Yiddish Culture in Past and Present Scholarship
Histories, Ideologies, Methodologies
An international workshop, 27-28 May 2015
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus Campus, Beit Maiersdorf, Room 405 / 502
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
09:45-10:15 Coffee and Registration
10:15-10:45 Greetings and Opening Remarks
Greetings:
Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky, Head of the History Department, Hebrew University
Prof. Avraham Novershtern, Head of the Yiddish Studies Program, Hebrew University
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Aya Elyada, History Department, Hebrew University
10:45-12:00 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
Director, Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
Tel Aviv University
Tradition, the Individual Talent, and Yiddish: Taking Stock
Respondent:
Prof. Mikhail Krutikov
University of Michigan
Chair: Aya Elyada, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12:00-13:15 Reception
13:15-14:45 Scholarly Work in/on Yiddish: Eastern Europe Before and After the War
Chair: Gali Drucker Bar-Am, Tel Aviv University
Yiddish Scholarship Amidst the Ruins: The Scholarly Work of the Vilna Jewish Museum, 1944-1949
David Fishman, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Hersh Remenik's Retrospect of Soviet Yiddish Literature
Gennady Estraikh, New York University
Respondent: Prof. Israel Bartal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
14:45-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Reflections on the Study of Yiddish Theatre
Chair: Diego Rotman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Father, the Orphan, and the Bastard: Yiddish Theatre Historiography and the Quest for a Jewish Art Heritage
Zehavit Stern, University of Oxford
The Old, the New, and the Missing: Reflecting on the State of Yiddish Theatre Scholarship, ca. 2015
Joel Berkowitz, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Respondent: Dr. Shelly Zer-Zion, Tel Aviv University
17:00-17:30 coffee break
17:30-18:30 Book Discussion
Chair: Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Avraham Novershtern, Here Dwells the Jewish People: A Century of American Yiddish Literature, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 2015 (in Hebrew)
David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Avraham Novershtern, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
19:00 Dinner for Participants
Thursday, 28 May 2015
08:45-09:15 Coffee
09:15-11:15 Discussing Yiddish in German: the 19th and Early 20th Century
Chair: Cecile E. Kuznitz, Bard College
Yiddish for Spies, Lemberg 1814
Ofer Dynes, Harvard University
Yiddish as Kulturträger: Binjamin Wolf Segel and Yiddish Studies
Ruth von Bernuth, UNC Chapel Hill
Soma Morgenstern’s Yiddish Kafka
Kata Gellen, Duke University
Respondent: Prof. Guy Miron, Open University of Israel
11:15-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 Trends and Developments in Yiddish Literary Scholarship
Chair: Sonia Gollance, University of Pennsylvania
"A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down": Dan Miron's A Traveler Disguised and the Location of Yiddish in Contemporary Theory
Marc Caplan, Center for Jewish History, New York
Yiddish Scholarship and the Neo-Conservative Revolution
Adi Mahalel, University of Maryland, College Park
Respondent: Prof. Avraham Novershtern, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
13:30-14:45 Lunch for Participants
14:45-16:15 Revisiting the Place of Philology in the Study of Old Yiddish Texts
Chair: Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf
Yiddish Scholarship Between Philology and Anthropology
Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam
Far from Where: Why Yiddish Philology Still Matters
Claudia Rosenzweig, Bar Ilan University
Respondent: Prof. Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16:15-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Yiddish and Jewish Folkloristics
Chair: Oren Roman, University of Haifa
Yiddish Language and Culture Through the Lens of Jewish Scholarship in Hungary
Szonja Ráhel Komoróczy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Yiddish Culture and the Jewish Volkskunde at the Turn of the Century
Aya Elyada, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Respondent: Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
18:45-19:15 Concluding Discussion
The workshop is organized by the History Department and the Yiddish Studies Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
For further information please contact: aya.elyada@mail.huji.ac.il
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