the 2005 international conference on hebrew...

The National Association of Professors of Hebrew

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University

And The Stanford Language Center

invites you to participate in

THE 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEBREW LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND

CULTURE

June 19-22, 2005, Stanford University, California

1 The 2005 International Conference on Hebrew Language , Literature and Culture June 19-22, 2005, Stanford University, California

NAPH is the professional organization of professors and instructors in colleges, universities and seminaries who specialize in Hebrew language and literature of the ancient, medieval and modern period. For membership information, contact: NAPH 1346 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI, 53706-1558 Phone: (608) 262-2997 Fax: (608) 262-9417 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://www.polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/naph


The NAPH conferences are an ongoing forum for exchanging knowledge, information and ideas among scholars and teachers of Hebrew language, literature and culture in institutions of higher learning.

Conference Chair: Vered Shemtov, Stanford University

Program Committee:

Edna Amir Coffin, University of Michigan (Co-Chair) Yigal Schwartz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Co-Chair)

Nancy Berg, Washington University Shmuel Bolozky, University of Massachusetts

Gilead Morahg, University of Wisconsin Hannah Naveh, Tel Aviv University

Adina Ofek, Jewish Theological Seminary Esther Raizen, University of Texas

Vered Shemtov, Stanford University

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This conference was made possible by the generous support of

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University

Addit ional support was provided by: The Stanford Language Center

The Dorot Foundation The Ruth Gollan Memorial Fund

College of Liberal Arts

Support for cultural events and post-conference event was provided by:

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford Language Center

The Israel Center, San Francisco The Israeli Consulate, San Francisco


Conference program: All sessions will take place in Wallenberg hall, unless otherwise noted

Saturday, June 18, 2005 3:15 – 8:00 Excursion: Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito Sheraton Hotel, Palo Alto __________________________________________________________________ Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:30 – 11:30 Teaching Hebrew in the 21 Century: A Tour and Demonstration of the Hebrew Facilities and Program at Stanford (Stanford Hebrew Program, Kara Sanchez and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Learning) Room 127 __________________________________________________________________ 11:00 – 1:00 Registration and Refreshment Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University


12:00 – 2:00 Session 1 Language: Room 317 Chair: Ting Wang (Stanford University) Tamar Zewi (Haifa University), Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew (E) Duane Christensen (UC Berkeley), From Sacred Story to Canonical

Text: The Formation of the Bible (E) Randall Garr (UC Santa Barbara), 'abãl in Biblical Hebrew (E) Literature: Room 326 Chair: Nili Gold Uzi Shavit (Tel Aviv University), In Front of the Day of

Disappointments": 60's Anniversary of the Ending of WWII in Europe - The Reaction of the Hebrew Poetry (H)

Hagit Halperin (Tel Aviv University), "In the Beginning There Was My Mother's Cry": Biography and Mythical Biography (A. Shlonsky and A. Penn) (H)

Zahava Caspi (Ben Gurion University), The "Lake" and the "Road": Space and Poetics in the Poetry of Bialik and Alterman - a Comparative Discussion (H)

Panel: Room 323 Chair: Hannah Naveh Oreet Meital (Ben Gurion University), The Prophetic Body: Sado-

Masochist Aspects in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg (H) Shira Stav (Ben Gurion University), Deconstructing Daddy: The

Father's Body in Women's Poetry (H) Dana Olmert (Hebrew University), "For I Will Never Be Thine Wife":

Eroticism and Poetic Creativity in the Early Poetry by Ester Raab (H)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127 Chair: Ziporah Wagner Rivka Halperin and Hadassah Nemovicher (Jewish Theological

Seminary of America), News from Israel: Enhancing Reading Comprehension in the Advanced Levels of Hebrew Instruction (H)

Tiqva Baron (Rice University), ePortfolio at the Beginners' and the Intermediate Language Levels (H)


2:00 – 2:30 Coffee Break Building 200, room 02

2:30 – 4:30

Building 200, room 02

Historiographical Perspectives on Israeli Literature In Honor of the 100th Birthday of Israel Cohen

Chair: Gilead Morahg Hagit Halperin (Tel Aviv University), In Memory of Israel Cohen

Dan Laor (Tel Aviv University), Resistance to Alterman: Designating Turning Points (H)

Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley), "Likrat": Towards a New Poetics and Politics of "The Statehood Generation"

Yigal Schwartz (Ben Gurion University), Modernism and Postmodernism in Israeli Literature: The Watershed (H)

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5:00 - 7:30 Dinner

Stanford faculty Club

Greetings: Edna Amir Coffin (NAPH)

Vered Shemtov (Stanford University)

Keynote Address: Writing the Unsaid: Hebrew Prose and the Palestinian Question

Amir Eshel, Comparative Literature, Stanford University

7:30 - 8:30 "...And So I Went":

Performance by Oshra Elkayam movement theatre,Israel Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Co-sponsored by:

the Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford Language Center

The Israeli Consulate, San Francisco The Israel National Lottery Council of the Arts


Monday, June 20, 2005 8:00 – 9:00 Business Meeting [Open to all NAPH members] Room 127 9:00 – 10:30 Session 2 Literature: Room 326 Chair: Nancy Ezer Yael Feldman (New York University), Bat Yiftah, She'ula, Titzhak:

Female Sacrifice Then and Now (H) Gilead Morahg (University of Wisconsin), A Voice Calling in the

Wilderness: Religion and Redemption in A.B. Yehoshua's Early Fiction (E)

Language: Room 322 Chair: Adriane Leveen Abraham Tal (Tel Aviv University), Samaritan Hebrew in the

Perspective of the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (E)

Gershon Brin (Tel Aviv University), The New Byzantine Bible Commentaries and Their Place in the History of Jewish Exegesis (H)

Pedagogy: Room 127 Chair: Gallia Porat Hadassah Kantor (Bar Ilan University), On Four Areas of Difficulties

for Learners of Hebrew as a Foreign/Second Language (H) Rivkah Bliboim (Hebrew University), "Listening to Hebrew": New Audio

Lab Programs (H)


Literature Panel: On the Margins of Modernism Wallenberg Theater (Room 124) Chair: Michael Gluzman Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan), On Modernism, Margins,

and Yiddish-Hebrew Writers (H) Allison Shachter (UC Berkeley), Gender and Geography: The Terrain

of Eastern Europe in Leah Goldberg's ve-Hu ha-Or (E) Naomi Brenner (UC Berkeley), Modernist Bard and Balladeer: Poetic

Personas of Avraham Shlonsky and Itsik Manger (E) 11:00 – 1:00 Session 3 Literature: Room 326 Chair: Barbara Mann Nancy Berg (Washington University), You Can't Go Home Again: The

Hebrew Memoir (E) Iris Milner (Tel Aviv University), Yehudith Hendel: Memory Concerns

(H) Tsila Ratner (University College London), Chronicles of Homes or

The Young Historian: The Executioner's Visit by Lily Perry (H) Language: Room 322 Chair: Rifaat Ebeid Donald Parry (Brigham Young University), ‘Isaa (The Great Isaiah

Scroll): An Ancient or Medieval Scroll? (E) Stephen Dempster (Atlantic Baptist University), "At the End of Days":

An Eschatological Technical Term? (E) Christo van der Merwe (University of Stellenbosch), Lexical Meaning

in Biblical Hebrew and Cognitive Linguistics: A Critical Appraisal (E)


Panel: New Perspectives on the Akeda. Wallenberg Theater (Room 124) Chair: Yael Feldman Hannah Pressman (New York University), Women Bound/Unbound:

Sacrificial Motifs in David Frischman's 'Sotah' (H) Ilana Szobel (New York University), "God of Fury" and His Victims in

Hebrew Women's Poetry, 1930-1970 (H) Yaakov Perry (New York University), Can Isaac Say No? The Binding

Sacrificial Economy in the Second Conversation of Yehoshua's 'Mr. Mani' (H)

Shirli Sela-Levavi (Rutgers University), Can Sara Prevent the Sacrifice? Motherly Counter Violence in Orly Castel Bloom and Lea Aini (H)

Shiri Goren (New York University), A Different Self-Sacrificial Narrative: Gail Hareven's "My True Love" (H)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127 Chair: Bracha Azoulay Nitza Krohn (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Teaching the

Reading of Academic Hebrew to Non-Native Readers: Goals, Challenges and Solutions (H)

Rina Donchin (University of South Florida), One Hundred and Twenty-five Years of Hebrew Culture in Forty Hours (H)

Nili Adler (Siegal College), Breaking the Glass Barrier: Teaching Hebrew Successfully by Means of Two-Way Video, and Implications for Conventional Teaching (H)

1:00 – 2:O0 Lunch: Dohrman Grove


2:00 – 4:00 Session 4 Haskala: Room 326 Chair: Dalit Katz Amir Banbaji (Ben Gurion University), Ahad ha-'am, "Likrat" and A.D.

Gordon: A pro-Maskilic Study of Hebrew Critical Theory (H) Moshe Pelli (University of Central Florida), Hebrew Haskalah in

Germany Establishes a Literary Movement and Creates a Modern Literature (H)

Yahil Zaban (Ben Gurion University), Fellow Deer Roast and Pomegranates Nectar: Food Representation in Avraham Mapu's Fiction

Literature: Room 322 Chair: Nurit Buchweitz Nancy Ezer (UCLA), The Pagan Discourse in Yitzhak Laor's "And With

My Spirit, My Corpse" (H) Rachel Albeck-Gidron (Bar Ilan University), Narrative and Nonsense

as Competing Elements in the Work of Yoel Hofman (H) Tamar Monzon Wolf and Zohar Livnat (Bar Ilan University),

Collocations and Combinations of Poetic Codes in Uri Zvi Grinberg's "Rehovot Hanahar" (H)

Literature: Room 323 Chair: Maya Arad Giulia Miller (University of Cambridge), Surrealism and the Works

of Yitshak Oren (E) Tal Frenkel (Ben Gurion University), The Author is Dead. Long Live the Implied Author! (H) Yaron Peleg (George Washington University), Literary History in the

Post-Zionist Era, 1987-2000 (H) Medieval Literature Panel 1: Room 325 Chair: Haviva Ishay Ann Brener (Ben Gurion University), Kharja-like Endings in Hebrew

Wedding Poems from Muslim Spain (E) Nili Shalev (Ben Gurion University), The Poem Factory: Reflections

on Poems that Seek Freedom (H) Uriah Kfir (Tel Aviv University), The Provincial Voice of Provencal

Poetry: Strategies of Reading (H)


4:00 – 4:15 Refreshments

4:15 – 5:15

Wallenberg Theater

The Ruth Gollan Memorial lecture

What Do We Know About Literature-Reading Proficiency? Elizabeth Bernhard, Director of the Stanford Language Center,

Chair: Vered Shemtov

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6:30 - 7:45

Dinner (Sheraton Hotel)

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8:00

“Singing Myself to Myself”: A Tribute to Nathan Zach

Donny Inbar Music: Maya Haddi and Amir Efrat

Sheraton Hotel

Co-sponsored by: The Taube Center for Jewish Studies

the Israel Center the Israeli Consulate SF


Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:15 – 9:45 Session 5 Literature: Room 322 Chair: Ortsion Bartana Chaya Shacham, (Haifa University), The Crusaders' Motif in Modern

Hebrew Literature: Directions and Trends (H) Nurith Yaari, (Tel Aviv University), Nissim Aloni and Hanoch Levin:

Between Athens and Jerusalem (E) Literature: Wallenberg Theater Chair: Hannah Naveh Menakhem Perry (Tel Aviv University), Bialik: The Inverted Poem

after Forty Years - A New Inversion (H) Ruth Kartun-Blum (Hebrew University) Speaking Seven Languages

Like Me: The Dialgoue between Nathan Zach's Poetry and The New Testament (H)

Medieval Literature Panel 2: Room 323 Chair: Ann Brener Tova Rosen (Tel Aviv University), "A Disease of the Imagination":

Maimonides' Presence in Medieval Hebrew Literature (H) Haviva Ishay (Ben Gurion University), "The Anxiety of Influence":

Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (H)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127 Chair: Esther Shorr Jonathan Paradise (University of Minnesota), The Hebrew Teacher's

Multimedia Tool Kit (E) Renana Schneller (University of Minnesota), Away with Those Verb

Charts? Or Maybe Not... (H) Adi Raz (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Teaching Hebrew

as a Foreign Language Through Film and the Use of the Written Text (H)


10:15 – 12:15 Session 6 Literature: Wallenberg Theater (124) Chair: Uzi Shavit Donny Inbar (GTU, Berkeley), Rhymed Letters from the Akeda: Two

Nathan Alterman Variations on Popular Yiddish Lyrics Anat Weisman (Hebrew University), Avidan Reads Zach, Zach Reads

Avidan: The Art of Misunderstanding (H) Ephraim Riveline (University of Paris), Onomastica and Poetica: A Semiotic Reading in Some of Nathan Zach’s poems (H) Panel: Early Feminist Studies of Hebrew Literature in the United States. Room 322 Chair: Naomi Seidman Esther Fuchs (University of Arizona), A Voice in the Wilderness: My

Feminist Journey into Hebrew Literature (E) Miriyam Glazer (University of Judaism), From "Burning Air" to

"Dreaming the Actual" (E) Nehama Aschkenasy (University of Connecticut), Revisiting a

Tradition with New Tools: Feminist Perspectives on Hebrew Literature in the 1980s (E)

Language: Room 323 Chair: Emmanuel Allon Shmuel Bolozky (University of Massachusetts), Constraints on

Initial Consonant Clusters in Israeli Hebrew (H) Nissan Netzer (Bar Ilan University), Ambiguity in Hebrew Slang (H) Miri Horvitz Bat-Moshe (Levinsky College of Education), Linguistics

in Court: The Story of an Ongoing Linguistic-Juristic Event (H)

Rabbinic Literature Panel: Room 326 Chair: Tova Rosen Tali Artman (Hebrew University), Ironia Sacra: The Victim of Irony

and Its Functions in Rabbinic Literature (H) Chaim Weiss (Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University), The

Literary and Cultural Meaning of the Dream Index in Tractate Brachot (H)

Ophir Münz-Manor (Hebrew University), Allegoria non Grata? On the Absence of Allegory from the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry of Late Antiquity (H)


12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (Wallenberg Hall) 1:15 – 2:45 Session 7 Literature: Room 322 Chair: Zahava Caspi Rina Dudai (Kibbutzim College), Traces: Poetic Language as

Represented in Writing the Holocaust Trauma (H) Ortsion Bartana (Judea and Samaria College), The Land of Israel in

Nathan Alterman's Poems: The Seventh Column (H)

Language: Room 323 Chair: Shmuel Bolozky Nogah Ilani (Bar Ilan University), Language of Writers as Means of

Teaching Stylistics (H) Emmanuel Allon (Beit Berl College), The Information Level of the

Syntactical Analysis (H)

Hebrew Novel Panel: Wallenberg Theater Chair: Eric Zakim Michael Gluzman (Tel Aviv University), Gender and Genre: The Rise

of the Hebrew Novel (h) Uri Cohen (Columbia University), Human Skin Dog Masks Rereading

"Tmol Shilshom" with Balak as a Colonized Dog (H) Todd Hasak-Lowy (University of Florida), A Dwindling Realism: The

Evolution of Abramovitz's The Travels of Benjamin III (E) Teacher Presentations: Room 127 Chair: Bertha benabib Avital Feuer (York University, Canada), Perceptions of Israelis:

Applications in the Hebrew Language Classroom (H) Sarah Pelee and Allon Pratt (Jewish Theological Seminary of

America), "Ivriyon": Summer Immersion Program in Hebrew for Day School Teachers (H)

Merav Rozenblum (San Francisco Jewish Community Center), It's in the Bible! Biblical Figures and Stories in Current Israeli Music: Teaching Hebrew Through Songs for the Advanced Level (H)


3:15 – 4:45 Session 8 Literature: Room 322 Chair: Moshe Pelli Michal Oron (Tel Aviv University), The Story of Rabbi Yossef de-la-

Reinna: Versions of the Story in Modern Hebrew (H) Gideon Nevo (Ben Gurion University), What Secrets are Revealed in

"Revealer of Secrets?" Anti-Chassidic Satire Revealed in Joseph Perl's Works (H)

Literature: Room 323 Chair: Sara Hascal Sharon Kuperfish (Alliant Univesity), Melanie Klein's "Object

Relations Theory as Organizing Principle in Mythical Plays" by Hanoch Levin (H)

Tamar Merin (Tel Aviv University), Sender The Housewife as a Famous Playwright: Reading Rachel Eytan's "Pleasures of a Man" in Light of Fogel's Married Life (H)

Pedagogy: Room 127 Chair: Esther Bahat Esther Raizen (University of Texas), Staggered Maturities:

Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar in the Teaching of Biblical Hebrew (H)

Yaakov Levi (University of Minnesota), Global Teaching of the Hebrew Verb System (Biblical and Modern) (H)


Panel: Reading Ronit Matalon in Context Wallenberg Theater Chair: Amir Eshel Vered Shemtov (Stanford University), Locality, Trans-locality and

Language in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us", A.B. Yehoshua's "The Liberated Bride" and Orly Castel Bloom's "Ummi Fi Shurl" (E)

Eric Zakim (University of Maryland), Photography and Postcolonial Truth in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us" (E)

Barbara Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Photography and Memory in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us" and W.G. Sebald's "Austerlitz" (E)

4:45 – 5:00 Refreshments Wallenberg Theatre

5:00 - - 6:30

"Excuse me for telling you, but...":

On Writing, Imagination, Identity and Two Billion Hungry People" Ronit Matalon

Chair: Nissim Calderon

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Evening No organized dinner or activities


Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:30 – 10:30 Session 9 Literature: Room 125 Chair: to be announced Hillel Weiss (Bar Ilan University), Moshe Shamir and the Aggada

Stories (H) Inbar Raveh (Ben Gurion University), Bakhtin Reads the Talmud:

Dialogism in the "Hurban" Stories (H) Adia Mendelson-Maoz (Haifa University and Kibbutzim College), A Land that Devours its Inhabitants” Pagis’ “Practice in Everyday

Hebrew” and Grossman’s “The Sticker Song” (H) Literature: Room 127 Chair: Nancy Berg Dana Ben Zaken (Ben Gurion University), Black and White in Colors:

The Immigration from Arab Countries Narrative in Second Generation Israeli Literature (H)

David Rotman (Tel Aviv University), "That's the Way I Was Created": Women and Gender in Yosef Chaim of Baghdad's Stories (E)

Lital Levy (UC Berkeley), Bialik and the Sephardim: A Love/Hate Story about Hebrew Literary History (E)


11:00 – 12:30 Session 10 Language: Room 120 Chair: Ronit Engel Miriam Petruck (International Computer Science Institute), Steps

Toward Hebrew FrameNet (E) Marc Bernstein (Michigan State University), On the Revival of

Hebrew: Allusion and Linguistic Tensions in the Formation of Ethnic Identity and Canon (E)

Literature: Room 127 Chair: Todd hasak-Lowy Nurit Buchweitz (Beit Berl College), The Evacuation of Character in

Postmodernist Prose: The Case of Kastel-Bloom and Kerrett (E) Karen Grumberg (UT Austin), Ricki Lake in Tel Aviv: The Alternative

of Orly Castel-Bloom's Hebrew - English (E) Adriana Tatum (Princeton University), Robert Lowell and Harold

Schimmel: A Jerusalem Encounter (E)

Pedagogy panel: proficiency and Beyond. Wallenberg Hall Chair: Esther Raizen Vardit Ringvald and Bonit Porath (Brandeis University), Proficiency

and Beyond (H) Gallia Porat (Stanford University), Creating Web Based Assignments

for Promoting Proficiency in Hebrew (H)


12:30 - - 1:30

Concluding Address

Oz and Agnon: The Hidden Connection Robert Alter (UC Berkeley),

Chair: Vered Shemtov

Wallenberg Theater

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1:30 – 3:00

Post-Conference Event Sponsored by the Israel Center, SF

Lunch and Roundtable: Israel Engagement Through Literature,

Language and Culture.

Moderator: Debbie Cohn.

Speakers include: Arnold Eisen (Stanford University)

Steven M. Cohen (Hebrew University) Shlomi Ravid (Israel Center.)

Wallenberg Hall, building 160

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3:00 – 4:30

Excursion: A walk to the The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden features 20 bronzes by Auguste Rodin, including "The Gates

of Hell," and to the Cantor Museum, Stanford University


NAPH Shuttle & Stanford Marguerite Shuttle

Sunday June 19/05 Morning: NAPH Shuttle Location: In front of Sheraton hotel to Wallenberg Hall Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (every 10 minutes) Afternoon: NAPH Shuttle Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium to Sheraton hotel Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm (every 15minutes) Monday June 20/05 Morning: NAPH Shuttle Location: In front of Sheraton hotel to Wallenberg Hall Time: 7:45am – 10:45am Afternoon: Palm drive express (Stanford Marguerite) Location: The Oval on Palm Drive (Drop off: back side of Sheraton) Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm (every 5 minutes) NOTE: A line (Operates all day round trip/ via Stanford Shopping center). Location: Serra Mall across from Wallenberg Hall Time: All day (every 20 minutes) (Drop off: back side of Sheraton/next to train station) Tuesday June 21/05 Morning: NAPH Shuttle Location: In front of Sheraton hotel Time: 7:45am – 10:50 am Afternoon: NAPH Shuttle Location: In front of Wallenberg Hall Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Wednesday June 22/05 Morning: Naph Shuttle Location: In front of Sheraton Hotel Time: 8:00am – 10:00am In addition: A line Marguerite Shuttle operates all day every 20min. Drop off/ back side of Sheraton&train station. Palm Express Shuttle operates 4:00pm – 6:30 pm every 5 min. Drop off/ back side of Sheraton & train station.


Conference

Location: Wallenberg hall,

Building 160

Shuttle: End of the oval,

next to Wallenberg Hall

Sunday night

Shuttle: next to the Faculty Club

Taxi:

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