Wednesday December 1st

9:30- Gathering

10:00-12:00 Opening Remarks: Gabriel Motzkin and Andreas Kilcher

Shmuel Trigano (Paris): Strangers and Residents. What Makes Marranism Possible in Judaism?

Yirmiyahu Yovel (New York and Jerusalem):

Existential Judaism and Split Identity

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break

13:00- 15:00Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv): Marrano Medicine

Roni Weinstein (Jerusalem): Jewish Anusim/Conversos: A Case-Study of Early Modern Wandering Knowledge

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30Harm den Boer (Basel): Marranos in Iberian Historiography and Literature (19th and 20th Centuries)

Andreas Kilcher (Zürich): The Invention of Modern Marranism in the Wissenschaft des Judentums

Thursday December 2nd

10:00-12:00Joachim Harst (Bonn):

La Celestina and the Representation of the Marrano

David Wertheim (Amsterdam):

Spinoza the Counter-Marrano

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break

13:00-15:30 Lorenz Wesemann (Jerusalem): Marranism Undone - Heine

Susanne Zepp (Leipzig): Marranic Writing in Modern France: Fractures of Jewish Tradition in Gustave Kahn's Literary Work

Concluding Remarks: Gabriel Motzkin and Andreas Kilcher

19:30- Dinner at HaHatzer Restaurant (located in the Old Railway Staion)

Marranism A Paradigm of Jewish Modernity

Wednesday-Thursday, 1-2 December 2010

At The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

45 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem Tel. 972-2-5605216 www.vanleer.org.il