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Center for Advanced Judaic Studies | 420 Walnut Street | Philadelphia, PA 19106 | 215.238.1290

Spring 2006
Seminar Schedule

The Jewish Book: Material Texts and Comparative Contexts

Seminars are held at the Center on Wednesdays at noon unless otherwise noted.
If you are interested in attending a seminar, please contact allenshe@sas.upenn.edu


Date
Seminar
January 11

Menahem Blondheim/Hebrew University
American Rabbinic Imprints, 1881-1939: The Paratext as Social History

January 18

Chava Turniansky/Hebrew University
The Bilingual Hebrew and Yiddish Work and Its Intended Readers

January 25

Emile Schrijver/University of Amsterdam
The Book Culture of Amsterdam’s Sephardim in the 17th and 18th Centuries

February 1

Shlomo Berger/University of Amsterdam
Yiddish Bibles in Context: Paratexts of the Two 17th Century Editions

February 8

Israel Bartal/Hebrew University
The Haskalah ‘Counter Book’: Traditional Forms and Subversive Messages

February 15 Moshe Rosman/Bar-Ilan University
Accessible Holiness: ‘Authors’ and Audiences of Hasidic Books
February 22 Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin/Ben-Gurion University
Print and Modernity: The Reshaping of Judaism as ‘Religion’ and ‘Ethnicity’
March 1

Iris Parush/Ben-Gurion University
The Book: The ‘Sin of Writing’ and Haskalah Literature

March 15

Francesca Bregoli/University of Pennsylvania
Printing Privileges and Jewish Acculturation:
The Printing Business in 18th Century Livorno

March 22 Anthony Grafton/Princeton University
Joanna Weinberg/University of Oxford; Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies
How a Late Renaissance Scholar Read Jewish Texts:
Isaac Casaubon and his Judaic Library
March 29 Stefanie Siegmund/University of Michigan
Sacred Language and the Bilingual Book: On the Use of Hebrew and Italian in the Conversionary Treatises of 16th Century Converts in Rome
April 5

Menahem Schmelzer/Jewish Theological Seminary
One Codex, Many Texts: Who and What Brought Them Together

April 26

Vera Moreen/Independent scholar
Iranian Jewish Books: A Manuscript Tradition into the Nineteenth Century