Event Details

Healing is on our minds. It’s on our minds because we seek healing for ourselves and for others. Even if spared the challenges of serious illness or trauma, we bear daily witness to acts of violence, suffering and degradation that impel us to seek a healing turn, for ourselves, our society, and for the larger eco-system of which we are a part.

Please join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union for our annual conference in which we will approach the subject of healing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.  How has the function of healing operated in Jewish culture and practice over time? How have Jewish religious trends defined the process of healing and how has it shaped collective and individual activity, past and present? The conference will consist of panel presentations, a keynote address, and the opportunity for discussion and reflection.

Keynote Address: Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz), "In Lilith's Shadow: Pregnancy and Childbirth Among Jewish Immigrants on the Lower East Side"Response: Jordan Katz (UMass Amherst).

This event is co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Jewish Studies.

Schedule9:45: Welcome

10am-12pm: First Panel

• Chair: Deena Aranoff
• Jordan Katz (UMass Amherst): “Jewish Women as Medical Agents: Rethinking the Hierarchy of Early Modern Healthcare”
• Sam Shonkoff (GTU): “Incarnation and Healing in Martin Buber’s Hasidism”
• Gabriella Safran (Stanford University): “Eldercare and Healing in and beyond American Jewish Literature”
• Yael Segalovitz (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): To Sleep Through It: The Politics of Reverie and Repair in Hebrew Women’s Writing

Lunch 12-1pm

1pm-2:30pm: Second Panel

• Chair: Sam Shonkoff
• Ethan Katz (UCB): “What Dreams May Heal: Colette Aboulker's Childhood Stories as Visions of Family, History, and Therapy”
• Deena Aranoff (GTU): “Mitzvot as Medicine: A Maimonidean paradigm for Jewish practice”
• Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto): “Healing the American Jewish Psyche: Max Weinreich and Postwar YIVO”

3pm-4pm: Keynote Address:

• Nathaniel Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz): "In Lilith's Shadow: Pregnancy and Childbirth Among Jewish Immigrants on the Lower East Side"
• Response from Jordan Katz (UMass Amherst)

Light refreshments to follow

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