The Canadian Society for Jewish Studies / Société canadienne des études juives is an academic society for the study of Jews and Judaism in all countries, in all historical periods and from all scholarly perspectives. Canadian and international members are welcome.
All are invited to the annual conference of the CSJS, taking place on line, via Zoom, May 9 – 12. For the Zoom link email Justin_Lewis@umanitoba.ca with CSJS in the subject line. There is no charge to attend; all are invited to join CSJS, http://www.csjs.ca/membership.
PROGRAM SUMMARY (a full program with abstracts will soon be available at http://www.csjs.ca/)
Monday May 9 – Thursday May 12, 2022
“Morning” sessions: 10-11:30 am Eastern Time (5-6:30 pm Jerusalem time)
“Afternoon” sessions: 1-2:30 pm Eastern Time (8-9:30 pm Jerusalem time)
Monday May 9 / lundi 9 mai
Morning
Sephardi Experiences
Yoel Marciano: The first wave of immigration of Jews from Aragon to Algeria: challenges of immigration and acclimatization
Ana Marques: Jewish Criminality in the Reign of D. João II
Idan Breier: "The Fading Flower of its Glorious Beauty" (Isa. 28: 1b): The Use of Biblical Verses in Rabbi Yaacob Sasportas' "Tzitzat Novel Tzvi".
Après-midi
Panel francophone
Jonathan Bourgel : « Hérode le Juif »? Réflexion renouvelée sur la judéité d’Hérode le Grand
Guadalupe Gonzalez Dieguez et Adam Mitelberg: Le bouquet de myrrhe, par Isaac b. Abraham ibn Latif (ca. 1210-1280) : réflexions sur l'édition des manuscrits hébreux médiévaux aujourd'hui
Vicky Karali: L’antisémitisme sur l’internet grec : quelques incidents récents (2020-2021)
Tuesday May 10
Morning
Rabbinic Literature
Harry Fox: Who is the Anonymous Tanna of Mishnah?
Brachi Elitzur: Polemic trends in shaping the characters of Doeg and Ahitophel in the Rabbinic literature
Natalie C. Polzer: The White Drop and the Fetid Drop – Gendered Reproductive Theology in Moral and Medical Discourse in Classical Rabbinic Tradition
Afternoon
Death and Love in Literature and Art
Nadine Sheinberg: Self-Portraiture of Felix Nussbaum: An Intentional Representation of Bios
Laura Wiseman: A Peculiar Pair: “Couple” by Sivan Har-Shefi
Aubrey Glazer: Do You Really Want It Darker? Chibut Hakever' & Dhātu Manasikāra in Light of Leonard Cohen’s Death, Dying & Self-Mourning Lyrical Rituals
Wednesday May 11
Morning
Ideas and Identities
Ronel Atiya: Between Israel and the Nations—on Judaism, Christianity, and Zionism in the Writings of Rabbi Mordechai Hacohen of Tripoli
Mariann Farkas: A Jewish Artist in Quest of Identity: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation Reinterpreted by Hédi Tarján (1932-2008)
Orna Cohen: Why Are Arab MKs Serving in Zionist Parties?
Afternoon
Women and Jewish Law and Lore
Marinka Yossiffon: The legal positions of women who vitiate or sell their marriage contracts
Tirzah Meacham: Original Sin, Punishment, Atonement, and Conception
Deidre Butler and Betina Appel Kuzmarov: Kosher Divorce? When Canadian Jewish Divorce isn’t Orthodox
Thursday May 12
Morning
Struggles of Faith
Eyal Davidson: “He Shall First Come to the Galilee” – The Background for Messianic Yearning in the Galilee at the Dawn of the Modern Era
Evyatar Varman: Logic, Experience and Language in Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
Daniel Reiser: Elie Wiesel’s Tale of a Niggun: Between Literature and History
Afternoon
What Kind of Jewish?
Robert A. Katz: The Cincinnati Torah War
Itay Zutra: Dancing Jews and Bear Taming in Modernist Yiddish Poetry
Ira Robinson: The New Haven Yeshiva, 1923-1937: an Experiment in American Jewish Education
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