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הפקולטה למדעי הרוח
The Faculty of Humanities | The European Research Council
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardi CommunitiesInternational Conference, Monday-Wednesday, 14-16 November 2016Mount Scopus Campus, Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Rooms 502/405
Monday, 14.11.2016 (room 502)
10:30-11:30 Opening Session
Greetings – Moshe Sluhovsky, Director, School of History (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Yosef Kaplan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Sephardim in Jewish and European Contexts – Opening Remarks
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:45 Forming Converso Identities
Chair: Carsten L. Wilke
James Nelson Novoa (University of Ottawa) Sociability and Kinship among the Nação across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: the Example of the Teixeira Family
Ronnie Perelis (Yeshiva University, NY) Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange
Natalia Muchnik (EHESS, Paris) Marranos vs. Recusants: Shaping the Markers of Difference (1570-1680). A Comparison
13:45-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:30 Economy and Community among Italian Sephardim
Chair: Bernard Cooperman
Serena Di Nepi (Sapienza University of Rome) Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardi Diasporas and Ghettos. A Trial in Ancona as a Case Study (1555-1562)
Mauricio Dimant (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Sephardic Community and the Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Escamot and Letras de Cambio in Livorno during the 17th Century
Nourit Melcer-Padon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)'No Charity Greater than This': The Fist Statutes of the Livorno Dowry Confraternity
17:45 DINNER RECEPTION (by invitation only)
Tuesday, 15.11.2016 (room 405)
09:30-12:15 Crossing the Atlantic –Sephardi Communities in the New World
Chair: Evelyne Oliel-Grausz
Michael Studemund-Halévy (Institute for the History of the Jews in Germany, Hamburg) Crossing the Jewish Atlantic- The History of the Nação of Hamburg through the Atlantic Lens
Jonathan Schorsch (University of Potsdam) Judaism and Race in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic: A New Overview
Jessica Roitman (KITLV, Leiden University) Beyond Binaries: Jews, Blacks, and Eighteenth Century Curaçao
Sina Rauschenbach (University of Potsdam)Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy of Suriname and his Contribution to Eighteenth-Century Dutch Debates on the Emancipation of the Jews
12:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-16:15 Markers of Converso Identities
Chair: James Nelson Novoa
David Graizbord (The University of Arizona)Converso Identities: A 'Crisis of Classification' and Its Echoes, 1391-Present
Carsten L. Wilke (Central European University, Budapest) Semi-Clandestine Judaism in Early Modern France: European Horizons and Local Varieties of a Domestic Devotion
Claude B. Stuczynski (Bar-Ilan University)Gallican Confessionalism for Portugal's 'Converso Problem' and the Sephardic-New Christian Experience in Early Modern France
Wednesday, 16.11.2016 (room 405)
09:30-12:15 Mechanisms of Social Discipline
Chair: Moshe Sluhovsky
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland) Labeling Deviance in an Early Modern Port Community: Rabbi Raphael Meldola on the Sephardim of Pisa/Livorno
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld (Amsterdam) Female Fights and Family: Rebecca Pallache and Eva Cohen on Matters of Religion, Justice and Social Standing
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/ ERC Con�gMed)Conflict Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in 18th Century Amsterdam
Alex Kerner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The “Livro de Pleitos”: The Leadership of the Spanish & Portuguese Community of London in the 18th Century as a Court of Requests
12:15 -12:30 Coffee break
12:30 -14:30 The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority
Chair: Yosef Kaplan
Yaacob Dweck (Princeton University) Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yesiba
David Sclar (Princeton University) Growth of the Medras Grande: Portuguese Rabbinical Studies in 18th-Century Amsterdam
Yocheved Beeri (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Haham Ya'acov Athias – A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization
14:30-16:15 Lunch
16:15-18:15 Varieties of Cultural Creativity
Chair: Yaacob Dweck
Moisés Orfali (Bar-Ilan University)On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western Sephardi Diaspora
Aliza Moreno (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The ‘Thesouro dos Dinim’ by Menasseh Ben Israel – Popular Halakhic Literature as a Source of Social History
Einat Davidi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Joseph Penso de la Vega and the Jewish Baroque