Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity
18th Annual Gruss Colloquium
Amado Recital Hall
Irvine Auditorium
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Jews and Journeys
18th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
APRIL 29 - MAY 1, 2012
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
- 4:00 pm Opening Seminar
- Joan-Pau Rubiés, London School of Economics
- Toward a Comparative Cultural History of Travel:
Encounters, Genres, Impacts -
Moderated by Martin Jacobs
Washington University/Katz Center - 6:00 pm Reception
MONDAY, APRIL 30
Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium
3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 9:15 am Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:45 am Greetings
David Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Katz Center
Rebecca Bushnell, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
10:00 am Travel Writing between Ethnography and PolemicsChair: Oded Irshai, Hebrew University/Katz Center
- Ora Limor, Open University/Katz Center
- Travelers of the West – Jews of the East:
Tales of Palestinian Jews in Early Medieval Pilgrimage
Narratives - Martin Jacobs, Washington University/Katz Center
- The Male Gaze: Women, Gender and Dress in the Accounts
of Medieval Jewish Travelers to the Levant - Limor Mintz-Manor, Hebrew University/Katz Center
- Dividing Up the World:
Geography and Ethnicity in Early Modern Jewish Writing - Respondent: Adam Beaver, Princeton University/Katz Center
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Narratives of Encounter
Chair: Ellen Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania
- Nils Roemer, University of Texas/Katz Center
- Traveling, Writing, and Seeing:
Encountering and Representing Jewish Culture - Asher Salah, Bezalel Academy of Arts/Katz Center
- Translating the Orient: 18th-Century Marco Navarra's
Fictional Correspondence between a Persian and a Syrian
Jew on Their European Travels - Elliott Horowitz, Bar-Ilan University/Katz Center
- Protestant Travelers and the Jews of the Wailing Wall
- Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University/Katz Center
- “The Horror, the Horror”: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
in Israeli Popular Culture - Respondent: Galit Hasan-Rokem, Hebrew University/Katz Center
3:45 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm Holy and Unholy Lands
Chair: Julia Phillips Cohen,
Vanderbilt University/Katz Center - Vered Madar, Hebrew University/Katz Center
- The Never-Ending Journey:
Time and Place in Israeli Yemenite Women's Memory Books - Anat Zanger, Tel Aviv University/Katz Center
- Wandering Women in Jerusalem: Filmic Journeys
- Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago/Katz Center
- Iraqi Travel Narratives in Israel: Anti-Pilgrimages to Unholy Lands
- Respondent: Jackie Feldman, Ben-Gurion University/Katz Center
6:15 pm Cocktails & Dinner (by invitation)
Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
TUESDAY, MAY 1
Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium
3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
8:30 am Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:00 am Modernity and Dislocation
Chair: Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
- Mirjam Zadoff, University of Munich
- In Search of a Jewish Paradise: Reuben Brainin's Travels to Real and Imaginary Jewish Worlds
- Jack Kugelmass, University of Florida/Katz Center
- Paryszewski's My Journey across the Mountains and through the Jungles of Peru:
A Yiddish Travelogue as Pseudo-ethnography - Noam Zadoff, University of Munich
- Traveling to Offenbach: Jewish Intellectuals in Post-War Germany
- Respondent: Dimitry Shumsky, Hebrew University/Katz Center
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:15 am Roundtable Conclusion
Chair: David RudermanAndrea Schatz, King's College London
Israel Bartal, Hebrew University/Katz Center
Susan Miller, University of California, Davis
Joshua Levinson, Hebrew University/Katz Center1:00 pm Concluding Luncheon (by invitation)
Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Poster image: “Pyramids of Cheops.” Earthly Footsteps of The Man of Galilee (St. Louis: W.A. Hammond, 1894) John H. Vincent et al., editors, plate 69, photographer Robert E. M. Bain. Lenkin Photo Image Collection, courtesy of the Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
