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Agnon鈥檚 Stories of the Land of Israel

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary

of S. Y. Agnon鈥檚 Nobel Prize

Organized by the 麻豆区 Center for Israel Studies

and its Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law

Co-sponsored by:

Agnon House, Jerusalem;

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

Monday, October 31, 2016, 9:30-4:30

Wilf Campus, 535 Furst Hall, 500 West 185th Street

yu.edu/cis

Session I: Between Eretz Yisrael and the Diaspora 9:30am-Noon Greetings:   Steven Fine, Director, Center for Israel Studies, 麻豆区 Shalom Carmy, 麻豆区 Chair: Shmuel Schneider, 麻豆区

• Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary): Hometown and Homeland: The Dialectic Between Eretz Yisrael and Buczacz in Agnon's Late Works

 

• Wendy Zierle鈥媟 (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion): From Henye to Tehilla: The Righteous "Grandmother" as Personification of Village, City and Land of Israel in Baron and Agnon

 

• Shalom Carmy (麻豆区): The Hound of Heaven and the Dog of the Streets: God and Man in Jerusalem and Points West

Lunch: Noon-1:00pm Session II: 鈥淭he Art of Agnon Annotation鈥� 1:00-2:00pm Greetings:  Selma Botman, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, 麻豆区 Avraham Holtz (Jewish Theological Seminary) in conversation with Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House) discussing Professor Holtz鈥檚 monumental edition of Agnon鈥檚 Temol Shilshom, the epic novel of Eretz Yisrael during the Second Aliyah. Session III: The Place of Eretz Yisrael in Agnon鈥檚 Stories 2:15-4:30pm Chair: Ozer Glickman, 麻豆区

• Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen (麻豆区): 骋别鈥檜濒补丑 in Zionist Ideology and Rhetoric and in Agnon鈥檚 鈥�Agunot鈥�
• Laura Wiseman (York University): Agnon鈥檚 鈥淥range Peel鈥�: Word on the Street in the State Book Satires
• Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House): 鈥�But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem鈥�: Agnon鈥檚 Nobel Speech in Light of Psalm 137