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 Three Gifts” by Y.L. Peretz and Early Christian Analogies

Mapu's Kitchen: Women and Kosher Food in "Ayit Tsavu`a"

Chairperson: Shmuel Feiner

Esther Gad, A Forgotten Writer from the Late Enlightenment

Enlightened and Learned Women: 19th Century Hebrew Maskilot

From Rachel (Morpurgo) to Rachel (Bluvstein): the Absence of Hebrew

Women's Poetry from The 1860s to the 1920s

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yaffah Berlovitz

Inside/Outside Her Four Walls: Abigail Lindo, an Anglo-Jewish

Authoress of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Yael Ohad-Karny (H)

A Room of One's Own – A Woman's Private Space: Anzia Yezierska's

Novels and Their Cinematic Representation

Nitza Keren (H)

The Torah Curtain Weaver Who Stands at the Podium: A New Feminist

Discourse As Presented by Michal Govrin

Yael Shenker (H)

Keeping the Readers Safe: Feminine Literature within the Religious-

Orthodox Community in Israel

Irit Koren (H)

The Voice of the Bride: How Religious Women Challenge the Wedding

Ritual

240 Between Jewish Text and East European Context: Reading East

European Jewish (in Cooperation with the Leonid Nevzlin Research

Center for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem)

Chairperson: Hamutal Bar-Yosef

Mendele Mokher Sefarim: A Symbol of Modern Jewish Identity?

Fluid Identity in Ariel's "Leor Havenus"

The Jewish and Polish Literary Environment: Relations Between theYung

Vilne Group and the Zagary group

Karin Neuburger (H)

The Metamorphosis from Other to Self: Uri Zvi Greenberg's Struggle

with the Modern World

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yehuda Friedlander

Stages in the Textual Development of "Megale Temirin" by Joseph Perl

Midrash Shemoth and “Bokhen Tzaddik”

Women in Haskalah Literature: From Perl to Y. L.Gordon

Chairperson: Neima Barzel

Primo Levi and K. Zetnick: On the Meaning of the “Grey Area”

Trauma and History in Liminal Poetics: The Boundaries of Literature and

the Incomprehensibility of History

Rina Dudai (H)

Kitsch and Trauma: The Doll House (Katzetnik) and the Story of

Menucha (Eliezer Shapira)

414 Holocaust Literature – Session B

Chairperson: Dina Porat

"Don't You Have a Clock That Ticks Horror": The Survivors’ World in

Hareven's Work

Maayan Harel (H)

Illness in the Early Fiction of Aharon Appelfeld

The Theme of Shoa in the Literary Output of Maria Kann

PROGRAM

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Chairperson: Efraim Sicher

The Obsession with Places in Recent Second Generation French

Narrative: "Accident Nocturne" by Patrick Modiano

Caroline Schaumann (E)

Far Away, So Close: Barbara Honigmann's Border Crossing As a Jew and

a German Writer

Hannah Adelman-Komy

Representing the Third Generation in Second Generation Holocaust

Narratives: The Case of Thane Rosenbaum's “The Golems of Gotham”

Masha Itshaki

"Poland, a Green Country" by Aharon Appelfeld: An Analysis of Another

Journey

279 Cultural and Literary Responses to the Holocaust

Chairperson: Jacob Allerhand

“Become historians yourselves! Record, take it down and collect!”

Towards the Writing of Jewish Contemporary History

Lev Hakak (E)

The Holocaust in the Poetry of Near Eastern Jews and Sephardim

Zionism and the Holocaust As Reflected in Personal Stories Told by the

Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan

PROGRAM

The Origins of the Custom of Collecting Charity for a Bridal Dowry

Intertextuality in Agnon's Work

Historical Time and Space in S.Y Agnon's "Poland Stories"

The Theory and Application of the Dynamic-Attentive Study of Classic

Texts (in the Works of Agnon)

417 The Poetics of Dan Pagis

Chairperson: Haviva Ishay

A Black and White Destiny: A Recurring Figure in the Poetics of Dan

Pagis

Michele Horovitz (E)

Possible World Theory and "Ha-betsa She-hithapsah"

"Men-Clock" and Interactive Metaphor

Chairperson: Batya Shimony

Kafka's Influence on Aharon Appelfeld

The Search for the Exact Word: Specific Issues of Appelfeld's Translation

into German

Michele Tauber (H)

Yiddish, the Language of Memory in the Works of Aharon Appelfeld

PROGRAM

105

Chairperson: Yael Darr

The Beginnings of Hebrew Children’s Literature in Palestine: An

Enterpreneurial Project

Chana Livnat (H)

Heroes and Adventures: Hebrew Literature for Children and Youth in

Israel Between 1930 and 1945

Rima Shichmentar (H)

The Children’s Press During Israel’s First Decade

Chairperson: George Savran

Yefet ben Eli's Approach to Characterization in Biblical Narrative: The

Case of Competing Female Characters in the Story of Abraham

Yael Shemesh (H)

The Character of Rachel: From Beloved Wife to Mother of the Nation

Michal, Daughter of King Saul: A Further Look

"I am Mother, Hear me Roar": Maternal Power in the Hebrew Bible

PROGRAM

106

Chairperson: Mayer Gruber

Recent "Reconstructions" of Biblical Women: Scholarship, History, and

the Question of Gender

Joseph Fleishman (E)

On the Right of a Daughter to Her Father's Household Property:

Inheritance of the Dowry

Cynthia Edenburg (H)

The World of Ideology versus Social Reality in Deuteronomic Family

Laws

Lorit Ramon (H)

Proverbs 7 and the Riddle of the Strange Woman

Chairperson: Isaac Gottlieb

Biblical Women in Modern Hebrew Poetry

Cohesion in the Hebrew Bible

The Question of the “Second Bullock” in the Story of Gideon’s Struggle

Against the Cult of the Calf

Amos Frisch (H)

Comparisons with David As a Means of Evaluation in the Book of Kings

Chairperson: Amos Frisch

Genesis: Opening Expressions in the Bible

Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: Metaphor As a Mode of Orientation

Psalms As Language Games

PROGRAM

107

Chairperson: Tzemah Yoreh

The Oath As a Biblical Tool of Characterization:

Jael, Wife of Heber the Kenite, in Biblical Perspective

Reading Law As Narrative: A Study in the Casuistic Laws of the

Pentateuch

422 The Influence of the New Testament on Hebrew Literature

Wednesday (3 Aug 2005) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: Buber 202

Yehuda Liebes (H)

A Zoharic Blessing with a Christian background

The Attraction to Christianity from the Narrator Point of View

The Dialogue of Zach Poetry with the New-Testament

Chairperson: Michal Arbell

Protest poetry As Text and Performance: Shabtai's "Libi" and the Second

Intifada

David Jacobson (H)

Politics and Literature: The Occupation in Israeli Fiction

“The Detached” and “The Wanderer” Meet in the Street

Protest Poetry As Text and Performance: Shabtai's "Libi" and the Second

Intifada

Ranen Omer-Sherman (E)

The Desert and the Old-New Jewish Nation

PROGRAM

108

Chairperson: Israel Bartal

“The Cruelty of the Man Slayed the Misery of the Child”: The Poetics of

David Vogel and the Language of Chinok

Hamutal Bar-Yosef (H)

Death As a Mystical Experience in Modern Hebrew Literature

To Write in a Silent Language? Yiddish As a Double Cultural Agent in

Israeli Literature and Culture

Michal Arbell (H)

Mendele Mocher Sforim: The Problem with His Novel and the Problem

with His Ending

PROGRAM

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

PROGRAM

110

Chairperson: Haggai Ben-Shammai

"Shall these fragments give voice? "On the contribution of the Genizah

Project to the Reconstruction of Early Hebrew Liturgical Poetry

Yehoshua Granat (H)

Wisdom Poetry within realms of Massorah and Kabbalah: A newly

identified introductory section of Sa'id Ben Babshad's Proverbs and its

peculiar transmission

The Experience of Working in the Genizah Project: Hesitations,

Discoveries and Thoughts for the Future

Ezra Fleischer (H)

Research on the Literary Genizah: Dimensions of Height and Breadth

Chairperson: Shulamit Elizur

Allegoria non Grata? On the Status of Allegory in the Hebrew liturgical

Poetry of Late Antiquity

Israel Rozenson (H)

Rabbi Yannay’s Ideologico-Religious World

The Liturgical Function of Theopoetic Forms of the Grace After Meals

from the Cairo Geniza

Tova Beeri (H)

Between East and West: The Poetic Ouvre of Yehezkel ha-Cohen ben Eli

PROGRAM

111

Chairperson: Dvora Bregman

The Characteristics of Paytanic Systems in Provencal and Catalonian

Rituals

Meyer Nezrit (H)

The Poetic Declaration Recited After Completing a Tractate of the

Talmud: A Relatively New Genre in Hebrew Liturgical Poetry

Elisabeth Hollender (E)

Preparing an Index of Piyyut-Commentary in Manuscript: Some First

Results

Paltiel Giyat (H)

The Emergence of the "Piyyut" Liturgy in Yemen: The Commentary of R.

Yishaq Wannah on the "Selihot" Prayers

428 Hebrew Poetry in Spain and Its Peripheries

Chairperson: Joseph Yahalom

Praise and Protest: Qualities of Hebrew Poets in the East (12th-13th

centuries)

Matti Huss (H)

Lamenting Women: Moses ibn Ezra and Judah Halevy

Textualizing the Poetic Experience: The Case of Medieval Poetry from

Spain

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Wout van Bekkum

Hebrew and Arabic As the Literary Media of Allharizi

"You shall be a stone upon my home" :Gravestones and the Lametations

of R. Moshe Zekhut

Tamar Lavi (H)

Image-Pictures in Words in the Lamentations of Rabbi Raphael Aaron

Monsoniger

Ayelet Oettinger (H)

"Adopting His Meter and Rhyme, We Berated Him, Time After Time":

Categories and Applications of Parody in "The Book of Tahkemoni" by

Judah al-Harizi

R. Zechariah al-Dhahiri's Sefer Ha-Anak: Content and Context

PROGRAM

113

Chairperson: Richard Steiner

Verbal Tenses in the Book of Amos As Linguistic Evidence of Its Judean

Origin

M. Patrizia Sciumbata (E)

Semantic Change in Late Biblical Hebrew: The Contribution of

Paradigmatical-Componential Analysis

Haim Dihi (H)

A Compilation of Lexical Innovations in the Book of Ben Sira

Chairperson: Yochanan Breuer

Reading vs. Speaking in the Hebrew of the Roman Period: On the

Pronunciations of .et

Hyun Joon Choi (E)

Some Lingusitic Modifications of Adverbs in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Hebrew Between the First Revolt and the Bar Kokba Revolt 67-135 C.E

Unity and Discontinuity: A Hebraistic Version of the History of Ancient

Israel

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Amos Dodi

The Participle of the Passive Conjugations in Mishnaic Hebrew

Variation of Prepositions in Tannaitic Hebrew

Forms of Address in Mishna and Tosefta

Linguistic Aspects of the Cambridge Manuscript of the Mishnah

Chairperson: Judith Hanshke

Early and Late in Mishnaic Hebrew: Temporal Expressions that Develop

into Causal Expressions

Ofra Tirosh-Becker (H)

Vowel Interchanges in Rabbinic Citations Embedded in Karaite

Manuscripts

Michael Rezik (H)

The Livorno Edition of the Mishnah and the Popular Transmission of

Rabbinic Language Among Italian Jews

Moshe Morgenstern (E)

From Yemen to Babylonian in the Study of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

PROGRAM

115

Chairperson: James A. Diamond

Philology in the Genizah: Current Research in the Friedberg Project

Intellectual Encounter in the Genizah: The Cataloguing of Philosophical,

Theological and Polemical Fragments

David Sklare

From the Work of the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture:

Biblical Quaestionae

Haggai Ben-Shammai (H)

The Karaite Library in Jerusalem: Its Creation in the 10th and 11th

Centuries and Reconstruction in the 21st Century Friedberg Genizah

Project

Chairperson: Aharon Maman

The Study of Post-Biblical Hebrew in Europe in the 16th and 17th

Centuries

Nasir Basel (H)

"Kitab al-Kafi" and Its Contribution to the Philological Commentary of

the Bible in the Middle Ages

Gregor Schwarb (H)

Arabic into Greek in Karaite Hebrew of the 11th Century

Topics of Syntax of the Verb According to Rashbam

PROGRAM

116

Chairperson: Chaim E. Cohen

The Pragmatics of the Infinitival Construction in Contemporary Hebrew

Linguistic-Stylistic Patterns of the Simile in Biblical Hebrew and Its

Contribution to Biblical Interpretation

Azzan Yadin (H)

The Legacy of Biblical Hebrew and the Language of the Sages: Different

Concepts of Secularization in the Semantics of Modern Hebrew

Michal Ephratt (H)

Someone To Be Silent With and Someone To Be Silent Towards

Chairperson: Ofra Tirosh-Becker

Hebrew Neologisms in the Judaeo-Arabic of Gardaia (Algeria)

Names for Functions in the Jewish Communities of Avignon and Comtat

Venaissin: A Linguistic and Thematic Analysis