Please note changes in program.
The conference is admission-free and open the the
public, except where otherwise noted.
Monday, April 16, 18 Nissan
16:45-18:30 The Holocaust, Memory, and Imagination
Greetings:
Dani Danieli, Director, Beit Avi Chai
Arthur Avnon, Deputy Director, Division for Cultural and
Scientific Affairs, Foreign Ministry of Israel
Agnes Heller and János Kobányai
Host: Dror Idar
Claude Lanzmann and Melvin Jules Bukiet
Host: Ami Bouganim
19:00 Conversations with S.Y. Agnon
Greetings:
Benjamin Ish-Shalom, Founder and Rector of Beit Morasha
of Jerusalem
Zvi Zohar, Director, Rappaport Center, Bar-Ilan
University
Hava Pinhas-Cohen
Michael P. Kramer
40 Years Since:
A screening of the documentary, “Nobel
Prize Award Ceremony for Author S.Y. Agnon, Stockholm
1966”
A Conversation Between Writers:
Aharon Appelfeld and Michal Govrin
Agnon and Me: Three Views:
Jonathan Rosen (English), Haim Beer (Hebrew), Svetlana Schonbrun (Russian)
Agnon: Different Voices - Readings:
Tuvia Ruebner (German), Dagmar Herrmann (Slovak)
Baruch Brenner, from A Simple Tale, a dramatic reading (Hebrew)
Host: Bilhah Ben Eliyahu
Tuesday, April 17, 29 Nissan
9:00 – 10:30 Literature and Jewish Identity
In Association with Beth Hatefutsoth /Museum of the
Jewish Diaspora
Panel: Philip David, Esther Dischereit, Asar Eppel,
Colette Felous, Angelina Munis-Huberman. Moderator: Avirama Golan
10:45 – 11:45 The Individuals’s Voice: Poetry Readings
Readings by Elaine Feinstein, Milan Richter, Yisrael Pinkas, Tuvia Ruebner, and David Shapiro.
Host: Karen Alkalay-Gut
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readings (pdf, 1.3MB)
12:00 – 13:30 Roundtable Discussions
1. Poets and Translators (English)
Linda Zisquit, host. With Peter Cole and Shirley
Kaufman.
In association with the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program
in Creative Writing, Bar-Ilan University
2. Can We Define a Younger Generation of Writers? (Hebrew)
Shimon Adaf, Gilad Meiri, Elhana Nir, and Valerie Zenatti.
3. Complex Relations (German)
Panelists: Esther Dischereit, Dagmar Herrmann, Milan Richter, Tuvia Ruebner.
Moderator: Itta Shedletzky.
4. Jews Who Write in Arabic (Arabic and Hebrew)
Panelists: Sasson Somekh, Naim Kattan, Shmuel Moreh,
Yoav Hayek.
Moderator: Lillian Dabby-Joury
16:00 – 17:30 Wandering Jews and Changing Languages
Reading: Gali-Dana Zinger. Panel: David Albahari, Zali
Gurevitz, Miriam Gomburd, Naim Kattan. Moderator: Allen
Hoffman
20:00-22:00 The Role of the Jewish Intellectual in
Society Today
Moderators: Natan Sharansky and Hava Pinhas-Cohen
A conversation with Gabriel
Josipovici and A. B. Yehoshua
Composer and conductor Uri Leshman in a performance of
poetry set to music
Vocals: Mira Avad; Piano: Uri Leshman
Wednesday, April 18, 30 Nissan
9:00 – 10:30 The Judaic Element in Jewish Literature
Reading: Yisrael Eliraz. Panel: Myriam Anissimov, Marcel
Ben-Abu, Rivka Miriam, Haviva Pedaya, David Rosenberg.
Moderator: Nessa Rapoport
10:45 – 11:45 From the Mythic to the Individual
Readings by Ruth Fainlight, Yvonne Green, Miron Izakson,
Dina Rubina, Haim Sabato, Zeruya Shalev, Hal Sirowitz.
Host: Rachel Elior
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readings (pdf, 655KB)
12:00 – 13:30 Roundtable Discussions
1. Literature in Ladino (Ladino and Hebrew)
Readings by Michal Held, Moshe Haelyon , Margalit
Matityahu, Eliezer Pappo, and Avner Peretz .
2. Here and There (Serbian and Hebrew)
Panelists: David Albahari, Miriam Aviezer, Philip David,
Jenny Lebel, Ana Šomlo.
Moderator: Dina Katan Ben Zion
3. Eretz Aheret (Hebrew)
A discussion on the literary journal in the
Israeli/Jewish consciousness
Host: Bambi Sheleg
4. New Jewish Fiction in English (English)
A conversation with novelists Melvin Jules Bukiet,
Elaine Feinstein, Allen Hoffman, Eva Hoffman, Gabriel
Josopovici, Nessa Rapoport, and Jonathan Rosen.
Host:
Michael P. Kramer
In association with the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program
in Creative Writing, Bar-Ilan University
5. Russian-Israeli Literature and Post-Communist Russian
Literature (Russian)
Participants: Assar Eppel, Roee Hen, Maya Kaganskaya,
and Michael Weiskopf.
Moderator: Peter Kriksunov
6. Near and Far (French)
Panel: Myriam Anissimov, Colette Felous, and Esther Orner.
Moderator: Claude Sitbon
7. A Guest from Budapest (Hungarian)
János Kobányai converses with Agnes Heller
16:00 – 18:30 Who is a Jewish Writer?
Panelists: Eva Hoffman, Maya Kaganskaya, and Aharon Megged
Moderator: Dov Elboim
20:00 – 22:00 A Symphony of Jewish Voices (By Invitation
Only)
A Recital of Poetry and Prose by the Conference Participants
Thursday, April 19, 1 Iyar
10:00 – 12:30 Jewish Writers Look Towards the Future
(Participants Only)
Opening Remarks:
Lieutenant Gen. Moshe Yaalon (Res.),
Chair, Center for Jewish Identity and Culture, Beit
Morasha of Jerusalem
Hava Pinhas-Cohen
Michael P. Kramer
Readings: Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Rachel Halfi, Avner Treinin
and Yulia Wiener
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readings (pdf, 1.7MB)
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: A discussion on the
future activities of Kisufim among all conference
participants and organizers.
Moderators: Benjamin Ish-Shalom
and Tobie Nathan,
Cultural Counsellor at The French Embassy, Israel
