Call for Papers

21st Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany, 3–5 September 2018, Dusseldorf

The annual Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany is organized by the Yiddish programs at the universities of Trier and Dusseldorf.

You are invited to submit abstracts for 20 min. papers until May 1, 2018. All fields of research within Yiddish Studies will be considered. Interdisciplinary papers with a connection to Yiddish Studies are welcome. Proposals for sessions of 3 or 4 papers have to be submitted together with abstracts for the individual papers. Papers may be presented in German or Yiddish.

The symposium is open to all who are interested in Yiddish Studies. The conference fee of 20 Euro is due on the first day of attendance. We ask participants to register as soon as possible at the address below.

Simon Neuberg (University of Trier) and Marion Aptroot (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf)

Abteilung für Jiddische Kultur, Sprache und Literatur
Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Dusseldorf
40204 Dusseldorf

www.jiddisch.hhu.de/
Email: jiddisch@hhu.de

The Department of Jewish Culture of St. Petersburg State University in cooperation with the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Interregional Center for Hebrew Teaching are pleased to invite you to participate in the 3rd International Conference “Hebrew and Yiddish in the Context of Modern Education and Culture”.

The conference will be held on September 3-6, 2018 in St. Petersburg, Russia at the St. Petersburg State University (V.O., Mendeleevskaya linjia, 5).

The main topics of the conference are: studies in the field of modern Hebrew, problems of Hebrew teaching, modern Hebrew literature, Yiddish studies, Yiddish teaching issues, Yiddish literature, Jewish languages, Yiddish and Ladino. Working languages ​​of the conference are Hebrew (sections devoted to Hebrew studies), as well as English, Yiddish and Russian (sections devoted to Yiddish studies).

In the application it is necessary to indicate the title of the lecture, an abstract of up to 600 words in the language of the lecture and in English, as well as the full name of the participant, academic degree, academic title (if any), place of work or study, job description, phone numbers and e-mail address.

Application deadline: 1 June 2018

Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture at the St. Petersburg State University,
Professor Igor R. Tantlevskij

Phone/Fax +7 (812) 328-9552, email: jc.conference@philosophy.spbu.ru

Jewish Law Association 20^th International Conference

100 years of the Jewish Law Movement מאה שנים למשפט העברי

Moscow State University, Moscow

23–26 July 2018

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1 May 2018

The Jewish Law Association in collaboration with the Moscow State University and Tel-Aviv University, is pleased to announce its 20^th International Conference, to be held July 23 – 26, 2018 at Moscow State University. The conference will celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the Mishpat Ivri Society (in Moscow in 1918) which was the first group to imagine and work toward the rejuvenation of Jewish law as part of the Zionist project.

Interested parties are invited to submit proposals for talks on one of the four conference topics. The proposal should include a title for the talk and a 200-300 word abstract.

1. The Study/Project of Mishpat Ivri at 100 years — History, accomplishments, challenges, and frontiers;

2. Mishpat Ivri at the nexus of Jewish Law and Israeli Law.

3. Jewish Law in Russia, the Russian Empire, and the USSR

4. Universal Values in Jewish Law (to include papers on the teaching of Jewish law.)

As always, if the schedule permits the JLA will consider paper proposals concerning topics other than those central to the conference. ​Strong preference will be given to proposals for entire sessions. Proposals for sessions may be sent in a single file with the organizer(s) name, session title, a brief description of the session, all the abstracts for the session, and full contact details for each presenter. Please note that presenters at the conference will need to be members of the Association in good standing.

It is our expectation that a selection of the papers from the conference, as well as other papers not presented at the conference, will be published in a forthcoming volume of Jewish Law Association Studies. Please contact Phil Lieberman (phil.lieberman@vanderbilt.edu)or Amos Israel (aisrael@idc.ac.il) with any questions pursuant to the conference.

Please send the proposals to JLA20conference@gmail.com.