2000-2001 Colloquium

Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies

Modern Jewry and the Arts

April 30 - May 2, 2001

(All academic sessions are free and open to the public.
Pre-registration or RSVP are not required)

MONDAY, April 30	Logan Hall, Room 17, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street
1:00 pm	GREETINGS David Ruderman Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Rebecca Bushnell Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
1:15 pm	JEWISH ARTISTS, JEWISH ART
	Chair: Ben Nathans, University of Pennsylvania Ezra Mendelsohn, Hebrew University/CAJS Maurycy Gottlieb’s Jewish Pantheon Walter Cahn, Yale University Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter Romy Golan, City University of New York Soutine’s German Problem Respondent: Judith Wechsler, Tufts University
3:15 pm	Coffee
3:45 pm	HOLOCAUST: ART, MEMORY, AND HISTORY
	Chair: Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania Norman Kleeblatt, The Jewish Museum, New York The Nazi Occupation of the White Cube: Two Recent Projects by Piotr Uklanski and Rudolf Herz Susan Suleiman, Harvard University/CAJS Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art Charles Dellheim, Arizona State University/CAJS The Past Recaptured?: Nazi Art Looting and Jewish Memory Respondent: Millicent Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
6:00 pm	Cocktails (by invitation)
6:30 pm	Dinner (by invitation) Logan Hall, Terrace Room University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street
8:00 pm	ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY TOUR AND EXHIBIT (by invitation) Transformation: Jews and Modernity Larry Silver, Juliet Bellow, Freyda Spira University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 220 S. 34th Street
TUESDAY, MAY 1	Logan Hall, Room 17, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street
8:45 am	PERFORMANCE AND AMERICANIZATION
	Chair, Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College/CAJS Judith Thissen, Utrecht University, Netherlands/CAJS Reinventing Yiddish Vaudeville: Popular Entertainment and Ethnic Identity Nina Warnke, Columbia University/CAJS ‘Moyshe’ between Bowery and Broadway: the Americanization of an Audience Hankus Netsky, New England Conservatory of Music From Catering Hall to Concert Hall: Philadelphia’s Jewish Wedding Musicians Respondent: Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
10:45 am	Coffee
11:15 am	PRESENCE AND PRESENTATION: JEWS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE
	Chair: BethWenger, University of Pennsylvania Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University of SUNY/CAJS Jews in the Business of ‘Race’ Music: 1920’s to 1950’s Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University At Home on the Small Screen: Revisiting New York Jews and 1950’s Television Diana Linden, Indiana University/CAJS Modern? American? Jewish? Exhibiting the Work of Ben Shahn Respondent: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University/CAJS
1:15 pm	Lunch Break
2:15 pm	NATIONALISM/DIASPORA: AN ISSUE FOR JEWISH ART
	Chair: Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania Marion Kant, University of Surrey/CAJS Modern German Dance vs. Ballet: The Attack on ‘Rootless Cosmopolitan Jewish’ Art Criticism Carol Zemel, York University, Toronto/CAJS Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor and Frenkel Gideon Ofrat, Alma College, Tel-Aviv/CAJS Washington Crossing the Jordan Respondent: Gershon Shaked, Hebrew University, Emeritus/CAJS
4:15 pm	Coffee
4:30 pm	ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND JEWISH POPULAR CULTURES
	Chair: Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania Anna Shternshis, Oxford University/CAJS Singing About Stalin: Jewish Folksongs in the Soviet Union Anat Helman, Hebrew University/CAJS Hollywood in the Kibbutz: Going to the Movies in 1950’s Afikim Amy Horowitz, American University/CAJS Approaching Sound Barriers: Arab Aesthetic Affinity and Israeli National Loyalty in Popular Mizrahi Music Respondent: Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
6:45 pm	Dinner (by invitation) Logan Hall, Terrace Room, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street
8:00 pm	CONCERT (by invitation) SEPHARDIC DIASPORA: INTERPRETATIONS OF JUDEO-SPANISH & JUDEO-ARABIC SONG Introduction: Amy Horowitz, Mark Kligman Judith Cohen and Tamar Ilana Cohen Adams The Gerard Edery Ensemble Mesaouda Judeo Arabic Ensemble featuring Marc Hazan Amado Hall, Irvine Auditorium University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Spruce Street

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2	Logan Hall, Room 17, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street
9:00 am	THE AESTHETICS OF THE SYNAGOGUE
	Chair: David Stern, University of Pennsylvania Richard Cohen, Hebrew University Celebrating the Public Space: The European Synagogue and Jewish Acculturation Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University/CAJS Franz Rosenzweig, Liturgy, and the Beauty of Mitzvah Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College, JIR-NY/CAJS Function vs. Aesthetic: Aspects of American Synagogue Music Respondent: Lawrence Hoffman, Hebrew Union College, JIR-NY
11:00 am	Coffee
11:30 am	CONCLUDING SESSION
	Chair: David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania/CAJS Richard Cohen, Hebrew University Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University/CAJS Ezra Mendelsohn, Hebrew University/CAJS Carol Zemel, York University, Toronto/CAJS
1:15 pm	Concluding Luncheon (by invitation) followed by Board of Overseers meeting Logan Hall, Terrace Room University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street

For further information, contact the

Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania

Tel. 215-238-1290, Fax. 215-238-1540
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