Controversies Conversion and dialogue Jews and Christians in time and place. A Conference in honour of Elchanan Reiner Kraków, June 22-23, 2014 Monday, June 23 Instytut Judaistyki UJ, ul. Józefa 19 Controversies, Conversion and Dialogue – Jews and Christians in Time and Place. A Conference in Honour of Elchanan Reiner, Kraków, June 22-23, 2014 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Lucia Raspe (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) The Emergence of Local Rites of Selihot Recitation in Eastern and Western Ashkenaz 1400—1700 Sunday, June 22 Collegium Maius UJ ul. św. Anny Maoz Kahana (Tel Aviv University) Where is Krakow? The complex nature of localities in Rabbi Moses Isserles’s vocabulary 9:30 a.m. Greetings, Introductory Remarks 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University) Kraków – Anno Mundi 5330 Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University) Joseph Scaliger and the learned culture of 16th century Ashkenazi Jewry 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Cofee Break 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m Avriel Bar-Levav (Open University of Israel) Text and Territory: The Place of Paratexts in Hebrew Books Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley) Talmud as Traveling Homeland 11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Pavel Sladek (Charles University Prague) A Sixteenth-Century Rabbinic Author and his Printers: The Case of Rabbi Mordecai Jafe David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania) The Missionary Alexander McCaul and his Jewish Interlocutors: The Revival of the Jewish-Christian Debate in Nineteenth-Century Europe Itzik Melamed (Johns Hopkins University) God as the place of the world 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) On Haskalah, Yiddish New Testaments, and Czar Alexander I: Nehemiah Solomon’s Mission to the Jews of Russia and Poland (1817-1820) 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Ada Rapoport-Albert (UCL London) The Zohar’s geography of Erets Yisra’el Yossi Chajes (Haifa University) Kabbalah denudata: Between (Beyond?) Jewish and Christian Kabbalah Yaacob Dweck (Princeton University) Jacob Sasportas, Nehemiah ha-Kohen, and the Authority of the Written Word 4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Cofee Break 4:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Israel Yuval (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Jerusalem and the Jewish-Christian Relations in the 7th century Rami Reiner (Ben Gurion University) Rabbenu Tam and Henri Count of Champagne: A Correspondence and its Meaning Hanna Zaremska (Polish Academy of Sciences) Punishment for Homicide in Polish and Jewish juridical Practice in the 15th century. 7:00 p.m. Dinner 11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Cofee Break 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Lunch Break 2:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Miri Eliav-Feldon (Tel Aviv University) Catholic Attitudes towards Insincere Conversions Pawel Maciejko (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) On Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz’s Rewriting of the Talmud Adam Kazmierczyk (Jagiellonian University) Crooks, informers, traitors and partners - attitudes of converts to their former co-religionist in Poland-Lithuania 4:45-5:00 p.m. Cofee break 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m Richard Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Mirjam Rajner (in absentia) Wandalin Strzałecki’s Song on the Destruction of Jerusalem (Pieśń o zburzeniu Jerozolimy): A Homage to Gottlieb and Poland Jonatan Meir (Ben Gurion University) Selma die jüdische Seherin: Judaism, Christianity and Mesmerism Gershon Hundert (McGill University) An 18th-Century Galician Jewish Merchant and His Meetings with Christians 7:30 p.m. Dinner Supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (grant No 1798/12)