Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Geraldine Gudefin
Brandeis University
“Disciplining the Marital Practices of Jewish Immigrants: Attempts at Centralization in The United States and France”

Hannah Mayne
University of Toronto
“Women’s Tefila Groups and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy”

Biti Bina Orit Roi
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussant on “Human Nature in jewish Mysticism: ‘Body, Soul, Psychology, and Ethics,’” Chair: Eitan P. Fishbane

Jessica Kirzane
Columbia University
“The Battle Against Free Love: Literature and Journalism about Romance in ‘Di Varheit’ During World War I”

Michaela Mudure
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
“Over the Bodies of Women: How the Jewishness of the State of Israel is Being Constructed”

Moira Ran Ben Hai
Bar-Ilan University
“The Individual, the Feminine and the Public: The Protrait of Professor Alice Shalvi and Her Entrprises as a Reflection of the Development of Women’s Status in Israeli Society”

Ofira Fuchs
University of Illinois - Urbana
“States of Reform: Orthodoxy, Change and Jewish Religious Activism in Israel”

Malka Zeiger Simkovich
Catholic Theological Union
“Aggressive Matriarch or Passive Maiden? How Jewish and Christian Writers Interpreted the Rebecca Stories of Genesis in the Greco-Roman World”

Susan Weiss
Center for Women’s Justice, Jerusalem
“Over the Bodies of Women: How the Jewishness of the State of Israel is Being Constructed”

Romina Yalonetzk
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
“A Mixed Life: Conversion, Gender, Class and Family Formation in Jewish Lima”

Chelsie May
University of Chicago
“Levantinism, Youth Aliyah and the Image of Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Authorship of Ramat Hadassah-Szold: Youth Aliyah and Classification Center”

Michaela Mudure
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
“Vera Călin: Identity in Migration”

Amanda Kaye Sharick
University of California, Riverside
“Dreaming Presently: Modern Re-presentations of Contested Histories in Motti Mizrachi’s ‘Herzl Meets the Emperor Wilhelm II Gates of Mikve Israel Sculputure’”

Alison L. Joseph
Villanova University
“Dinah, Priestly Victim”

Geraldine Gudefin
Brandeis University
“Navigating the Civil and Religious Worlds: Jewish Marriage and Divorce in France and the United States (1881-1914)”

Irina Astashkevich
Brandeis University
“Gendered Narrative of Violence during Pogroms in Ukraine”

Orit Avery
The Hartman Institute
“The Cry of the Concubine at Gilbeah; the Whisper of Ruth on the Threshing Floor: An Intertextual Analysis of Two Biblical Stories”

Efrat Bloom
University of Michigan
“In the Field of Jewish Eros”

Levi Cooper
Bar-Ilan University
“Do-it-yourself Miqva’ot: Creative Solutions to Legal Delinquency”

Shira Klein
Chapman University
“Faith in the Fatherland: Jewish Women and Italy’s 1938 Racial Laws”

Devi Mays
Jewish Theological Seminary
“A Love Story from the Old World that Ended in Tragedy in the New: Migration, Marriage, and Domestic Violence in the 20th Century Sephardic World”

Tahneer Oksman
Marymount Manhattan College
“Learned Mister Editor: Liana Fink’s Graphic Translation of Bintel Brief”

Melissa Weininger
Rice University
“Girlfriends in Paradise: The Garden of Eden and the Location of Modernity”

Shayna Weiss
New York University
“A Beach of Their Own: A History of the Gender Segregated Beach in Tel Aviv”

Shira Weiss
Yeshiva University
“Halakhic Innovation in the Responsa of Hasdai Crescas: The Case of the Qatlanit”

Murat C. Yildiz
UCLA
“Societe Juive de Gymnastique, ‘Maccabi’: An Ottoman Jewish Civic Association”

Frederica Francesconi
University of Oregon
“Domestic Service in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Jews and Christians under the Same Jewish Roof”

Shana Frydman
CUNY Graduate Center
“Tradition and Transition: American Orthodox Jewish Women Becoming and Being Sexually Active within Marriage”

Adara Goldberg
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, British Columbia
“‘I was Afraid of Bringing Children into the World’: The Complex Roles of Female Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada”

Shaun Jacob Halper
UC Berkeley
“The Jewish Homosexuality of Mordechai Jiri Langer (1894-1943)”

David Koffman
University of Toronto
“Managing Manhood: The Anxieties of American Jewish Medicine”

Oren Segal
University of Michigan
“AIDS, Holocaust, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Benny Ziffer’s Muselmann”

Dalia Wassner
Brandeis University
“Tango, Film, and Satirical Journalism in the Construction of Argentine National Identity”

Rachel Harris

Leslie Ginsparg Klein

Michaela Mudure

Rachel Rockenmacher

Ilan Fuchs

Emily Katz

Reuven Kiperwasser

Adriana Brodsky
University of Southern Indiana
“Tasting Food, Creating Identity: Sephardic Women and the Domestic Aspects of Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Gender”

Yael Chaver
University of California, Berkeley
“How Shall I Go So Poor?: The European Poetry of Rikuda Potash”

Amy Feinstein
Colgate University
“An Aesthetics of Alienation and Intermarriage: The Avant-Garde Jewish Writings of Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy”

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Harvard University
“A Dead Man, a Magic Well and a Leper: Thoughts Concerning Two Jewish Rituals and Their Rationalizations from the European High Middle Ages”

Lori Harrison-Kahan
University of Pennsylvania
“In the Same Show Boat? Jewish Imitations of Black Life in the Fiction of Edna Ferber and Fannie Hurst”

Melissa Klapper
Rowan University
“Youth, Gender and Public Space in American Jewish Community Institutions at the Turn of the Century”