SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
4.5 Jefferson
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Sunday
RECASTING JEWISH POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM INTERWAR POLAND TO NEW YORK TO THE PLO'S BEIRUT Chair and Respondent: Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison) From “Restratification of the Jewish Masses” to “the Catastrophe of Socialism”: East European Jewish Social Thought between Economic and Political Analysis, 1929–1939 Kenneth B. Moss (Johns Hopkins University) “From Marxism to Judaism”: Will Herberg’s Search for God and Socialism Tony E. Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison) The PLO’s Zionist Idea (Beirut, 1970) Jonathan Gribetz (Rutgers University) Violence between Reality and Trope: Jabotinsky and the Violent Rhetoric of the Revisionist Movement Brian J. Horowitz (Tulane University)
Hampton A/B CROSSING THE RELIGIOUS/SECULAR DIVIDE: NEW READINGS ON POSTWAR JEWISH LITERATURE Chair: Corinne Elise Blackmer (Southern Connecticut State University) Queering the Shtetl: The Androgyne and the Cross Dresser in the Work of Isaac Bashevis Singer Alexandra Tali Herzog (Brandeis University) The Great Jewish-American Secular Novelist? Rethinking the Ideology of Secularism in Philip Roth’s Fiction Jacques Berlinerblau (Georgetown University) Envy: Or – Poetry, the Judeo-Christian Border Zone, and Karl Shapiro Maeera Shreiber (University of Utah) Reading Literature as Religious Thought: A Case Study Claire Sufrin (Northwestern University)
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Dalton A/B DIVISION AND COHESION IN ISRAELI SOCIETY Chair: Daniel B. Schwartz (George Washington University) The Jews from Arab Countries and the Border Neighborhoods in Mandate Palestine Abigail Jacobson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Moshe Naor (San Diego State University), and Tammy Razi (Sapir College) Where is Yosele (Shukhmacher)? Kimmy Caplan (Bar-Ilan University) Donors and Dissidents: The Hebrew University in the 1970s between Arab Students and Foreign Jewish Benefactors Hillel Gruenberg (New York University)
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