International Conference: Sefardic Manuscripts from Hamburg

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

OBJECTS OF DESIRE: SEFARDIC MANUSCRIPTS FROM HAMBURG

University of HAMBURG 12–13 February 2018

University of Hamburg
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Warburgstraße 26
20354 Hamburg

Monday, 12 February 2017

• 9 am Registration
• 9.30 am Greetings
• SECTION I
  9.45 – 11 am Chair: Irina Wandrey, Hamburg
  Michael Studemund-Halévy (Institute for the History of the Jews in Germany, Hamburg)
  Bill Rebiger (The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg)
  Cutting the knots of camel-drivers and sailors: Cod. hebr. 186Myriam Silvera (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome)
  Le rôle du manuscrit Levy 122 dans la transmission textuelle des Prevenciones Divinas
• Coffee Break
• SECTION II
  11.30 am – 12.45 pm Chair: Corinna Deppner, ErfurtKenneth Brown (University of Calgary)
  Bento Guilhelmo Rahmeijer: Was gibt‘s denn in Hamburg und Lissabon? Collecçaõ curioza
  de Poezias & em Proza em Portugues, Castelhano, Frances, Inglez: Cod.hispan. 44

  Harm den Boer (Institute for Ibero-Romance Studies, University of Basel)
  Literary miscellanea as spaces of entertainment and cultural identity in the Western Sefardi
  Diaspora: Cod. hispan. 30

• 12.45 – 2.45 pm Lunch
• SECTION III
  2.45 – 4 pm Chair: Michael Kohs, HamburgDavid Sclar (Princeton)
  Constructing a Rabbinic Library: the Ets Haim Yeshiva’s Acquisition of Books from Abroad in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

  Heidi Warncke (Ets Haim Library, Amsterdam)
  Cod. Levy 156: Megillat Curiel, 1628

• Coffee Break
• SECTION IV
  4.30 – 5.30 pm
  Ira Rabin and Ivan Shevchuk (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, UHH)
  Material and Photographic Analysis of Manuscripts
• Coffee Break
• SECTION V
  5.45 – 6.30 Chair: David RudermanYosef Kaplan (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  The strange request of Joseph Semah Arias and Juan de Prado’s mysterious sect
• SECTION VI
  6.30 – 7.15 Chair: Patrick KochYaacob Dweck (Princeton University)
  The truth value of doubt in the rabbinic tradition: Jacob Sasportas at the height of the messianic enthusiasm about Sabbetai Sevi in 1665 and 1666 in Hamburg.

Tuesday, 13 February 2017

• SECTION V
  9.30 – 11 am Chair: Racheli HalivaCarsten L. Wilke (Central European University, Budapest)
  The Marrakesh Dialogues: Cod. hebr. 240g and Cod. hebr. 333

  Julia Lieberman (St. Louis University)
  Carta de Jerusalen, 1638: Cod. Levy 75/2

  Fernando José Pancorbo Murillo (Institute for Ibero-Romance Studies, University of Basel)
  Fin de la semana sobre la Creación del Mundo: Cod. hebr. 240f

• Coffee Break
• ROUND TABLE
  11.30 am – 1 pm Chairs: Carsten L. Wilke and Harm den Boer
  Sefardic Manuscripts Research and Digitizing Sefardic Manuscripts
• 1 pm Lunch

Convenors
Michael Studemund-Halévy
Institute for the History of the Jews in Germany, Hamburg
Irina Wandrey
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg
Giuseppe Veltri
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg

Participating Institutions
Institute for the History of the Jews in Germany, Hamburg
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Hamburg

Sponsored by
German Research Council (DFG)
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg

Conference Venue
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg
Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg

INFO
www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de
www.igdj-hh.de

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