Colloquium on Medieval Hebrew Poetry

 

(under the auspices of EAJS, with the collaboration of Dpto. de Estudios Semíticos,

Universidad de Granada)

Granada 11-13 February 2002 


Program


Lectures: 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion. At La Corrala de Santiago 

 

 

Monday 11 February 2002 

 

9.30 h.  Opening Remarks and Lecture

 

José Ramón Ayaso (Universidad de Granada)

"Forgotten and Absent: the Jews in the History of Granada"

 

10.30-11 h.  Coffee Break 

 

11 -12.30 h. 

 

Naoya Katsumata 

"Nehemiah ben Shelomoh and the idea of microcosm"

 

Elisabeth Hollender 

"The piyyutim of Qalonymus b. Yehudah from Magenza"

 

Susan L. Einbinder 

"Hebrew Liturgical Poems for "The Day of Shutting in". A response to Holy Week Violence"

 

13.30 h. Lunch 

 

16.30-17.30 h.

 

Yehoshua Granat 

"Dunash’s "ve`omer ’al tishan": The first Hebrew Wine Poem from Spain reconsidered"

 

Tova Beeri 

"Yehosef ha-Nagid Revisited: His Portrait as Document in the Geniza"

 

17,30-18 h. Coffee Break 

 

18-19 h.

 

Aviva Ishay 

"A Continuing Dialogue with Mosheh ibn Ezra’s Love Epigram- Whence and Where? Why and Wherefore?"

 

Karin Almbladh

"The Use of Tawshih for Elegies"

 

 

Tuesday 12 February 2002 

 

9.30-11 h. 

 

Yoseph Yahalom 

"From Lyric to Liturgy in the Gabirolian Tradition"

 

Ephraim Hazan 

"The Rightous as a Ruler in the Poetry of R. Yehudah ha-Levi"

 

Eliezer Gutwirth 

"Music and Dance in the Middle Ages"

 

11,00-11,30 h. Coffee Break 

 

11.30-13.00 h.

 

Tova Sinianski

"The Poetry of Meshulam de Piera"

 

Josep Ribera

“The Polemic Poetry of Meshullam ben Shelomoh de Piera”

 

Aviva Doron

"Trends in the Poetry of Yizhaq ben- Shelomoh al-Ahdav"


 

13.30 h. Lunch 



             16.30-17.30 h.

 

Judit Targarona Borrás

"The Poetry of the last Hebrew poets of Sefarad" 

 

Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Realism versus convention in Bonafed’s Poetry"

 

17,30-18 h. Coffee Break

 

18-19 h.  

 

Arie Schippers 

"Poetical Themes and Forms in the Darke No‘am by Mosheh ibn Habib"

 

Alessandro Guetta

"Moseh ben Yizhaq mi-Rieti: The Search of a Personal Poetic Style"

 

 

Wednesday 14 February 2002

 

9.30-11h. 

 

Judith Dishon 

"Medieval Science in a Belletristic Garb"

 

Revival Yeffet 

"The Debates in the Book "Meshal ha-Qadmoni" as a Mirror of Jewish Life in Thirteenth Century Spain"

 

11,00-11,30 Coffee Break 

11.30-12.30 h.

 

Zvi Malachi

"The Literary Works of Moseh ben Gideon Abudiende"

 

Dvora Bregman 

"The Daughter of Voice and the Daughters of Poetry"


 

13.30 h. Lunch

 


16.30-18 h.

 

Mª José Cano 

"Peace and the clasical Judeo-Andalusian poets according to the  Barcelona Haggada."

 

Shmuel Refael

"Back to Sefarad: The ideological Role of the Hebrew Poetry from Spain in the Sephardic Zionist Movement"

 

Ziva Shamir

"The Influence of Hebrew Medieval Poetry on Bialik’s Personal Poetry"