Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture: Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture
Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture:
Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture
CERMOM-INALCO - Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Paris, 19-21 November 2019
19 November
9-9,30 Registration, INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013, room 4.24
9,30-11 Chair: Piero Capelli, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia.
An Old Tale in New Times: The Martyrdom of the Woman and her Seven Sons in Italian Jewish Literature of the Nineteenth Century - Asher Salah, Bezalel, Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
An Extreme Sacrifice: A Cannibal Mother in the Siege of Jerusalem - Ilaria Briata, Universität Hamburg
Daughters of Truth and Mothers of the Community: Some Observations on the Elusive Women of Qumran - Corrado Martone, Università di Torino
11-11,30 coffee break
11,30-13 Chair: Elisa Carandina, INALCO, Paris
Where Have All the Mothers Gone? Maternal Sacrifice in Hebrew Literary History -
Hamutal Tsamir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva
Nationalized Maternal Bodies of Mothers (and their sons) in David Grossman’s To the End of the Land (Isha Borahat Mib’sorah) – Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Speaking Hebrew as Maternal Sacrifice: Rachel Katznelson and the Abandonment of the Mother Tongue - Roni Henig, New York University
13-15 Lunch
15-17 Auditorium
Keynote - The Sacrifice of the Mother and the Akedah, Yvonne Sherwood, University of Kent
20 November
Auditorium
9,30-11 Chair: Alessandro Guetta, INALCO, Paris
Circumcision or the maternal sacrifice of a child - Daniel Felipe Niño López, Universidad De La Salle, Bogota, Colombia
Le sacrifice des enfants par leurs mères sur l’autel du Dieu d’Israël : Une réaction féminine juive aux conversions forcées et la sanctification du Nom Divin (qiddush ha-Shem). Étude comparative de quelques chroniques médiévales - Liliane Vana, , IEJ, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mothers in Heroic Birth Narratives in Sassanian Persia - Shana Schick, University of Haifa
11-11,30 coffee break
11,30-13 Chair: Corrado Martone, Università di Torino
Birth and Giving Birth as Reflected in the Classical Rabbinic Sources - Dalia Marx, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem
The Sacrifice of the Suspected Adulteress - Isabella Scortegagna, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
Sacrificing Motherhood Itself: The Case of Dr. Gisella Perl as Inmate Doctor and Reproductive Specialist - Elena Hoffenberg, International School, University of Haifa
13-15 Lunch
15-17 Chair: Leili Anvar, INALCO, Paris
Breaching the Visual Contract of Sacrifice - Leni Dothan, Artist, Architect, Researcher
The Multifaceted Image of the Victimized and Self-Sacrificing Maternal Figure in Post-Holocaust Feminist Art -Mor Presiado, Bar-Ilan University
Resurrecting Rachel as the Archetype of Mourning Motherhood - Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College, New York
17-17,30 coffee break
17,30 -19 Screening of Ha-qir, by Moran Ifergan
21 November
Auditorium
9,30-11,30 Chair: Marie-Christine Bornes Varol, INALCO, Paris
Killing the mame-loshn. The sacrifice of mother tongue at the altar of a new Hebrew identity - Raffaele Esposito, Università L’Orientale, Napoli
“My Dear Son”: Literary Posthumous Letters as a Mother’s Last Sacrifice - Nourit Melcer-Padon, Hadassah College Jerusalem
Testing the Tested: The Sacrifice of the Mother in Modernist Fiction Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Sh. Y. Agnon - Anna Lissa, Université Paris 8
Did the “Yiddishe mame” exist? Mother figure in the east-European Jewish childhood narrative of the 19th century - Ekaterina Oleshkevich, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
11,30-12 coffee break
12-13,30 Chair: Abraham Rubin, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Jewish Woman Immigrant Sacrifice of Jewish Womanhood upon Coming to America: Four Women and their Stories - Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, D.S., Missouri State University
Maternal Criticism: Reading Literature by Women as Nonviolent Resistance and Constructing Peaceful Communities through Mothers’ Activism - Charlyn Marie Ingwerson, Drury University
Sacrifice and Admiration: The Image of the Yemeni Jewish Mother - Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Open University of Israel
Organizers :
Elisa Carandina, CERMOM, INALCO
Piero Capelli, Università Ca’ Foscari
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Elisa Carandina
Co-directrice du département d’études hébraïques et juives
Maîtresse de conférences en littérature hébraïque moderne
INALCO
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75013 Paris
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