Division
C: Jewish Thought
340
The
Ba’al Shem Tov Tercentennial Anniversary
(Plenary Session)
Chairperson:
Moshe Rosman
Tuesday
(14 Aug 2001) 15:00 - 17:00
Room: Truman Auditorium
Ithamar
Gruenwald
(H)
Various
Types of Hasidism: Are They Interconnected?
Moshe
Idel
(H)
Early
Hasidim and Prophecy
Ada
Rapoport-Albert (H)
Israel
Ba'al Shem Tov, Jacob Frank and the Russian Schismatic Sectarians
Karl
E. Groezinger
(E)
The
Besht Within the Ashkenazi Ba'al Shem Tradition as Heir and Innovator
343
The Zohar
Tuesday
(14 Aug 2001) 09:00 - 11:00
Room: 2718
Bracha
Sack
(H)
Act,
Speech and Thought
Ronit
Meroz
(H)
The
Early Editing of the Zohar
Oded
Israeli
(H)
The
Non-Hermenuetical Hermenuetics in the Zoharic Parable of the Maiden in the Tower
Orna
Lankry
(E)
Cosmology
and Religious Experience in the Ets Hayim
347
The Early Kabbalah (A)
Thursday
(16 Aug 2001) 11:30 - 13:30
Room: 2712
Yakov
Travis
(E)
'ואמת
גם כן'
R. Ezra of Gerona’s Influence on The Nahmanidean Kabbalah
Gerold
Neker
(E)
Fallen
Angels in the Book of Life
Jonathan
Brumberg-Kraus (E)
The
Ritualization of Scripture in Rabbenu Bahya Ben Asher’s Eating “Manual
Shulhan Shel Arba”
348
The Early Kabbalah (B)
Chairperson:
Amos Goldreich
Thursday
(16 Aug 2001) 15:00 - 17:00
Room: 2712
Ephraim
Kanarfogel (H)
Mysticism
and Asceticism in Thirteenth-Century Italian Rabbinic Literature
Erez
Peleg
(H)
On
the Structure, the Goals and the Uniqueness of R. Shem-Tov's “Sefer HaEmunot”
Natalia
Zabolotnaya
(E)
Cosmogony
and Space Structure in Eleazar of Worms (ca.1165-ca.1230)
349
16th Century Jewish Philosophy (In Cooperation with the
Mandelbaum House Foundation)
Chairperson:
Bracha Sack
Monday
(13 Aug 2001) 17:30 - 19:30
Room: 2505
Alan
Brill
(E)
The
Maharal as a Renaissance Thinker
Avrum
Ehrlich (E)
Renewing
Semikha and Sanhedrin in the 16th Century: Its Failure and the Things
that Followed
Annelies
Kuyt (E)
The
Kabbalistic Dream Wisdom According to R. Shlomo Almoli
Aharon
Gaimani (H)
On
the Preaching of R. David Ben Shushan
350
Messianism and Sabbatianism
Thursday
(16 Aug 2001) 09:00 - 11:00
Room: 2505
Sid
Z. Leiman (E)
New
Evidence on the Emden-Eieschuetz Controversy: The Amulets From Metz (Co-writer
Simon Schwarzfuchs)
Matt
Goldish
(E)
The
Meaning of Sabbatian Heresy According to Jacob Sasportas and Gershom Scholem
Arie
Morgenstern (H)
Messianic
Expectation in Safed at the Close of 1740 (ת"ק)
Mor
Altshuler (H)
The
Secret of His Wives Revealed: Chapters in the Messianic Biography of Rabbi
Joseph Caro
355
The History of Hasidism
Monday
(13 Aug 2001) 09:00 - 11:00
Room: 2718
Ron
Wacks
(H)
The
Development of the Concept of Yihudim
in Hasidism
Susanne
Galley (E)
Jewish
and Christian Holy Men - A Phenomenological Comparison
Igor
Turov
(E)
Hasidism
and Christianity in Eastern Rzecz Pospolita
356
The Hasidic Tale as Cultural Resource
Monday
(13 Aug 2001) 11:30 - 13:30
Room: 2718
Gedalyah
Nigal (H)
The
Apologetic Element in the Hasidic Tales
Tzvi
Mark
(H)
Comedy
and Laughter in Worship: Following a Story by R. Nahman of Bratslav
Nicham
Ross
(H)
The
Charm of R. Nahman of Bratzlav for the Authors of Tehiya
Literature
357
Trends in Later Hasidism
Chairperson:
Ada Rapoport-Albert
Monday
(13 Aug 2001) 15:00 - 17:00
Room: 2718
Naftali
Loewenthal
(E)
The
Baal Shem Tov’s Iggeret Hakodesh
and Contemporary Habad “Outreach”
Yitzhak
Kraus
(H)
The
Habad Movement in the Second Half of the 20th Century - Continuity or
Innovation?
Yehuda
Ben-Dor (H)
Religious
Essentialism and Individual Liberty Which Come as One – Reading in the Thought
of R. Mordechai Yosef of Izbiz
358
The Philosophy of R. Kook
Chairperson:
Tamar Ross
Sunday
(12 Aug 2001) 11:30 - 13:30
Room: 6837 (Hendless Auditorium)
Stephen
H. Garrin (E)
Rav
Kook’s Torah U Madda - Zionism Renders Mysticism Political
Uriel
Barak
(H)
The
Circle of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook: Between Esotericism and Exotericism
Yoni
Garb
(H)
Halakha,
Prophecy and Antinomianism in Light of the Newly Published Writings of Rabbi
Kook
Elchanan
Shilo (H)
Rabbi
Kook, between Hegel and the Lurianic Kabbala
Chana
Kehat
(H)
Woman:
Her Essence, Status and Education according to Rabbi Kook's Doctrine
359
The Philosophy of Martin Buber
Chairperson:
Gershon Greenberg
Sunday
(12 Aug 2001) 14:30 - 16:30
Room: 6837 (Hendless Auditorium)
Allan
Lazaroff (E)
Nietzche,
Buber and Rational Religion
Ruvin
Ferber
(E)
The
Epistemology of Martin Buber and the Paradoxes of Contemporary Science
Ilya
Dvorkin
(H)
Physical
Descriptions of God and Ontological Reality: German, Russian and Jewish Sources
Israel
Koren (H)
The
Internalization of Hasidic Principles in Buber’s Thought in Light of the
Debate About his Interpretation of Hasidism
361
Interiorization and Its Essence in Jewish Society, Philosophy and Literature
Chairperson:
Moshe Hallamish
Tuesday
(14 Aug 2001) 17:30 - 19:30
Room: 2718
Yehuda
Liebes (H)
The
Extraversion of the Secret: from
the Talmud to Heikhalot Literature
Ron
Margolin (H)
The
Interiorization of Religious Life at the Begining of Hasidism
Avriel
Bar-Levav (H)
Internalizing
the Inconceivable: Remembering Death
Haim
Beer
(H)
The
Interiorization of Disease in the Writing of Avot Yeshurun
366
What Can Religious Traditions Gain from Interfaith Dialogue?
Sunday
(12 Aug 2001) 14:30 - Room:
Truman Auditorium
Steven
Goodman (Buddhism)
(E)
Alon
Goshen-Gottstein (Judaism)
(E)
Sidney
Griffith (Christianity)
(E)
Satti
Khanna (Hinduism)
(E)
Abdulaziz
Satchedina (Islam)
(E)
367
What can We Learn from Another Tradition's Understanding of the Religious
Significance of Shared Sacred Space?
Chairperson:
Daniel Rossing
Sunday
(12 Aug 2001) 17:00 - Room:
Truman Auditorium
Steven
Goodman (Buddhism)
(E)
Alon
Goshen-Gottstein (Judaism)
(E)
Sidney
Griffith (Christianity)
(E)
Satti
Khanna (Hinduism)
(E)
Abdulaziz
Satchedina (Islam)
(E)
Special
Sessions:Ephraim E. Urbach International Fellowship winners
Session
A
Chairperson:
Jerry Hochbaum
Monday
(13 Aug 2001) 15:00 - 17:00
Room: Buber 202
Adiel
Shremer (H)
“Great
is Amana”: The Song at the Sea, the Holy Spirit, Jewish-Christian Polemic and
the Failure of the Bar Kokhba Revolt
Gavriel
Beerenbum
(H)
Mishnaic
Language in the Eretz Yisrael Vocalization of the Geniza Fragments
Hillel
Newman
(E)
How
Should We Measure Jerome's Hebrew Competence
Session
B
Chairperson:
Menachem Ben-Sasson
Monday
(13 Aug 2001) 17:30 - 19:30
Room: Buber 202
Rachel
Freudenthal
(H)
On
the Concept of History Among the
Founders of Modern Jewish Historiography
Avinoam
Rosenak
(H)
Utopian
Zionism, Anarchism and Anti-Secularism in the Doctorine of Rav Moshe Avigdor
Amiel
Yair
Lorberbaum
(H)
Imago
Dei and Imitatio Dei In Early Rabbinic Literature
501
Jewish Magic
Chairperson:
Yoram Bilu
Sunday
(12 Aug 2001) 11:30 - 13:30
Room: Senate Hall
Reimund
Leicht (E)
An
Ancient Jewish Exorcism or Liturgical Prayer? The Aramaic Version of a Greek
Magical Text
Gideon
Bohak
(H)
Magic
Halakha and Monotheism in Ancient Jewish Magic
Yuval
Harari
(H)
Children,
Madmen and the Dead: Divination and Its Agents in Rabbinic Literature
Ya'acov
Sarig (H)
Between
"There" and "Here": Magic and the Modern World in Jewish
Folktales from Yemen
506
Fate, Dreams and Dybbuks: Rituals of Folk Culture
Chairperson:
Tamar Alexander
Tuesday
(14 Aug 2001) 09:00 - 11:00
Room: Senate Hall
Shaul
Bar
(E)
Incubation
Dreams
Irina
Sedakova
(E)
Universal
Elements in the Ritual Paradigm of Childbirth
Yoram
Bilu
(H)
Did
Dybbuk Possession Exist before Exorcism ? A comparative View of the Construction
of Culture-specific Syndromes