| Wednesday, December 27, 2017 |
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| 16:00 |
Gathering and refreshments |
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| 16:30 |
Greetings
Prof. Kobi Metzer, President, The Open University of Israel
Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims (JCMcenter) |
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Opening Session: Processes of Symbiosis and Religious Syncretism – Common Discourse
Chair: Prof. Haim Saadoun, Dean of Academic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
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Kadi Dr. Iyad Zahalka, Kadi of the Shari'a Court of Appeals and Director of the Shari'a Courts in Israel, Tel Aviv University |
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Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish, Lecturer and Library Fellow, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute |
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| 17:30 |
Coffee break |
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| 18:00 |
Session 2: Religious and Philosophical Meetings
Chair: Prof. Menachem Fisch, Joseph and Ceil Mazer Prof. of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies, Tel Aviv University |
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Dr. Gil Gordon, The Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Talmudists, Speculators, Colonists”: The Changing Image of Jews in the Eyes of German Protestant Missionaries in Late Ottoman Palestine |
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Dr. Gitit Holzman, Department of Jewish Thought, Levinsky College of Education
Truth, Tradition and Religion – The Association Between Judaism and Islam and the Relationship between Religion and Philosophy in Medieval Jewish Thought |
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Dr. Naomi Cohn Zentner, Postdoctoral fellow at the Daat Hamakom Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shared Soundscapes in Ottoman Safed |
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| Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
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| 09:30 |
Gathering and refreshments |
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| 10:00 |
Session 3: Mediating Agents Between Cultures
Chair: Prof. Guy Miron, Head, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
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Prof. Haim Saadoun, Dean of Academic Studies, The Open University of Israel Mohamed Cohen and Marcel Mohamed Reggui as Agents of Interreligious and Ethnic Relations Changes |
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Dr. Mishy Harman, Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem "First to the Jew"? Samuel Gobat and the Mission to the Jews of the Holy Land in the Mid-Nineteenth Century |
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Amichay Schwartz, Israel Heritage Department, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ariel University
Between Sanuto and Fedanzola - Ishtori Haparchi as Mediator, and Jewish Authority of Biblical Geography |
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| 11:30 |
Coffee break |
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| 12:00 |
Session 4: Ritual Syncretism
Chair: Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims |
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Refael Kroizer, Research student in the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
In the Shadow of the Catholic Wedding: The Jewish Divorce Ceremony in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages |
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Dr. Yosaif Mordechai Dubovick, Achva Academic College, Faculty of Education
Greeting in the Name of the Trinity: Christian Ritual in Rav Hayya Gaon's Talmud Commentary |
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Moshe Yagur, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa, and the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters
Circumcision as a Shared Custom in Medieval Egypt |
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| 13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:30 |
Session 5: Jcmcenter Award Winners
Chair: Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims |
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Dr. David Rotman, Book Award for Outstanding Research
Dragons, Demons and Wondrous Realms: The Marvelous in Medieval Hebrew Narrative |
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Dr. Abigail Jacobson and Dr. Moshe Naor, Book Award for Outstanding Research
Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine |
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Dr. Karma Ben Johanan, Award for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Contemporary Conceptions of Judaism and Christianity in Catholic and Jewish Orthodox Theologies |
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Roy Marom, Award for an Outstanding Research Work
The Laws of Homicide and Bodily Harm in Antiquity and in Early Islamic Law |
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| 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Session 6: Religious and Ethnic Syncretism in the Political Field
Chair: Dr. Ishay Landa, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
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Prof. (Emeritus) Moshe Ma'oz, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jews in Muslim Lands: Ambivalent Relations |
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Mayson Shehade, doctoral student, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa
The Weight of Religious Origin and Values in Forming Ideological Symbiotic Relations between Party Members, 1948-1967 |
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Dr. Avishai Ben-Dror, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel; The Harry S. Truman Research Institute
"Muslims of the Pasha and Christians of the King": Among the Oromo Peoples Revisiting Syncretism during the Nineteenth Century |
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