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Agnon’s Stories of the Land of Israel

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary

of S. Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize

Organized by the Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ Center for Israel Studies

and its Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law

Co-sponsored by:

Agnon House, Jerusalem;

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

Monday, October 31, 2016, 9:30-4:30

Wilf Campus, 535 Furst Hall, 500 West 185th Street

yu.edu/cis

Session I: Between Eretz Yisrael and the Diaspora 9:30am-Noon Greetings:   Steven Fine, Director, Center for Israel Studies, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ Shalom Carmy, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ Chair: Shmuel Schneider, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­

• Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary): Hometown and Homeland: The Dialectic Between Eretz Yisrael and Buczacz in Agnon's Late Works

 

• Wendy Zierle​r (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion): From Henye to Tehilla: The Righteous "Grandmother" as Personification of Village, City and Land of Israel in Baron and Agnon

 

• Shalom Carmy (Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­): The Hound of Heaven and the Dog of the Streets: God and Man in Jerusalem and Points West

Lunch: Noon-1:00pm Session II: “The Art of Agnon Annotation” 1:00-2:00pm Greetings:  Selma Botman, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ Avraham Holtz (Jewish Theological Seminary) in conversation with Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House) discussing Professor Holtz’s monumental edition of Agnon’s Temol Shilshom, the epic novel of Eretz Yisrael during the Second Aliyah. Session III: The Place of Eretz Yisrael in Agnon’s Stories 2:15-4:30pm Chair: Ozer Glickman, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­

• Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen (Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­): łŇ±đ’u±ô˛ąłó in Zionist Ideology and Rhetoric and in Agnon’s “Agunot”
• Laura Wiseman (York University): Agnon’s “Orange Peel”: Word on the Street in the State Book Satires
• Jeffrey Saks (ATID/Agnon House): “But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem”: Agnon’s Nobel Speech in Light of Psalm 137