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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The History of Jewish Friendship\, 1650-1950
DESCRIPTION:Is there a “Jewish” cultural model of friendship? How did it change over time? Could the study of Jewish friendships shed new light on the Jewish past? 13 scholars will gather together to present their research on Jewish amical practices\, sociability\, intimacy\, familiarity and spiritual friendship.\n\nThe event is co-organized by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies\, with the support of the International Institute.\n\nConference Schedule:\nWednesday\, October 26\, 2022\n16:30 | Greetings\nMaya Barzilai (University of Michigan)\nShachar Pinsker and Shai Zamir (University of Michigan)\n16:45-18:30 | Early Modern Friendships\nChair: Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)\nOrit Bashkin (University of Chicago): “The Sultan’s Best Friend Forever: Early Modern Jewish Constructions”\nBernard Cooperman (University of Maryland): “Rhetorics of Friendship and Family in Traditional Jewish Society”\nShai Zamir (University of Michigan): “Friendship as a Rhetorical Strategy among Portuguese New Christians”\n\nThursday\, October 27\, 2022\n9:00 | Coffee\n9:15-11:00 | Mediterranean Friendships\nChair: Helmut Puff (University of Michigan)\nFederica Francesconi (University at Albany\, SUNY): ״Single Jewish Women in Early Modern Venice and their Global Networks: Belonging\, Friendship\, and Circulation of Objects״ \nLawrence Fine (Mount Holyoke College): “Spiritual Friendship and Intentional Kabbalistic Fellowships in the Early Modern Period”\nFrancesca Bregoli (Queens College of the City University of New York): “‘Cursed be that Money that Ruins and Breaks our Friendship’: Epistolary Constructions of Merchant Friendship in the 18th-century Mediterranean”\n\n12:00 | Lunch\n\n12:20-14:20 | American Friendships\nGreetings: John Carson (University of Michigan)\nChair: Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan)\nSteven Green (University of California\, Santa Cruz): \"A Necessary Friendship?: Jewish Relations between Themselves and non-Jews on North Dakota Homesteads\"\nRachel B. Gross (San Francisco State University) and Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University): “Sufferings of the Soul: The Friendship of Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter” \nMaggie Carlton (University of Michigan): “Mistaken\, Forbidden\, & Severed Friendships in Interwar Detroit”\n\n15:30-17:45 | Modern Friendships\nChair: Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan)\nGabriel Mordoch (University of Michigan): \"Stanley Bendana and Jacob Perlman: A Sephardic-Ashkenazi encounter in Victor Perera's The Conversion (1970)\"\nMostafa Hussein (University of Michigan): \"Friendship in Trying Times: On Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandate Palestine\"\nRuth Behar (University of Michigan): “El Grupo: Friendship Among Cuban Jewish Immigrants”  \nShachar Pinsker (University of Michigan): “Coffee\, Sociability\, and Conversation: Coffeehouses and Modern Jewish Friendship”\n\nIllustration by Rutu Modan: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism
UID:99555-21798336@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/99555
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:European,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Jewish Studies,Research,Scholarship,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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