When:
Sunday, November 6, 2022
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Nancy Gelman
(847) 491-2612
Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings
"S.Y. Agnon’s (Frustrated) Love Stories" A Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of At the Handles of the Lock
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6th:
Panel One: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
"Sippurim Ketanim: Love on the Sands of Jaffa"
Tafat Hacohen-Bick, Herbert Katz Center, University of Pennsylvania
Wendy Zierler, Hebrew Union College
Marina Zilbergerts, University of Wisconsin
Chair: Na’ama Rokem, University of Chicago
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7th:
Panel Two: 9:00am - 11:00am
"Agnon, Oz & Yehoshua"
Yael Halevi-Wise, McGill University
Sheila E. Jelen, University of Kentucky
Jeffrey Saks, Agnon House
Chair: Hanna Tzuker Seltzer, Northwestern University
Panel Three: 11:15am - 1:15pm
"Disabled Love: Ovadia Ba’al Mum"
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan
Nitza Ben-Dov, Haifa University
Haim Weiss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Chair: David Roskies, JTS
Lunch for Conference Presenters: 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Panel Four: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
"Elu ve-Elu (Miscellaneous Investigations)"
Irit Nagar, Ben-Gurion University
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University
Avi Shmidman, Bar-Ilan University
Chair: James Redfield, St. Louis University
Conference sponsored by:
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Northwestern University
Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History
S.Y. Agnon House, Jerusalem
Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute for Religion