TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 10.13
9:00 am – 11:00 am Beacon B
WRESTLING WITH MEDIEVAL RATIONALISM Chair: Kenneth R. Seeskin (Northwestern University) Problems with Providence in Maimonides's Guide Daniel Davies (University of Cambridge) The Jewish Exile: Divine Punishment or Historical Event? A New Approach by Rabbi Isaac Polqar Racheli Haliva (McGill University) Philosophical Interpretation of Talmudic Law and Aggadah Literature in Rabbi Joseph ben Saul Kimhi’s Mezukkak Shiva‘atayim (Fourteenth Century, . Avignon) Aviram Ravitsky (Ariel University / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ignác Goldziher's Notion of Religious Science Based on Maimonides's “Ta'amei ha-mitzvot” Ottfried Fraisse (Goethe University Frankfurt)
10.14
Beacon D
REREADING DAVID GROSSMAN'S SEE UNDER: LOVE Chair: Yael Halevi-Wise (McGill University) Reflections on “The Complete Encyclopedia of Kazik's Life” Iris Milner (Tel Aviv University) Grossman’s Humanizing Heritage in Israeli Holocaust Fiction Or Rogovin (Bucknell University) Beasts We Were, Beasts We Are: David Grossman’s See Under: Love and Maxim Biller’s Esra Juliette Brungs (University of Minnesota) Respondent: Naomi B. Sokoloff (University of Washington)
SEMINAR
Beacon E
Tuesday
10.15
PHILOSEMITISM AND ITS PARADOXES (MEETING 3) Chair: Eliza Slavet (University of California, San Diego) Seminar Participants: Hillel Athias-Robles (Columbia University), Jonathan M. Hess (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Naomi Leite (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Alan T. Levenson (University of Oklahoma), Daniel Martin Lis (University of Basel), Jason Matthew Olson (Brandeis University), Elliot Ashley Ratzman (Swarthmore College), Eliza Slavet (University of California, San Diego), Jarrod Tanny (University of North Carolina Wilmington) Daily seminar schedule available at Registration Desk and at ajsnet.org.
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