Centro Veneziano
di Studi Ebraici
Internazionali
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THE JEWISH BOOK: Histories, Media, Metaphors
Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, 9-12 June 2013
9 June, 6pm Sala Montefiore, Jewish Community of Venice - Special preview event
Alberto Manguel (writer), Venice as Book, an Attempt at Reading (in Italian with English translation)
10 June, 3 pm - Aula Baratto, Ca'Foscari University of Venice
Opening remarks
Panel 1 READING, CENSORING AND SELLING BOOKS
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University), Publications in time of Burnings: Printing the Hebrew Canon 1545-1565
Piero Capelli (Ca'Foscari), The Burnt Book: The Talmud between Jewish Canonization and Christian Demonization
Jean Baumgarten (EHESS, Paris), Printing Yiddish books in Italy (16-17th Century)
Naftali Rothenberg (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), A Bestseller for the Gentiles: Judah Abravanel’s “Dialoghi d’amore”
11 June, 9.30am - Aula Baratto, Ca'Foscari University of Venice
Panel 2, PRESERVING, ILLUSTRATING, AND TRANSLATING THE JEWISH BOOK
Marina Rustow (Johns Hopkins University), The Discarded Book: The Cairo Genizah and Jewish Bibliophilia
Diane Wolfthal (Rice University), Gender, Identity and Memory in Jewish illustrated books of Renaissance Venice
Lisa Pon (Southern Methodist University), Books, Jews, and the Plague in Early Modern Venice
Alessandro Guetta (INALCO), Antonio Brucioli and the Jewish Italian versions of the Bible
Emile Schrijver (University of Amsterdam), Brill's "Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Culture": A First Presentation of a Brand New Project
11 June, 3pm - Jewish Museum of Venice
Panel 3, METAPHORS OF THE JEWISH BOOK
Vered Shemtov (Stanford University), Dwelling in Texts: Hebrew Literature and the Concept of the Book as Home
Yonatan Benarroch (Hebrew University), ‘The Son of an Israelite woman’: Christ as the Blasphemer (Lev. 24:10-23) in Toledot Yeshu and the Book of Zohar
Elisa Carandina (INALCO), “Mes poumons comme les rouleaux de la Torah.” Embodiments of the Book and Women's Writing.
Emanuela Trevisan Semi (Ca'Foscari) The Torah as a Person and as the Center of Life in Shemuel Yosef Agnon's Narrative
12 June, 9.30m - Aula Baratto, Ca'Foscari University of Venice
Panel 4, PERSECUTION AND THE ART OF PRINTING
Simon Levis Sullam (Ca’ Foscari), Books as Weapons: a “Venetian” source of the Protocols of Zion
Massimiliano De Villa (Ca'Foscari), Buber and Rosenzweig: Translating the Bible in German
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University), The Rescued Book and the Voice of the 'Drowned'
Masha Itzhaki (INALCO), Jewish Books, Hebrew Letters and the Holocaust : The Meaning of Writing in Aharon Appelfeld's novels
Murray Baumgarten (UCSC), 'The letters propelled me:' Resistance and the Jewish Book
Conveners: Shaul Bassi, Murray Baumgarten, Simon Levis Sullam
Centro Veneziano di Studi Ebraici Internazionali
Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia
with the support of
Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv
Comunità Ebraica di Venezia
Biblioteca-Archivio “Renato Maestro”
Museo Ebraico di Venezia