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Mordechai Z. Cohen

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Yeshiva University
Mordechai is a professor in the Bernard Revel Graduate School at Yeshiva University. His research interests are Jewish Bible intepretation in its Christian and Muslim cultural contexts, especially in its connections with Arabic poetics and Muslim jurisprudence.
Ariel Knafo-Noam

Ariel Knafo

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ariel Knafo is associate professor of Social-Development Psychology in the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry: Innovations and Turning Points

[RG #94] Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry: Innovations and Turning Points

September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Yigal Bronner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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It is quite amazing that no proper history exists for Sanskrit belles lettres, one of the world's richest and longest literary traditions. The scholarship of the last two and a half centuries yielded, for the most part, a vast body of data on authors and their putative dates. But it failed to produce a narrative explaining developments in their poetic practice and, quite often, denied outright the very possibility of change. Indeed, the number of serious and analytical essays on representative works from the Sanskritic canon is unbelievably small. The main purpose of our research group is to begin to emend this state of affairs and produce a history of Sanskrit literature, one that, contrary to the antihistorical notion of it as monolithic and immune to change, would concentrate on innovations and turning points.

 

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Shaul Kelner

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Brandeis University
Shaul is a professor in the Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. His research interests are: ethnic homeland tourism; professionalism in American Jewish organizations; American movement to free Soviet Jewry.
Joseph Stern

Joseph Stern

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University of Chicago

Josef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and was the Inaugural Director of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies (2009-14).

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His research focuses on the contemporary philosophy of language and medieval philosophy, especially Jewish and Arabic philosophy.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

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Oded Irshai

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oded is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are Jewish history and culture in late Antiquity, and Judeo-Christian dialogue during the same period.
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Terry Amburgey

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University of Toronto
Terry L. Amburgey is a professor of Stragetic Management at the Rotman School of Mangement, University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include inter-organizational networks, organizational ecology, and quantitative methods.