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Paideia
Arts and Text Days in Gothenburg, March 31-April1, 2006
The weekend March 30 - April 1, Dr Bryna Levy, visiting scholar at
Paideia, together with Paideia Fellows Emilia Teodorescu and Julia
Kouzmenko visited the Jewish community in Gothenburg. The weekend
hosted around 40 visitors. It was successfully organised by the Gothenburg
community and also included the rabbi emeritus of Stockholm Morton
Narrow.
Dr
Bryna Levy, who is a senior lecturer in Bible at Matan – The
Women’s Institute for Torah Studies in Jerusalem, gave two inspiring
lectures/text studies on the theme of Pesach: Shattered Tablets: Broken
Hearts and A Plague on Both Your Houses. Julia Kouzmenko and Emilia
Teodorescu introduced studies at Paideia.
Paideia
Art & Text Days in Novy Sad March
31 - April 1, 2006
Friday
Barbara Spectre
Sunday
Barbara Spectre
Dina Sosberger
Open
Course March 27 - April 3
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21.
Daily. The number of places are limited and reservation is required
For further information: info@paideia-eu.org
Bryna Levy: From Slavery to Redemption: Studies in the Book of
Exodus
The course includes a close reading of the text of the Book of Exodus
and analysis of the narrative through the prism of biblical exegesis.
The topics explored will include, the enslavement, the midwives of
Egypt, the birth and salvation of Moses, Moses’ ethical coming
of age, from the sneh to Sinai, the ten
plagues and the Exodus.
Dr. Bryna Levy is a senior lecturer in Bible at Matan – The Women’s
Institute for Torah Studies. She is the founder and director of the
graduate program in Bible and biblical studies at Matan, which is
a joint program with Haifa University.
Public
Lecture Thursday March 2, 18.15
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free
admission. Soup is served from 18.00
Eva
Ekselius: Jewish Self Image vs Jewish Self Hatred - Anti-Semitism,
Anti-Feminism and the Case of Otto Weininger
Eva Ekselius gives an introduction to Otto Weininger's ideas and opens
a discussion on questions like: What can we learn about anti-Semitism
from Weininger's self-hating image of the Jew? How does it differ
from a "legitimate" Jewish Self-Image - if such a thing
exists?
Otto
Weininger (1880-1903) was an Austrian philosopher who gained world
fame with his book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character), where
he attributes much of the decay of modern times to feminine, and thus
Jewish, influences. At the age of 23 he commited suicide by shooting
himself in the house where Beethoven had died.
Eva Ekselius is a journalist and literary critic of the daily Swedish
newspaper Dagens Nyheter and a regular contributor to Judisk krönika.
She has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Stockholm.
She is one of the founding members of The Association for Progressive
Judaism in Stockholm.
Public
Lecture Wednesday February 22, 18.00
Paideia Nybrogatan 21, Free admission,
Soup is served from 18.00
Raniero Fontana: Is There a Place for Gentiles at the Foot of Mount
Sinai?
The lecture deals with the relationship that exists between the fundamental
obligation of man tout court - obligation that the rabbinical tradition
codified in the Seven Laws of Noah
- and the Sinaitic revelation. The analysis of selected sources of
the ancient, medieval and modern Jewish tradition, reveals an intent
to consider the Sinaitic event as relevant for all
humanity. The most audacious expression of this intent is that Gentiles
are granted a Sinaitic
status, giving them a place ba-ma'mad har-Sinai.
Raniero
Fontana is a researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is a doctor
of theology and holds masters degrees in philosophy and rabbinic literature.
Wednesday
February 15, 18.15
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00
Marion Kahnemann:
Visual Art Inspired by Jewish Textual Sources
Marion Kahnemann
is an artist and Paideia
alumna.
Open Course February
13 – 23
Daily Monday - Thursday 13.30-16.45 at
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21.
Raniero Fontana: Jews and Gentiles between History and Haggadah
The Seminar will deal with the relationship between Jews and Gentiles
during the course of history, focusing on the study of Noachism. Relevant
texts of the Jewish tradition will be analyzed from the rabbinical
through the post-rabbinical, medieval, and modern to the contemporary
including writings of the Noachide Movement published in recent years.
Special attention will be given to the current theological and political
implications of Noachism, chiefly in Israeli religious society.
Raniero Fontana
is a researcher at the Shalom Hartman
Institute. He is a doctor of theology and holds masters degrees
in philosophy and rabbinic literature.
Paideia membership and registration
required. Limited number of participants. For info: info@paideia-eu.org
Lördag
11 februari, kl. 18.00
Stallet,
Stallgatan 7. Entre: 160/120 kr stud/medl
A jiddische froy - Konsert
med Justyna Fruzinska och orkester
Justyna
Fruzinska kombinerar traditionell jiddischsång arrangerad för
stråkkvartett, piano och klarinett, med bibliska och nutida
hebreiska texter. Fram växer en berättelse från en
svunnen tid om en judisk kvinnas liv - hon blir kär, står
brud, blir mor och sedan änka. I Justynas Fruzinskas tolkning
förenar det "feminina" språket jiddisch och den
"maskulina" hebreiskan en förfluten tid med en framtid.
Justyna Fruzinska från Lodz, studerar text och kultur på
"Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden".
I Lodz sjunger hon i kören Tslil.
Jakub Kowalewski Arrangemang
Märta König Fiol
KjellÅke Hamrén Fiol
Sören Jansson Viola
Axel Edling Cello
Håkan Jansson Klarinett
Barbro Larsson Piano
Kvällen fortsätter med: Freylach mit kneidlach (Finland),
Urban Tunnéls klezmerband (Norge) och dans under ledning av
pedagoger.
Konserten
ingår i Nordisk Klezmerfestival på Stallet, 10-11 februari
2006
Biljetter
| Biljettkassan Nybrokajen 11, vardagar 12-17 tel: 08-407 17 00 |
Stallet en timme före start | Box office; Norrmalmstorg, Sverigehuset
| ATG-ombud/BiljettDirekt
077-170 70 70
Public Lecture Wednesday
February 15, 18.15
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00
Orphan Objects
- A visual text study
Marion
Kahnemann is an outstanding visual artist from Dresden in Germany
and a Paideia alumna. She will present her art works and how they
interact with Jewish texts. Marion Kahnemann creates her figures out
of wood, stone, iron, lead and bones. She often works with found materials
marked by human use and each with its own history. Thrown away by
people or washed up on the river Elbe with discernable features which
begin to speak through artistic forms arranged side by side. The ability
to discover a possible artistic message in found objects originates
in the way the figures or relieves manifest themselves: a natural,
an almost a self-conscious melancholy. In her art works she also involves
Jewish textual sources and by that creates her personal midrash.
Public
Lecture Wednesday February 1, 18.15
Paideia,
Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00
Olof Mathé: A New Brand of Anti-Semitism? Alain Finkielkraut’s
“Au nom de l’Autre”
In
the wake of the second Intifada and the war in Iraq a wave of anti-Semitic
violence shook the Jewish community in France. The attacks, which
seem to have been perpetrated mostly by Muslim immigrants, highlighted
the crisis between
France and two of its largest minorities, the Jews and the Muslims.
In his essay “Au nom de l’Autre” (“In the name
of the Other”) the French-Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut
analyzes the resurgence of anti-Semitism in French society. We will
attempt to summarize his line of thought and discuss some of the issues
his analysis raises.
Olof Mathé holds degrees in philosophy of science from the
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and in engineering
physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Open Course January
3 - 11
Appr d aily
Monday - Thursday 13.30-16.45
at Paideia, Nybrogatan 21.
(Email Paideia for detailed schedule)
Jewish Texts on the Visual
Arts
Dr. Vivian Mann is Professor of Judaica at The Jewish Museum and
Advisor to the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Material Culture
at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary. She has
created numerous exhibitions and their catalogues and her articles
and lectures cover a broad range of topics in medieval art and in
the history of Jewish art.
Paideia membership and registration
required. Limited number of participants. For info: info@paideia-eu.org
Public Lecture Monday January 9
University of Wroclaw
Vivian Mann: The Unknown Jewish Artists of the Middle Ages
A commonly held misconception concerning Jewish history of the Middle
Ages is that most Jews earned their living lending money or participating
in related fields such as pawnbroking. Although some other occupations
are known, Jewish involvement in the arts does not usually figure
in discussions of Jewish occupations, except for the illuminators
of manuscripts. Nothing could be further from the truth. Archival
records, church decrees, and responsa document
Jewish participation in the arts during the Middle Ages. These records
reveal that Jews were silversmiths, painters of church decorations,
and weavers of luxurious textiles. This talk will explore the widespread
Jewish participation in the
arts of the High Middle Ages.
Dr. Vivian Mann is Professor of Judaica at The Jewish Museum
and Advisor to the Master’s Program in Jewish Art and Material
Culture at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
She has created numerous exhibitions
and their catalogues and her articles and lectures cover a broad range
of topics in medieval art and in the history of Jewish art.
Public Lecture Wednesday January
11, 18.15
Paideia,
Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00.
Vivian Mann: The Unknown Jewish Artists of the Middle Ages
A commonly held misconception concerning Jewish history of the Middle
Ages is that most Jews earned their living lending money or participating
in related fields such as pawnbroking. Although some other occupations
are known, Jewish involvement in the arts does not usually figure
in discussions of Jewish occupations, except for the illuminators
of manuscripts. Nothing could be further from the truth. Archival
records, church decrees, and responsa document
Jewish participation in the arts during the Middle Ages. These records
reveal that Jews were silversmiths, painters of church decorations,
and weavers of luxurious textiles. This talk will explore the widespread
Jewish participation in the
arts of the High Middle Ages.
Dr. Vivian Mann is Professor of Judaica at The Jewish Museum
and Advisor to the Master’s Program in Jewish Art and Material
Culture at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
She has created numerous exhibitions
and their catalogues and her articles and lectures cover a broad range
of topics in medieval art and in the history of Jewish art.
Open House Sunday
November 27,
15.00-18.00
Paideia,
Nybrogatan 21
Get to know Paideia's
students and experience their works.
Mythologies in Madonna's
Videos: Christian, Jewish and Pagan
Yair Lipshitz, Paideia Scholar in residence (Israel). A video clip
illustrated lecture.
Creation of Man
Marion Kahneman Paideia Alumni (Germany). A visual text study by this
Artist and Paideia alumna.
Temptation of Knowledge:
Eve and the Apple
Amina Avdovic (Germany) Jana Svantnerova (Slovakia) Paideia fellows
are using the art of storytelling for changing perspectives. Muslim
male-female concepts including a lot of fun and music.
Musical Interludes
0z Aloni, Paideia fellow (Israel), piano.
An Introduction
to Franz Rosenzweig
Christian Nilsson (Sweden) Alexander Bobrovskyy (Ukraine) Paideia
fellows.
A presentation of Franz Rosenzweig, the German-Jewish thinker. He
suggests a model for inter-religious dialogue between Judaism and
Christianity. Pictures from a Rosenzweig-exhibition.
Anachnu
Jana Svantnerová, Paideia fellow (Slovakia). A visual and audio
installation on computer screens. Join the Paideia Fellows on an excursion
to a colourful yesteryear!
Sing Along in Yiddish
Jael Fruzinska, Paideia Fellow (Poland). Enjoy a short Yiddish song
workshop. No previous experience needed. We bring lyrics and the songs
you bring your voice!
Café
Download
Program
Public
Lecture Wednesday November 23, 18.15
Paideia,
Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00.
The Khazar Khaganate and the Meanings of Cultural Identity
The lecture deals with the discussion about Khazars and ethnicity
versus cultural identity. In conjunction with this, new archeologic
projects are presented and theoretical perspectives on cultural identity
and early history are introduced.
Bozena Werbart is professor at Umeå University with a
background in archeology, ethnology and social anthropology. In addition
to several articles Werbart published the book “The Invisible
Identities. Cultural Identity and Archeology” in 2oo2. She is
a member of the board of the Swedish Agency
for Historical Museums.
Public Lecture Tuesday November 8, 18.15 Download
lecture (pdf)
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00.
Are There Jewish Answers to Europe’s Questions?
We have to move beyond the traditional “Jewish Question”
in Europe and realize that the new Jewish presence on the continent
may actually contain many ‘answers’ to Europe’s current
identity problems.
Diana Pinto is a historian and writer living in Paris. She
has a PhD. in Contemporary European History from Harvard University
and is a consultant to the Political Directorate of the Council of
Europe.
Public
Lecture Wednesday November 2, 18.15
When Will They Ever Learn? - A Christian Theology in the Presence
of a Crucified and Resurrected People
Jesus of Nazareth is the most known person ever in history to be crucified.
Eventually Christians have come to realise that his Jewishness is
being affirmed also in this aspect. As Franklin H. Littell has stated,
during the last two millennia the entire Jewish people has been suffering
in the Western world-and during the last half-century the world has
seen how the very same people has been brought back to life. The interpretation
of this crucifixion and resurrection must also be part of Christian
theology today. The lecture will seek to explore in what ways the
Jewish-Christian dialogue can inform and transform contemporary Christian
theology.
Jesper
Svartvik is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Theology
and Religious Studies at Lund University and a Senior Research Fellow
at the Swedish Research Council. He is also a member of the Peer Review
Board of Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations.
Monday
October 31, 17.00
Marc
R Cohen. The Cairo Geniza: Treasures of a Lost Store of Writings,
and Parallels from Islam
Geniza in Hebrew means “burying” or, by extension, “burial
place,” specifically for worn-out pages of holy writings--in
the first instance, leaves from the Hebrew Bible. The Cairo Geniza—the
most famous Geniza of all--is a vast treasure-trove of perhaps three-quarters
of a million manuscript pages that were found in a medieval synagogue
in Old Cairo at the end of the 19th century. They were discarded there
in a chamber behind a wall, to be buried rather than destroyed by
human hands. The Jews deemed anything written in Hebrew characters
worthy of sacred burial, so, in addition to fragments of books, the
Geniza also contains thousands of documents from everyday life. The
illustrated lecture will describe the discovery of the Geniza, its
contents, and what we learn from its treasures. Professor Cohen will
also discuss a parallel but little known phenomenon--Islamic Geniza.
Mark R. Cohen
is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Educated
at Brandeis University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and the
Jewish Theological Seminary (M.H.L., Rabbi, and Ph.D.). He is a well
known historian of the Jews in Arab lands in the Middle Ages.
Thursday
October 27, 18.15
Paideia,
Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00.
My Mother was Killed by a Suicide Bomber
Bernt Hermele will
show clips and present his documentary film for Swedish Television
Channel 4 "My mother was killed by a suicide bomber". The
film will be shown on Channel 4 November 7.
Bernt
Hermele is a journalist and author and writes foremost about economic
issues for leading Swedish newspapers like Dagens Nyheter and Veckans
Affärer.
Limited number of seats. Reservation required.
Monday October 31,
17.00
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission.
Thursday
October 20, 18.15
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission. Soup is served from 18.00.
Jewish
Theatre in Renaissance Italy: Carnival, Politics and
Midrash
Despite
the common notion that "Jewish culture did not do theatre"
until modernity, the Jews of Italy were involved in theatrical activity
from the sixteenth century onwards. This lecture will explore the
participation of Jewish communities and individuals in the theatrical
creativity of Renaissance Italy. By focusing on one key figure, central
to both Italian and Jewish theatre alike - that of Leone de' Sommi
- the lecture will discuss the political aspects of Jewish theatre,
and the
participation of such a theatre in the complex cultural relationships
between Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy.
Yair
Lipshitz is currently the Scholar in residence at Paideia. Lipshitz
is a fellow of the Advanced Beit Midrash Group at the Shalom Hartman
Institute. His area of research is Theatre History and especially
Jewish theatre in Renaissance Italy. Lipshitz also works as a playwright
creating theatrical pieces based on Jewish culture and texts.
Wednesday
September 28, 18.15
Comparative
narratives of giving - charity, philanthropy and
tzedaka - Christian, Greek and Jewish insights
Behind the universal ethics of generosity are the particular narratives
of different cultures. The story not only motivates the giving of
material aid to the others but shapes the way that is considered most
ideal for giving. The lecture will compare the basic insights of classical
ancient Christianity, Greco-Roman culture and Biblical and rabbinic
sources.
Noam Zion
is a graduate in philosophy from Columbia University and a member
of faculty at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He specializes in teaching
Jewish Holidays, Bible and Art on family issues and leadership. At
the Resource Center for Jewish Continuity Zion has co edited A Different
Night: The Family Participation Haggadah and A Different Light Hanukkah
Set and A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home -an artistic and creative table
siddur for Shabbat. Zion has also edited several other educational
books including The Origins of Violence - A Study of the Cain and
Abel Story, The Dynamics of Tzedakah and The Tradition of the Zealot.
Zion also published a Hebrew anthology on contemporary readings of
Genesis - Sipurei Reshit (2002) and a a pluralist Israeli haggadah
entitled Halaila Hazeh (2004).
Wednesday
August 24, 19.00
at
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission.
Soup
is served.
Joining the Jews or Joining Judaism?
Two different traditional
models of conversion and Jewish identity
Professor
Zvi Zohar, Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research and the Strengthening
of Jewish Vitality at Bar Ilan University.
Professor Zohar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute
of Advanced Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, where he heads the Alan Fischer
Family Center for Contemporary Halacha. He is also a founding faculty
member of Paideia. His most recent publications include Realms of Identity
and Deviance, an analysis of halakhic positions vis-a-vis desecrators
of the Sabbath, from Talmudic times to the present, (co-authored with
Avi Sagi), Tel-Aviv 2000, and The Luminous Face of the East - Studies
in the Legal and Religious Thought of Sephardic Rabbis of the Middle
East, Tel-Aviv 2001 and A Socio-Cultural Drama in Mandatory Aleppo,
Jerusalem, 2003.
Wednesday
17 Aug at 19.00
at
Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission.
Medical ethics -
Is this a Jewish issue?
Professor David Zisenwine is teaching in the School of Education,
Tel Aviv University. He is also a graduate of the Rabbinical School
of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He combines these two
disciplines in his work as chair of the Teaching certificate program
at TAU. He also holds the academic chair of the Center for educational
leadership, and the chair of the MA program in curriculum development.
His research interests are in the field of identity studies. He has
written about the relationship of language and identity, as well as
about the issues in Jewish education in Israel and abroad.
Wednesday
16 March at 19.00
at Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission.
Jews and Black Culture
Dr
Keith Kahn-Harris is
a sociologist specializing in contemporary Jewish identity, youth,
popular music and popular culture. He teaches for the Open University
in the UK and works as a community educator and research consultant.
He is currently visiting Sweden as a postdoctoral fellow at the Advanced
Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden. He has been a 'Jerusalem Fellow'
and has held visiting fellowships/lecturerships in Australia, Sweden
and Finland. A list of Dr Kahn-Harris's publications can be found
at his website at http://www.kahn-harris.org
Främlingsfientlighet
och folkmord - hur förstå och förhålla oss till
det?
Wednesday 6 April at 19.00
at Paideia, Nybrogatan 21. Free admission.
The lecture will be held in Swedish.
Lars Dencik,
Professor i Socialpsykologi vid Roskilde Universitet. Hans
böcker och många artiklar inkluderar bl.a. Mennesket i
postmoderniseringen - om barndom, familie og identiteter i opbrud.
Værløse: Billesø & Baltzer, Bogserien "Mesterstykker",
2005; 'Jewishness' in Postmodernity: the case of Sweden, in Gitelman,
Z. et al. (eds): New Jewish Identities - Contemporary Europe and Beyond.
Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003; 'Homo Zappiens'
- a European Jewish way of life in the era of globalisation, in Sandra
H. Lustig and Ian Leveson (eds.): Turning the Kaleidoscope - Perspectives
on European Jewry, Oxford and New York, Berghahn Books, (in press).
Lars Dencik,
Professor of Social Psychology at Roskilde University. His
books and many articles include Modernity and Welfare (Swedish), and
Children and Family in the Post - Modern Society. He is engaged in
several transnational research projects on the development of modern
society and its impact upon the needs and social development of children.
He has taught at the University of Konstanz, Germany, Lund University,
Stockholm University, and the Hebrew University.
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