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Department of Literature of the Jewish People • Faculty of Jewish Studies • Bar-Ilan University • Israel

International Conference

Around the Point:The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of Jews

December 17-19, 2012

The Opening Evening with the participation ofThe Israel Prize laureateProf. Aharon Appelfeld

The Israel Prize laureateProf. Dan Miron

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Monday, December 17th

8:30 CoffeeBeck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 410

9:00-11:00 Ladino (H)Chair: Tamar Alexander Ben Gurion University of the NegevSuzy Gruss Bar-Ilan University: Mak-ing the Modern Hebrew Literature Accessible to the Readers of El TempoCarmela Saranga Ashkelon Aca-demic College: Diario - A Ladino Half-Kulmus (Solitreo) Diary (1917-1918) of a Jewish Soldier Press-Ganged into the Ottoman ArmyMoshe Ovadia Ladino in the Mem-oirs of Isaac Cuenca

Italian (H)Chair: Shlomo Simonsohn Tel Aviv UniversitySandra Stow Bar-Ilan University: The Divine Name in Judeo-Italian Trans-lations of the Bible and Its Intercul-tural ConnectionsDavid Cassuto Ariel University Cen-tre: The Mantua Congregation as Re-flected Through the Inscriptions on its Holy Ark of 1543Marina Arbib IDC Herzlia: Flora Randegger: Crossing of Cultures in the Keeping of Fidelity to the Jewish TraditionTsippy Levin Byron Bar-Ilan Univer-sity: Sediments of Intertwined Jewish Identity in Natalia Ginzburg’s Writ-ings

Hebrew Literature: Identity and His-toriography (H)Chair: Ortsion Bartana Ariel University Center of SamariaYaniv Hagbi University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: Writing Hebrew in Foreign Languages: Histories of Hebrew Literature and Their Implied AudienceDror Eydar Bar-Ilan University: Can a Lan-guage Rise above Its Creators, a Tongue Overcome Its Speakers? Hebrew Literature in an Identity StruggleDekel Shay Schory Ben Gurion University of the Negev: “Why Can’t I be Just I Alone, I with No Belonging”: Language and Identity in the Two Layers of the “European Novels” by Vogel and Goldberg

11:00-12:00 Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 (E)Hana Wirth-Nesher Tel Aviv University: Jewish American Writing: Voice and LetterChair: Maxim D. Shrayer Boston College

E - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Monday, December 17th

Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 41012:00-14:00 Polish (E)

Chair: Shalom Lindenbaum Bar-Ilan UniversityMonika Adamczyk-Garbowska Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lu-blin, Poland: Three Tales of One Shtetl: Kazimierz on the Vistula in Polish, Polish Jewish and Yiddish LiteratureEugenia Zofia Prokop-Janiec Ja-giellonian University, Krakow, Poland: Inter-War Polish-Jewish Prose and Representation of Historical Experi-enceBarbara Breysach The University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt a. d. Oder, Germany: Hanna Krall’s Autobiographical Subtexts in the Context of Polish-Jewish Relations

Thematology: The Encyclopaedia of Jewish Story (H)Chair: Yaffah Berlovitz Bar-Ilan UniversityYoav Elstein Bar-Ilan University: Slav-ism as Sacred Language: Life and In-tention in a Story Told by R. Ya’acov Yitzhak of Pshischa, 1764-1812Vered Tohar Bar-Ilan University: The Dynamics of Hebrew and Other languages as Revealed in Versions of Jewish ThemesItamar Drori Bar-Ilan University: ‘Balaam’s Death’: Aramaic and For-eign Languages in Some Versions of The Legend

Yiddish (E)Chair: Rina Lapidus Bar-Ilan UniversityHarriet Murav University of Illinois: Belat-edness, Memory, and Time in the Work of David BergelsonGhil’ad Zuckermann The University of Adelaide, Australia: Yiddish, Hebrew and Israeli: Hybridity and Cross-Fertilization in the Spoken and Literary LanguageNathan Cohen Bar-Ilan University: Jew-ish and Non-Jewish Family and Home Bibliotekn in Service of the East-European Yiddish Reader (1888-1914)Adina Bar-El Achva Academic College of Education: Yiddish and Hebrew Children’s Periodicals in Interwar Poland: Political, Social and Cultural Messages

14:00-15:00 Lunch BreakE - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Monday, December 17th

Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 41015:00-17:00 French (E)

Chair: Michael P. Kramer Bar-Ilan UniversityAnny Rosenman Dayan University of Paris 7: The Fate of the Other Lan-guage: Hinting at It or Displaying It as a Matter of Identity in the Novels of Albert Memmi , Romain Gary and Georges PerecThierry J. Alcoloumbre Bar-Ilan University: From Bischwiller to Jerusa-lem and Back Again. Claude Vigee’s Multilingual PoeticsLiran Razinsky Bar-Ilan University: “No Longer a Minister. Shall I Be a Worm?”: Grandeur, Compulsion and Self-Destruction in Albert Co-hen’s SolalTsivia Frank Wygoda The He-brew University of Jerusalem: Lost Language as a Literary Artefact in the Writing of Edmond Jabès and Jacques Derrida

Modern Hebrew Literature (H)Chair: Hillel Weiss Bar-Ilan UniversityYigal Schwartz Ben Gurion Univer-sity of the Negev: Ashkenazim: The Centre Against the East. Introductory Notes to a Mental-Stylistic Discussion in the Modern Hebrew LiteratureAvner Holtzman Tel Aviv Univer-sity: Response and discussion

Serbian (E)Chair: Mirjam Rajner Bar-Ilan UniversityKrinka Vidakovic-Petrov Institute for Lit-erature and Art, Belgrade: From Sephardic Traditional to Modern Serbian/Yugoslav LiteratureHava Pinhas-Cohen Bar-Ilan University, Keren Institute: The Way from Belgrade to Jerusalem: A Study in the Broken Novel by David AlbahariDina Katan Ben-ZionTangled Fragments of Identity in a Chang-ing World: Judaism as an Open Question in the Literature of Former Yugoslavia

E - English session, H - Hebrew session

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The Opening Evening Mintz Auditorium

17:00-18:30 Reception and Greetings: Prof. Moshe Kaveh President of Bar-Ilan University Prof. Haim Taitelbaum Rector of Bar-Ilan University Dr. Tamar Wolf-Monzon Head of Department of Literature of the Jewish People

Hillel Weiss Bar-Ilan University:Around the Point

The Israel Prize laureateAharon Appelfeld

(Ben Gurion University of the Negev)Jewish Literature

Chair: Roman Katsman Bar-Ilan University

19:00-20:00 Keynote AddressThe Israel Prize laureate

Dan Miron(Columbia University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

“Not Like a Cypress, Not at Once, Not All of Me” –New Trends in the Study of Jewish Literatures

Chair: Yehuda Friedlander Bar-Ilan University

Monday, December 17th

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Tuesday, December 18th

8:30 CoffeeBeck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 410

9:00-11:00 Arabic-Jewish (H)Chair: Nissim Dana Bar-Ilan Uni-versityYosef Tobi University of Haifa: Mo-ses in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Liturgy and Poetry from Haggada Shel Pessah and Prayer Through the Shalom Shabazi PoetryDavid Doron Bar-Ilan University: Models of Bible Translation into Arabic: Dynamics and Innovation vs. Traditions and Conservatism in Bible Translations (Shuruh) Writ-ten by Maghrebi JewsGeula Elimelekh Bar-Ilan Univer-sity: The Kafkaesque Metamor-phosis as Reflected in the Works of Samīr Naqqās

Tradition, Memory, Adaptation (E)Chair: Moshe Goultschin Bar-Ilan UniversityJon Solomon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Josephus and Ju-dah Ben-HurNurit Buchweitz Beit Berl College: Eliette Abécassis: Contemporary Jew-ish Life, Between Freedom and TraditionFiammetta Martegani University of Milano Bicocca, Italy: The Controversial Issue of Representing Memory in De Sica’s Cinematic Adaptation of Gior-gio Bassani’s Novel The Garden of the Finzi-ContiniMeir Simchah Panzer Bar-Ilan Univer-sity: Jewish Literature as Knowing: Three Midrashic Poems by Martin Newman

German (H)Chair: Benjamin Bar-Tikva Bar-Ilan Uni-versityMichal Ben-Horin Tel Aviv University: The Will to Language: Dialectics of Identity and Disguise in Brod’s Reubeni, Fürst der JudenSarah Fraiman-Morris Bar-Ilan University: Kafka’s Aphorisms and Kabbala (E)Anat Koplowitz-Breier Bar-Ilan University: “So Let Me Be Your Love-Poet!”: The Unique-ness of Hedwig Caspari Biblical Poetry

11:00-12:00 Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 (H)Greetings: Prof. Eliezer Tauber Dean of the Faculty of Jewish StudiesJoseph Chetrit University of Haifa: The Quest for a Relevant Language in the Writings of the North African JewsChair: Ephraim Hazan Bar-Ilan University

E - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Tuesday, December 18th

Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 41012:00-14:00 Jewish Culture and Thought in

Germany (E)Chair: Shmuel Feiner Bar-Ilan Uni-versityAlfred Budenheimer Basel University, Switzerland: “Translating Means Serv-ing Two Masters.” Bible and Language According to Franz RosenzweigWolfgang Treitler University of Vien-na, Austria: Shma’ Jisrael. Jeremiah’s Call in Franz Werfel’s Novel Hoeret die StimmeNorbert Kapferer University of Wro-claw, Poland, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany: Franz Rosenzweig’s and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Existence. Nearness and Distance of Two Thinkers in the “Weimar Republic”Dorothea Salzer University of Pots-dam, Germany: Bilingual Bible Stories for Jewish Children

Russian (E)Chair: Efraim Sicher Ben Gurion University of the NegevLeonid Katsis Moscow Humanities University: Osip Mandelstam and the State Jewish Theatre in 1926Helena Tolstoy The Hebrew Uni-versity of Jerusalem: Chagall at Art Theatre’s 1st Studio Maxim D. Shrayer Boston College: Jewish-Russian Poets as Witnesses to the ShoahRoman Katsman Bar-Ilan University: Matvei Kagan in the Malakhovka Colony for Jewish Children: Frater-nity and Crisis Klavdia Smola Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany: Con-temporary Russian-Jewish Literature and the Reinventing of Jewish Poetics

Translation – A Panel (H)Chair: Lilach Nethanel Bar-Ilan Univer-sityNitsa Ben-Ari Tel Aviv UniversityMichal Ben Naftali The Hebrew Univer-sity of JerusalemDory Manor

14:00-15:00 Lunch Break15:00-16:00 Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 (E)

Dov-Ber Kerler Indiana University: From Recollection Towards Contextualization: A Few Thoughts Towards the Typology of ‘Yidishe Shrayber’Chair: Ber Kotlerman Bar-Ilan University

E - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Tuesday, December 18th

Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 41016:00-18:00 The Ladino Literature and Culture (E)

Chair: Shmuel Refael Vivante Bar-Ilan UniversityTamar Alexander Ben Gurion University of the Negev: The Bible as a Source for Ladino Folk LiteratureOra (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald Bar-Ilan University: Ladino Instructions in Meza de el alma and in Seder Nashin from Thessaloniki in the Sixteenth CenturyRivka Bihar University of Istanbul, Turkey: The Last Representative of the Liturgical Literature of the Turkish Jew-ish Community of Istanbul: Rabbi Nisim Behar (1913-1990)Katja Smid Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain: Jewish Law of the Ottoman Lands in Ladino Garbs

Russian (H)Chair: Helena Tolstoy The He-brew University of JerusalemRina Lapidus Bar-Ilan University: Poetry of Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in World War TwoHelena Rimon Ariel University Center of Samaria: The Intensive Heteroglossia: Berkovitch versus CheckhovSvetlana Natkovich Ben Gurion University of the Negev: Samson - a Hebrew Novel: On the History of Writing and Reception of Jabotin-sky’s Novel Samson in the Corpus of National Literature

Yiddish: Sholem Aleichem on Inter-section of Languages and Cultures (H)Chair: Dov-Ber Kerler Indiana UniversityYosef Rivlin Bar-Ilan University: Sholem Aleichem’s Characters as Talmidei Hakha-mim Ber Kotlerman Bar-Ilan University: The Influence of Early French Cinema on Motl the Cantor’s SonGila Hadar University of Haifa: From Yiddish To Ladino: Sholem Aleichem’s The Song of Songs (Shir ha-Shirim)Ziva Feldman Ariel University Center of Samaria: Word and Movement – Lan-guages By Which to Express the Laughter of the Poor Tramp in the Works of Sholem Aleichem and Chaplin

18:00-20:00 Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 (E)The Writers Panel

David Albahari, Myriam Anisimov, Dov-Ber Kerler, David Markish, Gilles Rozier, David Shrayer-Petrov, Maxim D. Shrayer

Chair: Hava Pinhas Cohen Bar-Ilan University, Keren InstituteE - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Wednesday, December 19th

8:30 CoffeeBeck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 410

9:00-11:00 Translations and Contexts (H)Chair: Roman Katsman Bar-Ilan University Valentina Brio The Hebrew Uni-versity of Jerusalem: Jewish-Polish Author about Eretz Israel in 1946-1947 (the Unknown Letters of Pau-lina Apenszlak)Orzion Bartana, Reuven Enoch, Ofra Matzov-Cohen Ariel Univer-sity Center of Samaria: The Poem Wearing a Leopard Skin in the Translator’s EyeReuven Enoch Ariel University Center of Samaria: Some Notes on Dramatic Compositions of Herzel Baazov and on Their Language

Hebrew Literature (H)Chair: Zvi Mark Bar-Ilan UniversityJoseph Dana University of Haifa: Successful Imitation is Preferred to Bad Originality in Medieval Po-etical Art (According to R. Moshe Ibn Ezra’s “Kitāb al-Muh ādara val-Mudhākara”)Ze’ev Kitsis Bar-Ilan University: The Influence of the Maskilim Literature on the Hassidic HagiographyYaniv Goldberg Bar-Ilan University, Ashkelon Academic College: “Between Two Worlds”: “The Dybbuk” Transla-tion to Hebrew as an Expression of Ideological Controversy

Romanian and Hungarian (E)Chair: Ben Zion Rozenfeld Bar-Ilan UniversityClaudiu Turcuș Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Testimonial Pact in “The Hooligan’s Return” by Norman ManeaIlana Rosen Ben Gurion University of the Negev: The Later Life of Israeli Holocaust Survivor Women of Hungarian Origin: a Reading in Five Life HistoriesOrna Mondschein Bar-Ilan University: Zehuze by András Forgách: A Novel in between Biography and Epistolary Novel

11:00-12:00 Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 (E)Efraim Sicher Ben Gurion University of the Negev: Babel in Context: The Question of Cultural IdentityChair: Harriet Murav University of Illinois

E - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Wednesday, December 19th

Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 41012:00-14:00 Identity (E)

Chair: Alan Mintz The Jewish Theo-logical SeminaryMichael P. Kramer Bar-Ilan Univer-sity: Assimilation: Towards a Theory of Jewish American Literary HistoryCamelia Crăciun University of Bu-charest, Romania: The Emergence of a “Jewish Romanian Literature”: A Socio-Cultural ApproachDorota Burda-Fischer Univer-sity of Haifa: Polish-Hasidic Stories. Analysis of Hasidic Stories in the Work of the Polish Writer Stanislaw Vincenz

Classics (Aramaic and Greek) (H)Chair: Michael Rand The Academy of the Hebrew LanguageHananel Mach Bar-Ilan University: Biblical Traces in the Book of Judith: Language, Literature and IdeologyThierry J. Alcoloumbre Bar-Ilan Uni-versity: Some Remarks about Myth and Multilingual Practice in Philo, Josephus, and MidrashTamar Meir Bar-Ilan University: What’s in a Name? The Significance of Arama-ic Names in the Narratives of Talmudic LiteratureYotam Cohen Ben Gurion University of the Negev: ‘I Did Not Use Greek Letters’: The Greek Script as a Mirror of Classical Culture in Israel

Culture and Language “In Between” (H)Chair: Dror Eydar Bar-Ilan UniversityYehudit Henshke University of Haifa: Mod-ern Israeli Mizrahi Hebrew: From a Judg-mental to a Linguistic PerspectiveOfra Matzov-Cohen Ariel University Cen-ter of Samaria: The Novel Omerijan by Dorit Rabinyan as an Imitation of Lifestyle and Tradition among the Jewish Community in IranIvonne Lerner Cervantes Institute, Tel Aviv: Dealing with the Known/Unknown: Latin American Jewish Literature in the Span-ish Class

14:00-15:00 Lunch Break15:00-16:00 Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 (E)

David Bunis The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Modern Judezmo and Yiddish Literary Languages:Two Models, Two SolutionsChair: Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald Bar-Ilan University

E - English session, H - Hebrew session

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Wednesday, December 19th

Beck Auditorium, Bld. 410 The Faculty Room 310, Bld. 410 Yiddish Seminar Library 328, Bld. 41016:00-18:00 States of Exception: Languages

in the Israeli and European Jew-ish Theatre (E)Chair: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi Bar-Ilan UniversitySarit Cofman-Simhon Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, Emunah College, Je-rusalem: “At Last We Can Speak Our Own Language”: African Tongues on the Israeli StageElena Tartakovsky Independent researcher: Israeli Theatre in the Russian Language: Russian, Jew-ish, or Israeli?Moti Sandak International Insti-tute of Israeli and Jewish Culture: One Stage, Many Languages: The Holocaust Theatre Online Collec-tion (HTC)

Between Two Homelands: Uri Zvi Grinberg and Alexander Penn (H)Chair: Aviva Tal Bar-Ilan UniversityChanita Goodblatt Ben Gurion Uni-versity of the Negev: Uri Zvi Green-berg’s Travels in Europe: From Literal to SymbolicHagit Halperin Tel Aviv University, Kibbutzim College: Alexander Penn, or “The Hebrew Yesenin”Tamar Wolf-Monzon Bar-Ilan University: ‘Time for the Orient Has Come’ - The Orient as a Spiritual-Cultural Domain in the Work of Uri Zvi Grinberg

The Borderlines of the Corpus of Litera-tures of Jews (H)Chair: Yaniv Goldberg Bar-Ilan UniversityArik Glasner Bezalel: Yoram Bronovsky - A Portrait of the Critic as a FoxAriel Levinson The Hebrew University of Je-rusalem: Patterns of Secularization: Thoughts on Tradition and Conversion in Early Hebrew AutobiographiesLilach Nethanel Bar-Ilan University: From Dov Sadan to Dan Miron: The Historical Approach to the Study of Modern Hebrew Literature

18:00-19:00 Mintz Auditorium30 Years of Yiddish Studies at Bar-Ilan

30 יאר יידיש-לימודים אין בר-אילן19:00-20:00 Theatrical ProgramE - English session, H - Hebrew session

Faculty of Jewish StudiesThe Joseph & Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People

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The sponsors of the conference

The Simone Weil Cathedra Department of Comparative Literature - Bar-Ilan University

Organizers of the conference

Conference Committee (in alphabetical order) Special acknowledgments

Conference secretariat Assistants (in alphabetical order)

Prof. Hillel WeissDr. Roman KatsmanDr. Ber Kotlerman

Prof. Efraim Hazan Prof. Avidov Lipsker Prof. Zvi Mark

Prof. Eliezer Tauber, Prof. Thierry J. Alcoloumbre, Dr. Tamar Wolf-Monzon, Dr. Lilach Nethanel, Dr. Liran Razinsky, Dr. Sarit Cofman-Simhon, Ms Hava Pinhas-Cohen,Mr. Asaf Gueta, Mr. Oz Nackar, Ms Rachel Chen, Ms Mira Koren

Dr. Anat AderetDr. Moshe Shimony

Mr. Yosef Ben-Shabat, Ms Galit Brin, Ms Monique Dahan, Ms Or Mashiah, Ms Michal Meishar, Ms Noa Tsaushu

Prof. Shmuel Raphael Dr. Tsvi Sadan Prof. Ora Schwarzwald

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