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 Rehabilitation of the Religious Zionist Movement in Hungary After

the Holocaust, 1945-1949

277 Survivors’ Testimony – Session A

Chairperson: Robert Rozett

"Remembering for us" – Discussions by Holocaust Survivors in Australia

on the Future of Holocaust Commemoration

Hannah Kliger (E)

Texts of Trauma and Identity: The Legacy of Holocaust Survivor

Narratives in America

Malgorzata Melchior (E)

The Holocaust Survivors Who Passed As Non-Jews in Nazi Occupied

Poland and France: A Comparison of the Survivors’ Experience

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Irith Dublon-Knebel

The Children's Kibbutz on a Journey from the Valley of Death to the

Yearned Land

Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (H)

Children and Their Holocaust Experience: A Multidisciplinary Approach

to Children's Testimonies

Chaya Ostrower (E)

What Made You Laugh During the Holocaust? A Feminine Point of View

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

280 The Literary Response of Women to the Holocaust

Chairperson: Rochelle G. Saidel

Literary Resistance in Ravensbruck by Dr. Kathe Leichter and Other

Jewish Prisoners

Sonja Hedgepeth (E)

Passing Sentence on the Third Reich: Else Lasker-Schler’s Exile Drama

‘IchundIch’

Talila Kosh (E)

Remembering or Forgetting: Israeli Women Writers and the Memory of

the Holocaust

Myrna Goldenberg (E)

American Jewish Women Poets and the Holocaust

PROGRAM

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413 Holocaust Literature – Session A

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 Also Shudder" – The Survivors’

World in Shulamit Hareven Writing

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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415 Narratives of the Second and Third Generations of the Holocaust:

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

281 The Holocaust: Memorials and Commemoration

Chairperson: Ely Ben-Gal

Meir (Marek) Dworezcki, the Man Who Refused to Forget: On the Role

of Holocaust Survivors in the Emergence of Holocaust Commemoration

and Research

"This Whole Lie Is the Whole Truth": Exhibits, Memories and the Past in

the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora

Gilbert N. Kahn (E)

Our Grandparents Would Never Forgive Us": The Politics of Using and

Abusing the Holocaust

Yaffa Eliach (E)

Restoring The Vanished Past: The Shtetl - The Living History Museum of

the Jewish World

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yitzchak Arad

A Study in the Dynamics of Prejudice against Jews As a Consequence of

Modernization in Russia

Inna Gerasimova (E)

The Evacuation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Population

in the Earliest Days of the Fascist Invasion

Mordechai Altshuler (H)

The Response of Soviet Jewry to the Anti-Semitism of the 40s and 50s

(1944 – 1953)

Vygantas Vareikis (E)

Lithuanian Jewry, National Ideology and Anti-Semitism in Lithuania after

the Fall of Communism

604 Issues in the Study of Anti-Semitism: Psychology and Character (in

Cooperation with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) – Session A

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

PROGRAM

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606 Anti-Semitism and the Media (in Cooperation with the Jerusalem

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

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

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Menachem Kahana

This Versus That: Reflections on Talmudic Scholarship in the Last

Decade

Richard Kalmin (H)

Recent Scholarship in the Babylonian Talmud

Between Amoraim and Redactors: Methodological Reflections

The Anonymous Talmud and the Amoraim

Chairperson: Yaakov Sussmann

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: Leib Moscovitz

The Beit Midrash As a Public Institution of Instruction in the Tannaitic

Period

Asher Finkel (E)

Two Approaches to the Determination of Pentecost: A Phenomenological

Examination

Arye Hayoun (H)

Halakhah that Precedes Beit Shamai and Beit Hillel: General Principles of

Reconstituting the Early Corpus of Pharisaic Halakhah

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Vered Noam

Reading Mishnah Intertextually

Where Slept the Priests? An Alternative Proposal on How to Read the

Opening Lemma of Mishnah Tamid 1:1

Mordechai Meir (H)

“The Six Orders of the Mishnah Vowelized and Annotated” by Hayyim

Nahman Bialik: Guidelines to Bialik’s Forgotten Enterprise, Marking

Seventy-Five Years since Its Publication

Reconstructing Tractate Qinim

Chairperson: Avraham Walfish

A Chapter in the History of the Editing of the Mishnah: A Reformulation

of the Aggadah of the Tosefta

Joshua Kulp (H)

Organizational Patterns in the Mishnah in Light of Their Toseftan

Parallels

Binyamin Katzoff (H)

The Tosefta's Text-Tradition in Relation to the Baraitot in the Talmudim:

A New Analysis of Tractate Berachot

PROGRAM

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

433 Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic – Session A

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

PROGRAM

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434 Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic – Session B

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

Chairperson: Yaron Z. Eliav

The Development of the Custom of Providing “Provisions for the Way”

(Drinking Apparatus and Planting Saplings) for Travelers in the Land of

Israel

Trade with the Far East in the Talmudic Period

Food in the Babylonian Talmud: Memories of Sumer, Foretastes of

Baghdad

Yoel Fixler (H)

Gitin After the Bar-Kochva Revolt

PROGRAM

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208 Jews and Judaism in the Greek World

On Parallels, 3 Maccabees and the Book of Esther

The Figure of God in the Zodiac and Jacob's Image

The concepts of Hellenismos and Ioudaismos in the II Maccabees and

Modern Historiography

Edward Dabrowa (E)

The Hasmonean Kingship in the Hellenistic Context

Chairperson: Doron Mendels

"A People of Philosophers": Jews, Greeks, and Self-Identity

The Names of the Land During the Second Temple and the Roman-

Byzantine Periods

Pieter Van der Horst (E)

“The Most God-Fearing and the Most Abominable of All Nations:" A

Greek Philosopher on the Jews

Dorit Gordon (H)

Agatharchides, Mendele, Aristobulos2 and the Question of the Jewish

Sources of Josephus

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Lee I. Levine

Once Again on the Title "Nasi"

The Identity of "Rabbi" in Rabbinic Literature and Epigraphy, and Its

Implications for the History and Status of the Sages in Byzantine

Palestine

'Remembered for Good': Synagogue Inscriptions of Roman Palestine

Loca Sancta – Traditions and Roman Sarcophagi

Chairperson: Zeev Weiss

The Wall Street, the Eastern Stoa, the Location of the "Tetrapylon", and

the Halakhic Status of Caesarea (Commentary on Tosefta Ahilot

XVIII:13)

Herod and Augustus

Herod's Jewish-Roman Ideology: Rhetoric and Evidence

PROGRAM

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212 Josephus and His Age

The Generalship of Josephus

“Mithridates he captured alive and brought home mounted naked upon an

ass”: Persian Motifs in the Tragedy of Anilaeus and Asinaeus (Josephus,

Antiquities XVIII, 314-370)

The Torah in Josephus' Antiquities: Three Classifications of Alleged

Additions to Bereshit in Antiquities 1-2

Louis H. Feldman (E)

The Levites in Josephus

Chairperson: Noah Hacham

The Halakhic Attitude Towards the Samaritans

Sages vs Priests: The Constitution of a New Social Order or a Mimicry of

Existing Hegemonic Representation?

Sacha Stern (E)

Rabbinic Court, City Councils and Control of the Calendar in Late

Antique Palestine

214 Jewish Art and the Jewish-Christian Polemic

Chairperson: Oded Irshai

Biblical Iconography and Yearnings for the Temple Cult in Ancient

Synagogue Art

Talgam Rina (H)

The Bible and the Sanctuary in Church Ornamentation on Both Banks of

the Jordan

Lee I. Levine (H)

Jewish Art in Late Antiquity and Its Historical Contexts

PROGRAM

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306 The Tannaim Among the Amoraim

"Unfit Witness": Exegesis of the Tannaitic Sources in Light of the Sugiot

in the Bavli

Izchak M. Schlesinger (H)

Tannaitic and Amoraic Texts – Differences in Interpretation Practices

Rav Nahman and Rav Sheshet: Conflicting Methods of Exegesis of

Tannaitic Sources

Mor Sagit

Mishnaic Regulations in the Babylonian Talmud As a Tool for Examining

Amoraic Legal Procedures

307 Amoraic Literature

Chairperson: Yitzhak Schlesinger

Interpretation of a Vague Saying in the Yerushalmi

Two (Oral) Presentations but One Meaning

Does Fate Govern the People of Israel? Philosophy, Literature and Editing

Style in the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds

Menachem Katz (H)

Collection of Halakhah or Analytic Clarification?

PROGRAM

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308 The Babylonian Talmud

On the “Maasaf” and the “Maavir”: A Phase in the Evolution of the

Talmud

Aaron Amit (H)

The Two Textual Versions of the Chapter “Haya Koreh” [He Would

Read] from the Babylonian Talmud’s Tractate Berakhot [Blessings]

Avinoam Cohen (H)

Similar Literary Terms with Different Functions in the Talmuds

The Role of Amar Kra Midrashim in the Talmudic Sugiya

Chairperson: David Henshke

The Editing of the Mekilta de Rabbi

Tracing the Origins of the Compilation of the Derekh Eretz [Behavioral]

Literature through an In-Depth Study of Tractate Kalah Rabati

Gila Vachman (H)

The Uniqueness of the Editing in Midrash Hadash on the Torah

The Baraita de-Niddah: Some Findings from a Forthcoming Critical

Edition

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yeshayahu Gaffni

Dam Berit (the Blood of Circumcision)

Purity, Power and Politics

The History of the Laws of Ktamim

"The Student Who Died Before His Time" (Shabbat 13a): Textual

Tradition As Tradition of Halakhah and Custom

311 Halakhah and Halakhic Rulings

Chairperson: Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh)

A Religious Ruling Revoked for Many Centuries: To What Extent Does

the Rabbinical Sage Have the Authority to Restore It?

Ethan Tucker (H)

Regarding Literary Agendas and Legal Conclusions: The Case of

Hatikhah Atzmah Naa'aseit Neveilah

Avi Shveka (H)

Is the Court Emissary Allowed to Enter the Debtor's Home? A Study in

the History of Halakhah

Avinoam Rosenak (H)

Theory and Practice: Halakhic Rulings As Stage Instructions

PROGRAM

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312 Tales of the Sages – Session A

The Editors of PT versus Elisha ben Aviyya: An Examination of the

Indictment

Tamar Meir (H)

A Tale of the Sages As a Pitra: The Early Biography of R. Eliezer b.

Hyrcanus As a Test Case (Bereishit Rabba, Chap.41[42])

David Lifshitz (H)

Ethical Problems in the World of the Talmudic Sages

Chairperson: Myron Lerner