Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnardt
Monday, 10 May, 2010
17:00-19:30 Session I
Chair: Prof. Stefan Reif (University of Cambridge)
Prof. Ehud Gazit, Vice-President for Research and Development, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Simha Goldin (Tel Aviv University)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnardt (University of Mainz)
Prof. Frederick S. Paxton (Connecticut College)
The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity
Respondents: Prof. Yitzhak Hen (Ben-Gurion University) and Prof. Stefan Reif
The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation in Latin Christianity
Respondents: Prof. Yitzhak Hen (Ben-Gurion University) and Prof. Stefan Reif
Tuesday, 11 May, 2010
09:00-11:00 Session II
Chair: Andreas Lehnardt (University of Mainz)
Yitzhak Lifshitz (Shalem Center)
“Father of Compassion” Prayer: Revenge as Theological Polemic
Avi Gross (Ben-Gurion University)
Liturgy as Collective and Personal Memorial for the Fallen in 1096
Nati Barak (Tel Aviv University)
Gifts to the Dead after the Burial as a Post ‘Black Death’ Phenomenon
Lucia Raspe (University of Frankfurt)
Hallowed Ground: The Graves of the Righteous in Medieval and Early Modern
Ashkenaz
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:30 Session III
Chair: Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
Avriel Bar-Levav (The Open University of Israel)
Jewish Attitudes towards Death: An Overview
Shmuel Shepkaru (University of Oklahoma)
From Here to the Hereafter: The Ashkenazic Concept of the Afterlife in a Crusading Milieu
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Session IV
Chair: Shmuel Shepkaru (University of Oklahoma)
Andreas Lehnardt (University of Mainz)
Christian Influences on Yarhzeit Customs
Yechiel Schur (University of Pennsylvania)
Body Matters: Perceptions of the Resurrection of the Dead in Medieval Ashkenaz
Jeffrey Woolf (Bar-Ilan University)
Tum’at Met (Death Defilement) and the Presence of God: Law and Religious Perception in Medieval Ashkenaz (900-1300)
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-19:00 Session V
Chair: Uri Ehrlich (Ben-Gurion University)
Peter Sh. Lehnardt (Ben-Gurion University)
‘Ha-Tsur Tamim be-khol Poal’: On Some Italian Roots of the Poetic Tsidduq Ha-Din in the Early Ashkenazic Rite
Ruth Langer (Boston College)
Investigations into Early European Forms of the Tsidduq Ha-Din
Chana Friedman (Beit Midrash Itim, Tel Aviv University)
Turning of the Bed: The Origin and Development of one Mourning Rite
Adiel Kadari (Ben-Gurion University)
“This One Fulfilled what is Written There”: An Early Burial Practice in its Literary and Artistic Contexts
Wednesday, 12 May, 2010
Workshop: Reading Gravestones as Texts (conducted in Hebrew)
Chair: Avriel Bar-Levav (The Open University of Israel)
09:00-11:00 Session VI
Minna Rozen (Haifa University)
From Necropolis to Metropolis: The Study of Jewish Cemeteries in Istanbul
של יהודי אסתאנבול : חקר בתי העלמי לקהילת החיי _ מעיר המתי
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:30 Session VII
Andreas Lehnardt (University of Mainz) and Nathanja Hüttenmeister (Steinheim Institute)
Newly Found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza
שנתגלו לאחרונה במגנצא _ מצבות מימי הביניי
Nathanja Hüttenmeister (Steinheim Institute) and Dan Bondy (Steinheim
Institute)
An Introduction to Epidat: The Epigraphic Database of the Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History
להיסטוריה יהודית גרמנית שטיינהיי האפיגראפי של מכו _ הצגת מסד הנתוני
Gil Hüttenmeister (University of Tuebingen, Institutum Judaicum)
Abbreviations in Hebrew Tombstone Inscriptions
_ ראשי תיבות במצבות והבעיות בפתרונ
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Session VIII
Avraham Reiner (Ben-Gurion University)
Tombstones as a Reflection of Theological Influences
על גבי מצבות המתי השתקפות שיח החיי
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-18:30 Session IX
Mauro Perani (University of Bologna)
The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae: A Project to Save a Precious Archive and a Treasure of Poetry Written on Stone
כתובות במציבות באיטליה להצלת ארכיו —מיז באב חקוקי _ פיוטי :CEHI