Thursday, 12 July 2018

Excursion to archeological excavation of Stobi with its ancient synagogue and to the city of Bitola/Monastir, its Jewish quarter and cemetery, organized and sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ARHAM.

The excursion will be followed by the Ceremony of Academic Committee Bestowing the Order Kavalyero del Ladino al nombre Eliezer Papo Haviva Pedaya FROM GAZA TO del Don Yitzhak Navon, the Fifth President of the State Jonatan Meir of Israel and the first Honorary President of the Moshe Nathan, the of Sabbatianism David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture at the Ben-Gurion Organizing Committee in History, Literature and Philosophy University of the Negev upon Eliezer Papo Dona Berta Romano Berta Romano for her important contribution in preservation of the Goran Sadikarijo ‏July 10 – 12, 2018 Sephardic culture and Ladino language in the Republic of Macedonia; Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Don Emilian Vilos (posthumously) and Dona Maria Geras Dochovska for the important role they have played in the project of restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Bitola/Monastir. The ceremony will be conducted by Don Erez Navon, the Master of the Order; Prof. Tamar Alexander, the Director J.R. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sephardic Heritage of the Israeli National Authority for Ladino Culture and Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture Mr. Dan Oryan, the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Macedonia. 12:00:-12:30 Tuesday, 10 July 2018 Roy Caspi, Tel-Aviv University 08:30 – 09:15 Registration Prophet and Interpreter - Hermeneutics of Prophecy Session I – Opening Session 12:30:-13:00 Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, University of Haifa Chairperson: Eliezer Papo Sin and Redemption: Zoharic Theosophy in Nathan's Prophecies 9:15-10:00 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Taki Fiti – President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Session III - Visual Art and Polemical Literature Zvi Hacohen – Rector of the Ben-Gurion University of Chairperson: Pawel Maciejko the Negev Berta Romano – President of the Jewish Community in 15:00 – 15:30 the Republic of Macedonia Jonatan Meir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Goran Sadikarijo – Holocaust Memorial Center for the Sabbatian Hagiography and Jewish Polemical Literature 11:30 – 12:00 Jews of Macedonia 15:30 – 16:00 Wednesday, 11 July 2018 Jan Miklas-Frankowski, University of Gdańsk Haviva Pedaya – Head of J. R. Elyachar Center for Svetlana Smolčić Makuljević, Metropolitan University, Sabbetai Sevi and Nathan of Gaza as the Messianic Studies in Sephardic Heritage Belgrade The Image of Nathan of Gaza in European Art Session V - Nathan and the Sabbatians after Predecessors of in the Olga Tokarczuk’s Dan Oryan – Ambassador of the State of Israel to the and the Image of Jews in the Balkan Visual Culture Sabbetai’s Death Novel The Book of Jacob Republic of Macedonia 16:00 – 16:30 12:00 – 12:30 Keynote Speaker Nenad Makuljević, University of Belgrade Chairperson: Jacob Barnai Gordana Todorić, Gaon Center for Ladino Culture Sephardic Jews and Balkan Christians in the Time of Political Discourse as a Field of Deconstruction of Figure 09:00 – 09:30 Chairperson: Tamar Alexander Sabbatian Revolution of a Prophet Hadar Feldman, The Hebrew University of 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch 10:00-10:30 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break The Legacy of Nathan of Gaza in the Late Sabbatian Jacob Barnai, University of Haifa Movement Session VII – Nathan as a Cultural Hero Nathan of Gaza – His Image in Jewish Conscience and Session IV - Nathan, the Theologian 09:30 – 10:00 Chairperson: Haviva Pedaya Historiography Chairperson: Jonatan Meir Cengiz Sisman, University of Houston-CL 14:30 – 15:00 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee-break Nathan of Gaza and the Formation of the Dönmeh Kabbala 17:00 – 17:30 Eliezer Papo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Session II – Nathan, the Man and the Prophet Noam Lefler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nathan – Between Oral Legends and Written A Prophet of an Absent Messiah 10:00 – 10:30 Pawel Maciejko, Johns Hopkins University Hagiography Chairperson: Cengiz Sisman 17:30 – 18:00 Nathan of Gaza in Frank’s Words of the Lord 15:00 – 15:30 Dor Saar-Man, Tel-Aviv University Tamar Alexander, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 11:00-11:30 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break The Attitudes of Samuel Primo and Abraham Cardoso Nathan of Gaza – After Death: Encounters in Dreams Noam Lev El, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem towards Nathan of Gaza Session VI – Nathan in Literature 15:30 – 16:00 The Epistle of R. Nathan of Gaza to Raphael Joseph: 18:00 – 18:30 Federico Dal Bo, University Autònoma de Barcelona Meaning and Reception , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Avinoam J. Stillman Chairperson: Yitzhak Ben-Mordechay Nathan as John the Baptist and Paul: 11:30:-12:00 Nathan of Gaza, R. Yaakov Koppel Lifshitz and the and Jacob Taubes Disputing over Sabbetai Sevi’s Maoz Kahana, Tel-Aviv University Varieties of Lurianic 11:00 – 11:30 Heritage The Traditional Stability of a Change Mode: Sabbetai Nan Goodman, University of Colorado at Boulder 19:00 Visit to the Jewish Community Center 16:30 Visit to the Holocaust Memorial Center Sevi, Nathan of Gaza and Sasportas on "Hora'at Sha’ah” and the Synagogue Nathan of Gaza and the Jewish Renewal Movement for the Jews of Macedonia (‘temporary order’/‘emergency order’) (Reception, followed by cocktail and buffet) in America (Followed by a traditional Macedonian dinner)