ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES
A S
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
Copley Plaza Hotel Boston, Massachusetts
December 15-17, 1991 ~!
ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES Widener Library M, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
President All sessions are at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts (Tel. Executive Secretary 617-267-5300). The hotel offers a full array of facilities and services, including dining rooms, Robert Chazan Charles Berlin New York University child care, and parking, For information, contact the hotel directly, (The Copley Plaza Harvard University Hotel has an 800 telephone number: 800-8COPLEY). Conference Program Chair Rela Geffen Monson Main Lobby: Lower Level: Gratz Col/ege Venetian Room Forum Room Ballroom Back Bay Room Directors' Room State Suite Oval Room
The Association for Jewish Studies is a constituent society of Hotel reservations at the special conference rate The American Council of Learned Societies. must be received by the Copley Plaza Hotel by November 15, 1991.
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3 The Conference at a Glance
Meeting Room Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Monday, Monday, 11:00 A.M. 1:30 P.M. 3:30 P.M. Meeting Room 9:30 P.M. 9:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. Venetian South Issues in Biography American Between Room Arabian Jewish Autobiography Venetian Postmodem Jewish Jewish History & Jewish Women Mysticism & Jewish Room Theology Women Hermeneutics (1) (6) Nationalism (22) (TI) (11) <;(D (16) yo
State Yiddish Shaping Women & Graduate Rereading Philosophy Suite Culture Jewish Kabbalah State Student Medresh of Hermann (2) Historical (12) Suite Itsik Cohen Discourse Dialogue (17) (23) (28) (7) 1~ U
Forum Holocaust Jewish Identity, Shapers of Sephardim Room Theology Women: Self Gender, & Forum Jewish~ Jewish & (3) Images Intermarriage Room American National Zionism (8) (13) Fiction (18) Culture (29) I (24) V'J 'L-Cu 3<; ~ Directors' Aspects of Bialik's Biblical Judaism & Black~ Room Pre-State Poetic Literature Directors' Society in World Jewish Zionism Legacy (14) Room Medieval Religions Relations (4) (9) Cairo (19) (25) in the U.S. 3'p (30) ~ Back Bay Study of the HalaIchah Marginality Modem Literary Room American in the (15) Back Bay ASS) Theater Reps. of Synagogue Modem Era Room Business (26) Feminine (5) (10) Meeting (20) in the Holocaust 1--0 i) Ie) (31)
State Suite AJS Board Foyer of Directors Oval Early Room Jewish Mysticism (21)
4 5 Meeting Room Monday, Monday, Monday, 1:30 P.M. Meeting Room Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, 3:30 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 9:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 1:15 P.M. Venetian Gender Israeli Israeli limetian Medieval Jewish Life Philosophical Room Studies in Cinema I Cinema II Room Jewish in the Great Issues in Contemporary (38) (43) Hebrew Literature Philosophy Depression Rabbinic (32) (49) (54) Thought 1.-{ ?JD (60) f9
State Jewish Louis Mysticism State Ideology & Rabbinic Postmodernism Suite Ethics Harap's and Suite Culture in Exegesis: in Israeli (33) Work Modernity Hebrew Theory Literature (39) (44) Literature (55) (61) (50) Il ~'1- ~ rL Forum Philosemitism Constructive Early Forum Talmud: Jews in the Central Room (34) Theology Rabbinic Room Halakhah, Hellenistic-Roman Figures: (40) History & History & Period Jewish Culture Hermeneutics (56) Mysticism 3S' (45) (51) (62) l\O ~ r~
Directors' Jewish Life Rabbinic Catastrophe Directors' Aspects of Anti-Semitism Medieval Room in the Exegesis: & Jewish Room Religious & Memory Rabbinics 13th·17th Practice Identity Zionism in (63) Centuries (41) (46) (35) (52) Literature (57) Yb (\ n I I Back Bay The Bible Biblical Jewish Back Bay Modem Epistemological Room and the Studies Ethnography Room Jewish Concerns in Near East (42) (47) (36) Philosophy Jewish (53) Philosophy "')0 (58) 33 \ D
Oval Sephardic Modern State Meeting of AlS Board Room Literature Hebrew Suite Foyer Deans & of Directors (37) Literature Chairs (48) \s (59)
6 7 Sunday, December 15, 1991 Section 4 Directors' Room 10:30 A.M. Registration Aspects of Pre~State Zionism Main Lobby Meeting of the AJS Board of Directors Chair: David Cesarani (Wiener Library & Institute of Contemporary His State Suite Foyer tory, London) 1:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Book Exhibits Ballroom The Intellectual as a True Ohev Israel: The Zionism of A.M. Klein Rachel Feldhay Brenner (York University) Session I, 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M. Section 1 "The Jewish Frontier" and American labor Zionism, 1934-1948 Venetian Room Mark A. Raider (Brandeis University) South Arabian Jewish Women Lessons Unlearned: Jewish Attempts to Breach the British Blockade of Chair: Nitza Druyan (Hofstra University) Palestine, 1945·48 Jewish Women in Aden in Cross-Cultural Perspective Stuart A. Cohen (Bar-Han University) Reuben Abroni (Ohio State University) The Polish Question in Jewish Politics-The Debates Over Polish Yemenite Women's Songs: A View from the West Municipal Self-Government in the Russian State Duma V. Elisabeth Cohen Timmons (Rutgers University) David Engel (New York University)
San'a Women Through Their Wedding Songs Section 5 Back Bay Room Shoshana Thbi Silverstein (The Long Island Center for Jewish Studies) New Approaches to the Study of the American Synagogue Tbe Weaver of the Songs: Oral Poetry of Yemeni and Yemenite Women Chair: Henry Green (University of Miami) Mishael M. Caspi (University of California-Santa Cruz) The Americanization of Synagogue Governance Section 2 State Suite Lance Sussman (SUNY/Binghamton) Yiddish Culture The Role of Reform Judaism in the Development of the American Chair: Michael Steinlauf (Gratz College) Synagogue-Center, 1900·25 David Kaufman (Brandeis University) The Yiddish Novel in the "Forverts"; The Early Years Ellen Kellman (Columbia University) Beyond the Gallery: Women and the American Reinvention of the Synagogue Methods and Motives of Classic Yiddish Satire Karla Goldman (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati) Ken Frieden (Emory University) Herman Thblokoff and The Philosopby of Schmaltz Session 11, 1:30 P.M.-3:15 P.M. Gila Flam (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) Section 6 Venetian Room A Marriage Made in Heaven? The SexualThxtuai Politics of the Hebrew. Conceptual Issues in Jewish Mysticism Yiddish Language War Chair: Alan Mittleman (Muhlenberg College) Naomi Seidman (University of California, Berkeley) Descent to the Chariot: Typology of Ecstasy and Enthronement in Ancient Jewish Mysticism Section 3 Forum Room Elliot R. Wolfson (New York University) Holocaust Theology The Motif of the Everpresent Sabbath in the Jewish Mystical Tradition Chair: Alan Berger (Syracuse University) Elliot K. Ginsburg (University of Michigan) Buber's Narrative BibHcal Response to the Shoah The Adventures of Immanence in Late Hasidic Thought Steven Kepnes (Colgate University) Allan Nadler (YIVO) Jacob Rosenheim's Theological Response to tbe Holocaust Everything is Transformed into Spirit: Ritual, Devekut and Theurgic Gershon Greenberg (The American University) Empowerment in Geronan Kabbalah Post~Modernism, Theological Negation, and the Holocaust Seth Brody (Haverford College) Alan Udoff (Baltimore Hebrew University)
8 9 Section 7 State Suite Session ill, 3:30 P.M.-5:15 P.M. The Shaping of Jewish Historical Discourse 1 Section 11 Venetian Room Chair: Monty Penkower (Touro College) Biography, Autobiography and Jewish Nationalism Cyrus Adler and the Invention of American Jewish History In conjunction with the American Section of the International Association Ira Robinson (Concordia University) of Historical Societies for the Study of Jewish History Chair: Michael Meyer (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati) From Zion Will Go Forth Torah: Jewish Scholarship and the Zionist Return to History Ahad Ha'am and the Problematics of Zionist Biography David N. Myers (Columbia University) Steven 1. Zipperstein (Stanford University) Alexandria-The Transformation and Function of an Historical Image Biography as a Generational Paradigm Yaacov Shavit (Tel Aviv University) Anita Shapira (Tel Aviv University) The Second Aliyah: The Forming of a Group Identity Forum Room Section 8 Iehuda Reinharz (Brandeis University) Jewish Women: Generating Self Images Memory, Self and National Identity in the Thought and Literature of Chair: Samuel C. Heilman (Queens College) East European Jewry An Active Voice: Jewish Women's Self-Definitions Marcus Moseley (New York University) Maurie Sacks (Montclair State College) Engendering the Self: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women Section 12 State Suite Debra Renee Kaufman (Northeastern University) Women and ~bbalah The Talmida Chachama: How the Learned Orthodox Woman Perceives Chair: Arthur Green (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) Herself Where Are You Mrs. Luria? In Search of Women Kabbalists Vanessa Ochs (Drew University) Lawrence Fine (Mount Holyoke College) Section 9 Sabbatian Tkhines Directors' Room Chava Weissler (Lehigh University) Bialik's Poetic Legacy Imagining History as Herstory Through the Story of Esther: Restoring Chair: Gila Safran-Naveh (University of Cincinnati) and Restorying the Feminine Among HaBaD Women Bialik's Juvenilia and Early Poems, 1890-1898 Robin Goldberg (Northwestern University) Ezra Spicehandler (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati) Section 13 Forum Room The Metaphors of "Fire" and "Light" in the Poetry of Bialik Abraham Marthan (Gratz College) Identity, Gender, Aging and Intermarriage: Implications of New Bialik, The Zhitomirer in Volozin-A Biographical Sketch Demographic Studies In cooperation with the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry Sara Feinstein (Gratz College) Chair: Sherry Israel (Brandeis University) Section 10 Back Bay Room Crisis and Commitment: The Impact of the Gulf Woe on Jewish Identity Halakhah in the Early and Late Modern Period Bethamie Horowitz (CUNY) Chair: David Berger (Brooklyn College/CUNY) Are Jewish Men and Women Equal? Israeli and American Evidence Aspects of Hareidi Halakhah Harriet and Moshe Hartman (Gratz College) Alan Yuter (Yeshiva University) Aging and Ethnic Identity: The Case of the American Jewish Elderly In Any Case There Are no Sinful Thoughts: The Role and Status of Allen Glicksman and Tanya Koropeckyj (Philadelphia Geriatric Center) Jewish Women in 19th-Century East European Jewish Law as Expressed Intermarriage in the Mishnah Berurah and the Arukh Hashulchan Bruce Philips (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles) Simcha Fishbane (Concordia University)
10 11 Section 14 Directors' Room Section 17 State Suite 1! Biblical Literature Graduate Student Dialogue Chair: Daniel Grossberg (SUNY-Albany) Chairs: Aryeh Cohen (Brandeis University) and Shaul Magid (Brandeis University) A Psycholinguistic Experiment and Its Implications for Understanding the Structure of Biblical Poetry The initiation of a dialogue among graduate students about the academic Ziony Zevit (University of Judaism) and systemic problems encountered in graduate programs and dissertations research in Judaica. Those interested in participating or in helping to Is David Also One of the Prophets? 1 Samuel 21:11-16: A Biblical Nar formulate the discussion should contact the chairs at the NEJS Department rative in Circles of Interpretation at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254. Yair Zakovitch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Deutero-Isaiah's Borrowings from His Literary Predecessors: A Study Section 18 Fomm Room in Inner Biblical Exegesis Jewish~American Fiction by and about Women Benjamin D. Sommer (University of Chicago) Chair: Ava Kahn (Judah Magnes Memorial Museum)
Section 15 Back Bay Room The Burning Bond: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Fiction by Jewish Women Marginality Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis University) Chair: Nurit Gertz (Yale University) Ritnals, Dreams, Story-Telling: Feminist Protest and Celebration in COD Marginal Prototypes in Modernist Hebrew Literature: A Conceptual temporary Jewish~American Women's Fiction Framework Miriyam Glazer (University of Judaism) Chana Kronfeld (University of California, Berkeley) The Book of Rnth: Idyllic Revisionism Section 19 Directors' Room Ilana Pardes (Princeton University) Society and Culture in Medieval Cairo Female Subjectivity inland Minor Literature: Two Examples of Hebrew Chair: Renee Levine Melammed (Franklin and Marshall College) Postmodernism The Cairene Purim-Cultural, Historical and Linguistic Backgronnd Michael Gluzman (University of California, Berkeley) Benjamin Hary (Emory University)
5:45 P.M, Annual Business Meeting of the Association State Suite A Trnst Fund as an Impediment to Jewish Apostasy: The Waqf of Dr, Abd al-Qahir All members invited Seth Ward (University of Denver)
6:30 P.M. Dinner Oval Room Section 20 Back Bay Room 8:00 P.M. Session IV Oval Room ASSJ Business Meeting Chair: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut) Texts and the Transformations in Contemporary Orthodox Jewry Chair: Robert Chazan (New York University) Section 21 Oval Room Speaker: Haym Soloveitchik (Yeshiva University) Respondent: Steven Katz (Cornell University) Early Jewish Mysticism Chair: Efraim Kanadogel (Stern College) Session V, 9:30 P.M.-ll:00 P.M. The ExegeticwCosmosophical Elements of Sepher Yesirah Section 16 Venetian Room Asher Finkel (Seton Hall Yniversity) The Prospect of a Postmodern Jewish Theology: Eugene B. Borowitz's Book and Tradition in Hekhalot and Magical Literatnre "Renewing the Covenant" Michael D. Swartz (University of Virginia) Chair: Neil Gillman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Introduction Monday, December 16, 1991 Eugene B. Borowitz (Hebrew Union College, New York) 8:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M. Book Exhibits Ballroom Critique David Novak (University of Virginia) Peter Haas (Vanderbilt University) 12 13 Session VI, 9:00 A.M.-IO:45 A.M. Section 26 Back Bay Room Section 22 Venetian Room Modern Theater Cultural Representations of American Jewish Women-A Feminist Chair: Yudith Nave (Wellesley College) Approach A. B. Yehoshua and Drama of the Absurd Chair: Paula Hyman (Yale University) Michael Taub (SUNY-Binghamton) Becoming Oneself: Individuation and Separation and First Generation George Bernard Shaw and British Holocaust Drama Jewish Daughters Edward Isser (Clark University) Janet Burstein (Drew University) Shulamit Lapid: A Female Playwright or a Feminist? Why Jewish Mothers Suffer: The Intersection of Gender, Class and Gabriella Moscati Steindler (Instituto Universitario Orientale) Acculturation for American Jews Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota) Session VII, 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M. Representations of Jewish Women in the Works and Life of Elizabeth Section 27 Venetian Room Stern Between History and Hermeneutics: A Discussion of Steven Fraade's Ellen Umansky (Emory University) "From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy" Section 23 State Suite Chair: Martin Jaffe (University of Washington-Seattle) Rereading Medresh Itsik Introductory Comments and Response Chair: Sacvan Bercovich (Harvard University) Steven Fraade (Yale University) Panel: Janet Hadda (UCLA) David G. Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) History in "From Tradition to Commentary" Leonard Wolf (YIVO) Isaiah Gafni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Literary Hermeneutics in "From Tradition to Commentary" Section 24 Forum Room Michael Fishbane (The University of Chicago Divinity School) Shapers of Jewish National Culture Performative Interpretation in "From Tradition to Commentary" Chair: Laurence 1. Silberstein (Lehigh University) Peter Ochs (Drew University) AgnoR and Buber: An Anatomy of a Dialogue Dan Laor (Tel Aviv University) Section 28 State Suite Memory and Utopia in Gershom Scholem's Historical Conception The Jewish Philosophy of Hermann Cohen Avraham Shapira (Tel Aviv University) Chair: Wendell Dietrich (Brown University) Wasteland With Promise: Chaim Nahman Bialik's America Reconsidering Cohen's Correlations Michael Brown (York University) Robert Gibbs (Princeton University) Tarbut Ivrit: An American Ideology Was Cohen's Concept of Judaism "medieval"? Wilhelm Herrmann's Alan Mintz (University of Maryland) Challenge to Hermann Cohen Reconsidered Michael Zank (Brandeis University) Section 25 Directors' Room Hermann Cohen on Revelation Dialogue Between Religions: Judaism and World Religions Ken Seeskin (Northwestern University) Chair: Susannah Hesche! (Case Western University) Section 29 Forum Room "Religious Reform" as an Organizing Principle in Understanding Juda ism and World Religions The Sephardim and Zionism Richard A. Freund (University of Nebraska) In cooperation with the Zionist Academic Council Chair: Yedida Stillman (SUNY-Binghamton) Bergman, Hinduism and T.:wism Miriam Dean-Otting (Kenyon College) Social, Cultural and Political Implications of Zionism in Libya Rachel Simon (Princeton University) Judaism as "an Other" and as not "an Other" Marilyn Salmon (United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities) Social Change and the Haskalah in Morocco Daniel Schroeter (University of Florida)
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.. Sephardim and Zionism in the Mediterranean Basin and in the New Section 33 State Suite World: A Comparative Analysis Michael M. Laskier (University of Chicago) Jewish Ethics Chair: Marvin Fox (Brandeis University) Section 30 Directors' Room Toward a Theory for the Descriptive Study of Jewish Ethics Black-Jewish Relations in the United States Louis E. Newman (Carleton College) Co-Sponsored by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Center The Platonic Twist in Maimonides' Ethics: A Revised Reading for American Jewish History at Temple University Almut Bruckstein (Temple University) Chair: William Helmreich (CCNy) The Interaction of Moral Sense Theory and Religious Text in the Thought A Reevaluation of the History of the Black-Jewish Alliance of Samuel David LuzzaUo Murray Friedman (Center for American Jewish History, Temple University) Marc Gopin (Brandeis University) Antisemitism in the United States: Why Can't Jews lake "Yes" For An Answer? Section 34 Forum Room Jerome A. Chanes (National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council) Philosemitism Teaching a History of Intergroup Relations: African~American/Jewish Chair: Ellen Schiff (Massachusetts State College at North Adams) Relations in 20thw Century America Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism: The Dual Legacy of Daniel Deronda Benny Kraut (University of Cincinnati) Carole S. Kessner (SUNY-Stony Brook) The Racial Philosemitism of Imperial Writers After Benjamin Disraeli Section 31 Back Bay Room Bryan Cheyette (University of Leeds) Literary Representations of the Feminine in tbe Holocaust Chair: Sara Horowitz (University of Delaware) The Strange Case of Henry Harland Louis Harap (Rutland, Vermont) Representing the Shoah: Strategies of Indirection in the Fiction of Cyn thia Ozick and Norma Rosen Section 35 Directors' Room Susanne Klingenstein (Harvard University) Jewish Social and Religious Life in the 13th-17th Centuries Feminine Stereotypes of Jews in Holocaust Films Chair: Benjamin C.l. Ravid (Brandeis University) Judith E. Doneson (Annenberg Institute) Merchant Piety Among the Conversos: Evidence From Seventeenth~ Jewish American Women Confronting the Holocaust Century Amsterdam S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) Miriam Bodian (University of Michigan) Session VIII, 1:30 P.M.-3:15 P.M. New Christian Family Life in Southern Portugal. 1626-1649 Bruce A. Lorence (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Section 32 ~netian Room Gender Studies in Contemporary Hebrew Literature Jewish Widows in Thirteenth and Early Fourteentb Century Ashkenaz Chair: Anne Lapidus Lerner (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) and Sefarad Cheryl Tallan (York University) Taking Feminism to tbe Streets in Recent Fiction by Amalya Kahanaw Carmon and Ruth Almog Section 36 Back Bay Room Yael S. Feldman (New York University) The Bible and The Near East The Womb of Culture: Reading A.B. Yehoshua's Mar Mani Chair: Betsy Halpern Amaru (Vassar College) Anne Golomb Hoffman (Fordham University) A Mesopotamian Proverb and Its Biblical Reverberations Dialogues of Power: Men and Women in the Fiction of Dan Seri Frederick E. Greenspahn (University of Denver) Naomi Sokoloff (University of Washington) Micah 7:18 and Ancient Near Eastern Analogues David Rothstein (University of Judaism) Achish. Gatb and Israel Carl Ehrlich (Hochschule fUr Iiidische Studien) Sanctified War in the Scriptures of Judaism and Islam Reuven Firestone (Boston University) 16 17
.. Section 37 Oval Room Section 41 Directors' Room Sephardic Literature Rabbinic Exegesis: Practice Chair: Henry Toledano (Hofstra University) Chair: Ivan G. Marcus (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Was the Queen of Sheba "Wearing' White"? The Battle of the Sexes More Intelligent Than a Man: Creation Gone Awry in an Eighteenth~Century Yemenite Folktale TIrzah Meacham (University of Toronto) Jacob Lassner (Wayne State University) , Rabbinic Understandings of Kohelet: Reinterpretation or Recapitula Dancing on the Edge (Holekh Berkida) I tion of a Text David Rabeeya (Gratz College) Ruth Sandberg (Gratz College) \ r~A\ The Expulsion from Spain and its Reflection in the Hebrew Literature \ l!//VJ 'Mai Mashmah' and the Mechanization of Midrash \.. / rJ \ , ": \J \ 6 v of the Recent Generations I, . Eliezer Diamond (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) '';/..;'J~ Nurit Govrin (Tel Aviv University) \J Yitzhaki, A Spanish Biblical Exegete Whose Book Ibn Ezra Consigned Session IX, 3:30 P.M.-5:15 P.M. to the Flames t, Uriel Simon (Bar nan University) Section 38 f(,netian Room The "New Sensibility" in Israeli Cinema of the "Entre Deux Guerres" Section 42 Back Bay Room (1967-1973): Modernism versus Populism Biblical Studies Chair: Igal Bursztyn (Tel Aviv University) Chair: Baruch Levine (New York University) The Unwritten Manifesto of "The New Sensibility" Scurrilous Etymologies Judd Ne'eman (Tel Aviv University) William W. Hallo (Yale University) The Plight of the Modernist in a Mobilized Cinema The Use of Divine Names as a Narrator's Device Anat Zanger Schpatz (Tel Aviv University) Nahum Waldman (Gratz College) "Burekas Hill Does Not Answer": Modernism vs. Mass Culture in Israel Sacrifice and Song: On Connecting Leviticus and Psalms Regine-Mihal Friedman (Tel Aviv University) Herbert Levine (Franklin and Marshall College) Section 39 State Suite Matriarchal Power in the Patriarchal Family: The Mother's Role in the Selection of the Chief Heir Louis Harap's \\brk: A Critical Evaluation Ktziah Spanier (New School for Social Research) Chair: Lewis Fried (Kent State University) Panelists: Jules Chametzky (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Stanley 6:30 P.M. Dinner Oval Room Chyet (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles), R. Barbara Gitenstein (SUC, \\ Oswego, New York), Sanford Marovitz (Kent State University), and Daniel Session X, 8:00 P.M.-9:45 P.M. Walden (Pennsylvania State University). Section 43 J-imetian Room "The New Sensibility" in Israeli Cinema of the "Entre Deux Guerres": Section 40 Forum Room Part II Constructive Theology Chair: Judd Ne'eman (Tel Aviv University) Holiness and Justice: Toward a Jewish Theology of Social Activism The Silence of the Scholars Chair: David Blumenthal (Emory University) Igal Bursztyn (Tel Aviv University) Papers: Marshall T. Meyer (Dartmouth College), Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer Expressions of the Rise qf Liberal Individualism in post 1967 Israeli (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College), Ruth Fagen (Jewish Theological Cinema Seminary of America) Nitzan Ben-Shaul (Tel Aviv University) Respondent: Harvey Cox (Harvard Divinity School) Sixties Culture and the Six Day War in Israeli Movies Those planning to attend are asked to read the paper before the session. nan Avisar (Tel Aviv University) Copies may be obtained from: Nancy Fuchs-Kramer, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Greenwood Ave. and Church Rd. Wyncote, PA 19095
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... Section 44 State Suite Section 47 Back Bay Room Mysticism and Modernity: Kabbalah in Modern Jewish Philosophy Jewish EthnographY Chair: Susan Shapiro (University of Delaware) Chair: Diane Ashton (Glassboro State College) Democracy and the Art of Writing: Mystical Elements in Mordechai A Gay Talmud Study Circle in an American Metropolis Kaplan's Reconstruction of Judaism Moshe Shokeid (Tel Aviv University) S. D niel Breslauer (University of Kansas) Gender and Jewish Religious Experience bbalistic Elements and the Dialectics of Redemption in Franz Lynn Davidman (University of Pittsburgh) Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption The Body as a Storyteller: Karaite Women's Experience of Niddah, Yudit Greenberg (Rollins College) Yoledah and the Dietary Laws Of Pomegranates and Philosophy: Kabbalah in the Philosophy of Ruth Tsoffar (University of California, Berkeley) Emmanuel Levinas Jacob Meskin (Williams College) Section 48 Oval Room Modern Hebrew Literature Section 45 Forum Room Chair: Tikva Meroz-Aharoni (University of Judaism) Early Rabbinic History and Culture Narrative and Society in M.Y. Berdyczewski's "Miryam" Chair: Larry Schiffman (New York University) David C. Jacobson (Wesleyan University) Talmudic Realia: An Archaeological-Archaeometric Approach The Esau-type in Applefeld's "Be'et uve'onah ahat" David Adan-Bayewitz (Bar nan University) Aryeh Wineman (Troy, New York) The Case of the Missing Decalogue in the Liturgy Text of Cunning: Deceit As Substructure in Amichai's Later Poetry Reuven Kimelman (Brandeis University) NiH Gold (Columbia University) Did Ancient Jews Abstain From Cursing the Gods? The Beauty and The Bitch: Models of the Heroine in Haskalah Literature Robert Goldenberg (SUNY-Stony Brook) Tova Cohen (Bar nan University) Section 46 Directors' Room Session XI, 9:00 A.M.-IO:45 P.M. Catastrophe and Jewish Identity: Europe 1914·1942 Section 49 Venetian Room Chair: Marsha Rozenblit (University of Maryland) Medieval Jewish Philosophy The Rhetorics of Destruction in Modernist Yiddish Literature Chair: Alfred Ivry (New York University) Delphine Bechtel (Columbia University) Sermons as Evidence For the Diffusion of Philosophical Ideas TOZ: Society for Safeguarding the Health of the Jewish Popnlation, Marc Saperstein (Washington University) 1929·1942 The Duty to Philosophize: Socrates and Maimonides John Efron (Columbia University) Daniel H. Frank (University of Kentucky) Catastrophe and Zionist Fundraising, 1914-1933 Monotonically Decreasing Esoterism and the Purpose of the "Guide of \1 Michael Berkowitz (Ohio State University) the Perplexed" Lawrence Kaplan (McGill University) Divine Providence and the Jewish People in Gersonides' Thought Robert Eisen (George Washington University)
20 21 ~ction 50 State Suite Section 53 Back Bay Room Ideology and Culture in Hebrew Literature Modern Jewish Philosophy Chair: Stanley Nash (Hebrew Union College, New York) Chair: Berel Lang (SUNY-Albany) Marcus Ehrenpreis-A Pioneer of Modern Hebrew Literature Hermann Cohen on the Divine Attributes Avner Holtzman (Tel Aviv University) Martin D. Yaffe (University of North Texas) A Witness to Wondrous Action: "Gideon's Spring" by Zerubavel Gilead Franz Rosenzweig on the Secret of the Form of the Bible Stories and Dorothea Krook, A Study of Autobiography Barbara E. Galli (McGill University) Hanna Naveh (Tel Aviv University) Negative Theology: Derrida's Misreading of Levinas The Function of Hebrew Culture in the Creation of a New National Iden~ Richard A. Cohen (University of Alabama) lity in Eretz Israel Zohar Shavit (101 Aviv University) Session XII, U:OO A.M.-12:45 P.M. Mmetian Room David Grossman's Useful Fictions Section 54 Joseph LDwin (Midrasha Institute of Jewish Studies) Jewish Life in the Great Depression Chair: Judith Smith (Boston College) dion 51 Forum Room Ethnic Credit and Economic Crisis Thbnud: Halakhab, History and Hermeneutics Shelly Tenenbaum (Clark University) Chair: Judith Hauptman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Anti~Semitism in the United States During tbe Depression The Creation of Halakhic Categories: Exegesis as Applied Listenwis~ Leonard Dinnerstein (University of Arizona) senschaft Surviving the Lean Years: New York Synagogues in the Great Depression Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) Beth S. Wenger (Yale University) Changing Amoraic Attitudes Toward Statements by Rav and Shmuel: A Study of the Thlmud as a Historical Source Section 55 State Suite Richard KaImin (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Rabbinic Exegesis: Theory The Intersection of Thlmud Criticism and Literary Analysis: A New Chair: David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Approach ta Aggadah Interpretive Riches: A Study of E'Lu Ve-E'Lu Divrei Elokim Hayim Michael Chernick (Hebrew Union College, New York) Moshe Sokol (Touro College) !ction 52 Directors' Room Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Midrasbic Texts Mark Bregman (Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem) Aspects of Religious Zionism: Social and Ideological Developments Chair: Geoffrey Alderman (University of London) Discourse in Exegetical Midrashim Brigitte Kern-Ulmer (Brown University) Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook's "The 19th Psalm for the State of Israel" Richard Hoch (University of California at Santa Barbara) Section 56 Forum Room Religious Judaism and Socio-Political Cleavage in Israel Jews in the Hellenistic~Roman Period William M. Batkay (Montclair State College) Chair: Nahum Sarna (Brandeis University) Alterman's "Seventh Column" as a Source for Research of the Yishuv's Of Rabbis, Romans and Rabies: Reflections on Early Rabbinic and Attitude Toward the Survivors of tbe Holocaust Roman Understandings of Healing and Disease Aviva Halamish (Tel Aviv University) /'iJ' Barbara H. Geller Nathanson (Wellesley College) \ Josepbus' Interpretation of Jonah Louis Feldman (Yeshiva University) The Authorship of the "AntiMPharisaic" Passages in Antiquities David Salter Williams (University of Georgia) State Suite ction 57 Directors' Room Section 61 Postmodernism in Contemporary Israeli Literature Anti~Semitism and Memory in Literature Chair: Abraham Balaban (University of Florida) Chair: James Young (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Israeli Postmodern Theater: The Work of Hanoch Levin The Inconsistencies of Rhetoric: Exclusion and Mimetic Desire in Gregor Erella Brown (Penn State University) Von Rezzori's "Memoiren eines Antisemiten" Marina van Zuylen (Harvard University) Postmodernism in Contemporary Israeli Literature David Gurevitz (University of WisconsinwMadison) Too Naked and Uncivilized: Jews and Women in British Fiction of World War II Amir Gilboa: A Postmodernist Poet? Phyllis Lassner (University of Michigan) Warren Bargad (University of Florida) Reshaping the Jewish Past: Memory in the Work of Hngo von Hofmanns Section 62 Forum Room thaI and Richard Beer~Hofmann Abigail E. Gillman (Harvard University) Central Figures in Jewish Mysticism Chair: Steven Bowman (University of Cincinnati) ction 58 Back Bay Room Mystical Devekuth in the Doctrine of the Vilna Gaon Epistemological Concerns in Jewish Philosophy Alan Brill (Fordham University) Chair: Annette Aronowicz (Franklin and Marshall College) The Spiritual Significance of Worldly Existence in Early Hasidic The Errant Prophet: Halakhic and Epistemological Perspectives Teachings Shalom Carmy (Yeshiva University) Barry 1. 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Free~Will and Determinism in Jewish Law and Theology: A PsychologiM 1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. cal Analysis AJS Board of Directors Meetb,lg State Suite Foyer Sol Schimmel (Hebrew College) Maimonides' Interpretation of R. Eliezer's "Strange" Statement Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University) .:; hi\.!\~jec( t~i'\ r-e. ie.:~,sc 'X Chll~r ,r ._,.-,." ,L,:),-~ c/ J ~ :"'-' ~, .-t Index of Subjects Index of Participants in the Program lis index refers to predominant themes of a section or group of sections and does not ...,f" J Adan-Bayewitz, David 45 .) Diamond, Eliezer 41 :lude all the individual papers on this theme to be presented at the Conference. Some Ahroni, Reuben 1 )
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