In 2007, the CSJS annual conference will be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

CSJS 2007 - PRELIMIANARY PROGRAM

            Tuesday May 29, 2007

Presentations under the auspices of Canadian Society for Jewish Studies (CSJS)

All Sessions held at the University of Saskatchewan - MURRY, Room 12.

Session 1

9:00am-10:30am

Comparative Literature

Braj M. Sinha (University of Saskatchewan)

The Androgynous Divine: the Dialectic of the Masculine and the Feminine in Tantra and the Kabbalah Mysticism

Sigalit Zohar (Haifa University)

Folklore Studies: Elements of Jewish Society in Israel as Reflected in Graffiti

Messod Salama (Memorial University)

Folksong and Paraliturgical Songs of the Sephardim in the United States

Session 2

10:45am-12:15pm

Expressing Rabbinic Diversity

Ira Robinson (Concordia University)

Rabbi Nosson Slifkin on Science and Torah: a Contemporary Re-presentation of Classical Sources

Justin Jaron Lewis (Queens University)

The Radical Hasidic Thought of the Tasher Rebbe

Andrea Gondos (Concordia University)

The Rambans Solution to the Medieval Exegetical Conundrum

Lunch- 12:30pm-1:45pm


Session 3

2:00pm-3:00pm

Current Trends in the Study of Rabbinic Literature

Laliv Clenman (University of Toronto)

Legal Systems and Rules Related to Intermarriage in Rabbinic Literature

Daniel Maoz (University of Waterloo)

The Hermeneutics of Haggadic Midrash and Comparative Midrash: A Return to
the Sources

3:15pm-4:45pm

Meeting of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies (CSJS)

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