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Neighbours: Relations between Jews and non-Jews throughout History
The 27th Annual AAJS Conference 15-16 February 2015
UNSW and the Shalom Institute, Kensington, Sydney
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Registration opens 8:30
Conference Opening 9:15
AAJS President’s Report
Keynote 9:45-10:45
From an Israeli Moshav to Archives and Manuscripts: Moving Back-and-Forth in
Jewish Studies
Professor Harvey Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chair: Dr Jan Láníček
Coffee/Tea Break 10:45-11:15
PANEL 1: 11:15 – 12:45
PANEL 2: 11:15 – 12:45
Memory of the Holocaust
Neighbours in Australia
Dr Esther Jilovsky
Rabbi Aviva Kipen
Post-Holocaust
Neighbours:
Third Ethical Coexistence - the place of
Generation Descendants of Jewish Judaism alongside other faiths in
Holocaust Survivors in Germany
Australia’s Human Research Ethics
Committees (HRECs)
Dr Sonja M. Hedgepeth
Tracking Clues Left by Invisible Jews: Dr Myer Samra
Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s Crime Novel, A Can a Jew be recognised as a refugee in
Grain of Truth
Australia?
Professor Suzanne Rutland
Professor Andrew Markus
Genocide or Holocaust Education: Walter Lippmann and the development of
Exploring
Different
Australian Australian multiculturalism
Approaches for Muslim School Children
Chair: Dr Dvir Abramowich
Chair: Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod
Lunch Break 12:45 – 14:00
PANEL 3: 14:00 – 16:00
PANEL 4: 14:00-16:00
Neighbours in literature
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Dr Marianne Dacy
Anna Hirsh
Jews and their neighbours in Shtetl Jews and their Christian Neighbours till
500 CE
fiction, art and history
Dr Dvir Abramowich
‘A divided Jerusalem’
Literature and poetry
in
Dr Ayelet Oettinger
Hebrew Between Christianity and Islam: the art of
protest in Hebrew medieval literature
Rebecca L. Thompson
C. M. Kosemen
Emmanuel Levinas in the Works of Elie Peculiar Neighbours: Distinct Tomb
Wiesel
Architecture and Tombstone Photographs
from Turkey’s Sabbatean “Donmeh”
Community
Bella Kolomakina
Special features of Jewish-Russian
cultural interaction
Dr Panayiotis Diamadis
Israel, Cyprus and Energy Politics
Chair: Alexandru Bar
Chair: Dr Myer Samra
Coffee/Tea Break
PANEL 5: 16:30 – 18:00
PANEL 6: 16:30-18:00
The Holocaust
Neighbours in Biblical times
Dr Michael E Abrahams-Sprod
A Parting of the Ways: The Demise of
Jewish and non-Jewish Relationships in
Magdeburg 1933-1938
Professor Gideon Moshe Greif
Jews and non-Jews in Perechodnik's
Diary
Dr Fahad M. Al-Otaibi
The Relations between the Jews and the
Nabataeans
Karl E. Baughman
The Priest and the Princess: Josephus,
Poppaea Sabina, and the Fire of Rome
Dr Jan Láníček
Ordinary Gendarmes? Czech
collaboration in the Holocaust
Professor Noah Aminoah
Relations between Jews and their nonJewish neigbours under Jewish law in
Talmudic times
Chair: Prof Suzanne Rutland
Chair: Dr Marianne Dacy
Monday, 16 February 2015
PANEL 7: 10:00 – 12:00
PANEL 8: 10:00-12:00
Neighbours in Eastern Europe
Jewish society and neighbours
Lynne Swarts
‘The Most Suitable Mediators between
the Orient and the Occident’: Ost und
West,
German
Jews,
and
the
representation of a more ‘authentic’
eastern ‘other’
Alexandru Bar
An investigation into the cultural
diversity in Europe: Jewish Heritage in
the European Culture (case study
Romania 1866-1938)
Dr Michael Cohen
“To Preclude Gentile Competition?”
Jewish and Non-Jewish Economic
Coexistence in the 19th Century
American South
Martin Spiegelman
Musical Neighbours: Pop Influences on
Haredi Music
Tessa Satherley
Rabbi Tzvi Yisrael Tau’s theosophical
interpretations of war and peace with
Israel’s Arab neighbours
Anna Maria Borejsza-Wysocka
Unlikely Allies: Wilhelm Feldman and
the Emergence of Modern Polish Culture Guy I. Seidman
in fin de siecle Galicia
The Evolution of Jewish Surnames
Chair: Professor Gideon Greif
Chair: Prof Andrew Markus
Lunch Break: 12:00-13:00
PANEL 9: 13:00 – 14:30
PANEL 10: 13:00 – 14:30
Neighbours in the Middle-Ages
Neighbours in Western Europe
Inja Stracenski
Spinoza’s Compendium Grammatices
Linguae Hebraeae: Manual of Biblical
Hebrew for non-Jewish scholars –
Spinoza’s biblical exegesis as corrective
of theological Anti-Judaism
Dr Daniella Doron
Lost Children and Lost Childhoods:
Holocaust Memories in Postwar France
Professor Oscar Lansen
In the Name of Justice: Jewish refugees
and Dutch-Sephardic relations in the
Dutch West Indies 1933-1946
Margherita Mantovani
Jewish Sources in Christian Garb:
Kabbalah in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Helen Webberley
von Nettesheim (1486–1535)
Fascist thuggery in Britain and the Jewish
response: before and after WW2
Dr Stefania Silvestri
Crossing the Walls of the Ghetto: Chair: Dr Simone Gigliotti
Ketubbot from Venice
Chair: Dr Esther Jilovsky
Coffee/Tea Break 14:30-15:00
PANEL 11: 15:00-17:00
Neighbours in Film
Dr Simone Gigliotti
“These are the people”: filming the
surviving remnant in postwar Germany
Dr Shahar Burla
Neighbors – a Love Story: The Egyptian
Solider Image in Israeli Cinema
Dr Gábor Gergely
The Jews who weren’t there: cinema,
anti-Semitism and Hungarian national
identity 1938-48
Chair: Dr Daniella Doron