“Rabbis & Rebbes – Artists & Intellectuals” at YIVO
On Sunday, March 8, there will be a conference at YIVO sponsored by YIVO and Touro College, Rabbis & Rebbes – Artists & Intellectuals. Admission is free but reservations are suggested. Here is the program.
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The conference will focus on major areas of Jewish creativity in modern Eastern Europe. While certain topics such as Hasidism and Jewish Haskalah have been dealt with extensively by scholars, there has been relatively little discussion of the varieties of rabbinic, intellectual and artistic activity. We will examine these activities in three panels, in which the invited scholars will engage in animated discussion, moderated by the chair of each panel.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
9:15 AM – Registration and coffee
10:00 AM – Introduction and Greetings
Carl J. Rheins – Executive Director – YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Michael A. Shmidman – Dean – Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies
Bernard Lander – Founder and President – Touro College
10:30 AM – Session I : Rabbinic Cultures
Chair : Sid Leiman – Brooklyn College
Panel :
Henry Abramson – Touro College South
Gershon Bacon – Bar-Ilan University
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern – Northwestern University
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – Session II : Artistic Cultures
Chair : Gershon Hundert – McGill University
Panel :
Gennady Estraikh – New York University
Olga Litvak – The University at Albany / SUNY
Ezra Mendelsohn – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2:30 PM – Coffee Break
3:00 PM – Session III : The Cultures of Academic Scholarship
Chair : Natalia Aleksiun – Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies
Panel :
Samuel D. Kassow – Trinity College
Rachel Manekin – University of Maryland
Kalman Weiser – York University
4:30 PM – Closing Address
Gershon Hundert – McGill University
January 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am
From the advertisement that you linked, it seems that the conference is co-sponsored with Touro College.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Duly noted. Thanks.