April
29 - May 1, 1996
| Sunday, April 28 1:45 PM |
History,
Memory Narratives |
| Monday April 29 |
Van Pelt Library, Rosenwald Gallery |
3:00 pm |
Greetings: |
| Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania | |
| David Ruderman, Director, Center for Judaic Studies | |
| 3:15 pm | The Social and Literary Context of Oral |
| and Written Transmission | |
| Session I: | |
| Oral and Written Elements in Textual Transmission | |
| Chair: Robert Kraft, CJS/University of Pennsylvania | |
| Werner Kelber, Rice University | |
| Memorial Aspects in the Composition of the Gospels | |
| Paul Mandel, CJS/Hebrew University | |
| Recording the Oral, Reciting the Written: Transformations of a Rabbinic Text | |
| Malachi Beit-Arie, CJS/Hebrew University | |
| The Impact of Scribes and Copyists on Transmitted Hebrew Texts in the Middle Ages | |
| 5:15 pm | Reception and Tour of Book Exhibit |
| 6:45 pm | Dinner (by invitation) |
| Center for Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut Street | |
| Tuesday April 30 |
Benjamin
Franklin Room, Houston
Hall |
| 9:00 am | The Social and Literary Context of Oral |
| and Written Transmission | |
| Session II: | |
| The Social Context of Authoritative Oral Transmission | |
| Chair: David Stern, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Daphna Ephrat, CJS/Hebrew University, and | |
| Yaakov Elman, CJS/Yeshiva University | |
| Orality and the Institutionalization of Tradition: The Growth of the Gaonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa | |
| Elliot Wolfson, New York University | |
| Orality, Textuality, and Revelation: Transmission of Secrets in Kabbalistic Fraternities | |
| Respondent to Sessions I and II: | |
| Ruth Katz, CJS/Hebrew University | |
| 11:00 am | Coffee |
| 11:15 am | Gender and Genre: Reading and Readers in Cultural Context |
| Chair: Maureen Quilligan, University of Pennsylvania | |
| E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Portraits of Women Readers in Seventeenth-Century Italy | |
| Beth Baron, City University of New York | |
| The Womenís Press in Egypt in the Early Twentieth Century | |
| Tamar El-Or, CJS/Hebrew University | |
| 'Due to Righteous Women': Zionist Religious Women's Reading of Midrash | |
| Respondent: Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1:15 pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:30 pm | Yiddish and The Dissemination of Jewish Culture |
| in the Modern Era | |
| Chair: Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University | |
| Yiddish and the Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe | |
| David Fishman, CJS/Jewish Theological Seminary | |
| The Language Debate in Russian Jewry, 1897-1914 | |
| Michael Steinlauf, Franklin and Marshall College | |
| Possessing Tradition: The Dybbuk On and Off the Yiddish Stage | |
| Respondent: Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 5:15 pm | Reception and Dinner (by invitation) |
| Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall | |
| 7:30 pm | Evening Program |
| Lecture by David Olson, Ontario Institute for Studies in | |
| Education/University of Toronto | |
| The Written Word: On the Relation between Speech and Writing | |
| Wednesday May 1 |
Benjamin
Franklin Room, Houston
Hall |
| 9:00 am | Forms of Transmission and the Invention of |
| National Identity | |
| Chair: Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Israel Gershoni, CJS/Tel-Aviv University | |
| Secondary Intellectuals: Readers and Readership as Agents of National-Cultural Reproduction in Modern Egypt | |
| Israel Bartal, CJS/Hebrew University | |
| The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionismís Anthology Projects | |
| Alon Confino, University of Virginia | |
| Consumer Culture and the Commercialization of the Past | |
| Respondent: George Mosse, University of Wisconsin | |
| 11:00 am | Coffee |
| 11:30 am | Conference Summary |
| Chair, Marc Saperstein, CJS/Washington University | |
| Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Israel Bartal, Yaakov Elman, David Olson | |
| 1:00 pm | Concluding Luncheon and Board of Overseers Meeting |
| (by invitation) | |
| Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall |