The Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Manchester
Limmud Day, Sunday February
27th 2000
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Local, National and International Jewish Educators will be joining us
to help you to discover new insights into a range of topics. We have nine tracks that you can choose from, either staying
on one throughout the day or dipping in and out. The tracks, and a selection
of the speakers, are as follows (for the timetable, click
here; abstracts of the sessions, including
descriptions of the speakers (click here for
a composite list) are linked to the timetable).
Arts
For all the creatively oriented amongst you, we have Atar
Hadari, SONGS FROM BIALIK; Cecil Bloom, HATIKVAH
NAFTALI HERZ IMBER: HIS POEM AND A NATIONAL ANTHEM; Jonathan
Davies, WAGNER RACE AND REVOLUTION; and Sherry
Ashworth, AS THE ENGLISH SEE US
Ideas
If you have any new thoughts, philosophies or theories, then you can
espouse them in response to this disparate track. The inspiration to set
you off will be CJS Director Prof. Bernard Jackson,
AGUNAH: THE PRESENT STATE OF PLAY; Rabbi Daniel Levy,
JEWISH TIME CHART; Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg,
MEDITATIONS THROUGH THE JEWISH YEAR; and Simon
Goulden,
THE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL SYSTEM OR: LEARNING TO SWIM
Identity & Renewal
How do we see ourselves? Is there any point? Where are we going? What
are we doing here? These questions, and many more will be asked (and maybe
answered) by Clive Lawton, WHO NEEDS JEWS?; Es Rosen, JEWISH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; Lindsey
Kushner QC, CHILDREN, ENGLISH LAW AND THE JEWISH QUESTION; Rabbi Michael Harris, PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN JUDAISM;
Stan Freedman, WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL
YOUR SOUL
International
We'll take in China and Tibet, and explore multiculturalism and Bialik!
Experience places you may never visit with our outstanding tour guides:
David Kaye, THE HISTORY OF HEBREW PRINTING; Kalela Lancaster, TIBETAN-JEWISH YOUTH EXCHANGE PROJECT;
Linda Rosen, ON THE BANKS OF THE YELLOW RIVER:
THE JEWS OF KAIFENG; Prof. David Patterson,
TRANSLATING BIALIK; and Sheila Freedman, A STRANGER
IN YOUR LAND
Israel & History
From Peace Now to the Green Line and Chaverim to Bialik, this is the
track for the didactic amongst you! Speakers are Clive
Gilbert, WILL THERE BE CIVIL WAR IN ISRAEL?; Dr.
Lionel Kochan, IDOLATRY; Frank Adam, THE MAKING
OF THE 'GREEN LINE'; and Prof. Hyam Maccoby, THE
HAVURAH.
Mancunians
The birthplace of Zionism is also the birthplace of many of our most
influential personalities. Here you'll find out about the inhabitants of
Broughton Park, Sephardi/Ashkenazi Cooking Dichotomies and Political Joys,
with Gideon Leventhall, MANCHESTER'S HAREDI
COMMUNITY: THREAT TO ANGLO-JEWISH STABILITY OR GENUINE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE?;
Ivan Lewis MP, ON BEING A JEWISH MP; Evelyn
Rose MBE, THE IMPACT OF SEPHARDI/ASHKENAZI MARRIAGES ON JEWISH FAMILY
FOOD AND CUSTOMS; and Joyce Fletcher, MAJORITY
CONSUMER IN MINORITY ENVIRONMENT
Mysticism
Magic, Meditation, Cosmology and Messianic Claims about the Lubavitcher
Rebbe. This is the track for the spiritually minded. Our corporeal speakers
include Dr. Alan Unterman, MYSTICISM & MAGIC
IN JEWISH RITUAL; Paul Marshall, JEWISH MYSTICISM
AND MODERN COSMOLOGY; Dr. Les Lancaster, IMAGINATION
IN JEWISH MYSTICAL PRACTICE; and Max Kohanzad,
LUBAVITCH MESSIANISM FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Texts
It's the new thing to do that has been around for centuries. Delve into
Mishnah, Talmud, Bible and Midrash with top educators Dr.
Alex Samely, THE WAY THE MISHNAH MOVES; Dr. Irene
Lancaster, JEWISH TEXT VERSUS CHRISTIAN WORD: HOW INTERPRETATION CAN
CAUSE ANTI-SEMITISM; Doreen Wachmann, REDEEMING
EVE; Dr. Raphael Zarum, THE BODY OF TORAH; and
Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon, SO WHEN IS PURIM?
Youth
Whilst we are all agreed that there is nothing more important than our
Jewish Future, the vast majority try very hard to ignore this issue. Not
us ! This track will Challenge the Education System; prove there's more
to Teenagers than Angst; look at Fantasy Layening and prove that Museums
aren't just for old relics. Jeremy Michelson,
A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS?; Rabbi Dani Kerbel,
FANTASY LAYENING AND CHEDER 2000; Jonny Wineberg,
WHY JEWISH YOUTH WORK AIN'T WORKING?; Jill Adler,
TEENAGE CENTRES THE NEW CHEDARIM; there will also be a Panel
on the Future of Youth Work.
The finale of the day will be a plenary
session, which will be a chance for all of us to map out a direction
for future Jewish educational opportunities in the Manchester community.
The Centre for Jewish Studies
The Department of Religions and Theology
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)161 275 3614; Fax +44 (0)161 275 3613
e-mail: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk