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

Jewish Print in Poland, from the Beginning to the End of the 18th Century

Printers As Cultural Agents: Jewish Printing in Amsterdadm in the 17th

and 18th Centuries

Maxim Zaveriaev (E)

The Chain of Elites and the Creation of the Publishing House of the

Karaite Community of the Crimea

Gideon Kouts (H)

The Hebrew-Language Popular Press in Europe and Its Founders (1876-

1886)

PROGRAM

Chairperson: David Rosenthal

The Talmudic Manuscripts Catalog

The Babylonian Talmud in the Genizah: On the Early Form of Sugyot

Alfasi in the Genizah

The Talmudic Manuscripts Catalogue: Summary of Findings

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

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Chairperson: David Sklare

Censorship in 19th Century Karaite Books

The Karaite Project

Karaite Printing in Eastern Europe in Modern Times: Development, Main

Tendencies, Problems and Perspectives

Barry Walfish (E)

The Karaite Bibliography

Chairperson: Robert Brody

Booklists from the Cairo Geniza As Indicators of Canonization

Booklists from the Cairo Genizah and Jewish Historical Literature from

the Geonic Period: Historiography within the Literary Canon and Canon

within Historiography

The Canon that Disappeared: The Case of Rav Shmuel B. Hofni's

Canonical Status Revealed Exclusively in the Geniza

Moshe Lavee (H)

A Catalog of Books from the Canonical Literature: Aggadic Midrash in

the Catalog of Rabbi Joseph Rosh HaSeder

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Miriam Frenkel

A Geniza Digest of Torah Commentaries

Hidden Messages within Biblical Verses in Geniza Letters

Between Ashkenaz and the East in the 16th Century – Ashkenazic Jews

and Their Status in Eretz-Israel and Egypt As Reflected in the Cairo

Geniza

Chairperson: Yael Penkower

Digitilization of Judaica Source Materials and Its Impact on Research in

Jewish Studies

Chaim Seymour

Self-publishing by the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

The Ephemera Collection in the Jewish National and University Library

in Jerusalem

534 Judaica Librarianship: Collections, Projects and Issues – Session B

Chairperson: Ya'akov Aronson

The Legitimacy of the Sheva Merahef and Its Implications for the

Romanization of Hebrew

Michlean J. Amir (E)

After the Destruction: Documenting the History of Jewish Life in Eastern

Europe vs. Books Written about German Jewish Communities

Ilana Tahan (E)

Jewish and Hebrew Books from India and the Inventory of British Library

Holdings

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yoram Tsafrir

A Challenge for the Librarian and the Collector; How to Find, Iidentify

and Publish Unicums

David Kraemer (H)

On the Unicum in the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological

Seminary:

An Illuminated Spanish Mishneh Torah of the 15th Century (ms. R1618)

Kuntress on Shabbat Chatuna (in Pisa): A Unicom from the Schocken

Library in Jerusalem

Shimon Iakerson (H)

The Uniqueness of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Incunabula

Collection

PROGRAM

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

270 Fifty Years after the Kastner Trial – A Public Debate (Plenary

Session) (in Cooperation with the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of

Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel-Aviv University)

Chairperson: Dan Laor

The Position of Israel Kastner

The Prosecution's Position

The Defence's Position

PROGRAM

156

Chairperson: Menachem Elon

Misphat Ivri and the Shaping of the Legal System of Israel As a

Democratic Jewish State

Suzanne L. Stone (E)

New Directions for Jewish Law from the American Legal Academy

"Jewish Law" and "Talmudic Research": The Case of Asher Gulak

Correlations Between the Talmud and Mishpat Ivri in Asher Gulak’s

Studies

339 Mishpat Ivri- Whence and Whither? (Plenary Session ) – Session B

Chairperson: Elihav Shochetman

Marking Forty Years of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law:

Projected Goals and Directions

Aviad Hacohen (H)

Unlawful Enrichment and Not in Jewish Law

Jewish Law in Israeli Courts: A Future Glimpse

Chairperson: Steven Aschheim

Dr. Magnes and "Brith Shalom"

From "Brith Shalom" to "Hug 77": Political Movements Led by Hebrew

University Professors Before and After the Foundation of the State of

Israel

The Pilegesh Circle: Friendship and Satire at the Hebrew University

PROGRAM

157

Chairperson: Moshe Zimmermann

Ruppin's Contribution to "Brith Shalom": From Essential to Marginal

Not Just a "Spectator": Robert Weltsch As Representative of the Concept

of "Verstaendigung" Between Jews and Arabs

Dimitry Shumsky (H)

Czecho-German Jewry and the Origins of Bi-nationalism: The Case of

Hugo Bergmann

Adi Gordon (H)

Hans Kohn and the Limits of Brith Shalom

Chairperson: Paul Mendes-Flohr

The Politics of the Inevitable: Bi-nationalism in Israel\Palestine, Past and

Present

Sara Strassburg-Dayan (H)

Zion: Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of Israel? Between "Brith

Shalom" and "Brith Ha-Biryonim".

Zohar Maor (H)

The Mystical Roots of "Brith-Shalom": Berlin and Prague After the First

World War

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Chaya Hershkovic

Jewish Anti-Israelism: A Mutation of Jewish Self-Hate

Hatred of the Jews As a Psychological Phenomenon in Palestinian Society

The Total War on Israel: The Methodology of the Anti-Israel Forces

Chairperson: Manfred Gerstenfeld

NGOs and Israel

The Globalization of Post-Durban Antisemitism

International Conferences on Anti-Semitism and Human Rights Issues

Chairperson: Manfred Gerstenfeld

Palestinian Schoolbooks and Media: A Window to Internal Palestinian

Society

Trevor Asserson

The Pictures on the BBC: An Analysis of Bias

The Portrayal of Israel in the American Media

PROGRAM

159

Chairperson: Manfred Gerstenfeld

Post-Holocaust Restitution in Israel

The Contradictions Between War History and Memory in Romania

Minimizing the Holocaust and Demonizing a Country: Germany, Its Past

and Its Image of Israel 2000

608 Changing Situations in the American Jewish Community (in

Cooperation with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Chairperson: Manfred Gerstenfeld

Denominational Shifts in American Jewry

The Status of Jewish Women in American Jewish Religious and

Communal Life

Howard Weisband

New Direction for Communal Leadership

Chairperson: Manfred Gerstenfeld

The Jews As a Paradimatic Case of Diaspora-Homeland Relations

The Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands

Changing Situations of the Jewish Community of Turkey

PROGRAM

160

Chairperson: Ben Mollov

Is there a Jewish Approach to World Politics?

Israel's Foreign Policy: Arms Aid and the Aid for Jewish Diasporas in

Distress, Odd Couple?

Stuart Cohen (H)

"Unlicensed War" in the Jewish Political Tradition

Chairperson: Shmuel Sandler

Orthodox Attitudes to Women’s Learning: Towards a Possible

Compromise Based on Classical Sources

Joel Fishman (E)

Alexis de Tocqueville's Recognition of the Jewish Idea of Equality

The Changing Emphasis of the Israeli Army Rabbinate

Dan Elazar's Approach to Federalism As Based on the Idea of "Brit"

Chairperson: Dalia Dorner

The Beginning of Youth Aliya: Problems and Conflicts

The Saga of Youth Aliyah from Morocco, 1956-1967

Youth Aliyah: A Personal Point of View

PROGRAM

161

Chairperson: Dvora Hacohen

The Absorption of Olim from Arab Countries in Kibbutzim 1948-1954

The Children of the Ma`abarot [Transit Camps] During the Youth Aliyah

Russian Educational Networks: Integration versus Segregation

Orientalism and Anti-Orientalism Among Early Zionists in Palestine and

Israel and the Consequences for the Absorption of Mizrachi Jews

Eraz Tzfadia (H)

FSU immigrants in Israeli Development Towns: Policy and Protest

Equality and Participation in Ben-Gurion's Political Outlook in the 1950s

and 1960s

615 Against All Odds: The Historical Foundations of Israeli Democracy

– Session A

Chairperson: Moshe Hellinger

Thursday (4 Aug 2005) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2716

Haim Shapira (H)

Democratic Elements in the Jewish Political Tradition: Majority Rule

Nalewki Street in Tel-Aviv? On the Political Heritage of East European

Jewry

Penina Morag-Talmon (H)

Democracy-Values and Activities Amongst the Elite of the Sefardi Ethnic

Group and other Oriental Ethnic Groups

PROGRAM

– Session B

Chairperson: Ofer Shiff

Thursday (4 Aug 2005) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2716

Yossi Goldstein

Between Herzl and Ben-Gurion: Development of Democratic Processes in

the Zionist Movement, 1897-1948

Moshe Lissak (H)

Between a Group of Communities and "Voluntary Regimentation": The

Development of Yishuv Democracy

Allon Gal (H)

From Negation of the Exile to Activation of the Diaspora: Zionist

Diplomacy in the Liberal-Democratic Countries

618 Leaders and Institution in the 20th Century

Monday (1 Aug 2005) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2714

Victoria Khiterer (E)

Max Mandelshtam, Palestinophile and Zionist Leader

New Light on the Murder of Professor Israel Friedlander and Rabbi

Bernard Cantor

Alexander Cornescu-Coren (H)

The End of the Schonau Refugee Camp in Austria in Light of New

Documents Released by the British Records Office

Carole Fink (E)

The World Jewish Congress and World Diplomacy, 1936-1939

Chairperson: Gary P. Zola

Black Mirror: Jewish Autobiographical Writings after the Holocaust

The Zionism of Abba Hillel Silver from an American Perspective

The "Jewish" Autobiography of Abba Hillel Silver

PROGRAM

163

Chairperson: Meir Pail

Help Given by Scandinavian Governments and Individuals towards the

Founding of the State of Israel

Alec Mishory (E)

A Mythical Connection: Ghetto Heroism and the War of Independence

Seeking 'Treasure Island': Manpower and Arms from Australia and the

South Pacific, 1948-1950

Neima Barzel (H)

The Attitude to "War" As a Characteristic of Two Collective Biographies:

"Fighters Talk” – the ‘67 Group, and the Founders of "Gush Emunim"

Ariel Feldestein (H)

Filming War: The Image of "the Other" in the 1948 War Films

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

PROGRAM

164

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

Chairperson: Paula Caballo

The Political Dimension in the Philosophy and Work of Berl Katzenelson

Women in Politics and Women's Politics During the Second Aliyah

Federation H'achoresh: The Beginnig of Public Political Life in the Labor

Movement

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Ofer Shiff

The Transfer by Hadassah of American Models in Health and Welfare to

the Yishuv and the Young State of Israel

Rachel Sharaby (H)

The Private that Is Public: The Blurring of Gender Labor Divisions

Zionist Feminism from Theory to Practice – WIZO and Rebecca Sieff:

Walking Untrodden Paths

233 Women Creators (in Cooperation with the Feminist and Gender

Studies Sector of the Israel Historical Society)

Chairperson: Yaffah Berlovitz