Wheeler Auditorium, U.C. Berkeley
9:30 a.m.
“Reflections on Literature and Identity”
Chair: Elaine Petrocelli
Orly Castel-Bloom, Israel
Emmanuel Moses, France
Max Apple, United States
Moderator: Menachem Brinker, Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and University of Chicago
1:30 p.m.
“Between Majority and Minority Cultures: Finding the Balance”
Chair: Joelle Steefel
Joseph Epstein, United States
Gila Lustiger, Germany
Sami Michael, Israel
Moderator: Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University
3:30 p.m.
“The Jewish Writer in the Public Arena”
Chair: Dr. Carol Benet
Norman Manea, Romania
Grace Paley, United States
Ronny Someck, Israel
Moderator: Henryk Broder, Germany
MONDAY, FEB. 2
“The Crisis of Subject Matter: What Jewish Writers are Writing”
Peacock Court, Mark Hopkins Hotel
San Francisco
9:00 a.m.
“Reclaiming the Text: The Retrieval of Tradition”
Chair: Phyllis Cook
Nitza Ben-Dov, Israel
Chaim Potok, United States
Moacyr Scliar, Brazil
Moderator: Robert Alter, U.C. Berkeley
11:00 a.m.
“Writing in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
Chair: Annette Dobbs
Dan Jacobson, England
Jonathan Rosen, United States
Nava Semel, Israel
Moderator: John Felstiner, Stanford University
2:00 p.m.
“Israel and Jewish Writing: The Next 50 Years” Chair: Roselyne Swig Sidra Ezrahi, Israel
Alan Mintz, United States
Joshua Sobol, Israel
Moderator: Hillel Halkin, Israel
TUESDAY, FEB. 3
“Constructing a Trans-National Jewish Culture”
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University
9:30 a.m.
“The Question of Language: Thinking in `Jewish’/ Writing in `Whatever'”
Chair: Marian Scheuer Sofaer
Irena Klepfisz, United States
Anthony Rudolf, England
Ilan Stavans, Mexico
Moderator: Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union
12:30 p.m.
“The Writer’s Voice: Issues in Translation”
Chair: Esther Prigioni
Chana Bloch, United States
Gabi Gleichmann, Sweden
Yehudit Hendel, Israel
Moderator: Chana Kronfeld, U.C. Berkeley
2:30 p.m.
“Jewish Literature: Bridging the Secular and the Spiritual”
Chair: Tad Taube
Allegra Goodman, United States
Tony Kushner, United States
Victor Perera, Guatemala
Moderator: Arnold Eisen, Stanford University