Conferences

The 18th Folklore Conference of Israel Universities
May 30-31 1999

The Program in Hebrew

The 17th Folklore Conference of Israel Universities
June 14-16, 1998

The Program in Hebrew

JEWISH FOLKLORE
The Challenge of Traditional Identities
An International Conference at UCLA
February 9 & 10,1997

The Program

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Sunday, February 9

11:00AM	
Welcome

11:15AM	
Opening Remarks
Donald Cosentino (UCLA) 
Samuel Aroni (UCLA)

11:30-l:00PM
On the Re-Invention of the Wheel: 
History and Folklore in Jewish Tradition 
Dan Ben-Amos (University of Pennsylvania)

“We Don't Dis Tradition":
A Passover Performance of Jewish Identity 
Aviva Weintraub (The Jewish Museum, NY)

1:00-2:00PM
Lunch in Westwood

2:00-3:00PM	
Musical Performance

3:00-3:45PM	
Viewing of "Too Jewish?" Exhibit

3:45-5:15PM	
From Wood of Thorns to a Blooming Garden:
Local Legends from an Israeli Kibbutz 
and Cultural Interpretation
Haya Bar-Itzhak (University of Haifa)

Folklore in Modern Israeli Culture:
Confrontation, Identity, Interpretation
Eli Yassif (Tel Aviv University)

5:30-6:30PM	
Why is the Jew 'Dirty'? A Psychoanalytic
Study of Antisemitic Folklore 
Alan Dundes (UC Berkeley)

7:00-8:30PM
Dinner reception by invitation
for lecturers and sponsors at Hillel

Monday, February 10

l:00-2:30PM	
Scenes from the Jewish Body
Heather Joseph-Witham (UCLA)

Gathering the Nation's Possessions: Folklore,
Hebrew Culture, and the Creation of Jewish
National Identity
Adam Rubin (UCLA)

Contemporary Jewish Amulets: Links to
Ancient Traditions
Kim Miller (UCLA)

2:45-4:15PM
Hasidism Versus Zionism in the Lore 
of the Jews of Subcarpathian-Ruthenia 
Between the Two World Wars
Ilana Rosen (Ben-Gurion University)

Juro Rachel Por Menahem: The Meaning of
Personal Names in Jewish-Moroccan Proverbs
Tamar Alexander (Ben-Gurion University)

4:30-6:00PM	
Espanto: Narrating Health and Convincing
Beliefs Among the Sephardim of 
the Ottoman Empire
Rosemary Levy Zumwalt (Davidson College)

Prekantes:Magical Curing Rituals Among the
Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire
Isaac Jack Levy (Davidson College

6:00-7:00PM
Dinner in Westwood

7:00-8:30PM
Making Jews: The Image of the Jew and Its
Political Function from the Nazis to the Present
Sander Gilman (University of Chicago)

Too Jewish? Freud's Joke Book
Elliott Oring (Cal State LA)

Ben-Gurion University in the Negev:
Department of Hebrew Literature
The 15th Folklore Conference of Israel Universities:
The South - Center and Periphery in Folk Culture
Tuesday- Wednesday, June 4-5, l996

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Tuesday, June 4:
16.00-17.00  
Opening Session (Schneider Hall -06)  Part A:

Chair:
Dr. Tamar Alexander

Greetings:
Dr. Avishai Bravermann, President of Ben-Gurion University
Prof Amos Oz, Ben-Gurion University

Speeches: 
Prof. Dov Noy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Jewish Identification in the Writings of Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer, Literature Nobel Prize Winner:
Our Century

17.00-20.00  Part B: (Auditorium - 05)
Chair: 	      
Dr.Louis Landau, Head of the Hebrew Literature Department

Screening of the movie: "Shchur" -secret, magic and sorcery
Screenplay: Hanna Azulai-Hasfari, Director: Shmuel Hasfari
Cast: H. Azulai-Hasfai, Gila Almagor, Ronit Elkavetz,
Yaakov Cohen, and Amos Lavi

Discussion:
Hanna Azulai-Hasfari, chief creator of the movie:
Prof. Yoran Bilu, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Dr. Viki Shiran, Beit-Berl College

Leader: 
Prof Aharon Komem, Ben-GurionUniversity

Light refreshments

Wednesday, Jun 5, 1996
9.00-9.30   
Gathering (Faculty Dining Hall, The Zlotovskty Student House)

9.30-11.30
Session A: The South - Geography, Symbol,
Metaphor in Memory of Folklorist Chaim Schwartzbaum

Chair:
Dr. Tamar Alexander, Chairperson of the Schwarzbaum Archives

Prof. Gideon Kressel, Ben-Gurion University:
South - Right, North - Left: Thought Patterns among
the Country's Inhabitans over the Generations
Prof. Yoram Bilu, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
The Construction of Sacredness in Netivot: 
Baba Sali and Baba Baruch
as Contemporary Tzadikim (Righteous Men)
Dr. Rella Koshelevsky, Bar-Ilan Univeesity:
The Desert Symbol: Vestiges of the "Metei Midbar"  
Legend in the Work of A.B. Yehoshua
Prof. Bracha Zack, Ben-Gurion University:
The South as Mythical Symbol in Kabbala Literature

11.30-12.00  Coffee break

12 00-14 00 
Session B: Culture -Center and Periphery

Chair:
Dr. Dvora Bregmann, Ben-Gurion University

Dr. Haya Bar-Yitzhak, Haifa University
Nature and Culture in Kibbutz Stories
Dr. Ilana Rosen, Ben-Gurion Universitv:
Borderland and Metropolis: Images of "Self" 
and "Other" in Folk Tradition
Prof. Yoav Elstein, Bar-Ilan University:
Type and Theme as Centers of Consciosness
in Jewish Culture
Dr. Iris Parush, Ben-Gurion University:
'Voices from the Periphery" - on the Study of 
the Sociology of Literature in the 19th Century

14.00-16.00    Lunch break
 
16.00-l8.00     
Closing Session in Honor of Dov Noy 
on his 75th Birthday

Chair:             
Prof. Eli Yasif, Tel-Aviv University

Guest Lecture: 
Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New-York University:
Peripheries of Time, Space, and Power. 
Folklore - 150 Years Later
Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Dov Noy and Story Anthologies, Study and Creation
Dr. Haya Bar-Yitzhak, Haifa University:
Dov Noy as Founder of The Israel Folktale Archives (I.F.A)
Dr. Tamar Alexander, Ben-Gurion University:
The Contribution of Dov Noy to the Study of
Folk Literature of  Jews from Islamic Countries

Comment:        Dov Noy

Light refreshments

A book exhibition will be held

11-13 February, 1996, Tel-Aviv University
The 11th annual conference of the study of Hebrew Literature.
Dedicated to the subject: Intertextuality in Hebrew Literature

Sessions on Folklore

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25 February, 1996, Haifa University, Haifa.
The Annual Meeting of the Scientific Committee of Israel Folktale Archives (IFA)

On the agenda
(use the vertical scroll bar) The 1995 report on the activity in IFA Computerizing of the Archives. Work done among the new immigrants to Israel (especially: Ethiopian and Russian Jews), in collecting and studying their folk-traditions. Collecting and archiving of Israeli-Arab narrative traditions.

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