Workshop Schedule
	The workshop meets on alternate Mondays 5 to 6:30 pm at Cobb 103 [change of location!]. Spring Quarter 2006 April 5 Ed Silver Divinity School, University of Chicago “'Is Israel a Slave?  Is He a Houseborn Servant?  Why Has He Become Plunder?': The Triple Rhetorical Question in Biblical Hebrew and Its Adaptation in the Poetry of Jeremiah.” April 16 Rachel Seelig Com. on Jewish Studies, University of Chicago “From Death—through Love—into Life: The Star of Redemption in the Context of German Literary Expressionism” Commentator: Jeremy Galen. April 30 Hillel Grey Divinity School, University of Chicago “The Ideal of Halakhah as a Closed System of Law” Commentator: Chaim Neria May 14 Avi Rubin Com. on Jewish Studies, University of Chicago “'Our Most Problematic Neighbor:' The Evolution of Israeli-Jordanian Relations, 1949-63” Commentator: Sarah Hirschhorn Past Workshops Fall Quarter 2006 Oct 9 Ben Sax Divinity School, University of Chicago “Citation, Judaism, and the Crisis of Modernity" Commentator: Ari Joskowicz Oct 23 Jean-Christophe Attias Professor of Jewish Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études “How We Ceased Being Jewish” Round Table Discussion Responses: Kati Voros, Bernard Wasserstein Nov 6 Lisa Silverman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Red Vienna, Cultural Policy, and the Jews” Commentator: John Deak Nov 20 Igor Holanda de Souza Comm. on Jewish Studies, University of Chicago “Samuel Usque: A Consolation for the Portuguese New Christians” Commentator: Theo Dunkelgrun Winter Quarter 2006 Jan. 22 Elliot Cosgrove Divinity School, University of Chicago “The Road Not Taken: The Iconoclastic Theology of Rabbi Louis Jacobs" Commentator: Sarah Imhoff Jan. 29 (meeting cancelled) Feb. 12 Ari Joskowicz Dept. of History/Com. on Jewish Studies, University of Chicago “...'far be it from me to touch anything that even remotely touches any business of the Catholic religion': Religious Polemics and the Renegotiation of Political Subjectivities in the German Parliaments 1866-1880” Commentator: Andrew Sloin Feb. 26 Michael Stanislawski Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University “A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion and Violence in Modern Jewish History” Commentator: Prof. Bernard Wasserstein
	Papers to be presented and dissertation synopses are usually available one week before the session date. They can be downloaded here. Workshop Homepage Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Kati Voros or  Ari Joskowicz. Link to workshop coordinator page