May 16 (Bildungshaus St. Ursula and Kleine Synagoge)
MEALS AND RITES OF PASSAGE
4.00 pm
Adi Namia-Cohen (Hebrew University) “Meals and Mourning: The Post-Funeral Meal and Tisha'ah B'Av Meal in Medieval Germany and Northern France (11th-14th)“
4.30 pm
Shalem Yahalom (Ariel University) “Betrothal Celebrations in Ashkenazi Communities: A Prism of Interaction of Halakha, Kabbalah and Society in Post-Medieval Europe“
5.00 pm
discussion
6.00 pm
Lecture by Stefan Reif (Cambridge / Haifa / Tel Aviv) at Kleine Synagoge
"An Overview of Food Rituals in the History of Jewish Liturgy"
May 17 (Bildungshaus St. Ursula)
FOOD AND DINING IN RITUAL TEXTS AND LYRICAL HYMNS
9.00 am
Laura Lieber (Duke University) “Sabbath in the Garden of Eden”: Two Samaritan Hymns for Sukkot
9.30 pm
Sima Hurwitz (Tel Aviv) “Bahya Ben Asher’s Shulhan shel Arba - Collected Jewish Wisdom or Revolution?”
10.00 am
discussion
SOCIAL AND COMMUNAL ASPECTS OF DINING AND THE PREPARATION OF FOODS
10.30 am
Rachel Furst and Sophia Schmitt (LMU Munich) “Dining Against Debt: A Medieval Jewish-Christian Legal Ritual“
11.00 am
Jörn Christophersen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.) “Of Meat and Blood and Politics – How Jewish and Christian Butchers in Medieval Ashkenaz Came to Arrangements for Butchery”
11.30 am
Susanne Härtel (University of Potsdam) “Food and Eating Rituals as Indicators of Jewish Plurality”
12.00 noon
discussion
12.30 pm
Final Remarks (Katrin Kogman Appel and Claudia Bergmann)