene (E) Jews and non-Jews on Jewish Education in Lithuania in the Nineteenth Century

237 Jewish Identity in the German Speaking Cultural Sphere: Social Aspects Chairperson: Debra Kaplan Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713

Natalie Goldberg (H) Visiting the Spas in Central Europe: Jewish Women Between Carlsbad and Freienwalde Noa Sophie Kohler (E) Prussia’s Jews and the Military Andreas Braemer (E) The Training of Jewish Teachers in Prussia during the Era of Emancipation (ca. 1800–1871) Rachel Heuberger (E) Jewish Philanthropy in Frankfurt: The Case of Charles L. Hallgarten

238 Jewish Identity in the German Speaking Cultural Sphere: Literary Aspects Chairperson: Michael A. Meyer Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713

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Anna-Dorothea Ludewig (E) Marranism and Identity Construction in Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Literature Paola Ferruta (E) “New Marranism” and the Encounter Between Jews and Universalism Hanan Harif (H) “A [Collapsing] Bridge over Stormy Waters”: Franz Kafka and the “Bridging Experience” of the Prague Circle Marina Arbib (H) The Diaries of Gershom Scholem: A Jewish Intellectual Shapes His Identity

239 Studies on Eastern European Jewry Chairperson: Ada Rapoport-Albert Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505

Valerie Mast (E) National Definitions: Sermons and the Jews in late Nineteenth-Century Hungary Vladimir Levin (E) “Jewish Civil Society” in Tsarist Russia Leonid Katsis (E) “The Complete Works of Ze’ev Jabotinsky”: What does it Mean? Konrad Zielinski (E) The Reverberations of the Russian Revolutions and Polish-Jewish Relations

240 Central and Eastern Europe Jews in the Interwar Period Chairperson: Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505

Michael L. Miller (E) Beauty Queens, Irredentism, and the “Jewish Question” in Interwar Hungary Raz Shmuel Segal (E) The Jews of Munkács in the Interwar Period: A Crisis of Late Modernism Kamil Kijek (E) Radicalism, Acculturation, Modernization: The Polish State as the Formative Political Experience of the Last Generation of Interwar Polish Jews Anna Ayana Novikov (E) Leo Baeck and the Former German B’nai-B’rith Lodges in Poland Between the Wars

241 Economic History of the Middle Ages Chairperson: Jay R. Berkovitz Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2603

Amir Ashur (H)

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Developments in the Status of Jewish Women in Twelfth-Century Egypt as Portrayed in Prenuptial Agreements from the Cairo Genizah Avraham David (H) Culture and Trade Connection Between Egypt and Crete in the Late Middle Ages, as Reflected in Cairo Genizah Documents Joseph Isaac Lifshitz (H) The Definition of the Jewish Community: Partnership or Corporation? Julie Lee Mell (E) Money, Profit, and Avarice in Jewish and Christian Exempla

242 Economic History of the Early Modern Period Chairperson: Haym Soloveitchik Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2603

Birgit A. Klein (E) Jewish Women as Heiresses: The Transfer of Family Property in Early Modern Ashkenazic Jewry Jay R. Berkovitz (E) Family in Court: Women, Inheritance and Commercial Culture in Metz on the Eve of the Revolution David H. Kerschen (E) Collateral and Probate Inventories in the Metz Rabbinic Protocols: New Sources for Material History Erzsebet Mislovics (E) Landowners and Jews: Patterns of Jewish Settlement in Eighteenth-Century Hungary

243 Economic History of the Modern Period Chairperson: Sergei Kan Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603

Igor Sakharov (E) Jewish Families among the Russian Nobility Victoria Khiterer (E) The Numerus Clausus and Kiev Jewish Students at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Deborah Yalen (E) Émigré Statisticians and American “Uncles”: The Politics of Jewish Demography in the U.S.S.R. During the Interwar Years Jonathan Karp (E) Jewish Economic Historiography since Sombart

244 The Jewish Press and Jewish History 1 Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818

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Louise Hecht (E) Six Years and Ten Months: Ludwig August Frankl’s Sonntagsblätter (Vienna, 1842–1848) Dieter Josef Hecht (E) The Zionist Press in Vienna 1918–1938: Center or Periphery? Katrin Steffen (E) A View from In-Between: Bernard Singer of the Polish-Jewish Daily Nasz Przegląd and his Reports from Germany and Russia, 1918–1939 Malgorzata Maksymiak-Fugmann (E) Genderd Orientalism: Palestine in the Writings of German-Jewish Journalists Gerda Arlosoroff-Goldberg (Luft) and Theodor Zlocisti

246 The Jewish Press and Jewish History 2 Chairperson: Louise Hecht Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818

Michael Nagel (E) German-Jewish Community Papers as a Source for Research on German-Jewish Local History Gideon Kouts (E) Transnational Communication in the Jewish Public Sphere: Economic and Organizational Aspects of the First Hebrew Newspapers in Europe and the Rise of Advertising Lucian-Zeev Herscovici (E) The Hebrew Review Zimrath ha’Aretz (Jassy, 1872–1877) and the Ideas of its Editor, Matityahu Simchah Rabener: A Chapter in the Haskalah Movement in Romania

247 The Jewish Press and Jewish History 3 Chairperson: Gideon Kouts Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818

Ron Bartour (H) Visionary Rhetoric and Pre-Zionist Leadership: Rabbi H. Z. Sneersohn Roni Beer-Marx (H) “An Assembly of Rabbis and Learned Men”: The Formation of Halevanon as a Political Tool of the Jewish Orthodoxy in Lithuania Dror Segev (H) The “Correspondents” in the Service of the Russian-Polish Jewish Hebrew Newspapers: Their Journalistic and Historiographic Contribution, 1880–1890 Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar and Yehiel (Hilik) Limor (H) The Beginning of Modern Orthodox Journalism: Marking 99 Years since the Birth of Hamodia in Poland

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248 Jewish Education at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Chairperson: Shmuel Glick Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 4809

Yaron Harel (H) The Rise and Fall of the National-Hebrew School in Damascus 1911–1914 Moshe Sokolow (E) The Educational Theories of Hayyim Hirschensohn Shlomo Tikochinski (H) The Lithuanian Yeshivah Between the Wars: From Talmud Academy to Educational Center Ilan Fuchs (H) The Religious Education of Women in Satmar Communities

249 Palestine in the Ottoman Period Chairperson: Amnon Cohen Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605

Yitschak Alexander Haran (H) Charpy de Sainte-Croix : A French Catholic Proto–Zionist of the Seventeenth Century, and his Idea of a Jewish World Empire Rina Cohen Muller (H) French Policy Towards the Jews of the Holy Land during the Nineteenth Century Moshe Maggid (H) The First Attempt to Settle in Petach Tikwa (1878–1882) Boaz Lev Tov (H) A Young and Political Culture: Leisure Culture in the Moshavot as a Main Arena of the Struggle for Hegemony Between the Second Aliyah Laborers and the Moshavot Youth

250 Biography: Between History and Literature (in cooperation with The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History) Chairperson: Zvi Yekutiel Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Anita Shapira (H) Cultural and Political Heroes as Biographical Titles Avner Holtzman (H) H. N. Bialik: Changing Biographical Perspectives Dan Laor (H) Literary Biography in Israel: The State of the Art

251 The Historical Approach to the Study of Hebrew Mysticism (in cooperation with The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History) Chairperson: Rachel Elior

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Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718

Yaakov Elboim (H) Hints of Secrets in the Midrash and the History of Hebrew Mysticism Joseph Dan (H) Outlines of the Historical Study of Jewish Esotericism and Mysticism Rachel Elior (H) Respondent

252 Jewish Historiography and the Post-Modern Challenge (in cooperation with the Historical Society of Israel) Chairperson: Israel Bartal Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

David N. Myers (H) The Concept of “Influence” in Modern Jewish Historiography Israel Yuval (H) Polyphonic History: Ethical Responsibility Shmuel Feiner (H) Is There a Postmodern Period in Jewish History? A Reconsideration Moshe Rosman (H) Respondent

253 Jewish Genealogy: An Emerging Field in Jewish Studies Chairperson: Sergio DellaPergola Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718

Aaron Demsky (E) Abbaye’s Family History: A Study in Rabbinic Genealogy Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark (E) Jewish Geneaological Research and the Historical Geography of the Land of Israel: Lessons from the Study of the Sephardi Entrepreneurial Elite Hanoch Daniel Wagner (E) Genealogical Database Merging: A Tool for the Virtual Reconstitution of Vanished Jewish Communities Neville Joseph Lamdan (E) Jewish Genealogy: A Legitimate Field for Academic Research?

254 Trends and Tendencies in the Study of the Jews in Muslim Lands Chairperson: Miriam Frenkel Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713

Norman S. Stillman (H)

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The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World: Addressing the Need for a Comprehensive Reference Work Shalom Ratzabi (H) Medieval and Modern Elements in the Thought of Sephardi Rabbis: The Case of Rav Uziel Ariel Picard (H) A Critique of Research on Oriental Rabbis Nahem Ilan (H) The Ben-Zvi Institute as a Culture Agent

See also sessions

126: Psalmody, Hymnody, and Exegesis in Judaism and Christianity, p.000

127: Biblical Exegesis: Between Jews and Christians, p.000

129: Biblical Exegesis 1, p. 000

314: Jews and Gentiles in Rabbinic Literature, p. 000

316: Realia of the Rabbinic World, p. 000

326: Nachmanides’ Library, p.000

327: Society and Economy in Halakhic Literature, p.000

328: Halakha and Society in Muslim Lands, p. 000

329: Studies in the Responsa Literature, p. 000

340: Jewish Magic, p. 000

357: “The Secular Process” and Jewish Studies: A Revolution and its Meaning,

p. 000

365: Fanny Neuda: A Pioneer Composer of a Prayer and Moral Book for Jewish

Women, p. 000

410: Haskalah Literature 1, p. 000

433: Myths, p. 000

446: The Hebrew Language in the Haskalah Period, p. 000

467: Communities, p.000

469: Acculturation and Modernization among the Sephardim, p. 000

471: Ancient Jewish Art, p. 000

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702: The Friedberg Genizah Project: Objectives and Accomplishments, p. 000

705: The Stoliner Genizah, p. 000

706: The Corpus of Sources on the History of the Jews in the Medieval Empire:

An International Research Project on Jewish and non-Jewish Memories,

p. 000

709: The YIVO Encyclopedia: A Port of Entry into a Well-Remembered Past,

p.000

821: Sepharad and Exile, p. 000

823: Names in Eastern and Western Jewish Communities, p. 000

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DIVISION C:

RABBINIC LITERATURE, TALMUD AND JEWISH LAW,

AND JEWISH THOUGHT

RABBINIC LITERATURE, TALMUD AND JEWISH LAW

300 Qumran and the Rabbinic Literature: A Reconsideration (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Menahem Kister Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Aharon Shemesh (H) The History of Halakhah in Light of the DSS: A Re-Evaluation Lawrence H. Schiffman (H) The Contribution of the Study of the Temple Scroll to Understanding Rabbinic Literature and its World Daniel Schwartz (H) Exile to the Place of Torah in Qumran, the Galilee and Babylonia Vered Noam (H) The Tannaitic Revolution from the Perspective of Qumran

301 How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 1 vis-à-vis the Archaeological Evidence (A Joint Session of The History of the Jewish People and Rabbinic Litereature) Chairperson: Lee I. Levine Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713

Lee I. Levine (H) Introductory Remarks: The Status of the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature in Modern Research Zeev Weiss (H) Is Rabbinic Literature a Valid Tool for Analyzing Archeological Finds? Lee I. Levine (H) How Relevant is Rabbinic Literature to the Study of Jewish Art in Antiquity? Steven D. Fraade (E) Language Mix and Multilingualism in Ancient Palestine: Literary and Inscriptional Evidence

302 How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 2 vis-à-vis the Other Genres and the Epigraphical Evidence (A Joint Session of The History of the Jewish People and Rabbinic Litereature) Chairperson: Steven D. Fraade Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713

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Ophir Münz-Manor (H) Poet, Priest, Rabbi: Reflections on the Status of Piyyut in Late Antique Jewish Culture Ra‘anan Boustan (E) Heikhalot Literature and the Boundaries of Rabbinic Culture Haim Lapin (E) Once Again the “Epigraphical Rabbis”

303 How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 3 vis-à-vis the Internal Rabbinic Evidence (A Joint Session of The History of the Jewish People and Rabbinic Litereature) Chairperson: Ithamar Gruenwald Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713

David Levine (H) Talmudic Traditions and Rabbinic Authority Emmanuel Friedheim (H) Halakhic Attitudes to Graeco-Roman Culture and the Question of the Place of the Rabbis in Jewish Society in the Time of the Mishnah and Talmud Ithamar Gruenwald (H) “Make a Fence” for Normativism

304 Scientific Commentary on Classical Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Aharon Shemesh Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818

Menachem Kahana (H) The Halakhic Midrashim Chaim Milikowsky (H) Seder Olam Robert Brody (H) The Babylonian Talmud

305 Women and Sages in Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Hannah Kehat Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718

Rachel Elior (H) The Attitude Towards Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Apocrypha Galit Hasan-Rokem (H) “Women are Light of Mind – to Study!”: Transformations of a Proverb Tal Ilan (H) A Feminist Commentary on the Talmud: Examples from Tractates Taanit and Hullin

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Shulamit Valler (H) Sages vs. their Women in Situations of Distress

306 The Attitude Towards Women in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Diana Lipton Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Paul Heger (E) Qumranic Marriage Prohibitions and Rabbinic Equivalents Regina Grundmann (E) Beautiful Widow or Endangered Bride? Judith and Hanukkah Gail Labovitz (E) Mastering the House: Tropes of Male Self-Fashioning in Rabbinic Literature Tirzah Meacham (LeBeit Yoreh) (H) Women in the Margins of Women

307 Gender and Discourse in Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Tirzah Meacham (LeBeit Yoreh) Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2715

Inbar Raveh (H) Harei Dadaim (Mountains of Breasts): An Aspect of Female Sexuality in the Imaginary World of the Sages Sarra Lev (H) The Androgyne: Reinforcing the Gendered Binary? Judith Hauptman (H) Women and Domestic Religious Ritual: A Reappraisal Thomas Ziem (H) Love in Rabbinic Literature

308 A Feminist Commentary on the Mishnah and the Talmud Chairperson: Tal Ilan Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722

Dorothea M. Salzer (H) Women in Tractate Rosh Hashana Reut Kahn (H) Tashmish Mitah and other Euphemisms for Intercourse in the Babylonian Talmud Tamara Or (H) The Trustworthiness of Women in Tractate Beitsa Christiane Steuer (H) Gendered Objects in Tractate Kelim

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309 Biographic Episodes in Rabbinic Literature: Research on Talmudic and Midrashic Characters Chairperson: Shulamit Valler Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Oded Rosenblum (H) The Activities of the Nehutei, Ulla and Rav Dimi, According to Sugiot in the Babylonian Talmud Rachel Groweiss (H) Jocheved Bat Levi’s Character in Midrashic Literature Sara Raz (H) A New Retrospective Approach of Rav Huna’s Character Liat Mendelbaum (H) “All Gates are Locked, Except the Gates of Hurt Feelings”: Imma Shalom Traditions in the Babylonian Talmud

310 Reading Rabbinic Literature: New Approches Chairperson: Avraham Walfish Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Gilla Rosen (E) Ritual Theory and the Medieval Rabbinic Debate Over Birkhat haMitzvot Arkady Kovelman (E) The Metaphorical Structure of Bavli Shabbat Jane Kanarek (E) Rabbinic Prooftexting: The Bavli’s Avoidance of the Obvious Jay Rovner (E) Meta-Systemic Concerns as Indicators of Late-Stage Stammaitic Halakhic and Aggadic Talmudic Compositions

311 Literary Readings of Halakhaic Texts Chairperson: Vered Noam Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503

Avishalom Westreich (H) “And the Sages did not have Power to Release her without a Get” (b. Ketubbot 74a): On the Literary Development of the “Halakhic Story” Yonatan Feintuch (H) The Story of R. Yannai and his Daughter’s Inheritance in its Wider Talmudic Contexts, Bavli and Yerushalmi Mira Balberg (H) Corpse-Impurity and Bodily Boundaries in Bavli and Yerushalmi Nazir Shoval Keshet (H) The Bread as a Ritual Element in Birkat haMazon as Described in the Talmudic Literature

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312 Poetic Techniques in Rabbinic Aggadah Chairperson: Adiel Kadari Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 5817

Shmuel Faust (H) “Love him that Reproves Thee”: Poetic Paradigms of Self-Criticism in the Sage Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud Moshe Simon-Shoshan (H) Transmission Stories in the Mishnah Ido Hevroni (H) A Story of a Drasha: The Meaning of Exegesis of the Torah Intertwined in Talmudic Stories Azaria Baitner (H) A Series of Homilies Functioning as a Story

313 The Sages Reading the Bible through a Contemporary Prism Chairperson: Noah Hacham Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720

Adiel Kadari (H) A Tannaitic Legend about Joseph’s Burial Revisited Hagar Gur-Arie (H) “You Shall not Spare Them”: A Comparison Between the Tosefta, the Yerushalmi and the Bavli Diana Lipton (E) The Burning Question: Rethinking "the Oven of Akhnai" (b. Baba Metzia 59b) in Light of its Biblical Background Rachel Adelman (E) Jonah through the Looking-Glass: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer’s Portrait of an Apocalyptic Prophet

314 Jews and Gentiles in Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Ishay Rosen-Zvi Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818

Yaakov Teppler (H) The Role of Rabbi Aqiva in the Polemic Against Christianity Shoshana Vinberger (H) “Hahu Mina . . .” Stories: Content and Rhetorical Foundation Rivka Ulmer (E) Egyptian Cultural Icons in Rabbinic Literature

315 Jewish Midrash and Early Christian Literature Chairperson: Hananel Mack Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722

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Asher Finkel (E) The Midrashic Construction of Early Christian Texts in Light of Early Synagogal Homiletics in Relation to Scriptural Reading Timothy Hegedus (E) Elements of Midrash in Papias of Hierapolis Michal Bar-Asher Siegal (H) Rashbi’s Stay in the Cave: Monastic Traditions and their Textual Analogies in Rabbinic Traditions Boris Ostrer (E) The Figure of the Mediator in Christian and Rabbinic Theologies: Some Differences and Parallels

316 Realia of the Rabbinic World Chairperson: Yoel Elitzur Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818

Ariel Furstenberg (H) Measurement and Precision from a Rabbinic Perspective Rivka Ben-Sasson (H) Is the Etrog in the Palestinian Mosaics only a Jewish Symbol? Hershel Shanks (E) The World’s Oldest Tallit Susan Weingarten (E) Medieval Hanukkah Foods

317 Midrash on the Five Scrolls 1 Chairperson: David Golinkin Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2605

Tamar Kadari (H) Two Genizah Fragments of Song of Songs Rabbah Arnon Atzmon (H) Higher Criticism and Editing a Midrashic Text: The Case of Midrash Esther Rabbah II Joseph Tabory (H) Esther Rabbah I and the Talmuds Paul Mandel (H) On the Redaction History of the Proems to Lamentations Rabbati

318 Midrash on the Five Scrolls 2 Chairperson: Shamma Friedman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605

Menahem Hirshman (H)

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Studies in Midrash Qohelet Reuven Kiperwasser (H) The Visit of the Rural Sage: Text, Context, and Intertext in a Rabbinic Narrative from Qohelet Rabbah Myron Lerner (H) A Review of Midrash Ruth Rabbah MS Parma-De Rossi 541 Tamar Meir (H) Redactional Orientations and Deep Structures in Ruth Rabbah

319 The Redaction of Aggadic Midrash Chairperson: Paul Mandel Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720

Berachyahu Lifshitz (H) Midrash Shmuel: A Preliminary Description Gilad Shapier (H) Skipping Over Phrases in the Biblical Section Lekh Lekha: Investigations in Midrash haGadol and in Bereshit Rabbah Gila Vachman (H) Tanhumaic Aggadah Traditions: Stages of Transformation and Transmission Moshe Lavee (H) Lists of Verses from the Cairo Genizah as Sources for the Study of Aggadic Midrash

320 Redactional Considerations 1 Chairperson: Harry Fox (LeBeit Yoreh) Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Mordechi Sabato (H) The Difficulties of M. Megillah 4:1 as the Key to the Redactional Aims of the Tractate Menachem Katz (H) Concised Editing of Traditions in the Babylonian Talmud Compared to the Talmud Yerushalmi Uri Zur (H) Considerations of Halakhah Ruling in the Sugiyot of Tractate Eruvin Richard Hidary (H) Unity vs. Pluralism in Halakhah: “Lo Titgodedu” in the Yerushalmi and the Bavli

321 Redactional Considerations 2 Chairperson: Menachem Kahana Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Yair Furstenberg (H)

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New Directions in Mishna Source-Criticism: The Case of M. Taharot Yoav Rosenthal (H) Tosefta: Intersections of Version and Redaction Yonatan Sagiv (H) “It Shall Not be Accredited…It is Desecrated Meat”? New Answers to Old Questions Yachin Epstein (H) “Like a Monkey Before a Person”: The Essence of Tractate Kallah Rabbati

322 Traditions and Transmission Chairperson: Mordechai Sabato Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717

Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) (H) Oral Torah? From the Mouth or from Writing? Alexander Tal (H) The Construction of a Stemmatic Map of the Babylonian Talmud’s MSs: New Statistical Aspects Meir Bar-Ilan (H) Considerations Towards the Dating of Texts: The Case of “The Words of Gad the Seer” Avraham Walfish (H) The Work of the Talmudic Redactor: Critical and Appreciative Perspectives

323 Palestinian Traditions Chairperson: Robert Brody Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717

Avraham Shveka (H) Elucidating a Basic Difference Between the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yishmael concerning the Laws of Debt-Collection Barak S. Cohen (H) In Quest of Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions: The Case of “Tanna d’Bei Shmuel” Binyamin Katzoff (H) “Nine at Once”: A Study of the MSs of the Talmud and the Traditions of the Geonim and Tosefta Roni Shweka (H) Interrupting the Amidah to Respond to Kaddish: Contribution to the Textual History of Halakhot Gedolot

324 Talmudic Phraseology Chairperson: Avinoam Cohen Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605

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Itamar Brenner (H) “The Tanna Has Doubled His Words to Teach Us That?!” The Limits of the Okimta Interpretations in the Babylonian Talmud Ephraim-Bezalel Halivni (H) Either X or Y: Are Both Options Equally Appropriate? Leib Moscovitz (H) On the “Gezerah Shema” in the Talmud Yerushalmi Moshe Asis (H) Commentaries on Vague Passages in the Yerushalmi

325 Medieval Halakhic Literature Chairperson: Simcha Emanuel Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 4809

Pinchas Roth (H) Sources of Sefer haPardes: Bibliography and History of Halakhah in the Middle Ages Bitkha Har-Shefi (H) The Uniqueness of the Laws of Menstrual Impurity in Sefer Likutei haPardes Tehila Elitzur (H) The Uniqueness of Responsa within the Halakhic Work of the Rosh Rabin Shushtri (H) Affinities Between Maimonides and Yemenite Manuscripts of Tractate Sukkah

326 Nachmanides’ Library Chairperson: Yehuda D. Galinski Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2718

Ursula Ragacs (E) Towards a New Critical Edition of the Hebrew Report on the Disputation of Barcelona 1263 Yoel Florsheim (H) The Yerushalmi Manuscript in Nachmanides’ Library Shalem Yahalom (H) “The Yerushalmi was Never Touched”: On the Meaning of a Dictum Yosef Ofer (H) The Addenda to Nachmanides’ Torah Commentary Written in Eretz Israel and their Reflection in the Manuscripts

327 Society and Economy in Halakhic Literature Chairperson: Neria Guttel Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

David Schnall (E) The Status of Teachers and Teaching in Talmudic and Rabbinic Thought

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Israel Gilat (H) The Uniqueness of “Conquest by War” as a Way to Acquire Property Ownership and Change Status according to Jewish Law J. David Bleich (E) Inflation and its Implication in Jewish Law Tamar Salmon-Mack (H) Some Social and Cultural Aspects of Halakhic Rule “It Is Better that They Sin Unintentionally than Intentionally”

328 Halakha and Society in Muslim Lands Chairperson: Nahem Ilan Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720

Yoel Shiloh (H) Castillian Regulations Found in Ketubbot from Morocco Elimelech (Melech) Westreich (H) The Law of Levirate Marriage in Eretz Israel during the Late Ottoman Period Amnon Hever (H) Registration of Allocations in the “Mesawade” – Protocols of Sana Beit-Din, Eightennth to Nineteenth Centuries Aharon Gaimani (H) The Wandering Poor in Yemen

329 Studies in the Responsa Literature Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Shmuel Glick (H) Solitary Responsa Embedded in Halakhic Literature and their Contribution to Halakhic and Historical Research Ron S. Kleinman (H) “The Tale of the Man Who Bought the Maftir Yonah, and…Fell Asleep Before the Minchah Service Began”: Selling Aliyot and Honors in the Synagogue – Legal and Halakhic Aspects Miriam Weitman (H) The Halakhic Attitude Towards Christianity during the Shoah Amir Mashiach (H) The ‘Olam’ in Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach’s Halakhic Discourse

330 Between Husband and Wife Chairperson: Joseph Tabory Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713

Yael Levine (H)

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The Custom of Immersion by the Husband on the Day of the Wife’s Ritual Immersion Ayelet Segal (H) An Early Pre-Nuptial Agreement to Prevent ‘Aginut’: The Obligation to Give the Wife a Conditional ‘Get’ Before Travelling Avraham Be’eri (H) The Husband who is Denied (of) a Get: Description and Solution

331 Philosophy of the Halakhah 1 Chairperson: Israel Gilat Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Asher Binyamin (H) Conversion to Judaism according to Rabbi Yehudah Halevy Yitzchak Avi Roness (H) The Essence of the Conversion Process in R. Shaul Yisraeli’s Halakhic Thought Shlomo Kassierer (H) Ulterior Motivation, Subjectivity and Halakhic Truth in Hassidism, the Mussar Movement, and Halakhic Authorities Avinoam Rosenak (H) Philosophy of the Halakhah and Educational Considerations in the Conservative Movement

332 Philosophy of the Halakhah 2 Chairperson: Avinoam Rosenak Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Shoval Shafat (H) Theological Aspects of Divine Punishment which Emerge from Tannaitic Sources on Paying for the Redemption of those Subjected to the Death Penalty Yuval Sinai (H) The Religious Aspect of the Judge’s Role in Talmudic Law Mor Sagit (H) Expressions of Philanthropy in Second Temple Literature and the Talmudic Halakhah Yinnon Leiter (H) “Those who are Engaged in a Precept (Mitzvah) are Never Harmed”: Toward a History of the Idea and the Saying

333 Jewish Law Chairperson: Moshe Drori Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Ya‘akov Shapira (H)

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The Status of Parents: Between the Palestinian Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud Yehiel Kaplan (H) Privacy in Jewish Law: The Balance Between Conflicting Values Neal Hendel (H) The Life Process Itay Lipschits (H) Deliberation among Judges in the Process of Decision-Making

334 Halakhic and Israeli Law Chairperson: Berachyahu Lifshitz Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Moshe Drori (H) Adopting Principles and Rules into the Israeli Criminal Law from the Jewish Criminal Law Adam Hofri-Winogradow (H) The Rise of Halakhic Adjudication in Mamonot among Religious Zionists: Further Pluralization of Israeli Law Michael Corinaldi (H) Reformation of Wills on the Grounds of Mistakes and Unforseen Circumstances Tsuriel Rashi (H) Impersonation in Journalistic Investigation in the Hebrew Law

See also sessions

129: Biblical Exegesis 1, p.000

205: The Temple in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature, p.000

209: Leadership in the Talmudic Period, p.000

210: The Time of the Mishnah and the Talmud Period: Social and Economic

Aspects, p.000

336: Intention and Practice, p.000

444: Rabbinic Hebrew 1, p.000

445: Rabbinic Hebrew 2, p.000

426: Celebrating the Centenary of Legends of the Jews 1 , p.000

427: Celebrating the Centenary of Legends of the Jews 2 , p.000

607: The Rabbinate for Jews of Muslim Lands during the Period of the Yishuv

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and the Establishment of Israel, p.000

701: The Manchester-Durham Typology of Ancient Jewish Literature, p.000

703: The European Genizah Project 1, p.000

704: The European Genizah Project 2, p.000

713: From the Qumran Scrolls to the “Seventh Column”, p.000

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335 Philosophical Relations Between Jews and Gentiles in Antiquity Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Katell Berthelot (E) A Classical Ethical Problem in Ancient Philosophy and Rabbinic Thought: The Case of the Shipwrecked Sergey Minov (E) Anti-Judaism and the Formation of Syriac Christian Identity in the Sixth Century Marcelo Maghidman (E) The Nature of Language in the Creation of the World through the Hebrew Alphabet Zeev Elitzur (E) Taking an Oath on the Holy Book: A Jewish and Christian Development in Late Antiquity

336 Intention and Practice Chairperson: Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503

Alona Lisitsa (H) Kavanah as Definer of the Halakhic Reality in the Talmudic Literature Richard L. Claman (E) Re-Conceiving Mishnaic “Intention”' as Orientation of the Soul-In-Body Amira Liwer (H) Intention and Action in the Thought of R. Zadok ha-Kohen of Lublin

337 The Zohar: Poetics, Midrash and Myth Chairperson: Yehuda Liebes Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718

Rut Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (H) Messianism, Incest, and Seduction in the Story of Lot’s Daughters in the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic Literature, and the Zoharic Corpus Biti Roi (H) The Tale of The Cripple in Tiqqunei haZohar: Poetic and Mystical Aspects Oded Yisraeli (H) The Story of the Binding of Isaac (Akedah) in the Zohar: Literary and Ideological Changes Yonatan Benaroch (H) The Secret of Yanuqa and the Radiance of Sabba: Poetic and Allegoric Aspects of a Zoharic Myth

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338 Myth, Image and Symbol Chairperson: Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718

Avigdor Haneman (H) The Place of the Image in in Sefer haBahir Avishar Har-Shefi (H) The Myth of the Edomite Kings in the Idrot Literature: The First Appearance Iris Felix (H) The Image of the Shekhinah in the Kabbalistic Thought of Rabbi Joseph of Shushan Yehuda Liebes (H) The Pool in Sefer haBahir Reconsidered

339 Ritual Chairperson: Gideon Bohak Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713

Tzahi Weiss (H) The Roots of Speculation on the Alphabet in Jewish Sources from Late Antiquity Joel Hecker (E) Performative Ritual in Zoharic Kabbalah Mor Altshuler (H) Ritual and Symbolism in Tikkun Leil Shavuot of R. Joseph Karo and R. Shlomo ha-Levi Elkabetz Yoed Kadary (H) The Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem Debate on Prayers to Angels

340 Jewish Magic Chairperson: Yuval Harari Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 5817

Dan Levene (E) Jewish and Christian Magic in Late Antique Mesopotamia Gideon Bohak (H) MS Sassoon 56 (New York Public Library 190) and its Place in the History of the Jewish Magical Tradition Ortal-Paz Saar (E) A Medieval Magical Recipe in Hebrew and its Latin Original Konstantin Burmistrov (E) Jewish Kabbalah as a Source of the Blood Libel Accusations in Russia

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341 Medieval Jewish Philosophy Chairperson: Haim Kreisel Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603

Dror Ehrlich (H) Divine Punishment in Hasdai Crescas’ Thought Ofer Elior (H) On the Question of the Authorship of Sefer Ruah Hen Shalom Sadik (H) Human Choice and Animal Choice in Jewish Thought of the Late Middle Ages

342 Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Authority and Sources Chairperson: Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Jonathan Dauber (E) Knowledge of God as a Religious Imperative in Early Kabbalah Shoi Raz (H) The Motif of the Breaking of the Light and the Path of Illumination: New Studies in Keter Malkhut Arthur Hyman (E) Maimonides on Intellect and Imagination David Ben Zazon (H) The Account of the Chariot: Between the “Secret” of Maimonides and Abarbanel’s Rejection

343 Torah and Torah Study in Maimonides’ Compositions Chairperson: Arthur Hyman Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 5817

Ephraim Sand (H) Rashi and Rambam on the Essence of the Torah David Gillis (H) Maimonides Illustrates How to Read the Bible Michael Chernick (H) “Revealed Explanations,” “Received Tradition,” and “On the Basis of Tradition”: The Use of Halakhic Midrash in Maimonidean Thought Hadad Eliezer (H) Once again: “In the Majority of Cases” in Maimonides

344 The Reception of Maimonides in Modern Times Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2605

Stephen D. Benin (E)

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John Spencer, Maimonides, and Jewish History George Y. Kohler (E) Maimonides and Kant: How the Wissenschaft des Judentums Proved that Maimonides Anticipated Kantian Thought Gershon Nerel (H) The Cross and the “Great Eagle” vs. Thirteen Articles of Faith: Jewish Yeshua Believers in the Twentieth Century and Maimonides – Imitation and Polemics

345 Leadership and State in Medieval Jewish Thought Chairperson: Avriel Bar-Levav Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2714

Yair Shiffman (H) Narboni on the Philosophical Sources of Ibn Tufail’s Hayy Ibn Yakdhan Esty Eisenman (H) “Kindness and Truth Preserve a King”: Gersonides on Leadership and Citizenship Yitzhak Brand (H) Judge as a Ruler: A New Study in Derashot Ha’Ran Liron Hoch (H) Thought Elements and Leadership Elements in Abarbanel’s Critique of Philosophy

346 Jewish Thought in the Renaissance Chairperson: Sara Klein-Braslavy Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2405

Annelies Kuyt (E) The Role of the Angel of Dreams according to R. Shlomo Almoli’s Pitron Halomot Brian Ogren (E) The Dialectics of Identity: Yohanan Alemanno on Individuality and Unity Eli Gurfinkel (H) Principles of Faith in the Teaching of Rabbi David ben Yehudah Messer Leon Neta Ecker-Rozinger (H) Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi’s Commentary on Ezekiel’s Vision of the Chariot

347 Modern Kabbalah Confronting its Ancient Sources Chairperson: Boaz Hoss Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722

Eliezer Baumgarten (H) The Authority of Ha-Ari and Ha-Gra amongst Lithuanian Kabbalists Avraham Segal (H) Upper and Lower Unity as a Model for the Hasidic Commentary on the Zohar

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Yehuda Ben-Dor (H) R. Nachman of Braslav vs. Spinoza: A Study of Likkutei Moharan, Part I, Torah 64 Pinchas Giller (H) Power and Authority in the Spiritual World of the Beit El Kabbalists

348 Hasidic Torah Study and Halakhic Decision Making Chairperson: Zvi Mark Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)

Hannah Kehat (H) Changes in the Concept of Torah Study in the Hasidic Movement David Zori (H) “On Pious People and Serpents”: On the Faith of the “Early Hasidim” Levi Cooper (H) The Hasidic Rebbe as Halakhic Decision-Maker: Religious Experience as a Source of Law Iris Brown (H) The Varieties of Stringent Ruling: The Approach of Rabbi Hayim of Sanz

349 Devekut and Meditation in Hasidism Chairperson: Haviva Pedaya Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Menachem Kallus (H) The Influence of R. Hayim Vital’s Lurianic Writings on the Phenomenology of Devekut in the Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov Nehemia Polen (E) Music and Niggun in the Meditative Practice of Rabbi Kalonymos Shapiro, the Rebbe of Piaseczna Zvi Leshem (H) The Guided Imagery Meditation of the Piaseczner Rebbe in the Context of his Generation Natan Ophir (Offenbacher) (H) A Neuro-Psychological Perspective on the “Quieting” Technique of the Admor of Piaseczna

350 Studies in Hasidism Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505

Ora Wiskind Elper (H) Reflections on the Teachings of R. Ya‘akov of Izbica-Radzyn, the Beit Ya‘akov Shelly Goldberg (H) Hillulah and “Submission” as the Mirror of Hasidic Psychology

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Naftali Loewenthal (E) Rebbe and Hasid in the Habad School

351 The Hasidic Tale Chairperson: Nicham Ross Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713

Gedalyah Nigal (H) Reality which Produces Hasidic Tales, and a Hasidic Tale which Changed Reality Zvi Mark (H) Out of the Ashes: Likkutei Moharan and the “Burned Book” Rivka Dvir Goldberg (H) “Your Soul’s Root is with the Rabbi of Lublin”: The Hasidic tale, Is it Really a Hagiography?

352 Thought and Redaction: Rav Kook and Rav Hanazir Chairperson: Semadar Cherlow Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817

Udi Avramovich (H) Censorship and Editing in Rav Kook’s Writings Neria Guttel (H) A Renewed Examination of the Development of Rabbi Kook’s Philosophy in Light of his Recently Published Writings Yehudah Mirsky (H) A Via Mystica from Metaphysics to Ethics to the “Law that Comes after Love”: Ha-Nazir’s Presentation of what Rav Kook Meant by Mussar Yehuda Bitty (H) The Redaction of Kol ha-Nevuah: Vision and Reality

353 Magic and Theosophy in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah Chairperson: Yehudah Mirsky Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2715

Uriel Barak (H) Rabbi A. I. Kook’s Dialectical Approach to Amulets, Charms and their Use Elchanan Shilo (H) The Effects of the Idea of the Zimzum (Contraction) on the State of Consciousness: Between Rabbi Kook and Chabad Semadar Cherlow (H) Egodocuments of Modern Jewish Mystics Boaz Hoss (H) The Association of Hebrew Theosophists: Theosophy and Kabbalah in the Early Twentieth Century

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354 French-Jewish Thought in Modern Times Chairperson: Shalom Ratzabi Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Shmuel Wygoda (H) Vladimir Jankélévitch: A Perplexed Jewish Thinker Rony Boaz Klein (H) The Political Dimension in French-Jewish Thought in the 1980s and 1990s: The Case of Benny Lev Eliahou Philippe Touitou (H) Rabbi Lazare Wogue: His Life and Thought Yossef Charvit (H) The Shoah and Jewish National Rebirth in the Pilosophy of Rabbi Yehuouda Leon Askenazi (“Manitou”) (1922–1996)

355 Jewish German Thought in Modern Times Chairperson: Ron Margolin Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Michah Gottlieb (E) Leo Strauss and the Pantheism Controversy Francesca Yardenit Albertini (E) The Ethic-Political Concept of Israel of Manuel Joel (1826–1890) Cass Fisher (E) Reassessing Rosenzweig’s Theological Language: Divine Perfections at the Center of the Star Michael Gottsegen (E) Atonement, Resurrection and Divine Judgment in Hermann Cohen and Emmanuel Levinas

356 Studies in Modern Jewish Thought Chairperson: Shmuel Wygoda Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Yehoyada Amir (H) Nachman Kerochmal’s Notion of Religion: Intellectual Cognition and Existential Attachment Alexander Even-Chen (H) The Ineffable Name of God in the Hasidic-Existential Thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel David Patterson (E) Emil L. Fackenheim’s Critique of Modern Philosophy in the Light of the Shoah

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357 “The Secular Process” and Jewish Studies: A Revolution and its Meaning Chairperson: Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Ron Margolin (H) The Secular Element in Mendelssohn’s Philosophy: Religion as Historical Truth and the Concept of Judaism as Culture Ishay Rosen-Zvi (H) Religion, Assimilation, and Nationality in Jewish Studies Tal Kogman (H) Science, Tradition, and “Jewish Knowledge” in German-Jewish Maskilic Texts Eli Yassif (H) The Secular Foundations of Folkloristics and their Significance for Jewish Studies

622 Zionism and Diasporism: Problems of Jewish Existence in the State of Israel and in the North American Jewish Diaspora in Light of Recent Jewish Thought Chairperson: Yehoyada Amir Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5817

Eliezer Schweid (H) The Problem of Zionism and Diasporism as Ideological Stances in the Period of Globalization David N. Myers (H) Is there Still a Jewish Nation? Yossi (Joseph) Turner (H) What Might be Learned From the Thought of Yehezkel Kaufmann and Mordecai Kaplan vis-à-vis the Problems of Jewish Existence in the Contemporary Period? Shaul Magid (H) Marginality, Assimilation, and Post-Ethnicity in American Judaism

358 What is Jewish (If Anything) in Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy? Chairperson: David Weinstein Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2503

Joshua Laurence Cherniss (E) Judaism, Jewishness, and Liberalism in Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought Arie M. Dubnov (E) “The Need to Belong” and Jewish Discourse of Normalization: Isaiah Berlin as a Diaspora Zionist Thinker Dikla Sher (E) Isaiah Berlin vs. Hannah Arendt: Their Political Ideas through the Prism of their Jewish Identities James Chappel (E)

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Reading Israel: Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Galut in Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss David Weinstein (E) Commentary

359 Jewish Thought: New Challenges Chairperson: Yossi (Joseph) Turner Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714

Allan Brill (E) Is There Still a Mystery to Mysticism after Modernity? Martina Urban (E) Are We Still Ethical Monotheists? The Challenge of the Jamesian View of Religion Eric Lawee (E) Adam’s Mating with Animals: New Data on Christian and Jewish Receptions of a Strange Midrash Tanhum Yoreh (H) Environmental Embarrassment: Genesis 1:28 vs. Genesis 2:15

360 Israel’s Election: Historical Foundations (in cooperation with the Elijah Interfaith Institute) Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Reuven Kimelman (E) The Biblical Doctrine of Election and the Metaphors for the Israel-Gentile Relationship David Berger (E) Visions of the Eschaton: Israel and Gentiles Shraga Bar-On (H) Election by Lot: A Little-Known Rabbinic Doctrine Menachem Kallus (H) Respondent

361 Contemporary Reflections on Jewish Election (in cooperation with the Elijah Interfaith Institute) Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Yehuda Gellman (H) Jewish Chosenness and Religious Diversity: A Contemporary Approach Menachem Kellner (H) The Election of Israel: Maimonidean and Contemporary Perspectives Don Seeman (E)

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Thinking about Difference and Election, from Anthropology to Theology

362 The Non-Jew: Facing the Theological Challenge (in cooperation with the Elijah Interfaith Institute) Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Marc B. Shapiro (E) The Image of the Non-Jew in Contemporary Haredi Literature Alon Goshen-Gottstein (E) The Rabbis on Israel: Theological Narrowness and Educational Challenges Haviva Pedaya (H) The Non-Jew in the Zohar: The Challenge of Responsible Theological Restatement Menachem Katz Respondent Allan Brill Respondent

See also sessions

204: Spiritual Life in the Late Second Temple Period, p.000

205: The Temple in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature, p.000

229: Jewish Thought and Society in Italy, p.000

234: Enlightenment and Mysticism in Early Modernity, p.000

251: The Historical Approach to the Study of Hebrew Mysticism, p.000

421: Studies in Hebrew Prose 2, p. 000

486: Jewish Ritual Art, 0.000

624: Dichotomies or Continuums? The Secular, the Sacred, and the Syncretic in

Jewish Life, p.000

630: New Developments in Jewish Identity in Israel’s Secular Sphere, p.000

631: Justice Haim Cohen’s Contribution to Jewish Humanism, p.000

646: Orthodox Rabbinic Responses to the Shoah: Theological Struggle,

Abandonment, and Political Activism, p.000

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654: Teaching Jewish Thought, p.000

821: Sepharad and Exile, p.000

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LITURGY

363 Liturgy: Formation and Structure Chairperson: Ehrlich Uri Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2001 (Rabin Building)

Yacov Amid (H) The Structure of the Compilation Yehi Kevod as an Archetypal Model Aviad-Yehiel Hollander (H) Content and Meaning in Ancient Prayer Reuven Kimelman (E) The Meaning and Formation of the First Blessing of the Amidah Avi Shemesh (H) Nourishment, Ways of Eating, and Composition of Meals as Factors in the Formation of Meal Blessings

364 Women’s Prayer: A Contemporary Historical Study Chairperson: Orit Rozin Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Hananel Mack (H) On Jewish Women’s Prayers through the Middle Ages Nissim Leon (H) Women’s Prayer: From Theology to Politics of the Religious Gender Ronit Irshay (Naamat) (H) Women’s Prayer: Between Essentialism and Subversion Aliza Lavie (H) Respondent

365 Fanny Neuda: A Pioneer Composer of a Prayer and Moral Book for Jewish Women Chairperson: Aliza Lavie Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718

George Y. Kohler (E) Rabbi Abraham Neuda as an Example of a New Rabbinic Generation in Central Europe Aliza Lavie (H) Fanny Neuda: Her Life, her Work, and the Acceptance of her Book by the Religious Establishment Dinah Berland (E) Prayers from the Heart: Bringing Hours of Devotion into English

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401: The Sound of Elation: Prayer, Liturgy and Poetry, p. 000

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LITERATURES, LANGUAGES, ARTS

400 A Tale of Two Cities: Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Tamar Alexander Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 6837 (Hendeles Zwig Auditorium)

Edwin Seroussi (H) Do Cities Sound Different? Michael (Micha) Levin (H) White Architecture: Plaster vs. Stone Dan Laor (H) Tel Aviv vs. Jerusalem: Literature in Conflict

LITERATURE

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

401 The Sound of Elation: Prayer, Liturgy and Poetry (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Shulamit Elizur Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Uri Ehrlich (H) Early Prayer Rites in Light of Genizah Texts: “Shir shel Yom” and the Creation Pericopes Eden HaCohen (H) The Formation of the Early Kedushta Matti Huss (H) A Generic Model of Hebrew Rhymed Narratives and Maqamat Tova Beeri (H) Rabbi Israel Najara’s “Sheerit Israel”: Structure, Contents and Circulation in Manuscripts

402 Dual Motifs and Thematic Complexity in Early Liturgy Chairperson: Tova Beeri Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722

Shulamit Elizur (H) Dual Demands in Early Piyyut: Its Causes and its Subsequent Influence on Poetic Composition Avi Shmidman (H)

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The Motifs of Land, Covenant and Torah in the Grace-after-Meals Piyyutim from the Genizah Michael Rand (H) Quillirian Compositions for Multiple Liturgical Occasions Petter Sh. Lehnardt (H) Akedah: Between Telling a Story and Prayer in Public

403 Berachia Ben Natronai Hanakdan at a Fabulous Cultural Intersection Chairperson: Benjamin Bar-Tikva Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 4809

Hananel Mack (H) Berachia Ben Natronai Hanakdan: A Jewish Medieval Scholar at a Cultural Intersection Tovi Bibring (H) “The Mouse, The Frog, and the Eagle” (A): A Comparative Reading of Marie de France and Berachia Hanakdan Revital Refael-Vivante (H) “The Frog and the Mouse” (B): The Transition of Themes from Europe to Yemen

404 Hebrew Poetry in Medieval Spain Chairperson: Matti Huss Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722

Nili Shalev (H) Joseph Kimchi’s “Shekel HaKodesh” and Medieval Gnomic Literature Abdalla Tarabieh (H) Comparative Study of the Nostalgic Arabic and Hebrew Poems (Haneen) from Andalusia Ariel Zinder (H) Piyyut with Bakhtin: Some Dialogic Aspects of Sephardi Liturgical Poetry Meret Gutmann-Grun (E) The Metaphor of Zion as a Mother

405 Late Western European Liturgy Chairperson: Revital Refael-Vivante Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722

Michela Andreatta (E) Late Piyyutim from the Italian Ghetto: Sefer Kenaf Renanim by Josef Jedidiah Carmi Jacob Bazak (H) An‘im Zemirot: The Concentric Construction and the Seven Gematriyonic Hints of the Names of God

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Benjamin Bar-Tikva (H) The Commentary Ho’il Moshe Be’er on Provençal Piyyutim by Moshe Carmi (Cremieu) Carsten Wilke (H) Epitaphs as Epigrams: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Hebrew Poetry from Early Modern Hamburg

406 Liturgy and Poetry in Northern Africa and Italy Chairperson: Haviva Ishay Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2722

Arie Schippers (E) Judeo-Arabic Nature Poetry by the Egyptian Poet Moshe Dar‘i (Twelfth/Thirteenth Century) Uriah Kfir (H) Between Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Immanuel of Rome’s Eighth Magna Elinoar Bareket (H) Semiotics and Poetics in Hebrew Openings of Genizah Letters Rachel Hittin-Mashiah and Tamar Lavi (H) Calembours in Hebrew Rabbinic Moroccan Texts: A Comic Poetic Device?

407 Late Liturgical Poetry in Yemen and North Africa Chairperson: Ephraim Hazan Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722

Janan Farraj-Falah (H) Descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad in Opposition to the Messiah in the Yemenite Hebrew Poetry Giat Paltiel (H) The Linguistic Explanations in Rabbi Isaac Vena’s Commentary on the Selihot Liturgical Poems Rut Bitan-Cohen (H) “Beloved Friends”? Friendship Ties Between Paytanim in Algeria as Expressed in their Piyyutim – Rav Amram Amar and Rav Natan Giyan Meyer Nezrit (H) Rabbi Moshe Elbaz: The Golden Age Moroccan Poet (Sefrou, 1823–1896)

See also sessions

126: Psalmody, Hymnody, and Exegesis in Judaism and Christianity, p.000

302: How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 2 vis-à-vis the

Other Genres and the Epigraphical Evidence, p.000

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MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE

408 Hebrew Literature and the State of Israel (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Dan Laor Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Ruth Kartun-Blum (H) The Voice of the Mother and the Binding of Isaac: The Political Context Yigal Schwartz (H) The “Shock of Statehood”: Israeli Fiction and the Declaration of Independence Chaya Shacham (H) The Olive Tree: An Ideological Indicator for Every Season in Israeli Literature

409 Secular Discourse and its Presentations in the Modern Hebrew Culture Chairperson: Eli Yassif Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Hanna Soker-Schwager (H) Modes of Citation from Jewish Sources in Contemporary Israeli Literature Nili Aryeh-Sapir (H) The Light Procession: Hanukkah as a National-Secular Ritual from 1909 to 1936 Tsafi Sebba-Elran (H) Sefer ha-Agadah (The Book of Legends) and the New Concept of “Judaism” of the National Poet H. N. Bialik Nicham Ross (H) How to Read Hasidic Texts from a Secular Modern Perspective?

410 Haskalah Literature 1 Chairperson: Tova Cohen Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505

Yehuda Friedlander (H) A Comparative Study of Rabbinic Polemic Against Maskilim in Eastern and Central Europe (Rabbi David Tevele of Lissa and Rabbi Joseph Zekhariah Stern of Shavli) Moshe Pelli (H) Kerem Hemed: From the Scholarly Study of Judaism (‛Hochmat Israel’) to an Ideological Message of Haskalah Jonatan Meir (H) New Readings in Joseph Perl’s Sefer Megale Temirin

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411 Haskalah Literature 2 Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505

Tova Cohen (H) “This Poem is a Memorial to Love”: Rachel Morporgu and her Circle of Friends Helena Rimon (H) “The Purloined Letter”: The Foreign Language in The Two Poles of R. A. Braudes and in Evgeni Onegin of Alexander Pushkin Einat Baram Eshel (H) “The Benefit of Marginality”: The Short Stories of R. A. Braudes Ruth Adler (E) The Distinctive Humor of Y. L. Peretz: An Analysis

412 The Voice of the Other Chairperson: Henriette Dahan Kalev Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505

Gil Eshed (H) Face to Face with Bracha Seri Mati Shemoelof (H) The Early Poetry of Bracha Seri: A Social and Cultural Struggle Nogah Duchovni-Tamir (H) The Poetry of Ayin Tur-Malka and her Dialogue with Uri Zvi Greenberg

413 Israeli Identity Chairperson: Miri Kubovy Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 4809

Aviva Mahalo (H) Truth and Myth in the Narratives of the Palmach Generation Hanita Brand (H) Memoirs of Jewish Life in Baghdad Yochai Oppenheimer (H) The Holocaust: A Mizrachi Perspective Batya Shimony (H) The Longing for Germany in Contemporary Mizrachi Literaure

414 The Memory of the Holocaust in Hebrew Literature Chairperson: Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2714

Rina Dudai (H) Photograph and Trauma: The Role of a Photograph in Processing Traumatic Experience in a Poetic Text

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Talila Kosh-Zohar (H) The Lens Aimed Backwards: How to Capture an Absent Memory Aviva Ufaz (H) A Hebrew War Diary: The Soviet Union, 1941–1945 Hadas Shabat-Nadir (H) Transgression in the Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

415 Literature and Identity Chairperson: Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2405

Heddy Sha'it (H) Literature and Current Events: The Sailors’ Strike as a Case Study Nurit Feinstein (H) “Tonight We Sensed the Buds of a New Culture”: The Debate on Jewish Identity in the Writing of Yehudah Yaari Michele Tauber (H) In Search of Jewish Identity: Sculpting the Exile in the Short Stories of Aharon Appelfeld and Israel Yehoshua Singer

416 Literature, Language, and Ideology Chairperson: Yochai Oppenheimer Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2405

Svetlana Natkovich (H) Hebrew Language Pronunciation as an Ideological Battlefield in Jabotinsky’s Thought Vera Korine-Shafir (H) Language and Cultural Space in Sara Shilo’s No Gnomes Will Appear Tikva Maroz-Aharoni (H) The Leader and The Commander: Place and Significance of the Translations of the Novel Quest for Fire in Nathan Alterman’s Compositions

417 America in the Hebrew Literature Chairperson: Haim Weiss Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2505

Ilana Elkad-Lehman (H) Israel Efros: A Poet in the Newspaper Hadoar Matan Hermony (H) America in Jewish National Literature: From Haskalah to Rebirth Shlomit Zarur (H) Crafting Hope: Jewish-American Literature of Immigration and Hebrew-Zionist Literature of Aliyah

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418 Hebrew Literature and the Bible Chairperson: Moshe Pelli Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2405

Osnat Singer (H) The Ties Between the Scriptures and the Novels of Abraham B. Yehoshua: Friendly Fire and the Bible Rachel Ofer (H) The Transformations of King Saul in Modern Hebrew Literature Ilana Szobel (H) The Poetics of the Akedah: Trauma and Nationalism in Early Hebrew Women’s Writing Nitza Davidovitch (H) Tehillah and Tehillim: Shaping a Consciousness of Faith during Crisis

419 Poetry Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2405

Miri Kubovy (E) The Raptures of Consciousness in the Information Age: The Poetry of Maya Bejerano Maayan Harel (H) Writing to the Other: Dialogic Poetry in the “Generation of the State” Sara Ferrari (E) “Only Art”: The [Non]representation of AIDS in Hezy Leskly’s Poetry Anat Koplowitz-Breier (H) Natan Yonathan: Homeric Poems

420 Studies in Hebrew Prose 1 Chairperson: Shula Keshet Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2405

Lili Shamir (H) Literature through Psychoanalitic Eyes: The “Black Hole” in Yehudit Hendel’s Fiction, as Shown in the Novel Crack Up Esther Azulay (H) Reading Art and Text Simultaneously in Literature Rina Lapidus (H) L. N. Tolstoy’s Master and Man and J. H. Brenner’s Hebrew Translation

421 Studies in Hebrew Prose 2 Chairperson: Hamutal Tsamir Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605

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Orna Baziz (H) Jerusalem as a Foundational Experience in the Thought of Rabbi Itshak Luria and in the Works of David Shahar Yahil Zaban (H) Jewish Food: Food, Sexuality and Nationality according to Hayyim Nahman Bialik Tamar Merin (H) Mimesis, Intertextuality, and the Gaze in Yehudit Hendel’s Early Works Moacir Amancio (E) Rabelaisian Humor and Contemporary Violence in Kaniuk and Levin

422 “The Grace of Life”: A Tribute Session to the Author Aharon Meged Chairperson: Dan Laor Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2715

Nurit Govrin (H) “The Grace of Life”: The Work of Aharon Meged Yael Chaver (H) Floating Letters, Clinging Shadows: Meged’s Yiddish Archaeology Menachem Finkelstein (H) Between Literature and Law

423 Agnon’s Works Chairperson: Nurit Govrin Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2505

Hillel Weiss (H) The Hermaphroditic Elements in the Love Stories of Agnon Anat Danziger (H) Written on the Skin: Metaphysical Meaning as Physical Pain in Kafka and Agnon Ber Boris Kotlerman (H) Toytntants: Between Yiddish and Hebrew

See also sessions

446: The Hebrew Language in the Haskalah Period, p.000

643: The Unspoken: Sexual Abuse of Women during the Shoah, p. 000

651: The Memory of the Holocaust in Literature, p.000

713: From the Qumran Scrolls to the “Seventh Column”, p.000

822: Different Sources of Personal Names, p.000

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JEWISH LITERATURES

424 Polish and Polish-Jewish Literatures Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2405

Agnieszka Friedrich (E) The Program and Phraseology of Strategic Texts in the Anti-Semitic Rola Malgorzata Domagalska (E) Romance as a Genre of the Polish Anti-Semitic Novel Before World War II Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (E) Polish-Jewish Literature: Summer 1939 Karol Sauerland (E) Different Views of the Shoah in Polish Literature

425 Jewish Literatures Chairperson: Hillel Weiss Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2405

Anne Lapidus Lerner (E) Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan Luis S. Krausz (E) Alfred Doeblin’s Trip to the Jews Neta Stahl (E) Traveling out of Time: Temporality and Jewish Train Stories

See also sessions

129: Biblical Exegesis 1, p.000

238: Jewish Identity in the German Speaking Cultural Sphere: Literary Aspects,

p.000

608: Jews, Color, Race, p.000

628: Literature and Religion among North American Jewry, p.000

651: The Memory of the Holocaust in Literature, p.000

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FOLKLORE AND ETHNOGRAPHY

426 Celebrating the Centenary of Legends of the Jews 1 (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Avigdor Shinan Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

David Golinkin (H) Legends of the Jews in the Eyes of Ginzberg and in the Eyes of Others Daniel Boyarin (H) ‘Folklore’ and the Rabbis: Ideologies of Difference and Contact Hillel Newman (H) Ginzberg, the Church Fathers and the Legends of the Jews

427 Celebrating the Centenary of Legends of the Jews 2 (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Menahem Hirshman Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Yaakov Elboim (H) The Silent Revolution: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg and the Hebrew Yalkutim Galit Hasan-Rokem (H) Ancient Jewish Folk Literature: Legends of the Jews and Contemporary Folklore Compilations James L. Kadouri (Kugel) (H) Concluding Remarks

428 Legend and Reality Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2405

Haya Bar-Itzhak (H) The 1863 Polish Uprising in Jewish Folk Legend Amar Dahamshe (H) The Power of the Name: Differentiation, Relationships and Cultural Values of the Arabic Geographical Names in the Galilee Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur (H) “Give Me Wings and I Will Fly”: The Travels of Jewish Women from Afghanistan to Israel Kata Zofia Vincze (E) The Constructed Jew

429 The Poetics of the Pre-Modern Hebrew Folk Tale

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Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2405

Rella Kushelevsky (H) The Cultural Function of Midrash Aseret haDibrot in MS Parma 2269 Noga Cohen (H) Identity and Gender in The Book of Judith Herbert W. Basser (E) Ancient Interpretations of the Mythic Structures of Sacred History Lennart Lehmhaus (E) Ways of Wisdom and Narrative Critique in the Medieval Ben Sira

430 Hidden Dreams and Fantasies in the Middle Ages Chairperson: Galit Hasan-Rokem Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2405

Reimund Leicht (H) Dream Interpretation and Divination in Jewish Culture Haim Weiss (H) Dream Interpretation Books from the Cairo Genizah Yuval Harari (H) Metatron and the Treasure of Gold: On a Dream Inquiry Text from the Cairo Genizah David Rotman (H) Marvelous Spaces and Marvelous Times in Medieval Hebrew Literature

431 Cultural Reading of Rabbinic Literature Chairperson: Daniel Boyarin Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2405

Dina Stein (H) Framing Plots: Between an Historical Legend and Witch Tales Ruhama Weiss (H) The Meaning of the Comparison of Learning to Eating in Rabbinic Literature Gil P. Klein (E) Squaring Cities: Rabbinic Sabbath Boundaries and Graeco-Roman Urban Rituals Rachel Neis (E) Temple, Prayer, Toilet: Bodies in Rabbinic Space

432 Ritual Transformations Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603

Josef Bamberger (H)

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‛The King Maker’: On Judaizing Christian Legends and their Use in Jewish Propaganda Yoel Kretzmer-Raziel (H) Esau and Jacob in Contemporary Popular Preaching Sarina Chen (H) The Sacrifices in the World of the Temple Activists Carmella Abdar (H) Life Cycle in the Family Album: From Cradle to Grave

433 Myths Chairperson: Rella Kushelevsky Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2603

Lucia Raspe (E) When King Dagobert Came to Halle: Place and Displacement in a Medieval Jewish Legend Alexander Panchenko (E) The Blood Libel in Russia: Cultural Import and Local Development Havazelet (Zalk) Lorberbaum (H) A Proverb in a Story of Agnon Yael Ereli (H) Key Cultural Symbols as Molders of the Experience of Place: Hebron as a Test Case

434 Sephardic Folklore (A Joint Plenary Session of Ladino and Folklore and Ethnography) Chairperson: Galit Hasan-Rokem Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713

Eliezer Papo (E) Inter-Genre Contacts: The Proverb in the Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover Haggadah Tamar Alexander (E) Marching on Love Notes: The Personal Narrative of a Salonikan Woman who Survived the Shoah Michal Held (E) “The People Who Almost Forgot”: Ladino Forums on the Internet as an Imagined Community and a New Folkloristic Territory Nina Pinto-Abecasis (H) Nicknames as a Unique Folklore Genre: The Case of Tetuan’s Haketia-Speaking Jewish Community

435 The Jewish 'Place' Chairperson: Ilia Rodov Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2603

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Tatyana Emelyanenko (E) Reflections of the Ethnic Self-Consciousness of Bukharian Jews in the Ethnographic Monuments Anna Lebet-Minakowska (E) Nineteenth Century Galician Jewish Costume Maria Kaspina (E) The Present State of Traditional Jewish Culture in Chernovitz, Ukraine (Based on Fieldwork of 2004–2008) Gabrielle A. Berlinger (E) Building Sukkot in Bloomington, Indiana: Architectures of Interpretation

436 History of the Study of Jewish Folklore Chairperson: Eli Yassif Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603

Dani Schrire (H) The Study of Jewish Folklore: A Science or a Hobby? Vered Madar (H) Lamentations of Jewish Women from Yemen: Between Constructing and De-Constructing Collective Identity and Memory Michael Lukin (E) "Akh, Vi Umgliklekh s’iz a Ganev af der Velt": Traditional Patterns in Yiddish Lyric Folksong Steve Siporin (E) Where does the Parokhet Belong?

See also session

464: Literature – Poetry, p. 000

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HEBREW LANGUAGE

437 New Trends in the Study of the Hebrew Language (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Steven Fassberg Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2718

W. Randall Garr (H) Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Moshe Azar (H) Back to Mishnaic Hebrew Grammar Aharon Maman (H) Medieval Hebrew Grammar: The Current Situation Ora Schwarzwald (H) Studies on Modern Hebrew

438 The Academy of the Hebrew Language Session Chairperson: Moshe Bar-Asher Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Abraham Tal (H) Celebrating Fifty Years of the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language Gabriel Birnbaum (H) On Writing the Historical Dictionary for Classical Hebrew Binyanin Elizur (H) Towards a New Publication of Yerushalmi Fragments Ronit Gadish (H) Aspects of the Morphology of Hebrew Terminology

439 Biblical Hebrew 1 Chairperson: W. Randall Garr Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717

Tamar Zewi (E) Waw al-ma'iyyah in Biblical Hebrew Ohad Cohen (E) The Methodological Implications of the Biblical Translations for the Research on the Hebrew Verbal Tense System Adina Moshavi (E) “Am I a Dog that You Come to Me with Sticks?” (1 Sam 17:43): Rhetorical Questions in Biblical Dialogue in the Light of Argumentation Theory Chaim (Harold R.) Cohen (E) The Ug. Compound Adjective 'ib 'iqn', “Lapis Lazuli-Pure,” and the Three Special Types of Construction in Akk., BH, and Ug., in Which the Non-Predicate Adjective Precedes the Noun

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440 Biblical Hebrew 2 Chairperson: Galia Hatav Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717

David Toshio Tsumura (E) The Tense and Aspect of Hebrew Verbs in 2 Samuel 7:1–16 Ed Greenstein (E) “Difficulty” in the Poetry of Job Tania Notarius (E) Temporality and Atemporality in the Language of Biblical Poetry Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher (H) Predicative Possessive Constructions in Biblical Hebrew

441 Biblical Hebrew 3 Chairperson: Chaim (Harold R.) Cohen Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717

Alexey (Eliyahu) Yuditsky (H) A New Interpretation of some Verbal א”ל Forms Nimrod Shatil (H) The Forms Pilpel, Hitpalpel in Biblical Hebrew Aliza Rishevitz (H) The Genitive Syntagms baal-X, ish-X, ben-X and Derived Adjectives with -i suffix in Biblical Hebrew: Syntactic, Pragmatic, and Textual Aspects Esther Haber (H) Significance of the Interchanging of the Mono-Consonantal Prepositions in Biblical Hebrew: Rabbinic and Comparative Semitic Evidence

442 Biblical Hebrew 4: Diachronic Studies Chairperson: Avi Hurvitz Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717

Frank Polak (E) The Judges-Samuel Narratives and the Deuteronomists: Syntactic-Stylistic Differentiation and Sociolinguistic Periodization Shalom E. Holtz (E) The Development of the Meaning of the Biblical Hebrew Locution “‘-m-d + ‘al” Gary A. Rendsburg (E) Late Biblical Hebrew in the Book of Haggai Noam Mizrahi (E) The History of the “Head Priest”: Administrative Terminology and Legal Exegesis

443 Developments in Hebrew

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Chairperson: Avi Hurvitz Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717

Yigal Bloch (H) The Pronominal Suffix -mû / -mô and its Implications for Dating Biblical Poetry Uri Mor (H) The Gutturals in the Hebrew Letters and Legal Documents Found in the Judean Desert Haim Dihi (H) Linguistic Innovations in MS F of Ben Sira David Talshir (H) Transformations in the Meaning of כרכרה

444 Rabbinic Hebrew 1 Chairperson: Aharon Maman Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717

Shai Heijmans (H) Some Remarks on the Linguistic Tradition of Greek Loanwords in the Mishnah Rivka Shemesh (H) Towards a Description of the Narrative Discourse Units in Tannaitic Language Meirav (Tubul) Kahana (H) The Mishnah-Tosefta Relationship in Light of Tetralemma and Trilemma Parallels Asnat Damry (H) Who Wrote the Footnotes in MS Kaufman?

445 Rabbinic Hebrew 2 Chairperson: Rivka Shemesh Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717

Sophie Kessler-Mesguich (E) A Century of Investigations into Rabbinic Hebrew Emmanuel Mastey (H) The Language of Talmud Yerushalmi according to the Genizah Fragments Miriam Kahana (H) Changing the Syntactical Structure of a Verse as an Exegetical Tool in Targum Jonathan on the Minor Prophets Michael Ryzhik (H) The Language of the Earlier Medieval Midrashim from Southern Italy

446 The Hebrew Language in the Haskalah Period Chairperson: Yael Reshef Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2717

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Chaim E. Cohen (H) The Grammatical Notes in Solomon Zalman Geiger’s Divre Qehillot Aaron Bar-Adon (H) The Struggle for Hebrew in the First Zionist Congress and the Subsequent Early Congresses Keren Dubnov (H) Robinson Crusoe in Hebrew: Haskalah Era Translations

447 Spoken Hebrew Chairperson: Shmuel Bolozky Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2717

Yael Reshef (H) Is it Possible to Reconstruct the Character of Spoken Hebrew at its Inception? Asher Laufer (H) Does Colloquial Hebrew Have Diphthongs? Did Tiberian Hebrew Have Diphthongs? Einat Gonen (H) The Disappearing Hirik Judith Hanshke (H) Modern Hebrew and Jewish Languages

448 Studies in Modern Hebrew Syntax Chairperson: Moshe Azar Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717

Yael Ziv (H) The Precedence of the Predicate in Colloquial Hebrew Galia Hatav (H) The Non-Committal ‘Before’ Rivka Bliboim (H) Negative Particles: The Semantic-Pragmatic-Syntactic Interface Ruth Burstein (H) Positive Answers to Positive Interrogatives: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects

449 Research on Spoken Hebrew: A Panel Discussion Chairperson: Einat Gonen Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2717

Nimrod Shatil, Esther Borochovske Bar Aba, Ora Schwarzwald, Shmuel Bolozky, Einat Gonen (H)

450 Linguistic Traditions and Jewish Languages

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Chairperson: Judith Hanshke Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2605

Doron Yaakov (H) Signs of Antiquity in the Hebrew Tradition of the Jews of South Yemen Natali Akun (H) “Early” and “Late” in the Hebrew Traditions of Moroccan Jewry Judith Rosenhouse (H) The Hungarian Language in Israel: A Jewish Language yet Unstudied? George Jochnowitz (E) Sacred Texts and Standardization: The Example of Judeo-Italian

See also sessions

130: Biblical Exegesis 2, p.000

131: Biblical Exegesis 3, p.000

132: Biblical Exegesis 4, p.000

133: The Peshat School in Northern France 1, p.000

453: Between Hebrew and Yiddish, p.000

459: Modern Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic Dialects, p.000

830: Masoretic Studies – Session 4, p.000

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451 Old Yiddish Literature Chairperson: Shlomo Berger Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2722

Erika Timm (G) The Italo-Yiddish Lexical Field, vesh (Linen), Against the Background of Everyday Life Aya Elyada (E) The Yiddish Bible in Christian Eyes during the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Marion Aptroot (E) German Christian Priests and the Use of Yiddish Chava Turniansky (Y) Bertha Pappenheim’s German Versions of Glikl’s Memoirs, the Mayse-bukh and the Tsene-rene

452 Mussar-and Guide Books in Yiddish Chairperson: Yaakov Elboim Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722

Noga Rubin (H) The Aim and Meaning of the Stories in the Yiddish Books of Ethics from the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries Shalhevet Dotan-Ofir (H) Shlomo Zalman London: A Jewsih Book Agent in the Early Modern Period Nathanael Riemer (E) Beer Sheva by Beyle and Ber Perlhefter: A Yiddish Encyclopedia from the Seventeenth Century Shlomo Berger (E) From Mussar to Musser: Hovot Halevavot in an Eighteenth Century Yiddish Translation

453 Between Hebrew and Yiddish Chairperson: Yaakov Bentolila Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503

Dalit Assouline (H) Veiling Knowledge: Hebrew Sources in the Yiddish Sermons of Ultra-orthodox Women Chava Farstey (H) Substitutes for Gerund Forms in Translations from Yiddish to Hebrew Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki) (H) Which Hebrew Nouns Entered Yiddish?

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454 The Yiddish Language Chairperson: Marion Aptroot Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503

Isidor Levin (Y) A System of Documentation for Yiddish Culture Simon Neuberg (Y) A Yiddish Dictionary in the Making Ane Kleine (Y) Dynamics in Historical Yiddish Phraseology Leizer Burko (E) Nahum Stutchkoff: The Yiddish Omnivore

455 Women and Children in Yiddish Literature Chairperson: Aviva Berlinski-Tal Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503

Nurit Orchan (H) The Development of Individual Identity in the Writings of Women in the Yiddish Press in the Russian Empire (1881–1914) Aviva Berlinski-Tal (H) The First Women Yiddish Authors in the United States Adina Bar-El (H) Eliezer Steinbarg, Writing in Yiddish for Children

456 Readers and Writers in Modern Yiddish Literature Chairperson: Chava Turnianski Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503

Nathan Cohen (H) Reading and Readers in Modern Yiddish Literature Astrid Starck-Adler (G) Jiddische Schrifsteller in Berlin in den 1920s Offer Dynes (H) “Ikh un mayn shtarbndike shprakh” (“Me and my Dying Language”): The Literary Representations of the Yiddish Poet’s Status in A. Zeitlin’s Poetry, 1939–1945

457 Modern Yiddish Literature Chairperson: Astrid Starck-Adler Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2503

Agnieszka Zolkiewska (E)

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Yiddish Religious Parody in Multilingual Poland Alan Astro (E) Mordechai Litvine’s Yiddish Translations of French Poetry: Theory and Practice Valery Dymshits (E) The Role of Yiddish Inscriptions in the Art of Tankhem (Anatoly) Kaplan

See also session

648: Undzere Kinder (Our Children) – The Film, p.000

649: Undzere Kinder (Our Children): A Yiddish Film from Poland in the

Aftermath of the Holocaust, p.000

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JUDEAO-ARABIC

458 Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Literature Chairperson: Shimon Shtober Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2503

Phillip l. Lieberman (E) Sacred Institution or Charitable Institution: The Self-Conception of the Babylonian Yeshivot – Linguistic and Literary Aspects of the Documentary Sources Nadezhda Vidro (E) The Rule of Derivational Relations as a Didactic Tool in Karaite Pedagogical Grammars Hadar Perry (H) Maimonides’ Interpretations of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates Karina Shalem (H) A Narrative Reading of the Bible in Medieval Jewish Culture

459 Modern Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic Dialects Chairperson: Ofra Tirosh-Becker Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503

Joseph Chetrit (H) Free-Speaking and Formulaic-Speaking in the Judaeo-Arabic Text of Family Complaints Presented to the Rabbinical Court of Mogador (Morocco) Geoffrey Khan (E) Some Cases of Syntactic Diversity in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialects Ibrahim Bassal (H) Substrata of Aramaic Dialects in Colloquial Arabic in Palestine (Eretz Yisrael)

See also sessions

131: Biblical Exegesis 3, p.000

702: The Friedberg Genizah Project: Objectives and Accomplishments, p.000

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460 Sephardic Culture: Panoramic Views (Plenary Session in cooporation with the National Authority for Ladino Culture) Chairperson: Tamar Alexander Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: Senate Hall

Yitzhak Navon (L) Greetings Juan Gonzales-Barba (S) Greetings Boaz Gaon (E) Greetings Paloma Diaz-Mas (S) Ephemera Sefardies Alisa Meyuhas-Ginio (S) La prensa y la literature en ladino como agentes de modernización dentro de las comunidades sefardíes del Mediteráneo oriental Ivana Burdelez (E) New Aspects of Dubrovnik Jewish History

461 Judeo-Spanish: Linguistic Aspects Chairperson: Yaakov Bentolila Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2720

Derya Agis (E) Turkish Words with Derivational and Inflectional Affixes in Judeo-Spanish: An Optimality Theory Approach Djodje Konforti (E) Ladino Orthography Angel Berenguer Amador (S) La sintaxis del subjuntivo en judeoespañol Rafael Arnold (S) Perspectivas en la Lexicografia historica del Judeo-espanyol

462 Language, Society and Identity Chairperson: Ora Schwarzwald Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2720

Yaakov Bentolila (S) Como se trocan los refranes: proverbios en Haketίa a la luz de sus variants Luisa Kluger (E) Ladino in the United States: The Effect of Social Factors Ivana Vučina Simović (E) Language Maintenance or Shift through the Rise of Zionism in Sephardic Communities of the Former Yugoslavia

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463 Literature – Prose Chairperson: Paloma Diaz-Mas Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720

Katja Smid (S) Los Ma‛asiyot de Damésec Eli‛éźer Rachel Saba-Wolfe (L) La boz del prove: manifestasiones de las luchas entre proves i rikos en la komunita de Izmir – bazadas sovre el foyeton Shavaat Aniim 1847 i dos koplas umoristikas Susana Dora Gruss (S) La creación literaria de Judá Haim Perahiá en Ladino Matilda Koen-Sarano (S) A kualo sierve saver linguas: Djohá en el mundo moderno

464 Literature – Poetry Chairperson: Shmuel Refael Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720

Andrea Zinato (S) Cancionero y romancero sefardies: algunas consideraciones sobre la metrica Moshe Shaul (S) La koleksion de kantes judeo-espanyoles del Proyekkto Folklor de Kol Israel Krinka Vidakovic Petrov (E) Transformations of Sephardic Oral Poetry in the Balkans Renee Levine Melammed (E) Tradition and Modernity in the Eyes of a Ladino Poetess from Salonika

465 Sephardic Musical Traditions in Transition (A Joint Plenary Session of Ladino and Music) Chairperson: Karen Gerson Şarhon Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715

Susana Weich-Shahak (S) Esrtuctura Poetica y Nucleo Tematico en el Romancero Sefardi Marion Maeder (E) The Role of the Radio in Relocating and Reshaping Judeo-Spanish Song in Israel Judith R. Cohen (E) Ladinokomunita on the Road: An Ethnomusicologist’s Fieldwork Dream Come True Rivka Havassy (H) Between the Dentist and the Pot-Mender (el Estañador): The Ladino Song as a Crossroads

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466 Sephardic Jews and Visual Culture (A Joint Plenary Session of Ladino and Arts) Chairperson: Eliezer Papo Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716

Jelena Erdeljan (E) Sephardic Funerary Monuments from Niš: A Comparative Analysis of Form and Iconography Nenad Makuljević (E) Sephardim and the Visual Culture of the Ottoman Balkans Ivan Stevović (E) Jewish Architecture on the Territory of Present-Day Serbia: The Age of Revivalism Mirjam Rajner (E) Between Local and Universal: Sephardic Artists in Sarajevo on the Eve of the Holocaust

467 Communities Chairperson: Ivana Burdelez Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720

Michael Halevy-Studemund (E) Sephardic Culture in Vienna Nevad Kahteran (E) Contribution to the Study of the Work of Professor Muhamad Nezirovic (1934–2008) and the Bosnian Sephardic Heritage (“The Sephardim of Bosnia”) Karen Gerson Şarhon (E) The Ladino Database Project in Istanbul Beki Bardavid (S) La Vida de los Judios de Turkiya entre 1850–1950

468 Documents, Translations and Journalism Chairperson: Michael Halevy-Studemund Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720

Shifra Hannah Sznol (S) ‛La bendición de Yaakov’ (Génesis 49) en lengua griega y en lengua laaz a la luz del Pentateuco de Constantinopla (1547) Zelda Ovadia (S) La revista culturala en Judeo-Espanyo Aki Yerushalayim Maria Sanchez Perez (S) Yerushalayim: Una Revista Sefardi de Comienzos del Siglo XX Romeu-Ferre Pilar (S) Dos cedulones en jaquetía publicados en Orán en 1879 por la imprenta Karsenty

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469 Acculturation and Modernization among the Sephardim Chairperson: Alisa Meyuhas-Ginio Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720

Gila Hadar (S) Reina Cohen: una erudita judia de Saloniki Julia R. Lieberman (E) Adolescence and the Period of Apprenticeship among the Western Sephardim, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Devin E. Naar (E) The Exiled Sons of Salonika: Articulating “Sephardi” Identity and Homeland in Early Twentieth-Century New York Yaron Ben Naeh (H) Ottoman Jews: Jews in the Sphere of Ladino

434 Sephardic Folklore (A Joint Plenary Session of Ladino and Folklore and Ethnography) Chairperson: Galit Hasan-Rokem Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713

Nina Pinto-Abecasis (E) Nicknames as a Unique Folklore Genre: The Case of Tetuan’s Haketia-Speaking Jewish Community Eliezer Papo (E) Inter-Genre Contacts: The Proverb in the Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover Haggadah Tamar Alexander (E) Marching on Love Notes: The Personal Narrative of a Salonikan Woman who Survived the Shoah Michal Held (E) “The People Who Almost Forgot”: Ladino Forums on the Internet as an Imagined Community and a New Folkloristic Territory

See also session

714: Judaica Librarianship: Cultural and Historical Studies, p.000

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ARTS

471 Ancient Jewish Art (in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Art) Chairperson: Galit Noga-Banai Sunday (2/8/2009) 09:00 - 10:30 Room: 2716

Naama Vilozny (E) Lilith, Ashmedai and/or the Rest of the Demons: Figurative Art on Babylonian Swearing Bowls Lihi Habas (E) Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Symbols in the Art of the Holy Land Noa Yuval-Hacham (E) Aniconic Trends in Diaspora Synagogues in the Late Antique Period

472 The Dialogue Between Early Christian, Byzantine and Jewish Art Chairperson: Lihi Habas Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2716

Galit Noga-Banai (E) The Crossing of the Red Sea in Rome Lidia Chakovskaya (E) New Aspects of the Relationship Between the Images of the Menorah and the Cross in Late Antiquity Shulamit Laderman (E) Envisioning “Sacred Fire” as an Expression of Divine Presence in Jewish and Byzantine Christian Art Elisheva Revel-Neher (E) Angels, Shoes, and More: Standing Before God in Jewish and Christian Art

473 Envisioning Past and Present: The Relevance of Traditions in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Elisheva Revel-Neher Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2716

Katrin Kogman-Appel (E) The Leipzig Mahzor and the World of R. Eleazar of Worms Mati Meyer (E) From Zion to Constantinople: The Ups and Downs of a Biblical Image Sarit Shalev-Eyni (E) The Feast of the Righteous in the Ambrosian Bible: Old Tradition, New Context Dalia-Ruth Halperin (E) The Theosophical-Kabbalah of the Nahmanides School and the Six Days of Creation in the Sarajevo Haggadah

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474 Iconographical Problems in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Chairperson: Katrin Kogman-Appel Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2716

Sara Offenberg (E) An Inverted Hunt Scene: Motifs of Jewish-Christian Polemic in the Illumination of the Liturgical Poem “El Mitnase” Simona Gronemann (E) The Dichotomous Attitude to Medieval Jewish Women and its Visual Expressions Evelyn M. Cohen (E) Reunited: The Rothschild Haggadah and its Missing Leaves Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig (E) Iconographic Riddles and Some Solutions in the Marriage Scenes of a Late Sixteenth Century German Manuscript

475 Jewish Motifs from the Early Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century Chairperson: Evelyn M. Cohen Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716

Suzy Sitbon (E) The Circle and its Metamorphosis in the Illumination of Some Spanish and Portuguese Medieval Massoretic Bibles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Ilona Steimann (E) Hebrew Manuscripts from the Collection of Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) Ruthie Kalman (H) The Mountain, Eagle and Olive Garland in the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah (1574): Is it Really a Simple Printer’s Mark? Ulf G. Haxen (E) Yehudah Leib ben Eliyahu HaCohen’s Haggadah, Copenhagen 1769

476 Synagogue Architecture Chairperson: Ilia Rodov Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716

Maria Grobman (E) The Origin of Four-Pillar Construction in Masonry Synagogues of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Marija Rupeikienė (E) The Synagogues of Kaunas: History and Architecture Rudolf Klein (E) The Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest: Alterations In and Around it from 1854 to 2008 Sergey Kravtsov (E)

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Architecture of the Tsori Gil‘ad Synagogue in L’viv: Historicist Expression in the Changing World

477 Painting in Eastern European Synagogues (in cooperation with the Center for Research of Jewish Visual Culture in Europe) Chairperson: Mirjam Rajner Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716

Tamar Shadmi (E) Liturgical Texts on Synagogue Walls in Eastern Europe Bracha Yaniv (E) Ceiling Decorations in Eighteenth-Century Wooden Synagogues in Eastern Europe Eugeny Kotlyar (E) The Art of Compromise: The Human Figure in Eastern European Synagogue Decoration Ilia Rodov (E) Paintings of the Tsori Gil‘ad Synagogue in L’viv: Life and Illusion

478 Interactions Between Jewish Art and the Surrounding Visual Culture Chairperson: Rudolf Klein Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716

Kamile Rupeikaite (E) Biblical Musical Instruments as Pictorial Symbols in Lithuanian Churches Iveta Leitane (E) The Regional Jewish Style in Courland (Latvia): Identity Between Representation and Reference Ulrich Knufinke (E) “Jewish” Architecture Displayed at Design and Architecture Exhibitions in Germany Between 1906 and 1930

479 Visual Judaism: On the Methodology of Object-History Chairperson: Batsheva Goldman-Ida Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716

Kathrin Pieren (E) Negotiating Jewish Identity through the Display of Material Culture, London, 1880s to 1930s Katrin Kessler (E) Is there a Jewish Civil Architecture? The Case of Berlin Judy Jaffe-Schagen (E) Homes for Culture and Culture in Homes: Material Culture in Private and Public Spaces in Israel Keith D. Holz (E)

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Jewish Collectors of Modern Art in Breslau, 1914–1940

480 Jewish Art from the Eighteenth to the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries Chairperson: Keith D. Holz Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716

Waldemar Deluga (E) Graphic Portraits of Rabbis from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ziva Amishai-Maisels (E) Gottlieb’s “Christ Before his Judges”: A New Source and its Influence Monika Czekanowska (E) The Iconography of “The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple” in Nineteenth Century Art: A Comparison of Christian and Jewish Depictions Artur Kamczycki (E) Theodor Herzl and the Anthropology of Physiognomy

466 Sephardic Jews and Visual Culture (A Joint Plenary Session of Ladino and Arts) Chairperson: Eliezer Papo Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716

Jelena Erdeljan (E) Sephardic Funerary Monuments from Niš: A Comparative Analysis of Form and Iconography Nenad Makuljević (E) Sephardim and the Visual Culture of the Ottoman Balkans Ivan Stevović (E) Jewish Architecture on the Territory of Present-Day Serbia: The Age of Revivalism Mirjam Rajner (E) Between Local and Universal: Sephardic Artists in Sarajevo on the Eve of the Holocaust

481 Assimilation in the Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art Chairperson: Mati Meyer Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716

Igor Dukhan (E) Classical Tradition and Jewish Art (1890–1925) Irit Miller (E) Artist, Patron, and the Public Space: S. J. Solomon, S. Montagu and English History Painting Tamara Sztyma-Knasiecka (E)

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The Dilemmas of Assimilation: The Jewish Artists from Łódź at the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Centuries Ruth Apter-Gabriel (E) El Lissitzky’s “Self-Portrait” (“Constructor”), 1924: Almighty Creator or Impotent Artist?

482 What is Tradition in Modern Jewish Art? Chairperson: Rose Carol Washton Long Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716

Susan Nashman Fraiman (E) “The Candles are Lit, All Corners of the House Illuminated” (Bialik: “The Sabbath Qeen”) Natasza Styrna (E) Martyrology or the Affirmation of Life? An Iconographic Analysis of Works by Jewish Artists from Krakow, 1873–1939 Oded Shay (H) Thoughts of a Zionist Philosopher about the National Museum in Jerusalem at the End of the Nineteenth Century Inka Bertz (E) The Berlin Jewish Museum’s Opening Exhibition of 1933: Responding to the Museum Island’s Representation of World Culture

483 Constructing the Old and New Jewish Image in Painting and Photography in the Twentieth Century Chairperson: Inka Bertz Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716

Irmina Michalak (E) The Visual Code of the Shtetl and its Symbolism in Selected Paintings of Jewish Artists from the Interwar Period Alexander Ivanov (E) Constructing Photographic Images of “Soviet Jewry” in the 1920s and 1930s: Political, Ideological, and Aesthetic Aspects Rose Carol Washton Long (E) Modernity as Anti-Nostalgia: The Photographic Books of Tim Gidal and Moshe Raviv Vorobeichic and the Eastern European Shtetl Esther Grabiner (E) From the “Holy Land” to the Seat of Government

484 Jewish Art in Central and Eastern Europe Before and during World War II Chairperson: Sergey Kravtsov Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716

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Bogdana Pinchevska (E) The Ideological Role and Secular Formation of Jewish Art: Art Criticism in Galicia from 1890 to 1939 Renata Piątkowska (E) A Sense of Togetherness: The Jewish Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Warsaw (1923–1939) Halina Hlembotska (E) The Losses in Jewish Artistic Culture in L’viv during and after World War II

485 Jewish Art and the Holocaust Chairperson: Batya Brutin Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716

Vilma Gradinskaite (E) The Destruction of the “Jerusalem of Lithuania” in Marc Chagall’s Painting “The White Crucifixion” (1938) Tsukasa Kodera (E) Jewish Immigrants from Europe to the Far East and their Impact on the Japanese Arts Magdalena Czesniak (E) Forgotten Artist? Jonah Stern (1904–1988) Mor Presiado (E) “These Threads Capture the Shadows”: The Sewing and Weaving Motif in the Holocaust Art Works of Contemporary Israeli and American Women Artists

486 Jewish Ritual Art Chairperson: Bracha Yaniv Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720

Iwona Brzewska (E) Inscribed Torah Curtains from the Collections of Museums in Poland: Their Character and Connection with the Iconography of the Parokhet David Cassuto (E) Sacred Images on Mitzvah-Related Objects in the Piedmont Region of Italy Vuk Dautovic (E) The Duality of Private and Public in the Pictorial Decorations of Balkan Ketubbot: From Marital Harmony to Jewish Community Identity Batsheva Goldman-Ida (E) Reb Nachman’s Chair: A Phenomenological Analysis

487 Assimilation vs. Identity in Jewish Art in the Mid- to Late-Twentieth Century Chairperson: Ziva Amishai-Maisels Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2716

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Artur Tanikowski (E) From an Anthropocentric Perspective: The Late Work of Leopold Gottlieb Ellen G. Landau (E) Philip Guston: The Jew as a Modern Artist Dalia Manor (E) Text as Image: The Bible in Israeli Art of the 1970s – A Political and Conceptual Discourse

488 Questioning Identity in Jewish Art after World War II Chairperson: Ellen G. Landau Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716

Piotr Juszkiewicz (E) Universal or Jewish? The Hermeneutics of Artistic Biography (Alina Szapocznikow and Artur Nacht) Maya Balakirsky Katz (E) Salon des Refusés: Jewish Museums during the Soviet Jewish Refusenik Movement Carol Zemel (E) Israel Abroad: Conflict and Ambivalence in the Video Art of Yael Bartana Ronit Steinberg (E) The Art of Elaine Reichek: The Expression of Secular Jewish Identity on the Upper West Side of Manhattan

489 Contemporary Reactions to the Holocaust in Art Chairperson: Carol Zemel Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716

Dora Apel (E) Contemporary Debates on Holocaust Representation Anna Markowska (E) Conspicuously Absent Jews, Alien Environments: Polish Artists Miroslaw Balka and Rafal Jakubowicz on the Holocaust Eleonora Jedlinska (E) Art after the Holocaust: Memory of Place / Place of Memory (Christian Boltanski and Elzbieta Janicka) Batya Brutin (E) Faces of the Holocaust: Anne Frank and the Boy from the Warsaw Ghetto as Holocaust Icons in Art

See also sessions

232: New Sources for the Study of Eastern European Jewry, p.000

301: How Normative were the Rabbis and Rabbinic Literature? 1 vis-à-vis the

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Archaeological Evidence, p.000

316: Realia of the Rabbinic World, p.000

435: The Jewish 'Place', p.000

457: Modern Yiddish Literature, p.000

651: The Memory of the Holocaust in Literature, p.000

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MUSIC

490 Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development Chairperson: Edwin Seroussi Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2715

James Loeffler (E) In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music? Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism Noah Gerber (E) The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites Judah M. Cohen (E) A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development Edwin Seroussi (E) Respondent

491 Documenting Ashkenazi Music: Tradition and Change Chairperson: James Loeffler Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715

Yelena Irzabekova (E) Beregovski’s Early Publications in the Context of his Research Amalia Kedem (H) The Cantor and Composer Zalman Pollack: Tradition and Creation in the Israeli Ashkenazi Synagogue Judith S. Pinnolis (E) “Cantor Soprano”: The Career of Julie Rosewald

492 Ashkenazi and Italian Liturgical Music Chairperson: Eliyahu Schleifer Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715

Sharon Bernstein (E) The Cantillation of the Pentateuch According to the Italian Tradition of Turin Ruth Hacohen (E) Ashkenazi Liturgical Music: When Historical Perspective Meets Cognitive Considerations Boaz Tarsi (E) The Primary Issues, Real and Imaginary, That may Stand in the Way of a Productive Exploration of the System of Ashkenazi Liturgical Music

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493 Ashkenazi Traditions beyond the Synagogue Chairperson: Amalia Kedem Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715

Walter Feldman (E) Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazic Culture Judit Frigyesi (E) The Expressive Gestures of East Ashkenazi Liturgical Chant Naomi Cohn Zentner (E) The Singing of Zemirot Shabbat among Religious-Zionist Ashkenazim in Israel

494 Jewish Identities in Music and Musicology Chairperson: Boaz Tarsi Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715

Ruth Davis (E) Ethnomusicology and Zionist Ideology in Pre-State Israel Yehudit Friedman (H) “The Jazz Singer”: A Cantor Between Two Worlds Don Harran (E) The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua

465 Sephardic Musical Traditions in Transition (A Joint Plenary Session of Ladino and Music) Chairperson: Karen Gerson Şarhon Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715

Susana Weich-Shahak (S) Esrtuctura Poetica y Nucleo Tematico en el Romancero Sefardi Marion Maeder (E) The Role of the Radio in Relocating and Reshaping Judeo-Spanish Song in Israel Judith R. Cohen (E) Ladinokomunita on the Road: An Ethnomusicologist’s Fieldwork Dream Come True Rivka Havassy (H) Between the Dentist and the Pot-Mender (el Estañador): The Ladino Song as a Crossroads

495 Spanish Portuguese Panel: Liturgical Music Memory of Spanish and Portuguese Jews Chairperson: Edwin Seroussi Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715

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Daniel Halfon (E) The Portuguese Hazzan Today Essica Marks (H) Musical Characteristics of the Spanish Portuguesse Liturgical Music

496 Musical Israeliness: Between Judaism and Israeliness Chairperson: Jehoash Hirshberg Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715

Ronit Seter (E) Is Israeli Art Music Jewish? Julia Kreinin (E) “Beyond All This Hides a Great Happiness”: Israeliness and Jewishness in the Work of Mark Kopitman Olivier Tourny (E) The Beta Israel Liturgical Music in Today’s Israel: Between Tradition, Norm and Creativity Rita Flomenboim (H) Abraham’s Youth Opera by Mikhail Gnesin: The Birth and Wandering of a Hebrew Opera

497 Musical Israeliness Chairperson: Joel E. Rubin Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715

Nathan Shahar (H) S. Postolsky: The Very First Kibbutz Composer Yosef Goldenberg (H) The Complex of Identities in Balkan Influences on Israeli Music Amy Horowitz (E) Zehava Ben: Singing Across Irresolvable Geographies and Counter-Constituencies

498 Contemporary American Jewish Music Chairperson: Ruth Hacohen Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715

Joel E. Rubin (E) “Redefining What a Jew Means in this Time”: Shifting Aesthetics in the Contemporary Klezmer Landscape Abigail Wood (E) Yiddish Song in Twenty-First-Century America Mark Kligman (E) New Artists, Trends and Styles of Orthodox Popular Music in New York

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499 Ernest Bloch: The Jew as European Composer, On the Occasion of the Fiftiethh Anniversary of his Death Chairperson: Klara Moricz Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2715

Malcolm B. B. Miller (E) Bloch’ Reception and Wagner: Refutation or Vindication? Dalia Atlas (E) Revealing the Unknown Music of E. Bloch

500 The Jewish Bloch Chairperson: Malcolm B. B. Miller Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2715

Zecharia Plavin (E) Bloch’s Jewish-Hebrew Musical Narrative of the Jewish Cycle Seen from the Perspective of the Late Phase of European Enlightenment Klara Moricz (E) Testing the Limits of the Human Universal: Ernest Bloch’s America Jehoash Hirshberg (E) Ernest Bloch, Heinrich Schalit, Paul Frankenburger Ben-Haim, and the Emergence of a Jewish Choral Style in Art Music

See also sessions

349: Devekut and Meditation in Hasidism, p. 000

436: History of the Study of Jewish Folklore, p.000

464: Literature – Poetry, p.000

714: Judaica Librarianship: Cultural and Historical Studies, p.000

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501 Germanization and the Holocaust Chairperson: Freddie Rokem Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505

Mashav Balsam (E) Decadence as Judaism: Herzl’s Dramatic Work David Garfinkle (E) Judaica Hysterica: Creative Literary Hysteria in the Expressionist Drama from fin de siècle Vienna to Nazi Bavaria Zlata Zaretsky (E) The Phenomenon of Jewish Theatre during the Holocaust 1933–1947 Leonard Quart (E) Czech Holocaust Films

502 Jewish Theatre Artists Chairperson: Jeanatte R. Malkin Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505

Aviv Livnat (E) “From Azazel to Miryaml”: On the Jewish-Polish Theatre Artist and Patron of the Arts, Tea Arcishewska Shelly Zer-Zion (E) Changing Patterns of Female Stardom in Yiddish and Hebrew Theatre Nurith Yaari (H) Nissim Aloni and Hanoch Levin Between Athens and Jerusalem Daphna Ben-Shaul (H) Broken Tales: Transposing History to Story-Telling Theatre in Ruth Kanner’s Cases of Murder

503 Israeli Theatre Historiography Chairperson: Nurith Yaari Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2505

Dorit Yerushalmi (H) Alterman’s Text, the “Authentic” Voice and the “Other” Body: Women Stars on the Stage of the “Li-Lah-Lo” (1944–1947) Motti Lerner (E) The Politics of Jewish Theatre Leah Gilula (H) A Wandering Star Shone in the Cameri Theatre: On Zigmund Turkow and The Cameri Theatre Ben-Ami Feingold (H) The Israeli Theatre and the Forgotten Repertoire

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504 Popes and Poets Chairperson: Sarit Cofman-Simhon Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505

Orly Wasserzug-Ravid (H) Everlasting Love as a Language Game Asnat Bar-On (H) The First Two Primordial Sins, Temptation and Fraticide: The Works of Zalman Shneor and Meir Hillel Ben-Shamai Sharon Roubach (H) “His Blood be on Us”: The Second Vatican Council and the Cinematic Representation of the “Guilt of the Jews”

505 Theatre, Film, Orthodoxy Chairperson: Freddie Rokem Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505

Nir Cohen (E) Between Religion and Desire: The Act of Coming Out to Religious Parents in Say Amen! Sarit Cofman-Simhon and Reina Rutlinger-Reiner (E) The Question of Modesty of Observant Israeli Actresses Onstage Zehavit Stern (H) The Gamin Star of Yiddish Comedy: Molly Picon’s Challenge to Gender Roles in Yidl mitn Fidl

506 Rosenzweig’s Freedom Chairperson: Jeanatte R. Malkin Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Lilianne Targownic (E)

507 French Jewish Theatre Chairperson: Yehuda Moraly Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2505

Michèle Fingher (H) Jew and Aristocrat in the Belle Epoque: Henry Bernstein Sam W. Bloom (E) Rags to Riches: Staging the Rothschilds Seth L. Wolitz (E) French-Jewish Post-Shoah Memory in the Plays and Films of Jean-Claude Grumberg

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508 Jewish Theatre in Ireland Chairperson: Olga Levitan Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2505

Shelley Troupe (E) The Dublin Jewish Dramatic Society and Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot Irina Ruppo (E) “Between Two Worlds”: The Dublin Jewish Dramatic Society in the Context of the Irish Revival Beth Phillips (E) Evolution, Assimilation, Attrition: The Dublin Jewish Dramatic Society’s Later Years

509 Jewish Theatre in Eastern Europe Chairperson: Freddie Rokem Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505

Teresa Murjas (E) Gabriela Zapolska’s Małka Szwarcenkopf (1898): A Polish-Jewish Play Daniel Watt (E) Shtetl and Stage: Schulz and Kantor Olga Levitan (H) Jewish Playwright in Russian Clothing Galina Eliasberg (E) Musical Comedy Actress Klara Yong in Imperial Russia and the U.S.S.R.

See also sessions

648: Undzere Kinder (Our Children) – The Film, p.000

649: Undzere Kinder (Our Children): A Yiddish Film from Poland in the

Aftermath of the Holocaust, p.000

655: Changes in Jewish Education in Israel and World Wide, p.000

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CONTEMPORARY JEWISH SOCIETY

600 “A Signal Non-Failure”? The Kibbutz in Historical Retrospect (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Aviva Halamish Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Ze’ev Tzahor (H) The Kibbutz in Zionist Ideology and Practice Anita Shapira (H) The Kibbutz and the State Muki Tsur (H) The Kibbutz Between a Community and an Order

202 Studies in The History of Tel-Aviv (A Joint Plenary Session of The History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewish Society) Chairperson: Hagit Lavski Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 6837 (Hendeles Zwig Auditorium)

Deborah Bernstein (H) Tel-Aviv during the British Mandate as a Society of Immigrants Tamir Goren (H) As Captives: The Jaffa Jews during the British Mandate Hizky Shoham (H) How has Haman been Beaten in the Streets of Tel-Aviv? Maoz Azaryahu (H) The Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Hebrew City

601 Secrets of Leadership (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Ze’ev Tzahor Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Dvora Hacohen (H) Henrietta Szold: An Innovative Leader Aviva Halamish (H) The Puzzle of Meir Ya‘ari’s Leadership: The Power of Charisma, Ideology and Organization Arye Naor (H) The Exoteric and Esoteric Elements in the Leadership of Ze’ev Jabotinsky Hagit Lavsky (H)

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The Riddle of Absence: Why did German-Jewish leaders fail to Integrate into the Leadership of the Yishuv’s?

602 Society and Economics in the Yishuv Chairperson: Yitzhak Conforti Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 5818

Allon Gal (H) The Historical Foundations of Israeli Democracy Galia Hasharoni (H) False Teeth, Chocolate, and Noodles: Jewish Industry in Tel Aviv during the First Decade of Mandate Rule, 1919–1929 Anat Kidron (H) The Establishment of the National Hebrew Community in the “Mixed City” of Haifa Nurit Cohen Levinovsky (H) The Evacuation of the Jewish Settlement’s Civil Population during the Second World War

603 Jewish Women’s Identity in Times of National Struggle Chairperson: Deborah Bernstein Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2713

Margalit Shilo (H) Building the Nation and Constructing the New Identity of the Hebrew Woman during the Mandate Period Anat Granit-Hacohen (H) Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces in the Second World War: A Case Study of Nationality and Gender Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman (H) Women’s Leadership in the Ha‘apala: Ada Sireni as a Case Study Efrat Seckbach (H) The Gendered Identity of a 1948-Generation Woman according to Memoirs

604 The Revisionist and Civic Right in the Yishuv and in the State of Israel Chairperson: Yechiam Viz Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720

Amir Goldstein (H) Menachem Begin Between Ideology and Politics: From Command of the Etzel to the Prime Ministry Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky (H) From a Particular Myth to a National Founding Myth: The Shift in Jabotinsky’s Place in the National Collective Memory in Israel’s First Two Decades Orna Miller (H)

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Society and Economy in the Herut Movement, 1948–1965 Yaniv Ben-Uzi (H) The Civic Tower of Babel: The General Zionists (Zioniim Klaliim), 1948–1955

605 The Israeli Left in the Yishuv and in Israel’s First Years Chairperson: Judy Baumel-Schwartz Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Meir Chazan (H) The Red Stain of the 1921 Riots Eli Tzur (H) Between “Here” and “There”: The Zionist Left in Israel and its Parallel Parties in Eastern Europe Arnon Lammfromm (H) Levi Eshkol’s Rise to Power in Mapai, 1930–1965

606 The State of Israel: The First Decade Chairperson: Hagit Lavsky Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2714

Anat Stern (H) Judging Draft Dodgers Orit Rozin (E) The Right to Travel Abroad in Israel’s First Decade: Between State and Citizens Avi Picard (H) Morocco, America, Israel: The Attempt to Obtain American Jewry’s Financial Support for the Absorption of North African Jews in Israel in the Mid-Fifties Zohar Segev (H) National Identity, Cultural Revival, and National Struggle: The World Jewish Congress and the Challenge of Jewish Diaspora in the Shadow of the Holocaust and the Establishment of Israel

607 The Rabbinate for Jews of Muslim Lands during the Period of the Yishuv and the Establishment of Israel Chairperson: Yaron Harel Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 5818

Moshe Ovadia (H) The Relationships Between the Committee of the Moroccan Community and the Committee of the Sephardic Community in Jerusalem during British Rule Malka Katz (H) On the Uniqueness of the Political Activity of Rabbi Uziel in the Mizrachi Movement during the Period of the “National Home” Amihai Radzyner (H) Rabbi Uziel on Women’s Participation in Elections: A New Consideration

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Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman (H) The Challenge of Secularism and Modernity in the Writings of Yemenite Rabbis

608 Jews, Color, Race Chairperson: Efraim Sicher Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720

Gary Phillip Zola (E) “Bone of Our Bone and Flesh of Our Flesh”: The Judaization of Abraham Lincoln Gil Ribak (E) “The Jew Usually Left Those Crimes to Esau”: Immigrant Jewish Responses to Accusations of Jewish Criminality in New York City, 1908–1912 Shlomi Deloia (E) Race, Whiteness, and the Jewish American Immigration Novel of the 1920s Efraim Sicher (E) The “Jew’s Passage to India”: Race, Color, and Hybridity in Desai and Rushdie

609 Zionist Youth Movements Chairperson: Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 4809

Shlomo Bar-Gil (H) Ideology First? Latin American Youth Movements, 1934–1973 Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll (H) The Relationship of the World Zionist Organization with Youth Movements in Latin America after the Six-Day War Erik H. Cohen (E) The World of Values of the Jewish Youth Leaders in France: A Comparative Structural Analysis Chaim Shalem (H) The Yeshurun Youth Movement in France during the Holocaust

610 U.S.S.R. Jews in the Interwar Period Chairperson: Vladimir Levin Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714

Shlomo Yotvat (H) Israel Friedlander in Search of the Distressed Jews and Eretz Israel, 1917–1920 Arkadi Zeltser (E) Jewish Autonomy in the Framework of Soviet Nationality Policy in the Interwar Period Mikhail Mitsel (E)

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The Mukachevo Branch of the International Jewish Bourgeois Nationalistic Organization (the “Joint”) as an Object of the Local Security Service’s (MGB) Operation “Zion”

611 Central European Émigrés in the Cold War (in cooperation with The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and The Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center) Chairperson: Steven E. Aschheim Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Mario Kessler (E) Franz Borkenau Between Communism, Liberalism and Illiberalism Ellen G. Rafshoon (E) Hans J. Morgenthau’s Critique of the American Cold War in the Far East Katherine Sorrels (E) Oscar Jaszi, the Danubian Federation and the Cold War Udi Greenberg (E) Walter Laqueur and the Role of German Culture in the Cold War

612 Inclusion and Exclusion: Jews as Cold War Insiders and Outsiders (in cooperation with The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and The Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center) Chairperson: Mario Kessler Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Tamara Ehs (E) Communist Oath vs. Academic Freedom: The Kelsen File Samuele F. S. Pardini (E) Leslie Fiedler’s Search for a New Humanism Kevin M. Schultz (E) Leo Pfeffer, Cold War Rhetoric and Jewish Struggle Nathan Abrams (E) An Unofficial Jewish Diplomat: Arthur Miller and the Cold War

613 Jewish Intellectuals and the American Empire (in cooperation with The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and The Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center) Chairperson: Arie M. Dubnov Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Sergei Kan (E) Alexander Goldenweiser’s Political Views Adi Gordon (E) Hans Kohn on Nationalism, Old East, and New West Benjamin Balint (E)

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Commentary Magazine and the Jewish Cold Warriors Ronnie Avital Grinberg (E) The Encounter Row: Jewish Intellectuals and the Role of the Intellectual in Cold War America

614 Jewish Intellectuals and Cold War Dilemmas (in cooperation with The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and The Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center) Chairperson: Ellen G. Rafshoon Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Nancy Sinkoff (E) Can a Woman be a New York Intellectual?” Lucy S. Dawidowicz and the Post-War Jewish Cold War Michael Chapman Kimmage (E) Lionel Trilling, Norman Podhoretz, and the Evolution of the Jewish Cold War Intellectual Peter Alan Katel (E) Jacques Katel and the Birth of Sovietology David Greenberg (E) Richard Hofstadter’s Jewish Question: Ethnic Determinism and American Cold War Culture

615 The Gulf Within: Jewish Communities in the Cold War (in cooperation with The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and The Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center) Chairperson: Tamara Ehs Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Elvira Groezinger (E) The Cold War in Poland and Romania as Echoed by the Local Jewish State Theatres Sarah A. Cramsey (E) Saying Kaddish in Czechoslovakia: Memorialization, the Jewish Tragedy and the “Tryzna” Helga Embacher (E) The Jewish Community of Vienna as a Battlefield of the Cold War Sergio Berensztein and Israel Lotersztain (E) The Argentine Jewish Left and the Politics of Negligence

616 Jewish Intellectuals as Bridge Figures (in cooperation with The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and The Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center) Chairperson: Adi Gordon Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Sebastian Johannes Voigt (E)

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Leftist Jewish Intellectuals in Postwar France Alexander Hazanov (E) Soviet Zionism as a Cold War Ideology Lutz Fiedler (E) Matzpen: Jewish Dissidents Transcending Cold War Polarities Steven Schouten (E) Peaceful Co-Existence and the Legacy of the Holocaust: The Case of Samuel Pisar

617 Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2505

Ilana Waingort Novinsky (E) Is Conversion Possible for a Jew? The Case of Edith Stein Chaya Brasz (E) The Postwar Struggle for Progressive Judaism on the European Continent Joanna Bankier (E) Polish Jewish Immigration to Sweden 1968–1970

618 Jews and Medicine Chairperson: Haim Sperber Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2503

Kenneth Collins (E) Trachoma and Zionism Gail Glicksman (E) American Jews Respond to the Challenges of Chronic Illness Gil Shachar (H) Jewish Medicine: Does It Exist, and Is It Still Relevant to Us?

619 The Place of Women in Twentieth-Century Jewish Societies Chairperson: Margalit Shiloh Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2713

Isaac Hershkowitz (H) Feminine Aspects in the Messianic Outlook of Em Habanim Smecha Eyal Katvan (H) Representatives and the Represented: The First Jewish Women Lawyers Talia Pfefferman (H) On a Thin Line Joan Bieder (E) Jewish Women of Singapore: A Century of Change

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620 Feminism and Judaism Chairperson: Ronit Irshay (Naamat) Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

David Golinkin (H) The Participation of Women in Jewish Ritual 1845–2005 Adam Ferziger (E) Feminism and Heresy Brenda Socachevsky Bacon (H) From JOFA to ‛Kolech’: The Discourse of the Opposition to Israeli Orthodox Feminism Esti Barel (H) Hierarchical Family versus Egalitarian Family: The Discourse on the Influence of Torah Study in Women’s Batei-Midrash on the Family Pattern

621 Contemporary Jewry: Social Aspects Chairperson: Chaim I. Waxman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Sergio DellaPergola (E) Demographic Changes among World Jewry: The Last Sixty Years Mervin Verbit (E) American Jews’ Attachment to Israel: Age Effect or Social Change? Carmel Chiswick (E) Egalitarianism and Economics: American Jewish Families Barry Chiswick (E) The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity

622 Zionism and Diasporism: Problems of Jewish Existence in the State of Israel and in the North American Jewish Diaspora in Light of Recent Jewish Thought Chairperson: Yehoyada Amir Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2720

Eliezer Schweid (H) The Problem of Zionism and Diasporism as Ideological Stances in the Period of Globalization David N. Myers (H) Is there Still a Jewish Nation? Yossi (Joseph) Turner (H) What Might be Learned from the Thought of Yehezkel Kaufmann and Mordecai Kaplan vis-à-vis the Problems of Jewish Existence in the Contemporary Period? Shaul Magid (H) Marginality, Assimilation, and Post-Ethnicity in American Judaism

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623 New Approaches to Jewish Secularism Chairperson: Israel Bartal Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: The Dan Wassong Auditorium (Rabin Building)

Mark A. Raider (E) Free Associations: Hayim Greenberg – Secular Zionist Leader, Jewish Public Intellectual Laura S. Levitt (E) American Jewish Liberalism: A Postsecular Perspective Susan E. Shapiro (E) Contemporary Secularization Theory and the Separation of Religion and State Naomi Seidman (E) Toward a Jewish Secularization Thesis

624 Dichotomies or Continuums? The Secular, the Sacred, and the Syncretic in Jewish Life Chairperson: David Biale Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817

Lynn Davidman (E) Betwixt and Between: Negotiating a Post-Orthodox Identity Azzan Yadin (E) Secular Engagement of Classical Jewish Texts Naomi Seidman (E) Haskalah Reading Practices and the “Secular Jew” Ari Ofengenden (E) Guilt and the Dynamics of Secularization in Hebrew Culture

625 The New Russian Jewish Studies (A Roundtable Discussion) Chairperson: Shaul Stampfer Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Valery Dymshits, Mikhail Krutikov, Julia Lerner, David Shneer (E)

626 The Shtetl in Historical Memory Chairperson: Mikhail Krutikov Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2722

Mikhail Alekseevsky (E) Jewish Areas on the Mental Map of a Ukrainian Town: The Example of Mohylev-Podilsky

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Anna Senkina (E) Life without Jews: The Narrative of Jewish Absence in Small Towns of the Former Pale of Settlement Mikhail Lurie (E) Jewish Character: Psychology, Behavior, and Speech of Jews in the Oral Narratives of their Neighbors Anna Kushkova (E) Refined Jews: Yikhus and Social Status in the (Post-)Soviet Shtetl

627 Former U.S.S.R. Jewry Today Chairperson: David Shneer Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2603

Mark Tolts (E) Post-Soviet Aliyah and Jewish Demographic Transformation Yuriy M. Vasserman (E) Jewish and Non-Jewish Student Culture: Comparative Analysis Arkady Levin (E) Russia’s Citizens of Different Formal Ethnicity: Ethnic Self-Definition and the Desire to Live in Another Country Elena Nosenko (E) Sacred and Profane Space: A Choice for Russian Jews Today

628 Literature and Religion among North American Jewry Chairperson: Lee Shai Weissbach Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2603

Yoel Finkelman (E) Contemporary American Haredi Popular Theology Roberta Rosenberg Farber (E) A Literary Perspective on Orthodox Jewish Life Laurence Roth (E) Michael Chabon and the Risks of Popular American Jewish Fiction

629 Twenty-First-Century American Jews: Social and Demographic Aspects Chairperson: Carmel Chiswick Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818

Bruce Phillips (E) Mobility and Jewish Attachment Ariela Keysar (E) Secular Jews and Other Secular Americans: New Findings Allen Glicksman (E) Issues of Religious and Ethnic Identity among Older American Jews Barry Kosmin (E)

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The Population Profile of American Jews: New Findings

630 New Developments in Jewish Identity in Israel’s Secular Sphere Chairperson: Rina Hevlin Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 3001 (Rabin Building)

Alon Gan (H) From Place-Dependent to Time-Dependent Rootedness: Milestones in Israeli Discourse on the Issue of Jewish Identity Rina Hevlin (H) From the “New Man” to Jewish Renewal: Developments in Jewish Identity in the Israeli Secular Sphere Naama Azulay (H) From a Place of Torah Study to a Place of Prayer: Cultural-Religious Developments in the Israeli Secular Environment Rachel Werczberger (H) The New Age Movements and the Dynamics of Jewish Identity

631 Justice Haim Cohen’s Contribution to Jewish Humanism (in cooperation with Tmura – Israeli Judaism, and The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism) Chairperson: Yaakov Malkin Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2715

Michal Zmora-Cohen (H) The Humanistic Theme in Haim Cohen’s Life Yehuda Bauer (H) Humanism and Commitment to the Right to Life for all World Nations Yaakov Malkin (H) Trust in Man vs. Belief in God in Haim Cohen’s Writings Omri Kaufman (H) Haim Cohen as Seen Through his Rulings on Issues of Society, Religion, and State

632 Jewish Studies and the Study of Judaism Chairperson: Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 5818

Shaul Katz (H) Jewish Heritage and Modern Science: The Establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Adherence of the Israeli Research System to the Ethos of “Pure Science” Shakhar Pelled (H) The Crisis of Historicism: Hidden Parameters Yosi Goldstein (H)

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Biography as a Format for History Shmuel Trigano (E) Towards a Sociology of Judaism

633 Israeli Identity - Jewish Identity Chairperson: Nissim Leon Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2720

Netanel Fisher (H) “Who is a Jew” in Israel: The Current Debate Lilach Lev Ari (H) Attachement to and Identification with the Homeland among Israeli Emigrants to Europe: Transnationals or Not? Reuven Gerber (H) Israeli Humanism as an Inspiration for a Pluralistic Israeli Identity Nirit Topol (E) On the Absence of Reconciliation Processes in Herzl’s Altneuland

634 Kibbutz Centennial: A Century of Changes Chairperson: Michal Palgi Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503

Alon Pauker (H) The Kibbutz during in the Transition from Yishuv to State: The Early Roots of a Later Crisis Esther Carmel-Hakim (H) Shulamit Bat Dori: Dramatist, Feminist, and Revolutionary Arza Avrahami (H) Motives among Kibbutz Youth Volunteering for Community Service 1986–2005 Michal Palgi (H) Social Dilemmas and the Kibbutz

635 Religious Communities in Israel Chairperson: Anat Feldman Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2713

Inbal Ester Cicurel (H) Karaites in Israel: A Religious Community in Changes Einat Libel-Hass (H) Habitus and Female Visibility in the Public Space of an Israeli “Masorti” / Conservative Community Anat Feldman (H) The Miracle Seeking Community Shai Ben-Tal (H)

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Bnei Baruch’s Self-Image as Reflected in Their Songs and Rituals

636 Haredi Society in Israel Chairperson: Adam Ferziger Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717

Batia Siebzehner (H) Integration by Means of Segregation: The Case of the Shas Movement Sara Zalcberg (H) The Development and Implications of Haredi Young Men’s Sense of Sin due to their Sexual Thoughts and Practices Sima Zalcberg (H) The Use of Genetic Testing in the Haredi Community: Dilemmas, Significance, and Implications Judy Baumel-Schwartz (H) Orthodox Jewish Women’s Internet Forums as a Cultural and Historical Phenomenon

637 Religion, Society, and State Chairperson: Yoel Finkelman Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2713

Yair Halevy (H) Reactions of the Centrist Haredi Movement to the Six-Day War Dov Levitan (H) The Effects of the Reunification of Jerusalem in 1967 on the National-Religious Population Aharon Kampinsky (H) The Israeli Army Chaplain Today Mati Dombrowsky (H) The Gar’inim Toraniyim: Religious Zionist Urban Settlements

638 Israel and the World: International Relationships Chairperson: Itzhak Sergio Minerbi Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605

Shlomo Slonim (E) Significant Fluctuations in U.S. Policy on the Issue of Jerusalem Natan Aridan (E) Working out the Relationship: Israel Diplomatic Missions and Diaspora Jewry, 1948–1967 Herbert M. Druks (E) Joseph P. Kennedy, his Sons, the Jews, Israel, and Jewish Issues Haim Genizi (H)

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The Attitude of the World Council of Churches to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

639 Contemporary Antisemitism: The European and Islamic Legacies Chairperson: Irwin Cotler Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 6837 (Hendeles Zwig Auditorium)

Robert S. Wistrich (E) Antisemitism: The European and Muslim Legacies Jeffrey Herf (E) Nazi Propaganda in the Middle East Menahem Milson (E) Antisemitism in the Arab and Iranian Media

See also sessions

228: The Attitude Towards the Other in Italy, p.000

252: Jewish Historiography and the Post-Modern Challenge, p.000

252: Jewish Genealogy: An Emerging Field in Jewish Studies, p.000

329: Studies in the Responsa Literature, p.000

364: Women’s Prayer: A Contemporary Historical Study, p.000

479: Visual Judaism: On the Methodology of Object-History, p.000

490: Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy: Eighty Years after the

Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development, p.000

494: Jewish Identities in Music and Musicology, p.000

712: The Nation and its Library: The Jewish National and University Library,

Historical and Cultural Aspects, p.000

804: American Jewish Communities of Syrian Origin, p.000

820: Jewish Names in the Modern World, p.000

825: Names in Modern Israel, p.000

831: Holocaust Issues and Anti-Semitism, p.000

832: Anti-Semitism, p.000

833: Changing Jewish Communities, p.000

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HOLOCAUST STUDIES

640 Perspectives on Holocaust Research Chairperson: Hava Eshkoli Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 2718

Boaz Cohen (H) The “Creative Catharsis”: Rachel Auerbuch and the Early Collection of Holocaust Testimonies Dan Michman (H) Comparative Research on the Holocaust at the National and State Levels: Advantages and Disadvantages in Light of Attempts Regarding Western Europe Hannah Kliger (E) New Methods for the Study of Holocaust Narratives: Multiple Perspectives and Protocols Rakhmiel Peltz (E) Teaching about the World that was Destroyed, from the Survivor’s Perspective

641 The Attitude Towards the Jews in the Axis States Chairperson: Yitzhak Kerem Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817

Tommaso Dell’era (E) The Catholic Church, Racism and Anti-Semitism (1934–1939): New Documentation from the Vatican Archives Maria Costanza-Caredio (E) The Italian Racial Laws Simona Salustri (E) The Reinstatement of Jewish Teachers in Italian Universities Chizuko Takao (E) Japan Faces its Jews

642 Topography of the Shoah in Vienna Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2722

Dieter Josef Hecht (E) Aspects of Daily Life after the Anschluss in Vienna Michaela Raggam-Blesch (E) “Mit Angst wachte man auf, mit Angst ging man zu Bett …”: Women of Jewish Descent Surviving the Nazi Regime in Vienna Heidemarie Uhl (E) The Anschluss and Austrian Memory: Media Representation and Meaning

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643 The Unspoken: Sexual Abuse of Women during the Shoah Chairperson: Rochelle G. Saidel Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2722

Sonja Hedgepeth (E) Nava Semel Breaks the Silence Miriam Sivan (E) Stoning the Messenger: Yehiel Dinur’s House of Dolls and Piepel Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (E) The Shoah in the Cinema: Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls

644 Studies in Holocaust Research Chairperson: Chaim Shalem Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2715

Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (H) A Look at the Suffering and Resourcefulness of Holocaust-Surviving Children as Expressed in Their Own Testimonies Hava Eshkoli (H) The Plan of Resettlement of Jewish Refugees in Alaska during the Holocaust Yitzchak Kerem (H) Reevaluation of Rescue in Thessaloniki

645 Patterns of Struggle during the Holocaust Chairperson: Dan Michman Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5817

Anat Gueta (H) The Communist Jewish Resistance in France during the Nazi Occupation: The Marseille Cell Witold Medykowski (E) Ghetto Economy: Patterns of Functioning among the Jews in the Generalgouvernement during the Shoah within the Constraints of an Isolated Economic System Chaya Ostrower (H) The Importance of the Humorous and Satirical Songs in the Holocaust

646 Orthodox Rabbinic Responses to the Shoah: Theological Struggle, Abandonment, and Political Activism Chairperson: Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2713

James A. Diamond (E) Sermons in the Inferno: Theological Turmoil in R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira’s Holy Fire

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Allan Nadler (E) The Rescue of Rebbes during the Holocaust: Eynei ha-Edah or Captains who Jump Ship? Gershon Greenberg (E) Yehiel Meir Morgenshtern, 1947: A Holocaust Response From a Hasid of Kotsk

647 The She’erit Hapletah in Italy: The Presence of Jewish Displaced Persons in the Italian Peninsula after the Shoah (1945–1948) Chairperson: Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5817

Cinzia Villani (E) The Arrival and Early Stay of Jewish DPs in Italy: The South Tyrol-Milan Route Arturo Marzano (E) Between Florence and Rome: The Presence of Jewish DPs in Central Italy Elena Mazzini (E) The Representation of Jewish DP’s in the Italian Press and in Memoir Writing

648 Undzere Kinder (Our Children) – The Film (in cooperation with Shalom-Aleichem House) Chairperson: Shimon Redlich Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Shimon Redlich (E) Lydia Ophir-Schumacher (H)

649 Undzere Kinder (Our Children): A Yiddish Film from Poland in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (in cooperation with Shalom-Aleichem House) Chairperson: David G. Roskies Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Shimon Redlich (E) Jews in Postwar Łódź, 1945–1950 Gabriel Finder (E) Child Survivors and the Formation of Jewish Collective Memory after the Holocaust: The Case of Undzere Kinder Maurice Preter (E) Childhood Trauma in Film: Undzere Kinder Diego Rotman (H) Story Behind the Scenes: Dzhigan and Schumacher in Theater and Film

650 Negotiating Justice: Jewish Interventions in the Discourse on Legal Redress after the Holocaust

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Chairperson: Renee Poznanski Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818

Elisabeth Gallas (E) Restitution and Justice: Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. in Postwar Europe Laura Jockusch (E) Justice at Nurenberg? Jewish Responses to Allied War Crimes Trials in Occupied Germany Gabriel Finder (E) The Jewish Politics of Retribution after the Holocaust: The Trial of Shepsl Rotholc in the Polish Jewish Honor Court

651 The Memory of the Holocaust in Literature Chairperson: Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714

Sara R. Horowitz (E) Sara Kofman and the Ambiguity of Mothers Federica K. Clementi (E) Re-Centering the Mother in Shoah Autobiography: Ruth Klüger, Edith Bruck, Sarah Kofman Tanja-Isabel Habicht (E) Memorializing the Holocaust: Contemporary Concepts of Remembrance in German Monuments and Literature Galia Glasner-Heled (H) The Myth of K. Zetnik

652 Holocaust Memorials Chairperson: Kimmy Kaplan Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2718

Sharon Kangisser-Cohen (E) Narratives of Betrayal Ruth Ebenstein (E) The Shoah as Living Memory: Reportage in the Haredi daily Kol Yisrael, 1945–1946 Mali Eisenberg (H) Moshe Prager: Orthodox Holocaust Scholar and one of the formative figures of Holocaust Memory in Israel Michal Shaul (H) Heroism in the Haredi Holocaust Narrative: Martyrdom or Resistance?

See also sessions

356, Studies in Modern Jewish Thought, p. 000

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414: The Memory of the Holocaust in Hebrew Literature, p.000

485: Jewish Art and the Holocaust, p.000

489: Contemporary Reactions to the Holocaust in Art, p.000

501: Germanization and the Holocaust, p.000

507: French Jewish Theatre, p.000

813: Latin America, Shoah and Antisemitism, p.000

820: Jewish Names in the Modern World, p.000

831: Holocaust Issues and Anti-Semitism, p.000

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JEWISH EDUCATION

653 Contemporary Worldwide Jewish Education (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Jonathan Cohen Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Jack Wertheimer (E) The Changing Field of Jewish Supplementary Education in the United States Alex Pomson (E) The Jewish Day School: Singular Challenges and Opportunities Simon Parizhsky (E) “Studying Torah in the Marketplace of Sepphoris”: New Trends in FSU Jewish Education

654 Teaching Jewish Thought Chairperson: Alexander Even-Chen Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Haim O. Rechnitzer (E) Transformative and Reflective Journal: Exploring Ideology and Developing a Personal Theology while Analyzing the Texts of Medieval Jewish Thinkers Ari Ackerman (E) The Philosophic Underpinning of Seymor Fox’s Conception of Vision for Jewish Education Jonathan Cohen (E) The Concept of Responsibility in Levinas and Soloveitchik: Implications for Jewish Education Ari Bursztein (H) A-Priority and Coming into Being: How to Teach Jewish Sources according to Hermann Cohen’s Philosophical Method

655 Changes in Jewish Education in Israel and World Wide Chairperson: Alex Pomson Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2605

Daniel Maoz (E) Chavruta: A Light to the Nations Tali Berkovitch (E) The Future of Hebrew in Diaspora Judaism Iris Yaniv (H) Teaching Bible in Non-Religious Jewish Israeli Secondary Education: Insights from Action Research Vered Ba-gad Elimelech (H) Are Heroes of the Jewish Orthodox Film Industry Educational Characters?

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656 Teaching Talmud Chairperson: Menahem Hirshman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720

Aliza Segal (E) The Different Languages of the Talmud Classroom Simcha Goldsmith (H) The Application of Coherence Relations to the Teaching of Talmud to Beginners Tammi Eisenmann and Shlomit Kislev (H) What are the Differences Between Talmud and Math Studies in High School

See also session

248, Jewish Education at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, p. 000

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DIVISION F:

RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

700 JUDAICA Europeana: Presenting the Jewish Contribution to European Civilization in the European Digital Library Chairperson: Rachel Heuberger Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Motti Friedman (H), Rachel Heuberger (E), and Dov Winer (E) Jews in European Cities Susan Hazan and Dov Winer (E) JUDAICA Michael: Registering European Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe Elhanan Adler (E), Susan Hazan (E) and Yemima Rosenthal (E) ATHENA Israel Orly Simon (H) Michael Israel

701 The Manchester-Durham Typology of Ancient Jewish Literature Chairperson: Shamma Friedman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2718

Alexander Samely (E) A New Approach to the Literary and Textual Features of Ancient Jewish Literature Rocco Bernasconi (E) Overlaps in Wording Between Mishnah and Tosefta Robert Hayward (E) A Typology of Megillat Ta‘anit Philip S. Alexander (E) On the Value or Lack of Ancient Genre Labels

702 The Friedberg Genizah Project: Objectives and Accomplishments Chairperson: Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2716

Menahem Ben-Sasson (H) The Friedberg Genizah Project: Objectives and Accomplishments Yaacov Choucka (H) The Computerization of the Genizah World and its Impact on Genizah Research: A Vision and its Implementation Haggai Ben-Shammai (H) Judaeo-Arabic Bible Exegesis: Preliminary Mapping

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703 The European Genizah Project 1 Chairperson: Andreas Lehnardt Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Michael Krupp (H) An Early Fragment of Sifre Devarim Mauro Perani (E) The “Genizah of Girona”: An Updated Survey Edna Engel (H) From Reed to Quill: The Crystallization of the Hebrew Script in Italy, as Reflected in Manuscripts and European Genizah Fragments Judith Kogel (E) Hebrew Fragments in French Libraries: The Case of Colmar

704 The European Genizah Project 2 Chairperson: Avraham David Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Javier Castano (E) Contents and Contexts: A Survey of Recent Discoveries of Hebrew and Aljamiado Documents and Fragments from Aragon Andreas Kunz-Luebcke (H) The Discovery of Medieval Targum and Mahzor Fragments in Freiberg / Saxony Elisabeth Hollender (E) Liturgical Fragments from the Genizat Germania Project Andreas Lehnardt (E) Genizat Germania: Hebrew and Aramic Binding Fragments in Germany

705 The Stoliner Genizah Chairperson: Gershon David Hundert Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2720

Abish Avraham Shor (H) The History of the Stoliner Genizah: Its Creation, its Major Items, and its Looting Yitzhak Y. Melamed (H) The Study of the Stoliner Genizah: Rabinovich, Bachlinski, and the Third Person Jonatan Meir (H) Respondent

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706 The Corpus of Sources on the History of the Jews in the Medieval Empire: An International Research Project on Jewish and non-Jewish Memories Chairperson: Alfred Haverkamp Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 4809

Alfred Haverkamp (E) Foundations and Guidelines of the Project: Literacy, Source Transmission, Historical Memory Benjamin Laqua (E) The Judenschreinsbuch of the City of Cologne as a Source for Jewish and Christian Urban History Jörg R. Müller (E) Medieval Christian Chroniclers and their Selection of “Memorable Events” Pertaining to Jews Rainer Barzen (E) Martyrologies and Jewish Memory (Late Thirteenth to Mid-Fourteenth Centuries) Avraham (Rami) Reiner (H) Jewish Tombstones in Central Europe as a Historical Source

707 The Anthological Imagination: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture & Civilization in Theory and in Practice Chairperson: James E. Young Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2715

James E. Young (E) Introducing the Posen Library of Jewish Culture & Civilization David G. Roskies (E) The Anthological Imagination and the “Posen Method” Yosef Kaplan (E) Anthologizing the Early Modern Period in the Current Era Deborah Dash Moore (E) The Explosion of Jewish Culture in an Age of Mass Media

708 Encyclopedic Solutions to Problems of Modern Jewish Identity Chairperson: Yair Tzaban Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: Senate Hall

Sammy Smooha (H) Why do Jews in Israel Keep Their Identity More than Jews in the West? Yedidia Z. Stern (H) Religion and Identity: Past and Present Shulamit Volkov (H) Historiography as Self-Formation and Identity-Construction: The Case of the German Jews Yirmiyahu Yovel (E)

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A Dual Jewish Identity: “Judaism and Hellenism”' in an Historical View

709 The YIVO Encyclopedia: A Port of Entry into a Well-Remembered Past Chairperson: Gershon David Hundert Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Israel Bartal (H) The Place of the YIVO Encyclopedia in East European Jewish Studies Moshe Rosman (E) New History, Renewed Memory Gershon Bacon (E) Rabbis and Rebbitzens, Talmud and Cholent: The Portrayal of Traditional Jewry in the Yivo Encyclopedia Gershon David Hundert (E) The Making of the Encyclopedia

710 Oral History Archives in Jewish Studies Chairperson: Bea Levkovich Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714

Margalit Bejarano (E) Methodological Transitions in Oral History: The Case of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry Marilia Freidenson (E) Jewish Immigration to São Paulo: From the Oral History Division of the Jewish Brazilian Historical Archive Helene Trigano (E) Memory and History Henry A. Green (E) The Forgotten Exodus: The Oral and Video History Project

711 State Archives: Data Projects in Israel’s Archives and their Relation to Research and to the Cultural Legacy of the People and their State Chairperson: Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5817

Hagai Tsoref (H) The Publication of Documents at the Israel State Archives Yehoshua Freundlich (H) Inter-Relations Between Archival Sources and Historical Research Assaf Tractinsky (H) Israeli Archives Portal: Exposure to a Cultural Legacy

801 Special Panel on Archives with Collections on Latin American Jewry

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Chairperson: Margalit Bejarano Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2712

Alicia Gojman de Backal (E) The Documentation Center of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico City and its Recognition by UNESCO Project of Registration of Documentation in Israeli Archives by members of the Israeli Association for the Promotion of Jewish Latin American Studies Hadasa Assulin (E) Latin American Volunteers and their Contribution to the Archive’s Work Moshe Goler (H) Recruitment of Volunteers Theodor Bar Shalom (H) Organization and Registration of Material from Latin America Iosef Rozen (H) Organization and Registration of the Collection of the Jewish Colonization Association

712 The Nation and its Library: The Jewish National and University Library, Historical and Cultural Aspects Chairperson: Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2714

Hava Mustigman (H) A Hidden Treasure: The Israel National Library Databases as the Primary Resource for Mapping the Study of Zionism and the Yishuv Avriel Bar-Levav (H) Library Awareness in the National Library: Bibliography, Ideology, and Zionism Zeev Gries (H) The Writers of Articles in Kiryat Sefer as Agents of Culture Gish Amit (H) The Jewish National and University Library and the Redistribution of Jewish Cultural Property after WWII

713 From the Qumran Scrolls to the “Seventh Column” (in cooperation with Heilal Ben Haim Library of Jewish Studies) Chairperson: Yehuda Friedlander Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2713

Shula Keshet (H) Intertextuality in the Bible as an Ideological Tool, or: Was the Story-Teller a Feminist? Yoram Erder (H) The Sectarian Polemic in the Second Temple Period Concerning the Issue of the Half-Shekel, in Light of the Early Karaite Halakhah

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Nissan Rubin (H) How to Squeeze a Text? A Sociological Anthropological Approach to Rabbinic Texts Ousi Shavit (H) The Books of “The Seventh Column” by Alterman: Structure and Meaning

714 Judaica Librarianship: Cultural and Historical Studies Chairperson: Roger S. Kohn Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2405

Benjamin Richler (E) The Establishment of a Beit Midrash Library in 1693 Rachel Simon (E) The Contribution of Hebrew Printing in Istanbul to the Development of Ladino Scholarship and Culture Daniel Scheide (E) “Tzadik Ka-Tamar Yifrah”: Radical Jewish Culture and the Future of Jewish Music Rachel Leket-Mor (E) When Kliff Gones Spent the Night at Stalag 13: Valuing Popular Israeli Literature in Academic Libraries

715 Judaica Librarianship: Digitization and Bibliography Chairperson: Yael Penkower Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2405

Edith Lubetski (E) Considerations in Preparing a Biblical Bibliography Roger S. Kohn (E) Recent Trends in Judaica Bibliography Elhanan Adler (E) Digitization of Hebrew Manuscripts: The Final Frontier Peggy K. Pearlstein (E) The World Digital Library and Other Digital Internet Resources for Jewish Studies

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SECTION ON LATIN AMERICAN JEWRY

AMILAT – LATIN AMERICAN JEWRY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

(Sección del Judaísmo Latinoamericano

AMILAT – Asociación de Investigación del Judaísmo Latinoamericano)

800 Memoria de la Shoá en la literatura y la literatura de memoria (Memory of the Shoah in Literature and the Literature of Memory) Chairperson: Edna Aizenberg Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2712

Alicia Ramos Gonzales (S) Rereadings of Anne Frank from Latin America Edna Aizenberg (S) Gerchunoff y la Representación Gráfica de la Shoá Amalia Ran (S) Ya no buscan ninguna patria perdida: Identidad y memoria en nuevas narrativas judeo-argentinas

801 Special Panel on Archives with Collections on Latin American Jewry Chairperson: Margalit Bejarano Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2712

Alicia Gojman de Backal (E) The Documentation Center of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico City and its Recognition by UNESCO Project of Registration of Documentation in Israeli Archives by members of the Israeli Association for the Promotion of Jewish Latin American Studies Hadasa Assulin (E) Latin American Volunteers and their Contribution to the Archive’s Work Moshe Goler (H) Recruitment of Volunteers Theodor Bar Shalom (H) Organization and Registration of Material from Latin America Iosef Rozen (H) Organization and Registration of the Collection of the Jewish Colonization Association

802 Opening Session of the Latin American Section Chairperson: Efraim Zadoff Sunday (2/8/2009) 17:00 - 19:00 Room: 502 (Maiersdorf Faculty Club)

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(E) World Union of Jewish Studies’ Greetings Margalit Bejarano (E) Amilat Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein (S) Presentation of Judaica Latinoamericana VI Carlos Escude (E) Relations Between Latin America and Israel in the Global Era

803 Memoria e historia (Memory and History) Chairperson: Saul Sosnowski Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712

Manoel Salgado (P) Memória do Holocausto e reescrita da História Marta Francisca Topel (P) O sacrossanto carnaval carioca e a representação da Shoá Monica Grin (P) Um problema epistemológico: escravidão, holocausto, memória e historia Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein (S) El discurso judío de la memoria: Pensamiento público judío en la Argentina en la era de la globalización

804 Comunidades judías americanas de origen sirio (American Jewish Communities of Syrian Origin) Chairperson: Yom-Tov Assis Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712

Margalit Bejarano (E) Between Law and Reality: Mixed Marriages and Conversions among Syrian Ladino Speakers and Moroccan Jews in Buenos Aires Sarina Roffé (E) The Takanah Against Marriage to Converts of the Syrian and Near Eastern Communities of Brooklyn Alicia Hamui Halabe (E) La “Retakanización” de la Comunidad Maguén David en México Susana Brauner (S) Religión, etnicidad y política: los argentinos-judíos de origen sirio en los 90

805 Enfoques disciplinarios y corrientes teóricas para el estudio de los judíos y el judaísmo en América Latina. Nuevos debates (Disciplinary Approaches and Theoretical Trends in the Study of the Jews in Latin America: New Debates) Chairperson: Leonardo Senkman Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712

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Sergio DellaPergola (E) Patterns and Singularities: Reflections on the Comperative Study of Jewish Communities Judit Bokser Liwerant (S) Vida Judia y transnacionalismo: redefinicion de fronteras sociales y conceptuales Luis Roniger (E) Iberoamerica and Iberoamerican Jews in the Perspective of Regional Studies Mario Sznajder (S) Acercamientos desde la ciencia politica Raanan Rein (E) Jewish-Latin American Historiography: The Challenges Ahead

609 Zionist Youth Movements Chairperson: Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 4809

Shlomo Bar-Gil (H) Ideology First? Latin American Youth Movements, 1934–1973 Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll (H) The Relationship of the World Zionist Organization with Youth Movements in Latin America after the Six-Day War Erik H. Cohen (E) The World of Values of the Jewish Youth Leaders in France: A Comparative Structural Analysis Chaim Shalem (H) The Yeshurun Youth Movement in France during the Holocaust

806 Judíos en el período colonial y en el primer siglo de independencia (Jews in the Colonial Period) Chairperson: Mordechai Arbell Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712

Eneida Beraldi Ribeiro (P) Memory, Reality, and Honor in Brazil Colony in the Sixteenth Century Mario Eduardo Cohen (S) Francisco Maldonado de Silva (Siglo XVII): las fuentes de su judaísmo Daniela Levy (E) New York: A New Harbor, a New Hope Libia Nancy Velásquez (S) Antisemitismo en Antioquia y en el resto de Colombia en los siglos XIX y XX. Resistencia Liberal del politico and poeta Jorge Isaacs

807 Literatura judía en Brasil

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Chairperson: Regina Igel Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712

Moacir Amancio (P) Caminhos de Sefarad na Literatura Brasileira Nancy Rozenchan (P) Yidishe Parshoinen un Braziliansishe Penimer: Perfis Judaicos e Brasileiros na literatura lidiche produzida no Brasil Berta Waldman (P) Caminhos cruzados: as irmãs Clarice e Elisa Lispector Regina Igel (P) The Newest Revelations on Jewish-Brazilian Literary Scene: Cintia Moscovich, Tatiana Salem, et al.

808 Testimonios de refugiados y sobrevivientes (Testimonies of Shoah Refugees and Survivors) Chairperson: Alicia Gojman de Backal Tuesday (4/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2720

Moshe Nes-El (S) Testimonios de refugiados judíos de la última Guerra Mundial en Chile Heidi Behn-Thiele (S) “No digas nunca que transitas el final”: Fragmentos de testimonios de sobrevivientes judíos de origen europeo en Chile Rachel Mizrahi (P) Sefaraditas, refugiados da Shoa no Brasil

809 Literatura y Cultura 1 (Literature and Culture 1) Chairperson: Rosalie Sitman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712

Rosalie Sitman (S) A un lado y otro de los Andes: Las fronteras babélicas de un empresario cultural transnaciona Alejandro Dujovne (S) Buenos Aires en la geografía de la Diáspora: Producción y circulación transnacional del “libro Judío” entre 1900 y 1980 Daniel Fainstein (S) Racional Choice Theory y la mutación religiosa del judaísmo latinoamericano: Consideraciones metodológicas sobre el campo religioso Judío en los últimos 40 años

810 Literatura y cultura 2 (Literature and Culture 2) Chairperson: Florinda F. Goldberg Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712

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Patricia Nuriel (S) La trata judía de blancas en la ficción latinoamericana contemporánea Ricardo Djaen (S) Teatro sefardí en Buenos Aires: Ester, obra inédita de Sabetay Djaen Lea Vinocur Freitag (P) Três pianistas de origem judaica em São Paulo Saul Kirschbaum (E) The Many Faces of Judaism in the Work of Samuel Rawet

811 Memory and Painting Chairperson: Berta Waldman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712

Luise Weiss Retratos entre dois tempos, dois espacos: Viena / Sao Paulo (1923 a 1936)

812 Cuestiones de género en el Judaísmo Latinoamericano (Questions of Gender in Latin American Jewry) Chairperson: Iosef Rozen Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712

Frida Shwartz (S) La mujer docente en la comunidad judía de México: Algunas consideraciones en torno a la condición de género en la transmisión de una identidad étnica-comunitaria Adriana Brodsky (E) Miss Sefaradí, and Miss Colectividad: Argentine Jewish Women, Youth, and Zionism, 1960–1976 Helena Lewin (P) Mulheres integralistas e antissemitismo no Brasil (1932–1938) Ariana Huberman (S) Trance, peligro y eros cabalístico en la obra de Alejandro Jodorowsky

813 Latin America, Shoah and Antisemitism Chairperson: Nathan Lerner Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712

Allen Wells (E) Lives in the Balance: Washington, Rafael Trujillo, and the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, 1940–1941 Haim Avni (E) The Dominican Republic: The Historiography of an Impossible Rescue Program in the Holocaust Period Efraim Zadoff (E)

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Ecuadorian Passports as Protection Papers in the Shoah: New Findings (Pasaportes de Ecuador como documentos de protección durante la Shoá: nuevas perspectivas) Graciela Ben-Dror (S) New Trends in Latin America Antisemitism: 1998–2008

814 Inmigración y colonizaciónas agrícola (Immigration and Agricultural Colonies) Chairperson: Haim Avni Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712

Theodor Bar Shalom (S) Los primeros no judíos en los poblados del Barón de Hirsch, 1907–1929 Yehuda Levin (S) Libros y bibliotecas en los primeros años de la colonización judía en Argentina Alicia Gojman de Backal (S) La vida judía en Rusia entre los años de 1903 y 1929: Cartas de Pogrevische a los Estados Unidos Silvio Gryc (S) Migration and Settlement in Argentina and Eretz-Israel at the End of the Nineteenth Century

815 Sionismo y demografía (Zionism and Demography) Chairperson: Sergio DellaPergola Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712

Fanny Ran (S) De la mesopotamia argentina a la mesopotamia asiática: Sionismo e identidad judía en ciudades secundarias Batia Siebzehner (S) Cautivos por la ideología: latinoamericanos y el kibutz de hoy y ayer Yaacov Rubel (S) The Jewish population in Buenos Aires according to the 1895 National Census Julio Mazo Efron (S) Las comunidades judías de Córdoba y Rosario en 1941: Análisis comparativo de sus estructuras económica y social

816 El judaísmo latinoamericano y su identidad colectiva en Internet (Latin American Jewry and its Collective Identity on the Internet) Chairperson: Helena Lewin Thursday (6/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2712

Mauricio Dimant (S) ‘Identidad en los recuerdos’: El caso del sitio web Colonia Rusa Eduardo Torres (S)

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‘Identidad perdida?’ El caso del sitio Shavei Israel Deby Babis (S) ‘Identidad en Pasaporte?!’ El caso del sitio web Olei

817 Judíos en el contexto nacional, social y político en América Latina (Jews within the National, Social, and Political Context in Latin America) Chairperson: Judit Bokser Liwerant Thursday (6/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2712

Ariela Katz Gugenheim (S) Judíos y masonería en México: Un acercamiento inicial al estudio de su interacción Maritza Capestany Corrales (S) Comunistas judíos: “Contrapunteo cubano” y contra-historia de una comunidad Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan (S) Tiempo al Tiempo. La revista semanal del ICUF entre la primavera camporista y la dictadura militar (1973–1983) Daniel Kersfeld (S) Rusos y Rojos: Aportes al Estudio de la Identidad Comunista Judeoargentina

818 Economía, comunidad y sociedad (Immigration, Community, and Society) Chairperson: Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll Thursday (6/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2712

Cecilia Shenfarber (S) Judíos chilenos: La incorporación de los inmigrantes judíos en Chile 1890–1926 Valeria Navarro (S) Comunidad judía de Argentina durante el Proceso de Reconstrucción Nacional (1976–1983) AnaMaria Tapia Adler (S) ¿Desplazamiento del eje de la verdad o atomización societaria?

819 Los intelectuales y el Holocausto: ¿malestar en la cultura latinoamericana? (The Intellectuals and the Holocaust: Uneasiness in the Latin American Culture) Chairperson: Carlos Escude Thursday (6/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 2712

David Schidlowsky (S) La repercusión tardía de la Shoá en la literatura Chilena Leonardo Senkman (S) Reciclaje del Holocausto en ensayistas argentinos y chilenos: disputas de la memoria Saul Sosnowski (S) Tiene nombre: Patricia Suárez en escena

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María Gabriela Mizraje (S) Judeofilia, judeofobia y pensamiento neutral en la Argentina letrada de los 30s Florinda F. Goldberg (S) La sombra del fascismo en la narrative argentina actual

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THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF JEWISH NAMES

820 Jewish Names in the Modern World (Plenary Session) Chairperson: Gershon Bacon Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718

Alexander Beider (E) The Notion of “Jewish Surnames” Aaron Demsky (E) Jewish Names and the Shoah Marlene Schiffman (E) Names and Governments: The Historical Effect of Modern Governments on Jewish Names Ruth Moussaioff-Mason (E) Name Changes and Identity Problems among Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants (A Film)

821 Sepharad and Exile Chairperson: Daniel J. Lasker Tuesday (4/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818

Eunate Mirones Lozano (E) Jaffe, Ederra and Hermoso: One Name in Three Languages for the Same People Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) (H) The Persistence of the Names of Expelled Jews in Narbonne Shelley Elkayam (H) New Dimensions in Kabalistic Poetry: Sixteenth Century Safed’s Zmirot Israel – The Book, the Author, and Literary Genre Gloria Mound (E) New Onomastic Discoveries in Cuba and Puerto Rico

822 Different Sources of Personal Names Chairperson: Dan Michman Tuesday (4/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818

Yigal Levin (E) Baal Worship in Early Israel? A Look at the Onomastic Evidence Meir Lubetski (E) A Pre-Exilic Seal Containing an Unusual Name Sara Friedman (H) When Aliza met Chedorlaomer: Proper Names in Hebrew Translation Erga Heller and Vered Tohar (H) Students’ and Teachers’ Names in Hebrew Children’s Literature

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823 Names in Eastern and Western Jewish Communities Chairperson: Yigal Levin Wednesday (5/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 5818

Victor Hayoun (H) Tombstone Inscriptions as Part of an Onomastic Study of the Jewish Community of Nabeul, Tunisia Esther Shkalim (H) Family Names of Iranian Jews: Sources and Meanings Zofia Abramowicz (E) The Role of the Name in Jewish Self-Identification in Podlasie (Poland) in the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries

824 Names in the Eastern Communities Chairperson: Harvey E. Goldberg Wednesday (5/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 5818

Marcy Brink-Danan (E) Temporality and Turkish-Jewish Onomastics Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (E) The Power of the WORD: Yemenite Jews – Names and Naming Vitaly Shalem (E) Traditional Names of the Mountain Jews: An Etymological Analysis Ruven Enoch (H) Place-Names in Georgia Connected to Jews and Judaism

825 Names in Modern Israel Chairperson: Michal Ephratt Wednesday (5/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 5818

Michal Shaket and Michal Ephratt (H) The Contribution of Linguistic Tools to the Selection of Personal Names in Israeli Song Meir Nadav (H) Names and Narcissistic Injury Ravit Raufman (H) The Material and Symbolic Functioning of Israeli Names in Dreams Lea Baratz (H) The Political Ideology Speaks Distinctly of Four Different Characters of the Children: Assaf, Nimrod-Avram and Yotam

826 Jewish Toponymy Chairperson: Ber Boris Kotlerman

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Wednesday (5/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 5818

Esther Admit (H) Saloniki and her Names: A Chapter in Hebrew Toponymy from the Beginning of Printing to the Twentieth Century Lea Mazor (H) Making the Wilderness Bloom in Place Names from the First Decade of the Nation Elinoar Bareket (H) Biblical Hebrew Names for Settlements, Countries and Ethnic Groups in the Middle Ages

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THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MASORETIC STUDIES

827 Masoretic Studies – Session 1 Chairperson: Aron Dotan Sunday (2/8/2009) 09:00 - 10:30 Room: 2605

Aron Dotan (H) Opening Remarks Geoffrey Khan (E) Shewa with Ga'ya in the Karaite Transcriptions of the Bible into Arabic Script Yosef Ofer (H) An Ancient Manuscript of Ketuvim with Babylonian Punctuation Ronit Shoshany (H) The Connection Between Accentuation and Vocalization in the Babylonian Tradition

828 Masoretic Studies – Session 2 Chairperson: Geoffrey Khan Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2605

David Marcus (E) The Masoretic Mnemonic Device of the Third Verse Siman Jose Martinez Delgado (H) Some Lists from Okhla we-Okhla used by Hayyuj in his Introduction to the Weak Verbs Nurith Reich (H) Semantics in Masora Notes in the Cairo Codex of the Prophets Lea Himmelfarb (H) The Contribution of the Masora Notes to the Medieval Bible Commentary

829 Masoretic Studies – Session 3 Chairperson: David Marcus Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:00 Room: 2605

Joseph Peretz (H) The First Edition of the Soncino Bible 1488 and its Sources Orli Kolodni (H) The Italian Pentateuch Manuscripts: Text Characteristics, Sections, and the Songs Layout Jordan S. Penkower (H) A Rare Fifteenth Century Pentateuch Manuscript from Bukhara: Text, Sections, Divisions, and the Song of the Sea Layout

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830 Masoretic Studies – Session 4 Chairperson: Jordan S. Penkower Sunday (2/8/2009) 16:30 - 18:00 Room: 2605

Francisco Edson de Faria (E) Achievements of the Lexicon Masoreticum: General Structure and Selected Examples Ephraim-Bezalel Halivni (H) Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar in View of the Aleppo and the Leningrad Codices Rachel Hittin-Mashiah (H) The Accentuation Marks in Saadia Gaon’s Hebrew Introduction to the Egron

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JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

831 Holocaust Issues and Anti-Semitism Chairperson: Manfred Grestenfeld Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 284 (Education)

Rory Miller (E) Accusing Jews of being Nazis in British anti-Zionist Propaganda from the Mandatory Era to the Present Day Laurence Weinbaum (E) Changing Perceptions in the Narratives of Polish Jewry Johannes Houwink ten Cate (E) The Future of Holocaust Research Ronnie Fraser (E) The British Obsession with Boycotting Israel: Why?

832 Anti-Semitism Chairperson: Isi Leibler Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 284 (Education)

Tammi Rossman- Benjamin (E) The Academic Legimitimization of Anti-Israelism, Anti-Zionism, and Anti-Semitism Manfred Gerstenfeld (E) The Future of Anti-Semitism Gerald Steinberg (E) Non-Governmental Organizatios (NGOs) and the New Anti-Semitism: The Role of European Funding Richard Landes (E) A Gutenberg Moment: The Blogosphere as a New Terrain in the Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israeli Battle?

833 Changing Jewish Communities Chairperson: Shmuel Sandler Monday (3/8/2009) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 283 (Education)

Simon Erlanger (E) The Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Role of Jews in Swiss Society Rela Geffen (E) At the Margins or at the Center? Exploring the Roles of Jewish American Grandparents Ira M. Sheskin (E) The Aging of American Jewry: Perspectives from Jewish Demographic Studies Allen Glicksman (E)

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Health Behavior among Jews and non-Jews in America: A Comparative Study

834 Jewish Political Studies Chairperson: Rela Geffen Monday (3/8/2009) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: 283 (Education)

Arthur Eidelman (E) Jewish Medical Ethics vs. Secular Medical Ethics: Implications for Medical Care Ben Mollov (E) Morgenthau, Elazar, and Buber: A Preliminary Typology of Approaches to the “Other” in the Jewish Political Tradition Mikael Tossavainen (E) Attitudes Towards Israel and the Jews in Scandinavia