Greetings:
Elisheva Baumgarten (on behalf of the committee)
Elchanan Reiner (The National Library)
Katrin Kogman Appel (University of Munster) - "איורי מחזור לייפציג ועולמו של ר' אלעזר מוורמס"
Round table: Research on Sefer Hasidim, Present and Future Directions
Participants:
Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Elizabeth Hollander ( Goethe University, Frankfurt), Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben-Gurion University)
Session 1: Sefer Hasidim as a Compiled Text
Chair: Ephraim Shoham Steiner (Ben Gurion University)
Participants:
Ivan Marcus (Yale University) - "Sefer Hasidim, its Author, and Hasidei Ashkenaz in Historical context"
Saskia Donitz (Goethe University, Frankfurt) - "Sefer Hasidim in Manuscripts- Transmissions and Compliation: A response"
David Shyowitz (Northwestern University) - Response
Session 2: Sefer Hasidim as a Halakhic Text
Chair: David Shyowitz (Northwestern University)
Participants:
Avraham (Rami) Reiner ( Ben-Gurion University) - "Halakha and Practice in Sefer Hasidim"
Pinhas Roth (Bar Ilan University) - "Halakha in Sefer Hasidim: A Response"
Judah Galinsky (Bar Ilan University) - "R. Issac heHasid of Corbeil and R. Judah heHasid of Regensburg: A Response"
Session 3: Sefer Hasidim as Narrative Text
Participants:
Eli Yassif (Tel Aviv University) - "The Tension between Learned Judaism and European Folk-Culture as Reflected in Sefer Hasidim
David Rothman (Achva Academic College and Tel-Aviv University) - "Neither Folk-Literature nor Belles-Lettres: Social Tensions and Literary Genres in the stories of Sefer Hasidim: A Response"
Talya Fishman (University of Pennsylvania) - A Response
Session 4: Sefer Hasidim and its Local Context
Participants:
Ahuva Liberales Noiman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Center for the Study of Conversion) - "Concepts of Localization in the Writings of Rabbi Judah heHasid"
Adam Cohen (University of Toronto) - "Imitator of the Old Law/ Advocate of Revealed Grace: Visualizing Jews and Christians in the Twelfth Century Regensburg"
Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University) - "R. Judah heHasid and the Tosafists of Northern France: Points of Similarity and Divergence"
Session 5: Hasidei Ashkenaz: Crossing Borders
Chair: Joseph Issac Lifshitz
Simcha Emanual (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "From Joshua b. Nun Until R. Moses of Lucca: R. Judah heHasid's Attempts to Identifuy the Stratification of the Prayer Book"
Rainer Josef Barzen (University of Munster) - West and East in Ashkenaz in the Time of Judah heHasid"
Moshe David Chechik (Henrew University of Jerusalem) - "From Regensburg to Cracow: Rabbi Michel Moravchik and the Legacy of Hasidei Ashkenaz"
Session 6: Sefer Hasidim: Reception in the Early Modern Judaism
Chair: Debra Kaplan (Bar Ilan University)
Lucia Raspe (Goethe University, Frankfurt and the Jewish Museum, Berlin) - "Between ShUM and Regensburg: Space and Place in the Early Modern Narrative Traditions about R. Judah heHasid"
Yaakob Dweck (Princeton University) - "Sefer Hasidim in Early Modern Europe"
Session 7: Sefer Hasidim: Reception in Halakha and Literature
Chair: Chava Turniansky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Elisabeth Hollander (Goethe University, Frankfurt) - "Piyyut Commentary as Ethical Literature among Hasidei Ashkenaz"
Rella Kushelevsky (Bar Ilan University) - Traces of Hasidut Ashkenaz in Medieval Collections of Tales"
Yakov Elbaum (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Traces of Sefer Hasidim within the Literature of Early Modern Polish and Ashkenazi Jews"
Session 8: Sefer Hasidim and Social History
Chair: Micha Perry (Haifa University)
Eyal Levinson (Bar Ilan University, ERC Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "The Friend Visits him Frequently and Reveals his Secret: Hasidei Ashkenaz and Male Friendship"
Susan Weissman (Touro College) - "Prayer for the Dead in Sefer Hasidim"
Judith Baskin (University of Oregon) - "Representations of Biblical Women in Sefer Hasidim"
Session 9: Sefer Hasidim and Mysticism
Chair: Elisabeth Hollander (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Inbal Gur (Bar Ilan University) - "The Complexity of the Book of Angels in Various Manuscripts"
Sarah Offenberg (Ben Gurion University) - "Hasidic Ideals as Expressed in Medieval Jewish Art"
Daniel Abrams (Bar Ilan University) - "An Unknown Manuscript Source of the Hermeneutic Gates by Rabbi Elazar of Worms: a Response to the Death of Rabbi Judah heHasid"
Session 10: Roundtable, Conclusions
Chair: Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Participants:
Elisheva Karlebach (Columbia University)
Micha Perry (Haifa University)
Ephraim Shoham Steiner (Ben Gurion University)