Harry Fox (University of Toronto)
The Embarrassment of Slavery
Tirzah Meacham (University of Toronto)
On the Margins of Jewishness: The Status of the Convert
Laliv Clenman (University of Toronto)
Within and Without: Rabbinic Identity Categories and Marital Rules
Exploring Diasporic Identities: Expressions in Canadian Jewish Art
Joint Session with the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
Chair: Shelly Nixon
Stephanie Tara Schwartz (University of Ottawa)
Double Diaspora: Examples in Arab Jewish Literature
Mike Anklewicz (York University)
Canadian Klezmer: A Representation of a Double Diaspora
Shayn Smulyan (Brown University)
Drop That Beat: SoCalled’s Canadian Yiddish Hip Hop as Musical Translation
Tuesday June 03/08:
University of British Columbia – Building/Room TBA
Presentations under the auspices of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies (CSJS)
Session 1 - 9:00-10:30
Joint Plenary Session with the Canadian Society of Medievalists,
"Bovo rides again: An Old Yiddish romance, its author, and its hero,"
Sheila Delany, Emerita Professor of English, Simon Fraser University
Session 2 - 10:45-12:15. Room: Law 201
The Heroic Feminine in Medieval Jewish Sources / Le féminin héroïque dans les sources juives médiévales,
Joint Session with the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Harry Fox (University of Toronto)
Judith and the Amazons: Their Up and Down Reception History in Jewish, Christian and Pagan Sources
Tirzah Meacham (University of Toronto)
A Modern Heroine in Medieval Eyes: Intertextuality and Independence in Medieval Commentaries
Justin Jaron Lewis (Queen’s University)
'Oh Terrifying Mother': Kali and Shekhinah,
Lunch
Session 3 - 1:15 – 3:15 pm
Mystical and Rational Thought: From Early Judaism to the Medieval Period
Andrea Gondos (Concordia University)
The Role of Charisma in the Transmission of Mystical Knowledge: The Circle of Shimon bar Yohai in the Zohar
Daniel Maoz (University of Waterloo)
R. Shmuel bar Nahman: Exploring the Role of Miracle in Early Aggadic Text
Ira Robinson (Concordia University)
Repentance in the Thought of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman
James Diamond (University of Waterloo)
Nahmanides on Power and the State: Exegete as Political Theorist
Session 4 - 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Jewish Community: Eighteenth through Twentieth Century Europe and Asia
Justin Jaron Lewis (Queen’s University)
Performing Hasidism in Uman
Benjamin M. Baader (University of Manitoba)
Creating Self and Creating Community: Jewishness, Gender, and Class in Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Family Life
Hannah Mayne (York University)
The Diverse Ways Jews and Israel are Viewed by Indonesian Muslims
For further information, contact Dr.Ira Robinson
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