Agnon’s Stories of the Land of Israel : Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of S. Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize
Organized by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and its Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law,
Co-sponsored by:Agnon House, Jerusalem; The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies
Monday, October 31, 2016
Wilf Campus, 535 Furst Hall, 500 West 185th Street
http://yu.edu/cis/activities/conferences/
Session I: Between Eretz Yisrael and the Diaspora
9:30am-Noon
Greetings:
Steven Fine, Director, Center for Israel Studies, Yeshiva University
Shalom Carmy, Yeshiva University
Chair: Shmuel Schneider, Yeshiva University
Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary): Hometown and Homeland: The Dialectic Between Eretz Yisrael and Buczacz in Agnon's Late Works
Wendy Zierler (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion): From Henye to Tehilla: The Righteous "Grandmother" as Personification of Village, City and Land of Israel in Baron and Agnon
Shalom Carmy (Yeshiva University): The Hound of Heaven and the Dog of the Streets: God and Man in Jerusalem and Points West
Lunch: Noon-1:00pm
Session II: “The Art of Agnon Annotation”
1:00-2:00pm
Greetings: Selma Botman, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Yeshiva University
Avraham Holtz (Jewish Theological Seminary) in conversation with Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House) discussing Professor Holtz’s monumental edition of Agnon’s Temol Shilshom, the epic novel of Eretz Yisrael during the Second Aliyah.
Session III: The Place of Eretz Yisrael in Agnon’s Stories
2:15-4:30pm
Chair: Ozer Glickman, Yeshiva University
Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen (Yeshiva University): Ge’ulah in Zionist Ideology and Rhetoric and in Agnon’s “Agunot”
Steven Fine (Yeshiva University): Ma'aseh ha-Menorah: Agnon, Zweig and the Menorah in Zionist/Early Israeli Visual Culture
Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House): “But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem”: Agnon’s Nobel Speech in Light of Psalm 137
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