ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES

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TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

PROGRAM

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TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDmS Widener Library M, Harvard University PROGRAM Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 as of January 1, 1995: Lawn 10, Brandeis University P. O. Box 9110 All sessions are at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts (Tel. 617- 267-5300). The hotel offers a full array of facilities and services, including dining rooms, Waltham, MA 02254-911 0 child care, and parking. For information, contact the hotel directly. (The Wyndham Hotel Chain, of which the Copley Plaza is a part, may be reached for reservations at 1-800-822- 4200.)

President Executive Secretary Herbert H. Paper Charles Berlin Main Lobby: Lower Level: Hebrew Union College­ Harvard University Ballroom & Ballroom Foyer Back Bay Room Directors' Room Forum Room lewish Institute of Religion Oval Room State Suite Venetian Room

Conference Program Chair Bernard Dov Cooperman Hotel Reservations at the special conference rate must be University of Maryland, College Park received by the Copley Plaza Hotel by November 25, 1994.

The Association has made arrangements through Audio The Association for Jewish Studies is a constituent society of Archives International to make available audio cassettes The American Council of Learned Societies of the Conference sessions shortly after each session is

over. Tapes will be available at the, Conference registraM tion desk or through mail after the conference from Audio Archives International, 3043 Foothill Blvd" Suite 2, La Crescenta, CA 91214.

The Conference registration form is found on p. 45-46. Conference at a Glance Conference at a Glance

Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Monday Monday Monday eeting Room 11:00 AM 1:30 P.M. 3:30 P.M. 9:15P.M. 9:00A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:45-1:30 P.M. Lunch

Modem Jewish Bonfil: Jewish Maimonides & Jewish Identity 4QMMT&the Weimar rzllroom History Life in Maimonideanism in America History of Germany Renaissance Judaism oyer Italy (18) (24) (30) (I) (7) (13) Customs History, Philosophical screening of Women in European and Memory Reflections Unzere Kinder enetian Jewish Spiritual Jewish Law and Narrative on Religious oom Tradition Literature Identity

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Early Modern Modern Feminist Blumenthal: Zionist Issues American History Jewish Approaches to Facing the and Views Women tate Suite Women Israeli Abusing God Writers Literature

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Literary Technology in Future of Jews and Gender American Jewisl Biblical Language Approaches to Teaching Hebrew American Responses to History in the and Hermeneutic ackBay Hasidism and Jewry Otto Weininger Context of oom Haskala Modem Jewish Studies (4) (10) (15) (21) (27) (33) Josephus Thought of Sephardic & Rabbinic Spinoza & Modem Yiddish citerature Modem Jewish Literature Martin Buber Middle Eastern lirectors' Thought Jews ~oom (22) (28) (34) (5) (11) (16) American Late Antique Labor Zionism & Professional Jewish Jewish Thought Pre-State Kabbalah Karaism Preparation Public Palestine ofJewish 'orumRoom Policy Educators (23) (29) (35) (6) (12) (17) Conference at a Glance r Conference at a Glance

Tuesday [ruesday Tuesday Tuesday Monday Monday Monday Meeting Room 9:00A.M. 11:00 A.M. 1:30 P.M. 3:30P.M. 1:30 P.M. 3:30 P.M. 9:00 P.M.

Jews in American Teaching Translating Modernization Constructions of Second Late Jewry Traditional Texts Ballroom Jewish Self-Identity Temple Antiquity Poetry Literature Foyer I

(36) (42) (47) (52) (58) (64) (70) Rituals Films of Jewish Jews and Venetian Unzere Kinder Moral Norms & Abraham Music Socialists Room (conL) Issues Ravett films continue in lunch hour (37) (48) (53) (59) (65) (71)

Women's Women in Holocaust in Women in Mind of Hasidic Gender, Love State Suite Biography Jewish Folk Historical Talmudic RaSH! Doctrine and and Ethics in and Auto- Narrative Context Literature Thought Jewish Biography Philosophy (38) (43) (49) (54) (60) (66) (72) Medieval Jewish Literature Interpretation and Wit Philosophical Israeli Representations Sholem Back Bay of the Legacy of Poetry and of Menstruation in Aleikhem Room Bible J. B. Soloveitchik Prose Jewish Culture

(39) (44) (55) (61) (67) (73) Modern Russian Medieval Sacred Texts & and Thought: Medieval Electronic History of the Rabbinic Directors' and Soviet Sephardic Interdenomina- Mail Jews in Late Thought Room Jewry Studies tional Relations Lists Antiquity II (40) (45) (50) (56) (62) (68)

Theological Jewish Queer Studies! Jewish Identity Art & the Jewish Being Jewish Responses to Education Jewish Studies in North Construction Languages in Contemporary Forum Room 20th-Century America of Historical America Jewish Life Memory

(41) (46) (51) (57) (63) (69) (74)

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Identity Conflicts and Value Confusion in the Lives of Modern 10:30 A.M. Registration Main Lobby Orthodox Women Meeting of the AJS Board of Directors State Suite Foyer Lauren Granite (Drew University)

1:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Book Exhibits Ballroom Womanhood, Spirituality and Outreach in Habad Hasidism in the 20th Century NaftaIi Loewenthal (University College, London) Session 1,11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M. Section 3 State Suite Section 1 Ballroom Foyer Early Modern Jewish History Chair: TBA Modern Jewish History Chair: Leon Jick (Brandeis University) A Maimonidean Reading of Luzzatln's Derekh Ha-Shem and Megi/at Yesharim Anglo-American Differences Over a Policy Toward Jewish Aryeh Botwinick (Temple University) Displaced Persons Following World War II Arieh Kochavi (University of Maryland, College Park) Rabbinic Civilization and its Discontents: Tolerated Dissent in Pre-Modern Jewish Culture Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, 1850-1914: A Talya Fishman (Rice University) Comparative Approach Rainer Liedtke (Oxford University) Jewish Polemical Themes in "EI Romance aI Divin Martir Juda Creyente" by the Spanish Converso Antonio Enriquez From Wagner In Hitler: Problems in Historical Continuity Gomez (1600-1663) and Conceptualization Necharna Krarner-Hellinx (City University of New York, York Paul Rose (Pennsylvania State University) College)

Polish Onlookers and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as Re­ Periodizing Jewish History: The Early Modern Period flected in the Underground Press in German-Occupied Poland Considered from the Perspective of Italian Jewish History and Robert Shapiro (Yeshiva University) Jewish Women's History Stefanie Siegmund (Jewish Theological Seminary) Section 2 Venetian Room

Women in Jewish Spiritual Tradition Section 4 Back Bay Room Chair: Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis University) Literary Approaches to Hasidism and Haskala Chair: Ezra Spicehandler (Hebrew Union College) Women Anonymous: The Dead Sea Scrolls' Gender Legacy Anne K. Blau (San Diego State University) Pastiche, Parody and Satire in the Diskursn fun di naye un di Ita Sheres (San Diego State University) alte kille, an 18-Century Dutch-Yiddish Polemic Marion Aptroot (Harvard University) "Coming Before the LORD": lifnei YHWH as Excluding Women from the Presence of God The Concept of "Haskala" as Reflected in Three Autobiogra­ Judith Romney Wegner (Connecticut College) phies (S. Maimon, M.A. Ginzburg, M.L. Lilienblum) Menucha Gilboa (Tel Aviv University)

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Session 11,1:30-3:15 P.M. Associative Midrash: Toward a Hermeneutic Theory in R. Nahman of Bratzlav's Likutei MoHaRaN Section 7 Ballroom Foyer Shaul Magid (Rice University) A Discussio~ of Robert Bonm, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy ChaLr: BenJamm RavId (Brandeis University) The Genre of the Fable in Haskalah Literature in Germany Moshe Pelli (University of Central Florida) David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania) Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland, College Park) Section 5 Directors' Room GIUseppe Mazzotta (Yale University) Rabbinic Literature Chair: TBA Section 8 Venetian Room European Jewish Literature The Apocrypbal Appendix to Mishna Avot Chair: Susanne Klingenstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ Asher Finkel (Seton Hall University) ogy)

The Formulaic Pairing of R. Yehuda and R. Nehemiah in Elias Canetti: Jewish MuIticulturalist avant Ia lettre Breshit Raba William Donohue (Harvard University) Ruth Sandberg (Gratz College) Ideologies of Difference: Jews and Homosexuals in Proust's Some Questions Regarding the Editing of Hebrew Manuscripts Sodome et Gomorrhe Brigitte Rivka Ulmer (Hebrew Union College) Anne Hoffman (Fordham University)

Music to My Ears: A New Method Sheds Light on the Literary Je~sh Memory in Proust: A Reconsideration Based on New Qualities of Mishna and Tosefta Avoda Zara EVIdence Reena Zeidman (Queens University) Scott Lerner (Harvard University)

Section 6 Forum Room There's No [Place Like] Home: Exile and Diaspora in the Explorations in American Jewish Public Policy: A Look Back, Poetry of Rose Auslander A Look Ahead Leslie Morris (Bard College) Chair: TEA Section 9 State Suite The Balkanization of America: Its Impact on the Intergroup The Experience of Modern Jewish Women Relations Agenda of the Jewish Community Chair: Judith Baskin (SUNY Albany) Charney Bromberg (Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith) Women's Roles in American Jewish Orphanages, 1850-1925 Redefining the Protocol for the Study of Antisemitism Reena Fnedman (Recons~uctionist Rabbinical College Jerome Chanes (National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council) Gender and Judaism: The Status of Women in British and United States Jewry American.Jewish MiddJe East Policy Post September 13, 1993 Rela Geffen (Gratz College) Barry Rubin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Gendered Bonndaries in American Jewish Experience: The Ghetto Girl and Jewish Anxiety from 1900·1930 Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota)

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Session Ill, 3:30-5:15 P.M. Section 10 Back Bay Room Use of Technology in Teaching Hebrew Presentation: Edna Coffin (University of Michigan) Section 13 Ballroom Foyer Maimonides and Maimonideanism Chair: Haym Soloveitchik (Yeshiva University)

Section 11 Directors' Room R. Moses Narboni, Philosopher and Physician: A Critical Spinoza and Modern Jewish Thought Analysis of Sefer Orah Hayim Chair: TBA Gerrit Bos (The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine)

Levinas on Spinoza: Exegesis versus Genesis Reason in Action: The Practicality of Maimonides' Guide Richard Cohen (University of North Carolina) Daniel H. Frank (University of Kentucky)

Religion, Judaism, and Politics: Mendelssohn versus Spinoza Reasons for Commandments in the Thought of Moses Narboni Joelle Hansel (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne) Gitit Holzman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Spinoza for Cohen and Rosenzweig Maimonides and Averroes on the Nature of Women: A Ephraim Meir (Bar nan University) Comparative Study Abraham Melamed (Haifa University) Section 12 Forum Room Late Antique Jewish Thought Chair: Michael Fishbane (University of Chicago) Section 14 State Suite Isaac and Ishmael in Galatians: A Pro-Jewish View of Cov­ Feminist Approaches to Israeli Literature enant Chair: Anne Lerner (Jewish Theological Seminary) Kamila Blessing (Duke University) Beyond the Stereotype of Old Age: Woman and Aging in The Use of Humor in Eycha Raba Joshua Kenaz's Hebrew Novel The Way to the Cats (1991) Shoshana Brown-Gutoff (Jewish Theological Seminary) Nancy Ezer (University of California, Los Angeles)

Apostasy in Paradise: Gnostic Reflections on Scripture and in Deranged Dialogues: Recent Communication Between Women Midrash Poets and Their Poetic Partners Schulamith Halevy (Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies) Zvia Ginor (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Reconstruction or Synthesis: Adam, Enoch, and Metatron Women, Madness and Desire in Contemporary Israeli Fiction Revisited Rena Patak (University of Pennsylvania) Lawrence Kaplan (McGill University) Listening to the Other Side: Feminist Perspectives on Natan Shah am's The Other Side ofthe Wall Naomi Sokoloff (University of Washington)

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Section 15 Back Bay Room 5:15 P.M. Annual Business Meeting of the Association State Suite The Future of American Jewry [co-sponsored by All members invited Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry] Chair: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut) 5:45 P.M. Reception Venetian Room Sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Future of American Jewry Daniel Elazar (Bar!lan University) 6:15 P.M. Dinner Oval Room 7:30 P.M. The AJS After Twenty-Five Years Respondents: Chair: Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland, College Allen Glicksman (Philadelphia Geriatric Center) Park) Sherry Israel (Brandeis University) Jonathan Woocher (JESNA) 25-Year Report of the Executive Secretary Charles Berlin (Harvard University) Section 16 Directors' Room Modern Yiddish Literature Remarks Chair: Ken Frieden (Syracuse University) Arnold Band (University of California, Los Angeles) Marvin Fox (Boston University) Moyshe Kulbak's Disner Childe Harold: A Bakhtinian View Jehuda Reinharz (Brandeis University) Dorothy Bilik (University of Maryland, College Park) Robert Seltzer (Hunter College)

Politics and Pleasure in American Yiddish Periodical Fiction: 8:15 P.M. Concert Venetian Room Abraham Cahan and Die Arbeiter Zeitung (1890-95) Ellen Kellman (University of Toronto) The Worlds of Jewish Music Zarnir Chorale of Boston Israel Joshua Siuger's Use of the Grotesque Joshua R Jacobson, Director Joseph Sherman (University of Witwatersrand)

Yankev Glatshteyn's Autobiographical Quest in Ven Yash iz Session IV, 9:15-11:00 P.M. Gekumen Jan Schwarz (Columbia University) Section 18 Ballroom Foyer Creating and Maintaining Jewish Identity in America Section 17 Forum Room Chair: Sidney Goldstein (Brown University) Labor Zionism and Palestine in the Pre-State Period Chair: Jehuda Reinharz (Brandeis University) The Long-Range Impact of Alteruative Forms of Jewish Education The Politics of Noble Shrewdness: Labor Zionism, American Steven Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Zionism, and the Yishuv, 1919-1948 Mark Raider (Brandeis University) Beyond Compartmentalization: The Interplay of Secular and Judaic Elements in Contemporary American Jewish Life Ethics and Contlict: A_D_ Gordon and the Palestinian Problem Sylvia Fishman (Brandeis University) Einat Ramon (Stanford University) Factors Which Influence Intermarriage and Jewish Continu­ The Right to the Land in Labor Zionist Ideologies ity: Empirical Evidence for In-Reach and Out-Reach Gideon Shimoni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Bruce Phillips (Hebrew Union College) Sunday, December 18, 1994 Sunday, December 18, 1994

Section 19 Venetian Room Hernadi's Who-Done-It: A Detective Novel Investigates Early Jewish Customs aud Law Viennese Opposition to Zionism Chair: Elliot K. Ginsburg (University of Michigan) Barbara Hyams (Brandeis University)

Johann Buxtorf's Jewish Synagogue (1603): Eyewitness Section 22 Directors' Room Account of German Jewish Life or "Halakhic Manual"? Josephus Stephen Burnett (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Chair: Robert Seltzer (Hunter College)

Contemporary Poems That Make It Into Our Liturgy, or Josephus' Portrait of Jehoiachin Don't Louis Feldman (Yeshiva University) Richard Chess (University of North Carolina) Traces of Greco-Egyptian "Counter-History" to the Story of The Birkat Btulin: Transformation of a Non-Talmudic Bene­ Exodus in Josephus Flavius' Contra Apionem diction Aryeh Kasher (Tel Aviv University) Ruth Langer (Boston University) Section 23 Forum Room Torah Study on Christmas Eve - New Perspectives on an Old Professional Preparation of Jewish Educators: A Panel Practice Discussion Marc B. Shapiro (Harvard University) Chair: Lifsa Schachter (Cleveland College of Jewish Studies)

Aryeh Davidson (Jewish Theological Seminary) Section 20 State Suite Shulamith Elster (Baltimore Hebrew University) Continuing Seminar in Constructive Jewish Theology: Discus­ Sara Lee (Hebrew Union College) sion of David R. Blumenthal, Facing the Abusing God Saul p, Wachs (Gratz College) Chair: David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Rachel Adler (University of Southern California) Irving Greenberg (CLAL-National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership) Lawrence Kushner (Temple Beth-EI, Sudbury, Mass,) Ellen Umansky (Fairfield University)

Section 21 Back Bay Room Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger Chair: Nancy Harrowitz (Boston University)

The State of Weininger Studies Today Nancy Harrowitz (Boston University)

Otto Weininger's Liberallsm Steven Beller (Alexandria, Virginia)

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Session V, 9:00-10:45 A.M. Section 26 State Suite Section 24 Ballroom Foyer Zionist Issues and Views The Significance of 4QMMT (the Halakhic Letter) for the Chair: Robert Tabak (Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia) History of Judaism Chair: Baruch Levine (New York University)

Scripture and its Interpretation in 4QMMT Historical Memory and the Construction of Tradition: The Moshe J. Bernstein (Yeshiva University) Case of American Zionism (1880-1980) Allan Gal (Ben Gurian University) Some Remarks on 4QMMT and the Rabbinic Tradition Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) Eqnity and Immigrant Absorption in Israel, 1989-1992: Lessons to be Learned 4QMMT and the History of the Hasmonean Period Fred Lazin (Ben Gurian University) Hanan Eshel (Bar nan University) A Lost Opportunity: The Pre-World War II Effort to Unite The Place of 4QMMT in the Corpus of Qumran Manuscripts Mizrachi and Agudas Israel Lawrence Schiffman (New York University) Monty Penkower (Touro College)

Section 25 Venetian Room History, Memory, and Narrative Section 27 Back Bay Room Chair: Alan Berger (Syracuse University) American Jewish History in the Context of Modern Jewish Studies: Problems and Prospects - A Roundtable Discussion Inventing French Jewish Memory: The Legacy of the Occupa­ tion in the Novels of Patrick Modiano Chair: Beth Wenger (University of Pennsylvania) Juliette Dickstein (Harvard University) Hasia Diner (University of Maryland, College Park) Consider the CLOCK: Time and Temporality in Hebrew Arthur Goren (Columbia University) Historical Fiction Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis University) Stephen Katz (Indiana University) Jack Wertheimer (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Dan Tzalka's Epic Portraiture of His European Experience Section 28 Directors' Room Stanley Nash (Hebrew Union College) The Thought of Martin Buber Chair: Everett Fox (Clarke University) Ein Deutsches Buch: The Poetics of Memory in Ruth Kluger's weiter leben, Eine Jugend From the Quiver: Martin Buber's Hidden Kind of Writing Abigail Gillman (Boston University) Dan Avnon (The Hebrew'University of Jerusalem)

Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology: Beyond Kant's "Animal Rationale" to "Homo Dialogus" David Barzilai (Virginia Tech)

Buber's Zionism in Weimar Germany Rochelle Millen (Wittenberg University)

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Section 29 Forum Room Section 31 Venetian Room Kabbalah Modern and Post-Modern Philosophical Reflections on Chair: TBA Religious Identity Chair: Gershon Greenberg (American University)

Judaism Without Dialectics: A Study of Rosenzweig's Critique Tzelem and Dmut: Early Kabbalistic Conceptions of Our of Hegel Divine Image Jean Axelrad Cahan (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Yakov Travis (Brandeis University) Jewish Postmodernism in the Philosophy of Steven S. Authorship and the Circle of Contemplation Schwarzschild Mark Verman (St. Cloud State University) Martin Srajek (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Parables and Tzimtzum Louis Jacobs on the Truth of Other Religions Aryeh Wineman (Troy, New York) Sol Tanenzapf (York University)

Tshuva and Kapara in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy Michael Zank (Boston University) Session VI, 11:00 A.M.-12:4S P.M. Section 32 State Suite Section 30 Ballroom Foyer Jewish American Women Writers Weimar Germany Chair: Myrna Goldenberg (Montgomery College) Chair: Marsha Rozenblit (University of Maryland, College Park) Creating Fictions and Monsters: Engendering the Golem in "Political Correctness" and Jewish University Professors in Marge Piercy's He, She, and It Weimar Germany: The Gumbel and Lessing Cases Tresa Grauer (University of Michigan) Arthur Brenner (City University of New York) Cynthia Ozick: Jewish and Feminist Identity Construction What Did Weimar Jews Read? Prolegomena to a Cultural Joan Moelis (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Studies Approach David Brenner (University of Colorado) Jewish Voices and Jewish Themes: Selected Poetry of Rose Drachler, Julia Vinograd, and Linda Pastan Was There a Jewish Milieu in Weimar Germany? Harriet L. Parmet (Lehigh University) Michael Brenner (Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien) Behind the Mehitza: The Poetics of Jewish American Women Educating Orphans, Rehabilitating Delinquents: Youth Policy Writers as a Strategy for Jewish Community Renewal in Weimar Ann R. Shapiro (State University of New York, Farmingdale) Germany Sharon Gi\lerman (University of California, Los Angeles)

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;ection 33 Back Bay Room Medieval Karaite Methods of Translating Biblical Narrative Biblical Language and Hermeneutic into Arabic Chair: William W. Hallo (Yale University) Meira Polliack (Cambridge University)

A Rhetorical and Historical Analysis of Psalm 93 Stephen Geller (Jewish Theological Seminary) Session VII, 1:30-3:15 P.M.

The Snake Was Eve: The Use of Paranomasia in the Eden Section 36 Ballroom Foyer Story History of the Jews in Late Antiquity I Reuven Kimelman (Brandeis University) Chair: TBA Creation: Mandate and Prohibition and the Dialects Between The Yodefat Excavations, the First Jewish Revolt, and Late Them (Genesis 1-3) Second Temple Period Galilean JUdaism Nanette Stahl (Yale University) David Adan-Bayewitz (Bar IIan University) The Creative Role of Puns in Biblical Legal Passages Judah the Galilaean and His Generation Nahum Waldman (Gratz College) Eliezer Paltie! (Deakin University)

;;ection 34 Directors' Room Hadrian - Anti·J ewish Persecutor or Roman Imperialist? Sephardic aud Middle Eastern Jews: Cultural Constructs Richard A. Zionts (Temple Beth Israel) Chair: Sara Reguer (Brooklyn College) Section 37 Venetian Room Shelihim from Palestine in Libya The Beginuings of Holocaust Cinema: Contextualizing Unzere Rachel Simon (Princeton University) Kinder (Poland, 1948) Chair: Dora Polachek (Cornell University) The War and the "Farhud": The Yishuv Discovers Iraq Reeva Simon (Columbia University) *** note: screeuing of Unzere Kinder will begin during lunch, at 12:45 P.M. *** A Landscape of Difference and the Historical Void: Reading Sephardic Israeli Literature Using Tragedy Creatively: llIusion and Truth in Unzere Ruth Tsoffar (University of California, Berkeley) Kinder Lawrence Langer (Simmons College) Section 35 Forum Room Karaism The Silenced Minority: Confronting and Denying Reality in Chair: Vera Moreen (Swarthmore College) Unzere Kinder Dora E. Polachek (Cornell University) Islamic Strategies in Jewish Law: Early Karaite Halakhah Fred Astren (University of California, Berkeley) The Uncanny History of Unzere Kinder Sharon Rivo (Brandeis University) Karaite Perspectives on Yom Trua Philip Miller (Hebrew Union College)

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Section 40 Directors' Room Section 38 State Suite Modern Russian and Soviet Jewry Jewish Women's Autobiography and Biography: Constructing Chair: Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University) the Lives of Women in Politics, Religion and Popular Culture [co-sponsored by Jewish Studies Women's Caucus] Language and Nationalism in Russian Jewry, 1897-1914 Chair: Barbara Sicherman (Trinity College) David Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Gypsy of the Footlights: Sophie Tucker as Vaudevillian, Labor The Decline of the Jewish Shtetls under Sovietization: Political Leader, and Jewish Philanthropist and Socioeconomic Aspects Joyce Antler (Brandeis University) Igor Kotler (University of California, Los Angeles)

Is There a "Jewish-Woman" Identity? Developing a Model for New Documentation on the Tragic Fate of the Jewish Anti­ Analyzing Images of the Jewish Woman Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union Alison Rose (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Shimon Redlich (Ben Gurian University)

Language and Identity in the Autobiographies of Emma Section 41 Forum Room Goldman and Rokhl Kirsh Holtman Theological Responses to 20th-Century Jewish Life Susanne A. Shavelson (Brandeis University) Chair: Barbara Galli (McGill University)

The Autobiography of Hannah Solomon: In the Wor(l)ds of A Working Trope: The State of Israel in the Thought of Emil Our Mothers and the Wor(l)ds of Our Fathers Fackenheim Barbara Shollar (City University of New York, Queens College) Zachary Braiterman (Stanford University)

Section 39 Back Bay Room The Theological Quietism of Rabbi Eliyahu Henkin Medieval Interpretation of the Bible Shalom Carmy (Yeshiva University) Chair: Mayer Gruber (Ben Gurian University) Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda ha-Kohen Kook's Understanding of the Rabbi David Kimhi's Conception of Allegory: The Relation­ Holocaust ship between mashaJ and hUla Richard Hoch (University of judaism) Mordechai Cohen (Yeshiva University) Abraham Heschel and the Function of the Trope of "Meaning" Scientific Remarks in Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentary Oll in His Philosophy Job James Hyman (Stanford University) Mariano Gomez (Hebrew Union College)

Literary Patterns in Biblical Texts: RaSHBaM's Approach Martin Lockshin (York University)

Protesting the Minority: The Democratic Principle of the Masora David Marcus (Jewish Theological Seminary)

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Session VIII, 3:30-5:15 P.M. Liberating the Camps: The Concentrationary Experience in Recent Israeli Fiction Section 42 Ballroom Foyer Gilead Morahg (University of Wisconsin) American Jewry Chair: Pam Nadel (American University) Sense and Humor: Illusions, Logic, and Logistics in Jewish Wit Becoming a Part of "White Humanity": The American Jewish Gila Safran-Naveh (University of Cincinnati) Racial Science of Maurice Fishberg Eric Goldstein (University of Michigan) Section 45 Directors' Room Assemblies by the Sea: The Jewish Chatauqua Society in Medieval Thought: Sephardic Studies Atlantic City, 1897-1907 Chair: Ammiel Alcalay (Queens College) Peggy Pearlstein (Library of Congress) Is Religious to Secular as Sefardi is to Ashkenazi? Convivencia Nachman Syrkin in America (1907-1924): His Public Career and Reading the Zohar and His Ideological Impact Gil Anidjar (Graduate Theological Union) Rachel Rojanski (Tel Aviv University) "Israel Has No Messiah" in Late Medieval Spain Section 43 State Suite Eric Lawee (University of Toronto) Varied Portrayals of Women in Jewish Folk Narrative Chair: Chava Weissler (Lehigh University) Theological Introspection as Conveyed Through the Genre of Aggadic Commentary: The Influence of Marranism and 15th­ Remarkable Women in the Narrative Repertoire of a Cochin Century Thought Jewish Storyteller: Gender Education Through Folklore Marjorie Lehman (Ramaz School) Barbara Johnson (Ithaca College) Section 46 Forum Room Images of Women in Greek-Judeo-Spanish Folktales Problems of Jewish Education Maria Esformes (University of Southern Florida) Chair: Solomon Schimmel (Hebrew College)

Respondent: Guy Haskell (Oberlin College) Transformation of the Jewish Community on the Territory of FSU: Culture, Co~munity, Education Section 44 Back Bay Room lIya Dvorkin (St. Petersburg University) Jewish Literature and Wit Chair: Abraham Marthan (Gratz College) History of Jews in Russia: Current State and Perspectives for the Future Between Art and History: New Perspectives in Israeli Litera­ Dmitriy Eliashevich (St. Petersburg University) ture Rachel Brenner (University of Wisconsin, Madison Landmarks of Jewish Culture Within the Pale of Settlement Svetlana Sivak (St. Petersburg University) I The Poetry of Abraham Loeb Benjaminson in Modern Hebrew 5:30 P.M. Reception Venetian Room Literature: A Comparative Study Sponsored by Hebrew College, Brookline. Yehuda Friedlander (Bar lIan University) 6:15 P.M. Dinner Oval Room

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Session IX, 9:00-10:45 P.M. Section 50 Directors' Room Sacred Texts and Interdenominational Relations in the Middle Section 47 Ballroom Foyer Ages Chair: TBA Ase Lekha Rav u-Kne Lekha Haver - Teaching Traditional Texis: Open Discussion on Pedagogy The Kievan Jews as an Addressee of the Metropolitan Chair: TBA Hilarion's Sermon "On Law and Grace" Alla Kotler (University of California, Los Angeles) Mark Bregman (Hebrew Union College) Susan Handelman (University of Maryland, College Park) "Until Shiloh Comes" (Gen. 49:10): Whatever Happened to Michael Signer (University of Notre Dame) Judah's Firstborn Shelah? T.A. Perry (University of Connecticut) Section 48 Venetian Room Moral Norms and Issues Confronting Contemporary Jewish And Muhammad Said, "You Are Only a Jew of Sepphoris" Life Seth Ward (University of Denver) Chair: Eugene Borowitz (Hebrew Union College) Section 51 Forum Room A Religious Response to AIDS Queer Studies I Jewish Studies Victor Appell (Hebrew Union College) Chair: TBA Yaffa Schlesinger (Hebrew Union College) Ivrit Hi Sexmaniyakit: The (Im)possibilities of an Israeli Law and Nature in the Light of Revelation: On the Possibility Queer Discourse of a Natural Law in Judaism Ruti Kadish (University of California, Berkeley) Louis Newman (Carleton College) Between Two Worlds: Tradition, Modernity, and Same-Sex Mapping the Normal Human Self: Jewisb Otherness and the Love in The Dybbuk Genome Project Naomi Seidman (Pennsylvania State University) Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman (Graduate Theological Union) A ying/ mit a ying/ hot epes a tam: The Celluloid Closet of Section 49 State Suite Yiddish Film The Holocaust in Historical Context: A Response to the Work Eve Sicular (YIVO) of Steven T. Katz Chair: Jane Gerber (City University of New York Graduate Center)

Marvin Fox (Brandeis University) Marc Saperstein (Washington University) Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University)

Response: Steven T. Katz (Cornell University)

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Session X, 9:00-10:45 A.M. Section 54 State Suite Women in Talmudic Literature Section 52 Ballroom Foyer Chair: TBA Kissing Through the Veil: The Challenge of Translating Jewish Poetry Reading Power: Women, Men, and Institutional Interpretive Chair: David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary) Practice (bGitin 33a) Aryeh Cohen (Brandeis University) Translating the Poetry of Primo Levi Ruth Feldman Female Prostitutes in the Babylonian Talmud Simcha Fishbane (Touro College) Two Things Have I Heard: Psalms in the Voice of Paul Celan John Felstiner (Stanford University) Centering the Peripheral Jew: A Feminist Deconstruction of Kidushin 43b-45a Violet. Pansy. Jack and Jill: Translating Israeli Women Poets Gail Labovitz (Jewish Theological Seminary) Miriyarn Glazer (University of Judaism) Women in Tractate Shabat: Mishna, Tosefta, and Talmud Three Yiddish Women Poets Judith Hauptman (Jewish Theological Seminary) Ruth Whitman Section 55 Back Bay Room Section 53 Venetian Room The Philosophical Legacy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik Revision, Re~invention, and Renovation of Jewish Rituals Chair: Moshe Sokol (Touro College) Chair: Gordon Newby (Emory University) Hermann Cohen's Logic of Pure Cognition as the Conceptual Tora Mi-Sinai's Pilgrimage to Amuka to the Shrine of the Sage Basis for J.B. Soloveitchik's Philosophical Writings Yonotan ben Uziel, the "Sage of Marriage Making:" Innova­ Almut Sh. Bruckstein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) tion and Revitalization of Jerusalemite Sephardim Shifra Epstein (Emory University) J.B. Soloveitchik and Jewish Philosophy Warren Zev Harvey (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Touring the Land: Trips and Hiking as Secular Pilgrimages in Israeli Culture J.B. Soloveitchik and Jewish Mysticism Tamar Katriel (Haifa University) Rivka Horwitz (Ben Gurian University)

Towards a Video Holocaust Haggadah? Watching Television Section 56 Directors' Room as a New American Jewish "Rite of Spring" Electronic Mail Lists and Judaic Studies Jeffrey Shandler (Columbia University) Chair: TBA

Ritual Activity and the Construction of Holocaust Memory: 21st-Century Trends for the Dissemination of Jewish Studies The "March of the Living" as a Memorial Pilgrimage Research Oren Stier (University of California, Santa Barbara) Avi Hyman (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)

The Sephardic Electronic Archive and Jewish Studies Yitzchak Kerem (Aristotle University)

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Creating a Worldwide Community Among Scholars on the Russia Holocaust: The HOLOCAUS List Michael Stanislawski (Columbia University) James Mott (University of Illinois) The Arab World How is This List Different From All Other Lists? The Virlnal Daniel Schroeter (University of California, Irvine) World of IOUDAIOS Sigrid Peterson (University of Pennsylvania) Section 59 Venetian Room Film as a Medium for Memory and Mourning: A Critical Viewing of Two Films by Independent Film Maker Abraham Section 57 Forum Room Revet! Changing Jewish Identity in North America Chair: James Young (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Chair: Henry Srebrnik (University of Prince Edward Island) Sara Horowitz (University of Delaware) Evangelizing a Generation of Seekers: Jews for Jesus and the Laura Levitt (Temple University) Vietnam Era Missionary Campaigns Abraham Ravett Yaakov Ariel (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ••• screening of the films will extend into the lunch hour *.* Escape from the Grip: Autobiographies of Jewish Converts to Christianity Section 60 State Suite Samuel Klausner (University of Pennsylvania) The Mind of RaSHI Chair: Joseph Davis (Gratz College) Sacred Fragments "From Sea to Sea": Judaism and "Sense of Race" in Canadian History RaSHI's Biblical Commentaries in Light of His Contemporary Richard Menkis (University of British Columbia) Realities Moshe Berger (Cleveland College of Jewish Studies) When Jewish Fraternities Were No Longer Jewish: The Post World War n Decline in Sectarianism on American College RaSHI and Mystical Traditions in Ashkenaz, 1050-1150 Campuses Ephraim Kanarfogel (Stern College) Marianne Sanua (University of Washington) The Introductions to RaSHI's Commentaries and 11th­ Session XI, 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M. Century Conceptions of World History Ivan Marcus (Yale University) Section 58 Ballroom Foyer Modernization of the Jews [co-sponsored by the American Beholding the Face of God: Rabbinic Theology and RaSHI's Section of the International Association of Societies for the Conception of God Study of Jewish History] Nehemia Polen (Hebrew College) Chair: David Berger (Brooklyn College) Section 61 Back Bay Room France Modern Israeli Poetry and Prose Paula Hyman (Yale University) Chair: Nitza Druyan (Hofstra University)

Toward a Conception of Jewish Modernization Postmodernism in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction Michael Meyer (Hebrew Union College) Avraham Balaban (University of Florida)

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The Isaac Syndrome or the Jacob Complex? The Uses and Picturing Jews: The Role of Iconography in the Work of Misuses of Biblical Psychology in Mr. Mani Arthur Ruppin Yael Feldman (New York University) Mitchell Hart (University of California, Berkeley)

Hyphenated States: Metaphor as Poetics of Survival in 1:00 P.M. Meeting ofthe AJS Board of Directors State Suite Foyer Yehuda Amichai's Poetry Chana Kronfeld (University of California, Berkeley) Session XII, 1: 30-3: 15 P.M. Floating Causes, Floating Souls: Style as Imagery in Shabtai's SofDavar Section 64 Ballroom Foyer Deborah Steinhart (University of California, Berkeley) Individual and Communal Constructions of Jewish Self­ Identity Section 62 Directors' Room Chair: Morton Weinfeld (McGill University) History of the Jews in Late Antiquity II Chair: Richard Kalmin (Jewish Theological Seminary) Brit Milah as the Inscription of Social Power Margaret Cordes (Graduate Theological Union) In Babylonia Where is the Shkhina? Synagogues and Syua­ gogue Holiness in Sassanian Babylonia By the Merits of the Ancestors: Nostalgia as Modern Jewish Steven Fine (Baltimore Hebrew University) Mitzva Arnold Eisen (Stanford University) Rabbis as Judges in Late Antique Palestine Hayim Lapin (University of Maryland, College Park) The Parshat ha-Shavua as a Construct of Jewish Time and Consciousness Those Cantankerous Sepphoreans Revisited Joseph Lukinsky (Jewish Theological Seminary) Stuart Miller (University of Connecticut) A House Divided: The Jewish Theological Seminary and its Relationship to Hehrew Language and Culture Alan Mintz (Brandeis University) Section 63 Forum Room Imaging and Self-Imaging: Art and the Construction of Historical Memory Section 65 Venetian Room Chair: Michael Berkowitz (Ohio State University) Jewish Music Chair: Kay Shelemay (Harvard University) Modern Medicine Indicted: Anti-Jewish Iconography and Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine Jewish Music in the Academy Lisa Epstein (Vassar College) Marsha Bryan Edelman (Gratz College)

Another Flight into Egypt: Messianism and Iconographic The Cantillation of the Decalogue Appropriation in Medieval Jewish Art Joshua R. Jacobson (Northeastern University) Marc Epstein (Vassar College)

Perpetrator, Victim, Biographer Mary Felstiner (Stanford University)

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Section 66 State Suite Section 68 Directors' Room Re-examinations of Hasidic Doctrine and Thought Rabbinic Thought Chair: Arthur Green (Brandeis University) Chair: TBA

From Rural Mezhirech to Urban Przysucha: Transformation Neikr or Moed? The Problem of the Personal Fast of Hasidic Doctrine in Polish Hasidism Eliezer Diamond (Jewish Theological Seminary) Alan Brill (Brookline, Massachusetts) Explanations of Measures and the Development of Talmudic "Open to Me Righteousness' Gates": The Pursuit of Holiness Thought and the Vision of the Divine Light in Early Hasidic Teaching Jeffrey Rubenstein (New York University) Seth Brody (Haverford College) The Way of the Amorites: Perek Emori Between Rabbinic The Development of the Concept of tzimtzum in the Thought of Folklore and Magic the Maggid of Mezhirech; Its Relationship to Interpersonal Jonathan Seidel (University of California, Berkeley) Encounters As Wen As Divine Revelation Niles Goldstein (Hebrew Union College) Section 69 Forum Room Recent Trends in the Study of Early Hasidism Jewish Languages Miles Krassen (Oberlin College) Chair: TBA

Section 67 Back Bay Room On the "Negative" Character of Hebrew Slang Representations of Menstruation in Jewish Culture Shmuel Bolozky (University of Massachusetts) Chair: TBA Israel Language Policy Toward Russian Immigrants: Pragma­ Menstrual and Other Blood in Jewish-Christian Polemic David Biale (Graduate Theological Union) tism vs. Idealism Lewis H. Gliner! (University of London) Inside the Body, Outside the Body: The Ketem and Menstrual Impurity in Rabbinic Literature Western Yiddish or Judeo German? The Spoken Language of Charlotte Fonrobert (Graduate Theological Union) the Jews of Pre-Emancipation South Germany Steven M. Lowenstein (University of Judaism) Stifling Sexuality, Determining Difference, or Sanctifying the Soul: Circumcision in Germany, 1871-1914 Session XIII, 3:30-5:15 P.M. Robin Judd (University of Michigan) Section 70 Ballroom Foyer The Menstruant in Megilat Ahimaaz: Historical Fact or Mystical Symbol Second Temple Literature Sharon Koren (Yale University) Chair: Michael Swartz (Ohio State University) Kings and Kingship in Apocalyptic Literature Michael Benson (New York University)

Comparative Method and Ideological Appropriation: The Case of Rabbinic and New Testament Parables Jonathan Bromberg-Kraus (Colgate University) Tuesday, December 20,1994 Tuesday, December 20,1994

The "Beatitude" Fragments of Qumran Cave IV: A Literary Comparison with Ancient Christian Proverbs Section 73 Back Bay Room Kenneth Hanson (University of Central Florida) Sholem Aleichem Chair: Aliza Shevrin (University of Michigan) The Jewish-Samaritan Polemic over the Location of the Akeda Isaac Kalimi (Boston University) The Spoils of Adventure - "Agunahs": Mendele Mocher Sforim, The Travels of Benjamin the Third and Sholem Section 71 Venetian Room Aleichem, The Adventures of Menachem-Mendl Jews and Socialists: Cooperation and Conflict Bluma Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley) Chair: Harvey Shulman (Concordia University) Refractions of Yiddish and Modernity in the Work of Sholem A Friend in Need: the Jewish Labor Committee in New York Aleichem and Karl Emil Franzos and the Socialist Refugees from the German-Speaking Lands, Jeffrey Grossman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 1933--1945 Jack Jacobs (City University of New York) Incorporating the Luftmentsch: Sholem Aleichem and the Marketing of Menakhem Mendl Jennifer Sylvor (McGill University) Cooperation Between the Poles and Soviet Left in Poland in the 1930s John Rose (London, U.K.) Section 74 Forum Room Being Jewish in Contemporary America: Rethinking the The Dund in Polish Political Life, 1935-1939 Categories Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University) Chair: Carole Kessner (State University of New York, Stony brook)

Beyond Denomination: Towards a Typology of American State Suite Section 72 Jewish Identification What's Reason Got To Do With It? Gender, Love, and Ethics Betharnie Horowitz (United Jewish Appeal Federation) in Jewish Philosophy Chair: TBA Jews and Non-Jews in the USA: A Demographic ProfIle Vivian Klatf (U niversity of Delaware) Love as the "Other" of Reason in The Star of Redemption Yudit Greenberg (Rollins College) Alaskan Jews: Living in a Frontier Society Bernard Reisman (Brandeis University) Does Jewish Philosophy Move Us Beyond Reason? Maimonides and Levinas on taamei haMmitzvot Jacob Meskin (Williams College)

On Reassessing Love Michael Oppenheim (Concordia University)

Reason and its Other(s): Figurations of Gender in Maimonides and Levinas Susan Shapiro (Columbia University)

38 39 Index of Subjects Index of Participants in the Program

(This index refers to predominant themes of a section and does not Adan-Bayewitz, David, 36 Chess, Richard, 19 include all the individual papers on this theme to be presented at Adler, Rachel, 20 Coffin, Edna, 10 the conference. Sections may appear in more than one category.) Alealay, Ammiel (chair), 45 Cohen, Aryeh, 54 Anidjar, Gil, 45 Cohen, Mordechai, 39 Bible: 33, 39 Antler, Joyce, 38 Cohen, Richard, 11 Cohen, Shaye J.D. (chair), 22 Contemporary Studies: 6, 15, 18,42,57,74 Appell, Victor, 48 Aptroot, Marion, 4 Cohen, Steven, 18 E-mail: 56 Ariel, Yaakov, 57 Cooperman, Bernard, 7 Film: 37, 51, 59 Astren, Fred, 35 Cordes, Margaret, 64 History: 1; 3, 7, 17,25,26,27,30,34,36,40,49,50,58,62,63, Avnon, Dan, 28 Dashefsky, Arnold (chair), 15 64,71 Balaban, Avraham, 61 Davidson, Aryeh, 23 Jewish Thought: Medieval: 4, 13,29,35,45,60,66 Barzilai, David, 28 Davis, Joseph (chair), 60 Baskin, Judith (chair), 9 Diamond, Eliezer, 68 Jewish Thought: Modem: 4, 11,20,28,31,41,48,55 Beller, Steven, 21 Dickstein, Juliette, 25 Jewish Thought: Rabbinic and Late Antique: 5, 12,22,24,68,70 Benson, Michael, 70 Diner, Hasia, 27 Languages: 69 Berger, Alan (chair), 25 Donohue, William, 8 Literature: 4, 8, 14, 16,32,37,38,44,52,59,61,64,73 Berger, David (chair), 58 Druyan, Nitza (chair), 61 Music: 65 Berger, Moshe, 60 Dvorkin, Ilya, 46 Berkowitz, Michael (chair), 63 Eisen, Arnold, 64 Pedagogy: 10,23,46,47 Bernstein, Moshe 1., 24 Elazar, Daniel, 15 Ritual and Customs: 19, 53 Biale, David, 67 Eliashevich, Dmitry, 46 Women's Studies/Gender Issues: 2,9,14,21,38,43,51,54,67,72 Bilik, Dorothy, 16 Elman, Yaakov (chair), 54 Yiddish: 16,73 Blau, Anne K., 2 Elman, Yaakov, 24 Blessing, Kamila, 12 Elster, Shulamith, 23 Bolozky, Shmuel, 69 Epstein, Lisa, 63 Borowitz, Eugene (chair), 48 Epstein, Marc, 63 Bas, Gerrit, 13 Epstein, Shifra, 53 Sections Co-Sponsored by Other Groups Botwinick, Aryeh, 3 Esformes, Maria, 43 Braiterman, Zachary, 41 Eshel, Hanan, 24 Section 15 Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Bregman, Mark, 47 Ezer, Nancy, 14 Feldman, Louis, 22 Section 38 Jewish Studies Women's Caucus Brenner, Arthur, 30 Brenner, David, 30 Feldman, Ruth, 52 Section 58 American Section of the International Association of Brenner, Michael, 30 Feldman, Yael, 61 Societies for the Study of Jewish History Brenner, Rachel, 44 Felstiner, John, 52 Brill, Alan, 66 Felstiner, Mary, 63 Brody, Seth, 66 Fine, Steven, 62 Bromberg, Charney, 6 Finkel, Asher, 5 Brooten, Bernadette (chair), 2 Fishbane, Michael (chair), 12 Brown-Gutoff, Shoshana, 12 Fishbane, Simcha, 54 Bruckstein, Almut, 55 Fishman, David, 40 Brumberg-Kraus, Jonathan, 70 Fishman, Sylvia, 18 Burnett, Stephen, 19 Fishman, Talya, 3 Cahan, Jean Axlerad, 31 Fonrobert, Charlotte, 67 Carmy, Shalom, 41 Fox, Marvin, 49 Chanes, Jerome, 6 Frank, Daniel H., 13 40 Lll .. Frieden, Ken (chair) 16 Hyman, James, 41 Friedlander, Yehuda, 44 Hyman, Paula, 58 Marcus, David, 39 Rose, Paul, I Friedman, Reena, 9 Israel, Sherry, 15 Marclls, Ivan, 60 Roskies, David (chair), 52 Gal, Allon, 26 Jacobs, Jack, 71 Marthan, Abraham (chair), 44 Rozenblit, Marsha (chair), 30 Galli, Barbara (chair), 41 Johnson, Barbara, 43 Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 7 Rubenstein, Jeffrey, 68 Geffen, Rela, 9 Judd, Robin, 67 Meir, Ephraim, II Rubin, Barry, 6 Geller, Stephen, 33 Kadish, Ruti, 5 I Menkis, Richard, 57 Ruderman, David, 7 Gerber, Jane (chair), 49 Kalimi, Isaac, 70 Meskin, Jacob, 72 Safran-Naveh, Gila, 44 Gilboa, Menucha, 4 Kalmin, Richard (chair), 62 Meyer, Michael, 58 Sandberg, Ruth, 5 Gillerman, Sharon, 30 Kanarfogel, Ephraim, 60 Millen, Rochelle, 28 Sanua, Marianne, 57 Gillman, Abigail, 25 Kaplan, Lawrence, 12 Miller, Philip, 35 Saperstein, Marc, 49 Ginor, Zvia, 14 Kasher, Aryeh, 22 Miller, Stuart, 62 Sarna, Jonathan, 27 Ginsburg, Elliot K. (chair), 19 Katriel, Tamar, 53 Mintz, Alan, 64 Schachter, Lifsa (chair), 23 Glazer, Miriyam, 52 Katz, Step hen, 25 Moelis, Joan, 32 Schiffman, Lawrence, 24 Glicksman, Allen, 15 Katz, Steven T., 49 Morahg, Gilead, 44 Schimmel, Solomon (chair), 46 Glinert, Lewis H., 69 Kellman, Ellen, 16 Moreen, Vera (chair), 35 Schlesinger, Yaffa, 48 Goldenberg, Myrna (chair), 32 Kerem, Yitzchak, 56 Morris, Leslie, 8 Schroeter, Daniel, 58 Goldstein, Bluma, 73 Mott, James, 56 Kessner, Carole (chair), 74 Schwarz, Jan, 16 Goldstein, Eric, 42 Kimelman, Reuven, 33 Nadel, Pamela (chair), 42 Seidel, Jonathan, 68 Goldstein, Niles, 66 Klaff, Vivian, 74 Nash, Stanley, 25 Seidman, Naomi, 5 I Gomez, Mariano, 39 Klausner, Samuel, 57 Newby, Gordon (chair), 53 Shandler, Jeffrey, 53 Goren, Arthur, 27 Klingenstein, Susanne (chair), 8 Newman, Louis, 48 Shapiro, Ann R., 32 Granite, Lauren, 2 Kochavi, Arieh, I Oppenheim, Michael, 72 Shapiro, Marc B., 19 Grauer, Tresa, 32 Koren, Sharon, 67 Paltiel, Eliezer, 36 Shapiro, Robert, I Green, Arthur (chair), 66 Kotler, Alia, 50 Parmet, Harriet L., 32 Shapiro, Susan, 72 Greenberg, Gershon (chair), 31 Kotler, Igor, 40 Pearlstein, Peggy, 42 Shavelson, Susanne A., 38 Greenberg, Irving, 20 Kraemer, David (chair), 20 Pelli, Moshe, 4 Sheres, Ita, 2 Greenberg, Yudit, 72 Kramer-Hellinx, Nechama, 3 Penkower, Monty, 26 Sherman, Joseph, 16 Grossman, Jeffrey, 73 Krassen, Miles, 66 Perry, T.A., 50 Shevrin, Aliza (chair), 73 Gruber, Mayer (chair), 39 Kronfeld, Chana, 61 Peterson, Sigrid, 56 Shimoni, Gideon, 17 Halevy, Schulamith, 12 Kushner. Lawrence, 20 Phillips, Bruce, 18 Shollar, Barbara, 38 Hallo, William W. (chair) 33 Labovitz, Gail, 54 Polachek, Dora (chair), 37 Shulman, Harvey (chair) 72 Handelman, Susan, 47 Langer, Lawrence, 37 Polen, Nehemia, 60 Sicherman, Barbara (chair), 38 Hansel, Joelle, I I Langer, Ruth, 19 Polliack, Meira, 35 Sicular, Eve, 51 Hanson, Kenneth, 70 Lapin, Hayim, 62 Polonsky, Antony, 71 Siegmund, Stefanie, 3 Harrowitz, Nancy (chair), 21 Lawee, Eric, 45 Potok, Rena, 14 Signer, Michael, 47 Hart, Mitchell, 63 Lazin, Fred, 26 Prell, Riv-ElIen, 9 Simon, Rachel, 34 Harvey, Warren Zev, 55 Lee, Sara, 23 Raider, Mark, 17 Simon, Reeva, 34 Haskell, Guy, 43 Lehman, Marjorie, 45 Ramon, Einat, 17 Sokol, Moshe (chair), 55 Hauptman, Judith, 54 Lerner, Scott, 8 Ravett, Abrahann, 59 Sokoloff, Naomi, 14 Hoch, Richard, 41 Levine, Baruch (chair), 24 Ravid, Benjamin (chair), 7 Soloveitchik, Haym (chair), I3 Hoffman, Anne, 8 Levitt, Laura, 59 Redlich, Shimon, 40 Spicehandler, Ezra (chair), 4 Holzman, Gitit, 13 Liedtke, Rainer, I Reguer, Sara (chair), 34 Srajek, Martin, 31 Horowitz, Bethamie, 74 Lockshin, Martin, 39 Reinharz, Jehuda (chair), 17 Srebrnik, Henry (chair), 57 Horowitz, Rivka, 55 Loewenthal, Nafiali, 2 Reisman, Bernard, 74 Stahl, Nanette, 33 Horowitz, Sara, 59 Lowenstein, Steven M., 69 Rivo, Sharon, 37 Stanislawski, Michael, 58 Hyams, Barbara, 21 Lukinsky, Joseph, 64 Rojanski, Rachel, 42 Steinhart, Deborah, 61 Hyman, Avi, 56 Magid, Shaul, 4 Rose, Alison, 38 Stier, Oren, 53 Rose, John, 71 Swartz, Michael (chair), 70 42 43 Sylvor, Jennifer, 73 Syvak, Svetiana, 46 Tabak, Robert (chair), 26 ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES Tanenzapf, Sol, 31 26th Annual Conference Registration Form Travis, Yakov, 29 Tsoffar, Ruth, 34 Name (print) Ulmer, Brigitte Rivka, 5 Mailing address ______Umansky, Ellen, 20 Verman, Mark, 29 Wachs, Saul P., 23 Waldman, Nahum, 33 Zip ____ Ward, Seth, 50 Institution if not given above Wegner, Judith Romney, 2 Weissler, Chava, 43 Wenger, Beth (chair), 27 Weissler, Chava (chair), 43 Please register me for the Conference as indicated on the Wertheimer, Jack, 27 verso of this form. 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