TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 13.4
4:15 pm – 5:45 pm
Hampton A/B NOT EXACTLY AMERICA'S GAME: A NEW LOOK AT JEWS AND BLACK BASEBALL Moderator: Josh Perelman (National Museum of American Jewish History) Discussants: Rebecca Alpert (Temple University) Adrian Burgos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) John Thorn (Independent Scholar)
13.5
Dalton A/B THE RISE OF MODERN HEBREW AUTHORSHIP Chair: Michal Arbell (Tel Aviv University) Bialik the Hebrew Author: Bialik’s View on Jewish Authorship Amit Assis (McGill University) Sly Voices of Tradition: The Pseudonymous Performances of Sholem Aleichem and S.Y. Agnon Naomi Brenner (The Ohio State University) Agnon’s Authorship from Romanticism to Posthumanism: The Crisis of Jewish Authorship in “A Guest for the Night” and Other Works by S.Y. Agnon Shirli Sela-Levavi (Rutgers University)
13.6
Clarendon A/B
Tuesday
NEW APPROACHES TO MIDRASH: RASHI’S TREATMENT OF HIS SOURCES Chair: Robert A. Harris (Jewish Theological Seminary) “But Abraham Offered Only One Ram”: Rashi's Use of Midrash in His Commentary on Numbers 22:2–24:25 Joanna Greenlee Kline (Harvard University) Cite Seeing: Patterns of Citation in Rashi’s Torah Commentary Yedida Eisenstat (Jewish Theological Seminary) Rashi’s Creative Misreading of Midreshei Aggadah Yehudah Benjamin Cohn (New York University) Respondent: Naomi Grunhaus (Yeshiva University)
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