TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013
9:00 am – 11:00 am
10.4 Jefferson THE EVOLUTION OF LEGAL PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS Chair: Judith Hauptman (Jewish Theological Seminary) Legalized Evasion and the Subjective Self: The Case of Ha‘aramah Elana Stein (Columbia University) “We May Not Draw Inferences from a Hiddush”: From Logic to Formalism . Leib Moscovitz (Bar-Ilan University) The Development of Tannaitic Inheritance Law in Its Legal and Social Contexts Jonathan Milgram (Jewish Theological Seminary) Battery: A Test Case for Grand Theories of Tannaitic Literature Amit Gvaryahu (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10.5
Hampton A/B FOOD AND DRINK IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH NORMATIVITY Chair: Jeffrey S. Gurock (Yeshiva University) The Orthodox Union’s Great Secret: Abraham Goldstein and the Lay Roots of Kosher Certification in the United States Roger Horowitz (Hagley Museum and Library) Foodways and Halakhic Folkways in American Judaism: The Case of Peanut Oil on Passover Zev Eleff (Brandeis University) Consuming Continuity and Connectivity: Jewish Food and the Construction of American Jewish Identity Ariella Werden (Temple University) Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in the American Jewish Community: The Rise of the Jewish “Recovery” Movement Marianne Sanua Dalin (Florida Atlantic University)
Tuesday
10.6
Dalton A/B FROM BROOKLYN TO TEHRAN: TRANSNATIONAL CONVERSATIONS AND JUDEO-ISLAMIC CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS Chair: Ari Ariel (Bryn Mawr College) Muslim-Jewish Musical Culture in Brooklyn: Expressions of a Paradoxical Identity Samuel R. Thomas (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Transnational Cyber-Music Encounters: The Case of Rita, the Iranian-Born Israeli Pop Music Diva Galeet Dardashti (New York University) The Poetics of Insults: Verbal Sparring between Jews and Muslims in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains Sarah Frances Levin (University of California, Berkeley) Cosmopolitanism or Sephardic Ascendancy? The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Stories about “Old Jerusalem” Dana Hercbergs (University of Maryland)
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