Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesUniversity of Pennsylvania

22nd Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies

Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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1:30 pm Greetings Steven Weitzman Ella Darivoff Director, Herbert D. Katz Center for

Advanced Judaic Studies

1:45 pm HIDDENNESS & THE

ELUSIVE IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Chair: James A. Diamond University of Waterloo/Katz Center

A Rabbinic Id? The Evil Inclination and Its

Misconceptions Ishay Rosen-Zvi Tel-Aviv University, Princeton University

Imagining Otherwise and the Unreason of Reason: Dreams, Madness, and Ecstasy in the

Jewish Mystical Tradition Elliot R. Wolfson University of California, Santa Barbara/Katz Center

Guilt beyond Reason: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Jewish Law of Confessions

Anne C. Dailey University of Connecticut School of Law/ Katz Center

Respondent: Annette Yoshiko Reed University of Pennsylvania

3:45 pm Coffee Break

8:30 am Coffee & Light Breakfast

9:00 am POETICS/EXPRESSION BEYOND REASON Chair: Françoise Mirguet Arizona State University/Katz Center

The Poetics of Nostalgia in Second Generation Iraqi Facebook Forums Rakefet Zalashik Katz Center

Desiring Expression: The Queer Time of Modern Jewish Women’s Poetry Zohar Weiman-Kelman Ben-Gurion University of the Negev/Katz Center

Gothic Agnon Karen Grumberg University of Texas at Austin Respondent: Lital Levy Princeton University/Katz Center

11:00 am Coffee Break

11:30 am POLITICS BEYOND REASON

Chair: Anne Norton University of Pennsylvania

Beyond the DSM: Trauma and the Culture of Jewish Psychiatry in Israel

Keren Friedman-Peleg The College of Management - Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion/ Katz Center

Embodying the Sacred and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Israeli Judaism

Rachel Werczberger Katz Center

Passive Decisions: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Political

Miriam Jerade Katz Center

Respondent: Sharrona Pearl University of Pennsylvania

1:30 pm Lunch Break

3:00 pm CONCLUDING PANEL

Moderator: John M. Efron University of California, Berkeley/Katz Center

Galit Hasan-Rokem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center

Shaul Magid Indiana University, Bloomington/Katz Center

David Nirenberg University of Chicago

5:00 pm Reception

ARCH Building, Room 108 3601 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

4:15 pm THE PARADOX OF

RATIONALIZING “BEYOND REASON” Chair: Paul Nahme Brown University/Katz Center

What Cannot Be Said: Moses Mendelssohn and the Limits of Translation

Eli Schonfeld Katz Center

A (Jewish?) Modernist Perspective on the Expressivity of Music

Ruth HaCohen The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scenarios of Violence and Exception: Walter Benjamin’s Zur Kritik der Gewalt (1921) Freddie Rokem Tel Aviv University

Respondent: Martin Kavka Florida State University/Katz Center

6:30 pm Dinner (by invitation)

Hall of Flags, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

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