NEH Institute: Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture
This section is organized according to the schedule of the institute.
Each week lists lecture names and the speaker.
Clicking on a lecture name will lead you a different page with a list of links
to recorders’ and respondents’ reports, the audio recording of
the lecture, and additional resources which include photos,
related links, and miscellaneous material provided by the presenter.
Clicking on the presentor's name will lead you to his/her profile.
Week 1: June 16 - 20, 2008
Monday, June 16:
- Israeli Poets Visit Venice and the Ghetto by Murray Baumgarten
- The City of the Jews by Donatella Calabi
Tuesday, June 17:
Wednesday, June 18:
Thursday, June 19:
- Italian Women Writers of the Renaissance by Deanna Shemek
- Sara Copio Sullam and Italian Women Writers by Deanna Shemek
Week 2: June 23 - 27, 2008
Monday, June 23:
Wednesday, June 25:
- Representation of Jews in Venetian Painting by Marina Karem
- Traditional Venetian Jewish Food Demonstration by Sara Lovadina
Thursday, June 26:
- Contest of Ecclesia and Sinagoga by Dana Katz
- Recorder Report by Lynn Hossain
- Notes on the Judeo - Venetian Dialect by Shaul Bassi
Week 3: June 30 - July 4, 2008
Monday, June 30:
- Reading Sennett on the Venice Ghetto - The Jews as Aliens by Murray Baumgarten
- Who was Leone Modena? by Murray Baumgarten
Tuesday, July 1:
- Irony and Strategy in Simone Luzzatto's Discorso by Ariella Lang
- Jewish Emancipation and the Cost of Dispersion by Gadi Luzzatto Voghera
Wednesday, July 2:
- Italian Jews and the Risorgimento by Simon Levis Sullam
- The Ghetto and Modern Literature - Dickens, Howells, and Zangwill by Murray Baumgarten and Shaul Bassi
Thursday, July 3:
Week 4: July 7 - July 12, 2008
Monday, July 7:
Tuesday, July 8:
Wednesday, July 9:
Thursday, July 10:
Week 5: July 14 - July 17, 2008
The concluding week of the NEH Institute was organized as a conference, with each of the Institute participants presenting the results of their research, and included additional speakers, who participated with the support of the Delmas foundation.
Click here to view the 2008 Conference Program.
Welcoming Remarks:
Vittorio Levis, Alide Cagidemetrio, Murray Baumgarten, and Shaul Bassi
Audio
Monday, July 14:
- Jews in Early Modern Venice
- Law, Inquisitorial Culture and the Jews in Venice by Kimberly Lynn Hossain and Gretchen Starr-Lebeau
- Jews and the Plague by Lisa Pon.
- Usury and the Blood Libel in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by James Arieti.
- Venice in Early Modern Cultural Imaginary by Thomas Cartelli.
- American Ethnic Literature, Jewish Literture and Theories of Ethnicity by Werner Sollors.
- Reflections on the Research on the Jews of the Venetian Republic by Benjamin Ravid.
Tuesday, July 15:
- Memory, Memoir, and Gender
- Ghetto as Dangerous Memory by John Downey.
- Gender in the Ghetto by Jill Fields.
- The Holocaust from a Child's Point of View: Roberto Bassi's Memoir by Michael Shapiro.
- In search of Jewish Identity in the Post-emancipation World
- The Local Politics of the Italianità: Jewish Identity and Culture in Liberal Italy by Daniel Clasby.
- Jewish space, Jewish time, and Jewish identity in America by Laura Rosenzweig.
- Singing to the God of Israel in Contemporary Southern Italy by Gabriele Mancuso.
- Jewish music in Italy
- Hazanut in Italia: The Cantorial Tradition by Rav Elia Ricchetti.
- Invisible Music: Jewish Presence in Italy by Enrico Fink.
Wednesday, July 16:
- The cultures of the Ghetto
- Polyphony, Style, and Liminality in Music on Both Sides of the Ghetto Gates by Howard Stern.
- Constructing Identity: Portuguese and Judeo-Spanish in Jewish Venice by Monique Balbuena.
- The Responsa of Leone Modena by Yehudah Cohn.
- Kabbalistic Meditations: Leone Modena, Kabbalah, and the Baroque by Cristiana Facchini.
- 20th Century Jewish writing
- Italo Svevo and the Psychological Racialization of Jewish Consciousness by David Buyze.
- Towards a Definition of the Jewish Italian Writer by Katherine Jason.
- The Queer Among Us: Homosexuality in 20th-Century Italian Jewish Texts by John Champagne.
- A Post-Holocaust Hewbrew Shylock by Yael Chaver.
- The Actor's Nightmare: Playing Shylock by Robert Levine.
- Postcolonial and Jewish Studies: Secret Sharers (or "The Importance of Being Venice") by Bryan Cheyette.
Thursday, July 17:
- Enhancing the Understanding of Jewish Culture in the Undergraduate Curriculum
- Creating a Viable Study Abroad learning Experience: Strategies and Curriculum by Sharon Michalove.
- Syllabus Developement: Jewish Venice, Culture and Context by Lisa Calevi.
- Bread and Concourse: Two Sources for 18th-Century Venetian Jewish Life by Jacqueline Gutwirth.
- Islamic and Jewish Perspectives on Interest by Joel S. Newman.
- Arts in and of the Ghetto
- Visualizing the Life and Times of Il Ghetto Veneziano by Elisabeth Milkes Jerome.
- A Basse-Danza by Guglielmo Ebreo, Jewish dancing master by Joanna Harris.
