SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 1.13
9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Beacon B
1.14
Sunday
ABRAMOVITSH, SHOLEM ALEICHEM, AND MANGER: ON WRITING THE BIOGRAPHIES OF YIDDISH AUTHORS Chair: Marion Aptroot (Heinrich Heine University) Text and Context in Itsik Manger’s Biography Efrat Gal-Ed (Heinrich Heine University) Marketing Mendele: Difficulties in Designing a Mendele/Abramovitsh Biography Susanne C. Klingenstein (Harvard University) The Jewish Boswell: Y. D. Berkovich and the Invention of Sholem Aleichem Olga Litvak (Clark University)
Beacon D
TRANSLATING THE JEWISH NARRATIVE INTO AN AMERICAN NARRATIVE Moderator: Jodi Eichler-Levine (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) Discussants: Jennifer Caplan (Syracuse University) Rachel Gordan (Northwestern University) Eitan Kensky (Harvard University) Samira K. Mehta (Emory University)
SESSION 2, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM 2.1
Constitution A
POSTMODERNISM, JEWISHNESS, AND THE CRITIQUE OF ZIONISM Moderator: Zachary Braiterman (Syracuse University) Discussants: Peter Eli Gordon (Harvard University) Sarah Esther Hammerschlag (University of Chicago) Vincent Lloyd (Syracuse University) Larisa Reznik (University of Chicago)
2.2
Backbay A EXPANDING ITALIAN JEWISH STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXCHANGE Chair: Kenneth R. Stow (University of Haifa) Why Italian Jews Had Faith in Fascism Shira Klein (Chapman University) Theorizing the Italian Ghetto L. Scott Lerner (Franklin & Marshall College) Jewish Space, Place, and Boundaries in Early Modern Modena Federica Francesconi (University of Oregon) Respondent: David N. Myers (University of California, Los Angeles)
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