22nd Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Association
Annual Conference
October 10 - 11, 2010
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
President: Mara Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University
Vice-President: Miriam Dean-Otting, Kenyon College
Treasurer: Dean Bell, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Local Host: Peter J. Haas, Case Wesstern Reserve University
REGISTRATION FORM
Conference registration will close on September 27, 2010. Please submit your registration form to the contact information provided on the form before this deadline. Fees can be paid by check or credit card and are due with registration.
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The conference is hosted by the Program in Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Meetings will be held in the Thwing Center on the Case Western Reserve campus. A preliminary program schedule can be viewed below.
Hotel Accommodations:
Glidden House Inn
1901 Ford Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: 216/ 231-8900
Fax: 216/ 231-2130
Email: info@gliddenhouse.com
Website:
gliddenhouse.com
Intercontinental Hotel and Suites
8800 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: 216/ 707-4300
Fax: 216/ 707-4301
Website: www.ichotelsgroup.com
Parking:
Visitors can park daily in the Visitor Central Garage located under Severance Hall (entrance on East Blvd) or in metered parking on Bellflower Road or East Blvd (4 hr on Bellflower, 2 hr on East Blvd).
Conference Location Map, click here
Conference Program (preliminary):
Sunday, October 10
9:30am – 10:00am Registration [TBA ]
10:00am – 11:30am Session 1
IA Holocaust and Memory [TBA]
Chair: Miriam Dean-Otting, Kenyon University
“Postmemory of the Kindertransport: A Poetic Inquiry,” David I. Hanauer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Transmission of Trauma Over Three Generations of Holocaust Poetry,” Lindsay Steuber, The College of New Jersey
IB From Fiction To Philosophy [TBA]
Chair: TBA
“From metaphor to visualization - two representations of Poles in the Holocaust context (Malamud's 'The Death of Me' and Spiegelman's Maus),” Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
“Czech Holocaust Novels in the style of Kafka,” Elana Thurston-Milgrom, University of Florida, Gainsville
“‘Versöhnung,’ in Cohen, Kant, and Hegel.” Yonatan Y. Brafman, Columbia University
11:30am – 12:30pm Lunch (TBA)
12:30 – 2:00pm Session II
IIA Jewish Studies: Pedogogy and Publishing [TBA]
Chair: TBA
“The role of university presses in the publishing of Jewish Studies scholarship,” Amy F. Stempler, College of Staten Island, CUNY
“Jews and their Books, Again: Contemporary Autobiographers as Readers,” Steven Weiland, Michigan State University
IIB Jewish Music from Ohio to Germany [TBA]
Chair: Stephen M. Cohen, Independent Scholar
“Aus Wien nach Cleveland: The Musical Legacy of Felix Kraus,” Carol Padgham Albrecht, University of Idaho
“‘Ich bestimme, wer Jude ist’: A Response to Nazi Musicology from the Early Specialists in the Music of Gustav Mahler,” Susan M. Filler, Independent Scholar
“Erich Leinsdorf (1912-1993): A Viennese Conductor Who Survived Cleveland and Returned in Triumph,” Theodore Albrecht, Kent State University
2:00 -- 2:15pm Break [TBA]
2:15pm – 3:30pm Session III [TBA]
IIIA Yiddish Studies: Fact and Fiction [TBA]
Chair: Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University
“Science in Yiddish: A study of what was said and how.” Stephen M. Cohen, Independent Scholar
“Schlemiels, Schlubs, and Schmendricks: How Yiddish Captured the Popular Imagination, As Seen Through Comic Strips,” Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University
“Tevye the Yidene: Masochism and ‘Shprintse’,” Alexandra Hoffman, University of Michigan
IIIB Israel Studies
Chair: TBA
“The Struggle for Bene Israel Religious Equality in Israel, 1960-1964,” Joseph Hodes, York University
“Revisiting the ‘Redeemed’: Race and Identities in Question in the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1918-1940,” Yehuda Sharim, University of California – Los Angeles
3:30 – 3:45pm Break [TBA]
3:45 – 5:00pm Edwin Black, New York Times best seller
5:00—6:00pm Reception
6:00pm – 7:15pm Dinner [TBA]
7:30 – 9:00pm Session IV
The Wooden Synagogues of Poland: Traditional Tales, Art and Architecture [TBA]
Chair: Charles Bergengren, Cleveland Institute of Art
“The Wall-Paintings from the Polish/Ukrainian Wooden Synagogues: Multi-Cultural Jewish Sources.” Thomas C. Hubka, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“The Wooden Synagogues of Poland: Negotiating Boundaries in Talk, Timber and Tales,” Judith Neulander, Case Western Reserve University
“Tapestry of Life: The Panoply of Decorative Schemes in Polish Wooden Synagogues,” Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College
Monday, October 11
9:00am – 10:30am Session V
VA Anti-Semitism[TBA]
Chair: Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University
“Anti-Semitism in present-day Germany and Austria,” Klaus Hödl, University of Graz
“Jewish response to anti-Semitism in South Africa and Quebec 1900-1950: A Comparative Analysis,” Samuel Zeev Konig, Carleton University
“The Jew Who Loved Me: African America and the ‘Romance’ of Anti-Semitism,” Terry Rowden, College of Staten Island/CUNY
VB Jews and Non-Jews: Relationships and Responses [TBA]
Chair: TBA
“Images of the cultural relations between Jews and the peoples of the Europe during the Roman empire.” Franco Bontempi
“Rebuke and scorn: Does rabbinic ethics enable an empathic response to the Westboro Baptist Church?” Hillel Gray, Emory University
“‘Set me as a seal upon thine heart’: Anti-Miscegenation, Martyrdom, and Messianism in
Medieval Ashkenaz,” Natalie Latteri, Purdue University
10:30am – 10:45am Break [TBA]
10:45am – 12:30pm Session VI
VIA Language and Culture and Jewish Identity [TBA]
Chair: Judith Neulander, Case Western Reserve University
“The Menorah Journal and Shaping American Jewish Identity: on Culture and Evolutionary Sociology,” Matthew Kaufman, York University
“Secular vs Sacred Communication in Judaism: Some Observations on Speech Codes and Styles,” Michael Moss, Case Western Reserve University
“‘This is What I Know of My Mother’: Family Dynamics and Religious Identity Formation among the Conversos of Castile,” Jennifer H. Muñoz, Harvard University
“The ‘Jewish Languages’ in the Habsburg Monarchy,” Jana Schumann, University of Graz
VIB Jewish Religious Texts: Midrash, Pedagogy, and Responsa [TBA]
Chair: Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University
“The Four Sons: A Completory vs. A Divisive Approach to Different Midrashs,” Russell Jay Hendel, Towson University
“Prophetic Theodicy, Pedagogy, and Pressures on Jewish Self-Perceptions,” Susan Kray, Indiana State University
“Defining the Boundaries of Jewishness in Solomon Freehof’s Reform Responsa,” Joan S. Friedman, College of Wooster
12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch [TBA]
End of Conference
Location of Conference:
Thwing Center (2nd Floor)
11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
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