Ashkenaz at the Crossroads of Cultural Transfer II: Tradition and Identity
International Conference, November 28-30th 2016
Ashkenaz at the Crossroads of Cultural Transfer II:
Tradition and Identity
Institute of Judaic Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
Seminarsaal, 10th floor, Juridicum, Senckenberganlage 31 (Campus Bockenheim)
Program
Monday, November 28th
09:15-10:00 a.m. Saskia Dönitz, Elisabeth Hollender, Rebekka Voß (Frankfurt): Welcome and Introduction
10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee
Session 1
10:30-11:10 a.m. Elisheva Baumgarten (Jerusalem): Biblical Models Transformed: A Useful Key to Everyday Life in Medieval Ashkenaz
11:10-11:50 a.m. Sarah Japhet (Jerusalem): Biblical Exegesis as a Vehicle of Cultural Adaptation and Integration: A Case Study
11:50-12:30 p.m. Oren Roman (Düsseldorf): Tanakh-Epos: Early Modern Ashkenazic Retellings of Biblical Scenes
12:30-02:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Session 2
02:00-02:40 p.m. Talya Fishman (Philadelphia): Cultural Functions of Masorah in Medieval Ashkenaz
02:40-03:20 p.m. Hanna Liss (Heidelberg): The Challenges of the Infiltration of Oriental Textual Tradition into Ashkenazi Bible Text Tradition
03:20-03:50 p.m. Coffee
Session 3
03:50-04:30 p.m. Ephraim Kanarfogel (New York City): Moving from the Medieval to the Early Modern in Rabbinic Scholarship and Method: Aryeh Leib Heller’s Use of Texts of the Rishonim in His Qezot ha-Hoshen
04:30-05:10 p.m. Ted Fram (Beer Sheva): What Divides Ashkenaz from Poland in the Sixteenth Century?
05:30 p.m. Transfer to the Jewish Museum (Judengasse)
Public Lecture in the Jewish Museum (Judengasse)
06:00-07:00 p.m. Katrin Kogman-Appel (Münster): The Visualization of Midrash in Medieval Jewish Art
07:00 p.m. Reception
Tuesday, November 29th
Session 4
09:00-09:40 a.m. Rami Reiner (Beer Sheva): The Yerushalmi on Rabbeinu Tam’s Bookshelf
09:40-10:20 a.m. Ronit Nikolsky (Groningen): Tanhuma Reception in Ashkenaz
10:20-11:00 a.m. Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook, NY): Collecting, Nostalgia, and Constructing Medieval Ashkenaz in the Oppenheim Library
11:00-11:20 a.m. Coffee
Session 5
11:20-12:00 a.m. David Shyovitz (Chicago): “Man and Beast You Redeem, Oh Lord”: Animal Eschatology in the Theology and Art of Medieval Ashkenaz
12:00-12:40 p.m. Rebekka Voß (Frankfurt): The Last King of Edom: The Jewish Last Emperor Prophecy from the Early Middle Ages through the Sixteenth Century
12:40-02:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Session 6
02:00-02:40 p.m. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Beer Sheva): The Development of the Term “Hasid”
02:40-03:20 p.m. Avriel Bar Levav (RaŹ½anana): Sefer Hasidim as Source of Early Modern Death Rituals
03:20-04:00 p.m. Maoz Kahana (Tel Aviv): The Stormy Afterlife of a Medieval Pious: Rabbi Yehuda He-Chassid’s Will in the Early Modern Era
04:00-04:30 p.m. Coffee
Session 7
04:30-05:10 p.m. Annelies Kuyt (Frankfurt): Hekhalot! Or not? Eleazar of Worms and Hekhalot Literature
05:10-05:50 p.m. Sharon Flatto (New York City): Jewish Mysticism in Early Modern Central Europe (esp. Prague)
07:00 p.m. Dinner (by invitation)
Wednesday, November 30th
Session 8
09:30-10:10 a.m. Israel Yuval (Jerusalem): Why the Jews Do Not Have an Oedipal Complex? The Case of Ashkenaz
10:10-10:50 a.m. Saskia Dönitz (Frankfurt): Ashkenazic Use of the Past: Rewriting Second Temple Literature
10:50-11:20 a.m. Coffee
Session 9
11:20-12:00 a.m. Claudia Rosenzweig (Ramat Gan): When the Prayer Needs a Story: Some Examples from Yiddish Literature (16-17th Century)
12:00-12:40 p.m. Lucia Raspe (Frankfurt/Berlin): Minhagim Books: From Hebrew to Yiddish
12:40-01:00 p.m. Concluding Discussion
01:00 p.m. End of Conference/ Lunch
For those interested
02:30 p.m. Guided tour at the Jewish Museum/Judengasse (duration: 1,5 hours)
Dr. Saskia Dönitz
Prof. Rebekka Voß
Prof. Elisabeth Hollender
The conference is open to the public. Admission is free. Visitors please register at sekr-judaistik@uni-frankfurt.de
