Sunday - May 24, 2009 - Ottawa, Ontario
Community Day: Snapshots of the
Jewish Canadian Experience
Location: Social Hall, Soloway Jewish Community Centre, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private
* Sunday’s sessions are open to the public free of charge, no registration required
In conjunction with the annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies and the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program, University of Ottawa
10:00 - 11:30 am: session 1 | Yiddish and politics
Ester Reiter (York University), “ ‘Yiddishkayt and Internationalism’: dos arbeter kind farn arbeter klas”
Mallory Schwartz (University of Ottawa), “Fred Rose and Montreal’s ‘Downtown’ Yiddish electorate”
Adam Fuerstenberg (Ryerson University), “From Shtetl to Sweatshop: Immigrant Experience in Sholem Shtern’s In Kanade”
Chair: Faith Jones (Simon Fraser University)
This session is sponsored by Temple Israel, Ottawa
12:00 - 12:30 pm: session 2 | Jewish Canadiana
Gerald Stone (Library and Archives, Canada), “Bibliographic Notes on Some Early and Later Jewish Canadian Documents and Publications”
Chair: Rebecca Margolis (University of Ottawa)
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch
Kosher cafeteria available on-site Exhibit of Jewish Canadiana
2:00 - 3:30 pm: session 3 | Ethnicity and Intercultural Encounters
Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge), “Teaching Modern Jewish Literature in the Canadian Bible Belt”
Rebecca Margolis (University of Ottawa), “Les Belles-soeurs and Di shvegerins: Translating Québécois into Yiddish for the Montreal Stage”
Chair: Randal Schnoor (York University)
4:00 - 5:30 pm: session 4 | Holocaust and the Canadian Experience
Richard Menkis (University of British Columbia) and Harold Troper (University of Toronto), “Divided Against Itself: Tensions in the Canadian Movement to Boycott the 1936 Olympics”
Aviva Atlani (University of Western Ontario) and Phil Gold (Toronto), “Humour, Propaganda and Caricature in Canada: World War 2 and Beyond”
Julian Bauer (Université du Québec à Montréal), “Jewish and Public Commemoration of the Shoah in Canada”
Chair: Franklin Bialystok (University of Toronto)
6:00 - 9:00 pm: Banquet (Kosher dinner)
Presentation of the 2009 ACJS Louis Rosenberg Distinguished Service Award to Professor Seymour Mayne; musical performance by Ottawa singer-songwriter Shelley Posen
*Tickets: $20.00 per person, available at the SJCC front desk through May 19, 2009.
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Canadian Society for Jewish Studies
Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa
May 24-26, 2009
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Monday, May 25 LA (Loeb Building), room A602
* Monday and Tuesday’s sessions are open to registered delegates of the Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences only
9:00-10:30 am: Annual General Meeting, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
2:00-3:30 pm: CSJS session 1 | Jewish Perspectives on Reality
Ari Goldberg (Ottawa) Does Job Fear G-d for Naught? A Psycho-Critical Reading of the Book of Job
Ginger Hegedus (London) The Creation of the World and the Nature of Things
Asher Schechter (Jerusalem) From Metaphysical Transcendental Faith to Imminent Religiosity: Between Faith and Religion in the Contemplation of Dr. Josef Schaechter
3:45-5:15 pm: CSJS session 2 | Jewish and Anti-Jewish Cultural Expression
Adara Goldberg (USA) “We were called Greenies”: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada
Steven Lapidus (Montreal) Communal Isolationism in the North American Hasidic Press
Jacob Kovalio (Ottawa) The Russian Protocols of Zion in Japan: YUDAYAKA/Jewish Peril Propaganda and Debates in the 1920s
6:00 - 8:00 pm: Reception to welcome scholars in Jewish Studies to Congress Location: PA (Paterson Hall) 301
Hosted by the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University
Tuesday, May 26 LA (Loeb Building), room B243
8:30-10:00 am: Open Board Meeting, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
10:00-11:30 am: CSJS session 3 | Haggadah and Aggadah
Ira Robinson (Montreal) A Twentieth Century Maharal Pseudepigraph: Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg’s “Maharal Haggada”
Laliv Clenman (Toronto) Rabbinic Attitudes Towards Intermarriage: The Case of the Aggadah on the Sons and Daughter(s) of Jacob
Andrea Gondos (Montreal) A Clever Disguise: the Role of the Matrona in Midrashic Discourse
11:30-1:00 pm: lunch
2:30-3:30 pm: Annual General Meeting, Canadian Society of Jewish Studies
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