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

Linguistic Tradition and Features in Old Catalonian Mahzorim

"Not As I am written am I pronounced": An Old Reading of the Name of

God According to "Kaf Naki" from R.Kalifa Ben-Malca

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Yitzhak Avishur

The New Iraqi Judeo-Arabic Dictionary: A Record of the Various

Dialects Culled from Written Sources and from Oral Traditions

Tsuguya Sasaki (H)

Toward a Common Format for Databases of the Hebrew-Aramaic

Component in Jewish Languages

George Jochnowitz (E)

The Absence of Northern Features in the Judeo-Italian of Northern Italy

Chairperson: Joseph Tedghi

The Meaning of the Constantinople Pentateuch (1947) for Judeo-Greek

Studies and Greek Dialectology

Judith Rosenhouse and Hans Moonen (E)

“m‘awda ‘ala hitlir l-xnzir”: Analysis of an Anonymous Story in

Moroccan Judeo-Arabic

Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (E)

"What's the Story": The First Yemenite Jewish MA XABAR Samarin

Revisited

Eliana Langer (H)

Jewish Language Identity – The "Bagito"

PROGRAM

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Chairperson: Menahem-Zevi Kaddari

Conditional Sentences in the "Laws of the State of Israel" in Comparison

with Those in the Mishnah

Galia Hatav (H)

Absolute and Relative Tense in Hebrew

The Generic Sentence As Rhetorical Device

"Be'iqvot Meshicha Chutspa Yisge": A Linguistic Point of View

Chairperson: Gad Sarfaty

Ellipsis in "Popular" Hebrew

The Function of the Tense System in Hebrew Legal Discourse

Pseudo-Double Genitive Constructions in Semitic Languages

The Impersonal Function of the Adjective in Early Modern Hebrew

How to Transcribe Speech

The Inflection of Nouns in Spoken Hebrew: Aspects of Vocalic

Reduction

Alexey (Eliyahu) Yuditsky (H)

Articulation of the Guttural Consonants in Origen's Transliterations

PROGRAM

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Chairperson: Asher Laufer

“And on the Seventh Day you shall rest”: Preposed Temporal Adverbials

in Biblical Hebrew

Merav Tubul (H)

Nouns with Double Forms in the Bible

The Number of Different Inflexions of the Hebrew Noun from a

Cognitive and Structural Perspective

444 Literary Language

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: Israel Bartal

Early Yiddish Prayers for Travelers: On the Migration of Yiddish

Customs from Southern Germany to Northern Italy

Noga Rubin (H)

Prague 1620, A Yiddish Ethical Book: Innovation and Conservatism

From the "Bovo d'Antona" to the "Bobe-mayse": Transformation of a

Chivalric Poem in Old Yiddish

Simon Neuberg (Y)

A Bunch of Romance Words

Chairperson: Marion Aptroot

The Lesson of the Prophet Jeremiah: The Evolution of a Story from the

Praise Cycle of Hassidei Ashkenaz

Astrid Starck-Adler (E)

The Mayse-Bukh (Basel 1602), Women and Yiddish

The Influence of Kabbalah on Yiddish Religious Literature Prior to 1648

Glickl and Haim: A 17th Century Jewish Couple

PROGRAM

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Chairperson: Simon Neuberg

Mendl Lefin's Yiddish Bible Translations: Innovation and Conflicting

Principles of Translation

Szonja Rahel Komoroczy (Y)

Yiddish As a Barrier: The Case of Akiva Joseph Schlesinger’s Amud hayira

Ossip Mandelstam and the Yiddish Language

The Yiddish Culture of the Pre-war Family: Holocaust Survivors

Remember

453 Yiddish in the Netherlands (in Cooperation with Beth Shalom

Aleichem)

Chairperson: Chava Turniansky

Menahem Man ben Shlomo Amelander and His Yiddish History Book

She'eris Yisro'el (1743)

Hilde Pach (E)

The Short-lived Blossoming of the Yiddish Press in the Netherlands

Humorous Texts from Amstedam, around 1800: Jewish Humor and

"Goyishe Nakhes"

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Avraham Novershtern

The Meeting of Cultural Worlds in Sholem Aleichem’s “Train Stories”

Yiddish Song in the Belarussian Region As Based on Materials from the

Research Expeditions of the 20th Century: The Problem of Genre

Typology

Hammer and Iron: Discerning a Theory of Rhetoric in the Fables of

Eliezer Shteynbarg

Ester Whine-Kamenetzki (E)

Leo Kenig's “Bukh fun Lesterungen” (Book of Blasphemies)

Chairperson: Nathan Cohen

A Taste of Freedom: American Yiddish Publications in the Russian

Empire

Adina Bar-El (H)

Between Poland and Argentina: Yiddish Children's Literature

Yiddish Literature and Communism in Postwar Poland: The Poetry of

Kalman Segal, Moshe Shklar and Paltiel Tsibulski

PROGRAM

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: Shmuel Rafael

Piyyutim in Ladino, Coplas in Hebrew: Remmants of Ladino Paraliturgical

Poetry in Hebrew Manuscripts

Revital Yeffet (H)

The Romance Influences in Zarko's "Sefer Lehem Yehuda" (Rhodes, 16th

century)

Levana Dinerman (H)

The Me am Loez’s View of Music

Shlomo Ibn Gabirol – Moshe David Gaon: A Romantic Dialogue

Between Two Poets

229 The Representation of Women in the Early Modern Age and the

“Wisdom of Women” (in Cooperation with the Feminist and Gender

Chairperson: Penina Morag-Talmon

Daily Life of Jewish Women in Ottoman Jerusalem During the 19th

Century

Renee Levine Melammed (H)

The Partisan from Salonika: Creativity and Destruction in the 20th

Century

Michal Held (H)

Expressions of Gender in the Personal Narratives of Judeo-Spanish

(Ladino) Speaking Women Storytellers

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Moshe Bar-Asher

Was the Judeo-Spanish of Eretz-Yisrael Created in 16th Century Safed?

Lexical Variations in the Ladino Translations of the Haggadah

Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish in a North-African Treatise on Religious

Practice from the Early 19th Century

461 Plenary Session: Ladino Culture in Its Spanish and Jewish

Contexts (in Cooperation with the Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino

Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Chairperson: Tamar Alexander, Director of Moshe David Gaon Center for

Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University

Monday (1 Aug 2005) 17:30 - 19:30 Room: Senate Hall

Opening Remarks:

Yitzhak Navon, The Fifth President of the State of Israel, Chairman of

the National Authority for Ladino Culture, The President of The Moshe

David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University

E

udaldo Mirapeix, The Ambassador of Spain in Israel (E)

Benjamin D. Gaon, Chairperson of The Moshe David Gaon Center for

Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University (H)

Musical Interlude

Post Expulsion "Sephardic Writers" in Spain and Amsterdam in the 17th

Century

Ruth Baher (E)

In Search of Our Lost Spain and Other Sephardic Reflections

PROGRAM

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Chairperson: Harvey Hames

The Story of the Kings of Otamnalis

Dr. ֱngel Pulido Fernבndez and the Sephardic Diaspora

Engraved in Stone: The Female Voice on the Tombstones of Jewish

Cemeteries in Istanbul and Salonika

463 Poems and Romances (in Cooperation with the Moshe David Gaon

Center for Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Chairperson: Michal Held

An Unnoticed Medieval Spanish Poem in Hebrew Characters, Vaticana

Ebraici 377

Maria Artigas (E)

A Study of "Conjectural" Ideas that Make Up a Curious Bouquet of

Flowers, Collected by Joseph Penso de la Vega

Messod Salama (E)

Hispanic Traditions and Jewish Creativity in the Judeo-Spanish Biblical

Romances of Female Victimization

Michael Halevy (E)

Sefardic Printing in Bulgaria

PROGRAM

127

Chairperson: Moshe Shaul, Vice Chairperson of the National Authority for

Ladino Culture

Tuesday (2 Aug 2005) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: Senate Hall

Dov Hacohen (H)

Ladino Prototypes from the Cairo Geniza

Books in Judeo-Spanish for “Teaching the Hebrew Language in Salonika”

1823-1935

Matilda Koen-Sarano (H)

Composition of a Hebrew-Ladino-Ladino-Hebrew Dictionary: How and

Why?

Klara Perahya (S)

Kompozision del meuvo diksyonaryo – Judeo Espanyol/Turko

Chairperson: Mordechai Arbell

In the presence of the film creator, Ruth Baher

PROGRAM

128

Chairperson: Aldina Quintana

La Historiografia Sefardi: apuntes sobre un genero literario olvidado

El refranero judeoespanol de Bosnia-Herzegovina y sus recopiladores

Ladino Folkloric Texts from Newspaper Sources in the Former

Yugoslavia

Judith R. Cohen (E)

"That's Pae, not Padre!": Ladino and Emerging Identities in Spain and

Portugal

467 Communities East and West (in Cooperation with the Moshe David

Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Chairperson: Yaakov Bentolila

Humor in Nicknames Among the Haketiya-Speaking Jews of Tetuan

The Immigration of Ladino Speaking Jews from the Ottman Empire to

New York in the Early 20th Century

Schulamith C. Halevy (E)

From "Judaismo" to "Sefardismo": Dialectics of Fear in Northern Mexico

When Did an Awareness of and Interest in Ladino Start Among Turkish

Jewry: Reasons and Analysis

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Eliezer Papo

Ladino Documents from Dubrovnik As a Source of Jewish History and

Linguistics

Ana Stulic-Etchevers (E)

The Modernization of Judeo-Spanish in Belgrade: Characteristics of the

Periodistic Style at the End of the 19th

Ivana Vucina (S)

Actitudes y creencias lingםsticas en la comunidad sefardם de Belgrado

Genesis of the Jewish Communities in Macedonia

Chairperson: Moshe Orpali

Ladino Studies

Opening Remarks

Tamar Alexander (H)

Proverbs and Riddles Among Speakers of Judeo-Spanish

Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Holocaust Poetry: Primary Generic Classification

Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Paschal Haggadah: Survey and

Categorization

Judith R. Cohen

Musical performance

PROGRAM

130

Chairperson: Avigdor W. G. Poseq

The Depiction of the Sixth Day of Creation in Art

The Woodcut of the "Judenshul" in Munster's Cosmographia

The Simchat Torah Flag: Religiosity and Nationality

New Light on the Wandering Jew

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

131

Chairperson: Ilia Rodov

"Sitra-Achra in Creation: Dragon, Serpent and Eve in Jewish and

Christian Art

Pawel Szkolut (E)

The Prophet Daniel in the Lion’s Den and Its Iconography in Ancient

Jewish Art

Lihi Habas (E)

The Origin and Significance of the Children in the Depiction of the

“Crossing of the Red Sea” on Early Christian Sarcophagi

Daphna Ass (E)

Some Unexpected Sources in Decoding the Mystery of the Genesis Cycle

on the Hildesheim Bronze Doors

472 Medieval Manuscripts

Chairperson: Bracha Yaniv

The Crossroads Between Artistic Creation and Cosmology in Spanish

Bibles

Mati Meyer (E)

Eve's Nudity: A Sign of Shame or a Precursor of Christological Economy

Birds, Animals and R. Meir of Rothenburg in Ashkenazic Illuminated

Manuscripts of the 13th and 14th Centuries

Katrin Kogman-Appel (E)

The Scale in the Leipzig Mahzor: Penance and Eschatology in Early

Fourteenth Century Germany

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Katrin Kogman-Appel

Pontius Pilate un the Medieval Art: not exactly the Bad Guy

Yochanan Alemno Invites You to an Exibition

I Dated a Rothschild: Confessions of a Rare Books Librarian

Elia da Vigevano's Illuminated Prayer Books

Chairperson: Shulamit Laderman

The Synagogue Ark As a Metaphor of a Stronghold of Faith

The Torah Ark in Eastern European Synagogues: The Influence of the

Church Altar and the Depiction of the Forbidden

Vivian B. Mann (E)

New Evidence for the Medieval Tik of the Torah Scroll

“Shivvitti” As a Reminder of God: Objects in Polish Museum Collections

"Memento Mori" and the Representation of God in the "Shiviti-Menorah"

Chairperson: Milly Heyd

Illustrated Hasidic Manuscripts

Chivalry, Nationality and Anglo-Jewish Identity in the Work of Solomon

Joseph Solomon

Ruth E. Iskin (E)

Lautrec, Alphonse de Rothschild, and Anti-Semitism in the 1890s

PROGRAM

133

Chairperson: Ziva Amishai-Maisels

"Be Fruitful and Multiply": Love, Sex, Marriage and Childbirth in the

Early Works of Chagall

Igor Dukhan (E)

El Lissitzky and the Jewish – German – Russian Avant-Garde

Tristan Tzara / Shmuel Rosenstock: Questions of Identity

Chairperson: Lola Kantor-Kazovski

Jacques Lipchitz: More about the Jewish Aspects of His Work

The First Exhibitions of Jewish Artists in Kaunas (1920-1940) from the

Critical Point of View