List of sessions

Jerusalem, City of Longing

  • Julian Barnett: Sects and the City: Longing in Jerusalem
  • Abraham Diskin: After the Elections: Looking back at Israeli Knesset Elections 
  • Adina Hoffman: Jerusalem above, Jerusalem below: A tale of two cities
  • Reva Mann: Desperately seeking paradise
  • David Newman: Drawing the lines and demarcating the borders in Israel/Palestine
  • Michael Turner: Can heritage be shared?

Inside the Jewish Mind

  • Peter Cole: Can the Jewish mind produce real poetry?
  • Ardyn Halter: Image and memory in Jewish public art 
  • Howard Jacobson: Perversion: A Jewish perspective 
  • Daniel Reisel: Darwin's dangerous idea
  • Jennie Rosenfeld: Single in the city: Caught between law and desire
  • Tamra Wright: Re-considering the ritual – the role of the mitzvot in the thought of Buber, Rosenzweig and Levinas

Changing Places

  • Philip and Christine Bohlman: Transcending the everyday of the Holocaust
  • Ruth Davis (and friends): Mediterranean City Voices
  • Ed Kessler: Jewish–Muslim relations: The need for dialogue
  • Hadar Manor: Tales of an urban Gypsy
  • Jeremy Schonfield: Did the Rabbis take a Canaanite perspective on entering the Promised Land? 
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore: From history to fiction: Writing a Russian Jewish novel 

The Goldene Medina

  • Lisa Cohen: Jews and news – an American perspective
  • Laoise Davidson: Top of the Yiddishe Pops
  • John Deathridge: Music in exile: Germans in America  
  • Matthew Kalman: Premiere of Circumcise Me: The comedy of Yisrael Campbell
  • Marc Saperstein: American Rabbis at the outbreak of World War II
  • Froma Zeitlin: Projecting the Holocaust into the present: Cinema and the popular imagination

No Place Like Home

  • Geoffrey Alderman and Naomi Alderman: A fatal allergy: Hypocrisy of the Anglo–Jewish variety 
  • David Feldman (lawyer): Religion, group identity, individual rights and the law
  • Menachem Fisch: Religious amnesia and Jewish sovereignty – Remembering Seder night
  • Gabriel Levin: Reading from The Maltese Dreambook
  • David Moss: A Quest for Jewish splendour: My work as a Mitzvah Beautifier
  • Ada Rapoport-Albert: 'Here, in This World, and in the Body, not in Spirit': A heretical vision of the redemption on Polish soil

The Past is Another Country

  • Anna Sapir Abulafia: Who is serving whom in medieval Jewish-Christian relations?
  • David Feldman (historian): Russia, England and Uganda – placing the Jews at the start of the twentieth century
  • Stefan Reif: How Jerusalem won a place in Jewish prayer
  • Pinchas Roth: Is Sex impure? Medieval men and Mikveh
  • Miri Rubin: Jews – at the heart of medieval Christian culture
  • Andrea Schatz: East of the Enlightenment: Jewish perspectives on Europe and the Orient