International Conference Displacements of Jewish Communal Life in Islamic Lands and Cultural Reconstruction in Israel Monday, December 10, 2018, 2 Tevet, 5779 Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
09:30-10:00: Arrival and Registration 10:00- 12:00: Opening Session: Chair: Dr. Shimon Ohayon, Director of the Dahan Center Dr. Jacob Wisse, Director of Yeshiva University Museum
Greetings: MK Gila Gamliel, Minister of Social Equality Mr. Avraham Duvdevani, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization Lectures: Prof. Shmuel Trigano, Paris Nanterre University The historical background of the end of Jewish Communal life in the Arab Lands Prof. David Matas, University of Manitoba The legal status of the Jewish refugees from lands Prof. Henry Green, University of Miami Sephardi Sights: narratives of expulsion, memory and identity in film
Chair: Prof. Steven Fine, Yeshiva University Greetings: Prof. Selma Botman, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Yeshiva University Prof. Noam Norman Stillman, University of Oklahoma The Jews of the Islamic World in Modern Times: Transformation and Transplantation
1:30-2:30: Third Session: Disruptions and Continuities- Rabbis and Religious Life Chair: Prof. Thierry Alcoloumbre, Bar-Ilan University Dr. Daniel Tsadik, Yeshiva University Leaving Home? Notes on Iranian Jews’ immigration from Iran Dr. Norman Ringel, Yeshiva University Educational Systems and Religious Identity: From Arab Lands to Israel
2:30-3:00 Musical interlude: Piyyutim Rabbi Moshe Tessone Belz School of Jewish Music
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-5:00 Fourth Session: Disruptions and Continuities- Cultural and International Institutions Chair: Sarina Roffé, Sephardic Heritage Project Dr. Stanley Yurman, Rutgers University The relationship of the UN to Jewish refugees and their property in comparison to Palestinian Refugees Dr. Reuven Gafni, Kinneret Academic College Synagogues in the Islamic World from Glory to Commemoration Yamit Armbrister, Author The Jews of Morocco: Through the Historical Fiction of One Remarkable Woman
Concluding comments: Dr. Daniel Tsadik, Dr. Hillel Newman and Dr. Shimon Ohayon Information and Registration: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3687694 Isaac Choua: 1-646-309-7353 ichoua@mail.yu.edu or Sarina Roffe: 1 917-439-5126 sarina@roffe.com Information and Registration: brownpapertickets.com/event/3687 In Cooperation with:
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