TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013
4:15 pm – 5:45 pm
13.7 Fairfax A/B INTRA- AND INTERGROUP COMPARISONS AMONG U.S. JEWS: INTERMARRIAGE, PHILANTHROPIC, URBAN, AND HEALTH EXPERIENCES Sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and the Berman Jewish Databank in Memory of Bernard Dov Lazerwitz Chair: Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut) Jewish Giving Circles in Comparative Perspective Evelyn Dean-Olmsted (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) and Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR) Reviving the “The New Urban History” for the Study of American Jewry: An Experiment Bruce A. Phillips (HUC-JIR) We Used to Say “Zei Gezunt!”: Do American Jews Still Exhibit Distinctive Health Behaviors? Gail Glicksman (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) and Allen Glicksman (Philadelphia Corporation for Aging) Respondent: Rela Mintz Geffen (Gratz College)
13.8
Berkeley A/B
13.9
Tuesday
GRAPHIC NOVELS: NEW SCHOLARLY DIRECTIONS Chair: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) Learned Mister Editor: Liana Fink’s Graphic Translation of Bintil Brief Tahneer Oksman (Marymount Manhattan College) James Sturm's Market Day as Contemporary Commentary on the Jewish Community Matt Reingold (York University) Picturing “The Holiest Thing”: Joe Kubert’s Children of the Warsaw Ghetto Samantha Baskind (Cleveland State University)
Gardner B BEING VENETIAN: PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY-MODERN JEWISH LIFE ON THE LAGOON Chair: Federica Francesconi (University of Oregon) Negotiating through Foreign Sciences: Jewish Physicians and Freedom of Practice in Early Modern Venice Lucia Finotto (Brandeis University) Did Leon Modena Look through Galileo’s Telescope? Howard Tzvi Adelman (Queens University) Encomia Hebraica: Poems for Christians by Leon Modena Michela Andreatta (University of Rochester) Respondent: Benjamin Ravid (Brandeis University)
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