Conference in London, 11–13 May 2014: Language, Nation, and Modernity – Hebrew in Europe, 1800 to the present
A joint King’s-UCL international workshop
Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan
“A Hebrew Table at Café Monopol”? The Place of Hebrew in European Modernism
Co-organized by Lily Kahn (UCL) and Andrea Schatz (King’s College London)
Academic advisors: Israel Bartal(Hebrew University) and Lewis Glinert (Dartmouth College)
Programme
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL
16.30 – Welcome
Lily Kahn, UCL
Andrea Schatz, King’s College London
17.00 – Session 1: Yiddish and Other Beginnings
Chair: Helen Beer (UCL)
Ken Frieden, Syracuse University
Mendel Lefin as an Unacknowledged Precursor of “Mendele”
Rebecca Wolpe, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sailing into Uncharted Waters: Maskilic Sea Adventures as a Reflection of the Development of Modern Hebrew Belles Lettres in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Shlomo Berger, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Living Apart Together: The Position of Hebrew from a Yiddish Point of View
Refreshments
19.00 – Keynote lecture
Chair: Andrea Schatz (King’s College London)
Israel Bartal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Language of European Pinkasim: A Source of Modern Hebrew?
Monday, 12 May 2014
Venue: Council Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London
9.00 – Session 2: Linguistic Innovation and Preservation
Chair: Ada Rapoport-Albert (UCL)
Ohad Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Question of Grammatical Agreement in the Satirical Language of Joseph Perl
Keren Dubnov, Hebrew Language Academy and David Yellin College
The Vocabulary of the Material World in “Sefer Kur Oni” (Robinson Crusoe) (in Hebrew)
Doly Levi, Levinsky College of Education
Elhanan Leib Levinsky’s Feuilletons – A Linguistic and Stylistic Study (in Hebrew)
Coffee
11.00 – Session 3: Teaching Hebrew
Chair: Jonathan Stökl (King’s College London)
Tal Kogman, Tel Aviv University
Hebrew for the Young Generation: The Educational Reform of the German-Jewish Haskalah
Dorothea Salzer, University of Potsdam
Teaching Hebrew in a Maskilic Setting: Immanuel Moritz Neumann’s Sefer torat ha-elohim (1816/17)
Vered Tohar, Bar Ilan University
Whose Text Is this? Constructing a National Ethos by Means of a Traditional Narrative in the Hebrew Textbooks of Europe, 1850-1950
14.00 – Session 4: Becoming Modern, Becoming Hebrew
Chair: François Guesnet (UCL)
Lee Shai Weissbach, University of Louisville
Personal Testimony: A First Encounter with the Hebrew of the Haskalah
Jörg Schulte, University of Cologne
Hebrew Humanism in Central and Eastern Europe
Coffee
15.30 – Session 5: Among the Nations
Chair: Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge)
Marco Di Giulio, Franklin & Marshall College
The Study of Hebrew in Italy: Theory, Practice, and Jewish Self-Definition
Asher Salah, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Hebrew in Italy in the Nineteenth Century
Alessandro Grazi, Independent Scholar
Facing Modernity: The Hebrew Language as a Guardian of Jewish Tradition and National Pride in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Irene Zwiep, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Holy or Jewish? Hebrew in the Netherlands, 1796–present
Refreshments
18.00 – Keynote lecture
Chair: Lily Kahn (UCL)
Lewis Glinert, Dartmouth College
Hebrew Lexis in Contemporary Haredi English: An Emergent Discourse Style
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Venue: Council Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London
9.00 – Session 6: The Place of Hebrew, Hebrew as a Place
Chair: Tamar Drukker (SOAS)
Yael Almog, UC Berkeley/Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
Benjamin and Scholem’s Correspondence and the Hebrew Trope
Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan
“A Hebrew Table at Café Monopol”? The Place of Hebrew in European Modernism
Miriam Neiger, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Uleshoni kol kakh Ivrit””ולשוני כל כך עברית”) ): Avigdor Hameiri and the Question of the Hebrew Language in Hungary of the Early Twentieth Century
Katsiaryna Taliaronak, National Institute for Higher Education, Minsk
It Will Survive! The Hebrew Language in the Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Belarus
Coffee
11.30 – Session 7: In Translation
Chair: Tsila Ratner (UCL)
Adriana Jacobs, University of Oxford
Hebrew Poetry in European Translation
Michèle Tauber, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle
The Dibbuk: Between Two Languages
Anne Golomb Hoffman, Fordham University
Ambivalent Attractions: Agnon’s “Toytentanz” from Buczacz to Jaffa and Berlin, in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German
13.00 – Concluding Roundtable
Chair: Paul Joyce (King’s College London)
All welcome!
The event is free, but registration is recommended. Please visit Eventbriteto register for your ticket(s).
If you have questions, please contact Mr Steffan Mathias:steffan.mathias@kcl.ac.uk
