CONFERENCES: On Jewish Names (June 3, Ramat Gan)
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Professor Aaron Demsky (retired)
History of Ancient Israel
Director, Project for the Study of Jewish Names
Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900
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Fourteenth International Conference on Jewish Names
Bar-Ilan University
The Faculty of Jewish Studies
The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry The Project for the Study of Jewish Names The Fourteenth International Conference on Jewish Names
Monday, June 3, 2019, The Midrasha (Building 405), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Session 1: 9:00-10:45: Names and their Meanings
Chair: Prof. Meir Bar-Ilan
Greetings: Prof. Kimmy Caplan, Chair, The Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
Prof. Aaron Demsky, Head of the Project for the Study of Jewish Names
Avshalom Kor: From Netanyahu to Gans, From Binyamin to Benny (Hebrew)
Amichay Schwartz (Ariel University): Ashtori Ha-Parḥi: The Origin of the Name and the Location of Florencia (Hebrew)
Yosef Rivlin (Bar-Ilan University): Kabbalistic Naming Instructions and their Effect (Hebrew)
Amer Dahamshe (The Arab Academic College of Education in Israel, Haifa): Names and Memory: Street Signs in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (Hebrew)
Session 2: 11:00-12:30: Methodological Aspects of the Study of Names
Chair: Prof. Emmanuel Friedheim
Mechael Osband (University of Haifa, Ohalo, Kineret, and Tel-Hai Academic Colleges): Majduliyya: A Case Study in the Question of Name Preservation in the Golan (Hebrew)
Felicia Waldman (University of Bucharest): Drawing a Genealogical Tree – Overcoming Inaccurate or Missing Local Archival Sources (English)
Nardo Bonomi Braverman (Greve in Chianti – Firenze): Toponymic Surnames in Italian Jewish Onomastics: A Handy Source (English)
Carmi J. Neiger (Elmhurst College): Finding Distinctive Jewish Names in Cincinnati, Ohio (English)
Lunch Break
Session 3: 14:00-15:15: Naming in Literature, Halakhah and Custom
Chair: Prof. Aaron Demsky
Greetings: Prof. Yaron Harel, Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies
Erga Heller (Kaye Academic College of Education): In the Beginning there was Ziva: Naming Israeli Characters in Popular American English-Speaking Television Series (Hebrew)
Yaron Silverstein (Hemdat Hadarom College): ‘Eretz Israel’ in the Byzantine Period: A Study of the Jerusalem Talmud`s Understanding of ‘The Area Settled by the Returnees from Babylon’ (Hebrew)
Aharon Gaimani (Bar-Ilan University): First Names as a Segula (a Charm) for Good Fortune and Longevity in Ketubbot (Prenuptial
Agreements) from Yemen (Hebrew)
Session 4: 15:30-17:00: Jewish Names in Europe
Chair: Prof. Gershon Bacon
Letizia Cerqueglini (Tel Aviv University): Jewish Family Names in the Papal State from the Sixteenth Century to the Italian Unification (English)
Johannes Czakai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Switzerland Between the Carpathians and Prut: The History of Jewish Family Names in Bukovina (English)
Aleksandra Żurek-Huszcz (University of Warsaw): First Names of Converts from Judaism to Christianity in Warsaw 1826-1850 (English)
Igor Kusin (University of Zagreb): First Names of Zagreb Jews from the Beginning of the 19th Century until the Second World War (English)
Session 5: 17:15-18:45: Biblical Names from Antiquity to Modern Times
Chair: Prof. Michael Avioz
Aharon Tavger (Ariel University) and Chris McKinny (Texas A&M University Corpus Christi): The Meaning of the Toponyms Millo and Bethmillo: A New Interpretation According to New Archaeological and Historical-Geographical Aspects (Hebrew)
Gershon Galil (University of Haifa): A New Look at the Etymology of Goliath’s Name (Hebrew)
Mitka R. Golub (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): On a Digital Onomasticon and on Personal Names with the Element Ba‘al in First Temple Period Epigraphic Artifacts and in the Bible (Hebrew)
Ruvik Rosenthal: Biblical Eponyms as Creators of National and Cultural Identity (Hebrew)
The conference is supported by the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Koschitzky Fund, Bar-Ilan University.
For information: Yigal...@biu.ac.il
The Public is Welcome!
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