SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 4.18
Evening Program
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Sunday
NEW SCHOLARSHIP IN MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT, THEOLOGY, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Chairs: Mara Benjamin (St. Olaf College) Steven Kepnes (Colgate University) Pragmatic Dimensions in Mordecai Kaplan's Concept of Belief Nadav Berman Shifman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Impact of Anthropology, Medicine, and Race Science on Franz Rosenzweig’s System of Philosophy Shira Nomi Billet (Princeton University) Blessings and Curses: Negotiating Identity in the Forging of Queer Jewishness and Jewish Queerness Sonia Crasnow (University of California, Riverside) Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Attitude toward Non-Jews: A Defense of Rabbinic Judaism against Charges of Tribalism Moshe Y. Miller (Yeshiva University) Reading Torah in a German Key: The Sublime Bible of Naphtali Herz Wessely and the Battle for Spiritual Supremacy in Eighteenth-Century Europe Tania Tulcin (Yeshiva University) Return to the Eternal: Joseph Soloveitchik and Leon Ashkenazi’s Turn to Biblical Origin Myths following WWII Ori Werdiger (University of Chicago)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 EVENING PROGRAM WELCOME RECEPTION
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
Grand Ballroom
Brandeis University, home to the Association for Jewish Studies from 1994–2003, welcomes you back to Boston. Enjoy the food and wine and visit the Brandeis University Press booth for a good read. Open to all conference registrants.
ASSJ AWARDS RECEPTION 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
Independence West
Honoring the 2013 Marshall Sklare Award recipient, Professor Morton Weinfeld, and the 2013 Berman Award recipient, Professor Rela Mintz Geffen. Sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, McGill University, the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, and the Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation. Open to all conference registrants.
RECEPTION IN HONOR OF 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm JANET RABINOWITCH
Republic Foyer
Celebrating Janet Rabinowitch and her distinguished career as editor of the Indiana University Press. Sponsored by AJS and Indiana University Borns Jewish Studies Program. Open to all conference registrants.
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