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"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)

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