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Booking

Booking is done听by day- if you plan to attend all three days, please book them all.

The conference will be held on Zoom. Please register on Eventbrite, the Zoom links will be sent before each day鈥檚 sessions.

About

This year鈥檚 IJS conference marks the 1100th anniversary of a famous controversy about the Jewish calendar that led the communities of the entire Near East and Egypt to celebrate Passover and the other festivals, through two full years, on different dates. This conference will investigate all kinds of controversies in medieval Jewish society: how medieval Jews argued, how their controversies were managed, how they sought to get them resolved. We will discuss sectarian, doctrinal, and halakhic controversies; private conflicts in daily life; and Jewish and Christian controversies. We will consider how communal authorities and non-Jewish rulers became involved in the resolution of controversies in all parts of medieval Jewry.

Programme

Session 1: Resolving Conflicts: Courts, Crown, and Other Institutions

15:00 Welcome and Introduction听Sacha Stern, UCL
15:15 鈥� 16:00听How to Handle Conflict as an听Islamicate听闯别飞听Marina Rustow (Princeton University)
Break
16:30 鈥� 17:00 Controversy, conflict and resolution: Royal involvement in Jewish disputes in the medieval Crown of Aragon听Miri Fenton (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
17:00 鈥� 17:30 Beseeching the Queen: Contextualizing Queenly Intervention in the 鈥淭almud Trial鈥� of Paris, 1240听Hannah Teddy Schachter听(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Session 2: Halakhic Controversy听

12:00 鈥� 12:45 Food Fights: Controversies about Kosher Laws in Medieval Provence听Pinchas Roth听(Bar-Ilan University
12:45 鈥� 13:30 A Controversy between Scholars: Utilizing Secondary Halakhic Texts to Decide the Law in 13th-century France听Judah Galinsky听(Bar-Ilan University
Break
13:45 鈥� 14:30 The Controversy over Art in the Medieval Jewish Community of Cologne听Effie Shoham听(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Break

Session 3:听Sectarian and Doctrinal Controversy听

15:45 鈥� 16:30 Karaite-Rabbanite conflicts over kindling fire on the Sabbath day听Gregor Schwarb听(SOAS University of London)
Break
16:45 鈥� 17:30 Judah Hadassi as an Arbiter of Karaite Controversies听Daniel J. Lasker听(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
17:30 鈥� 18:15 Moses Taku and Judah the Pious: The Controversy over Anthropomorphism in Germanic Lands during the 13th Century听Ephraim Kanarfogel听(Yeshiva University)

Session 4: Private Conflicts in Medieval Ashkenaz

ERC project:
13:00 鈥� 13:20 Acknowledging Loans, Contesting Debt: Jewish-Christian Debt Litigation in 14th Century Frankfurt am Main听Aviya Doron听(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13:20 鈥� 13:40 - Living Together and Solving Problems Together: Everyday Controversy in Shared Urban Homes听Albert Kohn听(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13:40 鈥� 14:00 "Going Back Home"? Jewish-Christian Conflicts over Real Estate in 14th-century Paris听Nureet Dermer听(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Break
14.15 鈥� 14:45听Controversies and Scholarly Conventions: A Perspective from "Daily Life"听Elisheva Baumgarten听(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

14:45 - 15:20 Respondent听(followed by discussion): Eve Krakowski (Princeton听University)

Session 5: Jewish and Christian Controversies听

16:00 鈥� 16:45 Elias of Nisibis and Ya岣�y膩 ibn Sa士墨d of Antioch: 11th-century Eastern Christian perspectives on Jewish and Christian calendar controversies听Sacha Stern (UCL)
16:45 鈥� 17:30听The Disputation of Majorca (1286): Continuity and Change in the Jewish-Christian Controversy听Alex Novikoff听听(Kenyon College)
17:30 鈥� 18:15 Concluding discussion