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

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

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Moshe Rosman

The Frankists and the Armenian Catholic Community of Lwow

Reassessing the Influence of German-Jewish Culture in the East European

Setting: The Case of Isaak Flatau, Founder of the First "Reformed" Prayer

House in Eastern Europe

R. David Oppenheimer on Trial: Halukkah and Loyalty to the State

Moses Mendelssohn, Austrian Law, and the Jews of Galicia: On the

Unrealized Initiative of Joseph II

235 East European Jewry in the Age of Empires: Poles, Jews and

Others under Russian and Habsburg Rule (in Cooperation with the

Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry,

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chairperson: David Assaf

Iakov Brafman As a Censor of Jewish Writings

The "National Character" of the Prague Haskalah? The Judisch-deutsche

Monatschrift (Prague, 1802) Reconsidered

Marcin Wodzinski (E)

How Did the Polish Government Learn about Hasidism? Beginnings of

the "Hasidic Question" in the Kingdom of Poland

Benjamin Lukin (H)

Jewish Collaborators in the Russian Empire According to Documents

from the Third Section (1825-55): The Case of Secret Agent Maria

Bernshtein

PROGRAM

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236 As the Centuries Turn: Negotiating New Jewish Communities and

Chairperson: Francois Guesnet

Was Acculturation a Matter of Taste? Warsaw Jews in their Aesthetic

Declarations

Ela Bauer (H)

From Haskalah to Intelligenstsia: The Attempts of the Polish-Jewish

Intelligentsia to Lead the Jewish Community of Warsaw in the 19th

Century

On the Question of Influence: Poles, Jews and the Fate of Warsaw in the

Early Twentieth Century

Vladimir Levin (E)

Different Visions of Modernity in Confrontation: The Rabbinic

Conference of the Russian Empire in 1910

237 Great Expectations: Polish Jewry and the Abbreviated Twentieth

Century (in Cooperation with the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for

Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chairperson: Ezra Mendelson

The Jewel in the Yiddish Crown: Who Will Occupy the Yiddish Chair at

the University of Vilnius?

Witold Medykowski (E)

Forced Labor of Jews in the General Government of 1939-1941

An Explosion of Violence: The Pogroms of Summer 1941 in Eastern

Poland and Lithuania

Joshua Zimmerman (E)

The Polish Home Army (AK) and the Jews During the Second World

War

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yaacov Ro'i

The "Jewish Question" and the Political Parties of Russia, 1914-1916

The Shattered Hope of Coexistence: Jewish-Ukrainian National Relations

During the Central Rada Period (March 1917-April 1918)

Arkadi Zeltser (E)

Jews of Soviet Belorussia Faced with a Choice: Yiddish Russian or

Belorussian?

Jonathan Dekel-Chen (E)

New Perspectives on Ethnic Accommodation from the Early Soviet

Hinterland

239 An Empire of their Own? Jewish Culture in the East European

Diasporas (in Cooperation with the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for

Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chairperson: Eli Lederhendler

The TAI (Eretz Israeli Theater): A Hebrew Theatre Between Moscow and

Berlin

Zehavit Stern (H)

Between "Kol Nidrey" and the Cossak's Ballad: The Moral Melody of

Yiddish Film

Arieh Saposnik

The "Halbasien" in Asia: Images of Ostjuden, Visions of "the Orient" in

Zionist National Culture in Palestine, 1903-1914

Edward Portnoy (E)

Panim el Panim: Jewish and Polish Physiognomy in the Cartoons of the

Warsaw Yiddish Press

PROGRAM

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

241 Getting It Write: History, Memory and Faith Among the Jews of

Eastern Europe (in Cooperation with the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center

for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem)

Chairperson: Israel Bartal

The Baron Guenzburg Academy

D. Pinsky's Reisebukh: Towards the Typology of Jewish Memoirs of

1920-30

Leonid F. Katsis (E)

Nadezhda Mandelshtam’s "Memories" As Jewish and Non-Jewish

Sources

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Dana Shalev

Gnosis, Canon and Culture: The Crisis of Wissenschaft des Judentums

and the Paulinian Turning Point

Yoel Regev

Gershom Scholem and the Canon of Secular Jewish Culture

Jewish Identity Among Immigrants from the Former USSR in the 90's

Collective Memory and the Cannon: The Case of Kfar Etzion

Chairperson: Yohnatan Frenkel

"Scientific Insight and the Books of the Bible": Simon Dubnov’s View of

Biblical Narrative

Anke Hilbrenner (E)

Simon Dubnow's Eastern European Approach to Jewish History

Associations, Institutions and Projects for Perpetuating the Memory of

Simon Dubnov

Shimon Krais (H)

Renewed Interest of Russian Jews in the Writings of Dubnov

S. Dubnov and M. Vinaver: Friends and Opponents

PROGRAM

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244 The Jews of North Africa

Inter-Communal Ties Amongst the Various Moroccan [Jewish]

Communities During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Belkacem Benzenine (E)

The Jewish Community of Algeria 1830-1900: A Social Anthropologist's

Approach

Orna Baziz (H)

The Agadir Hagadah

Monetary Instability and the Evolution of Jewish Monetary Doctrine: The

Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700

Dan Shapira (H)

An Ottoman Jewish Community’s Adaptation to the Realities of Imperial

Europe at the Turn of the 19th Century: The Case of the Crimean Karaites

and Their Rabbis

Emancipation of the Moroccan Jewish Communal Organization in the

20th Centuty

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Carmella Abdar

The Jewish Cemetery in Aden (Yemen) Revisited

Images and Temporal Needs Shaping Yemeni Jewish Historiography

Rabbi Dowid Saddoq Halewi and His Immigration to Eretz Yisrael

The Non-Jewish Courts of Law As a Place of Refuge for Women from

Tsana in the 18th and 19th Centuries according to the "Miswadah", the

Book of Protocols of the Tsana Ecclesiastical Court

Chairperson: Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman

Yemenite Women in Transition from the Periphery to the Mainstream

Body, Hierarchy and Boundaries in the Dress of Jewish Women from

Yemen

Vered Madar (H)

Yemenite Women's Songs Between Death and Birth

PROGRAM

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247 The Sephardic Community of Amsterdam

Assimilation and Orthodoxy Among 18th Century Dutch Sephardim

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Sermons of Hakham Solomon Aailion

"Like the Phoenix": Image, Symbol and the Construction of Self Identity

in the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam in the Early Modern

Period

Life on the Fringe: Deviance Among the Portuguese Poor of Amsterdam

in the Early Modern Period

248 Rabbis and "Crown Rabbis" in Russia

Chairperson: Avraham Greenbaum

The Rabbis Who Were Not There in Eastern Europe

Crown Rabbis and the "Rabbinic Question" in Late Imperial Russia

"Crown Rabbis" Helping Jewish Children

Yehudah Leib Kantor As Rabbi and Publicist

PROGRAM

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249 The Jews of Poland in the Modern Age

Jewish Participation in Polish-Muscovite Military Conflicts in the 17th

Century

Agnieszka Friedrich (E)

Polish Positivists towards Jewish Assimilation

Poles and Jews in the Local Authorities of the Kingdom of Poland During

the First World War

250 The Jews of Eastern Europe in the Modern Age

Chairperson: Ela Bauer

The Jews of Lithuania During the Moscow Occupation (1655-1660)

To Allow or to Forbid? Some Peculiarities of Siberian Jewish Legislation,

First Helf of the 19th Centurty

Mordechai Zalkin (H)

"Lithuanian Jewry" or "Polish-Lithuanian Jewry”

Jews in Private Estates of the Great Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th-17th

Centuries: the Birzh Dutchy of Radzivills (1547-1695)

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Mordechai Zalkin

The Socio-Cultural Characteristics of the Kaunas Jewish Community in

1918-1940

Egle Bendikaite

The Zionist Movement in Lithuania Between the World Wars: From Left

to Right

Linas Tatarunas (E)

Some Remarks on Lithuanian-Jewish Relations in Soviet Lithuania

World War II Jewish Refugees in the Republic of Lithuania 1939-1940

Chairperson: Rachel Manekin

Who Is a Zealot? Images of the “Culture Wars” Between Maskilim and

Hassidim in Central Europe

Nahem Ilan (H)

An Introduction to the Research of the Literary Project of Rabbi Shlomo

Hazzan

Lucian-Zeev Herscovici (E)

A Moderate "Maskil" and Fighter for the Modernization of Jewish Life

and Emancipation

Yossef Charvit (H)

A Jewish Intellectual (Maskil): Rabbi Isaac Morali of Algeria (1867-

1952), Based on Unexplored Archive Material (Central Archive of Jewish

History, p. 55)

PROGRAM

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253 Jews and Christians in the Modern Age – Session A

Luigi Chiarini (1789-1832): Reformer of Judaism or Anti-Judaist?

Russian Judaisers Between the Bible and Jewish Tradition

Situational Religiousness – Situational Identity: A New Approach to the

Social History of Warsaw and Prague Frankism

Olivier Rota (E)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish Question in England (1912-

1939)

254 Jews and Christians in the Modern Age – Session B

Tuesday (2 Aug 2005) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2503

Lavi Shay (H)

Christians and Jews: The First Women's "NGO" in Mid-Nineteenth

Century Jerusalem

Martin Bray (E)

Protestant Responses to Political Zionism in the Period before the

Creation of the State of Israel

Gershon Nerel (H)

"Operation Mercy": The Evacuation of Messianic Jews from Eretz Israel

in 1948

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Haim Gertner

Eighteenth Century Attempts to Set Up a Jewish Asylum Territory

Jewish Domestics in Early Modern Germany: Service and Employment

Patterns

Judith Bleich (E)

The Circumcision Controversy in Classical Reform in Historical Context

Traveling to Carlsbad: On the Ambivalence of a Modern Sanctuary

"Compact Memory": A Gateway to Jewish Periodicals and an Important

Research Tool for Modern Jewish Studies

256 Jewish Women in Europe in the Modern Age

Chairperson: Ada Rapoport-Albert

Religious and Learned Women in Frankfurt Au Main’s "Memorbuch": A

Synopsis

Jonathan Yitzhak Helfand (E)

"Cherchez la Femme": Integration and Gender Issues in Early 19th

Century France

Laura Schor (E)

Societe Pour L'etablissement des Jeunes Filles Israelites

PROGRAM

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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

PROGRAM

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Holocaust Studies

Chairperson: Dan Laor

The Position of Israel Kastner

The Prosecution's Position

The Defence's Position

Chairperson: Malgorzata Melchior

Life in Transit: Jews and Jewish Life in Lodz, 1945-1950

The Image of the Jews in the Anti-Semitic Popular Novel in Poland at the

Beginning of the 20th Century

Natalia Aleksiun (E)

Narratives Under Siege: Anti-Semitism in the Writings of Jewish

Historians in Interwar Poland

273 Jewish Diasporas in Response to Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Chairperson: Graciela Ben-Dror

Images of "Sefarad" and "The Jews" in Spanish Fascism, 1923-1936

New Findings about Greek Jewish Heroism in the Holocaust

In Days of Decline: Jewish Liberalism in Berlin before the Holocaust

PROGRAM

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274 The Holocaust and Haredi Jewry

Kabbalah in the Land of Israel: Mordekhai Atiyah on Holocaust and

Redemption

Chaim Shalem (H)

Rabbi Sadagora's Reaction upon Receipt of the News of the

Extermination of European Jewry, 1942-1943

Ruth Ebenstein (E)

"Believing Jews could never sell their souls to the devil": Reactions to the

Kapo Trials and the Kastner Affair in the Israeli Haredi Press

Michal Shaul (H)

Haredi Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies: “Private” or “Public” Memory?

Chairperson: Roni Stauber

The Exceptional Case of the Village "Le Chambon Sur Lignon" in the

Massif Central Mountains of France, where the Huguenot Protestant

Community Spontaneously Mobilized Itself to Hide and Save Thousands

of Jews During the Shoah Period

Shoshana Goldfinger (H)

Official Swiss Policy Re "Illegal" Rescue Activities in the Holocaust

Pope John Paul II and the Jews

PROGRAM

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276 Religious Zionism in the Holocaust and After

The Religious Units in the Hagana and in the Palmah

The Uniqueness of the Religious Zionist Response to the Holocaust in

Palestine

Menachem Weinstein (H)

Religious Zionist Activity Among the Holocaust Survivors