2006
Association for Jewish Studies 38th Annual Conference
San Diego, CA – December 17-19
Session 2.9
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women Writers: Re-Envisioning Anglo-Jewish Literary History
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Chair: Michael Galchinsky (Georgia State University); Exile, Exodus, and Narrative Closure in Anglo-Jewish Women’s Writing – Susan David Bernstein (University of Wisconsin—Madison); “Judah’s [Other] Bards”: Anglo-Jewish Women Poets, 1880–1925 – Cynthia Scheinberg (Mills College); Elegy, Alienation, and the Expressive Resources of Anglo/Jewish Poetry: The Case of Emma Lyon – Karen Weisman (University of Toronto)
Session 2.11
Aspects of Women in Rabbinic Literature: Body, Space, and Name
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Chair: Judith Hauptman (Jewish Theological Seminary); How the ‘Aylonit Got Her Sex – Sarra Lev (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College); Follow the Money: Bride Price, Dowry, and the Rabbinic Ketubbah – Gail Labovitz (University of Judaism); The Queen, the Apostate, and the Women Between: (Dis)Placement of Women in Tosefta Sukkah – Cynthia M. Baker (Santa Clara University); On the Cusp of Christianity: Virgin Sacrifice in “Pseudo-Philo” and Amos Oz – Yael Feldman (New York University)
Session 3.2
Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture
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Sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ)
Chair: Harriet Hartman (Rowan University); On City Streets – Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan); Respondents: Judith L. Goldstein (Vassar College), Laura S. Levitt (Temple University), Beth S. Wenger (University of Pennsylvania)
Session 4.10
Reconsidering Hannah Arendt at 100
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Chair: David J. Biale (University of California, Davis); Hannah Arendt’s Early Jewish Writings – Ron H. Feldman (University of San Francisco); The “Non-Jewish Jew”: Hannah Arendt’s “German Jewish Identity” and the Critique of Eichmann in Jerusalem – Robert Kunath (Illinois College); Arendt on Anti-Semitism – Bruce Thompson (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Session 5.2
Jewish Cultural Studies: New Frontier or Sub-field?
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Chair: Simon Bronner (Pennsylvania State University); Discussants: Matti Bunzl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sander Gilman (Emory University), Galit Hasan-Rokem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University)
Session 5.4
Public Faces, Public Places
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Chair: Ezra Cappell (University of Texas at El Paso); The Claims of Memory in Contemporary British and American Drama – Donald Weber (Mount Holyoke College); Berend Lehmann, J. P. Morgan, and the “Met” – Vivian B. Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary); My Yiddishe Mammy: Ethnic Masks in The Jazz Singer and The Human Stain – Donny Inbar (Graduate Theological Union)
Session 5.7
Gendering Jewish Musics: Liturgy and Performance I – Performing “Jewish Music”: Gender, Tradition, and Innovation
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Chair: Francesco Spagnolo (American Sephardi Federation); Performing Memory: Gender and Social Change in the Buenos Aires Gebirtig Chorus – Natasha Zaretsky (Princeton University); Gendered Voices in the Mizrahi Music Mix – Amy Horowitz (Ohio State University) Kol Isha: The Lost Voices of Jewish Women Singers – Judith Pinnolis (Brandeis University); Respondent: Mark Kligman (HUC-JIR)
Session 6.13
Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture
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Chair and Respondent: Murray Baumgarten (University of California, Santa Cruz); Defining Jewish Identity in the Venetian Ghetto – Dana Katz (Reed College); Jewish Publishing and Christian Publishers – Paul Hamburg (University of California, Berkeley); Simone Luzzatto’s “Discorsi”: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Seventeenth-Century Venice – Ariella Lang (Columbia University)
Session 7.15
How Much Christianity in Rabbinic Judaism?
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Chair: Michael D. Swartz (Ohio State University); History, Theory, and Text: On the Christianization of the Rabbis – Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University); Divinely Born: Shared Narratives and Divided Imaginations of Jews, Christians, and Philosophers – Galit Hasan-Rokem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Was There a Rabbinic Response to Christianity in Late Antiquity? – Robert G. Goldenberg (Stony Brook University, SUNY); Respondent: Andrew Jacobs (University of California, Riverside)
Session 9.12
“My Daughter, My Ducats”: Rethinking/Reinterpreting/Reappropriating Shylock and His Daughter
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Chair: Edna Nahshon (Jewish Theological Seminary); Victorian Burlesques of The Merchant of Venice – Michael Shapiro (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Daughter to His Blood: Jessica, Conversion, and the Myth of a Jewish Race – Lisa R. Lampert (University of California, San Diego); “He will haunt me, that man”: Shylock’s Last Act in Modern British Productions of The Merchant of Venice – Maria Jones (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom);
Respondent: Harley Erdman (University of Massachusetts—Amherst)
2007 Distinguished Lectures
David Ilan – The Archaeology of Pilmgrimage in Ancient Israel: Tel Dan in the Iron Age II
November 27, 2007
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Michael Thaler – Nazi Bioscience
May 16, 2007
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James Young – Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial Problem-and Mine
April 27, 2007
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2008 Distinguished Lectures
Gershom Gorenberg – Messianism and its Discontents
2008
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Nathaniel Deutsch – The People’s Torah: How Ansky Recreated the Talmud for the 20th Century
February 26, 2008
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Nathaniel Deutsch – The Forbidden Fork, the Cell-Phone Holocaust, and Other Ultra Orthodox Encounters with Technology
January 24, 2008
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