| WEDNESDAY,
April 30 |
Bowl Room, Houston Hall |
| 1:00 pm |
GREETINGS
Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania
David B. Ruderman, Director, Center for Judaic Studies |
| 1:15 pm |
COMING TO TERMS WITH EUROPE
Chair: Katheryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania
Ilan Troen, Ben-Gurion University/CJS
"Europe" and "America" in the Education of Israelis
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New YorkUniversity
Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography
Yaron Tsur, Tel-Aviv University/CJS
Europe Shapes the Destiny of Non-European Jews: French, Israeli and
Jewish-American Policies toward Moroccan Jews
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3:30 pm |
Coffee |
| 4:00 pm |
EXPERIENCING THE HOLOCAUST
Chair: Sara Horowitzt, University of Delaware
Peter Novick, University of Chicago
The Holocaust as an American Jewish Experience
Gulie Arad, Tel-Aviv University/CJS
The Holocaust as an Israeli Experience
Respondent: Omer Bartov, Rutgers University |
7:00 pm |
Dinner and Evening Program (by invitation)
Center for Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut Street |
| 8:30 pm |
Chair: Deborah Dash Moore, Vassar College/CJS
Arthur Goren, Columbia University/Hebrew University
On Living in Two Jewish Cultures |
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THURSDAY, May 1 |
Smith-Penniman Room, Houston Hall
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| 8:45 am |
MATERIALIZING
JEWISH CULTURE
Chair: Jenna Weissman Joselit, New York University/CJS
Michael Feige, Hebrew University/CJS
Digging for Identity: The Early Years of the Israel Exploration Society
Beth Wenger , University of Pennsylvania/CJS
Sculpting an American Jewish Hero: The Built and Unbuilt Monuments
to Haym Salomon
Yoram Bilu, Hebrew University
Jewish Moroccan Saint Worship and the Shaping of Israel's Sacred Geography
Respondent: Jenna Weissman Joselit
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11:00 am |
Coffee
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| 11:30 am |
JEWISH POLITICAL
CULTURES
Chair: Yoav Peled, Tel-Aviv University/CJS
Ilan Peleg, Lafayette College/CJS
The Political Culture of the Ben-Gurionist Republic, 1948-63
Ira Katznelson, ColumbiaUniversity
Strangers No Longer: Jews and Post-War American Political Culture
Respondents: Daniel Elazar, Bar Ilan University/CJS
Yoav
Peled, Tel-Aviv University/CJS |
1:45 pm |
Lunch Break
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| 3:00 pm |
JEWISH LITERATURES/JEWISH
IDENTITIES
Chair: Arnold Band, University of California, Los Angeles/CJS
Anita Norich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor/CJS
Sholem Asch and the Christian Question
Tresa Grauer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor/CJS
Textual Homelands: Ethnicity, Identity and Place in Philip Roth's
Operation Shylock
Nurith Gertz, Tel-Aviv University/CJS
Yehudit Hendel: A Woman's Perspective on the Holocaust
Respondent: Arnold Band
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| 6:00 pm |
Dinner and Evening Program (by invitation)
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall |
| 7:30 pm |
Shney Shoshanim, A Romance of Jewish Interdependence:
An Evening of American and Israeli Song
Adrienne Cooper, vocalist
Adriane Greenbaum (flute) and Joyce Rosenzweig
(piano) |
FRIDAY, MAY 2 |
Smith-Penniman
Room, Houston Hall |
8:45 am |
RECEIVED RELIGIOUS
TRADITIONS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS
Chair: Marc Raphael, College of William and Mary/CJS
Samuel Heilman, City University of New York
Starting Over: American Judaism in the 1950's and the Early 1960's
Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Bar-Ilan University/CJS
The Religious Status Quo in Israel: A Solution or a Problem?
Jeffrey Shandler, Columbia University/CJS
American Jews, Spirituality and the Media |
11:00 am |
Coffee
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| 11:30 am |
ISRAEL AND AMERICA:
MUTUAL INFLUENCES
Chair: Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
Howard Morley Sachar, George Washington University
Israel in the Mind of American Jewry
Yaron Ezrahi , Hebrew University
The American Democratic Ideal in the Mind of Israeli Jewry |
| 1:15 pm |
Concluding Luncheon and Board of Overseers Meeting
(by invitation)
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall |
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