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TimestampName (First Name Last Name)E-Mail AddressI am writing here about...Brief DescriptionWhich Division(s) Does Your Submission Best Align With?
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3/5/2021 15:56:13Abby Gondekabbygondek@outlook.comAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionJewish women's power/influence during the Holocaust in the role of secretaries, auxiliaries, "support" staff within the rescue and relief effort:

My particular research examines the roles of secretaries within the Treasury department and War Refugee Board, and I am looking for others who examine women's roles (especially Jewish women) in these types of positions, within government or in rescue and resistance organizations. My research focuses on the American government's response(s) to the Holocaust but I am looking for those who conduct research about a wide range of national contexts and in different kinds of organizational structures including government, and non-government organizations like Jewish relief/rescue organizations, informal resistance groups, leadership within ghettos/camps, etc. (topics discussed by Judith Tydor Baumel) Since there seems to be a solid literature on Nazi secretaries (Rachel Century, Elisabeth Krimmer, Valerie Cabezas-Iacono), it would also be interesting to compare the roles that women in secretary and auxiliary roles within the Nazi government played to the roles of women within other governments and non-governmental organizations. The central questions are -what kinds of power did women in these "supportive" roles have to affect policy and decision-making? How did they access this power? What role did sexuality and relationships with supervisors play in their access to power? Also, what were relationships between women in these types of positions like? Did women in these supportive roles collaborate with each other, did they get along? Were there ever relationships between women (same-sex relationships)?

I would like to put together either a lightning session or a seminar in order to include the maximum number of participants. I welcome those who are graduate students, recently completed PhD and early career scholars, as well as more experienced scholars. 		Gender and Sexuality Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Politics, Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities, Modern Jewish History in the Americas
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3/7/2021 8:17:18Joshua Shellyjs674@duke.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionI work on literature by German-speaking Jews related to Zionist themes (1890s–1930s). I am currently working on a dissertation that includes chapters on Theodor Herzl, Franz Kafka, and Arnold Zweig. I also look at German Jewish reception of proto-Zionist works such George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Disraeli's Tancred and Alroy.Israel Studies, Jewish Politics, Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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3/12/2021 16:28:48Victoria Khiterervictoria.khiterer@millersville.eduA session seeking one or more additional individualsI would like to create a panel on the commemoration of the Holocaust and the politics of memory.
I am going to present a paper on the Soviet authorities’ policy regarding the commemoration and memorialization of the Babi Yar massacre, and explain why the Soviets did not allow any monuments to build in Babi Yar for 35 years after the massacre, much longer than at other Holocaust sites.
I am looking for a Chair, two presenters and a discussant for the panel.
If you would like to participate in the panel, please email: victoria.khiterer@millersville.edu
Victoria Khiterer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
History Department
Millersville University		Holocaust Studies
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3/24/2021 10:49:46Leslie Yarmoltyarmo@salisbury.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionMy paper is on the appropriation of the sign of circumcision to stigmatize Jews since antiquity. Though much discussed, I have found compelling evidence of the profound cultural significance of this marker and how it was used to blemish Jews in life and art. This is the sign that inspired the Third Reich's application of the Mogen David badge. My research traces the origins, evolution, and applications of the "O" badge to publicly humiliate Jews for their sacred covenant.
This is an interdisciplinary paper with great importance placed on visual communication. The material connects to many topics and I would be pleased to share a panel with those discussing Jews of the Middle Ages or Renaissance in the Christian world, Jewish dress codes, practices in marginalizing Jews during the Nazi regime, images of Jews in art, and Jewish sexuality		Gender and Sexuality Studies, Holocaust Studies, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Jews, Film, and the Arts, Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture
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3/31/2021 10:20:57David Weinfelddaweinfeld@vcu.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionI'd like to have a session on American Jewish women and ZionismGender and Sexuality Studies, Jewish Politics, Modern Jewish History in the Americas, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology
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4/4/2021 6:04:26Netta SchrammNetta.schramm@mail.huji.ac.ilAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionI would like to form a session on "modern midrash" in video form. The session can discuss both the theoretical issue of media-based exegesis, or analyze a specific work: a film, a youtube clip, or any other audio-video piece that directly engages with Jewish sources, be it biblical or rabbinic.
If this sounds interesting please email me.		Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Israel Studies, Jews, Film, and the Arts, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology
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4/4/2021 9:42:35Sagit Morsagit.mor@beitberi.ac.ilAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionIn a short chapter, entitled “Justice by the R. Yossi [ben Halafta],” Rabbi Avigdor Una grouped several sources in which Rabbi Yossi disagreed with his colleges. Una put R. Yossi's method as follows: “The principle guiding R. Yossi - explicitly or implicitly - is to attain true justice, even when it does not seem to conform to formal justice.” Examining the sources gathered by Una indicates that R. Yossi did, however, hold an independent method, and that the general definition of ‘justice’ seems to be plausible to describe his motives. However, in their in-depth examination, ‘justice’ does not seem to stem solely from R. Yossi's moral conception, that is, his understanding of the ‘good’ or ‘just’ result in the various cases, and not even necessarily as an anti-formalist conception of halakha. In my lecture I will discuss several examples of the controversies of R. Yossi and his colleges, in attempt to expose the jurisprudential logic that guided R. Yossi in his halakhic method. This discussion will take place in the light of the essay ‘Nomos and Narrative’ by Robert Cover.Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture
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4/5/2021 22:54:49Hannah Koberhannahko@stanford.eduA session seeking one or more additional individualsI am looking for collaborators (from any discipline) who would like to share papers in a session on Israelis in the United States. I am currently working on a paper about Israeli-American advocacy around Hebrew heritage language learning in public schools. Sharon Avni is also interested in presenting relevant work on this demographic in this session. Israel Studies, Jewish Languages and Linguistics from Antiquity to the Present, Jewish Politics, Modern Jewish History in the Americas, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Social Science
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4/7/2021 16:06:19Matt Brooknermbrookner@brandeis.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionI'd like to write a paper on Jews who also claim another religious identity, either due to being children of intermarriage or who actively participate in two traditions. (I would be using quantitative data, including Pew and local community studies.) Open to this being the focus of the session, or one paper within a broader topic. Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Modern Jewish History in the Americas, Social Science
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4/9/2021 8:56:56Magda Tetermteter@fordham.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionOn Ritual Murder, General History, and Emancipation

The terms “ritual murder,” “general history,” and “emancipation” have been part of the vocabulary of modern Jewish historiography for almost as long as it has existed. But perhaps we should revisit them, reflect on the implication of what they mean and how they may inflect our thinking about Jewish history, and perhaps abandon them in favor of other terms. This presentation will examine each of the terms and offer an alternative way to describe and talk about the ideas these three convey. 		Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches
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4/12/2021 11:40:42Laurence Rothroth@susqu.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionCreative Writing, Scholarship, and Jewish Studies

How does or might creative writing—short stories, poems, graphic narratives, creative non-fiction/memoir—in traditional or digital formats help Jewish Studies scholars to flesh out or reimagine their research and scholarly approaches? What are the affordances and constraints of such writing for contemporary Jewish Studies scholarship, especially during a period where the unique challenges of creativity in isolation affect both artists and scholars as well as artist/scholars? This roundtable means to follow up on and push beyond previous work exploring narrative writing and the resurgence of the “I” in Jewish Studies scholarship in order to consider whether and how creative writing, broadly construed, fits into Jewish Studies as both literary experimentation and an innovative interdisciplinary approach. Discussants will be asked to circulate a work of creative writing before the conference as the basis for this roundtable discussion.		Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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4/12/2021 19:21:19Adam Cohnajc6g@virginia.eduA session seeking one or more additional individualsAshkenazim in Modern Spain: Representations and Identity

Medieval Jewish history in Iberia prompted an array of romanticized attitudes towards Sephardic Jews in modern Spain. However, Ashkenazic Jews have often been the objects of scorn and bold-faced anti-Semitism in various areas of modern Spanish cultural discourse. This panel considers imaginings of an Iberian-Ashkenazic axis by Jews and non-Jews in modern Spain. How do literary and other humanistic depictions of Iberian and Ashkenazic Jews compare? How have Ashkenazic Jews in Spain constructed their identity vis à vis conceptions of historic Sepharad? Has ambivalent philo-Sephardism in modern Spain ever expanded into a philo-Semitism that includes Ashkenazic as well as Iberian Sephardic Jews? How has the presence of Ashkenazic Jews in modern Spain affected Spaniards' conflicting, but when positive, often proprietary assumptions about Sephardic character in Spanish national history? What are the political, personal, gender, and/or aesthetic implications of the common distinction between Ashkenazic and Iberian Sephardic Jews? This panel will explore the typically disparate, but not often compared articulation of Ashkenazic versus Iberian Sephardic Jewry in modern Spain from Jewish and non-Jewish perspectives. Proposals for papers that analyze cultural production in Iberian and non-Iberian languages are welcome.

Organizers: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of Virginia)		Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies
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4/13/2021 14:51:53Jacob Labendzjlabendz@ysu.eduA session seeking one or more additional individualsRound Table Participants Needed: "Meetings and Movements Across Cold War Boundaries: Jewish People and Artifacts in Contact"Jews, Film, and the Arts, Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities, Modern Jewish History in the Americas, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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4/14/2021 3:34:30Reut Yarnitskyreutyar@design.upenn.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionEretz Yisrael' in Jewish thought.
My research examines how ideas of place and time in Jewish thought influenced the perception and the shaping of space in modern Israel. I'm interested in exploring modern architecture and planning from a broad historical, cultural and theological perspective. 		Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Israel Studies, Jewish Politics
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4/14/2021 11:55:00Orian Zakaiorianz@gwu.eduAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionLooking for participants for a panel about intersectionality in the context Israel/Palestine (broadly defined). My own paper is about representations of Palestinian women in Hebrew women's literature and journalism from the pre-1948 period. Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modern Hebrew Literature
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4/14/2021 17:06:12Justin Jaron LewisJustin_Lewis@umanitoba.caAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionYeshayahu Leibowitz. I am writing a paper about Hasidic influences in the thought of Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and commonalities between his thought and Hasidism generally / specific Hasidic thinkers. I would be interesting in organizing a session about Leibowitz, or in joining any session that would find my topic interesting.Modern Jewish Thought and Theology
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4/15/2021 15:08:13Sam Glauber-Zimraglauber@post.bgu.ac.ilAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionI am interested in presenting a paper on Jewish engagement with occultism in early-twentieth-century Eastern Europe. This could relate to aspects of modernization, cultural transfer, self-development, spirituality, metaphysics (in particular beliefs concerning the afterlife, prophecy, and the soul) magic, responses to crisis, and notions of secularism/disenchantment. I am open to joining a panel concerned with East European Jewish culture, Jewish mysticism and/or spirituality, Jewish theology, or Yiddish studies.Jewish Mysticism, Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology, Yiddish Studies
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4/21/2021 16:56:22Alissa Symonas2818@cam.ac.ukAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionI am researching transnational political networks operating between the United States and Israel, and would like to present a paper on on why American Jews who are engaged with Israel choose to get involved politically, and with what mechanisms they do so. I am seeking other panellists who are interested in presenting papers on Jewish politics or Israel studies which deal broadly with the homeland diaspora paradigm, Jewish peoplehood or contemporary aspects of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Israel Studies, Jewish Politics, Social Science
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4/22/2021 1:30:48Joshua Krugjoshuaskrug@gmail.comA session seeking one or more additional individualsPROPOSED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

What sorts of Jewish education/engagement are taking place in new media? How do different mediums similarly and differently function as sites of Jewish education/engagement (not to mention Jewish Studies public scholarship)? Scholars are slated to address the mediums of Clubhouse, TikTok, and Twitter.

Potential collaborators can speak to a wholly different medium, one of the aforementioned mediums, or theoretical issues.

If uncertain if what you work on "fits," please be in touch.		AJS (Professional Development, Field Building), Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Pedagogy and Professional Practice
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4/22/2021 17:18:06Barry Wienerbwiener8@icloud.comAn individual seeking other individuals to create a session or seeking a sessionJudentum and Deutschtum between 1871 and 1933: I wish to discuss how Jewish intellectuals such as Hermann Cohen and Arthur Schnitzler tried to reconcile their Jewish identity with German nationalism in both Germany and the Dual Monarchy, positing deep commonalities between the two groups and defending the German cause in World War I. With the advent of the Nazis, these rationalizations disintegrated, with tragic results. My own paper concerns a Viennese music theorist who propounded these views and lived to see his world disintegrate.Jewish Politics, Jews, Film, and the Arts, Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities, Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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4/22/2021 20:20:37Eva Gurevich and Jonathan Catlinegurevic@brandeis,eduA session seeking one or more additional individualsCatastrophe as a political concept:
Situated in the postwar period, the panel will examine how the concept of catastrophe has been deployed in social and political critique in the context of Jewish political thought. Central questions the panel will grapple with include the philosophical and political problems of historical continuity and rupture, the singularity and universality of catastrophe, and catastrophe’s status as a stable structure or contingent event. We are centrally interested in how catastrophic events such as the Holocaust, or the Six Day War as a near-catastrophe, become structuring principles orienting postwar political thought, experience, and imaginaries. We are also interested in the political implications of the temporalities of the slow, impending, or even permanent catastrophe.
The first paper considers the history of the concept of catastrophe through Theodor Adorno's writings from the 1960s on Auschwitz in light of Vietnam and other global atrocities. Adorno comes to theorize the Holocaust as a historical singularity and metaphysical rupture, but also a prism for social criticism that confirms Walter Benjamin’s earlier idea of history as a “permanent catastrophe.” The question is whether such admittedly polemical, exaggerated conceptions of catastrophe might be redeemed for rational social criticism if we understand them as powerful thought-images or metaphors that go beyond the descriptive work of rational concepts.
The second paper investigates how at the height of the Israeli crisis surrounding the 1967 war, Nathan Alterman, Rivka Katznelson, and Moshe Shamir drew on categories of gender, age, and power to imagine the total collapse and death of the state. Although the victory redeemed and reestablished the state, the writers continuously returned to the possibility of its undoing. The figures were invested in narrating the Six Day War as a historical rupture in order to legitimate the newly reconstituted state in the expanded borders with far reaching political implications.
Holocaust Studies, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches, Israel Studies, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology
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