Monday, 25 February
9:15
Welcoming Address
Yfaat Weiss | Jörg Deventer
9:30
Opening Keynote
Naomi Cohn Zentner
A View Eastwards:
Sephardic Sonorities in the Ashkenazi Synagogue
Chair: Jörg Deventer
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00
Yael Sela (Teichler)
Reclaiming the Voice:
Vocal Enactments of Exile and Redemption in Jewish Modernity
Chair & Comment: Ze’ev Strauss
11:45
Diego Rotman
Repainting History:
The Case of the Fischach Wooden Sukkah
Chair & Comment: Leontine Meijer-van Mensch
12:30 Lunch Break
14:30
Rebekka Grossmann
Crossing Visions.
Photography in Mandate Palestine as Multi-National and Transdisciplinary Encounter
Chair & Comment: Annette Vowinckel
15:15
Hila Shalem Baharad
Inter-Ethnic Relations among Immigrants in the Israeli Transit Camps
Chair & Comment: Jeannette van Laak
Tuesday, 26 February
9:00
Jonathan Matthews
The Wrong War?
Zionist Parties in British Mandate Palestine during World War II
Chair & Comment: Eli Osheroff
9:45
Ido Harari
Converting to Otherness – The Dialectics of Differentiation in and from Modern Europe
Chair & Comment: Stefan Vogt
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00
Avi-ram Tzoreff
“Not Only Within the Boundaries of the Land of the Deer” –
R. Binyamin Between Jewish and Arab Geographies
Chair & Comment: Gerold Necker
11:45 Lunch Break
13:45
Hanan Harif
The Orientalist as Advocate:
Infanticide and Exoticism in Mandatory Palestine
Chair & Comment: Enrico Lucca
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00
Concluding Keynote
Yonatan Mendel
Supervising Arabic in Jewish Schools in British Mandate Palestine:
S. D. Goitein vs. Yisrael Wolfensohn (Ben-Ze’ev)
Chair: Walid Abd El Gawad
16:00 End of Workshop