Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies | 617 Kent Hall | 1140 Amsterdam Avenue | Columbia University in the City of New York

PROGRAMPROGRAM

EAJS CONFERENCE KABBALAH AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

EAJS CONFERENCE KABBALAH AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2019

FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, FACHBEREICH GESCHICHTS- UND KULTURWISSENSCHAFTEN, FABECKSTRASSE 23-25, 14195 BERLIN

14:00 Welcome & Introductions

14:30–16:30 Panel I: Forms of Kabbalistic Knowledge Transfer in Early Modernity

Ratzo ve-shov: Reflections on the Circulation of Visual Kabbalah in the Early Modern Period J. H. (Yossi) Chajes (Haifa) The Matrix of Understanding: Moshe Zacuto’s Em la-Binah Gerold Necker (Halle)

Modes of Kabbalistic Knowledge Transmission in Early Modernity: Reductive versus Expansive Approaches Andrea Gondos (Beer Sheva)

16:30–17:00 Tea/Coffee Break

17:00–18:00 Keynote Lecture

How the Art of Printing transformed Kabbalah: From Italian Courts to Polish Shtetlach Giulio Busi (Berlin)

19:00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY, 10 JULY 2019

SELMA STERN ZENTRUM FÜR JÜDISCHE STUDIEN BERLIN-BRANDENBURG SOPHIENSTRASSE 22A, 10178 BERLIN

8.30 Shuttle from Seminaris CampusHotel to the Selma Stern Zentrum

9.00-9.30 Tea/Coffee & Welcome

9:30–11:00 Panel II: Manuscript Matrix and Kabbalistic Knowledge Transfer

Imprisoned Agencies: Knowledge Transfer between Travelling and Sitting Down Magdaléna Jánošíková (London)

Kabbalah and/or Philosophy: Sources and Methodology in the Work of Yohanan Alemanno Hanna Gentili (London)

11:00–11:30 Tea/Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Panel III: Kabbalistic Knowledge between Jewish & Christian Contexts

Transmission and Transformation of Kabbalistic Knowledge in Italy at the End of the Fifteenth Century Flavia Buzzetta (Paris)

Transmission and Reception of Isaac ibn Sahula‘s Kabbalistic Commentary on two Psalms Saverio Campanini (Bologna)

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–16:00 Panel IV: Transformations of Kabbalah in East-Central Europe Ashkenaz-Safed-Ashkenaz: Transmission and Transformation in the Early Modern Ashkenazi Ritual Language Maoz Kahana (Tel Aviv)

Paratexts and the Printing of Kabbalah in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Avinoam Stillman (Beer Sheva)

The Magic Triangle: Printing Lurianic Kabbalah in Koretz with Satanow, Krüger and Czartoryski Elke Morlok (Frankfurt)

16:00 Concluding Discussion

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