Contents I-XIII introduction 1-17 Division A: The Bible and Its World 18-56 Division B: History of the Jewish People 57-79 Division C: Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Law 80-93 Division C: Jewish Thought 94-154 Division D: Literatures

The Integration of Kabbalah into Liturgy in the 17th Century

"The Soul Is a Foreign Woman": Otherness and Psychological Allegory

in Biblical Exegesis from the Zohar to Hasidism

Moti Benmelech (H)

Messianism and History: A New Messianism in the Early 16th Century

Chairperson: Menachem Ben-Sasson

Some Remarks on the Latin Translation of the Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides' Interpretation of Divine Names in Christian Thought

Maimonides in the Christian Cabbala

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362 Jesus and Christianity As Reflected in Jewish Thought

Baruch Spinoza and the Jewish-Christian Debate

Spinoza'a Bitter Love Affair with Jesus

Christianity in Nachman Krochmal’s Philosophy of History

Ibn Adret against the 'Madman': A Jewish Polemic against Islam and Its

Christian Background

363 Issues in Hassidic Studies – Session A

Chairperson: Shmuel Wygoda

“Sentenced to lashings”: Solving the Impenetrable Hassidic Custom that

Appears in the Memoirs of Solomon Maimon

Gedalyah Nigal (H)

The Influence of the "Lomdim" on the Weltanschauung of Early Hasidism

"Laughter that is Between Speech and Silence": Studies of R. Nachman

of Breslav and His Disciples.

Tzvi Mark (H)

The Megillat Setarim of R. Nahman of Bratzlav

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364 Issues in Hassidic Studies – Session B

Man and Creation in R. Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk: Kabbalah and

Mystical Experience

Aviezer Cohen (H)

Self-Consciousness in the Mei Ha-Shiloah As the Nexus Between God

and Man

Ron Wacks (H)

Techniques of Guided Imagination in the Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus

Kalmish Shapira of Piaseczno

365 Issues in Hassidic Studies – Session C

Chairperson: Yitzhak Kraus

Love and Hatred: The Satiric Origins of Neo-Hasidism

Did Maimonides Influence 20th Century Habad?

The Zaddiq Doctrine of R. Abraham Malakh

Love and Hatred: The Satiric Origins of Neo-Hasidism

Chairperson: Yehoyada Amir

Individualism and Relational Religion

From Berlin to Moscow: Hermann Cohen’s Impact on the Philosophy of

Dialogue in Russia – Thoy Kagan, Michael Bahtin, and Vladimir Bibler.

Hagai Dagan (H)

Good Monotheism and Bad Monotheism: Hermann Cohen and Micah

Joseph Berdishevsky on Monotheism

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Avriel Bar-Levav

Rabbinic Attitudes to Scientific Cosmogony and Evolution in the 19th

and Early 20th Cenury

Naomi Fugelman-Goldfeld (H)

"Hayarden" [The Jordan] in Zurich: Literature and Philosophy of Jewish

Youth in the 20th Century.

Hanoch Ben-Pazi (H)

The Religious Thought of Leibowitz As a Post-Holocaust “Radical

Theology”

Barbara U. Meyer (H)

Traces of Levinas and Leibowitz in the Christian Theology of Friedrich-

Wilheim Marquardt

368 Modern Jewish Thought – Session C

Chairperson: Michael Brocke

Canonicity and the Authority of Works of Jewish Thought in Early

Modern Jewish Culture

Shmuel Wygoda (H)

Maimonodean Motifs in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the Rabbinic Thought of

Lithuania: R.Hayim from Volozhin and Israel Salanter

369 Philosophy in the Writing of Ha-Rav Kook

Chairperson: Chana Kehat

Common Elements in the Mystical Existentialism of Avraham Kook and

Martin Buber

Smadar Sherlo (H)

Rav Kook's Esoteric Mission and Mystical Experience

Disclosing Kabbalistic Secrets in the Age of Redemption: A Disputed

Point Between Rabbi A.I. Kook and Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Harlap

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Smadar Sherlo

The Influence of Rav Kook’s Philosophy on Torah Learning in Modern

Zionist Yeshivas

Yehudah Mirsky (H)

Rav Kook and Maimonides, Revisited

The Halakhic Approach of Rabbi Kook to the "Bsamim Rosh"

Chairperson: Allon Gal

Factors Affecting the Decision of Non-Religious Israelis to Prefer

Alternative Marriage Ceremonies to the State Rabbinate

Rina Hevlin (H)

Jewish Cultural Literacy in Israel in the Last Decade: Just an Intellectual

Game?

Gideon Katz (H)

Jewish Culture and Israeli Anti-Utopianism

Between the Appraoches of the "Canaanite"'s and "Shdemot Circle" to the

Jewish Sources

371 The Philosophy of A.Y Heschel

Chairperson: Moshe Idel

A.Y Heschel's Zioniest Faith

On Prayer and Symbolism in the Philosophy of Abraham Joshua Heschel

Heschel on Jews and Arabs in the Land of Israel

The Influence of Zionist Thinkers: Secularists on the Philosophy of Rabbi

Abraham Joshua Heschel

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Haim Kreisel

The Bible and the Fundamentals of Judaism in the Philosophy of Isaac

Julius Guttmann

Steven Harvey (E)

The Value of Julius Guttmann's "Philosophies of Judaism" Today

Guttmann's Controversy with Leo Strauss

Julius Guttmann's Relation to General Philosophy

Chairperson: Zeev Gries

Academic Research and Jewish Spirituality

Research of the Kabbalah and Involvement in the Kabbalah: Possibilities

and Dangers

Tsippi Kauffman (H)

Researching Mysticism in Spiritual Life: Reflections on the Symbiotic

Relationship

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Ronit Meroz

The Concept of Prophecy in the Teachings of R. Joseph Karo

The Mystical Model of the Soul

The State of Devekut Consciousness in the Light of Neuro-Theological

Research

Shalom Rosenberg (H)

Reflections on Anthropomorphism in Jewish Thought

Chairperson: Marvin A. Sweeney

Shem Theology in the Holiness Writings

Fasting As a Penitential Act, a Biblical Phenomenon?

The Second Passover in the Bible

On the Various Perceptions of the Calf Cult in the Book of Kings

Chairperson: Dan Diner

The Death of God, Aesthetics of Anarchism and the Tragic Vision of the

World in the Early Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement

Benjamin Lazier

The Hidden God in the Works of Gershom Scholem, Leo Strauss and

Hans Jonas

Yotam Hotam

Gnosis in Modern Jewish Interpretations

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376 Kaballah and Mysticism

The Messiah’s Sense of Smell: On Justice, the Holy Spirit, the End of

Days and the Image of the Scion of David

Tzahi Weiss (H)

The Perception of the Letter As an Independent Unit in Late Antique

Jewish Literature: Semiotic Aspects

Oded Israeli (H)

The Book of the Zohar As a Midrash: Continuity and Change

The Use and Literary Function of Kabbalah in the Works of S.Y. Agnon

Chairperson: Sam Edelman

Three Thousand Years of Jewish Rhetorical Practice

Issues of Jewish Preaching from Prophetic Rhetoric to Contemporary

Rabbinic Sermons

Peter J. Haas (E)

What Makes a Piece of Jewish Rhetoric Jewish?

The Rhetoric of Jewish Preaching in Times of War: 1800-1918

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378 The Study of Modern Jewish Political Thought: Trends and

Chairperson: Abraham Melamed

Jewish Medieval Philosophical Commentaries on the Story of the Tower

of Babel

Menachem Ratson (H)

Political and Social Principles in the Thought of R. Abraham Ibn Ezra

Jewish Apologetics in 16th Century – Venice and David de Pomis'

Portrait of the Ideal Prince

Moshe Hellinger (H)

The Theology of the Covenant in the Teachings of Rabbi Hirschensohn

and Rabbi Soloveitchik: Two Types of Dialogue Between Judaism and

Liberal Democracy

Kabbalah Studies in Post-Soviet Russia

Kabbalah Studies in Post-Soviet Russia

Reception of Modern Jewish Thought in the Russian-Jewish Intellectual

Tradition: The Study of the Reception of Spinozism As a Test Case

Konstantin Burmistrov (E)

Russian Philosophy and Kabbalah: The Problem of Sources

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Special Sessions

Chairperson: Anita Shapira

Piety and Gender: Toward an Outline of the Spiritual Lives of Medieval

Jewish Women

Benjamin Brown (H)

Halakha and Religious Ethics: Creating a Conceptual Research Model

Deportation and Extermination: the Becoming and Representation of

Memory

Magda Teter (E)

Jewish Law and Canon Law: Dealing with the Other

Chairperson: Sara Japhet

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Division D: Literatures, Languages, and Arts

What is Identity: Jewish Literature in Non-Jewish Languages

The Bibliography of the Yekkes: A German Linguistic Island in the Land

of Israel

Chaya Shacham (H)

Between Madness and Poetry: The Image of Elsa Lasker-Shiller in

Hebrew Verse

600 The Creation of a National Narrative (Plenary session)

Chairperson: Haim Guri

The Role of Literature in Formulating the Zionist Narrative

“The Silver Tray”: Narrative and Counter Narrative

Politics, Ideology and Historical Research: Their Role in Shaping the

Narrative of the Foundation of the State of Israel

401 Modern Hebrew Poetry

Chairperson: Hamutal Tsamir

“Between the Two Magnets": Yosef Zvi Rimon in the Generation of

Bialikin, the Early 20th Century

Shira Stav (H)

I Saw You See Me: The Father-Daughter Gazing Game

Why Have You Forsaken Me? Avot Yeshurun and Jesus of Krasnitaw

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402 Reading S.Y. Agnon

Agnon's Narrator As an Old Man

On the Source of "About Those Who Take Part in Gatherings of Jesting

and Levity" by S.Y. Agnon

Aryeh Wineman (H)

"The Small Council House": Stories of the Non-Jewish Milieu in S. Y.

Agnon's "A City and the Fullness Thereof"

Roman Katsman (H)

The Poetics of Gesture in Agnon's Stories

Drawing Contacts: Will Eisner's American Jewish Graphic Novels

Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America"

On the Social Function of Contemporary Haredi Popular Literature

Chairperson: Malka Shaked

On Bialik's Poem "Zohar"

What Is Symbolic Realist Writing According to Brenner

The Importance of Being Bialik

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406 Contemporary Israeli Literature

Yoel Hofmann's Novels: Exiles in the Homeland

Hyper-tropy: Language Outbursts in the Work of Yoel Hoffmann

Fictional Apocalypse: A Comparative Study of Savyon Liebrecht’s “A

Good Place for the Night” and Conan Doyle’s “The Poison Belt”

Tikva Maroz-Aharoni (H)

The Violation of Taboos in the Writing of Leah Eini

Chairperson: Matti Huss

The Development of Hebrew During the [British] Mandate Period As

Reflected in Agnon’s “Shirah”: From a Language of Immigrants to a

Language of Sabras

Morphological and Syntactic Aspects in Two Translations of “The Slave”

by Bashevis-Singer

Brakha Fischler (H)

The Reincorporation of the Hebrew Component in the Language of

Hazaz's “Beyishuv Shel Ya'ar”

Tamar Wolf-Monzon (H)

Towards an Encyclopedia of Reflexive Collocation in Uri Zvi Grinberg's

Poetic and Publicistic Work

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Dalia Ofer

The Autobiographies of Weinreich's Collection: Historical Source or

Literary Fiction?

Arielle Rein (H)

Youthful Diaries versus Late Autobiography: The Life Narratives of

Benzion Dinur

Batya Shimony (H)

David Schutz’ "The Sand and the Grass" As Mythical Autobiography

Chairperson: Margalit Shilo

Body Images in Early Modern Jewish Autobiographies

Gender Blurring True or False?

“Through your sufferings you shall live”: The Memoirs of Henya

Fekelman

Magdalena Tarnowska (E)

The Legacy of Gela Seksztajn (1907-1943) in the Ringelblum Archive:

Her Life and Art

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Billie Melman

Rachel Katzenelson-Shazar and Motherhood: Private Experience and

Public Expression

Ruth Kark (E)

"Not a Suffragist"? Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi on Women and Gender

Rescue Operations: American Jewish Women, 1933-1945

Women's Gender Perception and the Affinity to the Land of Israel As

Seen through Their Autobiographies

502 The Dream and Its Dissolution: Longing, Crisis and Dissent in the

Autobiographical Literature of Israel

Chairperson: Shalom Sabar

Manufacturing MemoryAs a Folk-Tale: A Study of Zorach Barnett's

Memoirs (1843-1935)

Nili Aryeh-Sapir (H)

"Esther Put On Her Royal Apparel": The Personal Narrative of Zipora

Zabari, Queen Esther of an Early Tel-Aviv Purim Carnival

Hagit Rappel (H)

Between Collective and Autobiographical Memory: Kibbutz Yad-

Mordechai – A Case Study

Ilana Rosen (H)

Construction and Constructs in the Narrative of Immigrants and Settlers

from the South of Israel

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Chaya Shacham

Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature: Bialik, Bershadsky, Berkowitz,

Pen and Hazaz

Kevin S. Larsen (E)

Cervantes and the Hebrew Scriptures: The Jacob and Joseph Stories in

Don Quijote

Monique Balbuena (E)

A Symbolist Kinah? Laments and Modernism in the Maghreb

Samir Nakash: Choice, Designation and the End of the Utopian Dream

Chairperson: Shmuel Verses

The Controversy Between I.L. Gordon and Rabbi J.Z. Stern

Megillath America: The Story of a Manuscript

Avraham Uri Kovner: The Beginning of Modern Criticism in Hebrew

Literature

Moshe Pelli (H)

An Unknown, Unpublished Me'asef, Emulating the Journal Hame'asef

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Chairperson: Moshe Pelli

The Language of Mirrors and the Mirrors of Language: The Poetics of

Maskilic Hebrew Fiction

Ruth Adler (E)

Revisiting the Complexities of Y.L. Peretz