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20, 18– ND ANNUAL 43 WASHINGTON, DC WASHINGTON, DECEMBER DECEMBER GRAND HYATT WASHINGTON GRAND HYATT JEWISH STUDIES JEWISH CONFERENCE OF THE THE OF CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION FOR FOR ASSOCIATION

ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES 43RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE DECEMBER 18–20, 2011

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43 Association for Jewish Studies Association for Jewish Studies c/o Center for Jewish History 43rd Annual Conference 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011-6301 Program Book Contents Phone: (917) 606-8249 Fax: (917) 606-8222 E-mail: [email protected] Association for Jewish Studies Goals and Standards...... 4 www.ajsnet.org Institutional Members...... 5 President AJS Staff Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland Rona Sheramy, Executive Director Message from the Conference Chair...... 6 Vice President/Membership Karen Terry, Program and Membership and Outreach Coordinator Conference Information...... 8 Anita Norich, University of Michigan Natasha Perlis, Project Manager Vice President/Program Emma Barker, Conference and Program Program Committee and Division Coordinators...... 9 Derek Penslar, University of Toronto Associate 2011 Award Recipients...... 11 Vice President/Publications Karin Kugel, Program Book Designer and Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Webmaster Hotel Floor Plans...... 14 Secretary/Treasurer Graphic Designer, Cover Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University Ellen Nygaard Sessions at a Glance...... 16 Conference Program...... 24 The Association for Jewish Studies is a Constituent Society of The American Council of Learned Societies. Films...... 80 Conference Exhibitors...... 81 The Association for Jewish Studies wishes to thank the Center for Jewish Advertising Index...... 82 History and its constituent organizations—the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, the University Publishers, Booksellers, Journals...... 84 Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research— for providing the AJS with office space at the Center for Jewish History. Programs, Institutes, Fellowships, and Digital Resources...... 110

Cover credit: Washington Hebrew Congregation Building on 8th Street, 1863. Gala Banquet Sponsors...... 126 Photo courtesy of Washington Hebrew Congregation. Index of Participants...... 146 Copyright © 2011 Index to Sessions by Subject...... 152 No portion of this publication may be reproduced by any means without the express written permission of the Association for Jewish Studies. The views expressed in advertisements herein are those of the advertisers and do not necessarily reflect those of the Association for Jewish Studies. Association for Jewish Studies AJS Institutional Members, 2011-12 Goals and Standards Full Institutional Members Associate Institutional Members The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) was founded in 1969 by a small group of scholars (continued) Brandeis University seeking a forum for exploring methodological and pedagogical issues in the new field of Jewish Columbia University, Institute for and Johns Hopkins University, Leonard and Helen R. Studies. Since its founding, the AJS has grown into the largest learned society and professional Jewish Studies Stulman Jewish Studies Program organization representing Jewish Studies scholars worldwide. As a constituent organization of Cornell University, Jewish Studies Program Loyola Marymount University, Jewish Studies Harvard University, Center for Jewish Studies Program the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association for Jewish Studies represents the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of National Book Center field in the larger arena of the academic study of the humanities and social sciences in North Religion Northeastern University, Jewish Studies Program America. The organization’s primary mission is to promote, facilitate, and improve teaching and Indiana University, Robert A. and Sandra S. Northwestern University, The Crown Family Borns Jewish Studies Program Center for Jewish Studies research in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning. Its The Jewish Theological Seminary, The Graduate Old Dominion University, Institute for Jewish more than 1800 members are university faculty, graduate students, independent scholars, and School Studies and Interfaith Understanding Lehigh University, Philip and Muriel Berman museum and related professionals who represent the breadth of Jewish Studies scholarship. The Portland State University, Harold Schnitzer Family Center for Jewish Studies Program in Jewish Studies organization’s institutional members represent leading North American programs and depart- McGill University, Department of Jewish Studies Purdue University, Jewish Studies Program ments in the field. Monash University, Australian Centre for Jewish Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies Civilisation University at Albany-SUNY, Center for Jewish New York University, Skirball Department of Studies The AJS’s major programs and projects include an annual scholarly conference, featuring more Hebrew and Judaic Studies University of Arizona, Arizona Center for Judaic The Ohio State University, Melton Center for than 150 sessions; a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, AJS Review, published by Cambridge Studies Jewish Studies University of Connecticut, Center for Judaic University Press; a biannual magazine, AJS Perspectives, that explores methodological and peda- Stanford University, Taube Center for Jewish Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life gogical issues; Positions in Jewish Studies, the most comprehensive listing of Jewish Studies job Studies University of Denver, Center for Judaic Studies University of California, Los Angeles, Center for opportunities; Resources in Jewish Studies, an online guide to Jewish Studies programs, grant op- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jewish Studies Program in and Society portunities, professional development resources, electronic research tools, and doctoral theses; University of California, San Diego, Judaic University of Massachusetts Amherst, Judaic and Studies Program the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, which recognize outstanding research in the field; the Legacy Near Eastern Studies Department University of Maryland, Joseph and Rebecca University of Minnesota, Center for Jewish Studies Heritage Jewish Studies Project, in cooperation with the Legacy Heritage Fund, in support of Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Norman and innovative public programming; and the Berman Foundation Dissertation Fellowships. University of Michigan, Jean and Samuel Frankel Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies Center for Judaic Studies University of North Carolina at Asheville, Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for Jewish Studies Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Membership in the association is open to individuals whose full-time vocation is teaching, re- University of Oregon, Harold Schnitzer Family University of Texas at Austin, Schusterman Program in Judaic Studies search, or related endeavors in academic Jewish Studies; to other individuals whose intellectual Center for Jewish Studies University of Pittsburgh, Jewish Studies Program concerns are related to the purposes of the association; and to graduate students concentrating York University, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies University of Tennessee – Knoxville, The Fern and in an area of Jewish Studies. Institutional membership is open to Jewish Studies programs and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies Yeshiva University, Bernard Revel School of departments, foundations, and other institutions whose work supports the mission of the AJS. Jewish Studies University of Virginia, Jewish Studies Program University of Washington, Samuel and Althea Associate Institutional Members Stroum Jewish Studies Program, Jackson School In order to maintain a professional and comfortable environment for its members, conference of International Studies registrants, and staff, the association requires certain standards of behavior. These standards American University, Center for Israel Studies & University of Wisconsin – Madison, Mosse/ Jewish Studies Program Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies include, without limitation, courtesy of discourse, respect for the diversity of AJS members and Center for Cultural University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Sam and conference attendees, and the ability to conduct AJS business and participate in the AJS Confer- Foundation for Jewish Culture Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies Vanderbilt University, Program in Jewish Studies ence in a non-threatening, collegial atmosphere. AJS members and conference participants who Georgetown University, Program for Jewish Civilization Washington University in St. Louis, Department do not uphold these standards may jeopardize their membership or conference participation. Hebrew College of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages If you have any questions, please speak with an AJS staff person at the conference registration International Institute for Secular Humanistic and Cultures Judaism desk; the AJS’s Executive Director, Rona Sheramy; the Vice President for Conference Program, Derek Penslar; or the President of the Association for Jewish Studies, Marsha Rozenblit.

4 5 Association for Jewish Studies publishers for a reception in the exhibit hall to celebrate Jewish Studies books published by AJS members Message from the Conference Chair in 2010 and 2011. Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council Sami Rohr Prize. CAUCUSES, MEETINGS, AND RECEPTIONS: The AJS Conference provides the opportunity for Dear Colleagues: several caucuses, colloquia, and groups to meet. These special events include the AJS Women’s Caucus Breakfast on Monday, December 19 at 7:00 AM; the Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Lunch on Monday, December I am delighted to present the program for the Forty-third Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish 19 at 12:45 PM; the Pedagogy Working Group in Jewish Studies meeting on Monday, December 19 at 1:00 Studies. This is one of the largest and most varied programs in the Association’s history, a reflection of PM; the American Academy for Jewish Research session “(In)visible ” on Monday, December 19 at the ongoing expansion of Jewish Studies in academia throughout the world. Below please find important 2:00 PM; the Directors of Jewish Studies meeting on Tuesday, December 20 at 10:45 AM; and the Works- information pertaining to program events and functions. in-Progress Group in Modern Jewish Studies on Tuesday, December 20 at 3:45 PM. To mark its tenth anniversary, the Center for Jewish History will be sponsoring a cocktail and dessert reception on Monday, HOTEL, REGISTRATION, BADGES, MEALS: All sessions will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, DC. Floor plans on pages 14–15 of this program book show their location and arrangement. December 19 at 9:00 PM in Farragut/Lafayette, open to all conference registrants. For a list of other The Sessions-at-a-Glance table on pages 16–23 provides a summary of events with their locations and times. receptions open to all AJS members, see the daily program schedule for Sunday and Monday evenings. Program books, conference totes, and badge covers will be distributed in the Independence Ballroom Foyer. EVENTS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS: All graduate You may also register for the conference on-site, and take out membership for the 2011-12 membership students are warmly invited to a Graduate Student Reception to be held in their honor on Sunday, year. Badges and kosher meal confirmations were sent to U.S. and Canadian addresses for those who December 18 at 9:30 PM in McPherson Square. Graduate students and early career scholars are also registered and paid all fees by the November 15 deadline. Attendees coming from outside North America: encouraged to attend the Professional Development Workshops on Monday, December 19, from 1:00 please pick up your badges, meal confirmations, and program books at the AJS Registration Desk. Please PM – 2:00 PM in Independence C/D. Details of workshop topics can be found on page 51. remember that conference badges must be worn at all times for admission to the sessions and the Exhibit Hall. Security personnel at the entrance to the book exhibit and elsewhere in the hotel will be checking INTERVIEWS: The AJS has set aside rooms where institutions may conduct job interviews in badges and will only admit those who have registered for the conference. comfortable surroundings. AJS policy prohibits the use of private guest rooms for interviews and offers confidential scheduling of interviewing facilities. Pre-reservation with the AJS office is required. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING: The Annual AJS Business Meeting will take place on Sunday, December 18 at 9:00 AM in Independence H. All AJS members are invited to attend. Voting for nominees SERVICES: The Bulfinch and Latrobe meeting rooms have been set aside at 4:00 PM on Sunday, 7:00 AM to the AJS Board of Directors will take place at this meeting. and 4:00 PM on Monday, and 7:00 AM on Tuesday to accommodate conference participants who wish to organize egalitarian and traditional religious services, respectively. WELCOME RECEPTION, ANNUAL GALA BANQUET, AND PLENARY: Please join us at 6:15 PM on Sunday, December 18 in the Book Exhibit Hall and Independence Foyer for the Welcome Reception, CHILDCARE: The Parents Childcare Co-op has made arrangements for affordable childcare in the sponsored by the Program in Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University. The reception will be followed by hotel during conference meeting hours. Pre-registration is required. For further information, please the Annual Gala Banquet at 7:15 PM. Reduced ticket prices have been made possible through the generous contact Andrea Lieber at [email protected]. The children’s program is funded by a grant from the support of numerous institutions, programs, and departments (see page 40 for a list of banquet sponsors). Center for Cultural Judaism (www.culturaljudaism.org). Please note: the Parents Childcare Co-op is an Immediately following the Gala Banquet, the distinguished philosopher and public intellectual Avishai independent initiative and is not sponsored by nor affiliated with the Association for Jewish Studies. The Margalit will deliver the plenary lecture. His topic will be “The Historian as Traitor: The Case of Josephus.” Association for Jewish Studies assumes no liability for the use of these services.

FILMS: The AJS will screen a line-up of international films over the course of the conference. Features A PERSONAL NOTE: This is my second and final year as Program Chair. As was the case last year, this include Mahler on the Couch ( & Austria 2010) and The Five Houses of Lea Goldberg (Israel 2011) to year’s AJS program features a global cohort of scholars, vast thematic diversity, and a range of presenters be shown Sunday evening at 9:30 PM, and episodes from the Israeli television series Srugim (Israel 2011) and from advanced graduate students to senior faculty. This year’s program continues recent trends at the Between Two Worlds (USA 2011) to be shown Monday evening at 8:30 PM and to be followed by a discussion conference to incorporate sessions devoted to pedagogy, career preparation, and the effects of digital of teaching with film. Films will also be shown throughout the day on Monday in the Conference Theatre. technology on scholarly research in Jewish Studies. Reflecting broader developments within academia as Special thanks to Professor Bernard Cooperman of the University of Maryland and the AJS Conference a whole, the sessions are increasingly interdisciplinary, as cultural studies has inflected and brought into Film Committee for organizing the film screenings. mutual conversation the humanistic disciplines that have historically formed Jewish Studies’ core.

DIGITAL MEDIA AND POSTER SESSION: The AJS is pleased to present a Digital Media and Poster It has been an honor to work over the past two years with the AJS’s president, Marsha Rozenblit, and Session on Monday, December 19 in the Independence Ballroom. This session will feature multimedia Executive Director, Rona Sheramy, as well as Karen Terry (Program and Membership Coordinator), Karin presentations by scholars across the field of Jewish Studies. Presenters will be available to answer questions Kugel (Webmaster and Program Book Designer), and Emma Barker (Conference and Program Associate). and discuss their research during the formal Digital Media and Poster Session hours of 10:30 AM–12:45 PM. The AJS staff, working in tight quarters and often under daunting time pressures, have unfailingly maintained Multimedia presentations and posters will remain on display until 5:30 PM. the highest standards of professionalism and quality. The division heads have evaluated many hundreds of proposals with great care and sound judgment, and the Program Committee has made the herculean task BOOK EXHIBIT, COFFEE BREAK, AND AJS HONORS ITS AUTHORS: The AJS welcomes of reviewing the division heads’ decisions into a collegial as well as stimulating experience. Ultimately, representatives of leading publishers of Jewish Studies scholarship; major foundations supporting Jewish though, the success of the conference depends upon its presenters, whose erudition, intellectual range, Studies research; and archives and research centers, who will be exhibiting at the conference. Peruse and freshness of approach testify to the achievements and future promise of Jewish Studies. Enjoy the the latest books in the field, purchase texts at significant discounts, and learn about fellowship, grant, and conference! research opportunities for students and scholars. The Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary will be sponsoring a coffee break in the exhibit hall on Monday, December 19 from 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM. Sincerely, Make sure to attend a new event this year: AJS Honors its Authors. Please join book authors, members, and Derek Penslar Vice President for Program

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Conference Information 2011 Program Committee Derek Penslar, University of Toronto, Chair Christine Hayes, Yale University Judith Hauptman, Jewish Theological Seminary Conference Facilities Gershon Hundert, McGill University Paula Hyman, Yale University Grand Hyatt Washington Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University 1000 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20001 Pamela S. Nadell, American University Wendy Zierler, HUC-JIR Phone: (202) 582-1234 | Reservations: (800) 233-1234 Ex-officio: grandwashington.hyatt.com Marsha L. Rozenblit, University of Maryland Rona Sheramy, Association for Jewish Studies Childcare 2011 Division Coordinators The Parents Childcare Co-op has made arrangements with Corporate Kids Events Bible and the History of Modern Jewish Holocaust Studies to provide affordable childcare during conference meeting hours. Biblical Interpretation Thought and Theology Samuel Kassow Pre-registration is required. Moshe Bernstein Ken Koltun-Fromm Trinity College Yeshiva University Haverford College The children’s program is funded by a grant from Jews and the Arts the Center for Cultural Judaism. and Jewish History and Carol Zemel Culture Culture in Antiquity York University Contact Andrea Lieber at (717) 245-1482 or [email protected] to register. Beth Berkowitz Seth Schwartz Jewish Theological Seminary Columbia University Social Sciences, Please note: the Parents Childcare Co-op is an independent initiative and is not Anthropology, Folklore sponsored by nor affiliated with the Association for Jewish Studies. Yiddish Studies Medieval and Early Theodore Sasson The Association for Jewish Studies assumes no liability for use of these services. Kathryn Hellerstein Modern Jewish History, Litera- Middlebury College / University of Pennsylvania ture, and Culture Brandeis University Jonathan Decter Modern Jewish Brandeis University Gender Studies Visiting WASHINGton Literature and Culture Chava Weissler Meri-Jane Rochelson Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Lehigh University The AJS website has extensive information about visiting Washington, DC, including Florida International Mark Kligman transportation to and from the airport, cultural sites and activities, and kosher and University HUC-JIR Linguistics, Semiotics, vegetarian restaurants near the hotel. and Philology Modern Hebrew Modern Jewish History Benjamin Hary Please see www.ajsnet.org/wdc.htm for details. Literature in Europe, Asia, Israel, Emory University Barbara Mann and Other Communities Jewish Theological Jeffrey Veidlinger Special Topics, Seminary Indiana University Interdisciplinary Andrea Most Next Year: Medieval Jewish Modern Jewish History University of Toronto Philosophy in the Americas The 44th Annual Conference of the Daniel Frank Beth Wenger Don’t forget: Purdue University University of Pennsylvania Association for Jewish Studies Monday, 12/19 December 16–18, 2012 Jewish Mysticism Israel Studies 4:00 – 4:30 PM Shaul Magid S. Ilan Troen Division Meetings Sheraton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Indiana University Brandeis University to discuss 2012 conference themes

8 9 Berman Foundation 2011 JORDAN SCHNITZER Dissertation Fellowships BOOK AWARD winners in Support of Research In the Category of Ancient and in the Social Scientific Study of the Medieval Jewish History: Contemporary American Jewish Community MARINA RUSTOW, Johns Hopkins University Directed by the Association for Jewish Studies Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Cornell University Press)

AJS is pleased to announce the Berman Foundation Dissertation In the Category of Fellowships in Support of Research in the Social Scientific and Linguistics: Study of the Contemporary American Jewish Community. The Berman Fellowships—two awards of $16,000 each—will SHACHAR M. PINSKER, University of Michigan support doctoral work in the social scientific study of the North Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe American Jewish community during the 2012-2013 academic year. (Stanford University Press)

Applicants must be Ph.D. candidates at accredited higher educational Honorable Mentions in Jewish Literature and Linguistics: institutions who have completed their comprehensive exams GABRIELLA SAFRAN, Stanford University and received approval for their dissertation proposals (ABD). Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-Sky (Harvard University Press)

MAEERA Y. SHREIBER, University of Utah Application Deadline: march 29, 2012 Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics (Stanford University Press)

For further information, please visit the Please join the AJS for a reception in the authors’ honor on Sunday, December 18, at 9:30 pm in Farragut Square. AJS website at ajsnet.org. Information about the 2012 competition will be available on ajsnet.org in February. Support for this project is generously provided by the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation. Support for this program has been generously provided by the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation of Portland, Oregon.

10 11 LEGACY HERITAGE The Association for Jewish Studies is pleased JEWISH STUDIES PROJECT to announce that it awarded more than Directed by the Association for Jewish Studies

Grants in support of innovative public programming. 80 Travel Grants Recipients for the 2012-13 academic year: TO SUPPORT SCHOLARS PRESENTING RESEARCH AT THE 43rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE Muhlenberg College Jews, Money, and the Development of Modern Capitalism The AJS thanks its members and the following foundations Project Director: Jessica Cooperman and institutions for supporting the AJS Travel Grant Program: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Beyond AJS Women’s Caucus Project Director: Jennifer M. Hoyer CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY the University of Mississippi Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African-Americans CHARLES AND LYNN SCHUSTERMAN in the Deep South FAMILY FOUNDATION Project Director: Willa M. Johnson

University of pittsburgh Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Squirrel Hill, The Jewish Community of Pittsburgh, and American Urban History LUCIUS N. LITTAUER FOUNDATION Project Director: Adam Shear

MAURICE AMADO FOUNDATION Please visit ajsnet.org for detailed descriptions of Legacy Heritage projects. POSEN FOUNDATION

Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is generously provided by Legacy Heritage Fund Limited. Please support the AJS Travel Grant Program for the 2012 conference. Go to ajsnet.org.

12 13 G r a n d H y a t t W a s h i n g t o n G r a n d H y a t t W a s h i n g t o n C onstitution L e v e l I n d e p e n d e n c e L e v e l Meeting Rooms Coat Check Please note: Renwick Ladies’ Room Level (5B) Independence Down To Bulfinch Latrobe Men’ Room Meeting Rooms Up To Lagoon Restaurants, Level(1B), Penn Quarter A and B, Conference Theatre are located on the Lagoon Level (1B). Street Burnham Potomac Boardroom Washington Registration Offices (4B) Executive Down To Desk Wilson C D E Constitution Level (3B) Independence Level (5B) Constitution Foyer Roosevelt Constitution Ballroom Corridor C

Corridor B Cabin John B Arlington A

14 15 AssSunday,ociation December for 18,Jewi 2011sh Studies 43rd Annual Conference Sunday, December 18, 2011 Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington, DC • December 18–20, 2011

Sunday Meeting Sunday Sunday Sunday Meeting Sunday Sunday Morning Room 9:30 am – 11:00 am 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Room 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm 1:00 pm – Constitution A 2:00 pm Constitution A 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM 2.1 Constitution B McPherson/ Constitution B Literary Approaches to McPherson/ Franklin Square Biblical Texts Franklin Square 3.1 2.2 GENERAL 1.1 Constitution C Family History in Constitution C Holocaust Literature: BREAKFAST Medieval Ashkenaz GENERAL Scholarly Projects Language, Culture, Time LUNCH (Constitution E) (Independence D) Constitution E/ 1.2 3.2 4.1 2.3 Independence Constitution E New Directions in Hebrew Jewish Models of Conflict The Holocaust in Popular Animals and Judaism D Literary Studies Resolution Culture 9:00 AM 1.3 2.4 3.3 4.2 Independence H Lafayette Park Materiality of Texts and Modern Uses of Blood Libel Lafayette Park Key Concepts in Jewish Materiality and Politics in Jewish Experience in Europe Languages Jewish Antiquity AJS ANNUAL 3.4 BUSINESS 1.4 2.5 Jewish-Christian 4.3 MEETING Burnham Post-Holocaust Narratives, Challenge and Crisis in West Burnham Strategies, Negotiations Bank Settlements Relations in Early Modern Orthodoxies and the Holocaust Europe 1.5 2.6 Independence 3.5 4.4 The Pogrom in Europe, USA, Israel: Jewish Independence G North American Jewish Marshall Sklare Memorial Cultural Imagination Dynamics after WWII G Demography Award Lecture 2.7 3.6 Independence 1.6 Jews and Women's 4.5 Independence Magic and Monsters: 10:30 AM I Biblical Themes in the Arts Landscape Photography and Performing Jewishness on the I Holocaust Film and Independence E Video Stage II Literature 1.7 2.8 AJS BOARD OF Penn Quarter 3.7 Narratives of The Religious Self in Ancient Penn Quarter 4.6 DIRECTORS A Theology in Modern Rapprochement Judaism A Prophecy and Politics at 30 MEETING Hebrew Literature 1.8 2.9 Penn Quarter 4.7 Performing Jewishness on Unraveling Discourses on Penn Quarter 3.8 B Art, Culture, Politics in the Stage I Intermarriage B Polish Jewry Contemporary Israel 1.9 2.10 3.9 Renwick The Androgyne: Breaking Addressing Women: Gender 4.8 Renwick Angels in Pre-Modern the Gender Binary and Journals Old Thought and Culture 1.10 2.11 3.10 4.9 Roosevelt Food in Jewish Literature and Language Roosevelt Jews and Entertainment Rabbinic Theology: Radicalism in American Culture and Revisionism 1.11 2.12 3.11 4.10 Cabin John Jewish Women in Early Moving On, Looking Back: Cabin John Russians, Arabs, Women Rebels and : The Public Modern Contexts Survivors and Helpers in Israeli Film Intellectual 1.12 2.13 3.12 4.11 Arlington Reading in Exile: Strauss, Judaism and Rabbinic Arlington Between Yiddish and Migration/Translation Goldberg, Taubes Culture, 1675-1725 German I 3.13 1.13 2.14 4.12 Wilson Mapping Sephardi Wilson and Jewish Reversion to Judaism in the Interpreting Film Identities Late Middle Ages Identities 16 17 Sunday, December 18 – MOnday, December 19, 2011 MOnday, December 19, 2011

Sunday Monday Meeting monday Monday Meeting Monday MONDAY evening Morning Room 8:30 am – 10:30 Am 10:30 am – Room 11:00 am – 12:45 pm LUNCHtime 6:15 PM – 5.1 11:00 am 7.1 12:45 PM – 7:15 PM 7:30 AM – Constitution A Youth in Modern Jewish Constitution A Sephardi/Mizrahi Pedagogy 2:00PM Book Exhibit Hall/ 8:30 AM History Roundtable Independence Foyer McPherson/ 5.2 7.2 Franklin Square Independence E WELCOME Constitution B Religious Authority in Independence Constitution B Jewish Literature/ American Jewish Life Ballroom World Literature RECEPTION GENERAL AAJR LUNCH 6:15 PM – BREAKFAST 5.3 7.3 book 7:15 PM Constitution C Demographic Narratives and Constitution C Rabbinic and Medieval Independence F Identity Research exhibit Exegesis Coffee Independence B 5.4 7.4 MARSHALL SKLARE 7:00 AM – Break Constitution E Rethinking Jewish Constitution E Charles Silberman’s A Certain AWARD RECEPTION 8:30 AM Sponsored SEPHARDI/ Internationalism People 25 Years Later Independence by The MIZRAHI 7:15 PM – D/E Graduate 7.5 CAUCUS 8:15 PM 5.5 School of JTS Lafayette Park Gender, Spirituality, LUNCH Constitution Ballroom Lafayette Park Late Medieval/Early Modern WOMEN’S Embodiment CAUCUS 7.6 GALA BANQUET BREAKFAST 5.6 Burnham Dilemmas of Jewish Life: Soviet McPherson/ Burnham Between Halakhah and 8:15 PM – Union Wartime Ghettos Franklin Square 9:15 PM Philosophy Constitution Ballroom 7.7 5.7 Monday Independence GENERAL LUNCH Independence Dilemmas of American Jews at American Jewish Intellectuals G PLENARY G 10:30 am – the Approach to WWII and Gender ADDRESS 12:45 pm Independence 7.8 1:00 PM – Avishai Margalit 5.8 I In and Out of Africa 2:00 PM Independence 9:30 PM – Research, Outreach, and 7.9 Independence H I Penn Quarter 11:00 PM Pedagogy in the Digital Age Curating the Modern Jewish Independence A See pg. 41 for locations Experience PEDAGOGY 5.9 Ballroom WORKING Penn Quarter 7.10 FILM European Penn Quarter GROUP A Moving Yiddish: SCREENINGS: Architecture 6.1 B Translation and Transformation 5.10 DIGITAL The Five Houses of Lea Penn Quarter : Jewish and MEDIA 7.11 1:00 PM – Goldberg B Palestinian Voices AND Renwick Antisemitism, Modernity, and 2:00 PM Poster Politics in Europe before WWI Independence Mahler on the Couch 5.11 C/D Session 7.12 Renwick Theory and History of 9:30 PM – Roosevelt Jewish Affairs and Non-Jewish Talmudic Redaction PROFESSIONAL 10:30 PM Authorities DEVELOPMENT Farragut Square 5.12 7.13 WORKSHOPS Roosevelt Kabbalistic Theosophy in Cabin John Literary Approaches to the JORDAN SCHNITZER Practice BOOK AWARD 5.13 1:00 PM – RECEPTION Cabin John 7.14 North African Jewry Arlington Jewish Legal Response to the 2:00 PM 9:30 PM – Holocaust Arlington 10:30 PM 5.14 Arlington McPherson Square Yiddish Prose 7.15 Reading Wilson Tragedy, Sin, and Theodicy in Sutzkever 5.15 GRADUATE STUDENT Wilson German-Jewish Thought RECEPTION Jews, Race, Caste

18 19 MOnday, December 19, 2011 MOnday, December 19 – Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Monday Monday Tuesday Meeting Tuesday Meeting Monday Monday 4:00 pm – evening Morning Room 8:30 am – 10:30 Am Room 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm 4:30 pm 10.1 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Constitution A The Changing Map of Modern 8.1 7:30 AM – 9.1 See p. 63 for Jewish Literature Constitution A Teaching the Holocaust 8:30 AM Independence Regarding Susan Sontag through Film locations 10.2 Ballroom McPherson/ Constitution B Modern Jewish Politics in the 9.2 Franklin Square 8.2 Receptions College Classroom Constitution B AJS Identity, Desire, Power: Gender Studies in Irano-Talmudica Honors Its and Modernity GENERAL 10.3 Authors BREAKFAST Constitution C Bi-Nationalism in Mandatory 9.3 8.3 Coffee Palestine Constitution C Gender and Genesis: Rachel 7:30 PM (In)visible Jews Break and Leah McPherson/ 10.4 Franklin Square Constitution E Calendar Books in Medieval 8.4 Sponsored 9.4 Jewish Society Constitution E Modern Jewish Literary by the Jewish Jews as Progressive Activists dinner 7:00 AM – History Book Council 8:30 AM 10.5 Sami Rohr Gendered Anxieties: 8.5 9.5 Independence E Lafayette Park Prize Perceived Threats to the Lafayette Park Medieval Judaism in East Jews in Medieval and Early Jewish Community and West Modern Europe 8:30 PM DIVISION 10.6 9.6 See p. 64 for 8.6 CHAIR AND Burnham The Religious Significance of Burnham African & Middle-Eastern Jews locations The Right Wing in Israel PROGRAM Negative Theology in Israeli Film/Theatre COMMITTEE See p. 57 for 10.7 8.7 locations FILM SCREENINGS MEETING Independence Independence 9.7 Extra-Familial Factors in “Political Economy” of G G Wartime Lodz Shaping Jewish Identity Social Science Research Division Srugim: Meetings Selected Episodes 10.8 8.8 9.8 Independence Independence Reevaluating Jews and the Gender and Orthodoxy in Radical Orthodoxy in the 20th I I Between Two American Civil War the Movement Century Worlds 10.9 9.9 Penn Quarter 8.9 Penn Quarter Jewish Interests and Concerns: Multilingual Jewish Identities: A Modern Religious Art A Between Community and Ashkenazi State 9.10 Penn Quarter 8.10 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM Europe in the , the Penn Quarter 10.10 B and Duran Farragut/ Yishuv in Europe Lafayette Park B Jews in 20th-Century Theatre 8.11 9.11 10.11 Renwick Hebrew: National Identity Multilingual Jewish Identities- Center for Renwick The Making of Rabbinic Law, and Language Sephardi/Mizrahi Jewish History COCKTAIL Power, and Authority 8.12 9.12 AND DESSERT 10.12 Roosevelt Religious-Secular Divide in Rabbinic Rhetoric Reception Roosevelt Cultural Studies in Jewish 20th-Century Latin America 8.13 9.13 Cabin John Jewish-Muslim and 10.13 Poets in Yiddish and Hebrew Cabin John Jewish-Arab Relations Revisited 10:00 PM 8.14 Conference Theatre 9.14 10.14 Arlington Between Yiddish and Levinas and Social Justice Arlington Genesis: Literary Devices and German II Film in the Ideological Ramifications classroom 8.15 9.15 Wilson Wilson Innovations in American Jewish Literature and Art in Jewish Culture after WWII Christian Contexts

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Tuesday tuesday TUESday Tuesday Meeting Room Meeting Room 10:45 am – 12:45 pm lunchtime 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

11.1 Constitution A Constitution A Halakhah in the Damascus Document 12:45 PM – 11.2 Constitution B Constitution B 20th-Century America and its Jewish 1:45 PM Photographers McPherson/ Franklin Square Constitution C 11.3 Constitution C Jews and Mass Market Fiction in the United States GENERAL 12.1 13.1 LUNCH Constitution E Israel Between East and West Jewish Pasts and Presents 11.4 Constitution E Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish 12.2 13.2 The Transformation of Texts: Lafayette Park Jewish Intellectuals and the Imperial 11.5 Esther in and Lafayette Park State in Eastern Europe Emmanuel Levinas and Comedy the Fine Arts 11.6 12.3 13.3 Burnham Fantasies of Jewish Power in the 20th Overcoming Displacement: 12:45 PM – Burnham Works-in-Progress Group in Modern Century Statelessness and Refugee Status Jewish Studies 3:00 PM after 1945 11.7 Independence E Independence G Early Modern and Modern Self- 12.4 13.4 Independence G New Perspectives on Framing Jewish Arts in Modern Fashionings AJS Eating and Identity Germany 11.8 BOARD OF 12.5 Independence I Contextualizations of Jewish Legal DIRECTORS 13.5 Independence I Authority and History in 19th- Commentary MEETING Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity Century Anglo-Jewish Literature 11.9 13.6 Penn Quarter A The State of Israel: Creation and First 12.6 Penn Quarter A Kinds of Longing: Poetry and Years Jewish Families and Institutions Memoirs of Yiddish Women Writers 11.10 13.7 Penn Quarter B Jewish Political Behavior in Israel and the 12.7 Penn Quarter B Jewish Literature in Italy and US Photographers Fighting Fascism Provence 11.11 Renwick 12.8 13.8 Meeting of Jewish Studies Directors Renwick Rituals and Ritual Concepts in Service Learning and Community 11.12 and Engagement Roosevelt Looking In, Looking Out: Jews of the 12.9 13.9 Americas and the World Roosevelt Folklore and Ethnography of Susan Taubes: Life, Thought, and Jewish Women Writing 11.13 Cabin John Transitions in Jewish-Muslim Relations in 12.10 North Africa Cabin John Crises of French and Maghrebi Jewry in the 20th Century 11.14 Arlington Defining the Nazis: Pre-War and 12.11 Post-War Responses Arlington Acculturation Models in Jewish Texts: Pre-Modern Italy 11.15 Wilson Jews and Nobles, Competitors, and Compatriots

22 23 Sunday,Associ aDtionecember for 18, Jewish 2011 Studies 43rd Annual Conference Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:30 am – 11:00 am Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington, DC ⌑ December 18–20, 2011

1.3 Lafayette Park THE MATERIALITY OF TEXTS AND JEWISH EXPERIENCE: PAST AND PRESENT Sunday, December 18, 2011 Moderator: Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary) Discussants: Andrea B. Lieber (Dickinson College) General Breakfast 8:30 am – 9:30 am McPherson/Franklin Square Adam B. Shear (University of Pittsburgh) (By pre-paid reservation only) 1.4 Burnham Registration 8:30 am – 6:00 pm Independence Foyer POST-HOLOCAUST NARRATIVES, STRATEGIES, AND NEGOTIATIONS AJS Business Meeting 9:00 am – 9:30 am Independence H Chair: Jody Myers (California State University at Northridge) Sunday Buber’s Dialogue with Postwar Germany AJS Board of 10:30 am – 2:00 pm Independence E Abigail Esther Gillman (Boston University) Directors Meeting Levi’s Auschwitz: A Universal Tragedy? Yes and No Sunday Book Exhibit 1:00 pm – 7:15 pm Independence Ballroom Sharon Portnoff (Connecticut College) Salome and Exodus: From the Bible and Wilde to Post-Holocaust Hollywood (List of Exhibitors, p. 81) S.I. Salamensky (University of California, Los Angeles)

1.5 Independence G THE POGROM IN THE CULTURAL IMAGINATION Session 1, Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:30 am - 11:00 am Chair: Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of ) 1.1 Constitution C The Pogrom as Tragedy MEDIEVAL ASHKENAZ Mikhal Dekel (City College of New York, CUNY) Chair: Robert Chazan (New York University) How the Pogrom Traveled to Israel: Conceptualizing Israel through the Alexander he-Hasid? Mirabelia Mundi in Medieval Ashkenaz European Past David I. Shyovitz (Northwestern University) Tamar S. Hess (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Constructing Credibility: Making Gender in Medieval Ashkenaz My Kishinev Pogrom Rachel Furst (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Nancy K. Miller (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Death and Ritual Impurity in Medieval Ashkenaz: Polemic and Halakhic Considerations 1.6 Independence I Yechiel Y. Schur (University of Pennsylvania) BIBLICAL THEMES IN THE ARTS Chair: Sarit Cofman-Simhon (Kibbutzim College/Emunah College) 1.2 Constitution E Reading the Authentic Oriental? Images of Biblical Women in Ephraim Moses NEW DIRECTIONS IN HEBREW LITERARY STUDIES Lilien’s Oeuvre, 1900-1914 Chair: Rachel S. Harris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Lynne Swarts (University of Sydney) “Could there be such total negation?”: Hemda Ben-Yehuda Writing the New Recent Discovery: Illuminated Book of Esther by Bezalel Artist Shmuel Ben Hebrew Woman David, ca. 1923 Orian Zakai (University of Michigan) Alexander Mishory (The Open University of Israel) When Demons are Humanized: The Representation of Holocaust Perpetrators in “The Slips and Leaps of a Lively Mind”: Of Ideological Stereotypes and Israeli Fiction Israelism in Steve Reich’s Tehillim Or Rogovin (University of Washington) Ronit Seter ( Research Centre) Mesollelot: Lesbian Hebrew Literature Nitsa Kann (Dickinson College)

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24 25 Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:30 am – 11:00 am Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:30 am – 1:00 pm

1.7 Penn A 1.11 Cabin John TURNS AND RETURNS: NARRATIVES OF RAPPROCHEMENT IN MODERN JEWISH WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN CONTEXTS JEWISH HISTORY Chair: Judith R. Baskin (University of Oregon) Chair and Respondent: Daniel B. Schwartz (George Washington University) Shylock’s Daughter-in-Law: Adultery and Jewish Banking in Pre-Ghetto Rome The Right Path: Seventeenth-Century Former Conversos on Their Turn to Bernard D. Cooperman (University of Maryland) Judaism Gzeires Tah Vetat as a Gendered Experience: Jewish Women Victims and Anne Albert (University of Pennsylvania) Refugees, 1648-1683 Picturing Jewish Returns in Victorian Culture Adam Teller (Brown University) Sarah Gracombe (Stonehill College) On the Role of Jewish Women in the Medical World of Early Modern Germany Sunday Apostasy or Return? Relapsed Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia Nimrod Zinger (Washington University in St. Louis) Ellie Schainker (Emory University) 1.12 Arlington 1.8 Penn B THE ART OF READING IN EXILE: LEO STRAUSS, LEAH GOLDBERG, AND JACOB Sunday PERFORMING JEWISHNESS ON THE MAINSTREAM STAGE, PART I TAUBES Chair: Stuart Hecht (Boston College) Chair: Martin Treml (Zentrum fuer Literatur- und Kulturforschung) Anne Frank: From Diary to Broadway Stage Play “Plato Prophesied the Revelation”: Leo Strauss and the “Guidance” of Edna Nahshon (Jewish Theological Seminary) Hermann Cohen Performing the Russian- in America Dana Hollander (McMaster University) Valleri Hohman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Political Theology, Secularization, or Legitimacy: Jacob Taubes as Reader of Jewish-American Identity Construction in Mamet’s Business Plays Hans Blumenberg’s Works Jon Dietrick (Babson College) Herbert J. Kopp-Oberstebrink (Zentrum fuer Literatur- und Kulturforschung)

1.9 Renwick 1.13 Wilson THE ANDROGYNE: BREAKING THE GENDER BINARY IN RABBINIC LAW AND YIDDISH THEATRE AND THE FORMATION OF JEWISH IDENTITIES LITERATURE Chair: Nora Glickman (Queens College, CUNY) Chair: Judith Hauptman (Jewish Theological Seminary) Acting Jewish Gender on the American Stage Defying the Binary? The Androgynous in Tosefta Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University) Sarra Lev (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) The Drama of Jewish Identity: Yiddish Theatre in The Yash Novels by Jacob the Androgynous: Subverting the Boundaries of Masculinity Glatstein Max Strassfeld (Stanford University) Shirli Sela-Levavi (Rutgers University) Seed and Sexuality: Rabbinic Concerns about Female Semination Yiddish Theatre in 1950s Israel: Yiddish Culture or Group Identity Tirzah Meacham (University of Toronto) Rachel Rojanski (Brown University)

1.10 Roosevelt FOOD IN GLOBAL JEWISH LITERATURE, FROM NOVELS TO COOKBOOKS Chair: Jordan D. Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Eating Themselves into Americans: Food and Table Manners in Lower East Session 2, Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:15 am - 1:00 pm Side Immigrant Jewish Literature 2.1 Constitution B Ted Merwin (Dickinson College) LITERARY APPROACHES TO BIBLICAL TEXTS The Importance of Cinnamon in Sephardic Jewish Literature Chair: Alan T. Levenson (University of Oklahoma) Ruth Knafo Setton (Lehigh University) Mind the Gap: Ambiguity in the Story of Cain and Abel The Jewish Cookbook as a Literary Genre: Putting French Jewish Food in Karolien Vermeulen (Ghent University/University of Antwerp) Context Az Yashir (The Song at the Sea) as Liturgy Joan Nathan (Independent Scholar) Reuven R. Kimelman (Brandeis University) Chiasm and Meaning in 1 Chronicles Yitzhak Berger (Hunter College, CUNY)

26 27 Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:15 am – 1:00 pm

2.2 Constitution C 2.5 Burnham NEW APPROACHES TO LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST: LOOKING ACROSS CHALLENGE AND CRISIS IN WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND TIME Chair: Ilan Troen (Brandeis University) Chair: Ezra Cappell (University of Texas at El Paso) When Prophecy Fails: Settler Rabbis Confront Israeli Territorial Compromises Contemporary Jewish American Holocaust Fiction and the Magical Realist Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina, Pembroke) Turn The Concept of “Home” in Settler Ideology Caroline M. Rody (University of Virginia) Michael Feige (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Negotiating Lot’s Wife in Literature of Witness Beyond Land: Varieties of Religiosity in the Settlements Michele Osherow (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Joseph Ringel (Brandeis University) Sunday Arthur Miller’s Focus and What it Reveals about the Essence of Antisemitism The Development of American Jewish Philanthropic Involvement in the David Alan Patterson (University of Texas at Dallas) Settlement Debate Sunset in the Golden Land: American Hebrew Literature of the Holocaust Eric Fleisch (Brandeis University) Years Sunday Stephen Katz (Indiana University) 2.6 Independence G EUROPE, AMERICA, ISRAEL: RETHINKING JEWISH DYNAMICS AFTER WORLD 2.3 Constitution E WAR II ANIMALS AND JUDAISM: NEW RESEARCH AND THE EMERGING SUBFIELD Chair: Maud S. Mandel (Brown University) Moderator: Phillip Isaac Ackerman-Lieberman (Vanderbilt University) “The People Must Be Forced to Go to Palestine”: Abraham Klausner and Discussants: Kalman P. Bland (Duke University) the She’erit Hapletah in Germany Jonathan K. Crane (Emory University) Avinoam Patt (University of Hartford) Sergey Dolgopolski (University at Buffalo, SUNY) No Place Like Home? The Politics of Childhood, Family, and Nation among Aaron S. Gross (University of San Diego) French and American Jews, 1944-1954 Daniella Doron (Colgate University) 2.4 Lafayette Park The Price of Free Food: Italian, American, and Palestinian Jews in Postwar EVIL ACCUSATIONS: MODERN USES OF BLOOD LIBEL IN CENTRAL AND Italy, 1944-1950 EASTERN EUROPE Shira Klein (New York University) Chair: Magda Teter (Wesleyan University) Respondent: Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union) “A Barbaric By-Product of Religious Fanaticism!”: The Blood Libel in the Soviet Union in the Interwar Period 2.7 Independence I Elissa Bemporad (Queens College, CUNY) JEWS AND WOMEN’S LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO Staging a Modern-Day Ritual Murder: Philipp Halsmann, Andreas von Rinn, Chair and Respondent: Laura J. Wexler (Yale University) and the Austrian Dreyfus Affair Jewish “Ghosts” and the Landscape Tradition in the Work of Susan Hiller Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Lisa Bloom (University of California, San Diego) Jewish Students, Christian Corpses: Re-fashioning Blood Libel in Interwar Deep England: Belonging, Dislocation, and Cultural Narratives Rachel Susan Garfield (Goldsmiths, University of London) Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College) Judit Hersko’s “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer” Respondent: Hillel J. Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis) Judit Hersko (California State University, San Marco)

2.8 Penn A THE FORMATION OF THE RELIGIOUS SELF IN ANCIENT JUDAISM Chair and Respondent: Steven P. Weitzman (Stanford University) Sensory Disciplining and Construction of the Self in the Book of Proverbs Greg Schmidt Goering (University of Virginia) The Shema Rituals and the Embodied Self in Tannaitic Literature Elizabeth Shanks Alexander (University of Virginia)

28 29 Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:15 am – 1:00 pm

2.9 Penn B 2.12 Cabin John UNRAVELING DISCOURSES ABOUT INTERMARRIAGE MOVING ON AND LOOKING BACK: SURVIVORS AND THEIR HELPERS Chair and Respondent: Sherry Israel (Brandeis University) Chair: Deborah Hertz (University of California, San Diego) Complex Consequences: How Discourses Shape Intermarried Couples’ Family Attitudes of American Soldiers towards Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Lives Europe Jennifer Thompson (Drake University) Amy Michelle Smith (Yale University) Narratives of Interfaith Parents Raising Their Children with Jewish Identities Linking Religion and Family: Jewish Children in Convents during the Peter Kaufman Gluck (Independent Scholar) Holocaust Methodological and Theoretical Narratives about Intermarriage: Suzanne Vromen (Bard College) Sunday A Quantitative Perspective Rescuing the “Flotsam and Jetsam of Nazidom”: The Central British Fund as Bruce A. Phillips (HUC-JIR) Child Advocate in the Immediate Postwar Period Mary Fraser Kirsh (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2.10 Renwick Respondent: Samuel D. Kassow (Trinity College) Sunday ADDRESSING AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN: GENDER AND JOURNALS DURING THE INTERWAR YEARS . 2.13 Arlington Chair and Respondent: Shuly Rubin Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary) NEW PERSPECTIVES ON JUDAISM AND RABBINIC CULTURE, 1675-1725 “It Will Be ‘As a Magnet’”: The Quarterly of Alpha Epsilon Phi and the Chair: Adam B. Shear (University of Pittsburgh) Development of a National Jewish Sorority during the Interwar Years Some Lacunae in Early Modern Jewish Historiography along with Suggestions Shira M. Kohn (Jewish Theological Seminary) for Their Redress “All About Eve”: From the Pages of Eve, a Journal for American Jewish Matt Goldish (Ohio State University) Women Merchant Wealth in Eighteenth-Century Italy: How to Combine Culture and Peggy Pearlstein (Library of Congress) Modernization in a Jewish Key Forging Women of Vision and Practicality Federica Francesconi (University of Oregon) Rachel Gordan (Harvard University) The Persona of a Poseq: Social Conscience, Religious Sensibility, and Self- Fashioning in Late Seventeenth-Century Ashkenaz 2.11 Roosevelt Jay R. Berkovitz (University of Massachusetts Amherst) KABBALAH AND LANGUAGE Respondent: Joseph M. Davis (Gratz College) Chair: Aubrey L. Glazer (JCC of Harrison) Dos Pintele Yod: Hebrew Orthography, the Play of Ethics, and the Jewish 2.14 Wilson Mystical Imagination REVERSION TO JUDAISM IN THE CROWN OF ARAGON DURING THE LATE Elliot K. Ginsburg (University of Michigan) MIDDLE AGES The Hebrew Letterform in the Sefer Yetzirah: Between Religion and Magic Chair and Respondent: Benjamin R. Gampel (Jewish Theological Seminary) Marla Segol (Skidmore College) Differing Rabbinic Approaches toward Reverting Apostates in Christian The Scientific Phase of Sefer Yetzirah Revisited Spain: Sources and Strategies Tzahi Weiss (Tel Aviv University/The Shalem Center) Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University) Anti-Christian Polemic and the Art of Re-Judaizing Apostates in Fourteenth- Century Aragon Paola Ymayo Tartakoff (Rutgers University) The Treasure Across the Sea: Economic Motivations of Post-1391 Majorcan Converso Exiles Natalie B. Oeltjen (University of Toronto)

30 31 Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

3.4 Burnham General Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm McPherson/ JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (By pre-paid reservation only) Franklin Square Chair: Ruth Langer (Boston College) Converso, Convert, Christian: Marranism in Early Modern England Jeffrey Spencer Shoulson (University of Miami) Jews and Flemish in the Brazilian Sugar Trade: Between Rivalry and Session 3, Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Cooperation Daniel Strum (Stanford University) 3.1 Constitution C Self-proclaimed Jews among the Christian Aristocrats of the Eighteenth SCHOLARLY PROJECTS, PERSONAL CONNECTIONS: USING ONE’S OWN FAMILY Sunday Century HISTORY TO ILLUMINATE THE JEWISH PAST Pawel Maciejko (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Moderator: Marc Lee Raphael (College of William and Mary) The Idea of Freedom of Conscience among Seventeenth-Century Portuguese

Discussants: Muriel Ruth Gillick (Harvard Medical School) Sunday Jews Eric L. Goldstein (Emory University) Miriam Bodian (University of Texas at Austin) Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University) Lee Shai Weissbach (University of Louisville) 3.5 Independence G 3.2 Constitution E NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH DEMOGRAPHY: METHODS AND TRENDS JEWISH MODELS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION Chair: Ira M. Sheskin (University of Miami) Moderator: Marc Gopin (George Mason University) Cross-Survey Analysis and Projections of the Future of the U.S. Jewish Discussants: Michael S. Berger (Emory University) Community Robert J. Eisen (George Washington University) Matthew E. Boxer (Brandeis University) Reuven Firestone (HUC-JIR) The Jewish Future is Now Peter W. Ochs (University of Virginia) Theodore Sasson (Middlebury College) and Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University) Daniel Roth (Bar-Ilan University/Pardes Institute of Jewish The Construction, Content, and Consequences of Jewishness: Thoughts on Studies) Measuring Jewish Identity Mervin F. Verbit (Touro College) 3.3 Lafayette Park Why Do So Many American Jews Refer to Themselves as Secular? KEY CONCEPTS IN Jacques Berlinerblau (Georgetown University) Moderator: Benjamin H. Hary (Emory University) Discussants: David H. Aaron (HUC-JIR) 3.6 Independence I Monique Rodrigues Balbuena (University of Oregon) MAGIC AND MONSTERS: IMAGINING JEWS AND THEIR FATES IN FILM AND Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University) LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST Elliot K. Ginsburg (University of Michigan) Chair: Jacob Lassner (Northwestern University) Joshua L. Miller (University of Michigan) The Golem in American Holocaust Fiction: Can Fantasy Contain the Monster? Anita Norich (University of Michigan) Mia Spiro (York University) Hana Wirth-Nesher (Tel Aviv University) Jews as Monsters and Monsters as Jews: The Case of The Great Dictator and Genghis Cohn Alexis Esther Pogorelskin (University of Minnesota-Duluth) Magical Transports and Transformations: The Lessons of Children’s Holocaust Fiction Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University)

32 33 Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

3.7 Penn A 3.11 Cabin John CONSTRUCTIONS OF THEOLOGY IN MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM: RUSSIANS, ARABS, AND WOMEN ON THE ISRAELI Chair: Yael Halevi-Wise (McGill University) SCREEN “I am that I am”: Tuvia Rübner’s Negative Theology Chair: Ranen Omer-Sherman (University of Miami) Uri Hollander (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Parallel Lives: Palestinian and Jewish Women in Recent Israeli Cinema “Don’t leave me alone with God!”: Hanoch Levin and the Divine Rachel S. Harris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Neta Stahl (Johns Hopkins University) Representations of Blackness in Israeli Cinema Back from Heavenly Lake: Thematic Constructs in Haim Be’er’s Latest Novel Stephanie Tara Schwartz (University of Ottawa) Riki Traum Avidan (Fairleigh Dickinson University) Rochele and the Russian Prince: Merkhak Sunday Blindness and the Abyss: Political Theology and Secularization in Bialik Anna P. Ronell (Brandeis University) Hamutal Tsamir (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 3.12 Arlington 3.8 Penn B BETWEEN YIDDISH AND GERMAN: CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL Sunday POLISH JEWRY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES PERSPECTIVES, PART I Chair: Joshua Zimmerman (Yeshiva University) Chair: Iris Idelson-Shein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Domesticating the Savage: The Early Travel Writing of Hayyim Shoshkes From Yiddish into German: Religious Polemics and Intercultural Translation Jack Kugelmass (University of Florida) in the Early Modern Period Jewish Publishers and the Polish Book in Modernizing Poland Aya Elyada (Duke University) Karen Auerbach (Monash University) State of Mind or Just a Matter of Style: On the Yiddish of Abraham Levi’s The Mother of Orphans: Stefania Wilczynska and Institutional Care for Travelogue (1764) Jewish Children in Interwar Poland Shlomo Berger (University of Amsterdam) Sean Martin (Western Reserve Historical Society) German in Franconia: An Intermediary Stage of Literary Modernization 3.9 Renwick Carsten L. Wilke (Central European University) “INTELLIGENCES WITHOUT MATTER”? ANGELS IN PRE-MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND CULTURE 3.13 Wilson Chair: Shaul Magid (Indiana University) ACROSS THE AEGEAN: MAPPING SEPHARDI MODERNITIES IN IZMIR AND Thinking with Angels: On the Ritual and Literary Functions of Angels in SALONICA Judaism in Late Antiquity Chair: Matthias B. Lehmann (Indiana University) Michael D. Swartz (Ohio State University) and the Ladino Press in Late Ottoman Salonica Angel Names in the Cairo Genizah: Classification and Analysis Paula Daccarett (University of California, Santa Cruz) Ortal Paz Saar (Tel Aviv University) Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Nineteenth-Century Izmir The Invocation of Angels in Medieval Sephardic and Italian Sources Dina Danon (Stanford University) Katelyn Mesler (Northwestern University) In Defense of the Jewish Cemetery of Salonica: Official and Unofficial Jewish Respondent: Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University) Leaders Confront the Greek Nation-State, 1917-1942 Devin Naar (University of Washington) 3.10 Roosevelt JEWS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND IDEAS IN MIDCENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE Chair: Ari Y. Kelman (University of California, Davis) Notes on Midstream: Shlomo Katz, American Zionism, and Highbrow Culture at Midcentury Emily Alice Katz (University of California, Irvine) The Jewish Origins of James Baldwin Mia Sara Bruch (University of Michigan) Eddie Cantor and Jewish Celebrity in 1930s America David Weinstein (National Endowment for the Humanities) From Schmaltz to Chicken Fat: Will Elder and the Digestion of into Mainstream American Culture Daniel M. Bronstein (Congregation Beth Elohim) 34 35 Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

Session 4, Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm 4.4 Independence G MARSHALL SKLARE MEMORIAL AWARD LECTURE 4.1 Independence D Sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry THE HOLOCAUST IN POPULAR CULTURE Chair: Harriet Hartman (Rowan University) Chair: Michlean Amir (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Boundaries, Margins, and Norms: The Intellectual Stakes in the Study of The First Monument to the Holocaust in North America: Nathan Rapoport and American Jewish Culture(s) the Monument to the Six Million Martyrs Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota) Natasha Goldman (Bowdoin College) Respondents: Ari Y. Kelman (University of California, Davis) Remembering the Shoah in Popular Song: Indigo Girls and Patty Griffin Shaul Kelner (Vanderbilt University) Sunday Martin B. Shichtman (Eastern Michigan University) Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan) The Reception of Kathy Kacer’s and Uri Orlev’s Holocaust Fiction Rosemary Horowitz (Appalachian State University) 4.5 Independence I Retelling the Holocaust: Popular Culture and the Evasion of the Message in PERFORMING JEWISHNESS ON THE MAINSTREAM STAGE, PART II Sunday the Story Chair: Edna Nahshon (Jewish Theological Seminary) Rachel Feldhay Brenner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Overcoming HUAC through Sholem Aleichem: Two Paths toward Portraying Ethnicity on the American Musical Stage 4.2 Lafayette Park Stuart Hecht (Boston College) MATERIALITY AND POLITICS IN JEWISH ANTIQUITY Sheenies, Shylocks, Fagins, and Gangsters: Criminal Stereotypes On and Off Chair: Hayim Lapin (University of Maryland) the Stage in Antebellum Jewish America Hellenistic Diaspora Narratives and the Construction of an Embodied Self Heather Nathans (University of Maryland) Francoise Mirguet (Arizona State University) Performing Jewishness—or Jews? Contemporary Case Studies from the DC Idols in Color: Polychromy, Avodah Zara, and Jewish Views of Imperial Roman Stage Sculpture Maya E. Roth (Georgetown University) Steven Fine (Yeshiva University) Outreach to Jewish Audiences by 1920s New York “Picture Palaces” Preliminary Observations on the Occurrence of Ritual Implements and Paula Eisenstein Baker (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Iconography at the Ostia Synagogue Joshua Ezra Burns (Marquette University) 4.6 Penn A The Maccabean Revolt: Who Is to Be Blamed? PROPHECY AND POLITICS AT 30: NEW RESEARCH AGENDAS FOR MODERN Louis H. Feldman (Yeshiva University) JEWISH POLITICS AND JEWISH POLITICAL CULTURE Moderator: Kenneth B. Moss (Johns Hopkins University) 4.3 Burnham Discussants: Rebecca Amy Kobrin (Columbia University) ORTHODOXIES AND THE HOLOCAUST Eli Lederhendler (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Chair: Rochelle L. Millen (Wittenberg University) Tony E. Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “After Their Families, By the House of Their Fathers”: The Stropkover Rebbe’s Scott Ury (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Non-Response to the Holocaust Steven J. Zipperstein (Stanford University) Benjamin Brown (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Issues and Dilemmas in Translating Rabbinic Holocaust Memoirs: Rabbis Israel Meir Lau, Baruch Rabinowitz, and Tzvi Hirsch Meisels Shira Leibowitz Schmidt (Michlalah-Jerusalem College /Haredi College) The Slobodka Yeshiva: Suffering and Love through the Holocaust Gershon Greenberg (American University) The Kovno Ghetto “From Within” and “From Below” Dennis B. Klein (Kean University)

36 37 Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

4.7 Penn B 4.10 Cabin John ART, CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL REBELS AND RABBIS: THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY Chair: Sara R. Horowitz (York University) LIFE Insurmountable Barriers: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comic Books and Chair: Robert M. Seltzer (Hunter College, CUNY) Graphic Novels A Jewish Solution to the Zionist Problem; or, Why Martin Buber Considered Chantal Catherine Michel (Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Isaiah 30:15 More Realistic than Rifle Practice The World’s Largest Protest Banner: Street Art on the Israeli-Palestinian Samuel Brody (University of Chicago) Separation Barrier Reviving Enlightenment in the Age of Nationalism: Hans Kohn’s Anti-Fascist Paula J. Birnbaum (University of San Francisco) Ideology Sunday Israeli Artists Imagine the “Return” of the Jewish People to Europe Brian Smollett (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Diana Isidora Popescu (University of Southampton) Jewish Chaplain as Public Intellectual: Rabbi Isaac Klein’s Service during Biblical Narratives in Contemporary Israeli Media WWII Naama Harel (Emory University) Daniel Kotzin (Medaille College) Sunday The Rabbi as Public Intellectual: Jacob Agus and American Jewish Thought 4.8 Renwick Zach Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary) OLD YIDDISH LITERATURE: FORMS AND DIFFUSION Chair: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 4.11 Arlington Translating Chivalry in the Old Yiddish Romance of “Vidvilt/Kinig Artis Houf” MIGRATION/TRANSLATION: CULTURES IN CONTACT IN MODERN JEWISH Michael Wenthe (American University) LITERATURE The Ze’enah U-Re’enah (“Tsenerene”) and Its Audience Chair: Naomi E. Lindstrom (University of Texas) Morris M. Faierstein (Independent Scholar) Gina Sebastian Alcalay: Identity in Migration Translating the Zohar into Yiddish: The Nahalat Tsevi (Frankfurt, 1711) Michaela Mudure (Babes-Bolyai University/Technical University Liberec) Jean Baumgarten (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) The Ahistoric Charity of A. B. Yehoshua’s Hesed Sfaradi: Spanish/Sephardic/ Roman Charity? 4.9 Roosevelt Yael Halevi-Wise (McGill University) RABBINIC THEOLOGY: RADICALISM AND REVISIONISM Jews in Transit: The Theme of Purgatory in David Bezmozgis’s The Free Chair: Michael Pitkowsky (Jewish Theological Seminary) World Season(s) of Judgment: Competing Notions of Divine Justice in M. Rosh Nyusya Milman-Miller (Virginia Tech) Hashanah 1:2 Uri Nisn Gnesin as Translator of Chekhov Joshua Cahan (Jewish Theological Seminary) Andrey Bredstein (University of Texas at Austin) Crumbling Walls and Faltering Houses: Aggadic Dialectic on Disaster, Merit, and Miracle in Bavli Ta’anit 4.12 Wilson Julia Watts Belser (Harvard Divinity School) INTERPRETING FILM Cultural Enthusiasm: The Transmission of the Sugya of Avera-Lishma Chair: Lawrence Baron (San Diego State University) (“Transgress for God’s sake”) Between Holocaust and Redemption: Teaching the Socio-theological Crisis of Yuval Blankovsky (Universitaet Potsdam) the Pre-Six-Day War Period through A Serious Man The Paulinian and Matthean Moments of Rabbinic Qabbalat Hatorah Dana Evan Kaplan (University of the West Indies) Aryeh Cohen (American Jewish University) Stereotypes or “New Jews” in Twenty-first Century Hollywood Film? David Reznik (Bridgewater College) A Filmmaker in the Holocaust Archives: Peter Thompson’s Universal Hotel as an Experiment in Photographic Re-Creation Gary Weissman (University of Cincinnati) Speaking and Acting Out the Jewish Past: Holocaust Films and Historical Context Jonathan S. Skolnik (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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Session 5, Monday, December 19, 2011 8:30 am - 10:30 am 5.4 Constitution E GLOBAL CITIZENS OR ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS? RETHINKING JEWISH 5.1 Constitution A INTERNATIONALISM YOUTH IN MODERN JEWISH HISTORY Moderator: Steven J. Zipperstein (Stanford University) Chair: Marsha L. Rozenblit (University of Maryland) Discussants: Michael Kimmage (Catholic University) Obedient Rebels? Right-Wing Zionism, Youth, and Political Power in the Early Lisa Moses Leff (American University) 1930s James Loeffler (University of Virginia) Daniel Kupfert Heller (Stanford University) Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) The Missing Thaw Generation: Coming of Age and Nostalgia in the Works of Yaakov Shabtai and Arik Einstein 5.5 Lafayette Park Arie M. Dubnov (Stanford University) LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN “History Shall Not Repeat”: The Young People of the 1960s Who Sparked the Chair: Joy A. Land (University of Connecticut-Stamford) Soviet Jewry Movement in the United States The Quality of Leadership in the Generation of the Expulsion from Spain Gal Beckerman (Forward) Marc Saperstein (Leo Baeck College) The Age of Youth: Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin on Modernity, The Canonization of the Fatimid Decoration of Hebrew Bibles and Qur’ans in Rebellion, and Quest Late Medieval Spain Yotam Yadin Hotam (University of Haifa) Vivian Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary)

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M 5.6 Burnham INVESTIGATIONS INTO NON-ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN onday BETWEEN HALAKHAH AND PHILOSOPHY AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE Chair: Stephen Garfinkel (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Chair: Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) From Moses to Moses: A Christian Reading of Jewish Law and Hermeneutic in onday From Sainthood to Selfhood in American Judaism: ArtScroll’s Jewish Hero Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem M and ’s Functional Rebbe Tania Tulcin (Yeshiva University) Shaul Magid (Indiana University) “A Source of Splendor”: Sexual Desire in Mendelssohn’s Hebrew Writings Religious Authority and Jewish Identity: The Case of Jewish Baseball Players Elias Sacks (Princeton University) Rebecca Alpert (Temple University) Rupture and Reconstruction Reversed: Franz Rosenzweig’s The Builders and Reconstructing Religious Authority in a Democratic Context: Early Ashkenaz Reconstructionist Approaches and Their Contemporary Resonance Lawrence J. Kaplan (McGill University) Deborah Waxman (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) Halakhic Reasoning and Context: Homosexuality as a Test Case Shifting the Textual Center: The Internet and Its Challenge to Traditional Tamar Ross (Bar-Ilan University) Constructs of Jewish Authority Deborah J. Glanzberg-Krainin (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) 5.7 Independence G AMERICAN JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND GENDER 5.3 Constitution C Chair: Tony E. Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison) DEMOGRAPHIC NARRATIVES AND IDENTITY RESEARCH The New York Intellectuals and the Construction of Secular American Jewish Moderator: Debra Renee Kaufman (Northeastern University) Masculinity Discussants: Harriet Hartman (Rowan University) Ronnie Avital Grinberg (University of Colorado at Boulder) Barry A. Kosmin (Trinity College) The Maccabaean Club: American Zionist Women Intellectuals and Bruce A. Phillips (HUC-JIR) Pragmatism Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University) David Weinfeld (New York University) Jewish Women Intellectuals and the Pitfalls of Identification Jennifer Glaser (University of Cincinnati) Victorian Jews: Midge Decter, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Neoconservative Gender Analysis Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University)

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5.8 Independence I 5.12 Roosevelt SYNCING UP: RESEARCH, OUTREACH, AND PEDAGOGY IN THE DIGITAL AGE KABBALISTIC THEOSOPHY IN PRACTICE DIGITALDIGITAL Sponsored by the AJS and Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project Chair: Marla Segol (Skidmore College) Moderator: Ari Y. Kelman (University of California, Davis) Cosmographic Illustrations and Comments in Two Early Manuscripts by Pedagogy Discussants: Ken Koltun-Fromm (Haverford College) Menachem de Lonzano,1600-1610: Evidence for an Additional Witness to the Noam F. Pianko (University of Washington) Daf Hatziur of R.H. Vital Jen Rajchel (Bryn Mawr College) Menachem Emanuel Kallus (University of Haifa) The Mystical Idea of Cosmic Cycles in Italian Renaissance Thought 5.9 Penn A Brian Ogren (Columbia University) FROM HISTORICISM TO DECONSTRUCTIVISM: RECONSIDERING EUROPEAN Unlocking the Godhead: Kabbalistic Commentaries on the Ten Sefirot and the SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE Spread of Jewish Esotericism in Medieval Spain Chair and Respondent: Michael Meng (Clemson University) Hartley W. Lachter (Muhlenberg College) “If Only It Were ‘As Simple As Bonjour’”: Synagogue Building in Nineteenth- Repatriating Humanity to God: Meir Ibn Gabbai’s Exegetical Subversion of Century Paris Maimonides’ Philosophical Lexicon Saskia Coenen Snyder (University of South Carolina) James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo) What Was New and Why? Synagogue Modernisms in Pre-Holocaust Europe Samuel D. Gruber (Syracuse University) 5.13 Cabin John Between Memory and Normalcy: Synagogue Architecture in Postwar Germany NORTH AFRICAN JEWRY: RECENT LIBRARY FINDINGS Gavriel Rosenfeld (Fairfield University) M Chair: Steven D. Fraade (Yale University)

onday On the Collection: A Few Examples from Morocco 5.10 Penn B Moshe Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ISRAELI LITERATURE: JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN VOICES Some Linguistic Features in a Document from Djerba onday M Chair: Anne Golomb Hoffman (Fordham University) Yehudit Henshke (University of Haifa) Atallah Mansour’s In a New Light: Palestinian Memory in a Kibbutz Novel Preliminary Studies of a Prayer Book (Mahzor) from Constantine (East Ranen Omer-Sherman (University of Miami) Algeria) Confronting Globalization: The Incest Theme in Gadi Taub’s Allenby Ofra Tirosh-Becker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Philip Hollander (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “When my flesh decays … my lips cannot sing the praise of God”: Between 5.14 Arlington Diaspora and Jerusalem in Agnon’s Holocaust Critique of “Holy”/Body Pain YIDDISH PROSE Yael S. Feldman (New York University) Chair: Rachel Rojanski (Brown University) Ha-Tikvah: A Poem, a Melody, a National Anthem America is Our Home: Sholem Asch and the Pluralist Jesus Miryam Segal (Queens College, CUNY) Melissa Weininger (Rice University) Moishe Nadir’s Aesthetics of Authorship 5.11 Renwick Eitan Kensky (Harvard University) THEORY AND HISTORY OF TALMUDIC REDACTION Moral Alienation and Theological Rebellion in Abramovitch’s Di Kliatshe Chair: Yonatan Feintuch (Bar-Ilan University) Meital Orr (Harvard University) Caesarean Revisions and the History of the Shloyme Reb Khahim’s: Circumspecting the Self of Sh. Y. Abramovitsh/ Moulie Vidas (University of California, Davis) Mendele Moykher Seforim Stylistic and Mnemonic Factors as Clues to the Intellectual History and Marcus Moseley (Northwestern University) Evolution of a Talmudic Text Jay Rovner (Jewish Theological Seminary) “Impurity in public is overridden because the headplate renders it acceptable”: On Bavli Reconceptualization of Tannaitic Legal Thought Leib Moscovitz (Bar-Ilan University) Mingling Moments: Conjunctive Time and Rabbinic Modes of Temporality in the Babylonian Talmud Lynn Kaye (New York University)

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5.15 Wilson “Beginning with a revolution, and ending with a pogrom”: The Image of JEWS, RACE, CASTE, AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE Polish Immigrants among Yiddish Writers in America during and after World PRODUCTION War I Chair and Respondent: Jonathan Schorsch (Columbia University) Gil Ribak (University of Arizona) Misrepresentation of “Cochin”: Jewish Social Organization in Kerala, India, A Study in Hazzanut: Mordecai Gustav Heiser, the Sweet Singer of B’nai through Models of Race, Caste, and Slavery Israel Barbara C. Johnson (Ithaca College) Gilya Gerda Schmidt (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) Genetic Jewishness and the Politics of Authority: Lemba “Black Jews” and Letters from Berdichev: Collecting Testimony with Video, Correspondence, Their Interlocutors and Photographs Noah Tamarkin (Brandeis University) Ester-Basya Vaisman (Indiana University) Power and Privilege: Western Jewish Studies’ Encounters with African and Hebrew: Borders and Self-Affiliation African Heritage Communities Vardit Ringvald (Brandeis University), Janice Silverman Rebibo (Hebrew at the Marla Brettschneider (University of New Hampshire) Center), and Rahel R. Wasserfall (Brandeis University)

Session 7, Monday, December 19, 2011 11:00 am - 12:45 pm DIGITAL 7.1 Constitution A Book Exhibit 10:30 am – 11:00 am Independence Ballroom Pedagogy SEPHARDI/MIZRAHI PEDAGOGY ROUNDTABLE Coffee Break Sponsored by the Sephardi-Mizrahi Caucus and the AJS Pedagogy Working Group M Sponsored by The Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary Moderator: Ranen Omer-Sherman (University of Miami) onday Discussants: Ari Ariel (New York University)

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6.1 Independence Ballroom 7.2 Constitution B DIGITAL MEDIA AND POSTER SESSION DIGITAL JEWISH LITERATURE/WORLD LITERATURE Getting the Joke: Editorial Cartoons, Bailey Smith, and the 1980 U.S. Moderator: Robert J. Adler Peckerar (University of Colorado, Boulder) Presidential Election Discussants: Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan) April Armstrong (Princeton University) Adriana Jacobs (Yale University) What Happened to Turkish Jews in France during WWII? Lital Levy (Princeton University) Izzet Bahar (University of Pittsburgh) Paul B. Miller (Vanderbilt University) Displaying Palestine: The National Federation of Temple Sisterhood’s Jewish Allison H. Schachter (Vanderbilt University) Art Calendars Jessica Carr (Indiana University) 7.3 Constitution C Rabbi or Rebeco: the Sephardic-Flamenco Myth in the Twentieth and Twenty- RABBINIC AND MEDIEVAL EXEGESIS First Centuries Chair: Naomi Grunhaus (Yeshiva University) Judith R. Cohen (York University) Parsing the Poetic Genre of the Song of Songs in Early Rabbinic From Russia with Force: How Soviet-Style Politics are Recasting the Israeli Interpretation Right Jonathan Kaplan (Yale University) Sarah M. Fainberg (Georgetown University) Nahmanides’ Structural Analysis of the Pattern and Design of Biblical Tense and Tension: Time and the Rhetoric of Repairing the World Narrative Moshe Kornfeld (University of Michigan) Michelle J. Levine (Stern College) The Nidhe Israel Community of Barbados: A Historical Archaeology Study Peshat in the Commentary of Moses ben Nahman (Ramban) Derek R. Miller (College of William and Mary) Martin I. Lockshin (York University) The Apocalyptic Messiah in Pesiqta Rabbati Rivka Ulmer (Bucknell University)

46 47 monday, December 19, 2011 11:00 am – 12:45 pm monday, December 19, 2011 11:00 am – 12:45 pm

7.4 Constitution E 7.8 Independence I CHARLES SILBERMAN’S A CERTAIN PEOPLE: AMERICAN JEWS AND THEIR LIVES IN AND OUT OF AFRICA TODAY, A 25TH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE Moderator: David Shneer (University of Colorado at Boulder) Moderator: Bethamie Horowitz (New York University) Discussants: Claudia Bathsheba Braude (Helen Suzman Foundation) Discussants: Jerome A. Chanes (Brandeis University) Zilla Jane Goodman (University of Colorado at Boulder) Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) Norman L. Kleeblatt (The Jewish Museum) Samuel Freedman (Columbia University) Mark Malisa (College of Saint Rose) Shaul Kelner (Vanderbilt University) Carol Zemel (York University)

7.5 Lafayette Park 7.9 Penn A GENDER, SPIRITUALITY, AND EMBODIMENT CURATING MODERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE: FRAGMENT, EVIDENCE, INVENTORY Chair: Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis University) Chair: Alla Efimova (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life) Narratives of Ba’alei Teshuvah Who are Second-Generation Survivors Criminal Evidence and the Future of Holocaust Museum and Archival Roberta G. Sands (University of Pennsylvania) Collections Why Jewish Women are More Spiritual than Men Laura S. Levitt (Temple University) Charles Kadushin (Brandeis University) The Narrative Power of Fragments: Modernist Aesthetic Theory and Digital Religious Defection and Transformation of Bodily Practices Curatorial Practice Lynn R. Davidman (University of Kansas) Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, Berkeley) Women’s Embodied Listening and the Public Sphere M Display and Play: Inventive Inventories in Modern Jewish Culture

onday Ayala Fader (Fordham University) Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University) Respondent: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University) 7.6 Burnham onday M DILEMMAS OF JEWISH LIFE IN WARTIME GHETTOS IN THE SOVIET UNION 7.10 Penn B Chair: Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto) MOVING YIDDISH: TRANSLATION AND TRANSFORMATION Transnistrian Ghettos in Local Jewish Memory Chair: Anita Norich (University of Michigan) Jeffrey Veidlinger (Indiana University) Madness and Multilingualism in Esther Kreitman’s Fiction Wrestling with the Devil: Jews in the Pinsk and Baranovichi Ghettos Confront Michael Boyden (Ghent University) the Holocaust Translation and Passing in Sholem Aleichem Zvi Y. Gitelman (University of Michigan) Alexandra Hoffman (University of Michigan) Remembering from Afar: Transnistrian Ghettos in Emigre Jewish Memory Yiddish Translations of Pushkin in Interwar Poland and the Soviet Union Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto) Sara Feldman (University of Michigan) Respondent: Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University) 7.7 Independence G UNIVERSALISM, JEWISH CONCERNS, AND PREPAREDNESS: THE DILEMMAS OF 7.11 Renwick AMERICAN JEWS AT THE APPROACH OF WORLD WAR II ANTISEMITISM, MODERNITY, AND MASS POLITICS IN EUROPE BEFORE THE Chair: Marc Lee Raphael (College of William and Mary) FIRST WORLD WAR Pacifism vs. Preparedness at CCNY, 1938-1941 Chair: Hillel J. Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis) Jeffrey S. Gurock (Yeshiva University) “Trouble is Yet Coming”: The British Brothers League, Immigration, and Anti- American Jewish Women, the Peace Movement, and the Crisis of the 1930s Jewish Sentiment in London’s East End, 1901-1905 Melissa R. Klapper (Rowan University) Sam Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Gearing up for a Fight: the JWB and Jewish Preparation for WWII “Hurrah Boys, the Jews!”: Anti-Jewish Violence in Habsburg Galicia in Jessica Cooperman (Muhlenberg College) 1898 Daniel L. Unowsky (University of Memphis) Beyond the Mainstream: Women and Antisemitic Agitation in the Austrian Provinces Alison L. Rose (University of Rhode Island) Respondent: Robert Nemes (Colgate University)

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7.12 Roosevelt BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE: INTERNAL JEWISH AFFAIRS AND General Lunch 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm McPherson/ THE NON-JEWISH AUTHORITIES (By pre-paid reservation only) Franklin Square Chair and Respondent: Rachel Greenblatt (Harvard University) AAJR Lunch 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Independence E Jews and Christians on the Edge or: How to Force a Convert to Grant a Get in Early Modern Ashkenaz For the Fellows of the American Academy for Jewish Research Birgit Elke Klein (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) Sephardi/Mizrahi 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Independence B Rabbi Nathan Adler between Veneration and Ostracism: The Ban and the Caucus Lunch Suppression of Religious Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Frankfurt/Main (By pre-paid reservation only) Katja Janitschek (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) Pedagogy Working 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Independence H 7.13 Cabin John Group in jewish studies LITERARY APPROACHES TO THE ZOHAR Chair: Shelly Tenenbaum (Clark University) Chair and Respondent: Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University) An informal discussion of how the AJS can support its members’ work as teachers. The Borders of Discourse: Between Mystical Exegesis and Narrative Fiction in the Zohar Reading Sutzkever 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Arlington Eitan P. Fishbane (Jewish Theological Seminary) Chair: David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary) Ritual, Myth, and Narrative: The Zoharic Secrets of Sacrifice and the Shema Participants: Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University)

M Reading Practice Theodore L. Steinberg (SUNY Fredonia) onday Jonatan M. Benarroch (Princeton University) Miriam Udel (Emory University) Reading the Zohar—in Multiple Ways Ronit Meroz (Tel Aviv University) A lunchtime gathering to explore the work of Abraham Sutzkever. onday M

pm pm 7.14 Arlington Professional 1:00 – 2:00 Independence C/D A CERTAIN JUSTICE: JEWISH LEGAL RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST Development Workshops Chair: Miriam Ruerup (German Historical Institute) An opportunity to meet in small groups to discuss professional issues. Sponsored Ghetto Justice: Jewish Ghetto Courts in World War II by the AJS and the Center for Jewish History. Light refreshments will be served. Svenja Bethke (University of Hamburg) Applying for an Academic Job: Preparing Your Academic Portfolio Prosecuting “Crimes against the Jewish People”: Nazi Collaborator Trials in Discussion Leaders: Meri-Jane Rochelson (Florida International University) Jewish Courts in Postwar Germany Jeffrey Veidlinger (Indiana University) Laura Katharina Jockusch (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) A Tangled Web: Jews and Poles, Law and Memory in the Trial of Rudolf Hoess Careers for Jewish Studies PhDs: Foundations, Museums, Research Gabriel Natan Finder (University of Virginia) Institutes, and Libraries Discussion Leaders: Rebecca Boggs (National Endowment for the 7.15 Wilson Humanities) TRAGEDY, SIN, AND THEODICY IN GERMAN-JEWISH THOUGHT emil Kerenji (United States Holocaust Memorial Chair: Asher D. Biemann (University of Virginia) Museum) Overcoming Sin: Re-assessing the Influence of Christianity on German-Jewish Zachary Baker (Stanford University) Thought From Dissertation Chapter to Published Article: Submitting Your Randi Lynn Rashkover (George Mason University) Work to Scholarly Journals Tragedy as Eschatology in the Thought of Jacob Taubes Discussion Leaders: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University), Editor, Martin Kavka (Florida State University) Prooftexts Scholem, Benjamin, and the Origin of Jewish Tragic Drama Robert Goldenberg (Stony Brook University), Editor, Bruce Rosenstock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) AJS Review Respondent: Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona College)

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Session 8, Monday, December 19, 2011 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 8.4 Constitution E DIGITAL REINTERPRETING MODERN JEWISH LITERARY HISTORY: GENRE, LANGUAGE, 8.1 Constitution A TEXT TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH FILM: PEDAGOGY AND FILM CHOICE Pedagogy Chair: Benjamin Schreier (Pennsylvania State University) Moderator: Eric Tuten (Slippery Rock University) “Literature isn’t little stories!”: The Short Story and the Literary Marketplace Discussants: June-Ann Greeley (Sacred Heart University) in Cynthia Ozick’s “Envy” Uta Larkey (Goucher College) Daniel Rochelson Mintz (University of Michigan) Valerie Thaler (Towson University) “Scraping ‘The Magic Barrel’”: Reading Malamud for the Love of God Bruce Thompson (University of California, Santa Cruz) Sandor Goodhart (Purdue University) Rivka Ulmer (Bucknell University) “Tuchter, the whole world’s gonna be destroyed”: Diaspora and Shoah in Odets’ The Flowering Peach 8.2 Constitution B Garrett Eisler (The Graduate Center, CUNY) STUDIES IN IRANO-TALMUDICA: THE NEXT GENERATION Hebrew in the Crucible: Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot Chair: Steven Fine (Yeshiva University) Hana Wirth-Nesher (Tel Aviv University) Bad Seed: Rewriting the Garden of Eden in a Zoroastrian Critique of Judaism Samuel Thrope (University of California, Berkeley) 8.5 Lafayette Park Intention and Negligence in Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Tort Law MEDIEVAL JUDAISM IN EAST AND WEST Shana A. Strauch-Schick (Yeshiva University) Chair: Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman (Vanderbilt University) “Shared Liability” in Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Literature: A Comparative

M “The obligations that God has imposed on her”: Child Marriage and Sexual Analysis onday Ethics in Medieval Near Eastern Jewish Society Yishai Kiel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Eve Krakowski (University of Chicago) Scriptural and Unscriptural Prohibitions: Zoroastrian and Rabbinic Sin- Pope Innocent III, Christian Wet-Nurses, and Jews: A Misunderstanding and onday M Counting and the Severity of Atonement Its Impact Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) and Mahnaz Moazami (Columbia University) Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University) Jewish Converts in Jewish-Christian Intellectual Polemics in the Middle Ages 8.3 Constitution C Piero Capelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) (IN)VISIBLE JEWS Sponsored by the American Academy for Jewish Research 8.6 Burnham Chair: Gershon D. Hundert (McGill University) NEW RESEARCH ON ISRAELI POLITICS: THE RIGHT WING IN ISRAEL Jewish (In)visibility in Scholarship on Late Antiquity Chair: Michael Feige (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Seth Schwartz (Columbia University) Their Finest Hour: IZL’s Assault on Jaffa, April 1948 Jewish (In)visibility in Scholarship on the Early Modern Period Arnon Golan (University of Haifa) Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) “A Tale of Love and Darkness”: The Radical Right Wing and the Heruth Jewish (In)visibility in Scholarship on Eastern Europe Movement, 1948-1957 Samuel D. Kassow (Trinity College) Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky (University of Haifa) Jewish (In)visibility in Scholarship on the United States Menachem Begin and the “Supremacy of Law” Hasia R. Diner (New York University) Arye Naor (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir as Prime Ministers: A Comparison Yechiam Weitz (University of Haifa)

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8.7 Independence G 8.10 Penn B THE “POLITICAL ECONOMY” OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN JEWISH MAIMONIDES AND DURAN STUDIES Chair: Brian Ogren (Columbia University) Moderator: Caryn Aviv (University of Colorado, Boulder) Maimonides on Providence: A “Possible Worlds” Interpretation Discussants: Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR) Jacob Joshua Ross (Tel Aviv University) Steven M. Cohen (HUC-JIR) Maimonides’ Reservations about Naturalism in the Post-Guide Writings Bethamie Horowitz (New York University) Charles Manekin (University of Maryland) Ari Y. Kelman (University of California, Davis) “The first purpose of this treatise”: Commentaries on the “Equivocal Terms” Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University) of the Guide of the Perplexed Igor Holanda DeSouza (University of Chicago /Brown University) 8.8 Independence I Magic and Memory in Profiat Duran REVOLUTION IN THE NAME OF TRADITION: GENDER, ORTHODOXY, AND THE Maud Kozodoy (Brown University) CONSTRUCTION OF THE BAIS YAAKOV MOVEMENT Chair: Melissa R. Klapper (Rowan University) 8.11 Renwick The Ideology and Politics of Creating Bais Yaakov in Interwar Poland HEBREW: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LANGUAGE Agnieszka Oleszak (University College London) Chair: Alan L. Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary) Beautiful Martyrs: The Last Will of the Ninety-Three Bais Yaakov Girls National Implications in the Linguistic Theory of S. D. Luzzatto (Cracow, 1942) and the Evolution of the Bais Yaakov Movement Marco Di Giulio (Franklin & Marshall College)

M Naomi S. Seidman (Graduate Theological Union) Normative and Descriptive Approaches to Colloquial Israeli Hebrew and

onday Moving a Movement: The Rhetorical Construction and Reconstruction of Bais Conceptions of National Identity Yaakov Shmuel Bolozky (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Shani Bechhofer (Yeshiva University) Identitarian Aspects of the Current Polemic on Modern Hebrew Pointing onday M “Links in a Chain”: How American Bais Yaakov Schools Have Adapted the Yishai Neuman (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Legacy of Sarah Schenirer Leslie Ginsparg Klein (Touro College) 8.12 Roosevelt REASSESSING THE RELIGIOUS-SECULAR DIVIDE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY 8.9 Penn A ZIONISM MODERN RELIGIOUS ART Chair: Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina, Pembroke) Chair: Laura Silver (Independent Scholar) Religious Zionist Options at the Fin-de-Siecle Who Needs the Second Commandment When We Have the Fourth? A Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston) Reframing of Jewish Aesthetics Prophets of the Nation: Religious Zionist Activism in the Second Polish Ben Schachter (Saint Vincent College) Republic Chaim Potok’s Asher Lev, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the Creation of Daniel Mahla (Columbia University) Contemporary Hasidic Art Zionists and Conservative Revolutionaries in Weimar Germany Naftali Loewenthal (University College London) Stefan Vogt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The Fantastic Hasid: Jewish Imagination through Film German Law in Jerusalem: European Jurisprudence in Religious Zionist Legal Shaina Hammerman (Graduate Theological Union) Philosophy Tobi Kahn: Designing Interfaith Space Alexander Kaye (Columbia University) Aaron Rosen (Yale University)

54 55 monday, December 19, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm monday, December 19, 2011 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

8.13 Cabin John NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF JEWISH-MUSLIM AND JEWISH-ARAB AJS HONORS ITS 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Independence Ballroom RELATIONS AUTHORS Chair: Lital Levy (Princeton University) A coffee reception in honor of AJS members who have published books in 2010 Listening for Colonialism, Migration, and Ethno-Religious Identities: Oral and 2011. Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council Sami Rohr Prize. Histories as a Source for Jewish and Muslim Mutual Perceptions in France Ethan Katz (University of Cincinnati) Religious Apologetics as a Source for the Study of the Jewish-Arab Encounter Jonathan Marc Gribetz (Rutgers University) From Beit Din to Shari‘a Court: Jewish and Muslim Legal Documents from Nineteenth-Century Morocco Jessica M. Marglin (Harvard University) Division Meetings 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Various Locations The Arab and the Historiography of Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandatory An opportunity to meet with division heads to discuss themes for the 2012 Palestine conference. Moshe Naor (York University) and Tammy Razi (Sapir College) Respondent: Daniel J. Schroeter (University of Minnesota) locations

8.14 Arlington Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation ~ Constitution A

M BETWEEN YIDDISH AND GERMAN: CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL Rabbinic Literature and Culture ~ Constitution B onday PERSPECTIVES, PART II Chair: Aya Elyada (Duke University) Yiddish Studies ~ Arlington Late Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Translations of German Ghetto Stories onday M Rebecca Wolpe (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Modern Jewish Literature ~ Constitution E Nathan Birnbaum’s Yiddish Writings on German Jewry, or “The Grass is Modern Hebrew Literature ~ Renwick Always Greener . . .” Nick Block (University of Michigan) Medieval Jewish Philosophy ~ Penn B Yiddish Writers and Germany in the Holocaust’s Aftermath: The Case of Max Jewish Mysticism ~ Constitution B Weinreich’s Hitler’s Professors (1946) Jan Schwarz (Lund University) Modern Jewish Thought and Theology ~ Constitution C Primitivism Between German and Yiddish: The Case of the Hasid Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity ~ Constitution C Samuel Spinner (Columbia University) Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture ~ Lafayette Park 8.15 Wilson INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN JEWISH CULTURE AFTER WORLD WAR II Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies ~ Cabin John Chair: Jonathan Karp (American Jewish Historical Society) Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities ~ Roosevelt The Changing Faces of American Jewry: Jewish Immigration to the United States Since 1945 Modern Jewish History in the Americas ~ Wilson Marianne Sanua Dalin (Florida Atlantic University) Israel Studies ~ Burnham Toward a History of “Jewish Identity”: American Jewishness in the Early 1960s Holocaust Studies ~ Constitution A David E. Kaufman (Hofstra University) Jews and the Arts ~ Penn A American Medicine: Bastion of Anti-Semitism or Unprecedented Forum for Cross-Cultural Exchange? Social Sciences, Anthropology, and Folklore ~ Independence G Rebecca A. Cutler (University of Pennsylvania) Gender Studies ~ Independence I “Dear Friend”: The World Jewish Congress Child Care Division, Correspondence Programs, and Early Holocaust Narratives Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philology ~ Constitution E Rachel Deblinger (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Session 9, Monday, December 19, 2011 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm 9.4 Constitution E 9.1 Constitution A MOTIVATED BY FAITH: JEWS AS PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG Chair: Beth S. Wenger (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Laura S. Levitt (Temple University) Social Activism in the B’nai B’rith: Defining Identity and Community Discussants: Elizabeth Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University) Cornelia Wilhelm (Emory University) Nancy Kates (Independent Filmmaker) From the Pulpit to the Sweatshop: A New Look at the 1910-11 Chicago Nancy Kipnis Miller (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Garment Workers’ Strike Ann Pellegrini (New York University) Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State University) Sharing Lessons Learned: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch and African-Americans during 9.2 Constitution B the Progressive Era IDENTITY, DESIRE, AND POWER: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND Bernice Anne Heilbrunn (University of Houston) MODERNITY An Opportunity to Fight Injustice: The Jewish and Progressive Roots of Civil Chair: Marion Kaplan (New York University) Rights Activist Polly Spiegel Cowan No Proper Occupation for the Daughters of Israel? Jewish Women in Prussia Holly Cowan Shulman (University of Virginia) and the Teaching Profession, 1800-1914 Respondent: Jeffrey S. Gurock (Yeshiva University) Andreas Braemer (Institute for the History of German Jews) Seeds of Modernization: German-Jewish Couples in the Early Nineteenth 9.5 Lafayette Park Century REVISITING THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN

M Benjamin M. Baader (University of Manitoba) EUROPE: IN HONOR OF KENNETH STOW onday Selma the Seer: Female Prophecy and Jewish Apologetics in 1830s Chair: Francesca Trivellato (Yale University) Alexander Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University) Salome in the Middle Ages William C. Jordan (Princeton University) onday

Jewish Women and the Literary Practices of Secular Modernity M Allison H. Schachter (Vanderbilt University) Needy Christians/Supplying Jews in Fourteenth-Century Perugia Respondent: Naomi S. Seidman (Graduate Theological Union) Julius Kirshner (University of Chicago) Medicine as Enlightenment Cure: Benedetto Frizzi, Physician to Eighteenth- 9.3 Constitution C Century Italian Jewish Society GENDER AND GENESIS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO RACHEL AND Lois Dubin (Smith College) LEAH Respondent: Kenneth R. Stow (University of Haifa) Chair and Respondent: Wendy Zierler (HUC-JIR) Rachel and Leah: Dangerous Sisters and the Fall of the House of 9.6 Burnham Amy Kalmanofsky (Jewish Theological Seminary) BEYOND ABSORPTION: AFRICAN AND MIDDLE-EASTERN JEWS IN RECENT Strange Bedfellows: Rachel and Leah and Jacob ISRAELI FILM AND THEATRE Gwynn Kessler (Swarthmore College) Chair: Avi Picard (Bar Ilan University) Live and Become: in the State of Israel Lawrence Baron (San Diego State University) Left Out of the Frame: Libyan Jewry Has No Room on the Screen Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan (University of Haifa) , Zionism, and Persecution in Iraq: Braids—The Story of Herzliya Lokai and Her Imprisonment in the Baghdad Women’s Jail Daphne Tsimhoni (The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) “We can speak our own language”: African Tongues in the Israeli Theatre Sarit Cofman-Simhon (Kibbutzim College/Emunah College)

58 59 monday, December 19, 2011 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm monday, December 19, 2011 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

9.7 Independence G 9.10 Penn B WARTIME LODZ: VARYING PERSPECTIVES OF JEWISH LEADERSHIP IN THE EUROPE IN THE YISHUV, THE YISHUV IN EUROPE LODZ GHETTO Chair and Respondent: Derek J. Penslar (University of Toronto) Chair: Rachel Feldhay Brenner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “A Small Distorted Mirror”: Philanthropy, Colonialism, and Orientalism in the Rumkowski Revisited: Wartime Diary Accounts of the “Eldest of the Jews” Mid-Nineteenth Century Yishuv Amy Simon (Indiana University) Yochai Ben-Ghedalia (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Jakub Poznanski’s Attitudes toward Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski: A Polish Two Cultures in Tel Aviv: Hebrew and Yiddish, Europe and Palestine Diarist in the Lodz Ghetto Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Robert M. Shapiro ( College, CUNY) Post-Diasporist Political Thought: Max Weinreich in Palestine, 1935 Rumkowski Imagined: Leslie Epstein’s King of the Jews Kenneth B. Moss (Johns Hopkins University) Eric J. Sundquist (Johns Hopkins University) Jewish Leadership and the Elderly in the Lodz Ghetto 9.11 Renwick Elizabeth Strauss (University of Notre Dame) MULTILINGUAL JEWISH IDENTITIES IN THE SEPHARDIC/MIZRAHI CONTEXT Chair: Marcy Brink-Danan (Brown University) 9.8 Independence I The Martyrdom of a Moroccan Jewish Saint RADICAL ORTHODOXY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Sharon Vance (Northern Kentucky University) Chair and Respondent: Samuel Heilman (Queens College, CUNY) The Hybrid Text: Language and Identity in Postmemorial French Sephardic A War for Orthodoxy? Russian Rabbis Confront World War I Literature

M Andrew N. Koss (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) Celine Piser (University of California, Berkeley) onday The Agudah and “Der Baal Tshuve”: Nathan Birnbaum, the Agudath Israel, (Post)vernacular Embodiment: Judeo-Arabic in the Everyday Language of and the Complexities of Early Orthodox Politics Young Syrian Jewish Mexicans Jess Olson (Yeshiva University) Evelyn Dean-Olmsted (Indiana University) onday M Stepping Stones: Architecture and Post-Holocaust Hasidic Acculturation Respondent: Monique Rodrigues Balbuena (University of Oregon) Maya Balakirsky Katz (Touro College) When the Invisible Becomes Visible: The 9.12 Roosevelt Margaret Olin (Yale University) RABBINIC RHETORIC Chair: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer (Northwestern University) 9.9 Penn A Gorgias and the Rabbis: Rhetoric, Law, and Truth in the Talmud MULTILINGUAL JEWISH IDENTITIES IN THE ASHKENAZI CONTEXT Richard Hidary (Yeshiva University) Chair: Paul D. Glasser (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) The Rules of Redundancy: How Changes in Rabbinic Rules of Exegesis Language Diversity in the First Hebrew City Contributed to the Growing Complexity of Sugyot Liora Halperin (University of California, Los Angeles) David Brodsky (New York University) Yiddish in Ma’ale Films: Israel in Conversation Rhetorical Ends of the Talmud: From Local Conclusiveness to Metatextual Zelda Kahan Newman (Lehman College, CUNY) Openness Valuing an “Endangered” Language While Using a Dominant One: Heritage Zvi Septimus (Harvard University) Language Socialization Practices within the Yiddish Metalinguistic Piritrope (Self-Refutation) in Sextus Empiricus and the Rabbinic Discourse Community Sergey Dolgopolski (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Netta Avineri (University of California, Los Angeles) A Silence Unbroken: The Representation of Babi Yar in the Soviet Union under the Thaw Shay Pilnik (Jewish Theological Seminary)

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9.13 Cabin John Monday, December 19, 2011 Evening Program POETS IN YIDDISH AND HEBREW Chair: Naomi Brenner (Ohio State University) AJS Perspectives 6:30 pm Cherry Blossom Between Judaism and Modernism: H. Leyvik’s Self-Translation editorial board Meeting Efrat Bloom (University of Michigan) Yehoash: The Poetic Force of Primitivism Posen Foundation 6:30 pm Independence F Sarah Ponichtera (Columbia University) reception Yiddish Art Song as a Musical-Poetic Hybrid Genre: The Influence of In honor of the Posen Foundation and the forthcoming Posen Library. Sponsored by the American Yiddish Poets on Jewish Composer Lazar Weiner and Weiner’s Posen Foundation. Open to all conference registrants. Musical Impact on Yiddish Poetry Marsha Dubrow (The Graduate Center, CUNY/Harvard University) Jewish theological 6:30 pm Independence H Y. L. Peretz’s Hebrew Shtetl seminary reception Jordan Finkin (University of Oxford) In honor of JTS faculty, students, and alumni presenting at the AJS Conference, and welcoming all JTS alumni in the area to reconnect with one another. Sponsored by 9.14 Arlington the Wohl Office of Alumni Affairs of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Open to all LEVINAS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE conference registrants. Chair: Theodore A. Perry (University of Connecticut) From Agamemnon to Abraham: Levinas on Substitution, Embodiment, and an tauber institute, 6:30 pm Independence B M Ethics of Maternal Sacrifice brandeis university reception onday Andrea Cooper (New York University) In honor of the new Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Sponsored by the Tauber Revisiting Totality and Infinity: The Pursuit of Ethics after Auschwitz

Institute, Brandeis University. Open to all conference registrants onday Ingrid Anderson (Boston University) M “Otherness” and Social Hope: Rorty, Buber, and Levinas on Democracy and Yivo reception 6:30 pm Independence C Redemption To celebrate the launch of the YIVO-Bard Institute for East European Jewish History and Akiba J. Lerner (Santa Clara University) Culture. Sponsored by YIVO. Open to all conference registrants. Interpreting from the Interstices: The Role of Justice in a Liberal Democracy— Lessons from Michael Walzer and Emmanuel Levinas RECEPTION IN HONOR OF 6:30 pm Independence E Nicholas R. Brown (Loyola Marymount University/Fuller Theological Seminary) DAVID BERGER 9.15 Wilson In appreciation of David Berger of Yeshiva University and celebrating the publication of a JEWISH LITERATURE AND ART IN CHRISTIAN CONTEXTS new edited volume of essays in his honor, New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations: Chair: Monica Osborne (University of California, Los Angeles) in Honor of David Berger (eds. Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter). Sponsored by the The Development of the Traditions of Jannes and Jambres Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University. Open to all Koji Osawa (Kyoto University) conference registrants. Midrash and National Identity: The Case of Sefer ha-Yashar Steven B. Bowman (University of Cincinnati) RECEPTION IN HONOR OF 6:30 pm Farragut Square KENNETH STOW In honor of Kenneth Stow, Professor Emeritus at Haifa University and Founding Editor of the journal Jewish History. Sponsored by Springer. Open to all conference registrants.

GENERAL DINNER 7:30 pm McPherson/Franklin Square (By pre-paid reservation only)

See p. 64 for after-dinner events.

62 63 MOnday, December 19 – Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:30 am – 10:30 am

Session 10, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:30 am - 10:30 am

Monday, December 19, 2011 Evening Program 10.1 Constitution A (continued) NEW WORK ON AMERICAN HEBRAISM AND THE CHANGING MAP OF MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE Film 8:30 pm Conference Theatre Moderator: Michael Weingrad (Portland State University) Discussants: Tamar S. Hess (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) srugim Stephen Katz (Indiana University) episodes from the third season. Israel 2011. (90 minutes; Hebrew with English Julian A. Levinson (University of Michigan) subtitles). Provided courtesy of Go2Films. Alan L. Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary) Rachel Rubinstein (Hampshire College)

Film 8:30 pm Constitution A DIGITAL 10.2 Constitution B Between Two Worlds Pedagogy MODERN JEWISH POLITICS IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM USA 2011. Directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman (70 minutes; English). Sponsored by the AJS Pedagogy Working Group Provided courtesy of the directors. Moderator: Shelly Tenenbaum (Clark University) Discussants: Malachi Hacohen (Duke University) Samuel Heilman (Queens College, CUNY) Jonathan Karp (American Jewish Historical Society) Center for Jewish 9:00 pm Farragut/Lafayette Park Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University) M History reception Ruth R. Wisse (Harvard University) onday On the occasion of the CJH’s tenth anniversary, all conference registrants are invited to a cocktail and dessert reception. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish History. 10.3 Constitution C BI-NATIONALISM IN MANDATORY PALESTINE: COMPARATIVE AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Chair: Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis University) Film in the Classroom: 10:00 pm Conference Theatre Hans Kohn’s Bi-nationalism: Nation-State Creation or Intellectual Framework? An Evening Discussion Rachel Fish (Brandeis University) Sponsored by the AJS Pedagogy Working Group Ha-Shomer ha-Tza’ir’s Bi-Nationalism: Moralistic Idealism vs. Pragmatic Moderatar: Brian D. Amkraut (Siegal College of Judaic Studies) Zionism Tuesday Discussants: Deidre Butler (Carleton University) Aviva Halamish (The Open University of Israel) N nancy A. Harrowitz (Boston University) Bi-nationalism, Cooperation, and Assimilation: The Middle East and Israel Avinoam Patt (University of Hartford) from a Perspective of American Zionism James R. Ross (Northeastern University) Zohar Segev (University of Haifa) Tuesday Respondent: Ilan Troen (Brandeis University)

10.4 Constitution E tuesday, December 20, 2011 CALENDAR BOOKS IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH SOCIETY Chair: Sacha Stern (University College London) General Breakfast 7:30 am – 8:30 am McPherson/ Astronomy, Cosmology, and Mathematics in Twelfth-Century Hebrew (By pre-paid reservation only) Franklin Square Calendrical Works Ilana Wartenberg (University College London) division chair/ 7:00 am – 8:30 am Independence E Special Issues in Manuscript Transmission of Medieval Hebrew Calendrical program committee meeting Works Registration 8:30 am – 3:00 pm Independence Foyer Israel Moshe Sandman (University College London) A Twelfth-Century Dream about the Calendar: Abraham ibn Ezra’s Sabbath Book Exhibit 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Independence Ballroom Epistle (List of Exhibitors, p. 81) Anne Kineret Sittig (University College London) In Praise of Error: Print, Script, and Early Modern Calendar Treatises Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) 64 65 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:30 am – 10:30 am Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:30 am – 10:30 am

10.5 Lafayette Park 10.8 Independence I GENDERED ANXIETIES: PERCEIVED THREATS TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RE-EVALUATING JEWS AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR PAST AND PRESENT Chair and Respondent: Jonathan D. Sarna (Brandeis University) Chair: Chava Weissler (Lehigh University) Sewing a Thin Grey Line: Jewish Military Contractors during the Civil War “The end of the world as we know it”: Women, Gays, and the Putative Adam Mendelsohn (College of Charleston) Destruction of The Jews of and the Coming of the Civil War Jessica Ann Rosenberg (Stanford University) Howard Rock (Florida International University) Curb Your Enthusiasm: Interfaith Romance, Gender, and Popular Culture “We passed our days in doing what we considered to be our duty”: Southern Keren R. McGinity (Brandeis University/University of Michigan) Jewish Women’s Activities during the Civil War Gender Variance in Modern Rabbinic Literature: Toward a New Jennifer Ann Stollman (Fort Lewis College) Understanding and Evaluation of Intersexuality in Jewish Medical Ethics Hillel Gray (Miami University) 10.9 Penn A Male Voice/Female Body: The Dybbuk as Transgendered Performance DEFINING JEWISH INTERESTS AND CONCERNS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND Ari Ofengenden (Oberlin College) STATE Chair: Theodore Sasson (Middlebury College) 10.6 Burnham Defining Jewish Interests and Concerns: Canadian and British Jews THE RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF NEGATIVE THEOLOGY Morton Weinfeld (McGill University) Chair: Susan E. Shapiro (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Congressional Committee Hearings and the Framing of Debates about Israel “No One Can See My Face and Live” Paul Burstein (University of Washington) Kenneth R. Seeskin (Northwestern University) Changing Patterns of Latin American Jews in the National/Transnational What’s Positive about Negative Theology? Public Sphere Lenn Evan Goodman (Vanderbilt University) Judit Bokser Liwerant (Unam Mexico) A Revisionist Negative Theology David Novak (University of Toronto) 10.10 Penn B The Experience of Negative Theology JEWS IN THEATRE/YIDDISH THEATRE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Michael Fagenblat (Monash University) Chair: Zachary M. Baker (Stanford University) Respondent: Martin Kavka (Florida State University) Early Twentieth-Century Budapest Jewish Puppeteers Daniel Viragh (University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday 10.7 Independence G The Vilna Troupe and the Mapping of Yiddish Art Theatre History HOW POWERFUL ARE EXTRA-FAMILIAL FACTORS IN SHAPING JEWISH Debra Caplan (Harvard University) IDENTITY? METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Yiddish Theatre in Montreal: A Canadian Chair: Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz (Jewish Federations of North America) Response to Catastrophe Tuesday The Influence of Community Context on Jewish Identity: A Study of Twenty- Rebecca Margolis (University of Ottawa) one Communities Harriet Hartman (Rowan University) and Ira M. Sheskin (University of Miami) 10.11 Renwick The Long-Term Impact of Jewish Overnight Camp THE MAKING OF RABBINIC LAW, POWER, AND AUTHORITY Ira M. Sheskin (University of Miami), Steven M. Cohen (HUC-JIR), Ron Miller (North Chair: Christine Hayes (Yale University) American Jewish Data Bank), and Berna Torr (California State University, Rabbinic Specialization Fullerton) Tzvi Novick (University of Notre Dame) The Contribution of Long-Term Trips to Israel to Jewish Commitment and The Study of Tannaitic Law in its Ancient Legal Context Leadership Jonathan Milgram (Jewish Theological Seminary) Steven M. Cohen (HUC-JIR) Narrating the Trial of Herod/Jannaeus: Late Antique Jewish Conceptions of Jewish Peoplehood: Beyond the Buzz to Definition, Measurement, and Law and Power Intervention David C. Flatto (Pennsylvania State University) Fern Chertok (Brandeis University), Joshua Tobias (Brandeis University), David The Image of Moses in Sifre Zuta and the Construction of Rabbinic Authority Mittelberg (Oranim Academic College of Education), and Annette Koren (Brandeis Nehemia Polen (Hebrew College) University)

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10.12 Roosevelt Session 11, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:45 am - 12:45 pm CURRENT APPROACHES TO CULTURAL STUDIES IN JEWISH LATIN AMERICA 11.1 Constitution A Sponsored by the Latin American Jewish Studies Caucus CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF SCHOLARSHIP: HALAKHAH IN THE DAMASCUS Chair: Edna Aizenberg (Marymount Manhattan College) DOCUMENT IN LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT “Israel” as Signifier in the Jewish Latin American Cultural and Literary Chair and Respondent: Moshe J. Bernstein (Yeshiva University) Imagination The Use of Jubilees in the Damascus Document Patricia Nuriel (Wofford College) Todd Hanneken (St. Mary’s University) Representations of Jewishness in Latin American Soccer Literature The Laws of the Damascus Document in Literary and Exegetical Context: The Alejandro Meter (University of San Diego) Restriction on Sabbath Speech in CD 10:17-19 and 4Q264a 1 i 5-8 Kabbalistic Cosmogony and the Latin American Labyrinth in Mario Satz’s Alex Paul Jassen (University of Minnesota) Writings Laws Pertaining to Purification after Childbirth in the Zadokite Fragments Ariana Huberman (Haverford College) (Damascus Document) In Search of the Elusive Postmodern Jewish Father: Identity, Absence, and the Lawrence H. Schiffman (Yeshiva University) Quest for Recognition in Mexican and Argentine Culture Daniel Fainstein (Universidad Hebraica) 11.2 Constitution B TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA AND ITS JEWISH PHOTOGRAPHERS 10.13 Cabin John Moderator: Brian Wallis (International Center of Photography) JEWISH PHILOSOPHY REVISITED Discussants: Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan) Chair: Zachary J. Braiterman (Syracuse University) Daniel Morris (Purdue University) Levinas’s Meditations: Doubt and Trust in Levinas’s Idea of God Alana Newhouse (Tablet Magazine) Benjamin Stahlberg (Colgate University) Laura J. Wexler (Yale University) The Multiple Modernities of Rav Kook Yehudah Mirsky (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) 11.3 Constitution C PEOPLE OF THE PAPERBACK: JEWS AND MASS MARKET FICTION IN THE 10.14 Arlington UNITED STATES GENESIS: LITERARY DEVICES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL RAMIFICATIONS Chair and Respondent: Donald Weber (Mount Holyoke College) Chair: Miryam Segal (Queens College, CUNY) Endless War and the Image of the Jew in Spy Fiction The Cain Saga and the Problem of Dual Authority in Biblical Narrative Laurence Roth (Susquehanna University)

Tuesday Baruch Alster (Bar-Ilan University/Givat Washington College/Lifshitz Jews and the Mass Market Sex Novel College) Joshua Lambert (New York University) A New Reason for Repetitions “A Tzaddik for the World”: On the Paradoxical Mass Appeal of Chaim Potok’s Tzemah Yoreh (International Institute for Secular and Humanistic Judaism) The Chosen Tuesday Religion beyond Violence Julian A. Levinson (University of Michigan) Harry Fox (University of Toronto) The Character of the Priestly Source in the Story of the Flood 11.4 Constitution E David Daniel Frankel (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies) CONTEMPORARY HASIDIC YIDDISH: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF A DYNAMIC LANGUAGE Chair: Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR) The Acquisition of Hasidic Yiddish Noun Plurals in Israel Netta Abugov (Tel Aviv University) Verb Forms in American and Israeli Haredi Yiddish Dalit Assouline (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) How Satmarish is Haredi Satmar Yiddish? Steffen Krogh (Aarhus University) Characteristics of the Yiddish Morphosyntax of Hasidic Toddlers and their Caregivers in Brooklyn Isabelle Barriere (Brooklyn College, CUNY/Yeled V’Yalda)

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11.5 Lafayette Park 11.8 Independence I EMMANUEL LEVINAS AND COMEDY COMPARATIVE CONTEXTUALIZATIONS OF JEWISH LEGAL HISTORY Chair: James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo) Chair: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein (New York University) “Nu, Schlemiels?!” Towards a Leviansian Reading of the Nu/New Schlemiel Animals as Legal Subjects in Roman and Rabbinic Law Menachem Feuer (University of Waterloo) Beth A. Berkowitz (Jewish Theological Seminary) Ridiculous Acts, Dangerous Love: Finding Community in Haunted Places The Disobedient Wife in Sasanian and Rabbinic Law Julie Salverson (Queen’s University) Shai Secunda (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Defending the Weakest Messianism: a Levinasian Critique of Critchley’s and The Recalcitrant Wife in Jewish Law and Islamic Context Zupancic’s Theories of Comedy Lena Salaymeh (University of California, Berkeley) Timothy Edward Stock (Salisbury University) Respondent: Charlotte E. Fonrobert (Stanford University) Engendering the Child Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand (Nanyang Technological University) 11.9 Penn A THE STATE OF ISRAEL: CREATION AND FIRST YEARS 11.6 Burnham Chair: Moshe Naor (York University) FANTASIES OF JEWISH POWER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The Israeli “Nazi and Collaborators (Punishment) Law 5710-1950” in Chair: Karen Auerbach (Monash University) Historical and Social Context Jewish Power and Powerlessness: Prague Zionists and the Paris Peace Dan Porat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Conference The Unique Impact of Israeli Female Diplomats and “Significant Others” in Tatjana Lichtenstein (University of Texas at Austin) Strengthening Diaspora-Israel Ties in the Early Years The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile and the Perceptions of Jewish Power Natan Aridan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) during World War II Why the Arab Liberation Army Failed to Defeat the Haganah in 1948 Jan Lanicek (Center for Jewish History) Samuel Z. Klausner (University of Pennsylvania) “Jewish Power” in Communist Czechoslovakia Jacob Labendz (Washington University) 11.10 Penn B Respondent: Rebekah Klein-Pejsova (Purdue University) JEWISH POLITICAL BEHAVIOR IN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES Chair: Ariela Keysar (Trinity College) 11.7 Independence G Are Jews Really That Liberal? Untangling American Jewish Ideology and EARLY MODERN AND MODERN SELF-FASHIONINGS Partisanship in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday Sponsored by the Center for Jewish History Fellowships Program Samuel J. Abrams (Sarah Lawrence College/NYU) and Steven M. Cohen (HUC-JIR) Chair: Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University) The Framing of Rejection: Israeli Conversion Requirements and the Printing Books, Fashioning Authority: David Oppenheim, Manuscript Management of Conflict over Religious Identity Collection, and Book Approbata Ephraim Tabory (Bar-Ilan University) Tuesday Joshua Z. Teplitsky (New York University) Law, Kulturkampf, and the Crisis of Republicanism in Israel Sephardic Childhood in the British Atlantic Menachem Mautner (Tel Aviv University) Stanley Mirvis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) What Does It Mean to be Green? Debating the Boundaries of Green Politics in Polish Immigrant Self-Fashioning in Palestine during the Late 1920s and an Environmentalist Party in Israel Early 1930s Shaul Kelner (Vanderbilt University) Magdalena Wrobel (University of Munich) Self-Fashioning as Possession by the Other: The Curious Cases of Sh. An-sky and Michal Waszynski, Creators of The Dybbuk(s) Agi Legutko (Columbia University)

70 71 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:45 am – 12:45 pm Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:45 am – 3:00 pm

11.11 Renwick 11.14 Arlington MEETING OF NETWORK OF JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM DIRECTORS DEFINING THE NAZIS: PRE-WAR AND POST-WAR RESPONSES Sponsored by the Network of Jewish Studies Program Directors Chair: Albert Lichtblau (Universität Salzburg) Moderator: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut) Outsider Inside: Ezriel Carlebach’s Reports from the Third Reich Discussants: Alan Berger (Florida Atlantic University) Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Polish Academy of Sciences) Jonathan C. Finkelstein (University of Maryland, Baltimore The Eleven Hooves of Perfidy: Paul Celan and the Frankfurt Trials County) Thomas Coleman Connolly (Harvard University) Susanna N. Garfein (Towson University) The Underbelly of Canadian Multiculturalism: Holocaust Envy and Jenna Weissman Joselit (George Washington University) Obfuscation in the Debate about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Karyn Marie Ball (University of Alberta) 11.12 Roosevelt Between “Economy and Ideology”: Jewish Forced Labor during the Last Year LOOKING IN AND LOOKING OUT: JEWS OF THE AMERICAS AND THE WORLD of the War—The “Radom Transport” as a Case Study AT LARGE, 1930s-1970s Idit Gil (The Open University of Israel) Chair: Hasia R. Diner (New York University) Jewish-Argentines Side with the Spanish Republic: A Trans-National Struggle 11.15 Wilson with National and Ethnic Goals JEWS AND NOBLES, COMPETITORS AND COMPATRIOTS Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) Chair: Gershon D. Hundert (McGill University) “Hadassah makes you important”: Gender, Affluence, and the Romance of Triangle of Power: Szlachta, Jews, and Russians in the Shtetl Israel Among Postwar American Jews Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University) Rachel Kranson (New York University) Jews as Rural Mediators: Triangulating the Peasant-Jewish-Noble “To extend a bonding gesture”: Argentine Sephardic Olim and Their Families Relationship in Nineteenth-Century Galicia and Friends in Argentina, 1967 Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois at Chicago) Adriana Brodsky (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) The Fate of the Noble-Jewish Alliance in Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Brieira: A Case Study of a Transnational Social Movement, 1973-1977 Guttmacher Collection of Non-Hasidic Kvitlekh Hadassa Kosak (Yeshiva University) Glenn Dynner (Sarah Lawrence College) Jews and Nobles, Jews as Nobles 11.13 Cabin John Howard N. Lupovitch (University of Western Ontario) TRANSITIONS IN JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA

Tuesday Chair: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (University of California, Los Angeles) Fragile Coexistence: Jewish-Muslim Cooperation in Interwar Colonial Algeria General Lunch 12:45 pm–1:45 pm McPherson/ Sophie B. Roberts (University of Kentucky) (By pre-paid reservation only) Franklin Square

Colonialism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Libya and Yemen Tuesday Ari Ariel (New York University) pm pm A Jewish Riot Against Muslims in Late Colonial Algeria: Fear and Privilege at AJS Board of Directors 12:45 –3:00 Independence E the End of Empire Meeting Joshua Schreier (Vassar College) The Fate of Friends: Tracing Stories of Judeo-Muslim Friendship in Two Tunisian Works of Fiction Charlotte Rouchouze (Northwestern University)

72 73 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Session 12, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm 12.4 Independence G NEW PERSPECTIVES ON EATING AND IDENTITY IN JEWISH STUDIES 12.1 Constitution E Chair: Matt Goldish (Ohio State University) ISRAEL BETWEEN EAST AND WEST In Defense of Kosher Food: Ancient Apologies for Chair: Eric Tuten (Slippery Rock University) Jordan D. Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Israel In or Of the Middle East? Purity and Community: Dimensions of Kashrut in an Orthodox Jewish David Tal (University of Calgary) Neighborhood The Fall and Rise of Mizrahi Identity: From Early Zionism to Jody Myers (California State University at Northridge) Postmodernism Contemporary Liberal Judaism, Meat, and Identity Avi Picard (Bar-Ilan University) Aaron S. Gross (University of San Diego) The Integration of the Jewish National Homeland into the Resurgent Orient: The Feast at the End of the Fast: Yom Kippur’s Break Fast Rituals and Central-European Trained Orientalists at Hebrew University in the Pre-State American Judaism Era Nora L. Rubel (University of Rochester) Ruchama Johnston-Bloom (University of Chicago) The Ritual Rhythm: Religious Order and Social Upheaval in the Mizrahi South 12.5 Independence I of Tel Aviv-Yafo AUTHORITY AND HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-JEWISH Gabrielle A. Berlinger (Indiana University) LITERATURE Respondent: Donna R. Divine (Smith College) Chair: Sol Goldberg (University of Toronto) Grace Aguilar’s “The Rocks of Elim”: Biblical Narrative and Romantic Lyric 12.2 Lafayette Park Judith W. Page (University of Florida) THE TRANSFORMATION OF TEXTS: ESTHER IN MIDRASH AND THE FINE ARTS Literature and Assimilation: The King Sisters and Cultural Authority Chair: Cecile E. Kuznitz (Bard College) Michael H. Scrivener (Wayne State University) The Transformation of Esther: From Megillah to Midrash Ambivalence and Authority: the Poetry of Marion and Celia Moss Isaac B. Gottlieb (Bar-Ilan University) Karen Weisman (University of Toronto) Representations of Esther in Contemporary Jewish Art “The Sacred Covenant Is Broke”: Fragmentation and Hybridity in Marion and Barry Dov Walfish (University of Toronto) Celia Moss’s The Romance of Jewish History and Tales of Jewish History “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a p(a)lace like this?” A Comparison of Zia Miric (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Two Contemporary Interpretations of Esther Carl S. Ehrlich (York University) Tuesday 12.6 Penn A Operatic Portrayals of Esther JEWISH FAMILIES AND INSTITUTIONS Helen Leneman (University of Amsterdam) Chair: Fern Chertok (Brandeis University) Inclusion or Exclusion: Placing Boundaries around B’nai Participation Tuesday 12.3 Burnham Patricia K. Munro (University of California, Berkeley) OVERCOMING DISPLACEMENT: STATELESSNESS AND REFUGEE STATUS OF Jewish Families and School Choice: Does High School Make a Difference? JEWS AFTER 1945 Randal F. Schnoor (York University) Chair: Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union) Spousal Negotiations of Parenthood and Professions in Contemporary Jewish Refugees in Postwar Germany: A Spatial History of Home and American Jewish Households Homelessness Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis University) Anna Holian (Arizona State University) The Effects of the Great Recession on American Jews: Evidence from the Jewish International Lawyers and the “Eradication of Statelessness” in the Baltimore and Chicago Jewish Communities Aftermath of World War II Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz (Jewish Federations of North America) Gerard Daniel Cohen (Rice University) Overcoming Statelessness? The Notions of Jewish Homelessness and Israeli Citizenship Miriam Ruerup (German Historical Institute) Respondent: Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State University)

74 75 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:45 pm – 5:45 pm

12.7 Penn B 12.11 Arlington PHOTOGRAPHERS FIGHTING FASCISM: EUROPEAN JEWISH PHOTOGRAPHERS EXPLORING ACCULTURATION MODELS IN JEWISH TEXTS: THE CASE OF PRE- IN THE 1930s AND 1940s MODERN ITALY Moderator: Maya Benton (International Center of Photography) Chair: Federica Francesconi (University of Oregon) Discussants: Michael Berkowitz (University College London) Reading Maimonides in Medieval Sicily: A Case of “Reverse” Acculturation? Judith R. Cohen (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) Lucia Finotto (Brandeis University) David Shneer (University of Colorado at Boulder) Evidence of Acculturation in the Letters of Renaissance Cynthia Young (International Center of Photography) Andrew D. Berns (University of California, Los Angeles) The Boundaries of Acculturation: Comic Hebrew Epitaphs in Seventeenth- 12.8 Renwick Century Italy RITUALS AND RITUAL CONCEPTS IN MISHNAH AND TOSEFTA Michela Andreatta (University of Rochester) Chair: Elizabeth Shanks Alexander (University of Virginia) Respondent: Adam B. Shear (University of Pittsburgh) The Multiple Speech Acts of the Cemetery Blessing Yehuda Septimus (Brooklyn College/Touro College) Extending Greetings to the Other Michael Pitkowsky (Jewish Theological Seminary) Session 13, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Concepts of Pollution in Numbers 5 and Mishnah Sotah 13.1 Constitution E Eve Levavi Feinstein (Independent Scholar) JEWISH PASTS AND PRESENTS: MEMORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST, PATTERNS OF JEWISH HISTORY, AND CHANGING JEWISH IDENTITIES 12.9 Roosevelt Chair: Adriana Brodsky (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) FOLKLORE AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF JEWISH WOMEN Exile in Sepharad: Myth and Memory in an Oral History of ’s Jewish Chair: Andrea B. Lieber (Dickinson College) Community Degenderized Heroines in Jewish Legends in Times of Persecution Tabea Alexa Linhard (Washington University) Haya Bar-Itzhak (University of Haifa/Indiana University) The 1952 Monuments to “Jewish Victims of Fascism” and the Evolution of a Jewish Naming Ceremonies for Girls: A Study in the Discourse of Tradition Jewish Culture of Remembrance in Early Postwar Yugoslavia Simon Josef Bronner (Pennsylvania State University) Emil Kerenji (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Wearing Many Hats: Head-Covering Practices by Orthodox Jewish Women in “Who can feel with us, who can understand us”: Surviving Survival, Defining a Small-Town Congregation Jewishness from the Postwar to Post-Holocaust Age

Tuesday Amy Milligan (Pennsylvania State University) Leah Wolfson (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Respondent: Dan Ben-Amos (University of Pennsylvania) Respondent: Alexandra Garbarini (Williams College)

12.10 Cabin John Tuesday 13.2 Lafayette Park CRISES OF FRENCH AND MAGHREBI JEWRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND THE IMPERIAL STATE IN EASTERN EUROPE Chair and Respondent: Aimee Israel-Pelletier (University of Texas at Arlington) Chair: Adam Teller (Brown University) Jewish Women in the Holocaust: A Colonial Perspective Bureaucratic Mind: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Daniel Lee (The European University Institute, Florence) Russia, 1850-1917 Jewish Women in the Algerian War Vassili Schedrin (Ohio University) Jessica Hammerman (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Daniel Pasmanik: From a Jewish Nationalist to a Russian Nationalist French Jews, Nazis, and the Vel d’Hiv Roundup: A New Trend in French Taro Tsurumi (Rikkyo University) Literature and Cinema Genius and the Making of Modern Jewry Dinah Assouline Stillman (University of Oklahoma) Eliyahu Stern (Yale University) Sephardic Women in the Holocaust The Making of a Galician Maskil: The Forbidden Books in Joseph Perl’s Nina Lichtenstein (The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Library Rachel Manekin (University of Maryland)

76 77 Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:45 pm – 5:45 pm Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:45 pm – 5:45 pm

13.3 Burnham 13.7 Penn B WORKS-IN-PROGRESS GROUP IN MODERN JEWISH STUDIES JEWISH LITERATURE IN ITALY AND PROVENCE Moderators: Claire Sufrin (Northwestern University) Chair: Michela Andreatta (University of Rochester) Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University) Between Medicine and Midrash: Auctoritas in Crescas Caslari’s Fourteenth- Discussants: Mara Benjamin (St. Olaf College) Century Hebrew Esther Romance Allison H. Schachter (Vanderbilt University) Jaclyn Tzvia Piudik (University of Toronto) Immortality, the Intellect, and the Anthologizing Impetus: The View of 13.4 Independence G Immanuel of Rome FRAMING JEWISH ARTS IN MODERN GERMANY Dana Fishkin (Touro College) Chair: Lauren Beth McConnell (Central Michigan University) The Transformation of Hebrew Prose Writing in Italy, 1490-1550 Jewish Apocalypse: How Did Weimar Jewish Filmmakers Imagine the End? Arthur M. Lesley (Towson University) Ofer Ashkenazi (University of Minnesota) Who Are We? What Do We Want to Create? Rimon, Milgroym, and Jewish Art 13.8 Renwick in Berlin SERVICE LEARNING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Naomi Brenner (Ohio State University) Moderator: Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR) “With an open mind and with respect”: Klezmer in Germany in the 2000s Discussants: Will Berkovitz (Repair the World) Joel E. Rubin (University of Virginia) Vanessa Ochs (University of Virginia) Noam F. Pianko (University of Washington) 13.5 Independence I JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY 13.9 Roosevelt Chair: Jonathan Milgram (Jewish Theological Seminary) SUSAN TAUBES: LIFE, THOUGHT, AND WRITINGS Performance and Piety: Theaters and in Later Rabbinic Culture Chair: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Stanford University) Loren R. Spielman (Portland State University) Susan Taubes: From Absent God to Divorcing Shifting Attitudes to Time, Society, and Calendars in Jewish and Christian Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis University) Late Antiquity Haunted by the Ghosts of Judaism: Susan Taubes’s Relation to Tradition as Sacha Stern (University College London) Reflected in her Writings of the 1950s Christina Pareigis (Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin) 13.6 Penn A Against the Theology of Suffering: Susan Taubes’ Interpretation of Simone

Tuesday KINDS OF LONGING: BENKSHAFT IN THE POETRY AND MEMOIRS OF YIDDISH Weil WOMEN WRITERS Monika Rice (Brandeis University) Chair: Eve Jochnowitz (New York University) Trajectories of Benkshaft and Moments of Home in the Poetry of Malka Tuesday Heifetz Tussman and Celia Dropkin Sharon Debra Coleman (Berkeley City College) A Woman’s Work: Benkshaft in Roza Nevadovska’s Poetry Merle Lyn Bachman (Spalding University) Against “Girl Songs”: Gender and Sex in a Yiddish Modernist Journal Kathryn A. Hellerstein (University of Pennsylvania)

78 79 AJS 43rd Annual Conference Film Festival Sunday, December 18 – Monday, December 19

Please refer to the Film Festival Program Booklet, available at the Conference Registration Desk, for film descriptions. Film festival organized by the AJS Conference Film Committee.

Conference Theatre Conference Theatre 9:30 PM er 19 er 18 Mahler on the Couch 2:00 PM b b (Mahler auf der Couch) THE HILLTOPS (Israel 2011) em em (Germany & Austria 2010) c c Directed by Percy and Felix Adlon Directed by Igal Hecht e e 45 minutes (Hebrew and English with English D D 97 Minutes (German, with English subtitles) , , , , Provided courtesy of the National Center for subtitles) ay ay Jewish Film Provided courtesy of Ruth Diskin Films 2:50 PM Independence I ond Sund Stars M 9:30 PM (East Germany & Bulgaria 1959, restored THE FIVE HOUSES OF LEA digital transfer 2011) GOLDBERG Directed by Konrad Wolf (Leah Golberg be-Hamisha Batim) 88 Minutes (German with English subtitles) (Israel 2011) Provided courtesy of DEFA Film Library Directed by Yair Qedar 52 Minutes (Hebrew with English subtitles) 4:30 PM Provided courtesy of the director SONG OF THE LODZ GHETTO (USA 2010) Conference Theatre Directed by David Kaufman 122 minutes (English and Yiddish with English 9:00 AM er 19 subtitles) b THE LAW IN THESE PARTS Provided courtesy of Seventh Art Releasing (Israel 2011) em

c Directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

e Constitution A 101 minutes (English with Hebrew subtitles) D 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM , , Provided courtesy of director and Praxis Films between two worlds ay 11:00 AM (USA 2011) YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG Directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah ond (USA 2009) Kaufman M Directed by Aviva Kempner 70 minutes (English) 92 minutes (English) Provided courtesy of the directors. Provided Courtesy of the National Center for Jewish Film Conference Theatre 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM 1:00 PM SRUGIM: EPISODES FROM THE THIRD KAFKA’S LAST STORY SEASON—with roundtable on (Israel 2011) teaching film to follow Written & Directed by Sagi Bornstein (Israel 2011) 53 minutes (English and Hebrew with English Directed by Eliezer Shapiro subtitles) 88 Minutes (Hebrew with English subtitles) Provided courtesy of Ruth Diskin Films Provided courtesy of Go2Films

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Rutgers University Press...... 102 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...... 123 Stanford University Press...... 103 The University of Arizona, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies..... 122 University of Pennsylvania Press...... 104–105 University of Chicago, Chicago Center for Jewish Studies...... 116 University of Texas at Dallas...... 101 University of Connecticut, Center for Judaic Studies and University of Washington Press...... 106 Contemporary Jewish Life...... 124

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American Academy for Jewish Research Graduate Student Seminar 2012 AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR JEWISH Faculty RESEARCH Hasia Diner, New York University, American Jewish History Steven Fraade, Yale University, Period and Rabbinics BARON BOOK PRIZE The AAJR is pleased to sponsor a week-long residential seminar for graduate students in all areas of Jewish studies. The seminar will be held Sunday, June 17, The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions through Thursday, June 21, 2012, at New York University. Students will for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize. The Baron Book Prize participate in formal and informal sessions with Professors Diner and Fraade. ($5,000) is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first The purpose of this seminar is to create a community in which graduate students can examine current work in history and culture as well as matters book in Jewish studies. concerning the nature of the academic profession in general and Jewish studies in particular. The latter will include discussions of the job market, publishing, Eligibility: An academic book, in English, in any area of Jewish career trajectories, pedagogic concerns, and the balance between personal and studies published in calendar year 2011. The work must be the professional choices. In addition, some preassigned readings will be discussed. author’s first book. The author must have received his or her Approximately a dozen graduate students will be chosen to participate and will Ph.D. within the previous seven years. be asked to present parts of their dissertations. These presentations may include the prospectus, research plans, chapters, conference papers, and Deadline: Submissions must be received by January 31, 2012. articles. In this workshop format, students will receive constructive feedback The winner will be notified in late spring 2012. from seminar participants. Free on-campus housing, meals, and tuition will be provided. Those who are accepted to the seminar are encouraged to apply to When submitting a book for consideration, please have three their home universities for transportation expenses. copies sent, along with a statement of when and where the Enrollment in the seminar is competitive and limited to those who have author received his or her Ph.D., to: completed at least one year of doctoral study in any discipline or time period. Applicants must submit: Sheila Allen The American Academy for Jewish Research x A three- to five-page description of their doctoral studies focus, the 420 Walnut Street topic of their dissertation, and their foreign language proficiency. Philadelphia, PA 19106 x A letter from their advisor (to be e-mailed by the advisor to

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Deadline is February 1, 2012. Please email all materials to [email protected] and [email protected] with “AAJR Seminar” in the subject line. Applicants will be notified in early March. For further information or questions, please contact [email protected]

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neh fellowship for senior scholars graduate research fellowship CJH offers fellowships to senior scholars through a grant CJH offers fellowships to PhD candidates supporting from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The original research using the collections at the Center. award supports original research in the humanities at CJH. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the Applications are welcome from college and university library and archival resources of more than one partner. faculty in any field who have completed a PhD more than Full fellowships carry a stipend of up to $15,000 for a period six years prior to the start of the fellowship and whose of one academic year. It is expected that applicants will research will benefit considerably from consultation with have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree materials housed at CJH. Fellowships carry a stipend of except for the dissertation. up to $50,400 for a period of one academic year. undergraduate research fellowship prins foundation post-doctoral Advanced undergraduate students at North American fellowship for emigrating scholars universities are invited to apply to carry out research in the We invite foreign scholars who seek permanent teaching archives and libraries of CJH’s partner institutions. This and research positions in North America to apply for this fellowship is designed for third and fourth year undergrad- award, which will support 12-month fellowships for uates preparing theses or other major projects in Jewish scholars who are at the beginning of their careers. Fellows history and related fields. Projects require substantive use will be provided with an annual stipend of $35,000 to of archival and printed sources (e.g., newspapers, conduct original research at the Center’s Lillian Goldman collectionsof sermons, memoirs, institutional reports) Reading Room and utilize the vast collections of our housed at CJH and not available at the student’s home partners. This award allows the Center to serve as the gate- institution. The amount of the fellowship is up to $1,000 way for the best and brightest emerging scholars seeking and students are encouraged to seek matching funding to begin a new academic life in the U.S. from their home institutions. The award may be used for travel purposes and lodging while at CJH. visiting scholars program We invite scholars working in the field of Jewish Studies who joseph s. steinberg emerging jewish have completed their doctorate or its equivalent to apply filmmaker fellowship for an affiliation with CJH to work in the collections of one Undergraduate and graduate emerging filmmakers or more of its partner institutions. Scholars are generally working on topics related to modern Jewish history are expected to commit to a regular presence at CJH for at least encouraged to apply for this fellowship, which supports three months. Scholars may apply for a full academic research in the archives housed at CJH. The award is year, the fall or spring semester, or for the summer. Visiting designed to help further existing projects, or to start new scholars will be provided with work space, a CJH e-mail projects, whose subject matter is in line with the collections account and access to CJH resources. This program does housed at CJH. Recipients are eligible for awards of up to not provide a stipend or financial support. $5,000 and are provided with access to the resources at CJH.

For detailed information and application procedures for the above opportunities, please visit www.research.cjh.org.

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Graduate education in Jewish studies Summer at the university of chicaGo The University of Chicago is a leading center of multidisci- School plinary scholarship and education in Jewish Studies. More for Graduate Students than eighty graduate students pursue the varied fields of in Jewish Studies Jewish Studies in nine departments. Our special strengths lie in the interdisciplinary subfields of: Jerusalem July 8–17, 2012 • Bible and the history of scriptural interpretation • Ancient Near Eastern history, culture, and archaeology • Medieval Jewish thought and intellectual history • German-Jewish literature and culture • Modern Jewish history, philosophy, and culture The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies supports students by fostering opportunities to pursue research that crosses depart- ment boundaries and integrates multiple disciplinary MinGled identitieS: approaches: RethinkinG the • Workshops for student research • Travel and research grants notion of identity • Dissertation-year fellowships in JewiSh CultuRe • Professional development opportunities • Colloquia and conferences that bridge department divides • Multidisciplinary faculty network For more details and information, or to find the application, please go to CHICAGO Center for Jewish studies http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/site/Mandel Jewish Studies 1115 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637 • (773) 702-7108 Applications should be submitted to: [email protected] and are due by January 1, 2012 http://jewishstudies.uchicago.edu

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b Our program at a glance c ƒƒA series of comprehensive Leo Baeck Institute Gerald Westheimer Career TAU International encounters with the classical Development Fellowship texts of Jewish cultures from biblical to modern times ƒƒStudy at the world’s largest The Leo Baeck Institute is offering a Career Development integrative Jewish Studies Award as a personal grant to a scholar or professional in an Department early career stage, e.g. before gaining tenure in an academic ƒƒEarn a Masters degree in Jewish Studies in one intensive year institution or its equivalent, whose proposed work would ƒƒDevelop your Hebrew while deal with topics within the Leo Baeck Institute’s mission, learning in English namely historical or cultural issues of the Jewish ƒƒLearn from our renowned Jewish Studies senior faculty experience in German-speaking lands. at Tel Aviv University ƒƒTravel Israel and explore Judaism’s rich heritage sites The award of up to $20,000 will cover the period July 1, ƒƒExperience Israel’s historical A NEW One Year International and contemporary culture 2012 - June 30, 2013 and, at the discretion of the reviewing MA Program in Jewish Studies with students from all over board, may be renewed for a second year. the world For more information about the MA program or the Advanced Summer School in Rabbinic Literature The grant is intended to provide for the cost of obtaining visit our website : http://humanities.tau.ac.il/jewish_studies Or contact Emilie Levy, program coordinator at [email protected] or +972(3)640 65 03 scholarly material (e.g. publications), temporary help in research and production needs, membership in scholarly organizations, travel, computer, copying and communication charges and summer stipend for non- tenured academics. MELTON CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES Applications outlining the nature and scope of the proposed One of the largest and most diverse Jewish studies programs in the country project including a budget should be submitted, in no more than two pages, by March 1, 2012 to Dr. Frank • th 32 outstanding faculty members whose teaching and research Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute, 15 E. 16 St. New York is among the broadest in the nation 10011, NY. A curriculum vitae, names of three references, • and supporting material (outline of proposed work, draft of BA, MA, and PhD programs chapters, previous publications) should be appended. e- • mail submission to [email protected] is Programs in history, philosophy, literature, Hebrew, Yiddish, and more encouraged. • Judaica library with more than 250,000 holdings meltoncenter.osu.edu

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118 119 Unique Opportunities at the Yiddish Book Center The Feinstein Center at for College Students and Recent Grads Temple University announces its annual summer fellowship to support research The Steiner Summer Program in the American Jewish experience. for college students The grant of up to $3,000 is available to Seven weeks of intensive predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars. Yiddish language and cultural studies The Feinstein Center welcomes applicants researching any area of American Jewish life. Fellows may be asked to participate in tuition free Center workshops or offer a public lecture for the 2012–2013 year. June 10–July 27, 2012 Applications should include a proposal of no more than five pages, a letter of recommendation, and a CV. Materials are due by March 23, 2012 to: Dr. Lila Corwin Berman, Director The Fellowship Program Feinstein Center for American Jewish History for recent college graduates Temple University, 916 Gladfelter Hall (025-24) 1115 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6089 One year working in the field of Announcement of awards will be made in June. Yiddish preservation and education E-mail submissions preferred. Send questions and submissions to September 2012–August 2013 [email protected]. Stipend and benefits Congratulations to the 2011 Feinstein Center Summer Fellows: To learn more or to apply, Ronit Stahl (University of Michigan) visit yiddishbookcenter.org/education Kevy Kaiserman Memorial Summer Fellow Garrett Eisler (Graduate Center, CUNY), or call 413.256.4900 ext. 131 Rachel Feinmark (University of Chicago), and Pearl Gluck (CCNY)

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The Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies provides Jewish Studies scholars with a unique opportunity to study unexplored aspects of the Holocaust, its precursors, and its legacy. Through the Jewish Source Study Initiative, the Museum identifies and collects archival and other Holocaust-related research resources created by Jewish organiza- tions, communities, and individuals during the mid-20th century, and ensures scholarly focus on this vital source of information. More than 6 million pages of Jewish-source documentation are currently available in the Museum’s archives—with millions more expected, including an exten- sive collection on Sephardic and Judeo-Spanish history and culture—for scholars with Jewish Studies training and background to explore.

The Arizona Center The Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies promotes for Judaic Studies Holocaust research and facilitates the training of future generations of scholars of the Holocaust. Under guidance of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the The University of Arizona, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, Center encourages scholarly discourse and debate through: offers courses in Modern and , Ancient Israel, , Modern Israel, Holocaust Studies and • Fellowships Jewish History. • Graduate student research assistantships Judaic Studies offers undergraduate internships, outreach • Summer research workshops, symposia, and seminars opportunities and travel scholarships for accredited educational • Research and publication projects programs in Israel. It recently inaugurated a Graduate Certificate Program in Judaic Studies. For more information about the Center’s programs, visit our Web site at ./www.ushmm.org/research/center לדורות La Dorot For the Generations UNITEDSTATESHOLOCAUSTMEMORIALMUSEUM Tucson, Arizona www.judaic.arizona.edu 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW • Washington, DC 20024-2126 • ushmm.org [email protected] • (520) 626-5758

122 123 Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Belofsky Graduate Fellowship College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Holocaust Studies This scholarship is open to students Belofsky Fellows receive: wishing to pursue doctoral degrees in: M.A. in Judaic Studies • 12-month stipends of $20,000. The M.A. Program in Judaic Studies provides an opportunity to • Holocaust studies. • complete remission of all pursue Judaic Studies on an advanced level. The M.A. degree is offered in consortium with the University of Hartford and draws on • modern Jewish culture. UT Dallas tuition and fees faculty from nearby colleges and universities, including Trinity College • comparative perspectives on annually for up to five years. and Wesleyan University. Students observe that the flexibility of the program allows them to pursue a broad set of courses covering the the American and European • no required teaching major epochs of Jewish civilization while allowing for specialization. Jewish experience. responsibilities. Tuition Assistance and Fellowships are available. We welcome both American and international students. For more information, contact: Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life University of Connecticut, 405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205 More information at utdallas.edu/holocaust Telephone: (860) 486-2271 Fax: (860) 486-6332 972-883-2735 or [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.judaicstudies.uconn.edu The University of Texas at Dallas, Erik Jonsson Building, Suite 4.800, 800 Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080

Now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies brings together scholars, students, and community members to study and interpret Jewish history, religion, politics, society, and culture. Come visit our new facility! featuring • 25 affiliated faculty members • The Arnold A. Jaffe Holocaust Library • Undergraduate Major and Certificate programs in Jewish Studies • Media room with library of Holocaust films • Generous scholarships, graduate fellowships, and research grants • Conference and computer resource rooms • Home to the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture • Numerous community programs, including the Greenfield Summer Institute, the Conney Project on Jewish Arts, and Madison KlezKamp Located at The University of Texas at Dallas, Erik Jonsson Building, Suite 4.800 800 Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080 http://jewishstudies.wisc.edu utdallas.edu/holocaust

124 125 Thank you to the 2011 Gala Banquet Jewish Studies and Plenary Sponsors at Arizona State University Research. Instruction. Community Outreach. Arizona State University, Center for Jewish Studies The Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University contributes Hebrew College to interdisciplinary scholarship and community education in Jewish studies through research conferences and public events, such as: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Phenomenology, Existentialism & the Neurosciences: Indiana University, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program A Jewish Approach to Medicine Judaism, Science & Medicine Group annual meeting Jewish Theological Seminary, The Graduate School October 30-31, 2011 | Emory University Memory & Countermemory: Memorialization of an Open Future New York University, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies research symposium November 6-8, 2011 | Arizona State University Northwestern University, The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies Narratives and History: Telling Israel’s Story Without Polarization Rutgers University, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Albert & Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence Kenneth W. Stein, Emory University Life and the Department of Jewish Studies January 30, 21012 | Arizona Jewish Historical Society

Stanford University, Taube Center for Jewish Studies Jewish Studies Program University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Now offering a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies. Students within the major select at least one track from three prescribed categories: University of Maryland, The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies History and Society; Religion and Thought; or Literature and Culture. Jewish Studies majors are encouraged to pursue concurrent degrees University of Maryland, The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff which complement their area(s) of interest. Program and Center for Jewish Studies The program offers generous scholarships and fellowships for students University of Michigan, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at all levels.

University of Pittsburgh, Jewish Studies Program The Salo Wittmayer Baron Dissertation Award in Jewish Studies is made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Shoshana B. Tancer and Robert S. University of Texas at Austin, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies Tancer. Named for Shoshana Tancer’s father, Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron, the award will be given to the best dissertation in the fi eld of Jewish History University of Virginia, Jewish Studies Program and Culture in the Americas. A $5,000 award will be granted every three years, beginning in 2012. The competition is open to all graduate students Wesleyan University, Jewish and Israel Studies Program enrolled in U.S. universities. Dissertations completed and accepted at a U.S. university between 2009 and 2012 are eligible for the inaugural award. Yale University, Judaic Studies Program application due April 1, 2012 | awarded October 1, 2012 Yeshiva University

Learn more about these institutions on the following pages. jewishstudies.asu.edu

126 127 Shape a Student's Future Identify the next generation of Jewish professionals – students interested in becoming a rabbi, cantor, educator, scholar or non-profit professional A Pluralistic Community of Jewish Learning and Leadership, Engagement and Creativity open house: A Taste of HUC-JIR in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Become a Jewish leader. Develop the knowledge and skills that will enable you to enhance the Los Angeles, and New York huc.edu/openhouse Jewish community. leadership Programs for College and High School Full-Tuition Students at the American Jewish Archives on our Scholarships Hebrew College offers: Available for Cincinnati Campus huc.edu/youth Full-Time Education Rabbinic ordination huC-JIr Visits Your Campus and Community Students Cantorial ordination huc.edu/admissions Master of Master of Arts in Jewish Studies Contact us! Master of Jewish Liberal Studies The Rabbinical School, all campuses: [email protected] Certificate programs in many aspects of Jewish education, Jewish music and Jewish leadership The Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, New York: [email protected] studies Rhea Hirsch School of Education, Los Angeles: [email protected] Professional development opportunities focusing on early childhood education, special education New York School of Education, New York: [email protected] and congregational education Executive M.A. in Jewish Education: [email protected] Outstanding adult education programs including Me’ah; Parenting Through a Jewish Lens; Certificate in Jewish Education, Specializing in Adolescents Parenting Your Teen… Through a Jewish Lens; and Eser: Top Ten Jewish Innovations (Young and Emerging Adults: [email protected] Adult Learning Series) DeLeT Fellowship, Los Angeles: [email protected] Prozdor High School School of Jewish Nonprofit Management (formerly the School NETA curriculum training and implementation of Jewish Communal Service), Los Angeles: [email protected] The Graduate School, Cincinnati: [email protected] For further information, please visit our website The Graduate School, New York: [email protected] www.hebrewcollege.edu Magnin School of Graduate Studies, Los Angeles: [email protected] or email [email protected] Doctor of Ministry Program, New York: [email protected] Tel: 617-559-8600 Toll-free: 1-800-866-4814 facebook.com/hucjir twitter.com/hucjir

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128 129 The Graduate School The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns of The Jewish Theological Seminary

Jewish Studies Program Celebrates the Participation of Our at Indiana University Faculty Members and Doctoral Students at the NEW: Master’s Degree in Jewish Studies 43rd Annual Association for Jewish Studies Conference Doctoral Minor JTS FACULTY AND DOCTORAL STUDENTS Beth Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics Yiddish Minor Joshua Cahan, Adjunct Assistant Professor Eitan P. Fishbane, Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy Extensive Graduate Fellowships Benjamin R. Gampel, Dina and Eli Field Family Chair in Jewish History Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture Amy Kalmanofsky, Assistant Professor of Bible Shira Kohn, Assistant Dean of The Graduate School Marjorie Lehman, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics Vivian Mann, Adjunct Professor and Director of the Master’s Program in Jewish Visual Art and Culture

Zach Mann, Doctoral Student Jonathan S. Milgram, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics Alan Mintz, Chana Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature Edna Nahshon, Professor of Hebrew Language Shay Arie Pilnik, Doctoral Student Michael Pitkowsky, Adjunct Assistant Professor Jay Rovner, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

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Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies offers programs leading to both the doctoral and the masters degree. The department’s primary purpose is to train scholars in the areas of Jewish literature, religion, history and thought who have mastered both a body of knowledge relating specifically to Jewish studies and the canons and practices of a general academic discipline. Courses are offered in biblical studies; post-biblical and The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies serves as an Talmudic literature; medieval and modern Hebrew intellectual resource for the Northwestern University campus literature; history of the Jews in the ancient, medieval, and and the wider Chicago community. modern periods; Jewish Philosophy, religious expression, and mysticism; and related fields. Our current selection of x More than 1,000 students enroll in the center’s degree programs includes: 40 course offerings each year x Undergraduate Major/Minor in Jewish Studies, ∗ Doctor of Philosophy in Hebrew and Judaic Studies Minor in Hebrew Studies ∗ Joint Doctor of Philosophy Program in Hebrew and x 16 interdisciplinary faculty including three endowed Judaic Studies and History professorships ∗ Doctor of Philosophy in Education and Jewish x Graduate interdisciplinary cluster program in Studies Jewish Studies ∗ Master of Arts in Education and Jewish Studies x Seminars, endowed lectures and international ∗ Master of Arts in Hebrew and Judaic Studies conferences ∗ Master of Arts in Hebrew and Judaic Studies with a Concentration in Museum Studies ∗ Dual Degree Program (MA/MPA) in Nonprofit Management and Judaic Studies www.northwestern.edu/jewish-studies Visit www.hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu more information about our programs and activities. [email protected] 847-491-2612

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Department of Jewish Studies • Interdisciplinary department with seven core faculty and twelve affiliated faculty • Course offerings from Biblical Israel to Contemporary Jewish Life • Major/minor in Jewish Studies • Minors in Modern Hebrew Language and Language & Culture of Ancient Israel • M.A. in Jewish Studies • Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies • Support for student research and study abroad

The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life Academic Program • Academic conferences and seminars • International visiting scholars • Jewish Studies Online (non-credit courses) Community Outreach • Public programs on Jewish history and culture • Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival Holocaust Education • Public programs on the Holocaust, racism, and genocide • Master Teacher Institute on Holocaust Education • Resource for scholars, teachers, and students • Access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive

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A New Era e Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies FOR CAROLINA CAROLINA CENTER for JEWISH STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S GILDENHORN INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL STUDIES has made the University a national center for Israel Studies. Besides its regular faculty, it draws on the resources of the Washington policy community and on high profile visitors for courses and programs.

The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, www.facebook.com/GIISatUMD www.twitter.com/GIISatUMD in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offers a rich academic program and ACADEMICS: a popular public events series for those • Regular courses on Israeli history, politics, society, culture, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who seek a deeper understanding of Jewish • Special offerings such as Israeli Politics for Young Leaders, the Israeli Bedouin, the Conflict through history, culture and thought. Israeli Cultural Texts, Israeli Cinema and many more • Enrollment now 430 students taking 16 courses in the 2010-11 academic year The Center is proud to launch a new • Undergraduate minor in Israel Studies undergraduate degree program that allows Carolina students to make Jewish history CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS: and culture the centerpiece of their • Annual international conferences studies. The interdisciplinary • Monthly academic seminars program leads to a B.A. degree in • Lectures, seminars, and forums with major figures in academia, politics, diplomacy and the arts Religious Studies with a concentration RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: in Jewish Studies, and is the first of its kind • Web publication of translations of new Hebrew research papers by Israeli academics in the state of North Carolina. • Position papers on specific topics of interest The success of the Center’s first few years • New home of AIS’s academic journal, the Israel Studies Review and the introduction of the new major have inspired an ambitious plan for the future, PROFESSOR YORAM PERI PROFESSOR PAUL SCHAM Abraham S. & Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies Executive Director including continued expansion of academic Director of the Gildenhorn Institute The Gildenhorn Institute programs and public event initiatives. Editor, Israel Studies Review Managing Editor, Israel Studies Review Jonathan Hess, Director [email protected] [email protected] Pettigrew Hall, Suite 100 Campus Box 3152 To learn more about the Carolina Center Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3152 for Jewish Studies, visit: ccjs.unc.edu. P: 919-962-1509 E: [email protected] Institute for Israel Studies University o f Maryland W: ccjs.unc.edu

136 137 Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Joseph and Rebecca University of Michigan MEYERHOFF Fellowship Opportunity center for jewish studies

GRADUATE JEWISH STUDIES AT Theme 2013-2014: THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Masters Programs New Perspectives • MA in Jewish Studies • MA in Jewish Studies with Concentration in Hebrew Language on Gender & Jewish Life Instruction (Morningstar Hebrew Language Program)

Doctoral Program The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies will devote a theme year • PhD in the Departments of History, English, Comparative to the exploration of gender perspectives applied to Jews, their religion Literature, or Philosophy. Applications are made through those and culture, past history and current practices. It invites applications that departments. extend questions stimulated by gender to traditional aspects of Jewish Opportunities for Professional Students studies, such as bible, rabbinics, politics, literature, and history as well as to • MLS and MEd programs with Jewish Studies concentrations. • Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies in conjunction with a new areas of Jewish studies, such as diaspora, cultural, performance, and graduate course of study. Optional Public Relations core series migration studies. We invite proposals that contest basic paradigms, such for Jewish Studies MA Students. as what is meant by religious life, by community, and that explore gender Resources norms and representations. Not only women but also men and masculinity, • World-renown faculty at a top public research university. sexuality and the sexual politics of Jewish identity are appropriate topics for • Growing Library Judaica collection of over 100,000 volumes. study. We see this year as a chance to build on existing scholarship as well as • National Archives, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust to move research on Jews and gender into relatively unexplored areas, such Memorial Museum, and other museums, agencies, and institutions. The University of Maryland is a member of as the senses, emotions, and new media. Building upon several decades of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan scholarship, the theme of New Perspectives on Gender & Jewish Life will Area. bring scholars from diverse disciplines together to explore various questions linked through a common theoretical focus on gender. Tuition Assistance and Fellowships are available

For more information contact: Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Applications are due October 22, 2012. Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, 0142 Holzapfel Hall, College Park, MD 20742, [email protected] For more information and materials, visit www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic or contact The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies: (734) 763-9047 or [email protected].

138 139 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies University of Texas At Austin  Courses in Hebrew language, Jewish history, and literary, film, and Robert H. Abzug cultural studies. Director  An 18-credit undergraduate certificate in Jewish Studies for students from all majors across the university. 1 University Station B3600 Austin TX 78712  Opportunities to focus a Religious Studies or History major on the 512-­‐475-­‐6178 Jewish experience or to create a self-designed Jewish Studies major. Visiting Affiliates, http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs 2010-­‐11  Graduate concentration in Jewish History in the Department of OREN B. BARAK, Religious Studies. MICHAEL BERKOWITZ, GIDEON GREIF, Schusterman Center Visiting Scholar  Academic resource for colleges and universities, K-12 education, BRYAN STONE, SCJS Visiting Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center and community groups across Western Pennsylvania, through the Schusterman Visiting Professor Visitor in American Faculty Studies and Texas Jewish History Giant Eagle Foundation Endowment for Community Outreach. Robert H. Abzug Joan Neuberger  Faculty from across Arts & Sciences. SCJS Director and Mary C. Neuburger Professor, Department CALL FOR PAPERS Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents of History Barbara Burstin: American Jewish history The Holocaust and the Aaron Chair of Bar-­‐Adon Jewish Studies, History and Director of Center Middle Ages: Medieval American Studies for Russian, Eastern European, and Laurie Cohen: Judaica library resources Miriam Bodian Professor, Middle Martha Eurasian Newman Studies and Associate Amy Colin: German-Jewish literature Anti-Judaism in the Pascale Eastern Stud Bosies Professor, History Crucible of Modern Professor, History Na'ama Pat-­‐El Associate Professor, Seymour Drescher: modern Europe David Crew Associate Professor, History, and Chair, Religious Studies Haya Feig: Hebrew language Thought Germanic Studies Assistant David J. Professor, Eaton Distinguished Ami Professor, M. Middle Pedahzur Eastern Lucy Fischer: film studies Teaching Professor, History Studies Jonathan Harris: former Soviet Union April 22, 2012 Bess Harris Jones Esther L. Raizen Professor, Organizers: Hannah Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Department of Government Lina Insana: 20th-century Italy Karen Policy Studies, Grumberg LBJ School of Public Associate Dean, College Hannah Johnson: medieval historiography Johnson and Nina Caputo Affairs Adi of Liberal Raz Arts, and Associate Professor, Associate Middle Eastern Studies Rachel Kranson: American Jewish history John Professor, Hoberman Middle Eastern Rebecca , Lecturer, Rossen Middle Eastern Irina Livezeanu: modern East-Central Europe Proposals Due by Studies Studies December 28, 2011 Karen King Professor, Suzanne Seriff, , Assistant Clark Muenzer: German cultural history Germanic Studies Professor, Theatre and Dance Leonard Plotnicov: ethnography Robert D. Lecturer, King American Alex Weinreb Senior Lecturer, Contact: Tatjana Studies Lichtenstein Anthropology Irina Reyn: American Jewish literature , Linguistics Amelia Rosenberg Associate Weinreb Adam Shear: early modern Jewish history middle.ages.and.the. Harold A. Liebowitz Assistant Professor, Sociology [email protected] Professor, History L. Michael White Lecturer, Jason von Ehrenkrook: classical Judaism Naomi Lindstrom Professor, Department of Anthropology Middle Eastern Studies Ronald Professor, Nelson Smith Chair in Classics We salute Alexander Orbach, former director of the Program, on his Spanish and Portuguese and Seth and Christian L. Wolitz Origins, retirement. Abraham Institute for Marcus Latin American Department of Classics Studies L. D., Marie and Tracie Matysik Associate Professor, Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic History Studies, French and Italian www.jewishstudies.pitt.edu Associate Professor, History

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Jewish Studies at the Jewish and Israel Studies at Wesleyan University of Virginia Wesleyan University offers a certificate program in which undergraduate students receive a multidisciplinary training in Jewish and Israel Studies. Our faculty teach courses in:

¥ Jewish History and Culture ¥ An interdisciplinary program drawing on more than thirty affiliated scholars from ¥ Hebrew Language and Literature religious studies, history, anthropology, sociology, literature, music and other fields ¥ Music ¥ Religion, and more. ¥ Courses in the history, languages and literatures of the Jewish people in the Diaspora and in Israel; the beliefs, thought and practices of Judaism; the interaction In 2011 we initiated a series of service‐learning courses in Jewish Art and Material Culture. between Jews and other peoples and Israeli history and memory Since 2000, each year Wesleyan welcomes a distinguished scholar or artist as the Mervin ¥ Jewish Studies Major and Minor in a thriving undergraduate environment and Gittel Silverberg Chair. Past holders of this chair include award‐winning playwrights, authors, and filmmakers: Joshua Sobol, Etgar Keret, Ori Sivan, Haim Tabakman. ¥ Master and doctoral degrees in Jewish Textuality, Practice and Modern Thought through the Department of Religious Studies Wesleyan’s Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program actively contributes academic and cultural events to broader Wesleyan and Central Connecticut communities: ¥ Outstanding international faculty, including: Elizabeth Shanks Alexander (rabbinic literature, gender), Asher Biemann (modern Jewish thought), Gregory ¥ Our series “Contemporary Israeli Voices” brings acclaimed Israeli writers, artists, and Schmidt Goering (Hebrew Bible), Martien Halvorson-Taylor (Hebrew Bible), filmmakers to campus.

James Loeffler (modern Jewish history and Jewish music), Peter Ochs ¥ The annual Ring Family Israeli Film Festival showcases new Israeli films each spring. (philosophy and theology), Vanessa Ochs (ritual and material culture), Alon Confino (German history, Israeli history and memory), Gabriel Finder (Holocaust, ¥ Cutting edge scholarship is offered to students in the classroom and to the broader Jewish life after the Holocaust), Jennifer Geddes (Holocaust), Jeffery Grossman community through our public lecture series, including the Samuel and Dorothy (German and Yiddish literature), Phyllis Leffler (public history, Southern Jewish Frankel Memorial Lecture, which welcomed distinguished scholars to campus, including Robert Alter, David Biale, Daniel Boyarin, Elisheva Carlebach, Susan history), Daniel Lefkowitz (Israeli culture and anthropology), Caroline Rody Einbinder, Derek Penslar, Moshe Rosman, Steven Zipperstein, and more. (American Jewish Literature), Alison Weber (Sephardic diaspora, Judeo-converso history) and Joel Rubin (klezmer and American Jewish music) Wesleyan’s Jewish and Israel Studies has been a proud host and supporter of the Early Modern Workshop, http://www.earlymodern.org ¥ Graduate fellowships including full tuition, living stipend and teaching opportunities For more information contact the Program’s Director, Magda Teter, at [email protected], or visit our website: http://www.wesleyan.edu/jis. For more information contact Gabriel Finder, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director Most current news and announcements are available on our blog: of Jewish Studies, P.O. Box 400286, http://jis.blogs.wesleyan.edu and on our Facebook page: Charlottesville VA 22904-4286, http://www.facebook.com/WesleyanJIS 434.243.4369, or consult the Jewish Studies Program website at www.virginia.edu/jewishstudies/

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Yeshiva University is a multi-campus institution consisting of two liberal arts colleges, a business school, numerous graduate schools, a law school, and a medical Yale University school. With all the attention that it has paid to the broad sweep of its ambitious vision, Program in Judaic Studies the university continues to stress the central role of Jewish Studies in its curriculum and mission on both the undergraduate and graduate level. Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2014 Jewish Studies Programs

The Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University is offering a two-year Jacob & Hilda Blaustein postdoctoral fellowship that will begin on July 1, 2012. Undergraduate Torah Studies and Academic Jewish Studies for Men at Yeshiva Candidates for the fellowship must have a Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2012 and College must have received the degree no earlier than 2009. The Program seeks a Undergraduate Torah Studies and Academic Jewish Studies at Stern College for specialist in Medieval Jewish History/Judaism who will work closely with Women appropriate members of Yale’s faculty. Master of Arts in Biblical and Talmudic Interpretation at Stern College for Women The Judaic Studies Blaustein Fellow will be expected to be in residence, to conduct research in Yale’s library and archival collections, to participate Master of Science in Jewish Education, with a joint BA/MS option, at Azrieli Graduate actively in the intellectual life of the university, and to teach three semester School of Jewish Education and Administration courses over two years. The annual stipend will be $52,000 plus health Doctor of Education with concentrations in Educational Leadership, Psychology of benefits. Candidates should send a cover letter, CV, project proposal, three Student Support, and Curriculum and Instruction at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish letters of recommendation, and a list of proposed courses to: Education and Administration

JACOB AND HILDA BLAUSTEIN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Master of Arts with concentrations in Bible, Medieval Jewish History, Modern Jewish JUDAIC STUDIES History, Jewish Philosophy, and Talmudic Studies, as well as a joint BA/MA option, at P.O. BOX 208282 Bernard Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies NEW HAVEN, CT 06520-8282 EMAIL: [email protected] Doctor of Philosophy offered in Bible, Medieval Jewish History, Modern Jewish WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.YALE.EDU/JUDAICSTUDIES History, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Bernard Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies The deadline for receipt of application materials is February 6, 2012 For further information on undergraduate programs, go to www.yu.edu. For the Bernard Yale University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer Revel Graduate School, go to www.yu.edu/revel. For the Azrieli Graduate School, go to www.yu.edu/azrieli/.

144 145 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies Cohen, Gerard Daniel...... 12.3 Feuer, Menachem...... 11.5 session Participants Cohen, Jeremy...... 8.5 Finder, Gabriel Natan...... 7.14 Cohen, Judith R...... 6.1 Fine, Steven...... 4.2, 8.2 Cohen, Judith R...... 12.7 Finkelstein, Jonathan C...... 11.11 Cohen, Julia Phillips...... 7.1, 13.3 Finkin, Jordan...... 9.13 A Berkovitz, Will...... 13.8 Cohen, Steven M...... 8.7, 10.7, 11.10 Finotto, Lucia...... 12.11 Aaron, David H...... 3.3 Berkowitz, Beth A...... 11.8 Coleman, Sharon Debra...... 13.6 Firestone, Reuven...... 3.2 Abrams, Samuel J...... 11.10 Berkowitz, Michael...... 12.7 Connolly, Thomas Coleman...... 11.14 Fish, Rachel...... 10.3 Abugov, Netta...... 11.4 Berlinerblau, Jacques...... 3.5 Cooper, Andrea...... 9.14 Fishbane, Eitan P...... 7.13 Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip...... 2.3, 8.5 Berlinger, Gabrielle A...... 12.1 Cooperman, Bernard D...... 1.11 Fishkin, Dana...... 13.7 Adler Peckerar, Robert J...... 7.2 Berns, Andrew D...... 12.11 Cooperman, Jessica...... 7.7 Fishman, Sylvia Barack...... 7.5, 12.6 Aizenberg, Edna...... 10.12 Bernstein, Moshe J...... 11.1 Corwin Berman, Lila...... 5.2, 7.4 Flatto, David C...... 10.11 Albert, Anne...... 1.7 Bethke, Svenja...... 7.14 Crane, Jonathan K...... 2.3 Fleisch, Eric...... 2.5 Aleksiun, Natalia...... 2.4 Biemann, Asher D...... 7.15 Cutler, Rebecca A...... 8.15 Fonrobert, Charlotte E...... 11.8, 13.9 Alexander, Elizabeth Shanks...... 2.8, 12.8 Birnbaum, Paula J...... 4.7 Fox, Harry...... 10.14 Bland, Kalman P...... 2.3 D Alpert, Rebecca...... 5.2 Daccarett, Paula...... 3.13 Fraade, Steven D...... 5.13 Blankovsky, Yuval...... 4.9 Alster, Baruch...... 10.14 Dalin, Marianne Sanua...... 8.15 Francesconi, Federica...... 2.13, 12.11 Block, Nick...... 8.14 Amir, Michlean...... 4.1 Danon, Dina...... 3.13, 7.1 Frankel, David Daniel...... 10.14 Bloom, Efrat...... 9.13 Amkraut, Brian...... 12/19 Evening Dashefsky, Arnold...... 11.11 Freedman, Jonathan...... 7.2 Bloom, Lisa...... 2.7 Anderson, Ingrid...... 9.14 Dauber, Jeremy...... 4.8 Freedman, Samuel...... 7.4 Bodian, Miriam...... 3.4 Andreatta, Michela...... 12.11, 13.7 Davidman, Lynn R...... 7.5 Furst, Rachel...... 1.1 Bokser Liwerant, Judit...... 10.9 Aridan, Natan...... 11.9 Davis, Joseph M...... 2.13 Bolozky, Shmuel...... 8.11 G Ariel, Ari...... 7.1, 11.13 Dean-Olmsted, Evelyn...... 9.11 Gampel, Benjamin R...... 2.14 Bowman, Steven B...... 9.15 Armstrong, April...... 6.1 Deblinger, Rachel...... 8.15 Garbarini, Alexandra...... 13.1 Boxer, Matthew E...... 3.5 Ashkenazi, Ofer...... 13.4 Decter, Jonathan...... 7.13 Garfield, Rachel Susan...... 2.7 Boyden, Michael...... 7.10 Assouline, Dalit...... 11.4 Dekel, Mikhal...... 1.5 Garfein, Susanna N...... 11.11 Braemer, Andreas...... 9.2 Auerbach, Karen...... 3.8, 11.6 DeSouza, Igor Holanda...... 8.10 Garfinkel, Stephen...... 5.6 Braiterman, Zachary J...... 10.13 Avineri, Netta...... 9.9 Di Giulio, Marco...... 8.11 Gil, Idit...... 11.14 Braude, Claudia Bathsheba...... 7.8 Aviv, Caryn...... 8.7 Diamond, James A...... 5.12, 11.5 Gillick, Muriel Ruth...... 3.1 Bredstein, Andrey...... 4.11 Dietrick, Jon...... 1.8 Gillman, Abigail...... 1.4 B Brenner, Naomi...... 9.13, 13.4 Baader, Benjamin M...... 9.2 Diner, Hasia R...... 8.3, 11.12 Ginsburg, Elliot K...... 2.11, 3.3 Brenner, Rachel Feldhay...... 4.1, 9.7 Bachman, Merle Lyn...... 13.6 Divine, Donna R...... 12.1 Ginsparg Klein, Leslie...... 8.8 Brettschneider, Marla...... 5.15 Bahar, Izzet...... 6.1 Dolgopolski, Sergey...... 2.3, 9.12 Gitelman, Zvi Y...... 7.6 Brink-Danan, Marcy...... 9.11 Baker, Zachary M...... 10.10 Doron, Daniella...... 2.6 Glanzberg-Krainin, Deborah J...... 5.2 Brinkmann, Tobias...... 9.4, 12.3 Balakirsky Katz, Maya...... 9.8 Dubin, Lois...... 9.5 Glaser, Jennifer...... 5.7 Brodsky, Adriana...... 11.12, 13.1 Balbuena, Monique Rodrigues...... 3.3, 9.11 Dubnov, Arie M...... 5.1 Glasser, Paul D...... 9.9 Brodsky, David...... 9.12 Ball, Karyn Marie...... 11.14 Dubrow, Marsha...... 9.13 Glazer, Aubrey L...... 2.11 Brody, Samuel...... 4.10 Bar-Asher, Moshe...... 5.13 Dynner, Glenn...... 11.15 Glickman, Nora...... 1.13 Bronner, Simon Josef...... 12.9 Bar-Itzhak, Haya...... 12.9 Gluck, Peter Kaufman...... 2.9 Bronstein, Daniel M...... 3.10 E Baron, Lawrence...... 4.12, 9.6 Goering, Greg Schmidt...... 2.8 Brown, Benjamin...... 4.3 Efimova, Alla...... 7.9 Barriere, Isabelle...... 11.4 Golan, Arnon...... 8.6 Brown, Nicholas R...... 9.14 Ehrlich, Carl S...... 12.2 Bartal, Israel...... 1.5, 9.10 Goldberg, Sol...... 12.5 Bruch, Mia Sara...... 3.10 Eisen, Robert J...... 3.2 Baskin, Judith R...... 1.11 Goldish, Matt...... 2.13, 12.4 Burns, Joshua Ezra...... 4.2 Eisenstadt, Oona...... 7.15 Baumgarten, Jean...... 4.8 Goldman, Natasha...... 4.1 Burstein, Paul...... 10.9 Eisenstein Baker, Paula...... 4.5 Bechhofer, Shani...... 8.8 Goldstein, Eric L...... 3.1 Butler, Deirdre...... 12/19 Evening Eisler, Garrett...... 8.4 Beckerman, Gal...... 5.1 Goodhart, Sandor...... 8.4 C Elman, Yaakov...... 8.2 Bemporad, Elissa...... 2.4 Elyada, Aya...... 3.12, 8.14 Goodman, Lenn Evan...... 10.6 Ben-Amos, Dan...... 12.9 Cahan, Joshua...... 4.9 Goodman, Zilla Jane...... 7.8 Ben-Ghedalia, Yochai...... 9.10 Capelli, Piero...... 8.5 F Gopin, Marc Hal...... 3.2 Benarroch, Jonatan...... 7.13 Caplan, Debra...... 10.10 Fader, Ayala...... 7.5 Gordan, Rachel...... 2.10 Benjamin, Mara...... 13.3 Caplan, Marc...... 3.3, 12/19 Lunch, 7.10 Fagenblat, Michael...... 10.6 Gottlieb, Isaac B...... 12.2 Benor, Sarah Bunin...... 8.7, 11.4, 13.8 Cappell, Ezra...... 2.2 Faierstein, Morris M...... 4.8 Gracombe, Sarah...... 1.7 Benton, Maya...... 12.7 Carlebach, Elisheva...... 8.3, 10.4 Fainberg, Sarah M...... 6.1 Gray, Hillel...... 10.5 Bergen-Aurand, Brian...... 11.5 Carr, Jessica...... 6.1 Fainstein, Daniel...... 10.12 Greeley, June-Ann...... 8.1 Berger, Alan...... 11.11 Chanes, Jerome A...... 7.4 Feige, Michael...... 2.5, 8.6 Greenberg, Gershon...... 4.3 Berger, Michael S...... 3.2 Chazan, Robert...... 1.1 Feinstein, Eve Levavi...... 12.8 Greenblatt, Rachel...... 7.12 Berger, Shlomo...... 3.12 Chertok, Fern...... 10.7, 12.6 Feintuch, Yonatan...... 5.11 Gribetz, Jonathan Marc...... 8.13 Berger, Yitzhak...... 2.1 Coenen Snyder, Saskia...... 5.9 Feldman, Louis H...... 4.2 Grinberg, Ronnie Avital...... 5.7 Berkovitz, Jay R...... 2.13 Cofman-Simhon, Sarit...... 1.6, 9.6 Feldman, Sara...... 7.10 Gross, Aaron Saul...... 2.3, 12.4 Cohen, Aryeh...... 4.9 Feldman, Yael S...... 5.10 146 147 Grossmann, Atina...... 2.6, 12.3 Jordan, William C...... 9.5 Kranson, Rachel...... 11.12 Meroz, Ronit...... 7.13 Gruber, Samuel D...... 5.9 Joskowicz, Alexander...... 9.2 Krogh, Steffen...... 11.4 Merwin, Ted...... 1.10 Grunhaus, Naomi...... 7.3 K Kugelmass, Jack...... 3.8 Mesler, Katelyn...... 3.9 Gruweis-Kovalsky, Ofira...... 8.6 Kadushin, Charles...... 7.5 Kuznitz, Cecile E...... 12.2 Meter, Alejandro...... 10.12 Gurock, Jeffrey S...... 7.7, 9.4 Kahan Newman, Zelda...... 9.9 L Michel, Chantal Catherine...... 4.7 H Kallus, Menachem...... 5.12 Labendz, Jacob...... 11.6 Michels, Tony E...... 4.6, 5.7 Hacohen, Malachi...... 10.2 Kalmanofsky, Amy...... 9.3 Lachter, Hartley W...... 5.12 Milgram, Jonathan...... 10.11, 13.5 Halamish, Aviva...... 10.3 Kanarfogel, Ephraim...... 2.14, 3.9 Lambert, Joshua...... 11.3 Millen, Rochelle L...... 4.3 Halevi-Wise, Yael...... 3.7, 4.11 Kann, Nitsa...... 1.2 Land, Joy A...... 5.5 Miller, Derek R...... 6.1 Halperin, Liora...... 9.9 Kaplan, Dana Evan...... 4.12 Langer, Ruth...... 3.4 Miller, Joshua L...... 3.3 Hammerman, Jessica...... 12.10 Kaplan, Elizabeth Ann...... 9.1 Lanicek, Jan...... 11.6 Miller, Nancy Kipnis...... 1.5, 9.1 Hammerman, Shaina...... 8.9 Kaplan, Jonathan...... 7.3 Lapin, Hayim...... 4.2 Miller, Paul B...... 7.2 Hanneken, Todd...... 11.1 Kaplan, Lawrence J...... 5.6 Larkey, Uta...... 8.1 Miller, Ron...... 10.7 Harel, Naama...... 4.7 Kaplan, Marion...... 9.2 Lassner, Jacob...... 3.6 Milligan, Amy...... 12.9 Harris, Rachel S...... 1.2, 3.11 Karp, Jonathan...... 8.15, 10.2 Lassner, Phyllis...... 3.6 Milman-Miller, Nyusya...... 4.11 Harrowitz, Nancy A...... 12/19 Evening Kassow, Samuel D...... 2.12, 8.3 Lederhendler, Eli...... 4.6 Mintz, Alan L...... 8.11, 10.1 Hartman, Andrew...... 5.7 Kates, Nancy...... 9.1 Lee, Daniel...... 12.10 Mintz, Daniel Rochelson...... 8.4 Hartman, Harriet...... 4.4, 5.3, 10.7 Katz, Emily Alice...... 3.10 Leff, Lisa Moses...... 5.4 Mirguet, Francoise...... 4.2 Hary, Benjamin H...... 3.3 Katz, Ethan...... 7.1, 8.13 Legutko, Agi...... 11.7 Miric, Zia...... 12.5 Hauptman, Judith...... 1.9 Katz, Stephen...... 2.2, 10.1 Lehman, Marjorie...... 1.3 Mirsky, Yehudah...... 10.13 Hayes, Christine...... 10.11 Kaufman, David...... 8.15 Lehmann, Matthias B...... 3.13 Mirvis, Stanley...... 11.7 Hecht, Stuart...... 1.8, 4.5 Kaufman, Debra Renee...... 5.3 Leneman, Helen...... 12.2 Mishory, Alexander...... 1.6 Heilbrunn, Bernice Anne...... 9.4 Kavka, Martin...... 7.15, 10.6 Lerner, Akiba J...... 9.14 Mittelberg, David...... 10.7 Heilman, Samuel...... 9.8, 10.2 Kaye, Alexander...... 8.12 Lesley, Arthur M...... 13.7 Moazami, Mahnaz...... 8.2 Heller, Daniel Kupfert...... 5.1 Kaye, Lynn...... 5.11 Lev, Sarra...... 1.9 Moore, Deborah Dash...... 4.4, 11.2 Hellerstein, Kathryn A...... 13.6 Kelman, Ari Y...... 3.10, 4.4, 5.8, 8.7 Levenson, Alan T...... 2.1 Morris, Daniel...... 11.2 Henshke, Yehudit...... 5.13 Kelner, Shaul...... 4.4, 7.4, 11.10 Levine, Michelle J...... 7.3 Moscovitz, Leib...... 5.11 Hersko, Judit...... 2.7 Kensky, Eitan...... 5.14 Levinson, Julian A...... 10.1, 11.3 Moseley, Marcus...... 5.14 Hertz, Deborah...... 2.12 Kerenji, Emil...... 13.1 Levitt, Laura S...... 7.9, 9.1 Moss, Kenneth B...... 4.6, 9.10 Hess, Tamar S...... 1.5, 10.1 Kessler, Gwynn...... 9.3 Levy, Lital...... 7.2, 8.13 Moyn, Samuel...... 5.4 Hidary, Richard...... 9.12 Keysar, Ariela...... 11.10 Lichtblau, Albert...... 11.14 Mudure, Michaela...... 4.11 Hoffman, lexandra...... 7.10A Kiel, Yishai...... 8.2 Lichtenstein, Nina...... 12.10 Munro, Patricia K...... 12.6 Hoffman, Anne Golomb...... 5.10 Kieval, Hillel J...... 2.4, 7.11 Lichtenstein, Tatjana...... 11.6 Myers, Jody...... 1.4, 12.4 Hohman, Valleri...... 1.8 Kimelman, Reuven R...... 2.1 Lieber, Andrea B...... 1.3, 12.9 N Holian, Anna...... 12.3 Kimmage, Michael...... 5.4 Lindstrom, Naomi E...... 4.11 Naar, Devin...... 3.13 Hollander, Dana...... 1.12 Kirsh, Mary Fraser...... 2.12 Linhard, Tabea Alexa...... 13.1 Nahshon, Edna...... 1.8, 4.5 Hollander, Philip...... 5.10 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara...... 3.1, 7.9 Lockshin, Martin I...... 7.3 Nalewajko-Kulikov, Joanna...... 11.14 Hollander, Uri...... 3.7 Kirshner, Julius...... 9.5 Loeffler, James...... 5.4 Naor, Arye...... 8.6 Horowitz, Bethamie...... 7.4, 8.7 Klapper, Melissa R...... 7.7, 8.8 Loewenthal, Naftali...... 8.9 Naor, Moshe...... 8.13, 11.9 Horowitz, Rosemary...... 4.1 Klausner, Samuel Z...... 11.9 Lupovitch, Howard N...... 11.15 Nathan, Joan...... 1.10 Horowitz, Sara R...... 4.7 Kleeblatt, Norman L...... 7.8 M Nathans, Heather...... 4.5 Hotam, Yotam Yadin...... 5.1 Klein, Birgit Elke...... 7.12 Maciejko, Pawel...... 3.4 Neis, Rachel...... 2.8 Huberman, Ariana...... 10.12 Klein, Dennis B...... 4.3 Magid, Shaul...... 3.9, 5.2 Nemes, Robert...... 7.11 Hundert, Gershon D...... 8.3, 11.15 Klein, Shira...... 2.6 Mahla, Daniel...... 8.12 Neuman, Yishai...... 8.11 I Klein-Pejsova, Rebekah...... 11.6 Malisa, Mark...... 7.8 Newhouse, Alana...... 11.2 Idelson-Shein, Iris...... 3.12 Kobrin, Rebecca...... 4.6 Mandel, Maud S...... 2.6 Norich, Anita...... 3.3, 7.10 Imhoff, Sarah...... 1.13 Kohn, Shira M...... 2.10 Manekin, Charles...... 8.10 Novak, David...... 10.6 Inbari, Motti...... 2.5, 8.12 Koltun-Fromm, Ken...... 5.8 Manekin, Rachel...... 13.2 Novick, Tzvi...... 10.11 Israel, Sherry...... 2.9 Kopp-Oberstebrink, Herbert J...... 1.12 Mann, Vivian...... 5.5 Nuriel, Patricia...... 10.12 Israel-Pelletier, Aimee...... 12.10 Kopstein, Jeffrey...... 7.6 Mann, Zach...... 4.10 O Koren, Annette...... 10.7 Marglin, Jessica M...... 8.13 Ochs, Peter W...... 3.2 J Kornfeld, Moshe...... 6.1 Jacobs, Adriana X...... 7.2 Margolis, Rebecca...... 10.10 Ochs, Vanessa...... 13.8 Kosak, Hadassa...... 11.12 Martin, Sean...... 3.8 Oeltjen, Natalie B...... 2.14 Janitschek, Katja...... 7.12 Kosmin, Barry A...... 5.3 Jassen, Alex Paul...... 11.1 Mautner, Menachem...... 11.10 Ofengenden, Ari...... 10.5 Koss, Andrew N...... 9.8 McConnell, Lauren Beth...... 13.4 Ogren, Brian...... 5.12, 8.10 Jochnowitz, Eve...... 13.6 Kotler-Berkowitz, Laurence...... 10.7, 12.6 Jockusch, Laura Katharina...... 7.14 McGinity, Keren R...... 10.5 Oleszak, Agnieszka...... 8.8 Kotzin, Daniel...... 4.10 Meacham, Tirzah...... 1.9 Olin, Margaret...... 9.8 Johnson, Barbara C...... 5.15 Kozlovsky-Golan, Yvonne...... 9.6 Johnson, Sam...... 7.11 Mendelsohn, Adam...... 10.8 Olson, Jess...... 9.8 Kozodoy, Maud...... 8.10 Meng, Michael...... 5.9 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Ester-Basya...... 6.1 Pearlstein, Peggy...... 2.10 Saar, Ortal Paz...... 3.9 Sittig, Anne Kineret...... 10.4 Skolnik, Jonathan S...... 4.12 Vance, Sharon...... 9.11 Pellegrini, Ann...... 9.1 Sacks, Elias...... 5.6 Veidlinger, Jeffrey...... 7.6 Penslar, Derek J...... 9.10 Salamensky, S.I...... 1.4 Smith, Amy Michelle...... 2.12 Smollett, Brian...... 4.10 Verbit, Mervin F...... 3.5 Perry, Theodore A...... 9.14 Salaymeh, Lena...... 11.8 Vermeulen, Karolien...... 2.1 Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan...... 11.15 Salverson, Julie...... 11.5 Spagnolo, Francesco...... 7.9 Spielman, Loren R...... 13.5 Vidas, Moulie...... 5.11 Phillips, Bruce A...... 2.9, 5.3 Sandman, Israel Moshe...... 10.4 Viragh, Daniel...... 10.10 Pianko, Noam F...... 5.8, 13.8 Sands, Roberta G...... 7.5 Spinner, Samuel...... 8.14 Spiro, Mia...... 3.6 Vogt, Stefan...... 8.12 Picard, Avi...... 9.6, 12.1 Saperstein, Marc...... 5.5 Vromen, Suzanne...... 2.12 Pilnik, Shay...... 9.9 Sarna, Jonathan D...... 10.8 Stahl, Neta...... 3.7 Piser, Celine...... 9.11 Sasson, Theodore...... 3.5, 10.9 Stahlberg, Benjamin...... 10.13 W Pitkowsky, Michael...... 4.9, 12.8 Saxe, Leonard...... 3.5, 5.3, 8.7 Stauter-Halsted, Keely...... 11.15 Walfish, Barry Dov...... 12.2 Piudik, Jaclyn Tzvia...... 13.7 Schachter, Allison...... 7.2, 9.2, 13.3 Stein, Sarah Abrevaya...... 11.13 Wallis, Brian...... 11.2 Pogorelskin, Alexis Esther...... 3.6 Schachter, Ben...... 8.9 Steinberg, Theodore L...... 12/19 Lunch Wartenberg, Ilana...... 10.4 Polen, Nehemia...... 10.11 Schainker, Ellie...... 1.7 Stern, Eliyahu...... 13.2 Wasserfall, Rahel R...... 6.1 Ponichtera, Sarah...... 9.13 Schedrin, Vassili...... 13.2 Stern, Sacha...... 10.4, 13.5 Watts Belser, Julia...... 4.9 Popescu, Diana Isidora...... 4.7 Schiffman, Lawrence H...... 11.1 Stillman, Dinah Assouline...... 12.10 Waxman, Deborah...... 5.2 Porat, Dan...... 11.9 Schmidt, Gilya Gerda...... 6.1 Stock, Timothy Edward...... 11.5 Weber, Donald...... 11.3 Portnoff, Sharon...... 1.4 Schmidt, Shira Leibowitz...... 4.3 Stollman, Jennifer Ann...... 10.8 Weinfeld, David...... 5.7 Prell, Riv-Ellen...... 4.4 Schnoor, Randal F...... 12.6 Stow, Kenneth R...... 9.5 Weinfeld, Morton...... 10.9 Schorsch, Jonathan...... 5.15 Strassfeld, Max...... 1.9 Weingrad, Michael...... 10.1 R Strauch-Schick, Shana A...... 8.2 Weininger, Melissa...... 5.14 Rajchel, Jen...... 5.8 Schreier, Benjamin...... 8.4 Schreier, Joshua...... 11.13 Strauss, Elizabeth...... 9.7 Weinstein, David...... 3.10 Raphael, Marc Lee...... 3.1, 7.7 Strum, Daniel...... 3.4 Weisman, Karen...... 12.5 Rashkover, Randi Lynn...... 7.15 Schroeter, Daniel J...... 8.13 Schur, Yechiel Y...... 1.1 Sufrin, Claire...... 13.3 Weiss, Tzahi...... 2.11 Razi, Tammy...... 8.13 Sundquist, Eric J...... 9.7 Weissbach, Lee Shai...... 3.1 Rebibo, Janice Silverman...... 6.1 Schwartz, Daniel B...... 1.7 Schwartz, Seth...... 8.3 Swarts, Lynne...... 1.6 Weissler, Chava...... 10.5 Rein, Raanan...... 11.12 Swartz, Michael D...... 3.9 Weissman, Gary...... 4.12 Reznik, David...... 4.12 Schwartz, Shuly Rubin...... 2.10 Schwartz, Stephanie Tara...... 3.11 T Weissman Joselit, Jenna...... 11.11 Ribak, Gil...... 6.1 Weitz, Yechiam...... 8.6 Rice, Monika...... 13.9 Schwarz, Jan...... 8.14 Tabory, Ephraim...... 11.10 Scrivener, Michael H...... 12.5 Tal, David...... 12.1 Weitzman, Steven P...... 2.8 Ringel, Joseph...... 2.5 Wenger, Beth S...... 9.4 Ringvald, Vardit...... 6.1 Secunda, Shai...... 11.8 Tamarkin, Noah...... 5.15 Seeskin, Kenneth R...... 10.6 Tartakoff, Paola Ymayo...... 2.14 Wenthe, Michael...... 4.8 Roberts, Sophie B...... 11.13 Wexler, Laura J...... 2.7, 11.2 Rock, Howard...... 10.8 Segal, Miryam...... 5.10, 10.14 Teller, Adam...... 1.11, 13.2 Segev, Zohar...... 10.3 Tenenbaum, Shelly...... 10.2 Wilhelm, Cornelia...... 9.4 Rody, Caroline M...... 2.2 Wilke, Carsten L...... 3.12 Rogovin, Or...... 1.2 Segol, Marla...... 2.11, 5.12 Teplitsky, Joshua...... 11.7 Seidman, Naomi S...... 8.8, 9.2 Teter, Magda...... 2.4 Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott...... 9.12 Rojanski, Rachel...... 1.13, 5.14 Wirth-Nesher, Hana...... 3.3, 8.4 Ronell, Anna P...... 3.11 Sela-Levavi, Shirli...... 1.13 Thaler, Valerie...... 8.1 Seltzer, Robert M...... 4.10 Thompson, Bruce...... 8.1 Wisse, Ruth R...... 10.2 Rose, Alison L...... 7.11 Wolfson, Leah...... 13.1 Rosen, Aaron...... 8.9 Septimus, Yehuda...... 12.8 Thompson, Jennifer...... 2.9 Septimus, Zvi...... 9.12 Thrope, Samuel...... 8.2 Wolpe, Rebecca...... 8.14 Rosenberg, Jessica Ann...... 10.5 Wrobel, Magdalena...... 11.7 Rosenblum, Jordan D...... 1.10, 12.4 Seter, Ronit...... 1.6 Tirosh-Becker, Ofra...... 5.13 Rosenfeld, Gavriel...... 5.9 Setton, Ruth Knafo...... 1.10 Tobias, Joshua...... 10.7 Y Rosenstock, Bruce...... 7.15 Shandler, Jeffrey...... 7.9 Torr, Berna...... 10.7 Yoreh, Tzemah...... 10.14 Roskies, David...... 12/19 Lunch Shanes, Joshua...... 8.12 Traum Avidan, Riki...... 3.7 Young, Cynthia...... 12.7 Ross, Jacob Joshua...... 8.10 Shapiro, Robert M...... 9.7 Treml, Martin...... 1.12 Z Ross, James R...... 12/19 Evening Shapiro, Susan E...... 10.6 Trivellato, Francesca...... 9.5 Zakai, Orian...... 1.2 Ross, Tamar...... 5.6 Shear, Adam B...... 1.3, 2.13, 12.11 Troen, Ilan...... 2.5, 10.3 Zemel, Carol...... 7.8 Roth, Daniel...... 3.2 Sheppard, Eugene...... 10.3, 13.9 Tsamir, Hamutal...... 3.7 Zierler, Wendy...... 9.3 Roth, Laurence...... 11.3 Sheskin, Ira M...... 3.5, 10.7 Tsimhoni, Daphne...... 9.6 Zinger, Nimrod...... 1.11 Roth, Maya E...... 4.5 Shichtman, Martin B...... 4.1 Tsurumi, Taro...... 13.2 Zipperstein, Steven J...... 4.6, 5.4 150 151 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies

Index to Session Subjects

Bible and Biblical Interpretation: 1.6, 2.1, 7.3, 10.14, 11.1 Gender Studies: 1.1, 1.9, 1.11, 2.10, 5.7, 7.5, 8.8, 9.2, 9.3, 10.5 Holocaust Studies: 1.4, 2.2, 2.12, 3.6, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1, 7.6, 7.14, 8.1, 9.7, 11.14, 13.1 Israel Studies: 2.5, 3.11, 4.7, 5.10, 6.1, 8.6, 9.6, 10.3, 11.9, 12.1 Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity: 2.8, 4.2, Plenary (evening, 12/18), 8.2, 8.3, 13.5 Jewish Mysticism: 2.11, 3.9, 5.12, 7.13 Jewish Studies, Pedagogy, and Jewish Education: 5.8, 5.13, 7.1, Professional Development Workshops (lunchtime, 12/19), 8.1, Teaching Film Roundtable (evening, 12/19), 10.2, 11.11, 13.3 Jews and the Arts: 1.6, 1.8, 2.7, 4.5, 4.12, 5.9, 6.1, 7.8, 7.9, 8.9, 9.1, 9.15, 10.10, 11.2, 12.2, 12.7, 13.4 Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philology: 3.3, 8.11, 9.9, 9.11, 11.4 Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History Literature, and Culture: 1.1, 1.3, 1.11, 2.13, 2.14, 3.4, 5.5, 7.12, 8.3, 8.5, 9.5, 9.15, 10.4, 11.7, 12.11, 13.7 Medieval Jewish Philosophy: 3.9, 8.10 Modern Hebrew Literature: 1.2, 3.7, 5.10, 6.1, 8.11, 9.13, 10.1 Modern Jewish History (Europe, Asia, Israel, and other Communities): 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.4, 2.6, 3.1, 3.8, 4.6, 5.1, 5.4, 6.1, 7.6, 7.9, 7.11, 8.3, 8.12, 9.2, 9.8, 9.10, 11.6, 11.15, 12.3, 13.2 Modern Jewish History (the Americas): 2.10, 3.10, 5.2, 5.7, 6.1, 7.7, 8.3, 8.15, 9.4, 10.8, 11.12 Modern Jewish Literature: 1.4, 1.5, 1.10, 2.2, 4.11, 4.12, 7.2, 8.4, 10.1, 10.12, 11.3, 12.5, 13.7 Modern Jewish Thought and Theology: 1.12, 2.23, 4.10, 5.6, 7.15, 8.10, 9.14, 10.6, 10.13, 11.5, 13.9 Rabbinic Literature and Culture: 1.9, 2.8, 4.9, 5.11, 7.3, 8.2, 9.12, 10.11, 11.8, 12.8 Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies: 2.14, 3.9, 3.13, 5.2, 5.5, 5.13, 6.1, 7.1, 7.5, 8.13, 9.11, 11.13, 12.10 Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore: 2.9, 3.2, 3.5, 4.4, 5.3, 5.15, 6.1, 7.4, 8.7, 10.7, 10.9, 11.10, 12.4, 12.6, 12.9, 13.8 Special Topics and Interdisciplinary: 1.3, 2.3, 3.2, 5.8, 5.13, 8.3, 9.8, 10.2, 11.7, 11.11, 13.3, 13.8 Yiddish Studies: 1.13, 3.12, 4.8, 5.14, 6.1, 7.10, Reading Sutzkever (lunchtime, 12/19), 8.14, 9.9, 9.13, 10.10, 11.4, 13.6

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