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Our New Mandel Postdoctoral Fellows Dr MandelScHolio MandelScholion - interdisciplinary Research centerN ews in the Humanities and Jewish Studies Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School Volume 14 • September 2015 for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Two New Research Groups Until now, the research groups for a given three-year period were selected Liturgy and Art as Constructors Materials for Change (2016-2019) only around nine months in advance, This research team will study the dynamics of historical and contemporary along with the Mandel postdoctoral of Cultural Memory processes of change, focusing on “the material” in its various manifestations as fellows. In a move to allow faculty a unifying agent that mediates the economic, social, cultural, and religious in members and graduate students more periods of massive and rapid change. Concomitantly, the team will emphasize the time to plan ahead, this past year in the Middle Ages (2015-2018) role of the material – be it tools, objects, artifacts and food – as an active agent we moved to a new system, in which Liturgy is intrinsically interdisciplinary and comprises musical, dramatic, theatrical, of change in human history and in contemporary society in different regions of research groups are chosen a year and and devotional elements of great consequence to believers far and wide. It is both the world. Emphasis on the duality of material, as reflecting social and political nine months in advance. This change history and theology, reflecting and propagating values that inform individuals processes and as an active force shaping such processes, will enhance a deeper required a transition, so in September and communities alike, playing a vital role in the construction of sacred and lay understanding of how historical and contemporary courses of change emerge, 2014 the Center announced calls for memory. As a multi-sensory experience, liturgy maintains a dynamic relationship and how they are negotiated, challenged, and reworked. A major strength of this groups for two research groups: one, on with the surrounding space and its visual components, including art, artifacts, and research team is in its synergy of disciplines, theories, and methodologies in the old system, for 2015–2018, and architecture. This research group, which comprises four medieval historians, among the social sciences and humanities. Team members study processes of change in one, on the new system, for 2016– them a musicologist and two art historians, seeks to engage in a comparative and various regions and historical contexts stretching over a wide chronological axis. 2019. Beginning in the fall of 2015, interdisciplinary discourse, in order to contextualize liturgical practice within Two of the team members, Prof. Gideon Shelach and Dr. Leore Grosman, are only the new system will be employed. the production of medieval cultural memory, and within the symbolic traditions archeologists who study the dramatic shift from nomadic hunting and gathering After reviewing several interesting expressed through liturgy and the arts. Our sources include texts, rituals, music to sedentary agriculture in different parts of the world, mainly the Levant and and innovative proposals the Center's and visual media from Western Europe (Christian and Jewish) and the Latin Northeast China. A third member, Prof. Rina Talgam, studies art history as academic committee chose the Levant. The exploration of the written, visual, and musical constructs will reveal a venue for understanding the cultural and social history of the Middle East following two groups. the values and ideals conveyed and instilled through Jewish and Christian liturgical commemoration, and how these activated the believer’s idea of community and from the Hellenistic period until the Umayyad era. The forth senior member, their place within it. Dr. Nir Avieli, is a cultural anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research in Vietnam and in Israel and studies the interface of food and culture. Team members share an interest in processes of change and in the emphasis they place The group’s members, shown above, are: Netta Amir (European Forum, HUJI); on the material as an active agent in such processes. The diverse thematic and Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi (Theatre and Performance Studies, Dept. of methodological scopes of the team members will enhance mutual enrichment and Comparative Literature, Bar-Ilan University); Dr. Yossi Maurey and Uri Yaacov Dr. Yosefa Raz facilitate fresh approaches to the study of change in an interdisciplinary setting (Dept. of Musicology, HUJI); Dr. Galit Noga-Banai, Dr. Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Avia combining social sciences and humanities. Shemesh and Noam Yadin-Evron (Dept. of Art History, HUJI), Prof. Iris Shagrir (Dept. of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Open University). A call for applicants for the “Materials for Change” group’s four junior members will be announced around February 2016. The selected members must be HUJI PhD students by the beginning of the 2016/2017 academic year. Our new Mandel postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Judith Weiss More than a hundred applicants applied for the Mandel postdoctoral fellowships. After review of their applications and files, the Center’s academic committee selected eight finalists to lecture at our annual lecture Marathon and to be interviewed. That fascinating and intensive day, December 22, resulted in the selection of our two Mandel Fellows for 2015-2018: Dr. Yosefa Raz and Dr. Judith Weiss. Yosefa Raz is a graduate of Hebrew University’s English Literature research proposal for Mandel Scholion University, and completed her studying Christian Latin manuscripts Department and Amirim Honors builds on her work on weakness and doctorate as a Kreitman Fellow at dealing with Kabbalah, Weiss was Program. She went on to complete failure in biblical prophecy, extending Ben-Gurion University in 2013. Her a 2014/15 Lady Davis Fellow at an MA in English Literature at UC it to discuss the figure of Rachel in published studies deal with medieval the Hebrew University. During her Davis and a PhD in Jewish Studies the prophecy of Jeremiah and the Jewish Kabbalah as well as with tenure at Mandel Scholion she intends at UC Berkeley, where she focused construction of Rachel’s tomb as a Christian interest in Kabbalah during to expose and identify the actual on the biblical prophetic texts and pilgrimage site. the Renaissance. Her PhD dissertation kabbalistic traditions immersed in their reception in modernity. During was dedicated to the annotated Latin Kabbalistic Christian writings, estimate 2014/15 she was a postdoctoral fellow Judith Weiss studied Jewish Thought translation of the Zohar composed by their scope, and describe their unique at the University of Toronto. Her and Musicology at the Hebrew Guillaume Postel. After a year in Paris ways of adaptation. The joint Mandel Scholion – Israel Institute for Advanced Studies Conference on Picturing Royal Picturing Royal Charisma Charisma in the Near East, on January 12–14, 2015, was, in more than one way, the crowning event of the 2012–2015 Mandel Scholion interdisciplinary research group on “Picture Power: Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000 B.C. to 1700 A.D.” Scholars from various disciplines and backgrounds gathered to draw an enticing image of the intercultural dialogue taking place around the in the Near East iconography of rulers in the Near East in the course of five millennia of visual and literary history. By Arlette David On the second day, during the session to royal thrones in ancient East With the last session, “Ancient entitled “Images in Motion,” Frantz Mediterranean cultures. Emine Fetvaci Rulers – Modern Ideas,” a Weberian Conference Participants: GUESTS Daphna Ben-Tor (Israel Museum) Grenet (Collège de France) explored (Boston University) then conducted perspective on rulership in the Near Tawfiq Da’adli (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Emine Fetvaci (Boston University) Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) the early Mesopotamian king as the the continuity, from Babylon to an analysis of the evolution of the East was proposed by Michael Sommer Panagiotis Iossif (Belgian School of Athens) David Kertai (Tel Aviv University) PICTURING Dimitri Laboury (Université de Liège/FNRS) primary nexus between heaven and Sasanian Iran and Sogdania, of the depiction of the Ottoman sultan (Oldenburg University), on the basis of Michal Linial (Director of IIAS) ROYAL CHARISMA Amihai Mazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) textual and iconographic evidence Murad III during his reign, showing a vast panorama of (non)visual images Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) IN THE earth and its supra-human attributes. Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Linda Safran (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto) NEAR EAST Daniel R. Schwartz (Academic Head of Mandel Scholion) Then Arlette David (HUJI) focused for rituals of royal humiliation and his association with the heroes of the of kingship from the Neo-Assyrian Sarit Shalev-Eyni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Michael Shenkar (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin) (3RD MILLENNIUM BCE royal substitution. Galit Noga-Banai Shahnama of Firdawsi, then with the Empire, Israel, Phoenicia, Persia, Rome, Michael Sommer (Oldenburg University) on hybridism as a visual mark of Claudia E. Suter (University of Basel) TO 1700 CE) Dror Wahrman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (HUJI) presented the image of the Prophet Muhammad in a Sufi mode. and from Alexander to Justinian. Irit Ziffer (Eretz Israel Museum) divinity in ancient
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