Conference Schedule: Program

3:15 - 8:00

Excursion: Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito
Sheraton Hotel, Palo Alto

10:30 - 11:30

Teaching Hebrew in the 21 Century: A Tour and Demonstration of the Hebrew Facilities and Program at Stanford

Stanford Hebrew Program, Kara Sanchez, and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Learning
Building 160, Room 127

11:00 - 1:00

Registration and Refreshment

Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University

12:00 - 2:00

Session 1

Language: Room 317

• Chair: Ting Wang (Stanford University)
• Tamar Zewi (Haifa University), Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew (E)
• Duane Christensen (UC Berkeley), From Sacred Story to Canonical Text: The Formation of the Bible (E)
• Randall Garr (UC Santa Barbara), '^abãl in Biblical Hebrew (E)

Literature: Room 326

• Chair:
• Uzi Shavit (Tel Aviv University), "In Front of the Day of Disappointments": 60's Anniversary of the Ending of WWII in Europe - The Reaction of the Hebrew Poetry (H)
• Hagit Halperin (Tel Aviv University), "In the Beginning There Was My Mother's Cry": Biography and Mythical Biography (A. Shlonsky and A. Penn) (H)
• Zahava Caspi (Ben Gurion University), The "Lake" and the "Road": Space and Poetics in the Poetry of Bialik and Alterman - a Comparative Discussion (H)

Panel: Room 323

• Chair: Hannah Naveh
• Oreet Meital (Ben Gurion University), The Prophetic Body: Sado-Masochist Aspects in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg (H)
• Shira Stav (Ben Gurion University), Deconstructing Daddy: The Father's Body in Women's Poetry (H)
• Dana Olmert (Hebrew University), "For I Will Never Be Thine Wife": Eroticism and Poetic Creativity in the Early Poetry by Ester Raab (H)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127

• Chair: Ziporah Wagner
• Rivka Halperin and Hadassah Nemovicher (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), News from Israel: Enhancing Reading Comprehension in the Advanced Levels of Hebrew Instruction (H)
• Tiqva Baron (Rice University), ePortfolio at the Beginners' and the Intermediate Language Levels (H)

2:00 - 2:30

Coffee Break
Building 200, Room 02

2:30 - 4:30

Historiographical Perspectives on Israeli Literature
A special panel in honor of the 100th birthday of Israel Cohen
Building 200, Room 02

• Chair: Gilead Morahg (University of Wisconsin)
• Hagit Halperin (Tel Aviv University) In Memory of Israel Cohen
• Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley), "Likrat": Towards a New Poetics and Politics of "The Statehood Generation"
• Yigal Schwartz (Ben Gurion University), Modernism and Postmodernism in Israeli Literature: The Watershed (H)

5:00 - 7:30

Stanford Faculty Club Dinner

Keynote Address: Amir Eshel, Comparative Literature, Stanford:Writing the Unsaid: Hebrew Prose and the Palestinian Question

7:30 - 8:30

"...And Then I Went":

Performance by Oshra Elkayam movement theatre, Israel
Dinkelspiel Auditorium

8:00 - 9:00

Business Meeting (Open to all NAPH Members)
Room 127

9:00 - 10:30

Session 2

Literature: Room 326

• Chair: Nancy Ezer
• Yael Feldman (New York University), Bat Yiftah, She'ula, Titzhak: Female Sacrifice Then and Now (H)
• Gilead Morahg (University of Wisconsin), A Voice Calling in the Wilderness: Religion and Redemption in A.B. Yehoshua's Early Fiction (E)

Language: Room 322

• Chair: Adriane Leveen
• Abraham Tal (Tel Aviv University), Samaritan Hebrew in the Perspective of the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (E)
• Gershon Brin (Tel Aviv University), The New Byzantine Bible Commentaries and Their Place in the History of Jewish Exegesis (H)

Pedagogy: Room 127

• Chair: Gallia Porat
• Hadassah Kantor (Bar Ilan University), On Four Areas of Difficulties for Learners of Hebrew as a Foreign/Second Language (H)
• Rivkah Bliboim (Hebrew University), "Listening to Hebrew": New Audio Lab Programs (H)

Literature Panel: On The Margins of Modernism
Wallenberg Theater (Room 124)

• Chair: Michael Gluzman
• Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan), On Modernism, Margins, and Yiddish-Hebrew Writers (H)
• Allison Shachter (UC Berkeley), Gender and Geography: The Terrain of Eastern Europe in Leah Goldberg's ve-Hu ha-Or (E)
• Naomi Brenner (UC Berkeley), Modernist Bard and Balladeer: Poetic Personas of Avraham Shlonsky and Itsik Manger (E)

11:00 - 1:00

Session 3

Literature: Room 326

• Chair: Barbara Mann
• Nancy Berg (Washington University), You Can't Go Home Again: The Hebrew Memoir (E)
• Iris Milner (Tel Aviv University), Yehudith Hendel: Memory Concerns (H)
• Tsila Ratner (University College London), Chronicles of Homes or The Young Historian: The Executioner's Visit by Lily Perry (H)

Language: Room 322

• Chair: Rifaat Ebeid
• Donald Parry (Brigham Young University), 1QIsaa (The Great Isaiah Scroll): An Ancient or Medieval Scroll? (E)
• Stephen Dempster (Atlantic Baptist University), "At the End of Days": An Eschatological Technical Term? (E)
• Christo van der Merwe (University of Stellenbosch), Lexical Meaning in Biblical Hebrew and Cognitive Linguistics: A Critical Appraisal (E)

Panel: New Perspectives on the Akeda
Wallenberg Theater (Room 124)

• Chair: Yael Feldman
• Hannah Pressman (New York University), Women Bound/Unbound: Sacrificial Motifs in David Frischman's 'Sotah' (H)
• Ilana Szobel (New York University), "God of Fury" and His Victims in Hebrew Women's Poetry, 1930-1970 (H)
• Yaakov Perry (New York University), Can Isaac Say No? The Binding Sacrificial Economy in the Second Conversation of Yehoshua's 'Mr. Mani' (H)
• Shirli Sela-Levavi (Rutgers University), Can Sara Prevent the Sacrifice? Motherly Counter Violence in Orly Castel Bloom and Lea Aini (H)
• Shiri Goren (New York University), Self Sacrificial Narrative and New Israelism: Gail Hareven's My True Love (H)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127

• Chair: Bracha Azoulay
• Nitza Krohn (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Teaching the Reading of Academic Hebrew to Non-Native Readers: Goals, Challenges and Solutions (H)
• Rina Donchin (University of South Florida), One Hundred and Twenty-five Years of Hebrew Culture in Forty Hours (H)
• Nili Adler (Siegal College), Breaking the Glass Barrier: Teaching Hebrew Successfully by Means of Two-Way Video, and Implications for Conventional Teaching (H)

1:00 - 2:00

Lunch (Dohrman Grove)

2:00 - 4:00

Session 4

Haskala: Room 326

• Chair: Dalit Katz
• Amir Banbaji (Ben Gurion University), Ahad ha-'am, "Likrat" and A.D. Gordon: A pro-Maskilic Study of Hebrew Critical Theory (H)
• Moshe Pelli (University of Central Florida), Hebrew Haskalah in Germany Establishes a Literary Movement and Creates a Modern Literature (H)
• Yahil Zaban (Ben Gurion University), Fellow Deer Roast and Pomegranates Nectar: Food Representation in Avraham Mapu's Fiction (H)

Literature: Room 322

• Chair: Nurit Buchweitz
• Rachel Albeck-Gidron (Bar Ilan University), Narrative and Nonsense as Competing Elements in the Works of Yoel Hofman (H)
• Tamar Monzon Wolf and Zohar Livnat (Bar Ilan University), Collocations and Combinations of Poetic Codes in Uri Zvi Grinberg's "Rehovot Hanahar" (H)

Literature: Room 323

• Chair:
• Giulia Miller (University of Cambridge), Surrealism and the Works of Yitshak Oren (E)
• Yaron Peleg (George Washington University), Literary History in the Post-Zionist Era, 1987-2000 (H)

Medieval Panel 1: Room 325

• Chair: Haviva Ishay
• Ann Brener (Ben Gurion University), Kharja-like Endings in Hebrew Wedding Poems from Muslim Spain (E)
• Nili Shalev (Ben Gurion University), The Poem Factory: Reflections on Poems that Seek Freedom (H)
• Uriah Kfir (Tel Aviv University), The Provincial Voice of Provencal Poetry: Strategies of Reading (H)
• Tova Rosen (Tel Aviv University), "A Disease of the Imagination": Maimonides' Presence in Medieval Hebrew Literature (H) ADDED
• Haviva Ishay (Ben Gurion University), "The Anxiety of Influence": Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (H) ADDED

4:00 - 4:15

Refreshments

4:15 - 5:15

The Ruth Gollan Memorial Lecture
Wallenberg Theater

• Chair: Vered Shemtov
• Elizabeth Bernhardt, Director of the Stanford Language Center, What Do We Know About Literature-Reading Proficiency?

6:30 - 7:45

Dinner
Sheraton Hotel

8:00

"Singing Myself To Myself": A Tribute to Natan Zach
Donny Inbar; Music: Maya Haddi and Amir Efrat
Sheraton Hotel
Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Israel Center and the Israeli Consulate SF

8:15 - 9:45

Session 5

Literature: Room 322

• Chair: Ortsion Bartana
• Chaya Shacham (Haifa University), The Crusaders' Motif in Modern Hebrew Literature: Directions and Trends (H)
• Nurith Yaari (Tel Aviv University), Nissim Aloni and Hanoch Levin: Between Athens and Jerusalem (E)

Literature: Wallenberg Theater

• Chair: Hannah Haveh
• Menakhem Perry (Tel Aviv University), Bialik: The Inverted Poem after Forty Years - A New Inversion (H)
• Nancy Ezer (UCLA), The Pagan Discourse in Yitzhak Laor's "And With My Spirit, My Corpse (H)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127

• Chair: Esther Shorr
• Jonathan Paradise (University of Minnesota), The Hebrew Teacher's Multimedia Tool Kit (E)
• Renana Schneller (University of Minnesota), Away with Those Verb Charts? Or Maybe Not... (H)
• Adi Raz (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Teaching Hebrew as a Foreign Language Through Film and the Use of the Written Text (H)

10:15 - 12:15

Session 6

Literature: Wallenberg Theater (Room 124)

• Chair: Uzi Shavit
• Donny Inbar (GTU, Berkeley), Rhymed Letters from the Akeda:Two Nathan Alterman Variations on Popular Yiddish Lyrics (E)
• Ephrayim Riveline (University of Paris), Onomastica and Poetica: A Semiotic Reading in Some of Nathan Zach’s poems

Panel: Early Feminist Studies of Hebrew Literature in the United States : Room 322

• Chair: ( Yael Feldman - not yet confirmed)
• Esther Fuchs (University of Arizona), A Voice in the Wilderness: My Feminist Journey into Hebrew Literature (E)
• Miriyam Glazer (University of Judaism), From "Burning Air" to "Dreaming the Actual" (E)
• Nehama Aschkenasy (University of Connecticut), Revisiting a Tradition with New Tools: Feminist Perspectives on Hebrew Literature in the 1980s (E)

Language: Room 323

• Chair:
• Shmuel Bolozky (University of Massachusetts), Constraints on Initial Consonant Clusters in Israeli Hebrew (H)
• Nissan Netzer (Bar Ilan University), Ambiguity in Hebrew Slang (H)

Rabbinic Literature Panel: Room 326

• Chair: Tova Rosen
• Tali Artman (Hebrew University), Ironia Sacra: The Victim of Irony and Its Functions in Rabbinic Literature (H)
• Ophir Münz-Manor (Hebrew University), Allegoria non Grata? On the Absence of Allegory from the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry of Late Antiquity (H)

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch (Wallenberg Hall)

1:15 - 2:45

Session 7

Literature: Room 322

• Chair: Zahava Caspi
• Rina Dudai (Kibbutzim College), Traces: Poetic Language as Represented in Writing the Holocaust Trauma (H)
• Ortsion Bartana (Judea and Samaria College), The Land of Israel in Nathan Alterman's Poems: The Seventh Column (H)

Language: Room 323

• Chair: Shmuel Bolozky
• Nogah Ilani(Bar Ilan University), Language of Writers as Means of Teaching Stylistics (H)
• Miri Horvitz Bat-Moshe (Levinsky College of Education), Linguistics in Court: The Story of an Ongoing Linguistic-Juristic Event (H) - ADDED

Hebrew Novel Panel: Wallenberg Theater

• Chair: Eric Zakim
• Michael Gluzman (Tel Aviv University), Gender and Genre: The Rise of the Hebrew Novel
• Uri Cohen (Columbia University), Human Skin Dog Masks Rereading "Tmol Shilshom" with Balak as a Colonized Dog (H)
• Todd Hasak-Lowy (University of Florida), A Dwindling Realism: The Evolution of Abramovitz's The Travels of Benjamin III (E)

Teacher Presentations: Room 127

• Chair: Bertha Benabib
• Avital Feuer (York University, Canada), Perceptions of Israelis: Applications in the Hebrew Language Classroom (H)
• Sarah Pelee, and Allon Pratt (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), "Ivriyon": Summer Immersion Program in Hebrew for Day School Teachers (H)
• Merav Rozenblum (San Francisco Jewish Community Center), It's in the Bible! Biblical Figures and Stories in Current Israeli Music: Teaching Hebrew Through Songs for the Advanced Level (H)

3:15 - 4:45

Session 8

Literature: Room 322

• Chair: Moshe Pelli
• Michal Oron (Tel Aviv University), The Story of Rabbi Yossef de-la-Reinna: Versions of the Story in Modern Hebrew (H)
• Gideon Nevo (Ben Gurion University), What Secrets are Revealed in "Revealer of Secrets?" Anti-Chassidic Satire Revealed in Joseph Perl's Works (H)

Literature: Room 323

• Chair: Sara Hascal
• Sharon Kuperfish (Alliant Univesity), Melanie Klein's "Object Relations Theory as Organizing Principle in Mythical Plays" by Hanoch Levin (H)
• Tamar Merin (Tel Aviv University), Sender The Housewife as a Famous Playwrite: Reading Rachel Eytan's "Pleasures of a Man" in Light of Fogel's Married Life (H)
• Hazan, Yael (Ben Gurion U.), "All These Thoughts Shall be Postponed till after the War": The Palmach Trilogy of Netiva Ben-Yehuda (H)

Pedagogy: Room 127

• Chair: Esther Bahat
• Esther Raizen (UT Austin), Staggered Maturities: Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar in the Teaching of Biblical Hebrew (H)
• Yaakov Levi (University of Minnesota), Global Teaching of the Hebrew Verb System (Biblical and Modern) (H)

Panel: Reading Ronit Matalon in Context
Wallenberg Theater

• Chair: Amir Eshel
• Vered Shemtov (Stanford University), Locality, Trans-locality and Language in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us", A.B. Yehoshua's "The Liberated Bride" and Orly Castel Bloom's "Ummi Fi Shurl" (H)
• Eric Zakim (University of Maryland), Photography and Postcolonial Truth in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us" (E)
• Barbara Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Photography and Memory in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us" and W.G. Sebald's "Austerlitz" (E)

4:45 - 5:00

Refreshments

5:00 - 6:30

"Excuse me for telling you, but...": On Writing, Imagination, Identity and Two Billion Hungry People
Ronit Matalon
Chair: Nissim Calderon

Evening

No organized dinner or activities

8:30 - 10:30

Session 9

Literature: Room 125

• Chair: To be announced
• Hillel Weiss (Bar Ilan University), Moshe Shamir and the Aggada Stories (H)
• Inbar raveh (Ben Gurion University), Bachtin Reads the Talmud: Dialogism in the "Hurban" Stories (H)
• Adia Mendelson-Maoz, Adia (Haifa University and Kibbutzim College), A Land that Devours its Inhabitants: Pagis' "Practice in Everyday Hebrew" and Grossman's "The Sticker Song"

Literature: Room 127

• Chair: Nancy Berg
• Dana Ben Zaken (Ben Gurion University), Black and White in Colors: The Immigration from Arab Countries Narrative in Second Generation Israeli Literature (H)
• David Rotman (Tel Aviv University), "That's the Way I Was Created": Women and Gender in Yosef Chaim of Baghdad's Stories (E)
• Lital Levy (UC Berkeley), Bialik and the Sephardim: A Love/Hate Story about Hebrew Literary History (E)

11:00 - 12:30

Session 10

Language: Room 120

• Chair: Ronit Engel
• Miriam R. L. Petruck(International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA), Steps Toward Hebrew FrameNet (E)
• Marc Bernstein (Michigan State University), On the Revival of Hebrew: Allusion and Linguistic Tensions in the Formation of Ethnic Identity and Canon (E)

Literature: Room 127

• Chair: Todd Hasak-Lowy
• Nurit Buchweitz (Beit Berl College), The Evacuation of Character in Postmodernist Prose: The Case of Kastel-Bloom and Kerrett (E)
• Karen Grumberg (UT Austin), Ricki Lake in Tel Aviv: The Alternative of Orly Castel-Bloom's Hebrew - English (E)
• Adriana Tatum (Princeton University), Robert Lowell and Harold Schimmel: A Jerusalem Encounter (E)

Pedagogy Panel: Proficiency and Beyond
Wallenberg Hall

• Chair: Lea Fima (McGill University, Canada)
• Vardit Ringvald and Bonit Porath (Brandeis University), Proficiency and Beyond (H)
• Gallia Porat (Stanford University), Creating Web Based Assignments for Promoting Proficiency in Hebrew (H)

12:30 - 1:30

Concluding Address:

Robert Alter (UC Berkeley), Oz and Agnon: The Hidden Connection
Chair: Vered Shemtov

Wallenberg Theater

1:30 - 3:00

3:00 - 4:30

Excursion: A walk to the The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden features 20 bronzes by Auguste Rodin, including "The Gates of Hell," and to the Cantor Museum, Stanford University