20th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies: Transformations of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe
Transformations of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe
20th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies, April 29–May 1, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Class of ’55 Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall , 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
9:00 am Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:30 am Greetings
David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Steven J. Fluharty, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
9:45 am Session I: The Recovery of the Ancient World: The Mishnah and Rabbinic Law
Chair: Joseph R. Hacker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center
Moshe Idel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center The Mishnah and the Kabbalists of Safed
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The Bible and the Mishnah: Two Modes of Historical Memory and Their Early Modern Sources
Nina Cohen, University of Pennsylvania Menasseh Ben Israel’s Pointed Mishnah Edition in Its Cultural Context
Maoz Kahana, Tel Aviv University/Katz Center The Function of the Sacred Space in the Halakhic Thought of Joseph Karo and Shabbetai Zevi
Respondent: Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University/Katz Center
12:15 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Session II: Dialogues between Jews and Christians
Chair: Ann E. Moyer, University of Pennsylvania
Joanna Weinberg, University of Oxford/Katz Center A Humanist in the Klaus: New Perspectives on the Maharal of Prague
J. H. (Yossi) Chajes, University of Haifa/Katz Center Beyond Borders: The Divinity Maps of Kabbala Denudata
Pawel Maciejko, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center The Rabbi and the Jesuit: On the Collaborations between Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz and Father Franciscus Haselbauer SJ Respondent: Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Session III: Jews Encountering Other Jews
Chair: Gershon David Hundert, McGill University (Montreal)/Katz Center
Adam Teller, Brown University/Katz Center Over the Border: Psychological, Social, and Cultural Experiences of Polish Jewish Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire after 1648
Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University/Katz Center Hakham Jacob Sasportas and the Ashkenazi Supporters of Shabbetai Zevi in Hamburg
Andrea Schatz, King’s College London The World As Seen from Amsterdam: Europe and “the East” in Early Modern Yiddish Literature
Respondent: François Guesnet, University College London/Katz Center
6:15 pm Dinner (by invitation) Hall of Flags, Houston Hall 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Class of ’55 Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall , 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
9:30 am Coffee and Light Breakfast
10:00 am Session IV: Hebrew Texts: Publishers, Censors, Readers
Chair: Rebekka Voss, Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main)/Katz Center
Jesús de Prado Plumed, École Pratique des Hautes Études and Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Katz Center A Miscellaneous Serendipity: Researching the Personal Journal of a Castilian Converso Hebraist
Michela Andreatta, University of Rochester/Katz Center The Scholar and the Censor: Marco Marini and Church Control of Hebrew Books
Adam Shear, University of Pittsburgh/Katz Center Jacob Marcaria and the Riva del Garda Press: Printing for Multiple Audiences
Respondent: Piet van Boxel, University of Oxford/Katz Center
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:15 pm Session V: On the Borderlines between Early Modernity and the Enlightenment
Chair: Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University/Katz Center
Yael Sela-Teichler, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin)/Katz Center Revelation, Interpretation, Sensation: Moses Mendelssohn's Musical Judaism
Francesca Bregoli, Queens College-CUNY/Katz Center A Different Enlightenment: Livornese Jews and 18th-Century Tuscan Culture
Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center A Missing Link? The Polish-Lithuanian Background of Early “Maskilim” in 18th-Century Eastern Europe
Respondent: Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University
3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:45 pm Session VI: Concluding Roundtable
Chair: David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania/Katz Center
Participants:
Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University/Katz Center Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania and Collège de France Richard I. Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center Anthony Grafton, Princeton University/Katz Center
5:30 pm Cocktails and Dinner (by invitation) Penn Law School , Silverman Hall, Levy Conference Center
Thursday, May 1, 2014,
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
University of Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Widener Lecture Hall, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
10:15 am A Roundtable Discussion—Taking Note: 20 Years of Scholars and Scholarship at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, 1993-2014
Please join us to celebrate and reflect on two decades of learning as conducted at the Katz Center. We have convened a lively, interactive panel of thought-provoking scholars to contemplate the impact and meaning of the academic enterprise of Jewish Studies, its relevance to the Jewish world, the University, and beyond. What has been achieved? What are the stakes and import of the secular Torah of academic Jewish scholarship? And what is yet to be accomplished?
Moderator: Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
David N. Myers, University of California, Los Angeles Annette Yoshiko Reed, University of Pennsylvania Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania Elsie R. Stern, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Piet van Boxel, University of Oxford
12:15 pm Luncheon (by invitation) Class of ’55 Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall ,249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

"Survivors Talmud" [Babylonian Talmud]. Munich ; Heidelberg : [printed by the the Rabbinical Council of Germany, U.S. Army, and the Joint Distribution Committee], 1948. v.1 Berakhot. Frontispiece. At the bottom of the title page is a depiction of a Nazi slave labor camp flanked by barbed wire; above are the palm trees and the landscape of the Holy Land. The legend reads: "From bondage to freedom; from darkness to a great light."
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