Odessa, the most significant Hebrew centre in the second millennium
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A joint online symposium of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Program of Jewish-Russian literature, Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University
Roman Katsman (Bar-Ilan University):
Greetings and opening remarks
Session 1
Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev):
Time and space in Odessa cosmopolitanism
Maya Balakirsky Katz (Bar-Ilan University):
Freud in Odessa: Defending Russian fairy tales with Jewish science
Svetlana Natkovich (University of Haifa):
The economics of Odessa Jewish literature –from Sholom Aleichem to Ilf and Petrov
Discussion
Session 2
Mirja Lecke (University of Regensburg, Germany):
Odessa literary modernism: the topos of the street
Ziva Shamir (Tel-Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya):
Odessa, the most significant Hebrew centre in the second millennium
Elena Promyshlianski (Bar-Ilan University):
The Promised Land of Odessa: The City between myth and reality
Discussion