Date:
Monday, August 7, 2017, 5:30pm to Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 4:30pm
Location:
Mandel Building, room 530, Mount Scopus Campus
17th World Congress of Jewish Studies -The Posen Foundation, in Cooperation with The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, is presenting a Colloquium on Judaism as Culture.
Program:
Monday, 7 August 2017
JUDAISM AS CULTURE – In Memory of Menachem Brinker
Greetings 17:30-18:00
Menahem Ben-Sasson
President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe Idel
President of the World Union of Jewish Studies
Daniel Posen
CEO of the Posen Foundation
OPENING SESSION 18:00-19:30
Chair, Manuela Consonni
Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center
for the Study of Antisemitism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan
Tel Aviv University
Menachem Brinker's Literary Thought and Aesthetic Education in New Jewish Time: Interim Report
Eli Schonfeld
Shalem College
Sartre and the Question of Jewish History: Menachem Brinker reads Anti-Semite and Jew
Shalom Ratzabi
Tel Aviv University
Secular Judaism – Berdyczewski, Brenner and Brinker
19:30: RECEPTION FOR THE PARTICIPANTS AND FOR THE PUBLIC
Greetings
Manuela Consonni
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fania Oz-Salzberger
University of Haifa
Chair of the Posen Society of Fellows
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
STUDIES ON SECULARISM 9:00-11:00
Chair, Nissim Leon
Bar-Ilan University
Greetings
Avriel Bar-Levav
The Open University of Israel
Ron Margolin
Tel Aviv University
Cultural Judaism and its Developments 100 Years After Ahad Ha'am
Shmuel Feiner
Bar-Ilan University
"A New and Upside Down World": A Case Study for the Early Jewish Secularization
Michal Arbell
Tel Aviv University
"I was like a philosopher deprived of his system": On Secularism and Belief in Moshe Leib Lilienblum's Sins of Youth
JEWISH SOURCES OF THE
19TH AND 20TH CENTURY 11:30-13:30
Chair, Martina Weisz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Manuela Consonni
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jewish Sources of the XX Century: Auschwitz and its Remnants
Ela Bauer
Kibbutzim College
Newspaper, Film, Theater: the Contribution of Written and Visual Texts to Secularization of Polish Jewry
Svetlana Natkovich
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sh. Y. Abramovitch's Hebrew Translation of Gemeinnützige
Naturgeschichte as a Foundational Text of the
Modern Hebrew Literature
Joyce Rappaport
The Posen Foundation
Intentions, Introductions, and Multiple Conclusions: A Progress Report on The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
JEWISH NATIONALISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION 15:00-16:30
Chair, Avinoam Yuval-Naeh
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Semion Goldin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nineteenth Century Jewish Nationalism in the East European Context
Arieh Saposnik
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Indigenism, Zionism, Palestinism: “Hasolel” and the Claim to Hebrew Indigeneity
Moshe Naor
University of Haifa
Oriental Jews and the Arab Question in Mandatory Palestine
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