כנס: "Literary Spaces and Jewish Languages"

Literary Spaces And Jewish Languages

Symposium in Honor of Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher

9:30-9:45 Gathering and Coffee

9:45-10:15 Greetings

Chair: Dr. Noam Reisner

Prof. Raanan Rein, Vice-President of Tel Aviv University

Prof. Leo Cory, Dean of the Humanities

10:15-11:15

Chair: Prof. Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Keynote Lecture:
“Dublin, Tel Aviv, New York; City Notes: Mapping a Friendship”
Prof. Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin College

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-11:45 Reading from Virginia Woolf – Gaya Traub

11:45-12:30 Modernism and Beyond

Chair: Dr. Roi Tartakovsky
“A Lunatic’s Wave” - Eran Edry
“On the Road to New Horizons, with Hana and Paul Auster” - Dr. Ilana Shiloh
“Literature, Ethics and Cultural Heritage: A Conversation with Hana Wirth-Nesher” - Maya Klein

12:20-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30

Chair: Dr .Hedda Ben-Bassat

Keynote lecture:

“Henry James and Kabbalah” - Prof. Jonathan Freedman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45-15:00 Musical interlude - Yael Cohen

15:00-15:45 Jewish-American Literature
Chair: Dr. Ron Ben-Tovim
“Jewish-American Poetry, Modernism, and Walt Whitman” - Dr. Dara Barnat
“Possible Worlds: Roth and Chabon’s
Alternative Histories” - Dr. Yael Maurer
“Between Germany and the Middle East: Thinking and Writing about the Holocaust and Israel/Palestine” - Dr. Nina Fischer

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Chair: Dr. Jonathan Stavsky

Keynote lecture:

“Yiddish Orality in an Age of Digital Reproduction” – Prof. David Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary

17:00-17:15 Musical Interlude – Esti Nissim

17:15-17:45 Yiddish Literature
Chair: Anna Kissin-Shechter
“As the Good Book Says... Find yourself a teacher” - Dr. Stephanie Ginensky

17:45-18:30 Conclusion
“Written in a Foreign Tongue” – Prof. Milette Shamir
“The Lighthouse” - Prof. Shirley Sharon-Zisser
“1984: Humanities in a Posthuman World” - Prof. Elana Gomel

18:30 Concluding Remarks - Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher

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