Institute of Asian and Misgav Yerushalayim African Studies The Ben-Zvi Institute / 70 years The Forum of Turkish Studies SalonicaA Multicultural City in the Ottoman Empire and the Greek State Jerusalem and Haifa, May 21-23, 2017 Sunday, May 21, 17:00-20:00 Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 14 Ibn Gabirol St., Jerusalem Opening Event (open to the public) 18:15-20:00 In memory of Aharon. H. Rousso, a pioneer and great supporter of the preservation of the Jewish heritage Sounds of Salonica of Thessaloniki, and his wife Rivka Chair: Shmuel Refael, Bar-Ilan University Dafni Tragaki, University of Thessaly, Volos 17:00-18:00 The Intimacies of Appropriation: Song Cosmopolitics and Salonica’s History Keynote Address Narration Greetings: Edwin Seroussi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Eyal Ginio, Chairman, The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Being Ottoman Musically in Salonica: Shared Study of Jewish Communities in the East; The Hebrew Legacies and Contested Soundscape University of Jerusalem Rivka Havassy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shai Lavi, Director, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Popular Music in Jewish Salonica between the World Wars Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University Oded Erez, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Salonican Jewry in Historical Perspective: Music, Ethnicity, and Class between Salonica and 15th-20th Centuries Tel Aviv-Jaffa, or: How We Got to “Salomonico” 18:00 Coffee Break 20:30 Dinner (invitees only) Monday, May 22 The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem 9:30-11:15 14:15-16:00 Community and Society in Culture, Education and Ottoman Selânik Religion during the 19th- Chair: Abigail Jacobson, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Century Reforms Chair: Yaron Ben-Naeh, The Hebrew University of Phokion Kotzageorgis, Aristotle University of Jerusalem Thessaloniki The Formation of the Ottoman Society in Tamir Karkason, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thessaloniki: The First Century of Ottoman Rule Ottoman Salonica as a Center of Jewish Haskalah during the Tanzimat and Christos Kyriakopoulos, University of Crete Hamidian Periods Urban Continuity and Spatial Change: Waqf Endowing in Ottoman Thessaloniki in the 15th and Nejla Doğan, Karabük University 16th Centuries Muslim Education in Salonica during the Abdülhamid II Era: A Comparative Analysis Antonis Anastasopoulos, University of Crete between Muslim and non-Muslim Schooling in Salonica Viewed from Outside: The Testimony of Salonica the 18th-Century Kadı Court Registers of Veroia Dimitris Stamatopoulos, University of Macedonia, Yaron Ben-Naeh, The Hebrew University of Thessaloniki Jerusalem; Chair, Misgav Yerushalayim Ethnic Conflicts or Inter-communal Arrangements Unknown Regulations in Ladino from Salonica (ca. in Tanzimat Salonica: The Perspective of the Greek 1740): Ethos, Ideal, Reality Orthodox Clergy 11:15 Coffee Break Yura Konstantinova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia The oblivion of the Bulgarian community in 11:30-13:00 Salonica Mysticism and Religiosity 16:00 Coffee Break in Salonica 16:15-18:15 Chair: Jacob Barnai, University of Haifa Mor Altshuler, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Tel Aviv Salonica’s Literary Rabbi Joseph Karo and Poet Solomon Elkabetz: Reflections The First Kabbalistic Circle in Salonica Chair: Tamar Alexander, Ben-Gurion University Hadar Feldman Samet, The Hebrew University of of the Negev Jerusalem Renée Levine Melammed, The Schechter Institute of Intercultural Encounters in Ottoman Salonica Jewish Studies, Jerusalem as Reflected by the Liturgy of the Sabbatean A Poetic Mirror Reflecting 20th-Century Ma’aminim Multicultural Salonica Shushan Khachatryan, The Armenian Genocide Seda Özdemir Sismek, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Museum-Institute, Yerevan Representation and Historicization of Salonica Thessaloniki in Theology: Mysticism, Eschatology within Contemporary Turkish Literature: The Case and Missions of “Farewell, My Beloved Homeland” by Ahmet Űmit 13:00 Lunch Break Susy Gruss, Bar-Ilan University Speaking Ladino around the White Tower Michal Held Delarosa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Yerushalyaim del Balkan”? “La Madre de Israel”? Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Creation of Imagined Salonica Tuesday, May 23 University of Haifa, Rabin Observatory 10:15 15:15-17:15 Greetings: Gur Alroey, Dean of Humanities, University of Haifa Transformations and the Jeannine Horowitz, Director of the Program of Creation of the Hellenic Byzantine and Modern Hellenic Studies, University of Haifa State Chair: Jeannine Horowitz, University of Haifa 10:30-12:00 Devin Naar, University of Washington, Seattle Before the Fire/After the Fire: Reassessing Major Jewish Turning Points in Greek Salonica Urban Life in Salonica Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis, Aristotle University of Chair: Ruthy Gertwagen, University of Haifa Thessaloniki Ariadni Moutafidou, Hellenic Open University, Patra The Transformations of Thessaloniki, 1900-1945: Thessalonian Diaspora and the Process of Watersheds in the Course from a Multi-ethnic to a Institutionalization at Home: The Case of Giovanni National Cityscape di Niccolò Pappaffy Paris Chronakis, University of Illinois at Chicago İrem Gençer, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul Refugee Capital: War Refugees, International Winds of Change: Urban and Architectural Humanitarianism and Nationalizing Policies in Transformation of Salonica’s Commercial Center Salonica, 1912-1918 1839-1900 Maria Alvanou, ITSTIME Research Center Sotirios Dimitriadis, International Hellenic University, Terrorism and Extremist Violence in Ottoman Thessaloniki and New Greek State Thessaloniki: Interplays of “If it isn’t Allatini’s, it Must be Modiano’s”: Urban Nationalism and Economy Property and the Production of Space in Late Ottoman Salonica 17:15 Coffee Break 12:00 Lunch Break 17:30-18:00 Concluding Remarks: Eyal Ginio, The Ben-Zvi 13:30-15:00 Institute; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Different and Changing The Workshop’s Academic Committee: Identities Prof. Yaron Ben-Naeh, Ms. Hadar Feldman Samet, Chair: Angel Chorapchiev, University of Haifa Prof. Eyal Ginio, Dr. Jeannine Horowitz, Yannis Sygkelos, DEI College, Thessaloniki Dr. Abigail Jacobson, Mr. Tamir Karkason, Salonica’s Imperial Cosmopolitanism in the Last Dr. Tsameret Levy-Daphny, Dr. Edo Litmanovitch, Ottoman Years Dr. Judith Loebenstein-Witztum, Dr. Yoel Marciano Rena Molho, University of Basel and Ben-Gurion The steering committee of the Salonica International University of the Negev Workshop thanks the Program of Armenian Studies Intercultural Meeting Places of Minorities in and the Musicology Department, both of the Hebrew Ottoman Salonica University of Jerusalem, for their generous support of the workshop. Michael Waas, University of Haifa The Jewish Museum: Re-imagining Jewish Identity through Heritage in Salonica during the Transition from Ottoman Selanik to Greek Thessaloniki Photographs taken at the event will be posted on the 15:00 Coffee Break social media..