TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013
9:00 am – 11:00 am
SESSION 10, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM 10.1
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BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ASHKENAZ: NEW DIMENSIONS Chair: Naomi Grunhaus (Yeshiva University) “Minding the Gap”: Tracing Biblical Exegesis in Medieval Ashkenaz a Century after Poznanski Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University) Virtual Conversations: Twelfth-Century Jewish and Christian Bible Exegesis in Northern France Isaac B. Gottlieb (Bar-Ilan University) Evolving Canon: Rashi Supercommentary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenazic Biblical Scholarship Eric Jay Lawee (Bar-Ilan University) The Range of Bible Reception among Early Seventeenth-Century Ashkenazi Jews Joseph M. Davis (Gratz College)
10.2
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10.3
Tuesday
REIMAGINING DIASPORA: JEWISH WRITERS AND THE USES OF HISTORY Chair: Ezra Cappell (University of Texas at El Paso) Zangwill and the Afterlife of the Venetian Ghetto Murray Baumgarten (University of California, Santa Cruz) “Sparks That Reach Far into the Past and Spin toward the Future”: The Historical Turn in Recent Novels by Canadian Jewish Women Writers Ruth Panofsky (Ryerson University) Nostalgia of the Book: Bibliomysteries with Jews Laurence Roth (Susquehanna University) A Stranger in Paradise: Nostalgia and Exile in the Poetry of Meir Kharats Ester-Basya Vaisman (Hampshire College / Yiddish Book Center)
Backbay D CINEMATIC JUDAISM Chair: Sharon Pucker Rivo (National Center for Jewish Film) Paranoia in Soviet Jewish Animation in the 1970s Maya Balakirsky Katz (Touro College) Representing Continuity and Trauma in Theatrical Performances: Yiddish Cinematography in Postwar Poland Jan Schwarz (Lund University) When Israelis Meet Palestinians in French Movies Dinah Assouline Stillman (University of Oklahoma) Becoming Normal? Jews in Recent German Films Caspar Battegay (University of Basel)
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