January 2 - 4, 2007
THE CONTEMPORARY PEOPLEHOOD OF JEWS: MYTH OR REALITY?
Special Opening Session
International Conference on The Contemporary Peoplehood of Jews: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Dalia Ofer, Head, The Avram Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Greetings:
Menachem Magidor, President, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Bartal, Dean, The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Keynote Address:
Michael Walzer, Princeton University
JEWISH ETHNICITY & NATIONALISM IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Session 1 - Jewish Ethnicity and Nationalism in an Era of Globalization
International Conference on The Contemporary Peoplehood of Jews: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Jonathan Cohen, The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hedva Ben Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zionism as Nationalism: Is it Unique?
Shlomo Avineri: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Between Universal Peoplehood and the Nation-State
Alexander Yakobson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel: Typical or Peculiar among Democratic States?
JEWISH IDENTITY IN AN ERA OF MULTICULTURALISM (B)
Session 3 - Jewish Identity in an Era of Multiculturalism (B)
International Conference on The Contemporary Peoplehood of Jews: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Eliyahu Honig, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bernard Wasserstein, University of Chicago.
The Erosion of Jewish Identity
Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary
Fraying Allegiances: How Young American Jews Relate to the Jewish People.
Michael Brown, York University.
The Impact of Canadian Multiculturalism on Jews: Myth or Reality?
Naama Sabar-Ben Yehoshua, Tel-Aviv University
Jewish Renewal: The Story of Two Educational Communities, Tel Aviv and Los Angeles.
THE JEWS AND LEFT-LIBERAL CRITIQUES OF ISRAEL
Session 4 - The Jews and Left-Liberal Critiques of Israel
International Conference on The Contemporary Peoplehood of Jews: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Peter Medding, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Antony Lerman, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London.
A British Perspective.
Milton Shain, University of Capetown.
A South African Perspective.
Gideon Shimoni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jews and the Israel-Apartheid Equation.
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH CULTURAL CREATIVITY
Session 5 - Contemporary Jewish Cultural Creativity in Israel and the English-Speaking Diaspora: Convergence or Divergence?
International Conference on The Contemporary Peoplehood of Jews: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Jonathan Frankel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Menahem Brinker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Distinctiveness of Israeli Literature among Other Jewish Literatures.
Anita Norich, University of Michigan
Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History.
Sidra Dekoven-Ezrahi: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Europe, Israel and America: The Global Theatre of Jewish Tragedy, Epic, and Comedy in the Twentieth Century.
JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD IN EDUCATION
Session 6 - Jewish Peoplehood in Education.
International Conference on The Contemporary Peoplehood of Jews: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Shlomi Ravid, Director of the School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies at Beth Hatefutsoth.
Zeev Mankowitz, The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Whence the Growing Interest in Jewish Peoplehood? Some Educational Reflections.
Alan Hoffman, Director General, Education Department, The Jewish Agency for Israel.
Israel in Jewish Peoplehood Education.
Michael Rosenak, Mandel Professor of Jewish Education, The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Two Theological Views of Jewish Peoplehood: J.B. Soloveitchik and R. Eliezer Berkovits.
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