MONDAY, April 26

Logan Hall, Room 17, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th St.

10:00 am

GREETINGS

David B. Ruderman
Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Samuel H. Preston
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

THE SECOND LIFE OF DISCIPLINES

Chair: Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania

Oren Kosansky, CAJS
Time and the Jewish Other: Past and Present in the Anthropology of Judaism

David Myers, University of California, L.A.
Beyond a History of "Suffering and Learning": From Text to Texture in Jewish History

Discussants:
Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania
Harvey Goldberg, Hebrew University/CAJS

TEXTS AND CONTRA-TEXTS

Chair: David Stern, University of Pennsylvania

Yossi Chajes, University of Haifa/CAJS
He Said She Said: Reported Speech and Female Religious Virtuosity in Early Modern Rabbinic Literature

Ephraim Kanarfogel, Yeshiva University/CAJS
"For it is not in heaven": Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages

Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University/CAJS
Art, Script, and Magic: The Protection of the Bride and Bridegroom in Jewish
Marriage Contracts

Discussant: David Nirenberg, Johns Hopkins University

3:45 pm

Coffee Break

THE VICISSITUDES OF SACRED PLACES

Chair: Aditya Behl, University of Pennsylvania

Yoram Bilu, Hebrew University/CAJS
Beyond the Ethnographic Present: The Rise and Fall
of a New Sacred Place in Israel's Urban Periphery

Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main/CAJS
The Graves of the Righteous in Medieval Ashkenaz:
Pilgrimage, Ritual, and the Veneration of Saints

Elchanan Reiner, Tel-Aviv University/CAJS
Patterns of Oral Transmission: On the Evolution of
Traditions of Holy Places in the Medieval Galilee

Discussant: Peter Schäfer, Princeton University

Dinner and Evening Program (by invitation)
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut Street

Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University/CAJS
From Persecutor to Savior: The Image of the Soldier in Jewish Art

TUESDAY, April 27

NEGOTIATING AUTHORITATIVE PRACTICE

Chair: Roger Abrahams, University of Pennsylvania

Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania/CAJS
Kol Nidrei: How Rabbinical Judaism Haunted the Jews

Michael Swartz, Ohio State University/CAJS
Sacrifice Then and Now: Sacrifice as a Paradigm for Ritual in Judaism in Late Antiquity

Elliott Horowitz, Bar-Ilan University/CAJS
Ritualized Gesture: Is a Kiss Just a Kiss?

Discussant: Daniel Schroeter, University of California, Irvine

11:00 am

MEDIATING THE REPRESENTATION OF JEWS

Chair: Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania

Jack Kugelmass, Arizona State University/CAJS
Whiteface, Blackface, Jewface and the Politics of Dershowitz's Chutzpah

Tamar Katriel, University of Haifa/CAJS
Speech Symbolism in the Making of Israeli Culture

Andrea Schatz, University of Duisburg/CAJS
Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar: Ashkenaz, the Orient, and Cultural Translation in the 18th Century

Discussant: Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

MAKING TRADITION

Chair: E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania

Sylvie Goldberg, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, France/CAJS
In the Path of Our Fathers: Inventing Tradition, Defending Tradition, and the Setting of Jewish Time in Jerusalem and Babylonia

Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania/CAJS
Ashkenazic Sacralization of the Newly Inscribed Oral Torah

Ra'anan S. Boustan, University of Minnesota/CAJS
The Heavenly Cult of the Martyrs and the Persistence of Priestly Traditions in Late Antique Judaism

Discussant: Marina Rustow, Emory University/CAJS

Dinner and Evening Program (by invitation)
Logan Hall, Terrace Room, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th St.

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Gruss Colloquium

FORGING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES

Chair: Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania

Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill/CAJS
The Historical and Social Setting of the Sardis Synagogue and Jewish Community

Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota/CAJS
Post-War Judaism: Authority and Practice

Chava Weissler, Lehigh University/CAJS
Ritualized Study in the Jewish Renewal Movement

Discussant: Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia University

RETHINKING BOUNDARIES

Chair: David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania/CAJS

Harvey Goldberg, Hebrew University/CAJS
Menachem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University/CAJS
Albert Baumgarten, Bar-Ilan University/CAJS