[Cz-L] Conference commemorating the Yiddish conference of 1908 in Czernowitz

 A conference with the title
                     "Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language
                         Conference in Historical Perspective."
 will be held on the campus of York University in Toronto,
 on 13-14 April 2008.

I have inquired of the organizers, and have been told that attendance
at he conference is open and not limited to conference participants.

The preliminary program for the conference is:


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Sunday, 13 April 2008

2pm
Greetings from York University and the Centre for Jewish Studies

Keynote Address
Ezra Mendelsohn (Hebrew University), ³Yiddish and Yiddishism, Language an=
d
Language Ideology²
3.30-5pm
1. National Minorities and the State
Cecile Kuznitz (Bard College), ³Yiddish Cultural Work and the Stateless
Yiddish Nation²
Jess Olson (Yeshiva University), ³Israel geht vor Zion: Nathan Birnbaum,
Nationalism, and Politics Reconsidered in the 1908 Yiddish Language
Conference²
David Rechter (Oxford University), ³Squaring the Circle: Jewish Politics =
and
the Myth of Habsburg Czernowitz²
5.15-6.45pm
2. Y.L. Peretz and Politics
Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University), ³Y. L. Peretz and the Politics of
Yiddish²
Marie Schumacher-Brunhes (University of Lille III (France), ³Peretz¹s
Commitment for Yiddish in Czernowitz: ŒA thousand times yes, but...¹²
Michael Steinlauf (Graetz College), "Hope and Fear: Y. L. Peretz in 1905-06=
"
7pm
Banquet for conference participants
Monday, 14 April 2008
8.30-10am
3. Linguistics and Language Ideology
Kalman Weiser (York University), ³A Religious Heretic in the Secular Camp=
:
the Orthodox Anti-Yiddishism of Solomon Birnbaum²
Rakhmiel Peltz (Drexel University), ³From Native Standards to Self-Consci=
ous
Yiddish Language Planning²
Jerold C. Frakes (SUNY-Buffalo), ³Nationalism and Romantico-Biological
Conceptions of Language at the Czernowitz Conference.²
10.15am-12.15pm
4. Czernowitz and Other Yiddish Congresses
Matthew Hoffman (Franklin and Marshall College), ³From Czernowitz to Pari=
s:
The International Yiddish Culture Congress of 1937²
Rachel Rojanski, (Haifa University) ³From Czernowitz to ŒKultur Congres=
s¹:
The Role of Conferences in the History of Yiddish: 1908-1948²
Gennady Estraikh (New York University), ³Fifty Years Later: Reassessing t=
he
1908 Conference from International Press Accounts²
Barry Trachtenberg (State University of New York, Albany), ³Czernowitz,
Yiddish, and the Theatrics of the Jewish Conference²
12.30-1.30pm
Lunch
1.45-3.15pm
5. Czernowitz and the Arts
Linda Lipsky (York University), ³Der oyle-regls a tokhter: The Poetic
Pilgrimage of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman²
Philip Hollander (Tulane University), ³Reclaiming Czernowitz in Aharon
Appelfeld¹s Pirhei haafelah²
Zachary Baker (Stanford University), ³The Painter as Ethnographer: Mauryc=
y
Minkowski and the East European Yiddish Intelligentsia before World War I=
²

3.30-5pm

6. (Re)Configurations of Tradition and Identity
Mikhail Krutikov (University of Michigan), ³German-Jewish ŒOrientalism=
¹ and
the Place of Ostjuden and Yiddish in It: Nathan Birnbaum¹s Ideological
Evolution and German-Jewish Cultural Discourse²
Kenneth Moss (Johns Hopkins University), ³Yiddishist and Hebraist
Conceptions of Culture and Strategies of Cultural Dissemination and
Education, 1908-1920s²
Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University), "Nathan Birnbaum and Lucy Dawidowicz¹=
s
turn to tradition²
5-5.30pm
Concluding Remarks

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I do not know whether pre-registration is required,
 nor whether there is a fee for attending.

When I know more, I'll write.

Is anyone interested?

Mimi



Received on 2007-11-13 04:45:17