UCB/GTU Jewish Studies Symposium

March 6, 2008

Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union

8:30am – 9:00am - Welcome and Coffee

9:00am – 10:15am - - "Rabbinic Tales"
Holger Zellentin, Graduate Theological Union
Daniel Boyarin, UC Berkeley

10:45am – 12:00pm -
"Jewish Narratives in Christian Europe"
Ivan Marcus, Yale University
Deena Aranoff, Graduate Theological Union

12:00pm-1:30- BREAK

1:30pm-2:30pm - "Jewish Narratives in Muslim Lands"
Carol Bakhos, UCLA

2:45pm-3:45pm - Closing Reflections and Discussion
Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union

4:00pm-5:00pm- RECEPTION

The 5th Annual Yiddish Conference:

"Scholarship On and In Yiddish"

May 14-15, 2007

Room 370, Dwinelle Hall
Monday, May 14, 2007


8:00am – 9:00am - Continental Breakfast served in 370 Dwinelle

9:15am – 9:45am - Welcome: John Efron;
Robert Adler Peckerar In Memory of Eli Katz:

9:45am – 11:45am - Yiddish Scholarship Through the Ages

Aya Elyada „…, daß ein gründlicher Theologus ein Philologus seyn müsse”: Christian Scholarship on Yiddish in Early Modern Germany
Barry Trachtenberg "Laying the Cornerstones of Yiddish Scholarship"
Dov Ber Kerler "Modern Yiddish Scholarship: Yiddish, Jewish, Gentile?"

11:45am – 1:15pm - LUNCH

1:15m – 3:15pm - Yiddish Institutions of Learning

David Myers "Yiddish Scholarship and the Institutionalization of Jewish Studies in the 1920s."
Sam Kassow "The YIVO and Jewish History in Interwar Poland"
Cecile Kuznitz “Inteligents, folk, proletariat: Three Visions of Yiddish Scholarship in the Work of YIVO”

3:15pm – 3:30pm - BREAK

3:30pm – 5:30pm - Yiddish Language and Folklore

Neil Jacobs Modern Turns in Yiddish Linguistics
Itzik Gottesman "Who Collected Yiddish Folklore for YIVO and Why"
Jack Kugelmass "From the Jungles of Peru: Pseudoethnography and the Yiddish Travelogue"

Tuesday, May 15, 2007


9:00am – 10:00am - Continental Breakfast served in 370 Dwinelle

10:00am – 12:00pm Yiddish Literary Scholarship

Chana Kronfeld "H. Binyomin's Take af Thcikaves: A Portrait of the Poet as Yiddish Scholar"
Jordan Finkin "N. B. Minkov's Polyphonic Aesthetic of Criticism" the manifesto as literary criticism
Jeffrey Veidlinger "Critics Without Borders: Cultural Studies in Yiddishland"

12:00pm – 1:30pm - LUNCH

1:30pm – 3:30pm Profiles of Yiddish Scholars

Adam Rubin “Jacob Lestschinsky and the Creation of Jewish Economics."
Alisa Braun “From Scholar to Patron: Leo Wiener and the Invention of Yiddish Culture in America”
Kalman Weiser "Noah Prylucki: Pioneer, Populist, Pariah"

REFLECTIONS:

A Conference Honoring Chana Kronfeld

Allison Schachter - Opening Remarks: Language Pangs or reading Yiddish in Hebrew
Lital Levy - Bloody Hope (Ha-Tikvah 'al ha-Dam): Salman Masalha and Saul Tchernikhowsky
Miki Gluzman - Panoptic Vision and the Drama of Soveriegnty: Reading Yehoshua Kenaz
Barbara Mann - Der Eko fun Golus: The Spirit of Tel Aviv
Schachar Pinsker - Yiddish as a Double Agent in Israeli Literature
Naomin Seidman - On the Margins and Other Impossible Spaces
Vered Shemtov - Literary Enclaves: Space and Ideology in Novels by Amos Oz and AB Yehohusa
Hamutal Tsamir - The Secret Knowing of the Blind: Dahlia Ravikovitch and the Gender of Representation
Ilana Pardes - Call Me Ishmael: Melville, Kronfeld, and the Question of Intertextuality

The Hermann P. and Sophie Taubman Lectures

"Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Transformations and Permutations"

Professor Lee Israel Levine, Hebrew University

January 31, February 7, and February 14, 2007

This series of lectures is titled "The Dynamics of Jewish Identity in Antiquity."
Each lecture will be given at Alumni House on the Berkeley campus. Times and dates are given below:

7:00 PM, JANUARY 31, 2007 * From Biblical Israelite to Late Antique Jew: Transformations and Permutations in Jewish Identity
7:00 PM, FEBRUARY 7, 2007 Power and Identity: The Hasmonean Experience
7:00 PM, FEBRUARY 14, 2007 Powerlessness and Identity: Under a Triumphant Christianity
* The first lecture will be followed by a reception.

Lee Levine has edited eleven volumes, written some 170 articles as well as eleven books, which include: The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, 2005; Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 BCE-70 CE), 2003; Jerusalem and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence, 1999; The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity, 1990. Levine has excavated in Caesarea and the Horvat Ammudim synagogue in the.Galilee. He has lectured widely in the United States, Israel, and Europe, has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale Universities as well as at the Jewish Theological Seminary on numerous occasions, and has received an honorary doctorate in 2000 from Lund University, Sweden for his work on the ancient synagogue. He is currently working on a volume entitled Visual Judaism: History, Art, and Identity in Late Antiquity.

Public Lectures by the Candidates for the Faculty Position in Rabbinics & Late Antique Judaism

"How Commandments Came to Define a Woman’s Role in Judaism"

Elizabeth Alexander
Ph.D. Yale University
Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies, University of Virginia, VA

Thursday, February 1, 12:30-2:00 pm

Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor

Public Lectures by the Candidates for the Faculty Position in Rabbinics & Late Antique Judaism

"A Genealogy of Repentance"

David Lambert
Ph.D. Harvard University
Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Yale University, CT

Tuesday, February 20, 12:30-2:00 pm

Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor

Public Lectures by the Candidates for the Faculty Position in Rabbinics & Late Antique Judaism

"Alcoholism and Theodicy according to Leviticus Rabbah "

Holger Zellentin
Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
Lecturer in Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University, NJ

Wednesday, February 28, 12:30-2:00 pm

Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Tucson Common Room, 2451 Ridge Road

Public Lectures by the Candidates for the Faculty Position in Rabbinics & Late Antique Judaism

"Contrivances and Comparisons: Interpreting Rabbinic Statements on Foreign Food "

David Freidenreich
Ph.D. Columbia University
Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, PA

Monday, March 5, 12:30-2:00 pm

Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor

The 4th Annual Yiddish Conference:

Popular Culture in Yiddish

Monday, May 22, 2006 and Tuesday, May 23, 2006
9:30am to 6:00pm
Room 3335, Dwinelle Hall, Level C

Monday, May 22, 2006

9:30am – 9:45am Opening: John Efron, University of California, Berkeley

9:45am – 12:30pm Yiddish Today

9:45am -10:40am Jeff Shandler, Rutgers University
Absolut Tchotchke: Materializing the Mother Tongue
10:40am - 11:35am Rakhmiel Peltz,Drexel University
Whose Yiddish is it Anyway? Why Contemporary Yiddish Scholarship Neglects the Language and Culture of Most Yiddish-speaking Jews
11:35am - 12:30pm Zachary Baker, Stanford University
Yiddish as a Consumer Commodity: The Publishing Scene among Present-Day Hasidim in North America

12:30pm – 2:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm – 4:45pm Yiddish Performance(s)

2:00pm – 2:55pm Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,New York University
The Yiddish Cookbook in Europe, America, and Israel
2:55pm – 3:50pm Edward Portnoy,Jewish Theological Seminary
How do you say “Full Nelson” in Yiddish?: Jewish Professional Wrestlers in Interwar Poland
3:50pm – 4:45pm John Efron,University of California, Berkeley
From Lodz to Tel Aviv: The Political Satire of Shimen Dzigan

4:45pm – 5:00pm BREAK

5:00pm – 6:30pm A Yiddish City

5:00pm – 5:45pm David Roskies,Jewish Theological Seminary
Vilna as a Center of Yiddish Popular Culture
5:45pm - 6:30pm FILM: Daughter of Vilna: The Life in Song of Masha Roskies,
dir. John Waletzky (USA 1999) 45 minutes

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

9:45am – 12:30am Yiddish Theater

9:45am - 10:40am Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College
Yiddish Theater in Eastern Europe: A History on One Foot
10:40am - 11:35am Nina Warnke,University of Texas at Austin
American Yiddish Theater and the Culture of the patriotn
11:35am – 12:30pm Donny Inbar, Graduate Theological Union
Three Kuni Lemls

12:30pm – 2:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm – 4:45pm Yiddish Sounds, Sights, and Stories

2:00pm – 2:55pm Martin Schwartz,University of California, Berkeley
Songs of Social Conscience: Yiddish Recordings before the Great War
2:55pm – 3:50pm Zehavit Stern,University of California, Berkeley
Modernizing Traditions: Ritual, Liturgy and Nostalgia in Yiddish Film
3:50pm – 4:45pm Anna Shternshis,University of Toronto
Literary Tastes of the Soviet Yiddish Public During 1920 to 1930s

Folklore in Jewish Traditions

Symposium

Sunday, April 9, 2006
9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Moses Hall

Taubman Lectures: A Series of Three Lectures

Dr. David Noel Freedman

March 22, 2006; April 5, 2006; April 10, 2006

Celebrating Dahlia Ravikovitch: 1936-2005

March 9, 2006
7:00 P.M.
Morrison Library

Visions of Egypt in Midrash

Professor Rivka Ulmer
Department of Religion
Bucknell University

Wednesday, February 8, 2006
5 o’clock in the afternoon
3335 Dwinelle Hall