Ottfried Fraisse, Judaistik / Jüdische Studien, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Beyond Cultural Identities - The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality and Translation in Muslim Contexts
Halle, 18-20 July 2022
Mo 18.7.2022
16:30 Beginning
Welcome:
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Décultot, director of the IZEA (Interdisziplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies)
Dr. Björn Bentlage (Oriental Institutes in Halle and Leipzig)
Introduction:
Ottfried Fraisse
17:00 First session
Chair: Ottfried Fraisse
Opening lecture
1) Irene Zwiep:
Translation as De-essentialization: Zunz's and Steinschneider's Attempts at Overcoming Eurocentrism.
18:15 Catering
19:00
Wrestling with European heritage
2) Nili Belkind:
Cultural Intimacy Through Conflicting National, Ethnic and Social Relations in Israel: Jowan Safadi's Music Video 'To Be an Arab'.
Tue 19.7.2022
9:00 Second session
Translating Concepts between Contexts
Chair: Nili Belkind
Jewish Translocality
3) Omer Michaelis:
Translating the ‘Inner’ (Bāṭin) from Islamic to Rabbinic Asceticism: Its Entangled Meanings in Baḥya ibn Paqūda’s Duties of the Hearts.
4) Menashe Anzi:
Rabbi Yiḥye Qāfiḥ - Between Enlightenment, the Heritage of Maimonides and the Salafiyya of the Indian Ocean.
5) Oded Zinger:
Schmoozing Outside of Court? Informal relations between Jews and Qadis in Medieval Egypt.
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 Third session
Mashriq: Relationality of Sound
Chair: Jonathan Hirsch
Jewish Music in Motion
6) Clara Annette Wenz:
Biographic Be-longings: Music in the Memories of Syrian Jews.
7) Nili Belkind and Edwin Seroussi,
Between Colonial Powers, Zionists, and Palestinian Arabs: the Iraqi-Jewish Musician Azzuri Effendi/Ezra Aharon in Mandate-Era Jerusalem.
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Fourth session
Maghrib: Polyphony of Andalusian, North-African and European Traditions of Knowledge
Chair: Oded Zinger
Spaces of Translation
8) Lilac Torgeman:
Cultural Intersections and Relationality: Rabbi Nathan Amram’s Hebrew Translation of Eli ibn Albair’s Arabic Astronomical Work.
9) Michal Ohana:
Raphael Moshe Elbaz's Kise ha Melakhim: Merging Jewish, North African and Universal History.
10) Ottfried Fraisse:
Combating Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Relational Reasoning in Israel Moshe Hazan's Sheerit ha-Nahala.
Coffee break 16:45 - 17:00
17:00 Fifth session (Hevrutha)
Chair: Lilac Torgeman
Relationality of Law
11) Zvi Zohar:
Conditional Overlap between Jewish Law and Non-Jewish Religious Law: Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan's Responsum on Huqqot ha-Goyyim (Hevrutha).
19:00 Dinner
Wed 20.7.2022
9:00 Sixth session
Between Mashriq and Maghrib: Polyphony of Traditional and Bourgeois Mind
Chair: Noah Gerber
Jewish Nahdas
12) Tamir Karkason:
Haskalah and Jewish Reformism in the Islamic Countries: Between Edirne, Baghdad and Tunis.
13) Jonathan Hirsch:
Reclaiming the Arabic Maimonides in Cairo - the Quest for Arab-Jewish scholarship in interwar Egypt.
14) Annie Greene:
Translating the concept of "Tanzimat" in Baghdad: Modeling Civic Practices for Ottoman Jews.
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 Eighth session
Mashriq: Spaces of Translation
Chair: Menashe Anzi
Intellectual History's Materiality
15) Noah Gerber:
Isaac Ezekiel Yahuda: A Native Antiquarian straddling Middle Eastern Jewish and Muslim Contexts.
Tom Fogel:
16) "we-hāḏa al-ḥirz lil-Gōyim" [And this is an amulet for the Gentiles]: Relationality and Translation in Jewish Yemeni occult sciences.
13:00
Final discussion
The conference will take place in the Interdisciplinary Center for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA), Thomasius Room, on the site of the Francke-Foundations, Halle/Saale (Franckeplatz 1, House 54).
Information: Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse, Department for Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (ottfried.fraisse@judaistik.uni-halle.de).