SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 2.7
11:15 am – 1:00 pm
Dalton A/B
2.8
Sunday
CROSSING JURISDICTIONS: JEWS, COURTS, AND NEW HISTORICAL METHODOLOGIES ON PREMODERN JEWISH LITIGATION Chair and Respondent: Jessica M. Marglin (Princeton University) Jews in the Legal Sources of Venetian Crete: Laws, Social Norms, and the Power of Perspective Rena Nechama Lauer (Harvard University) Internal Jewish Conflicts at Gentile Courts: A Case Study from EighteenthCentury Frankfurt am Main Verena Kasper-Marienberg (University of Graz) Rethinking Jewish Legal Culture: The Metz Beit Din and French Law in the Eighteenth Century Jay R. Berkovitz (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Clarendon A/B JEWISH CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA Chair: Adriana Brodsky (St. Mary's College of Maryland) Argentine Jewish Cinema: Immigration, Tango, and Prostitution Nora Glickman (Queens College, CUNY) The Girlfriend by Jeanine Meerapfel: Argentine Jews during the Military Dictatorship Patricia Nuriel (Wofford College) Geographic Isolation and Jewish Religious Renaissance in Contemporary Latin American Documentaries Ariana Huberman (Haverford College) Respondent: Naomi E. Lindstrom (University of Texas)
2.9 Fairfax A/B DEFINING AND EVADING NATION: COMPETING VOICES OF EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY POLISH JEWRY Chair and Respondent: Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University) Polishness and Jewishness in the Cultural Nationalist Vision of I. L. Peretz Joshua M. Karlip (Yeshiva University) The “Bloody Election” in Drohobycz: Violence, Politics, and Memory of the 1911 Austrian Elections Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston) Bruno Schulz’s Narrative Homeland: Sanatorium as a Critique of National Literatures Karen Underhill (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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