Canadian Society for Jewish Studies

Société canadienne d’études juives

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

Monday, May 29^th and Tuesday, May 30^th

York University, Vanier College, Room 115.

MONDAY, MAY 29, 2006

Session 1
12:30 pm-1:30pm
Modern Judaism

• Matthew LaGrone (Wilfrid  Laurier University)                      England in the Imagination of Solomon Schechter
• Steven Lapidus  (Concordia University)                                         The internet Controversy among Haredi Jewry

Session 2
1:45 pm-2:45 pm
Gender in Contemporary Judaism

• Sara Horowitz (York University)                                              Keeping Secrets: Mothers, Daughters and Shoah Memories
• Meira Josephy (Activate Kulture)                                            Miriam's Cup: a Feminist Addition to Traditional Jewish Ritual

Session 3
3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Gendered and Transgendered Judaism

• Marla Segol (Carleton University)
  "Receiving the Divine Feminine of the Zohar:  the undergirdings of a contemporary debate"
• Justin Jaron Lewis (Queens University)
  "Transgendered Divinity in Rebbe Nahman of Bratzlav"
• Benjamin Baader (University of Manitoba)
  "Nineteenth-Century German Rabbis and Jewish Preachers for a Queer Jewish Masculinity?"
• Robert A. Daum (University of British Columbia)
  Male Privilege and Heteronormativity in Jewish Law: Gender, Rape, and the Ransoming of Captives

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2006

12:00 pm-1:30 pm

BUSINESS MEETING FOR THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH STUDIES

Session 4
1:45-2:45
Rashi

• Ira Robinson (Concordia University)
  Why Rashi Still Speaks to Us After 900 Years
• Martin Lockshin (York University)
  Why Did Rashbam Lose?
• Eric Lawee (York University)
  Midrash and Its Discontents: Four Late Medieval Critics of Rashi’s Scriptural Hermeneutic

Session 5
3:00 pm-4:30 pm
The Embarrassment of Scriptures

• Harry Fox (University of Toronto)
  Embarrassment and Reembracement of Scripture: An Introduction and Example
• Diane Kriger (Independent Scholar)                                             "The Embarrassment of Slavery"
• Gyongyi Hegedus (University of Toronto/Szeged University)
  Medieval Rationalism in Biblical Commentary and the Embarrassment of (Irrational) Tradition
• James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo)                                 Did the Rabbis Really Re-Embrace King David?

Session 6
4:45 pm-5:45 pm
Scriptural Hermeneutics

• Andrea Gondos (Concordia University)
  The Use and Role of Theurgic Activities in Parshat Lekh Lekha of the Zohar
• Daniel Maoz (University of Waterloo)
  The Term "Midrash" and Its Demarcation

Canadian Society for Jewish Studies
Société canadienne des etudes juives

Department of Religion

Concordia University

1455 De Maisonneuve Boulevard, West

Montreal, QC H3G 1M8

E-mail - ira.robinson@sympatico.ca


UPDATED APRIL 26, 2006.